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Fail Mail Friday for August 13, 2010

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Welcome to the our next installment of Fail Mail Friday. This is where we showcase a kill mail that we pirates would call a “failure”.

A note here, no, I am not going to discuss the recent epic kestrel that was destroyed in Jita, you know, the one that had 74 PLEX cards in cargo that were lost. There has been enough discussion on this particular fail mail and yes, it will forever be know as the “most epic fail mail of all time”.

Of course, discussion of said fail mail is allowed, but do keep it civil and respectful. Do remember that we are all capable of utter failure in fitting a ship and/or loosing said ship. It’s how we learn to get better at fitting out our Internet spaceships, so, if you have a suggestion on how this particular fail mail could have been properly fit, that would also be most welcome.

Now, onto the fail mail of the week.

This week’s submission comes to us from a Twitter update by the lovely Mynxee. Here is the link to the killmail and below is a copy of the fitting that you can use with EFT.

http://noir.pinacoderm.com/killboard/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=14016

[Nemesis, Valla katesh's Nemesis]
Expanded Cargohold II
Expanded Cargohold II

Civilian Shield Booster I
Small Capacitor Booster I,Cap Booster 150

Medium Beam Laser I,Multifrequency S
Small Proton Smartbomb I
Covert Ops Cloaking Device II
Standard Missile Launcher I,Piranha Light Missile

Small Algid Energy Administrations Unit I
Small Ancillary Current Router I

For those of you who do not know, this ship is a stealth bomber. About the only thing on this ship that is proper would be the cover ops cloak. Normally a stealth bomber would have siege launchers in the high slots to allow for firing of torpedoes and being that this ship was in null sec, you would also fit a bomb launcher and the appropriate racial ammo for that launcher for maximum damage. The mid slots would have a micro-warp drive at least and the lows would most likely have some damage mods, in this case, ballistics mods for increased rate of fire on your siege launchers.

So, congratulations to Mynxee for our Fail Mail Friday submission. As being the selected for this week’s fail mail, she will receive the whopping 580,000 isk for one of the Expanded Cargohold II’s that was fitted on this mail.

Have a fail mail that you would like to submit? You can send me an in game email to Ga’len with Fail Mail in the subject line. You can also contact me on Twitter @Galen_Druid or send me an old fashioned email to Galen@eve-druid.com and again, use Fail Mail in the subject line.

Until next time, have fun and see you out there!

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Fail Mail Friday August 13th 2010

Weekly Highlights

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Yup, it’s that time again, time for those weekly highlights of things that have peeked my interest.

I am going to take a moment for a shameless plug here.  Recently I became the CEO of Hellhounds, the sister corp to Hellcats.  Summer is fast approaching and we are actively recruiting.  Head over to the EVE forums and check out the recruitment threads:

Hellcats, a women’s only corp in EVE Online!

Hellhounds, for the gentleman pirates of New Eden!

And now, the fun stuff for the week!

See you out there!

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Weekly Highlights April 9th 2010

Weekly Highlights

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Whew, what a week! All kinds of stuff going in all corners of New Eden. Here’s some of what we have:

See you out there!

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Weekly Highlights March 26th 2010

WHAT?!? IT’S MINI-NASHH!?! WELCOME TO THE WORLD JOHAN!

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CONGRATULATIONS NASHH KADAVR AND HIS WIFE!

The most important news of the week happened on Wednesday, March 17th.  Nashh Kadavr and his real life wife were blessed with a beautiful baby!

Now that we got the important news out of the way, here’s the EVE Online highlights for this week:

See you out there!

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Weekly Highlights March 19th 2010

Has it been this long?

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This Weekly Highlights posts is a bit different than my last ones because I have something to celebrate.  I’ve been playing EVE Online as Ga’len for four years now.

Yup, 4 years….wow.

Five years ago my wife created a character in EVE online.  I joined her in trying out EVE, but my attention at the time was with another MMORPG.  That game fail cascaded in such a fashion that when someone utters the words, Star Wars Galaxies, well, if you don’t know, go Google it.

So, after that debacle,  I had free time to spend and I thought I would give EVE a go again.  That was four years ago and I tell ya, it’s been a fun ride.  I’ve spent time as a carebear in Empire, fought in many Empire wars, been a solo pirate and merc, been a director of a pirate alliance, fought for a nullsec alliance and most recently, joined HellFleet for more Yarr-ing fun.

I can say that I’ve pretty much done it all.  So, what do you do after four years?  Well, I tell ya, I’ve spent all my time doing these things and it’s always been a surprise how things have gone.  I’ll do what I always have done, just wander about and let things happen.  That’s when you have the most fun, when you get pulled into something.

And now, here are some of the highlights for the week:

  • Piracy fun with HellFleet is well underway.  We took down a POS owned by an inactive corp.  Much fun ensued, read the whole story over at Mynxee’s blog, The Measure of Success!
  • ProviWar continues (http://www.eve-druid.com/ProviWar).  I may no longer be fighting as a Warrior of the Ushra’Khan, but I can’t stop watching what’s going on.  They are still my friends and I do hope they succeed in these operations.  -A- continue their push into Providence, Sylph is no more (congratulations to Ushra’Khan) and things continue to progress as -A- takes sov in Y-MPWL and Ushra’Khan takes G-5EN2.  This closed the connections from Providence to High Sec space in Tash-Murkon and NPC 0.0 in Derelik respectively.  The only other high sec entrance/exit into Providence is now the R3-K7K/Misaba gate as all other systems high sec entrance/exit points have been taken.  It is highly likely that this system will also fall by this weekend as I can see while I finish up this blog post on Thursday evening, CVA has lost sov there.  With the only other logistical option being the use of jump freighters to get materials into the region and no guarantee of safely flying out said jump freighters, it will only be a matter of time before they regions completely falls.  CVA and friends are very neatly boxed into their space.
  • CCP released a very open and honest devblog concerning the server stability issues that have been plaguing the game since late November.  I know I have been very critical of CCP for these issues in the past.  I want to say, this devblog is a step in the right direction.  The more technical information concerning these issues is communicated will lead to more of us who work with these technologies being able to provide help.  Keep it coming CCP, we are here to help you and we are more than willing.
  • CCP “Laser Focus” God Torfi was interview at Ten Ton Hammer on the upcoming Tyrannis Expansion, read all about the cool stuff they are going to do with Planetary Interaction.
  • Silver Night has announced a fiction writing contest with some decent prizes, head over and get out those writing tools!
  • The next EVE novel, EVE: The Burning Life, is available for pre-order on Amazon.com for less than the listing price.  The novel should be released on March 30th as per the Amazon ordering page.  Head over and order your copy today!
  • More and more people are posting pictures of their “EVESpace”, you can read all about them.
  • EVOGANDA has put together a little something for all us iPhone/iPod Touch users, some wallpapers!  Check them out!
  • As always, update work for the blogs listed on The EVE Online Portal and the OPML download files Mandrill and I maintain continues.  Head over and see who we added this week!
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