Neo Spartans | The Wandering Druid of Tranquility

Roaming about, dieing a lot, having fun again

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Well, I’ve been out of Neo Spartans for a month now.  I’ve been traveling all over the place and I have seen and learned many things.

One thing I have really learned is that I again suck at solo PvP.  I do. I spent most of my time in Neo Spartans in a gang setting.  Seems that having spent so much time in RR fleets or in other types of gangs, I simply do not have the solo skills I once had.  Don’t get me wrong, I have kills, but they have been against weaker pilots.  I have had quite a few fights and either my opponent has managed to escape or they had help.

Please don’t misunderstand, I am not claiming that anyone has dishonored a 1 v 1, that is not the case.  Getting someone to agree to a 1 v 1 is a rarity as everyone thinks that they have backup coming and for good reason, many people do have backup.  EVE is a numbers game and that’s the way it’s supposed to be.  Everyone will always bring the tools they need to achieve their objective.  That’s the point, to work together and get stuff done.

Now, that’s not to say that I won’t get better, I will.  It will take some time to grow those solo PvP skills again.  No worries, there looks to be plenty of rifters on the market and I like flying them.

I’ve been able to visit a lot of the sights in the game that are in high sec with my newly recovered security status.  I was also able to engage in the high sec contract that a friend wanted me to do.  I war decced a 25 man corp with the intention of getting them to move out of the Tash Mukron region.  That was the main objective of the contract.  Needless to say, 25 hours after the war dec was made, they all fled their corp, disbanded the corp and headed for Lonetrek.  I never got to shoot at them.  Oh well, very little work and a cool 500 million isk for 3 days work.  I guess I will have plenty of isk for all those rifters I will be loosing very soon.

So, what are my plans for the future?  Well, over the next few months, me and the missus are moving out of our condo and into a house.  We have this desire to get our family started and we simply do not have the room.  So as we get closer to September 1st, I will be on less and less as we pack everything up and move.  After the 1st, I may not be able to get online to play with the good internet connection at home until sometime around mid September.  I will of course be able to get online with the wireless internet I have on my laptop, to change skills and what not, but full blown game play will have to wait a while.

Once I am able to get into full blown game play again, I will be looking to join a low sec and/or 0.0 roaming corp.  I am not interested in POS warfare nor major capital battles.  I want to find a corp that is dedicated to roaming, such as The Tuskers or another group of fun crazy pirates.

So, until that is sorted out, see you out there!!!

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PvP, Wandering August 9th 2009

OMFG, it’s attack of the Space Beavers!!!

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No, it’s not what you think…well, perhaps, if you are that twisted. :P

I have been busy as a beaver with writing projects, enjoying summer movies, recovering from vacation and of course, playing EVE.

For those of you who have followed the ongoing conflict between The United and The Neo Spartans I will say that the fight goes on.  For the latest stats, you can view the stats on the campaign, Ding Ding! Round 2! I missed a good portion of the combat as I was on vacation, but I had a chance to engage a volley or two.

Yes, there is a new look here.  I went over to Podlogs (http://podlogs.com) and downloaded the ‘Angry Amarr’  theme (http://podlogs.com/themes/?preview_theme=Angry%20Amarr).  It’s a nice theme and I like how it looks.

OPML update, I have an update post going live this Friday listing the recent additions.  If you have not already done so, please send me your requests to be added to the OPML no later than downtime on this coming Thursday.  Hopefully I will receive enough responses so that I don’t have to update the post multiple time after it’s gone live.

Speaking of new blogs, I have a few words on the concerns the blogging community have expressed.  As with all things, the more you have is not always better.  Our community recently hit a major milestone with a record number of 535 blogs.  This is a major achievement, however, with all things in nature, there is a balance between the positive and negative.

With the larger number of blogs comes increased administration on the part of myself and Crazy Kinux with regards to the OPML and the EVE Blogroll.  It is a bittersweet thing since both of use love to read the diverse postings of our community.

With all this growth, we must admit that there will be some ‘dead loss’.  CCP and GameScribe had a major promotion going on to get people to blog about the community.  Many blogs were created in that push and to be honest, I see some of those blogs simply dieing out as the promotion ends.  Rest assured, the EVE Blogroll and the OPML download will be revised to reflect those inactive AND inaccessible blogs.

The OPML download has always had blogs listed that were no longer active for the sole purpose of providing a ‘historical’ listing of those who had contributed to the EVE Blogging Community.  So please do not be concerned if the OPML download count of blogs varies from CrazyKinux’s EVE Blogroll.  Many of these older inactive blogs had a lot of good content that any new blogger and member of the EVE Online gaming community may find benefit.

See you out there!!!

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“SPARTANS!!!! WHAT IS YOUR PROFESSION?….”

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It’s anniversary time!!!  I’ve officially been a member of the Neo Spartans (http://wiki.eveonline.com/wiki/Neo_Spartans_(Player_corporation)) for a year now.  Where the hell did the time go?

I have made a lot of friends over the past year.  I have had the wonderful opportunity to fly with some very talented pilots.  We have a great group of pilots and we have a lot of fun.  It’s been a blast and I am honored to be one of the Neo Spartans!!

Want to share in the Neo Spartans legacy?  Head over to our CafePress store (http://www.cafepress.com/NeoSpartans).  We have lots of fun stuff to purchase!!!

Interested in joining the Neo Spartans or our sister corp, the Neo Catamites?  Head over to our forums (http://neo-spartans.eve-webspace.com/forums) and put in an application!!!

See you out there!!!

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NSPTA, Neo Catamites, Neo Spartans May 16th 2009

Web techie time…

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OMG.  I have been working a lot lately on websites for our corporation/alliance.  What have I been working on?  Well, let me see…

  • Sorted out our forums, add the alliance section and another section for our first member corp, the Neo Catamites.
  • Changing our killboard to an alliance killboard was removing some stats from some of our veteran pilots, so, I had to go and setup a separate alliance killboard (http://www.nspta.net/lacon) so that we could keep stats straight.
  • Sort out the API keys for the API killmail pulls for the two killboards (thank goodness we have more than one director for that issue)
  • Setup the feed syndication pulls for each killboard to update from all our sources (eve-kill, SHC Gank Night killboard, allies).
  • Update our allies of the new alliance killboard from which to pull kills.
  • Setup and sort out the various crontab jobs for the new killboard:  API Killmail pull, pricing data, feed syndication pulls, cache clearing and updating.
  • Setup an ‘alliance landing page’ so that people have a single website to go to in order to access the forums and the killboards. (http://www.nspta.net/ls).
  • Add links to the blogs for our pilots who do blog to the alliance landing page.
  • submitted an article for approval on the EVE Online wiki for the new alliance.  Hopefully by the time you read this, it will be approved and available for your viewing pleasure (http://wiki.eveonline.com/wiki/Laconian_Syndicate).
  • Updated and optimized the databases for the two killboards for the corp/alliance as well as my own personal killboard.
  • Get all the plugins on my blog and Larkonis Trassler (http://www.larkonisforcsm.com) updated.  Clean up those databases as well.

With all that, I still went to work each day, found time to take care of stuff at home (not as much as I wanted to take care of), sleep and of course, play EVE.

From the founding of the alliance to getting everything done was four days.  It was a lot of work, but it’s well worth the effort.  Please feel free to visit the sites and if you see anything that I could be doing better, please let me know.

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Out of Game, Site Updates April 26th 2009

Congtatulations, you have given birth to a….alliance?

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Yes, you read that right.  We have a new alliance on the block.  The Laconian Syndicate has been born.

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The Neo Spartans has formed an alliance.  Our goals?  Well, to be honest, we have never really had any true goal except to play the game, enjoy ourselves and act with honor.  At this point, we have no plans to become a ’space holding’ alliance.

So, let’s give up a hearty welcome to the newest kid on the alliance block!!

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