I have been roaming around this evening, having fun.  Had a nice 1 on 1 with a gentleman named Tarrix.  He put up a good fight but fell to The Bleeding Rose in fine fashion.  /emote tips hat, he was good about the fight.

So, I am roaming about, popping npc rats as I need to shoot things.  Pirating urges do cause twitching.  I land in a belt in Sobaseki and I see a guy mining.  No big deal…..but….overview says it’s a Caracal.

A few moments later, after I regain my consciousness, I get back into my chair and look again.  Yup, mining in a Caracal.

But….it’s a Caracal….you don’t mine in them.  An Osprey gets a mining bonus, why mine in a Caracal?

It’s a frakking Caracal.  No, this is wrong. This is very, very wrong.  So, I call out in local that there is a Caracal mining in IX belt 1.  I need someone else to look.  My eyes must be tired, this simply can not be.

A few moments later, 3 drakes and a brutix show up.  Local chat discusses this horrific display of Caldari cruiser mining gone awry.

This is simply wrong.  Something must be askew with the universe.

THERE MUST BE JUSTICE!!!

So, I tell everyone in local that I will be right back.  I check the market and find an Armageddon for sale 2 jumps over in another system.  I buy it and head out to pick it up.  On the way, I buy 8 Large Smartbombs.

Yes, Suicide Gank time, this fucker is going to die.

Now, many people have commented to me on fixing my security status.  Many have asked what would it take to push me back over to the ‘Dark Side’ as cookies are simply not enough.

Mining in a Caracal.  Yup, that would do it.

I get all fitted out and head back to Sobaseki.  I land in the belt, he’s there, mining away.  I make a bookmark, warp out and warp back in.

FOR GREAT JUSTICE!!!!

The bombs go off…..1 volley…..2 volleys…..3 volleys….4 volleys.  BOOM!!!! and then another BOOM!!!  Concord has arrived, but alas it is too late.

Lag aside, it was a beautiful set of explosions. Justice has been restored, healing can begin and all will be right with the universe once more.

NO MINING CARACALS!!!!

So, I again need to do some security status repair, but it was worth it.  See you out there!!!!

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

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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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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Last night was a lot of fun.  I logged on to find that all my corpies were engaged in a 80 on 80 man fig.  Cry Havoc and Noir jumped my corpies while they were on a POS bash.  So, what did we do?  We fought.  We stood our ground and when we lost ships, we went and got more ships.

The first kill was logged at 22:05 game time and the last kill was logged at 23:29.  Yup, over an hour of going at it.  In the end, there were heavy losses on both sides, a battle report from our killboard can be found at http://www.nspta.net/?a=kill_related&kll_id=59268.  In a word, it was epic. This is why we play EVE, for the fights.  We have all learned a lot about how well our tactics are working and we have had a lot of fun.

So, who won the fight?  We all did.  Noir, Cry Havoc, Neo Spartans, Negative Ten.  We all had fun in an all out fight even with the gameplay crippling lag.  Lag.  Epic lag like you used to see on Sundays in Jita before Stackless I/O was deployed.  CCP has worked very hard to address the lag issue, but they are still a very long way away from having the issue resolved.  When a 80 person fleet engages another 80 man fleet, things should not simply come to a crawl.  Loss mails after the engagement kept coming for another hour after the fighting was over.  Epic lag still lives in EVE.  CCP, you still have a long way to go, keep working on it.

In the mean time, many thanks for the epically good fights and see you out there!!!!

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