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!

• Rettic continues to mix music for our enjoyment. He’s released the Cyberpunk Suite Suite, enjoy!
• ProviWar heats up with a renewed offensive. Seems that by mid week, 75 percent of the remaining outposts have been put into reinforced. CVA will be removed from Providence and it will be much sooner than we thought.
• Mynxee was asked to join a panel for EVE University along with Verone, Ka Jolol and Sard Caid to discuss piracy in the game. It’s a great listen, highly recommended!
• As always, update work for the blogs listed on The EVE Online Portal and the OPML download files Mandrill and I maintain continues.

See you out there!

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Do you like cookies?  Have an urge to say “Yarr”?  Think that your name would look good on the overview in flash-red?  If so, then come to the dark side and join us in a pirate’s life!!

Neo Spartans are a small pirate corp based in Lowsec Sinq Laison/Metropolis.
Our activities include but are not limited to:

• Gatecamping
• Lowsec/Nullsec Roaming Operations
• Assorted Lowlife activities

We are a tight knit group looking to expand our roster in both EU/US timezones. Our requirements:

• Approx 15 million sp in PVP related skills including good BS skills and the ability to fly some sort of T2 Cruiser (8 million sp in a specialized characters will be considered).
• PVP experience with killboard links to back it up.
• A mature attitude and the ability not to get wound up about things and remember that it is just a game.
• A working microphone and Ventrillo client.
• Your limited API key.
• Desire to pillage all those who cross your path

What we can offer you:

• Plenty of ops, if we’re not camping we’re roaming in the local area or further afield with 0.0 access to several regions all within 10 jumps of our location.
• Plenty of targets.
• Friendly atmosphere and plenty of banter on Vent when not conducting ‘serious business’.
• Regular payments from loot sales and ransoms (all honoured, scoundrels need not apply).
• Corp insurance on all T1 hulled vessels including Capitals.
• Plenty of “lolz” moments.

If you like what you see then drop by our forums (http://neo-spartans.eve-webspace.com/forum) and post an application (forum registration required) or come by our public channel Neo Sparta Public.

See you out there!!!

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After I read his post, I thought I would offer up some advie to the EVE community so that such incident can be avoided.  Ultimately, if someone wants to find a way to get into your corp and steal everything, they will find a way.  Long time members of a corp may decide one day to take everything over a simple argument, there’s not much you can do about that.

That being said, there are things you can do to help avoid such things happening from new recruits.

• Hold an interview with the pilot, on voice communications (TeamSpeak, Ventrilo, EVE Voice, etc…).  People can sound sincere in a text chat, but the nuances come through when speaking with a live voice.  It also gives you the opportunity to get to know the new recruit before you bring them into the fold.
• Request the new recruit provide their limited api key.  This will allow you to see which characters are on an account.  If you find that a known enemy is a character on that account, you have just identified a potential spy trying to get into your corp.  Research the characters on the account on the EVE forums, see if there has been a name and shame post about one of them as a corp thief.  Viewing that player’s skills will also help you to evaluate how well that person will fit into your corps play style as well as be able to offer suggestions for improvement.
• Ask for references.  It sounds crazy, but if they left their last corp for stealing loot, you would want to find that out right away.  You can always look at their employment history and talk to members of former corps that person was in.  It’s useful information.

These are just a few of the things that we do when we bring someone new to our corp.  We do have them join our public channel and we have them join us on ops until they are brought in.  These things can help protect your corp and they also help your potential new members understand what your corp is focused on.

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We have been busy, lots of fights, lots of fun.   Lately however, the traffic through the constellation has dropped a bit, probably due to the end of summer.  People have less time to play.  Anyway, their is always fun to be had, so come on and join us.

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As fate would have it, I did tangle with them again. I was ratting around and in jumps a fellow in a stabber. He locks me down and we begin to fight. His support shows up and I am not able to get away as he’s got a 24km warp scram on me and I stopped fitting warp core stabs a long time ago. I am brought down to structure and I figure, well, there goes my Deimos. Might as well surrender. I shout in local that I surrender and to my pleasant surprise a convo begins. Wow, these are not gank pirates? I am intrigued. I stop firing and drop my weapons lock. Very professional, straight and to the point. They state their ransom sum. I go ahead and pay them and they let me go.

I’ve not seen that in a while as most pirates I have been running into are on the gank first, collect loot path.

What happens next surprises me even more and again, it’s a pleasant surprise. Their CEO convos me and is very polite. We chat about a few things and he comes out and asks if I would be interested in joining his corp. Again, I am intrigued. I’ve been in two corps already and things have always petered out. TRAPS and YA-RR do spend most of their time in empire and I think I am finally ready for the low-sec life. I’ve done some npc ratting in low-sec but I’ve spent most of my time doing empire wars.

I tell him that I am still working a contract, as I was at the time, but I would be interested in learning more. He invites me to safely spend time with them in their home system and do some PvP. Shortly after, I am with them on a gate camp, having some fun with my Domi. A few kills later, I realize, I’ve been missing a lot of fun and these guys seem to be a good bunch. After some removing myself as ceo of my 1 man corp, I take the plunge and join up. Yup, I’ve gone down the dark path of being an Outlaw, I joined the Neo Spartans.

It’s been a few days and already it’s been a blast. We’ve had a bunch of kills, including something I had always wanted to do, but had not had the chance. While we were working a gate, the word comes in that a freighter is incoming. So, we head off to engage. I click the wrong gate and warp off in the wrong direction. Yup, even vets make noob mistakes. So, I arrive late to the fight, just in time to put some damage in and they watch the ransom. He’s given a choice, pay the 700 mil or eject and save his pod. He says that he’s empty and he won’t pay. A quick cargo hold scan confirms that’s he’s empty. 700 mil or eject and save your pod.

What does he do? He refuses to pay and self destructs. How lame. He could have kept his pod and simply lost his ship but no, he had to be stubborn about it. Oh well. We are ordered to destroy the ship before the self destruct timer goes off. Fortunately, we are successful.

Yup, that’s a freighter wreck, my first that I helped to create. It’s been over two years playing and I feel like I have started to play EVE for the first time. More people should make the move to low-sec and zero-zero. There is a whole section of game play that people are missing spending all their time in Empire.

So, here’s to my new corp mates, let’s have some fun!!!

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