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EVE Blog Pack Profile: Colonel Roc Wieler

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We of the EVE Blog Pack have started a new feature, the profile post.  This is a posting to introduce many of you to our fellow bloggers and to give you some background on these fine people.

Name/Handle: Colonel Roc Wieler
Blog URL: Roc’s Ramblings at http://everamblings.wordpress.com
Faction: Minmatar Republic
Started EVE: 2006

What brought me here:
My love for science fiction has been something inspired in me since I first Star Wars at the theatre as a kid. I loved the richness of the mythology, the vastness of the universe; the true sense of wonder. So naturally, I played Star Wars Galaxies the day it came out. Played dedicated for five years. The last two years though, I noticed the game was continually being dumbed down. I hate dumbed down. I enjoy depth. Someone mentioned EVE Online to me, and well, been here ever since. Even gave up Star Wars for it, my childhood love.

Playstyle:
I am a Fleet Commander for the Tribal Liberation Force, as well as recently promoted to Fleet Commander in my corp, Freeform Industries. I do missions every now and then, but my real passion is the market. Both my alts are out of the box traders, and I really enjoy the cutthroat nature of doing business.  I’ve never mined, never even opened research or industry, and have never managed a corp. One step at a time.

What keeps me playing:
Ironically, there are two things. The first is that you don’t need to be here 23/7 for fear of missing out on some huge event. That flexibility combined with real time skill training (as opposed to mindless grinding) makes it great for me. During the week, I’m a casual player, and that’s just fine. The second reason I’ve already mentioned indirectly. Depth. Vastness. Mythology. EVE Online is so comprehensive that I am STILL catching up on my reading, just to absorb myself deeper into this universe we call home.

What I write:
My personal blog is all in character (with occasional exception). My approach to writing is a little different than most I am told. I tend to merge real life happenings with ingame happenings, with a bit of complete fantasy mixed in to throw you off. So far, it’s been fun. I am also a columnist over at http://www.eve-mag.com and hope to also get an article or two into EON Magazine. That would be something.

Other Interests:
I am also a co-developer for Capsuleer, the definitive iPhone application for EVE Online. I enjoy making 3D wallpapers as well, and have contributed some to the EVE Online galleries.

What you should know about EVE:
It’s intimidating when you start; overwhelming actually. It’s like learning a new Operating System and learning how to live in a completely new universe all at the same time. But stick with it, seriously. The rewards are worth it.

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CK's Blog Pack October 19th 2008

Not even a week goes by…

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…with me in my new corp and I receive a request to take a merc contract. I am asked to “humble” a smack talking, annoying twit named Marshal Buckov.

Now it seems that the people in Pimebeka have been enduring this man’s inane babble for some time. He’s been seen taking people’s ore and loot.

So, he’s a pirate.

I am from time to time. What makes this so bad?

Well, he’s ticked off enough people that I was offered a large sum of isk, and I mean LARGE, to war dec this guy. The terms?

  • War dec his corp
  • Pop his pod and introduce his corpse to the vacuum of space
  • Keep all the loot
  • If a surrender fee is discussed, his popped pod is a requirement
  • War dec fees will be paid for the duration of the war

I’ve seen similar terms before, especially for a large corporation war dec. His corp has 7 people in it. Is he that bad?

Normally, if someone is simply engaging in piracy, I will leave them alone. Birds of a feather so to speak.

The inane smack talk, the lying about having won fights when he lost them is pushing it a bit. The worst was not honoring accepted 1 v 1 engagements. He would get help from a gang mate/corp mate. Blobbing is a fact in EVE, but not honoring a 1 on 1 duel is just not right.

Pirates as a whole in EVE are an honest bunch. I know that it sounds weird, but it’s a necessary thing. We have a job to do and sometimes the job itself is hard enough with the way targets sometimes behave. There is no need to offer them any more tools for them to use against us. There is an honor code. When you break that code, you make all pirates in EVE look bad and this just simply will not do.

Now, normally I will not take people on their word when they claim such actions. I have heard such claims before to get mercs to take contracts. Most merc groups do what I do, get an alt into the affected area and observe what is going on. Gather intel on the problem, intel on the ships being flown, combat tactics, etc. In this case, I didn’t need to do that. I trust the people who asked for my help. That and I personally watched such events unfold while attempting to engage in simple jet can piracy my self.

So I accepted the contract, Marshal Buckov Corp was war dec’ed.

I would like to say that it was a glorious war with lots of battles and many explosions, but that would simply not be the case.

Most of his corp spent the past 7 days offline. It was in fact not until today that Marshal himself even ventured online. Must have been that ban for his postings in the COAD discussion on the EVE forums that held him offline. Seems that more than one corp war dec’ed him and he got upset about it. He posted about it. He postd and posted to the point that he was banned for the spam posting that was his new full time job.

He finally undocked after much inane babble in local and after I had blocked him for a bit as I had grown weary of it. He was in a shuttle. Not a wonderful kill, but a kill none the less. And as I had hoped for, his pod was mine too.

His frozen corpse? Given as a gift to one of the many nice people in Pimebeka, specifically the first one that asked for it as there were many requests. They have endured much, it was the least I could do.

The contract terms had been filled and the war is now over, but I will tell you, this guy had better keep himself clean here or I may be asked to come to the aid of the people of Pimebeka again. The next time I would be willing to do it for far less isk.

I want to thank everyone in that system for your words of encouragement and your help in locating which station he was in. In all my time in EVE, I have never seen so many people, even from corps that are actively warring with each other, come together to help one person pop another person.

Let this be a lesson to all you smack talkers out there. People are tired of seeing that crappy drama in local. People are so tired of it that they will band together and hire mercs to go after your sorry hide.

Play nice, pirate honorably and keep the game fun. That’s all WE all ask.

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PvP, Wars January 10th 2008

Kainde Ahmeda, well, it goes on

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So, after hearing about my “encounter” with Kainde and a few of his corp mates, in my last entry, my new corp’s ceo declared war on their corp. It’s only been a few days, but it’s been fun. We have had a few good fights. They like to follow the “carebear playbook“rules 1, 2 and the rule 5 option.

Has this worked for them? Well, here are their losses to date. I especially like this one,  are they helping us here?

Kainde finally made a showing, in a frigate and promptly lost his ship. He sat permadocked all night last night. He talks tough and then makes such a pitiful showing today. From what I can tell from the killboard, he and two of his corp mates may have tried to blob one of my corp mates. I have not had the chance to talk in game with my corp mate, so I am not sure, but the timing of Kainde, Meklarr and Grishak’s ships being popped kind of leads to that conclusion. Yeah, he’s tough, he comes out in a weak ship and brings friends. I guess he just can’t help himself, he has to follow rule 2 from the “carebear playbook“.

Anyway, I am looking forward to some more engagements with these guys. We have only seen a few of them, where are the rest of their corp mates?

More importantly, where is the ceo? Permadocked of course. He sits in his station while his corp mates continue to loose ships. Yeah, he’s a good ceo, he won’t come to the aid of his corp members.

I am really happy that I am not in his corp.

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Wars August 2nd 2007

What to do about the guy in the Coercer…

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…So, why not a war dec? Well, try to get in touch with the CEO of their corp and try to address the issue that way. Nope, convo’s rejected and emails go unanswered. Oh well, time for those guys in Alien Corp to learn what it means to ignore things when you have a problem player in your midst.I war dec these guys and the smack talk starts. I will not quote out the large amount of smack talk that was emailed to me, even after I set the email charge to 1 million isk per message. They refused the 50 million isk surrender fee and lost both ships and pods. The loot they had, well, the 250 million in implants that Lady Imari had in her cargo hold while she was mining afk was a really nice present. Thank you so much for the wedding present, I’ve not had implants since my TRAPS days. I don’t want to loose implants if I get podded, like she was that evening. So, I told them and made some bank.

So, what has happened? Alien Corp is no more. I think that answers the question about what do to about that guy in the Coercer.

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Wars July 2nd 2007

About Me

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Welcome to the The Wandering Druid of Tranquility blog.

My character’s name is Ga’len.  My name is Riley and these are some of my character’s adventures.

Some history on my MMORPG gaming experience.  I started back when the Internet was not publicly used as it is used today. I started out playing a few games on BBS’s (Bulletin Board Systems) playing TradeWars 2002.  I grew into the MUDD scene when I obtained my first Internet access account through a dialup account and a FREEnet system called CAPaccess in Washington, DC.  MOTU or Masters of the Universe was a MUDD I played for about a year before I began to play more advanced games, such as Diablo and a few other ‘online’ games.

Fast forward to this decade.  I was looking for a new game and a friend suggested that I try out Star Wars Galaxies.  Needless to say, we are no longer friends.

I came to EVE purely by a chance suggestion from my wife.  I tried things for a bit and went back to SWG as I simply did not have the time to play MMORPG’s.  Then the Star Wars Galaxies debacle known as ‘The New Game Experience’ came along and killed that game.

I came back to EVE and promptly started a corporation for my SWG guild. Unfortunately World of Warcraft had a larger pull for my old Guild mates. So, after a brief encounter with a group of really cool players, I joined up with them. The Really Awesome Players (TRAPS) was a great home for several months, however, I was not used to the play-style that was required to be a truly contributory member of the corporation. It was with regret that I resigned myself from the corp.

I stayed in an NPC corp for a short time and decided that the only way I was going to get use to PvP was to form my own corporation again. This time, it’s not part of any guilds from any other MMORPG’s, it’s a new entity starting from scratch. I am also planning on not having any corp members, at least, for the next year.

Yup, just myself. Why you may ask? Well, pirating in an NPC corporation, as fun as that can be, does not allow me to declare war on another corporation or allow another corporation to declare war on me.

So, I created the Wandering Druid corporation and started my life as a one man corp, wandering about the universe.  I messed about for a while, ended up joining up with a pirate corp for gang fun, they petered out, did my one man corp again and one afternoon, I was recruited by the Neo Spartans, flew with them for over a year, helped the form their alliance and what not.  After being a pirate for almost 2 years, I wanted to do something different.  A very nice gentleman named Thorvik in game kept bugging me to come and fly with him in Ushra’Khan.  He thought I would find a lot of fun role playing and flying with one of the oldest alliances in the game.  Thankfully he was right and for a time I flew with them, thinking that I would stick around until they reclaimed Unity Station in 9UY4-H.  That seemed to happen much quicker than planned.  That coupled with my desire to be more of a roaming pilot that engaged in space holding warfare led me back to my piracy roots.  HellFleet is my current home.

There are a few rules while you visit my blog:

  • Enjoy yourself.  This blog is meant to be entertaining. I hope you enjoy it as much as I both enjoy finding inspiration for the posts.
  • Make comments if you wish.  All comments are moderated. It’s my blog and I do keep a fair and open mind, but I will not abide mindless babble in comments to posts.  Mindless babble is my job, that’s why I have this blog.  If you want to engage in mindless babble, start you own blog and tell me about it, I will happily list it in the OPML Download.
  • Really, enjoy yourself!! That’s what this thing is for!!

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