First cyno is required in the region of Tenerifis location Q5KZ-W.
Second Cyno is required in the region of Immensea location 08-N7Q.
Third Cyno is required in the region of Curse location V7D-JD.
Fouth Cyno is required in the region of Great Wildlands location U3K-4A.
Fifth Cyno is required in the region of Molden Heath location CLASSIFIED.
Good luck….. this message will not self destruct…. tho your Pod might have to if you die doing the first cyno…..
So the WH exited into Fethabolis only 77 jumps away HAPPY HAPPY JOY JOY.
Getting a cyno ship 77 jumps thru hostile space seemed well HARSH.
But I realised the WH also jumped to a C3 which had a static highec so probes were launched and the highsec entrance was found 18 jumps away in sinq liason.
21 jumps later I am in fethabolis \o/
For the purpose of this mission I decided my best chance was to fit a covert ops thus allowing me to travel between the cyno spots as safely as one can in nullsec. It was obviously a little more pricey than a frigate but for some stupid reason my brain wasn’t working and I assumed I was actually dropping a covert cyno and thus would only need 50 liquid ozone per cyno, thus this meant I could carry all the fuel I needed in one ship and the cloak seemed like a plan.
So the route to the first cyno system was completely empty upon arrival in the target system I was greeted immediately by the locals.
[ 2011.06.07 19:57:44 ] EVE System > Channel changed to Q5KZ-W Local Channel
[ 2011.06.07 20:00:37 ] Tatomi > hi dude
[ 2011.06.07 20:00:55 ] Tatomi > what are y looking for?
[ 2011.06.07 20:01:46 ] Tan mie > came thru a wh ^^
[ 2011.06.07 20:02:00 ] Tan mie > just having a look, never been to nullsec :)
[ 2011.06.07 20:02:09 ] Tatomi > nice
There were 5 people in local so it was decided if the cyno was to survive best drop it in an empty system so we didn’t draw any unnecessary attention.
I went back to the previous system waited a few moments found an empty moon to make it look like the cyno was at a pos and dropped the cyno.
Dread jumped in logged off all was good. Cyno went down I was still alive \o/
I was also out of fuel because it wasn’t a covert cyno it was a normal cyno
GODDAMMIT
Not to worry only 17 jumps back to the WH fly thru to the c3, 4 jumps to Dodixie grab my fuel and maybe some cargo expanders, only needed enough for 2 cynos as I was sure every station in curse sold ozone and I knew it would be really cheap there as well, oh yes this is going to be great!!! Now with the 21 jumps to the next cyno system that means a quick trip of only 69 jumps ……*!%^#
WHY do I get myself into these situations?
I started the trip back to the WH thanking my foresight to bookmark the gates in them. Upon arrival in the UTDH-N I realised something.
Memories of “nope, not bookmarking that cause never want to see another wormhole again EVA” as I hit warp flashed thru my mind.
In my haste and being so gloriously overjoyed to be free of Wormholes and back into normal space I had sped to the outgate without bookmarking the exit.
Luckily the prober was still in the wormhole and gallantly came to my rescue
…. so skip forwards about an hr well 1 hr 47 minutes to be precise (I checked the logs)
Empty system drop cyno number 2, dread jumps logs all is well, 5 minutes left on cyno local goes up by 1. I check out the pilot, a member of stain empire, I catch a glimpse of a raptor on scan.
I close my eyes and wait for imminent death, I then realise I can’t see my overview so I open them again and he jumps out!!!
4 minutes left on the cyno….
With just over 1 minute left of the cyno the raptor pilot re-enters system, he has brought 2 friends with him as obviously tales of my “hero hobgoblin of DOOMZ” has reached this part of the eve universe so he obviously needed much backup to kill my little helios. A tengu and a cynabal to be precise.
I tried to make friends with them
[ 2011.06.07 21:47:58 ] Tan mie > dont shoot blue alt
But I think they got confused because they shot me anyway.
My helios hull put up a massive fight against the torrential onslaught from all three ships unfortunately my ship exploded too quickly and only the cynabel managed to get a killmail.
I got my pod out tho!!!
Now only 17 more jumps to curse and well….. I was going to buy more fuel there anyway may as well grab a new ship whilst I am at it.
I could say the next 17 jumps were uneventful as I encountered no one on my journey there….. but there is nothing uneventful about being in a pod in nullsec never knowing what you are about to jump into.
Luckily I got to curse unhindered. I purchased a sturdy rifter, fuel and cyno all from the same system, the person selling the fuel obviously thought selling it in the same station as where the cyno generators were sold would just be way TOO obvious.
Soon™ Cyno number 3 was completed, also the dread pilot had managed to get his alt into GW to drop the next cyno so once cyno #3 was down I was free to go home.
Only 23 jumps in a rifter would be home in no time.
Unfortunately a sabre pilot in 7Q-8Z2 had other plans for my rifter
But my pod survived again \o/
And I decided that I didn’t want to jump into khabi anyway and turned around and headed for B-VIP.
Eventually I arrived back in my home system happy with the knowledge the dread had also made it home safely as did his cyno punisher.
Jump points Summary:
From home system to WH – 18
WH to nullsec space – 3
Fethabolis to first cyno – 17
Back again for fuel – 48
To deathtarps cyno #2 – 21
To cyno #3 – 21
To tragic rifter death – 14
To home and freedom – 18
Total # of jump loyalty points = 139
The dread pilot was very kind and traded my jump loyalty points for a fully t2 fitted Vagabond.
There are a lot of Solar systems in EVE, (latest count is over eleventy billion) and there are even more people populating them (latest census shows more than 9000). That’s a lot of combinations of people and places. Yet time and time again the butterfly effect seems to come into play. It would appear no matter where I go I always end up running into someone I know or ending up having to go to somewhere that has history for me.
I have gotten about a fair bit of the eve universe now in my 3 and a half years of playing, admittedly the first 3 months don’t count as I didn’t venture out of Rens, and the next 3 was spent between Lustrevik and Eldulf. Wow was Atlar a scary place back in those days. (I was of course deluded; I used to fly Caldari back then FFS).
Here is a map showing everywhere I have been,
Notice the vast blank spot in Amarr space, I really should sort that out at some point! Also a distinct emphasis on empire space although lately (past 6 months) I have been headed to nullsec roaming and more and more frequently been having fun with wormholes.
So let us talk about wormholes. I have learnt a lot about these capricious entities recently. As always is the way with anything in EVE it seems an encyclopedia of knowledge is required to comprehend them fully, I am probably at chapter 3 now and I won’t mention that all I did was look at the pretty pictures.
It seems there are several things to do in a wormhole some of these you can do in normal #space, but some actions and features are reserved exclusively to WH …space.
Sleeper sites …
Have a fight #…
Shoot a Pos #…
Find stuffz people have left behind #…
Take a shortcut …
Collapse them …
Get stuck in one …
Get deaded #…
No local …
No Stations #…
Sleeper sites. ~ in MY wormhole!!!
They say in life you should try everything once, twice if you like it. I like to apply this philosophy to EVE, and I can tell you absolutely categorically without any shadow of a doubt I don’t like it. Yes the rats are ebil and it takes co-ordination and team work, but somehow calling primary on a rat never really did it for me, more fun was had from the geddon conga.
Come to think of it I just revised my philosophy. I can tell you now I don’t need to try incursions to know I am not going to like them and NO I am not scarred from my birthday roam stabber loss :P
Have a fight ~ like the monkey this can happen anywhere
Well I have not had a “proper” fight in a WH but I will recount the most interesting
“SUPRISE we are here to violence ur boat” moment to date.
So Jack, Dee mofo Pee and I descended upon said vessel in an arty cane a devoter and a rapier respectively to do pewpew. The thing tanked like a beast and seemed to have an endless supply of drones. Whilst the endless battle ensued more corpies were logging on and we called for some back up
DEE-PEE-SS. Also whilst spamming scanner a Navy Geddon kept appearing… this could get interesting, coupled with the fact that the Tower was still onlining and would kick us out of the shields in 10 minutes if we didn’t explodinate him.
Well we finally managed to kill him before our backup arrived and before the tower onlined, much to the disappointment of the backup crew, but not to worry as we went and found the Navy Geddon who was actually running a sleeper site the whole time.His tank didn’t fair so well.
Take a shortcut ~ The best use for wormholes IMHO
Willem one of my oldest eve wing mates had a birthday at the beginning of May so much alcohol was secured, and thus a debate about where to roam so we could die gloriously was discussed. I had previously been probing for Wormholes and had discovered one in Can I have a banana. This led to Wicked creek and seemed a great place to jump through and roam back. This idea was inspired by a roam we had done a few days previously when we discovered a wormhole in Ennur which took us to Omist. We managed to roam from Omist to Atlar without losing a single ship grabbing a few kills on the way and having the worst loot drop in history. So we were psyched and spirits were good and flowing freely the gang quickly grew to a drunken rabble and off we set. Unfortunately the crafty Russians in wicked creek must had spied my alt earlier and thus found and collapsed the Wormhole (see point # 6) But we weren’t to be deterred, we would go pay them a visit anyways. Alas by the time we got there, there wasn’t anything to be seen, so we roamed till we found a fight perhaps a little further than we planned, but it was a fun fight anyway. The roam was made more awesome by Masty (cleanest teeth in eve) breaking his new headset and then myself and I'll be backjumping headfirst into a gatecampAll in all a very good night and a successful roam in Willem’s honour. Even if he was called primary first ….
It was like they knew!!
Also Will-I-Am Revolati best FC ever….
Warp, Jump on contact, DRINK, Align to outgate, warp, Jump on contact, DRINK…
Shoot a Pos AKAfinding stuffz people have left behind
EVE may be huge with a massive population but it seems the more I play it the smaller it becomes.
Recently I found a fewabandoned mods in a WH. The X ceo of this corp also my first kill in game and long since a resident of my public channel was online at the time. I informed him of the situation and we both shared a chuckle or two at the irony.
Getting stuck in one
Well not so much stuck as waiting for the prober to log on however……
This tale starts on Saturday afternoon.
I logged in after work and was informed there was a pos to kill bring a geddon and the wormhole entrance was in Hegfunden but this was about to collapse so had to go NOA. I was also aware there was a certain football match on that evening, thus meaning half the fleet would not be present or interested in doing anything until it had finished. This left me with a Dalai Lama.
Option A Take the easy entrance to the wormhole and thus be stuck there unable to do anything until the game was over which was approximately 5-6 hrs away or...
Option B Wait for the new entrance which like the monkey, could be anywhere, but giving me more time to do MaTing. I chose option B. Soon the entrance in Heg collapsed and a new entrance was probed.
I was informed like this. (names have been altered to protect alt identities)
[ 2011.05.28 17:53:19 ] ***** > new entrance is
[ 2011.05.28 17:53:21 ] *****> .......
[ 2011.05.28 17:53:25 ] *****> *drum roll*
[ 2011.05.28 17:53:30 ] Ariartus > lol
[ 2011.05.28 17:53:31 ] *****> tama
[ 2011.05.28 17:53:41 ] Ariartus > omfg
[ 2011.05.28 17:54:14 ] *****> assum right?
This was very much not assum for several reasons
It was 23 jumps thru highsecfor my alt and 52 thru lowsec for myself
It Was Tama FW hotspot and my old stomping ground with SnuffBox
I was sure SnuffBox would be “Delighted” to see me again
They knew who my alt was and was pretty sure he had gotten crossed off the blue list with the Christmas card
This seemed an omen of epic proportions it was like EVE herself was saying Aributts this is a VERY BAD plan don’t go here.
But we all know plans are overrated right J
So I made it to Tama not a Snuff in sight DISSAPOINT! Got into the wormhole and waited for everyone else to return from the football so our games could begin.
Eventually everyone returned and we were waiting for one guy who had yet to get into the wormhole. The Tama entrance was to a C3 WH the Pos we were going to shoot was in a C5 which linked from the C3. When the said personage had returned we warped to the C5 > C3 exit to find it had vanished. It hadn’t reached its lifespan so it had been collapsed, but by whom? A Russian buzzard had been spotted flitting around but what had he brought thru with him to make it collapse? This added an interesting element but the priority was to find the new entrance, all the while the Russian Buzzard was up to the same thing and we kept missing him as he too scuttled about.. A new C3 exit was found, the C3 had 3 more WH one to Geminate one to Curse and one to another C5.
It was decided to collapse this Asap and look for another.
Upon finding the new exit my alt jumped thru just in time to see the Russian buzzard I quickly jumped back and tried to catch him with my trusty battle helios. Unfortunately my 1 hero hobgoblin of DOOMS hadn’t quite finished eating thru his hull when his 2 friends in tengus appeared (mystery of collapsing WH solved). I quickly tried to regain the WH entrance and jump, but sadly for some reason that is probably discussed in chapter 4 of the wormhole encyclopedia it was not stable and I couldn’t jump thru and thus my alt had a quick ride home.
The Russian tengus didn’t seem to want to play, time was ticking on, it was decided that it was going to take too long to get our other fleet mate in also Winter was comingso the pos bash began…..
At 3:30 am Eve time the pos owner showed up and manned his guns this was annoying but didn’t really pose us any threat. Infact it got rather tedious so an epic game of eyespy ensued. We were all stumped by the one beginning with S and tbh not still convinced there are shadows in wormholes but I digress. Things got slightly more interesting/tedious depending upon your perspective when the pos owner undocked from his maintenance array a carrier which must have contained the whole of jita because as fast as we knocked a module out he would anchor and online another, neuts, guns, ecm more guns hardeners on and on and on.
I gave up at 5:30 I had to sleep and had a RL commitment at 9am.
I have been since told the rest carried on for another 2 hrs and apparently the guy never ran out of mods. I logged in my alt after dt and waited for the prober in the wh to log in so I could get out. This took till late in the afternoon but eventually I was rescued and delivered safely back to lowsec in PLACID!!!
52 jumps home… FFS
So I have had varying degrees of success and failure in wormholes but all in all a great place to have fun, but don’t take my word for it go try it for yourself just don’t forget the prober!!
Well it had to happen sooner or later, and here it is the totally unashamed, self indulgent,
WOW how awesome is my corp!!11 post.
Ok So first a little about me and how I came to be in this illustrious Corp
Gunpoint Diplomacy [RANSM]
My EvE career started as a carebear, I quickly outgrew my first corp and started my own. Then soon decided to join an anti pirate Alliance and so we moved to Molden Heath and my pvp career was born. Eventually being Anti-pirate bored me due to the limits of being NRDS and so I moved to 0.0. Pos bashing, and 200 man lag fests didn’t really do it for me, I lasted 4 weeks and 2 of that was spent trying to get my assets back to empire. I moved back to Molden Heath and within 2 days was -10.
One day Alex Medvedov The Jaguar God of Eve and I were flying in Half. I cannot properly remember what I was flying, most likely a Hurricane, and no prizes for guessing what Alex was flying. Wasn’t long before we had spotted a Myrmidon in a belt. We engaged. The Myrm was piloted by one Sard Caid. Long story short we couldn’t kill him and he was also unable to kill us, so we started chatting and thus my respect for this great pilot was born. He was funny, smart, obviously knew how to pvp and we parted ways on good terms. I encountered him many times over the following months and as time past we became friends and whilst I was in Snuff Box I would regularly Clone jump to Molden heath to Fly with him for some old School pvp action and a break from the blob fest that was living near Tama.
Soon I was spending more and more of my game time in Molden heath and I realised it was time to come home. I joined Sard’s corp RANSM and have been there ever since.
When I joined RANSM had 6 members today the member count stands at 30 The latest addition being none other than the jaguar god himself \o/.
So what follows are some brief or not so brief words from some of my fellow corp. members. I posed the questions and they were all fantastic to oblige me with their awesome replies. The questions, some serious some not so much, hopefully to afford you the reader some amusement.
Sard Caid (EON FAMOUS)
Title:Billionaire playboy in black leather pants, sweet-temptress, The guy that hired TEXNTM
Most likely to be heard saying:“BUTTS, Deploy Gifs People”
How does it feel to be the creator and CEO of Gunpoint?
Creating the corporation wasn't really the huge step, rather leaving The Uninvited Guests was where the excitement originated. I never expected to reach where the corp. is now, with over two dozen pilots and no end in sight to further growth and development of the organization.
CEO is an odd role, and as more people enter the corp., the more the game becomes less a game and more a community. With the defacto leadership position, it falls to me to tend to the community, cater to its needs and keep everyone happy. Most of the time it's an enjoyable role that really adds to the experience; however other times I'd rather just shrink into the background to let others take over. I'm awed how much this game through this role has taught me about myself and in many ways helped me mature as a person.
How important are suitable memes and Gifs towards the morale of a corp?
GIFs will be deployed until morale improves.
What are your opinion of Falcons and Drakes and the use of them within your corp. fleets?
Oh, and drakes are OP, we fly cyclones.
Can you please describe the corp. in 5 words or less?
Hairy butts except for Ari.
What would you say was the Ethos and future direction of GPD?
I can't speak to GPD, but RANSM will continue to be a "for fun" corporation, with less emphasis on serious PvP and more on keeping the community entertained. The corporation will continue to be a haven for those individuals who wish to grow themselves and others within the EVE community, without the chains of commitment other organizations tend to bind their members with. With more friends, our capabilities only grow, and so I don't see a limit to the expansion of our operations within Molden Heath and elsewhere.
President Wensleydale
Title:Redshirt, HE'S A BIT IRIE MAN! RASTA. PRESIDENT OF MOUSELANDISLAND. WENSLEY'S BREDDA.
Most Likely to be heard saying:RICE N PEACE
How does being in RANSM distract you from your presidential duties?
SUP, PEEPS? GWAHMON? RANSM IS A PRETTY CHILLIN, FLAVOURSOME BEAST OF A CORPORATION BUT AT DE SAME TIME IT IS SERIOUS BUSINESS AND DE PEOPLE WHO MAKE IT WHAT IT IS ALL GO ABOUT BUSINESS IN DER OWN FASHION. BUT AT DE SAME TIME DEY ALL APPRECIATE DAT LURKING SOMEWHERE IN DE BACKGROUND, USUALLY AT 'THE ODDELULF HEALTH AND BEAUTY COMPLEX AND CAPSULEER LEISURE SUITE' ON PLANET III. (ROYALTY, DIGNITRIES AND STRICTLY MEMBERS ONLY, SORRY SCRUBS). BUT YAH, LURKING THERE, SIPPING ON HIS QUAFE LILT EDITION IS ME. I WATCH OVER MY BOYZ AND GIRLZ AND DEY TREAT ME WID RESPECT. YOU FEEL ME?
TO BE HONEST WID YOU I GOT TO ADMIT THAT MY DAY GOES SOMETING LIKE DIS AND RANSM NEVER GETS IN MY WAY.
GET UP IN DE MORNING SLAVING FOR BREAD, SIR. NAH, I'M JUST MESSING WID YA. I GET UP AN I PRESS MY BUZZER IF I'M AT THE LEISURE SUITE I WILL PHONE ROOM SERVICE OR IF I AM AT THE STATION I WILL FLAG SOMEBODY LIKE MY BREDDAH WENSLEY TO PREPARE A BREAKFAST FIT FOR THE PRESIDENT, A GLASS OF RUM WASHING DOWN SOME FLAKES OF CORN MAKES FOR A PRESIDENT HAPPY. BEFORE DIS HAPPENS IT IS THEN CHECKED BY MY ASSISTANTS. NEVER TOO SAFE, YOU FEEL ME?
NEXT I WILL GO FOR A SWIM IN DA POOL OR CHECK OUT WHAT THE RANSM BANDITS HAVE BEEN UP TO IN THE NIGHT WHILE I SLEEP MY BEAUTY HOURS. THIS FACE DON'T COME FOR FREE, YA GOTTA WORK FOR A JAW LINE LIKE MINE. REPRESENT ALL THE FINE GOOD LOOKING BRUTORS FRESH.
AFTER DIS IT IS TIME TO ANSWER ALL MY FAN MAIL AND MAYBE GET WENSLEY TO DO SOME MISSIONS SO I CAN TOP UP MY ISK VAULT. A LAVISH LIFESTYLE DONT COME FOR FREE EITHER.
AFTER A LIGHT LUNCH I WILL HEAD OFF INTO DE STEAM ROOM WHERE MY MASSEUSE AVAN SERCEDOS WORKS HIS MAGIC AND RUBS ME INTO SHAPE. HIS MASSAGES ARE NOT EVERYBODYS FLAVA BUT HIS SKILLS HELP HIM GET A DAYS WAGE AS HE TRIES TO REFORM HIMSELF FROM HIS HOBO WAYS. TING IS TO REMEMBER DAT RANSM HAS EVERY TYPE OF SPACE FARER UNDER ITS WING.
AFTER SMOKING SOME FAT CIGARS IN THE LATE AFTERNOON SUN I WILL DROP SOME TUNES ON, PROBZ SOME DANCEHALL AND JUST CHILL, FLEXING, YOU KNOW?
MY EARLY EVENING HAS ME READING THE NEWS, ANSWERING PHONE CALLS FROM THE BIG ALLIANCES, THEY ALWAYS WANT ME ON THEIR OFFICIAL GATHERINGS, YOU KNOW HOW TIZ? I WILL ALSO CHAT TO MY HIS LORDSHIP SARD CAID IF HE IS NEARBY.
THEN I EATS MA RICE N PEAS AND RETIRE RASTA STYLE FOR DA NIGHTS
As a natural born leader will you be trying for the CEO position?
PERHAPS SOME MIGHT SAY DAT BEING PRESIDENT IS THE ABSOLUTE TOP OF THE TREE. SURE I WOULD NEVER DO ANYTING TO DIS MA MAN SARD YOU FEELIN ME BUT I DONT TINK DAT CEO LIFE IS FOR ME. SERIOUS I WOULD STRUGGLE TO FIT IN ALL DE ACTIVITIES LIKE FLYIN SPACESHIPS AND SORTING PAPERWORK OUT. I WILL LEAVE DAT TO THE MAN. RESPECT FOR THE CEO, YO. I ACTUALLY HAVE A FEAR OF FLYING. YOU DIDN'T KNOW DAT DID YOU?
What is your opinion on smack talk?
SMACK DEM BITCHES IN THE FACE WID AN ERASER. SERIOUS, SMACKING IN PLACES WHERE SERIOUS BUSINESS IS HAPPENIN LIKE, SAY A PVP CENTRAL HUB LIKE I DONT THINK TIZ GOOD, COS YOU HAVE DISCIPLES OF THE FLAG ALL BEING SERIOUS AND TINGS. BUT....... AND I MEAN DIS ALL SERIOUS. CHUCK ME IN JITA OR SOME 0.6 MINING MECCA AN I'M GONNA DROP SOME GIFS, MEMES AND OTHER ASSORTED SHI RIGHT ON TOP OF YO HEADS. AND IF ONE OF THE REPROBATES DARES TO QUESTION ME OR MY HOMEBOYZ AND GIRLS THEN THEY CAN EXPECT A TIRADE. SO, TO SUMMISE, THE PRESIDENT IS ALL UP FOR THE SMACK IN THE RIGHT PLACES. RESPECT TO THE PVPER, SMACK DEM BEARS.
RANSM does a lot of suicide ganking what is your opinion on this activity?
THERE IS A FESTERING PROBLEM IN SOME PLACES, HULKS AND THEIR MINIONS, THOSE OTHER SHIPS DAT THE PRESIDENT CANT EVEN TINK OF THE NAMES RIGHT NOW, RETRIEVERS IS ONE INNIT? WELL, I LOVE TO MAKE THEM GO EXPLODE WHILE THEY HEAR ALL THE ALARMS GOING OFF AND DEY BE THINKING 'OH MY GOD WHAT IS THIS I AM 12 YEARS OLD AND MINING FOR MY BROTHER WHY DID THEY DO THIS TO ME? THEN THEY CRY AND RAGE IN LOCAL AN ALL DE TIME I AM DROPPING GIFS ON THEM LIKE IT IS SNOWING MEMES ON A LAVA PLANET. THE PRESIDENT IS ALL FOR SUICIDE GANKIJNG. ALL RANSM CORPORATE ISSUE THRASHERS CARRY THE PRESIDENTIAL FLAG. HAVE A LOOK IN TEONUSUDE THERE WILL BE LITERALLY HUNDREDS OF FLAGS WID MY FACE ON FLOATING AROUND. I LIKE TO MAKE THE PEOPLE REMEMBER THEIR PRESIDENT AS THEY MINE AWAY HAPPILY.
If you could pick only one member of RANSM to be your wing man who would it be and why?
LIKE I SAY EARLIER MON, GOT TO ADMIT DAT I SUFFER FROM FLIGHT SICKNESS BUT I DO LOVE ALL MY PILOTS AS WINGMEN AND GIRLZ. IF I HAD TO JUMP INTO A SHIP NOW AND HAVE ONE DUDE TO FLY WITH, IN ALL SERIOUSNESS I WOULD SAY MY BRUTOR PRINCE, MIURA BULL, PURELY FOR THE ONE FACT THAT HE IS GORGEOUS, HAVE YOU SEEN HIS PICS? PHWOOAR. MAKES ME NERVOUS WHEN HE JUST STEPS INTO MY OFFICE, AHEM.
Wensley (The Rifter God)
Title:Redshirt, drifter rifter, the blagger guy, RANSM's answer to high k/d efficiency, president of rasta
Most likely to be heard saying:“I got cat agro”
Does it unsettle you that many RANSM members don’t fly rifters?
As far as I am concerned these people don't exist. I just block them all and pretend they're not there.
What is it like being an eve celebrity? And does this help or hinder your killboard stats?
I think the fact that I am the proud bearer of the title "RANSM's answer to high k/d efficiency" probably says all that there is to say. It does make me laugh when people give me ISK for fighting them, though.
Jaffa cakes, cake or biscuit?
The cake is a lie.
How would you describe the general atmosphere on corp coms?
Noxious. I think someone had curry for tea.
If you could only impart one piece of advice to a person new to pvp what would it be?
If you're not dying, you're not getting better. Fight anything and everything and learn from your mistakes. If you come away from a fight with a lossmail and some new knowledge then you won, especially if you apply that knowledge to the next fight. Heck, that's how I started blogging.
William Revolati
Title:redshirt, sussudio, the god damn william, Will.He.Is
Most Likely to be heard saying:“My drones won Crufts again this year”
As a fairly new member to the corp how do you find in general their sense of humour and general appreciation of Phil collins?
I like the corp’s sense of humour though I feel I need to brush up on my internet memes :P As for Phil Collins appreciation... well it is a little low, but then again I am here to spread his words to the new flock, praise him, oh laird.
Aria is notorious for mistreating her drones as a devoted Ishkur pilot does this disturb you?
I find her drone treatment appalling and I think I'm going to start scooping every drone she leaves behind and open up a 'Relief Centre For Aria's Homeless Drones' in Atlar, where I feed them soup and give them second-hand cardigans and try to find shitty but self-esteem building jobs for them at cardboard box factory or Little Chefs.
Dirty Protagonist
Title:Redshirt, DEE MOTHERTRUCKING PEE BIATCHES, likes to pee on things, 9pool spai
Most Likely to be heard saying: “Legit, WORD, I know right”
As a long time friend of RANSM how does it feel to be the corp. as opposed to just fleeting with its members?
There isn't much of a difference for me, really. when i ran 520, i got used to doing things in a very unconventional manner. for instance, i was the fucking BOSS over there, but i wasn't the ceo. i couldn't declare wars, change the corp bio or my own title for much of the time, but everyone knew wtf was up regardless of the technicalities flying with Sard as a friend of RANSM was interesting as we tried the "friends but not blues" approach for a while. We’d land on the same gate and look at each other with pretention "oh he's not that fast" "coffee's in here, FALCON FAGGOT" etc... so we'd never shoot each other. it was a homoerotic love story about two corps destined to be together anyway in truth, we had manpower when Sard needed it so he put up with our shit to get better fights and better kills. Why he let me in and made me a director is way beyond me
Does Sard really wear black rubber pants?
Verily. He’s the god damned batman
How would you describe the play style and general corp. ambiance of RANSM?
It’s pretty great. hmm, that's nebulous. I guess it's pretty laid back. Also ambiguous. Let me try again.
Our communist loot/ship system to keep our players in space and having fun is fucking awesome. It wouldn't be possible if we didn't have people in corp. that were fucking ridiculously rich that felt that the system benefitted their play style. Basically, the entire thing is about having fun and making shit blow up.
Sometimes our own but most times others. I think that sounds pretty much like a no-brainer to people who play other games, but to people who play eve; this is a unique gem of a corporation environment.
I think that because we've all been SUPER SERIOUS about our pvp careers and stats it's led us to a place where we're more serious about having a good time than about WINNING all the time. I’m sure Charlie Sheen would have something to say about that, but where I am (and I presume most if not all the others are as well) it's fucking awesome.
Also, Raxip is a huge ninny and left and broke my heart now I’m going to kill him (in game (but maybe out of game(hard to say for sure)))
If you had to choose one piece of music to sum up RANSM what would it be?
Haddaway - What is Love?
There is no other song in RANSM
As an eve player with a busy RL how does RANSM support your needs for striking a balance between RL and eve?
I kind of hit on this in question 3. the function of the corp. is to have fun and for the most part, we're all pretty old friends who have been slathering each others' backs in baby oil... erm... watching each others' backs? Is that what i meant? i don't know anymore, but it feels great. Like a big family. A big incestuous family
The fact that we're spread throughout all the us/western eu tzs means that there's shit going on from the time I get home from work (around 11am cst) till i go to bed on my days off (around 1am cst). That’s pretty amazing for a corp. of our size.
Also there are no mandatory ops. I mean, they could be construed as mandatory because they're fucking awesome. No one wants to miss out on shit like the stomping we gave to dragoons the other night or the wensleyday night roams... but if you can't make it, the only shit you catch is for all the fun you missed.
But if you stopped only using your corp and alliance channels and added me, you could be part of WGOE.
Look down, back up where are you?
You are in a channel with women, female gamers just like you.
What’s in your hand, back at me. It’s a mouse clicking on joining the WGOE channel,
Look again, the mouse is now a keyboard.
Anything is possible when you hang out in the WGOE channel.
I’m in a spaceship.
This is a shout out to all female players of EvE.
Females are very much in the minority in regards to the population of this game. The WGOE channel is a female only channel and a haven for all women flying in this very male dominated game.
In the WGOE channel you will encounter :
No smack talk
No trolling
No backstabbing
No politics
No egos
Women gamers encompass every aspect of eve from miners to pirates, industrialists to large nullsec alliances, there isn't an area of the game that isn't represented.
WGOE support the career choice of any female player, we do not discriminate or have a preference for your style of play.
The WGOE channel is THE channel
for the Female community of EvE.
If you are a female eve player please join, or if you know of a female eve player please recommend this channel to her.
If you would like to know more please feel free to contact me in game.
When I first embarked upon blogging the purpose of my blog was not to glorify myself or impart precious jewels of knowledge regarding game play, but for entertainment and comedic value. If this means making myself the source of the humour or BUTT of the joke so be it.
(see what I did there Sard?)
So here we go, a recount of one non glorious day in New Eden filled with ups and downs, success and failures. Throughout which on a few occasions I really should known better [insert jewel of knowledge here] or tried harder but non the less still ended up being full of fun and win [insert self glorification here].
Logging in on a WENSLEYDAY is always a good day. For any that don’t know what a WENSLEYDAY is please go here and read all about it.
I had spent the previous day roaming Molden heath for an extensive amount of time with little success. So I decided a different location might help cure this situation.
I had an empty clone that had been sat dormant for several months near Tama. I decided to clone jump in preparation for the WENSLEYDAY op then roam back.
Surely something notable would happen during this epic 52 jump roam?
I had 2 old corp mates in Tama Shtang and Will who were also headed back to molden heath, so I persuaded them that the roam back would be way more fun than just hot tailing it through highsec.
We grabbed shield ruptures and the adventure began.
Well to cut a long story short it wasn’t epic, and I didn’t get a kill till I got back to molden heath…. Oh the irony.
What basically happened on the roam was:
lots and lots and lots of empty systems…..
One hulk in a ladar site that docked as soon as scanner probes were launched.
[ 2011.03.16 13:02:05 ] Hanee > rupture guys wanna found the hulk? u need combat probes. im inside of a mission
[ 2011.03.16 13:02:33 ] Hanee > :D
[ 2011.03.16 13:02:37 ] Hanee > see u have it
[ 2011.03.16 13:03:13 ] Hanee > in this case i need to warp out
lots and lots and lots of empty systems…..
One hurricane that warped into belt at range and then ran away (Shield ruptures are scary)
lots and lots and lots of empty systems…..
One stabbed Russian hauler
We really thought we had popped him… I saw his hull go red!! However as we were in Uemon at the time (sentries aside) and there were 100 in local, I don’t even want to mention how many drakes were on scan not forgetting the titan. Oh how epic we felt doing a hit and run on their own home turf, only to have the epic win turn to epic fail logs confirming……
[ 2011.03.16 14:01:55 ] (notify) You have started trying to warp scramble CozaNostra (Bestower).
[ 2011.03.16 14:01:56 ] (notify) Target is invulnerable.
[ 2011.03.16 14:01:59 ] (notify) Target is invulnerable.
lots and lots and lots of empty systems…..
Another hauler getting away (well I had just come out of warp, how was I to know he was about to jump instead of try and warp 111!!)
The day previously I had helped a corpmate shoot some pos modules and I decided to investigate see if it still had other stuff there. Upon warping to the tower sure enough mods were still there (the ones we hadn’t shot) and the tower offline.
The 3 ruptures had become 2 by this point but non the less we started shooting one of the guns for lols. Because it wasn’t gonna take that long in a rupture right!!!
Whilst this incredible feat of tactical warfare was occurring I sat my alt in Altar off the incoming gate.
After three full clips of ammo the gun hit incapacitated and it dawned upon us we had failed yet again
[inserting precious jewel of knowledge here, don’t shoot pos mods until you have killed the pos]
So imagine my joy when with my alt I saw on D-scan A hulk! And then OMG OMG An ORCA!!!!!
Image my frustration when I realised I was sat in a shield rupture with GCC …FAIL number too high I had stopped counting now.
Never mind we quickly decided all was not lost we could get to the gate and at least grab the hulk right…
WRONG
As I landed on the gate (50 AU warps FTW) the hulk had already gone and I watched the orca enter warp safely towards highsec.
As I previously mentioned we were now down to 2 ruptures, the reason for this was because Will had to log due to work the next day, he had sped ahead of us towards Bosena awhile back and had also failed to capture a hauler due to badly timed gate landings, however the hauler pilot he mentioned was CAPTAINCAVEMAN777. A well known Molden heath resident (well to the locals) he was more commonly seen flying monstrously tanked Bs so catching him in a hauler would be quite amusing.
As we docked in Atlar after the embarrassing orca incident we noticed him come into local. My alt still scouting the Illamur gate confirming he was indeed still in a hauler.
So after dinner (Thai red duck curry with coconut rice, yes was lovely thanks for asking, mail me if you want the recipe) logged back in.
There was a kerfuffle going on in oddelulf and I was quickly asked to join a fleet and jump on coms, but whilst my fleet mates managed to grab a few kills by the time I had gotten organised it was all over. So I went back to Atlar to reship and log my alt in for some serious scoutage of targets.
As I landed on the station in Atlar in my trusty little action less shield rupture I saw docking ANOTHER BLOODY ORCA.
WTF who docks an orca in Atlar????
So I dock swap to a battleship to tank sentries, swear at scotty for session timer, scream on coms at fleet mates, BATTLE STATIONS!! I WANT WHALE MEAT!!
One had got away this one would be MINE.
I undocked, The orca pilot undocked…in a pod damnit.
I docked and waited for a while, he returned with a drake, docked and again left in a pod.
HUH? How dumb was this guy? Was he moving into Altar? He was in an industrial corp were they going to mine in atlar??? This caused much merriment on coms and then he returned with another drake?
Ok whatever he was upto we didn’t care, scouts were deployed to all gates and we awaited to see what the next carebear treat was that he was bringing in, and we were gonna kill it.
He appeared docked at the station in a badger HUH? How had he gotten past all our scouts?????
AHA!!!
5 mins later we are all in recons sat at the entrance waiting for him to come feed us.
The Wormhole had entered the final stages of its life and we were reticent to jump in, we would be patient, we would wait, the mountain would come to us.
So we waited and watched as he proceeded to bring out another 3 covetors from the wormhole.
We decided to wait even though perhaps...
"A badger in the hand is worth two in the wormhole."
but a covetor was not worth bothering over, we got to kill those flying around in Teon all the time.
So we waited and then it happened, he undocked from the station to return to the WH not in his pod,
BUT in the ORCA WOOOOOT \o/
Scrammed, webbed, bumped, ransomed.
He informed us he was in the process of robbing his corp however, despite his obviously UBER haul he apparently had nothing to give us.
