GIRL POWER ~ AKA Women Gamers Of Eve

Hello ladies,

Look at your channel now back to me,

Now back at your channel now back to me.

Sadly, that channel isn’t me,

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.

 or drop a mail to the channel administrator Laedy

or simply join the WGOE public channel.

The channel has its own wikki page 

Here is a quick video by Mintchip to tell you more. 

 Look forward to seeing you in channel :)




 For all men who want a
 MEN ONLY channel 
there already is one.
 It's called LOCAL.
;)

MAN THE HARPOONS

Elizabeth Taylor: [overdramatically] Orca the Whale is dead! Maggie the Cat is a-live!

Source Unknown

more famous quotes

Fail has more entries in the dictionary than win.

Epic has even fewer.

This also holds true for the EvE universe.

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!!)

One more empty system then

ILLAMUR

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.

TO THE SNIPEMOBILE

SUCCESS \o/

And the cherry on the pie was the very badly fitted drake who landed at the same time.

Time to log and grab some food BBL….

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.

Guess what happened next????

So there you have it, quite the day and I wont even mention what happened on the WENSLEYDAY op, you will have to wait for him to tell you about that.

And WHO? You might ask is Maggie the cat? Well that’s a whole other story.

"jeeezus fucking christ! warp you fucking retards!"

Good evening ladies and gentlemen and welcome to Ariartus’s annual birthday roam.

My name is Jo King and I will be your commentator for the evening.

What wonders will unfold as the night passes by and the alcohol starts to flow?

Will Aria be able to surpass last years event when she did the spectacular feat of warping 5 jumps thru highsec in her claymore only realising of course after the 4^th jump. And who could forget the dramatic finale to last years roam where she fell asleep on the gate with GCC. What a spectacular finish that was.

Well as always the starting destination is Oddelulf and we can see some early guest arriving into the system. So far it appears to be a blast from Aria’s and Molden Heath’s past as Morel Nova and Triksterism arrive.

I can also see another person from Aria’s past arriving this guy used to be her ceo and he now resides in the infamous PL its Jalif, he must be feeling nostalgic being  back in Molden heath.

Ah I see we now have some WGOE arriving Dian Lung, Arcana Mortis,, grabielle, zen elongur and Laedy

And now we have some of the molden heath regulars from Boglyft .R4pe Tr4in and Twisted, aswell as some of Aria’s corp mates.

 Suleiman  Shouaa has been in system for a while and it is possible he could be attending also, he has flown with Ari a few times in the past. And wait yes I am seeing another X corp mate of Aria Lt Graham in a gila.

We now have some genos members in system and  I am picking up Macherials on D-Scan. I have visual and I can confirm we have Count MonteCarlo and Duncan Tanner piloting the Machariels. Well this is turning out to be quite an expensive fleet I also have now several cynabals on scan and also a panther too.

I have visual on Aria now and I can confirm she is flying a fleet stabber. The rumours of the ashimmu obviously unfounded or maybe she decided the shield fit was more appropriate for a gang of this nature as I can also now confirm we have scimitars on the field also.

This is looking to be a nice fleet, join us after the break when a destination should have been decided upon.

Welcome back, the fleet is currently hot tailing it to skarkon.

I am being informed PX-IHN is the first rendezvous. Not much happening here looks like they are now headed out to EOA-ZC.

The geminate entry systems seem very quiet and the gang is headed up to L-HV5C oh wait the navy caracal has gone ahead this can’t end well for him.

Looks like we have a few neutrals in system here a few demon hunters and it looks like they are running from the gang. Looks like the gang managed to catch a few ships but the gang is now headed back out to empire there doesn’t appear to be much going on in Geminate tonight.

We are now back in EOA and there appears to be a nasty gang on the Akkio gate Zealot heavy with guardian support. This gang is a perfect counter for the birthday roam party but I am getting reports that Fc is asking the gang to x up if they are willing to suicide against this gang.

[ 2011.03.06 22:38:24 ] Lt Graham > x

[ 2011.03.06 22:38:26 ] Ryuichi > x

[ 2011.03.06 22:38:26 ] Migrond Aramath > x

[ 2011.03.06 22:38:27 ] Ariartus > X

[ 2011.03.06 22:38:27 ] 00Teabagger > x

[ 2011.03.06 22:38:28 ] ImmortalisMyst > x

[ 2011.03.06 22:38:29 ] Triksterism > x

[ 2011.03.06 22:38:30 ] Albback > x

[ 2011.03.06 22:38:30 ] Arcana Mortis > meh x

[ 2011.03.06 22:38:31 ] inspector burnside > x

[ 2011.03.06 22:38:31 ] Zen Elongur > x

[ 2011.03.06 22:38:32 ] Krole > x

[ 2011.03.06 22:38:32 ] Vasavia > x

[ 2011.03.06 22:38:33 ] Thorasine > x

[ 2011.03.06 22:38:33 ] CraftyCroc > x

[ 2011.03.06 22:38:33 ] Duncan Tanner > hardcore

[ 2011.03.06 22:38:35 ] Dian Lung > y :P

[ 2011.03.06 22:38:36 ] phantom ghost > xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

[ 2011.03.06 22:38:37 ] Suleiman Shouaa > x

[ 2011.03.06 22:38:47 ] G3ntle > xc]

[ 2011.03.06 22:39:13 ] ramquist > x crusader

 OMG the consensus appears to be unanimous, they are going in!!!!!!!!

Well this cannot end well for the gang, I can see them warping into range and out again are they going to make a break for it ? NO they are engaging, well this is a heroic act but they are taking heavy losses. I see the remaining ships making a break for it (Military experts are calling this GTFO) and jumping to Akkio.

 Well that really was suicide however I hear on coms the spirits are still high or flowing freely one of the two.

Looks like they are splitting up some are headed off as the EU TZ comes to an end the rest look as though they are headed back to Molden heath, and we have a newcomer to the gang. The birthday girl is still alive in her vintage fleet stabber which I understand was a leaving present from an old Corp mate Oodin. He certainly would be smiling if he was here tonight.

Looks like they are flying back the lowsec route down into metropolis and oh an unlucky day for the hauler and blackbird as their paths cross.

Ok everyone is safely back to molden heath and looks like Aria is opening the second bottle of wine!!!!! Join us after the break.

Welcome back. The gang has shifted around slightly some people have reshipped and another new gang member has joined. I believe they are now headed down to Great wildlands to be joined by one Wensley on the way.

Oh and what is this they have intercepted a loki  on a gate in Bosena he really should have warped faster.

The gang are turning round it appears reports of a missioning Abaddon in Atlar are coming in, poor guy he isn’t going to last long.

New destination has been set they are headed down to  EO2-IK wonder what they are going to find there? Oh and it looks like Sard Caid and Hurome have now also joined the gang.

The route to great wildlands seems quiet but coms certainly aren’t as Aria seems amused but disgusted with Shtang’s birthday offering. Now in EO2 another ship intercepted and soon Aria gets her chance to show exactly how much she likes Drakes.

The gang are planning to head back to Empire again but what’s this? An incursion has been spotted! this gang is no match for the Sansha, but wait... what is Aria doing? She is jumping after a Blackbird this can’t go well, as far as I know she doesn’t even have Sansha rats on her overview, in her current state this can’t end well.

I guess that was a comedic end to the vintage fleet stabber and Aria seems to be highly amused after overcoming her initial confusion as to how she could be loosing shields and pointed when nothing was showing on her overview. Oh well back to molden heath to reship and head out to AMAMAKE?

Aria can’t seriously be thinking of flying her hurricane thru highsec? Oh wait no Sard is telling her to eject Dian will fly her cane thru highsec and oh my a loki has just jumped into system will Aria board the jag in time? Or will the loki pod her? Wait what is she doing Aria is actually bumping the loki with her pod, this cannot be a deliberate act surely? Oh wait she is now in the jag and the loki has fled and it looks like Aria has decided to go and get coffee…….. LOTS of coffee.

As you rejoin us as the gang are now in amamake after roaming the surrounding systems and looks like they are headed to the top belt as a vagabond has been spotted.

Gang are looking like they are headed to engage but Aria is still 50km away, more ships are landing huggin rapier and a hurricane Aria should really GTFO as this gang will make short work of her hurricane and the few remaining frigs accompanying her.

OH NOES it looks like she has de-synched. She is trying to warp but nothing is happening.  Looks like she is not going to have to make that trip home thru highsec after all.

Well there we have it, a fitting end to a birthday roam not without its comedy moments.

 Op deemed a success.

I would personally like to thank EVERYONE who turned up to fly with me.

Special thanks To Garmon  and Sulieman for Fcing.

Thank you to all the ladies who got me lovely shiny presents. 

I couldn’t entirely write this blog from my own perspective as after we returned to molden heath the first time, the wine had totally kicked in and I had to talk to a few people to recapture the account, so... if I have omitted anything or if events are not exactly as happened I apologise. 

BOOK CLUB

YOUR MONTHLY REVIEW OF WHAT'S HOT IN NEW EDEN'S LITERARY WORLD

Hello again capsuleers and welcome to book club. Tonight we will be running down the list of New Eden's best seller list complete with short reviews for your perusal and enjoyment.

  

 In at number 5 moving up 12 places from last week is the enjoyable tale of how a lonesome mission runner was brutally murdered by pirates in lowsec. This heartbreaking tale reaches a dramatic climax when the brave pilot returns to his mission after being shot down to only have the same atrocities inflicted upon him. This book is a must for all carebears willing to die for their cause.

At number 4 this week we find a most informative manual writen by a duo that have tried every gun combo in new eden.

 If you like to pew this book is for you!!

The number 3 slot this week is taken by another dualistic double act. This book covers the art of tanking and carefully explains that more is generally less. The book subtley avoids the usual brutality of pvp and instead focuses on the practicality of making yourself tank for EVAH!!!

No change in the number two slot as one New Eden's most prolific author holds just off the top spot with his smash hit best seller "The art of scouting".

 This is the long awaited follow up to "Props to you" the definitive afterburner handbook. This book will surely become an all time classic and is an absolute must for any covert ops pilot.

And finally.........

The book that everyone is talking about.

The page turner than no one can put down. The new carebear bible. Selling over 14 copies this week alone. It is the ultimate mining experience.  READ IT AND BELIEVE IT!!

Next month we will be reviewing two new books more in depth so tune in for the low down on:

The Swiss army knife approach to fitting - Allan Sundry

Caught in a cyclone - Mel Strom

N.B. Special Thanks to The C0lonel for his help with this blog.

Frigageddon

Hulkageddon IV kicks off this weekend.

There will be tears and cheers resonating throughout New Eden.

Almost certainly not in equal measure.

What new and innovative ways that will be found to bring carebears to their knees have yet to unfold, and  no doubt the event will provide much entertainment for it’s duration.

I for one am looking forward to participating. Although ganking miners is already a favourite pastime of mine,

 (pun intended) and one that I certainly do not limit to the scheduled event.

Recipe for 1 Hulk suicide gank:

Ingredients

1 covert alt (any cloaky ship will do.)

4 or more cheap t1 fitted destroyers (preferably thrashers.)

1 Hulk (if Hulks cannot be found any mining barge will suffice.)

1 concord spawn per thrasher (these are not available in any supermarket but CCP will kindly provide them)

Method

First take covert alt to a belt, ice belts are particularly juicy and usually bear the most fruit.

Locate hulk.

Position alt gently at optimal small artillery gun range, being careful not to decloak and thus frighten the poor helpless miner.

Jump the thrasher fleet into system, immediately warp to cloaky alt announcing your favourite greeting into local.

Examples include but are not exclusive too:

YARRRRRRR,  (The more Rs the better, especially good for long system warps)

TALLY HO, (For the refined ganker)

MUIRA BUTTS, (the reasoning behind this is a well guarded secret)

These are not the Roids you were Looking for, (This is really best kept as a last resort)

Upon landing open fire on hulk immediately, click annoying anti gank message to allow you to watch shields, armor and structure disappear and hulk go baddaboom.

Keep watching as CCP adds a generous sprinkling of Concord.

Watch own shields, armor, hull disappear

 N.B. this happens very quickly try not to panic.

Warp pod out.

 N.B. a celestial is better than a gate to avoid embarrassing session time pod outages.

Watch for tears in local whilst cloaky alt loots wrecks and salvages. 

N.B. If hulk pilot was also poded don’t watch local for tears, instead watch mail icon and wait for it to flash.

HOWEVER.....

As we all know plans are overated.

Sometimes Hulks don’t die !!!! 

This is usually due to a fleet mate disconnecting and thus insufficient firepower being present.

Sometimes the thrashers can warp out before concord arrive!!!

 Laedy managed this epic feat and warped around Teon for 15 mins avoiding concord. N.B this is a Pro™ move and is unlikely to be repeated any time soon, personally I suspect PL HAX.

Sometimes the carebears anticipate your moves

and place faction frigates on the lowsec gate in highsec  to intercept your thrasher squad.

And sometimes 

you enter the system the other way, and instead of killing the hulk you kill the dramiel and his pod that was waiting to grab yours.

Also another good point to note is that suicide ganking requires no drones whatsoever ;)