Hate to say it...

I'm afraid that due to real life circumstances I am having to quit playing eve for a time. It is mostly an economic issue. I was able to offline and evacuate all of my POS and gear without problem.

I am planning to come back once I get settled again. So please don't give up on me while I figure things out this side of the internet. Thank you to all of you who have read this and made it fun for me by commenting.

I will be back...

Now to kick back a bit...

So now that I am very much established in this WH, I almost feel like I can relax a bit. Every other time I've been set up in w-space, I've always been looking for the next great WH. Where I'm at now, I basically have unlimited access to C3 WH's. I understand that complacency doesn't generally end well, but I just feel at home.

Today I felt like getting more fuel. So I scanned down the hi sec exit and got some. All there was to it. Decided I wanted to run a few sites, so, with a WH neighbor, scanned down the static C3 and ran some. Man, living hasn't been this easy...well...ever in w-space for me. Here's to hoping I haven't spoken too soon...

While I had the orca out picking up fuel, I also had him pick up some much needed combat supplies to bolster my pvp capabilities. As a WH community, our neighbors and us seem to have silently decided to treat mysterious visitors as hostile visitors. If we can take em...we will. So I picked up my dusty Falcon for Boblakov to ensure that I would be more prepared the next time we had visitors...along with various pvp fittings, ammo and such.

On another interesting note...we found that, if the planets don't change with the release of Tyrannis, we will have one of each type of planet. I haven't really looked into Tyrannis and PI yet but a more knowledgeable w-space neighbor commented on that interesting fact. This could open up a new source of income for our little community...

A reader threshold

Hello everyone. This is just a small update about the views on this blog. I have been using google analytics to track traffic to this site and I think I'll be sharing various milestones in readership with you all.

As of today (day 29):

• the site has had more than 1,000 views!
• within the US there have been visitors from 33 states
• worldwide there have been visitors from 27 countries, including countries from every continent except Antartica (hurry up antartic scientists!)
• a few days ago saw the first traffic to the blog from search engines

I will try to remember to post about this from time to time and thanks for reading!

A more permanent home...

Alright. It feels like it's been awhile since I updated you all on what's been going on. So here it goes...

So where I left you off was when I had escaped out of W-space. I also told you how AWESOME the Tengu is. And it's only been getting better...

So anyways, I have partnered up with a former corp mate. We have decided to run W-space together which will be very different in and of itself for me. So our first night running sites (we just ran sites in a C3 that spawned close to our base), we didn't really end up running many sites. hehe. We did pvp though... Bob in his Tengu, Ant in her domi, and my (now) corpy in his tengu. We were running sites and all of a sudden, a harbinger appears at our WH back to hi sec. Followed by a Raven. At that point bob was in the salvage boat about to warp to the sites to salvage the wrecks. They shot at him!

Well we couldn't stand for that. And feeling EXTREMELY cocky in our shiny new Tengus we decided to show them up. So I jump back through the WH and make a bee line to the station to get my Tengu while corpy and Ant warp to the WH to engage. Apparently these pilots have no appreciation for a Tengu tank...or dps. We decided to primary the harby. So one domi + tengu = harby kill mail. One domi + 2x Tengu = faster kill mail. Yeah, my sleeper war now includes casualties of the human variety. The Raven warped off with it's tail between its legs.

Feeling victorious we logged for the night.

A few nights later, my corpy made a great find. A C3 from lo sec leading to a C2. It turns out that the C2 had a static C3. Exactly what we've been looking for. One problem...it's inhabited. drats.....

So my corpy links their corp after finding their pos and I strike up a conversation with one of their diplomatic contacts. I had been looking for a hole like this for awhile and I did NOT just want to move on because it was inhabited.

The convo started out pretty tense but we soon got past the this-is-w-space-and-i-have-to-assume-that-you-want-to-kill-me formalities. After awhile I simply asked if he and his corp would be willing to share the WH with us. And to my complete enjoyment, they accepted!

Not only does this WH have a static C3, but it also has a static hi sec exit. When considering this before I really didn't want to have that in the WH I inhabited. But since I have learned WH management (thanks Stack All!) it actually seems more like a great asset to have. The security of always having a hi sec exit means I will never have to worry about fuel or making sales runs. I think this is gonna work out just fine...

So I brought in the Medium POS setup that I had ready in the orca. Within about 2 hours it was all ready to go.

Today was the first day that we really made use of our friendly relations with our WH neighbors, to the benefit of all involved. I logged on before anyone else in the WH and checked out the new C3. Nothing doing. No sites to run. Oh well. So I closed it. Next WH. Same thing. Oh well. Closed it. By the time the new WH had opened up there were about 4 other pilots online from our WH coop. Turns out this WH had about 7 sites to run. So we ran them.

Boy did we run them. We had no less than 3 tengus, one domi, and one raven. The sleepers fell like flies. And it all took less than an hour. Not too bad. I'll report in soon about how much we ended up making...

The first run with the Tengu

Just thought I'd drop a quick post about how the first WH experience went with the tengu. I spent awhile today scanning down systems and WH's looking for the perfect one for me to inhabit. Didn't find it. I did find an unoccupied C3 with lots of combat sites though. Perfect time to test the new Tengu.

Man....it is such an upgrade over the Drake. I don't even have the subsystem skills where I want them to be yet and it is leagues above the drake. There are two main differences. The tank: I don't have to ever worry about the Tengu taking dmg. The ROF: the Tengu just spits missiles out like a big leaguer spittin' sunflower seeds. It made a very big difference when it came to completion time on sites. Definately glad I made the jump to t3.

So in my little WH raid I only ran about 5 or 6 sites. Ran the loot to my favorite trading hub for a total of 248 million isk. Made back a chunk of the Tengu already. Another two runs like that and it'll be just about paid off....