but it seems to have escaped me. Ah well. I've been playing around with a Screen Capture software for my YouTube channel, and so far I am impressed.
I am using Microsoft Expressions 4 (Free Edition) and basically I can capture anything on screen and then send it to the editor and export. The only problem is that the free edition exports to WMV. Not a serious problem to work around (Just another bit of freeware), but a bit of a pain.
I am really happy now. (WARNING! PERSONAL BLOG TO FOLLOW) I just made cookies (CHOCO CHOCO CHIP!) and have completed both practice and my homework early. LIFE IS GOOD! (END PERSONAL BLOG)
So yeah, and in 9 days I'll have T2 Cruise Missiles on Toobs, Propulsion Jamming 5 on Hian and T2 standard missiles on Ram. This is a good day =).
Adios amigos,
Hianmar, a.k.a. The EVE Gamer
PS- I hope your days are prosperous and a fight is never far away.
10.26.2010
10.25.2010
An Unintentionally Fail Fleet
So, we were bored and one of the alliance FC's was like, "Hey! Let's go screw around in Pure Blind!" So we get there, 5 or so jumps... and there's nothing going on. So bored, we check intel for the nearest available fight. Well, it just so happens that there's a 16 man gang next door. We're all thinking "WOOT! Fight time!!!" However, while we may have 2x the numbers (about 30), they had 2 logi's to our 0.
We thought we could take them and we probably could have. Let me first say I don't think this was the FC's fault, he tried his best. He was as clear as he could have been. Still, it should have been easy: go in, kill logis first, and then take out the rest. Except for one tiny problem: we got confused with our targets.
See, they had a guy named TheOnePunisher, flying a Scimitar. They also had a punisher in fleet, you know the little Amarr T1 frigate. The Scimmy was called primary, FC said "Primary the Scimi's as they uncloak!", shortly followed by "PRIMARY IS THE PUNISHER!!!" Now you can see where this is going.
Despite having clearly stated that the SCIMITARS were the primary, some people looked for and fired upon their punisher. If only this was the only fail thing that happened.
Before this, when we were hunting this fleet and playing gate games, we had 2 dictors. The first one, a sabre got popped trying to trap the enemy fleet. The second one, a flycatcher, was a total dumbass. He took the FC's silence during our cloaking time to mean "BUBBLE UP!" He repeatedly bubbled up as the fleet attempted to warp. This happened often, and our HIC pilot got blamed several times. It was a pain.
All told, our fleet got 1 kill, an Apoc who logofskied and then we caught him on log in, so only one person got on the kill. Comparing that to our 5 losses, a frig, a dic, and a 3 battlecruisers, it looks pretty bad. Sorry to our FC, who was pretty cool about the fail. And despite the fact that it was a unsuccesful roam, I still had fun. Nothing like being locked up by 15 reds, while aligning in retreat knowing they could at any moment drop a point on you.
In other news, my corp has instigated a 15 kill/month policy which is entirely reasonable. However, I have gotten exactly 1 kill this month, and that was a pod. Blame CTA's where we shoot nothing but towers and the ones where we kill things (iHubs and POS's) are at 3 in the morning. I have school and errands to do. No thanks, so I have some work to do.
We thought we could take them and we probably could have. Let me first say I don't think this was the FC's fault, he tried his best. He was as clear as he could have been. Still, it should have been easy: go in, kill logis first, and then take out the rest. Except for one tiny problem: we got confused with our targets.
See, they had a guy named TheOnePunisher, flying a Scimitar. They also had a punisher in fleet, you know the little Amarr T1 frigate. The Scimmy was called primary, FC said "Primary the Scimi's as they uncloak!", shortly followed by "PRIMARY IS THE PUNISHER!!!" Now you can see where this is going.
Despite having clearly stated that the SCIMITARS were the primary, some people looked for and fired upon their punisher. If only this was the only fail thing that happened.
Before this, when we were hunting this fleet and playing gate games, we had 2 dictors. The first one, a sabre got popped trying to trap the enemy fleet. The second one, a flycatcher, was a total dumbass. He took the FC's silence during our cloaking time to mean "BUBBLE UP!" He repeatedly bubbled up as the fleet attempted to warp. This happened often, and our HIC pilot got blamed several times. It was a pain.
All told, our fleet got 1 kill, an Apoc who logofskied and then we caught him on log in, so only one person got on the kill. Comparing that to our 5 losses, a frig, a dic, and a 3 battlecruisers, it looks pretty bad. Sorry to our FC, who was pretty cool about the fail. And despite the fact that it was a unsuccesful roam, I still had fun. Nothing like being locked up by 15 reds, while aligning in retreat knowing they could at any moment drop a point on you.
In other news, my corp has instigated a 15 kill/month policy which is entirely reasonable. However, I have gotten exactly 1 kill this month, and that was a pod. Blame CTA's where we shoot nothing but towers and the ones where we kill things (iHubs and POS's) are at 3 in the morning. I have school and errands to do. No thanks, so I have some work to do.
10.24.2010
Designing an Internet Spaceship
Since my alt has been getting the skills to use more and more tech two stuff, looking at this awesome looking minmatar battleship really has me drooling. The thought is there, he plans out mid, low and high slots! He has cargo, base stats, drones and hardpoints! JUST READING IT IS MAKING IT APPEAR TO CLOSE TO REALITY!
So yeah, my votes with this guy. I hope he wins, I want my own Tornado.
Long Time No Write
Whoops... its been WAAY to long since I've written a post. Anyway, lets start with a few updates about my characters:
I have now acquired a 3rd characters, which is really a friends. He is a 17 mil SP Caldari pew pew character and his name is Toobindicular Guy. His current que is to set him up for a Phoenix class dreadnaught. He's got 4 months or so. After that I may train him to use lazors (Shwoop da whoop!).
My main, Hianmar, is almost ready for remap. He recently broke 20 mil SP, and is on his way towards a Thanatos class carrier. However, that is quite a few months away and its going to be more fun for me to fly all the HAC's/HIC's I'll unlock with propulsion jamming 5 in the oven, weapons upgrades 5 and Gallente Cruiser 5 to come shortly after. That'll be two races that I'll have the skill to 5 with. Also, before cruiser 5 I am finally going to unlock those pesky tech II hybrid turrets. This is going to be fun!
Finally, my alt, Ram Niah (yes it's Hianmar backwards but misspelled. I fail...) is just about ready for his first remap. He has already unlocked tech II medium arty's and autos, which means the nano cane is his new best friend. I also plan to fly ruptures and stabbers as well. He has 6.2 mil SP.
So that's how my characters skill plans are looking.
As for me, cross country season is nearly done here, but not before we got our first snow flurry.
Hoping your days are prosperous and a fight is never far away, I'm off to do homework: that bane of a students existence.
o7 Hianmar, aka The EVE Gamer
I have now acquired a 3rd characters, which is really a friends. He is a 17 mil SP Caldari pew pew character and his name is Toobindicular Guy. His current que is to set him up for a Phoenix class dreadnaught. He's got 4 months or so. After that I may train him to use lazors (Shwoop da whoop!).
My main, Hianmar, is almost ready for remap. He recently broke 20 mil SP, and is on his way towards a Thanatos class carrier. However, that is quite a few months away and its going to be more fun for me to fly all the HAC's/HIC's I'll unlock with propulsion jamming 5 in the oven, weapons upgrades 5 and Gallente Cruiser 5 to come shortly after. That'll be two races that I'll have the skill to 5 with. Also, before cruiser 5 I am finally going to unlock those pesky tech II hybrid turrets. This is going to be fun!
Finally, my alt, Ram Niah (yes it's Hianmar backwards but misspelled. I fail...) is just about ready for his first remap. He has already unlocked tech II medium arty's and autos, which means the nano cane is his new best friend. I also plan to fly ruptures and stabbers as well. He has 6.2 mil SP.
So that's how my characters skill plans are looking.
As for me, cross country season is nearly done here, but not before we got our first snow flurry.
Hoping your days are prosperous and a fight is never far away, I'm off to do homework: that bane of a students existence.
o7 Hianmar, aka The EVE Gamer
10.03.2010
Pitch Forks and Randomness
I think everyone should keep a pitchfork in their hanger. And by pitch fork I don't mean a literal pitch fork, I mean a ship you will readily go out into battle to defend your system with and not care if it goes boom. This makes it much easier when your put in the "We need shield logi's and battlecruisers ASAP at a safe POS in *-*. Intercepting a hostile gang that is x jumps out" to respond "Ok, who has a warp in?" Thus you get to have fun not far from home!
Today was one of those days I got to take my pitch fork out for a spin and my pitch fork is a drake. Mainly because our fleets seem to be mostly shield/speed ships possibly because they are good at what they do but more likely because they are cheap. I took out my second drake that I've purchased since my time in 0.0, one that has seen many engagements and made it out alive, and threw it at the Darkside gang we were engaging. Sadly, today was not one of those times, when despite our superior fleet numbers, we still got our ass handed to us. Well, it was probably more even since half our people will still docked or doing whatever. So my trusty Crimson Tide III was popped due to being the apparent subject of the enemy fleets missiles, but not before I managed to get some blood and guts smeared on her hull.
So I went and reshipped into my "slightly" smaller and less reliable atron; which under gate camp situations is a fine ship for playing tackle but in the drone laden battlefield of the small gang fight is an easy target for drones. I decided, given that T2 drones rape T1 Frigates, to play warping games while acting as an additional tackle against the speedy and hard hitting darksiders, managing to hop onto a tempest kill. There's three more kills for my increasingly pathetic looking kill board. I think I'm averaging a kill a day, though sadly 15 of them were on day 1 (I think).
RL fun is winding down (I've been taking SCUBA lessons for the past month), so I should have more time during the weekdays especially for more fun and games. Along with that, I can now fly my first T2 ship: the basilisk. So now I can play logistics with fleets who so often seem to need them. I have no problem skipping off kill mails (See my killboard =P), but my skills are a bit lacking. Ah well, another week for fitting them right isn't so bad. And then it's time for my last few skills till remap! Hurray!
Hoping your days are prosperous and a fight is never too far away,
Hianmar, a.k.a. The EVE Gamer
Today was one of those days I got to take my pitch fork out for a spin and my pitch fork is a drake. Mainly because our fleets seem to be mostly shield/speed ships possibly because they are good at what they do but more likely because they are cheap. I took out my second drake that I've purchased since my time in 0.0, one that has seen many engagements and made it out alive, and threw it at the Darkside gang we were engaging. Sadly, today was not one of those times, when despite our superior fleet numbers, we still got our ass handed to us. Well, it was probably more even since half our people will still docked or doing whatever. So my trusty Crimson Tide III was popped due to being the apparent subject of the enemy fleets missiles, but not before I managed to get some blood and guts smeared on her hull.
So I went and reshipped into my "slightly" smaller and less reliable atron; which under gate camp situations is a fine ship for playing tackle but in the drone laden battlefield of the small gang fight is an easy target for drones. I decided, given that T2 drones rape T1 Frigates, to play warping games while acting as an additional tackle against the speedy and hard hitting darksiders, managing to hop onto a tempest kill. There's three more kills for my increasingly pathetic looking kill board. I think I'm averaging a kill a day, though sadly 15 of them were on day 1 (I think).
RL fun is winding down (I've been taking SCUBA lessons for the past month), so I should have more time during the weekdays especially for more fun and games. Along with that, I can now fly my first T2 ship: the basilisk. So now I can play logistics with fleets who so often seem to need them. I have no problem skipping off kill mails (See my killboard =P), but my skills are a bit lacking. Ah well, another week for fitting them right isn't so bad. And then it's time for my last few skills till remap! Hurray!
Hoping your days are prosperous and a fight is never too far away,
Hianmar, a.k.a. The EVE Gamer
10.01.2010
CTAs (Again)
As I return from yet another CTA (Call to Arms), I think I have come to a conclusion on my feelings for them. They are just too boring. Sure, if there is nothing else going on, I'll head out on the drake fleet to shoot a few POS's, just to keep my kill mails up and such but otherwise there usually isn't enough to do before I go to bed (2-3 Hours into the Op). Maybe this isn't enough time, but at the moment, it's all I have to give to them.
What strikes me as the most boring part is that your shooting things that don't present a challenge. It's worse than missioning, at least there you have a goal, an objective and a reward. CTA's are quite dull, and I really wish there would be something to make the boring act of shooting a POS interesting. Maybe this means using a capitol ship (Dread/Carrier) or flying tackle to guard the gates. But sitting on the target with a drake is soooo dull. Especially when your 150-250 compadres spook off any chance of organized resistance.
So it is because of this that I have come up with my own, lowly opinions on changes that would make CTA's more enjoyable.
1) Save POS bashing for the Capitols. Yeah, sure, a 150 man drake fleet can easily help the caps by taking out guns and utilities, but it is annoying. Capitols can take out the guns in a matter of seconds, not minutes.
2) Instead of one massive support fleet, send out several smaller "Hunter-Killer" Gangs to sweep the surrounding systems for Reds and Neuts. They will be in smaller gangs which will appeal to reds to attack, while at the same time maintaining a close distance to the target system so as to return if the capitol fleet needs help. This gives you a little more action and at the very least you are doing something that is more likely to get you into a fight.
I'm sure there are probably more, but as my eyelids are drooping and my bed beckons, I think its time to end this post.
So hurrah to the Northern Collation (BFF!) boys (and girls) out there working there butts off to hit the enemy where it counts, and to the rest of you: Hoping your days are prosperous and a fight is never far away.
Hianmar, a.k.a. The EVE Gamer
What strikes me as the most boring part is that your shooting things that don't present a challenge. It's worse than missioning, at least there you have a goal, an objective and a reward. CTA's are quite dull, and I really wish there would be something to make the boring act of shooting a POS interesting. Maybe this means using a capitol ship (Dread/Carrier) or flying tackle to guard the gates. But sitting on the target with a drake is soooo dull. Especially when your 150-250 compadres spook off any chance of organized resistance.
So it is because of this that I have come up with my own, lowly opinions on changes that would make CTA's more enjoyable.
1) Save POS bashing for the Capitols. Yeah, sure, a 150 man drake fleet can easily help the caps by taking out guns and utilities, but it is annoying. Capitols can take out the guns in a matter of seconds, not minutes.
2) Instead of one massive support fleet, send out several smaller "Hunter-Killer" Gangs to sweep the surrounding systems for Reds and Neuts. They will be in smaller gangs which will appeal to reds to attack, while at the same time maintaining a close distance to the target system so as to return if the capitol fleet needs help. This gives you a little more action and at the very least you are doing something that is more likely to get you into a fight.
I'm sure there are probably more, but as my eyelids are drooping and my bed beckons, I think its time to end this post.
So hurrah to the Northern Collation (BFF!) boys (and girls) out there working there butts off to hit the enemy where it counts, and to the rest of you: Hoping your days are prosperous and a fight is never far away.
Hianmar, a.k.a. The EVE Gamer
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