Askgar

Well, Wednesday night started as a perfectly normal Eve night, we decided to do some wormhole exploring so off we went, took an hour or more to get organised then jumped into a wormhole which was quite quickly found.

We went around doing various sleeper sites, collecting a reasonable number of bits of nice salvage loot and every so often noticing a ship on the scanner, however it was just a probing ship and nothing else so we ignored it.  After a few sites we decided to have a quick loot dump so we all warped to the wormhole (to group up), then a couple of people warped off while we waited there for them to get back.  Then this happened…

http://eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=6757733

We were sat at the wormhole when suddenly we all noticed a ship just appear, most of us weren’t expecting it and didn’t really know what to do but after a quick (VERY quick), debate we decided to kill it.  By the time this had happened and I’d locked the ship, it had been webbed and scrambled and generally prevented from moving and then blown up.

After this we picked through the loot and, well you can see what we found in the kill mail, essentially that one PvP battle and the dropped loot paid for ALL of our ships, and fittings, at LEAST twice over, probably more, I grabbed the BPO when I saw it and ran back to Dodixie to drop it off before anything could happen.

After this we were all quite amazed at our luck, we can only presume this person had seen us doing sites and owned the POS in this wormhole and thought he’d be able to sneak in, unluckily he didn’t bank on us having just regrouped at the wormhole and, essentially, ganking him.

Anyway, after that we did another site or 2 then went back, dropped off the loot again and called it a night, all quite pleased with our loot, although the morals of what we did could be considered wrong, this person had done nothing to us and just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time and we gave them no possibility of escape or negotiations, I didn’t see  their pod after the kill however I presume it got away?

Finally, for anyone who noticed my tweet of “We win at eve”, yes it was related to this and yes, I was being ironic.  My personal view of eve is that as long as I’m having fun I don’t care what happens in eve and I have no intention of trying to win it.

A very common topic for MMO players and something that tends to happen to us all… I’m on the path to burning out of Guild Wars.  I still play the game but I’m getting rather apathetic to it now.  My twice a week playing has finally caught up with me and I’m finding it very hard to get enthusiastic, except for trying out the occasional new thing which we haven’t done before, or only rarely done in the past.

I still enjoy chatting to all of the people in the Tuesday Noob Club but, unfortunately, Guild Wars doesn’t have the draw any more and I would much rather play other games.  Talking to other members of the Tuesday Noob Club I can tell that I am not the only one who is starting to feel this way, so much so that we’re swapping our Sunday night gathering to another game (we couldn’t exactly swap Tuesday could we).

I also realised that the so called “traditional” MMO (WoW, LoTRO, Everquest, etc.) doesn’t hold my interest either.  I had a comeback week for LoTRO and tried it out again, I played around for a bit, tried some quests and crafting and realised I found it SO dull that I just stopped playing again, I have no real interest to try a game like this again and I really hope that Guild Wars 2 doesn’t go this way.

So, where have I gone instead?  Well readers will have seen I’ve been playing DDO and I’m still enjoying that, I tend to play a couple of times a week and thanks to our previous Friday’s epic night (Tempest Spine, a 12 man raid, and The Pit, a 6 man epic instance), I got close to level 9 (around 7k off now).

My other game for now is Eve, I played it a few years ago and it never clicked but, for now at least, I’m getting into it.  I’m enjoying it a lot more and have been dropping in most nights, at the least to change skills, although often I’ve been running a mission or two.  I’ve been joining up with a couple of friends from Guild Wars/DDO to sometimes fleet up for missions which is very fun and a lot more enjoyable.

As a side note, when getting back into Eve I was determined to get the best deal on my game time so I researched and other than finding out that CCP cap the price resellers can charge for Time Codes to €29.99 or $34.99 for 60 days, I realised that buying a Time Code in US$ would work out much cheaper (around £5 cheaper for 60 days) and searched out a good, and quick, reseller.  I settled on Shattered Crystal and within 30 mins I’d received a call from the US to verify who I was (a simple procedure) and had the code ready to play.

If anyone is looking to buy more time for Eve I would appreciate if you could use my referral link (http://www.shatteredcrystal.com/code.php/eve_online/~84929#eve_time_codes_60_days_eve_game_time) for Shattered Crystal, it will save you money on buying in Euros direct from CCP and will earn me 10%, or $3.49, for each time code purchased.

UPDATE: I’m now recomending people don’t use Shattered Crystal after their ordering system seems to have been broken for a couple of days for me now, instead I’ll recommend Eve Time Code.  I ordered using paypal and within 5 minutes I had my code, they didn’t even phone and verify me (which seems a little odd).  Anyway, if you wish to use my referal link for ETC then it is http://www.evetimecode.com/index.php/~24526 . They only give 5% but at least it works…

Anyway, I’ll call it there for today, look out for posts on my thoughts on Eve and DDO in the future.