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Episode 13
Posted by Luminus Aardokay in Podcasts on January 28th, 2010
Checking in with this interim episode, before we return for good in March for the second half of the first season of the Planet Risk Show (this starts to sound like a tv series commercial) . Not much to say here, except that we are not allowed to talk about Episode 12…
Edit: As promised, here are the shownotes:
Planet Risk Returns Tonight!!!
Posted by Quivering Palm in Upcoming Shows on January 27th, 2010
Tune-in at Split Infinity Radio tonight, Wednesday 27th of January at 21:00 EVE time for episode 13 of the Planet Risk show, with your drunk hosts and their wormhole stories!
…boy do we have lots to talk about…
As always, we will be recording the show and releasing it as a podcast for those who won’t be able to join us live.
SI Radio PVP Tournament #2
Posted by Quivering Palm in News, Upcoming Shows on January 22nd, 2010
Alright friends and foes of Split Infinity Radio!
I’ve come up with quite a crazy idea last night… But before I can start planning, I want to share a glimpse of what I’ve thought about with you…
How about we organized a special PVP Tournament, open to everyone, with some really cool prizes and a chance to fight against everyone?… well not only the drunken duo of the Planet Risk show, but also against other folks… fellow listeners of SI Radio… Split Infinity Radio DJs… and their friends… and their friends’ friends’… and their enemies… hehehe
A test of player dog-fight skills and ability to fight under stress – with lots of other pilots around you, watching.. and waiting.. for their turn…
Here is what I’ve come up with so far:
- We (Split Infinity Radio) organize and sponsor a PVP Tournament.
- There is some sort of entry fee and your ship would have to meet specific requirements (see below)
- Everyone who signs up, at the date of the tournaments has to be at a specific system / specific time where the tournament will take place!
- The PVPes who signed up will be placed on single-elimination 1vs1 rounds, randomly and would get to fight against our special guests as well as SI Radio members!
- Winner takes some cool prizes away with the trophy!
Rules:
You will have to fit and come with a Tech 1 Ship, using only! Tech 1 Meta – 0 modules!
No Named, No faction / deadspace / officer / Tech 2 or anything other – down to the bare minimum! Rigs are allowed.
Ships I am thinking of are Frigates or Cruisers – what do you think?!?!
Check out the poll section on the right – vote!
What do Hulks and Titans have in common?
Posted by Quivering Palm in News on January 12th, 2010
… lovely killboard pages like this one and this one
As you can also read in the latest Tribune article, the above fight for Y-2ANO recorded as one of the most expensive losses in a single battlefield ever yet in terms of ISK.
Reports say that in fact 7 Titans met their doom but somehow the killmails went lost.
As rumored there are about 250 of those ships (the size of Long Island) in the game.. well about 246 :-p Now, for newbs like me a single Titan loss seems unthinkable.. but 7… or even 4 ?
With the number of players online on the server reaching a new peak record of over 56.000 ((!!)) last weekend, I expect that killmails like that will be coming again sooner or later.
Bundled with player-driven actions like Hulkageddon II, started by Helicity Boson, I say 2010 started with quite a bang!
Exhumers (especially Hulks) are sky-rocketing in market already – almost double price compared to a month ago – as well as Destroyers and other ships used in the suicide runs.
The coverage of Hulkageddon II in media like MMOCrunch and Massively.com is huge, as well as the whole EVE blogosphere.
So what do Hulks and Titans have in common?
They both require massive amounts of minerals to make, especially Tritanium. I am curious to see how the market will be affected…
In the meantime, I am training a mining alt to help mine all those lovely roids inside Planet Risk to help the corp in building more capitals 
QP
Getting to know your ship
Posted by Luminus Aardokay in Guides on January 11th, 2010
Let’s just face it. Eve is a game with boatloads of community generated literature. The game is vast and deep and new (or potential) players need all the help they can get in order to get themselves rolling as quickly as possible. For me this has been most apparent coming from a radio station that even though caters to EVE Online on occasion is not solely dedicated to the game, as a lot of non-eve players who express interest about the game ask more and more questions.
And as such I decided to write an introductory guide for all the new players out there (hey we love the newbies) regarding their first steps in spaceship mayhem.
Free Skill Injection – Part 2
Posted by Quivering Palm in Guides on January 9th, 2010
A Guide for New Players
Recently we had a few new members join our ranks. Now there are many nice guides for new players out there, but quite a few months ago I took the time to write down some points for leveling up during your first few weeks that turned into a bigger guide in time, and then it grew even bigger and bigger… so I thought I’d refine it and share it with the community. So here it is.
Here is a link to Part 1
This is Part 2. Part 3 will follow soon ™.
QP
Free Skill Injection – Part 1
Posted by Quivering Palm in Guides on January 7th, 2010
A Guide for New Players
Recently we had a few new members join our ranks. Now there are many nice guides for new players out there, but quite a few months ago I took the time to write down some points for leveling up during your first few weeks that turned into a bigger guide in time, and then it grew even bigger and bigger… so I thought I’d refine it and share it with the community. So here it is. Parts 2 & 3 will follow soon ™.
EvE Universe Rule(s):
1. Never fly what you cannot afford to lose
2. NEVER fly whey you CANNOT afford to lose
3. NEVER FLY A SHIP YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO LOSE
4. Never …
5. …you get my point
Please leave a comment if you liked the guide and suggestions / improvements are always welcome.
QP
Welcoming 2010…
Posted by Quivering Palm in Captain's Log, News, Wspace Operations on January 7th, 2010
…with clearing of some sites inside Planet Risk
After the long hiatus, we are back and eager to clear some sites and make some extra ISK
So after the holidays when everyone was away and not clearing sites we had quite a few spawned inside our new home. In total we had 6 PVE Sites (2 Citadels, 2 Bastions, 1 Strange Energy Readings and 1 Mirror), 9 LADAR sites (Yes 9!!) and 8 Grav Sites (Yes 8!!!) and also a RADAR Site.
So far we’ve cleared most of the PVE and LADARs – but damn! scanning all those signatures every day after server restart just to refresh their sigs so you can scan for any new wormholes is a royal pain! The mining crew has almost cleared a Rarified Core Deposit and we are planning to have a massive mining op soon to clear all the smaller sites in one go.
On the PVE front, we are now using carriers to augment our sleeper encounters and net extra ISK from each site. The first carrier you bring into the mix spawns an additional 6 Sleepless Guardians (the best Sleeper BS kind) while the second carrier you bring spawns an additional 8! Nothing to worry about though… the encounters are easy enough when you have 2x Carriers on grid and the DPS is quite good to clear the sites fast enough. The extra ISK from the Guardians is also most welcome!
Here are some nice looking pics from our recent encounters. Look ma! Lights!
PVP action has been quite low these days – following last month’s massacre where I got podded – I’d say this is not bad. A few days ago we had some folks hauling stuff through our wormhole but we lacked the manpower to setup an effective camp using bubbles etc so we didn’t net any kills. Too bad 
On another note, we are still debating whether to build a Rorqual right away or build some Dreadnoughts first. We will talk about that on our next show, as well as give you detailed info on how to use carriers in wspace encounters from our experiences these days.
Last, but not least, on a personal note, my main (Quivering Palm) just got over 20M SPs (huzzah!) roughly about the same time as I celebrated my first year in the game. One year ago I was looking to find level 1 agents with Quality 15+ and now I am debating whether to build a Moros or a Rorqual.. I’d say it has been a good first year and hope much more to come!
See you out there!
Happy Holidays
Posted by Luminus Aardokay in News on December 9th, 2009
‘Tis the season, or well.. almost. And as it so happens every such period, Quiv and I decided to jump on our T3 sled and venture forth into Jovian space and bring back delicacies and festive decorations for our brand new C6 Planet Risk system. Considering that our T3 sled is being pulled by bionic space reindeers that have barely any warp capabilities, the journey is going to take a while.
Fortunately as we were loading our sled, a wormhole to a C5 space opened, and right through came an industrial ship carrying exotic dancers for relevant festivities in Dodixie. Needless to say, we intercepted the freight and kept the dancers for our own, which will keep us good company during the trip.
As such, we are going to put the Planet Risk (and Oh My Pod) show on hold for holidays and we will be back with you in 2010. (We don’t promise we’ll bring the Exotic Dancers back though)
Till then, have a very merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
“Burn them all”… wait! what?
Posted by Quivering Palm in Captain's Log on December 8th, 2009
I personally loved the Dominion Trailer but I admit I saw the last few seconds where ze Russians move in to take over the system with a grin on my face…
You might recall the Siege on Planet Risk * we had back in the Class 2 beginning of September, where we managed to protect our POS against a Russian corp from the xX Shadow of Death Xx alliance.
* hence the grin… :-p
We also had quite a few dealings with Russian PVPers last week, where we simply got pwnd… Some lessons learned there (wait for the next PR show for details).
So I began to think how come and so many Russian folks wander in wormholes…
Perhaps the image discovered by Therem Harth gives a clue to why wormholes are so popular to Russian players…
In any case, I just want to point out that I have no prejudice nor hard feelings for any Russians playing the game. In real life I work daily with a team of Russian folks and I am proud to call some of them my friends… Hmm.. maybe I should show them that Dominion trailer and hook them up with EvE! :-p
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