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I am happy I have a T3 ship and live in wspace
Posted by Quivering Palm in Captain's Log on March 6th, 2010
Wspace colonists really can’t catch a break with T3 ships – can we?!
Last night I got myself into some non-consensual PVP… and almost lost my brand new Tengu… and by the looks of it… I might have lost it and never realized that the ship I was flying had a weird bug…
Here is the story:A Day to be remembered as Valentine’s Day Massacre
Posted by Merinid Dormer in Captain's Log, News on February 23rd, 2010
A sort non-fictional story by Merinid Dormer
February 14th, Sunday. 19:00 New Eden Time.
Vessper was sitting in his Thanatos. “I am aligning and waiting for instructions” he said.
“10 more minutes to go” said Nictutu.
Quivering Palm with a steady voice continued, “ Guys, this is it. It’s now or never”.
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!
“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
Мне бы хотелось побывать в вашей стране!
На здоровье!
Selling Planet Risk
Posted by Quivering Palm in Captain's Log, News, Wspace Operations on November 1st, 2009
What?! What do you mean by “Selling Planet Risk” ?!?
1. We are in fact selling our home system in w-space which we affectionately call Planet Risk.
2. We are also selling our Planet Risk related wormhole-fu and settling services. i.e. we will provide all the information we have gathered the hard way regarding all relevant aspects we have encountered, plus we will help the newcomers to settle down, setup their POSes etc and after they are comfortable with the arrangement we shall be gone from the system with no claims to come back to.
3. We used to be carebears, doing missions and mining in empire space before we got here. We like to think we evolved into newbs and had a great time and fun while doing so! We are now extending this opportunity to come and establish your own base in our very own system, with all the good stuff and our lessons learned, to the highest bidder!
Murphy’s Law
Posted by Quivering Palm in Captain's Log, Lessons Learned on October 31st, 2009
It’s relatively easy to blog about cool and funny stuff, victories and war stories that end in your favor. On the other hand, it’s not easy to write about something that went wrong..
But, when we started this blog and the show we have decided we will go with complete disclosure of both the good and the bad…
We lost our first T3 ship last night.
…It was the Proteus Utility Ship.
…and 2 Battleships (Raven, Dominix).
…and an Interceptor (Ares).
To Sleepers.
My big fat Greek blog post
Posted by Luminus Aardokay in Captain's Log, News on October 26th, 2009
…DARY!
It kind of feels like needing to take a leak for so long, and keeping your legs crossed because you just can’t.. not just yet at least, and then that moment comes where you finally make it to the loo and the release is just orgasmic. And this is pretty much how it felt during the Hellcats Party on Saturday the 24th… Orgasmic.
The preparation for all the little bits took almost 2 months. Setting up the details of the Celebrity Deathmatch with Nashh, arranging with Mynxee to tag along with Nashh, getting TeaDaze to film it and commentate, organizing the Hellcats party radio and blog side, performing the CDM, recording and editing the after-match interview, promoting the Party, working on the video editing and effects with TeaDaze, bastardizing Lonely Island’s Jizz in my Pants, into Jizz in my Pod, Having the Party, releasing everything.. Damn.. Climax!
But let’s pick up things from where we left them… Read the rest of this entry »
Through the looking glass – Celebrity Deathmatch
Posted by Luminus Aardokay in Captain's Log, News on October 12th, 2009
We suppose that by now you’ve already read Part 1 of Nashh’s recount of the 16th Celebrity Deathmatch (and if not, what are you waiting for??). In the end, if you want to read a book that recounts a similar story to what Nashh went through before TeaDaze managed to give the countdown in Local and the guns went ablaze, I would suggest Homer’s Odyssey.
Meanwhile… In Planet Risk… Read the rest of this entry »
I want my money back!
Posted by Luminus Aardokay in Captain's Log, News on October 10th, 2009
Last Saturday as we were having some beers to celebrate the success of our first PVP tournament in Planet Risk, we got the call from Nictutu…
“Guys, I’m in the C5 cloaked at 50km away from 4 Hulks and 1 Occator in a grav site”
The next scenes all took place in 4 seconds.
- We asked for the check
- We paid the check
- A cyno field opened to our respective houses
- We mass jumped (cars included) into our chairs at home
- We got into our PVP gear
Nictutu’s stealthed Proteus unfortunately got bumped out of stealth by a lucky Occator entrance and we were forced to rush in for as many kills as possible.
1st SIRadio PVP Tournament
Posted by Luminus Aardokay in Captain's Log, News, Wspace Operations on October 3rd, 2009
There are a lot of things to learn about wormholes, and a lot of things to do when you’re finally a happy denizen of one. Despite the many things though, things to do are finite and at some point people can get bored. In an effort to combat the boredom and promote corporate bonding, we went ahead and organized a PVP tournament inside Planet Risk for corporation members as part of our extra-curricular activities.
The tournament had a 1vs1 format, and each participant was allowed to board a T1 frigate, with meta 0 modules. Rigs and smartbombs were not allowed and the fight would be to the death. No warping out. Read the rest of this entry »
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