The Skorpius Chronicles

The new System Scanner coming in Odessey have given me an idea. take the same shiny new 360 degree sweep, and apply it to the directional scanner. a full system scan that provides the same info as the current D-Scan. the Closer a ship is, the more info it provides. Exact distances for each step in intel provided can be determined by people way smarter than I am. I’m thinking something like four or five levels of intel. the most basic level of intel would be “there is someone in system” and provide standings info for that character. The next level of intel would tell you what ship they are in, provided it is uncloaked. Third, a rough estimate of their location in the system. Finally, would be ships that are on grid, exact distance and location.

It’s not perfect, and I fully expect people to poke holes in it in the comments, but that’s why I’m not a game designer. CCP can work out all the kinks and get it working properly. Then when it’s up on SiSi, we can all go and try it out and tell them how wrong they got it and how it’s terrible.

YC115.3.31
Jolia 1 – Moon 1 – Core Complexion Inc. Factory
Sinq Laison
Three Achur, 2 male and one female were sitting around a large spacious lounge. With them was a female Deteis. All four were drinking and laughing together as they shared stories from their childhood and talked about their more recent adventures among the stars of New Eden.
“So Karras, what the fuck have you been up to lately? We were starting to get worried that something had happened to you.” Marrada was first to bring up the subject.
“It’s a bit of a long story, and you aren’t going to like some of it.” Karras replied sternly.
“Then start talking Kar.” Jaron said, with a tone that implied it was time to stop mucking around. “As much as I’d like to stay and chat for a month or two, I actually have shit to do, and need to make some ISK. With Ambein retiring planet side for the foreseeable future, it’s just us four now. That gutless bitch Lengram won’t be around much longer, she’s going back to Amarr Prime to join the church or some shit. Don’t know exactly, don’t fucking care either.” Jaron spat the last sentence, a look of disgust on his face.

“Okay fine.” Karras said after a couple of minutes. “Six months ago, there were rumors that we were deployed in Jove space. The NEOCOM star map we had showed that we were in Stain but the battle location information was showing some Jove system. It was a bug, I don’t know where we were, but its wasn’t Jove space, the stars in the sky, when we could see them, put us some where in Null Sec. I was never bothered by it enough to actually investigate.” Karras took a deep breath, before continuing.
“That was around about when you guys last heard from me. About a month after that, a couple of months before the end of the year, while I was on deployment, my clone failed to activate.” Everyone in the room gasped as Karras paused to let what he had just said sink in.

“One second I was in the middle of a battle, getting shot at, and the next I was in a medical bay a couple of months later, being poked and prodded by doctors and scientists.” Karras sighed.
“I didn’t know what was going on, but once they noticed that I was awake, everyone stopped. Then one of them pulled out a comms device, said something and moments later about 5 armed Seituoda Taskforce Command soldiers entered the room, followed by some high ranking officer. I can’t remember much, the doc’s had pumped me full of drugs and they were messing with my head.”

Karras took another sip of his drink before continuing.
“They basically told me that i wasn’t to breath a word of anything I’d done in the last 12 month’s to anyone or they would have all my clones destroyed and terminate me.”
“Oh god. Don’t tell me…” Jaron started.
“Fuck yes I did!” Karras interrupted him.
“I was not going to lie there and be threatened. I’m fucking 7 feet tall and could have beaten the shit out of everyone in that room before they could stop me. If it wasn’t for the drugs.” Karras laughed.
“You should have seen the look on that CO’s face when I sat up in the bed and stared him straight in the eye. He damn near shat his pants on the spot. He was nervous for the rest of the day after that.”

“So what happened?” Mila spoke softly
“I have no fucking clue. They won’t tell me. After I woke up, and the doctors had completed some test to make sure i was okay, Seituoda Taskforce Command Officer debriefed me. Well, sort of. He told me that there had been a problem with one of my clones, and filled me in on the date. Then he told me I was in lock down and to observe radio silence unless Command said otherwise. About a month ago, my lock down was lifted and I was told that I would be put back on active duty and would be able to start taking part in contracts and deploying planet side. I told them to fuck off.” Karras smiled.
“You need to learn to keep your temper in check bro. It’s going to get you through in jail.” Jaron playfully punched his brother on the arm as he said this.

“Yeah, that’s kinda why I’m here. A week ago, I received orders that I was to report to my CO for an assignment. When I got to my CO’s office, I got given my travel papers. My CO told me that I was clearly stressed by recent events and that I was being relieved from duty and placed on indefinite leave for R&R. I have to report in once a week and keep them updated on where I am. It’s a pain in the ass, but its better than being copped up in my quarters with fuck all to do all day.”
“What are you going to do?” Marrada asked.
“Well, now that I’ve caught up with you, and let you know that I’m still alive, I’m going to head to Luminaire, and see what I can do to help with the Caldari Prime relief effort. I can grab some drop suits and shit and do some freelance security work while I’m down that. The suits will also help with transporting supplies.”
“Sweet. I’m working on putting together a supply package to deliver to Caldari Prime, you can accompany the shipment. I’m sure you can find transport to the surface once you get to Luminaire.” Marrada said hapily.

So some of you may have guessed from my last post that I am retiring one of my Alts. I’m not going to biomass him, but for the time being, I don’t plan to log him in anymore after this weekend. His storyline as far as RP is concerned has come to an end, I will be updating his Evelopedia page to reflect this. He his currently in FWEDDIT, and I will leave him there for the time being as it will make consolidating his assets easier (when I eventually get around to doing so). He will probably be booted for inactivity at some point in the future, at which point I’ll move him over to my alt corp where he will stay for the rest of eternity.

It wasn’t easy for me to make this decision, but he just doesn’t fit in with what I want to do with my main character, or my second account, which I have just reactivated. I have some things planned, some of which fit in with the live events and storyline stuff that CCP is running right now. And some of which I’m hoping to use to influence CCP to make changes to the game.

All in all, it feels good to be back to a multi-account setup, I am planning on setting up the second account to be funded by PLEX. Stay tuned for more blogging activity, I’m looking at trying to post at least once a week with a post going over recent events, both in character and out of character, and I would like to get back to having a fiction post each week, this would most likely be on Fridays.

Fly Safe (or not, what ever. I don’t give a shit.)

I was all set, got through the interview process, had something of a plan for my trial show and discovered that i couldn’t broadcast with the software i had done all my prep work with. I had intended to then spend a week getting to know the other software, but ended up with an RL job. So I never got around to rescheduling my trial show and ended up asking that my application be closed. At some point, I’ll give it another go, but for now, I have so much happening IRL that even finding the time to blog is hard (Okay, that’s only half true, I just can’t be fucked writing a blog post most of the time. There’s only like 6 of you who actually follow this thing and none of you have threatened to pop me if I don’t post more)

I put an alt into Fweddit a couple of months back, but am expecting him to be purged for inactivity. I took a bit of a break from EVE and up until today have only been logging in to keep my skill queue ticking over. Fweddit are a great bunch of people and I enjoyed flying with them back when i was actually playing. However, my mains Alliance has some interesting things going on right now that are drawing me back in, and as both characters are on the same account, I might have to do some time juggling to make it work, if i decide to keep going with the alt and not just relegate him to keeping my training queue going. I have suspended training on my main as his clone costs are starting to make me not want to PvP with him at all. Once I have the FW Alts skills where I want them (which will take a while) I have a third character on my account that I originally created to sell off, so I’ll go back to training her up, then sell her and make some ISK. But for now the FW alt gets all the attention.

I’m thinking of trying to write a book about my characters escapades. There would likely be little actual in game events in the book, but it could provide a lot of back story and help to explain some of the stuff I have written on his Evelopedia page. And if its good enough, CCP might even give me permission to publish sell it. If not, I will publish it as a free eBook. I have a few ideas and would involve not just my main Eve character, but his sister and her girlfriend (main and alt on my second, currently inactive, account, respectively) and his brother (main dust character, currently inactive due to not having a PS3 that works). I already have a couple of story ideas floating around my head, I just need to find a way to write them down that makes enough sense to me that I can work with them.

One last thing before I go back to hiding under my rock. I am attempting to organize an EVE player meet in Wellington for June. Spread the word to all you’re Kiwi corp and Alliance mates, or come over yourself! The thread can be found here. I hope to see lots of people there, and if you come, you can punch me in the face for writing such a terrible blog.

I am thinking of applying for a DJ position at Eve Radio. Like actually seriously thinking about it. I have already downloaded some free DJing software and am currently trying to work out how to use the program. More specifically, I am looking at a weekly talk show run during downtime, complete with guests and a bit of music. I’m still working out the details in my head before I officially approach Eve Radio with my proposal. But I don’t know yet if it is something I want to commit to fully on my own so if anyone else is interested please flick me an Eve mail. I’ll also probably talk to some of the existing Eve Radio DJ’s about their experience and thoughts

The show kicked off at 00:00 GMT. Two hours was far too short but I had a great time regardless and I look forward to the opportunity to be a part of more shows in the future. I don’t think I’ll be applying for a DJ position myself as that requires too much effort but I am thinking about looking into the possibility of co-hosting or just being a regular guest.

Thanks again to DJ Wiggles and the Eve Radio team for letting me shit up your station and I would be remiss if I didn’t mention that Eve Radio is always looking for donations to help keep them on the air. (No they didn’t pay me to say that)

They are owned by Corporations and usually paid for by Corporations. And unless you are in a player Corporation, you can’t have one. And even then, the mess that is Corp Roles means you have to jump through like a million hoops and have about 50 different roles to be able to make use of it. And unless you are in a one person Corp on your own, or are the CEO and have no directors in your Corp, you still don’t have sole control over it as a player. CEO’s and Directors automatically have the roles required to go and fuck with your POS. Or they can give someone else the roles to fuck with it for them. Have 5 people in Corp that all have their own POS set up? Each of those 5 people, plus any Directors and the CEO can still go can fuck with each others stuff.

CCP needs to decouple the POS mechanics from Corporations. Make it easier for individual players to have a POS without having to jump through hoops and get permission from their CEO. If this were to happen, I’m 100% certain that more players would start using this feature. There would have to be other changes made to prevent people from sitting in NPC Corp’s with a completely immune POS. One suggestion to prevent this is to use the fact that CrimeWatch is no longer a jumbled piece of shit and create a new flag for structures that makes them attack-able outside of War-Dec’s.

I understand that having access to a POS is an incentive for joining a player Corporation and that allowing those in NPC Corp’s to have them would change this, with that in mind, perhaps CCP could start by removing all the role requirements from POS’s. Let me set up and run my own POS without jumping through so many fucking hoops. Then let me, the PLAYER, decide how much access I want my Corp mates to have. While you are at it, let me put up a personal POS in High Sec based entirely on my own faction standings, don’t punish me because other members of the Corp ran missions for a different faction than me before I even met them (or didn’t run missions at all). If someone wants to anchor a POS for the Corp, then do the check for Corp standings. And if I change Corp’s, let me take my personal POS with me without having to take it down and put it back up again. Put the PLAYER back in Player Owned Structure.

Or, make a new type of Structure that I as an individual player can call my own. Basically player housing.

Or not. But don’t fucking tell me not enough people use the feature to warrant the Dev time needed for a complete overhaul without looking at the reasons why its not used. Make Personal POS’s possible without all the hoops and you will find more people use them. Which will mean more demand for Ice products and PI. Which is good for everyone. This could be a huge boost to industry, and would make it worth putting effort into a complete POS overhaul. POS’s affect more than just the people directly using them.

Okay, that got a little bit out of hand. But now you know how I feel. Also, I’m not dead and neither is the Blog, I’ve just been busy with other things, taking a break from EVE and haven’t really had anything to say that required a blog post until now.