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So yeah, I never poast anymore. Sue me. Lately I have been ramping up T2 production on an alt (no I will not tell you which mods, do the maths yourself), and skilling Marauders on my main.

I have also been trying out lowsec exploration in Black Rise using my Tengu. This will spawn a rant later about the directional scanner UI as it pertains to filters and probes. You all know what I am talking about.

Other then that; lived in a class 4 wormhole for awhile, and some scattered PVP shenanigans. I might not actually be a bad anymore. \o/

I’ll be able to fly a Tengu in about 4 days. Let the silly commence! I’ll post again when I get a change to try it out.

Ran some preliminary numbers in EFT, and even without the subsystem skills trained yet, it out tanks my Drake and my Raven by no less then 30%!

Apocrypha 1.5 is being deployed today, which is to say all day. Jokes aside it promises some nice improvements after they finish their “QA Cycle”.

I think they need to train Jury Rigging V over at CCP…

Click the read moar link below to check out the patch notes while you wait for them to bring Tranq back up.

Update: lawl

Update #2: Apocrypha 1.5 FAIL.

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I <3 my corporation…

Finaly got around to checking out CCP’s Butterfly Effect video. While I think that they may be overstating the action/reaction elements of the game a little bit, it is a cool video none the less. For one thing, no random guy no matter how helpful is going to get invited to a huge fleet op. Nor would he get that far into unfriendly nullsec to even be in a position to help.

Like I said, cool anyway. Check it out.

This is sort of addendum to my previous post, I had a lot of negative feedback on using capacitor flux coils on the setup. I think most of the confusion revolved around flux coils being confused with capacitor power relays. Both modules have bonuses to to capacitor recharge, but relays have a shield boost drawback, which is counter productive on a active shield tank. Flux coils have a maximum capacitor capacity drawback, which is offset with positive gain to peak capacitor regeneration rate.

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What The Fuck is this shit?

Exhibit A

Exhibit B

What kind of idiot do they think will buy and fit a more expensive, less effective, top named T1 module over the more readily available and effective T2 part if the skill prerequisites are the same? Srsly, wtf?

Don’t you love Jet Can tippers? I know I do. They always have shiny expensive ships and nothing better to do then waste everyone’s time. I had a run in with one today. He warped in on the belt I mining in, and proceeded to approach me. I immediately filled my Retriever’s hold, and docked with the station I was aligned on.

Upon coming back to the same spot in my hauler, my can had been replaced by his, and he was sitting there in a Nano Curse, orbiting the can at 8KM.

After waiting him out for 10 minutes, I decided that if he pops my hauler I don’t care, I want my fucking ore back. So I found an asteroid on a straight line drawn from a station, and his can. I approached that rock and when ready, aligned to station to “keep the motor running” as it were. As soon as I hit 1500 meters from the can, I opened it, took the ore (and his place holder he used to create said can, more on this in a bit), immediately selected the aligned station, and mashed the dock button.

I was instantly at warp and safely away before he could activate webs on me.

I did feel bad about stealing his place holder, so I did up a contract so that he could get it back…

Lol, I’m such a stubborn dick.

No it’s not a new skill or certification, apparantly, Tim Hortons thinks they have something unique to offer the Pod Pilots of New Eden. Check it out.

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I wonder if CCP or Tim Hortons is looking for a marketing liason…