Good-guy capsuleer of the week: Calasian

In the "good-guy capsuleer of the week" series, we honor pilots who spend their valuable time educating new players. The subject of this week's edition is elite space warrior Calasian.


In an exclusive interview with the eve-fail EXTREME investigative reporting team, Calasian revealed that unscrupulous newbie Julie Saunders stole from her, purloining objects from a private container. Instead of getting angry, Calasian gave the newbie something much more valuable: An education on aggression mechanics, and a bonus lesson about timers.







For outstanding services in new player education, and for fitting real guns on an amarr frigate, the eve-fail early education grant hereby awards Calasian 20 million isk (and the keys to our heart).

Signal boost: Troll limericks

There once was a new capsuleer
Who didn't know that he should fear
The troll who lied waiting
With buckets for baiting
And harvesting epic-sized tears

An anonymous left that in comments, and I thought it should be shared.

Hmm...

There once was a pilot with honor
Who learning tricks could not be bothered
One fateful morning
He clicked past a warning
And lost his T3 to a bomber

...I hereby encourage the internet to join in.

Good-guy capsuleer of the week

Eve-fail is proud to present our brand new series, good-guy-capsuleer of the week. In this series we will be highlighting older players who go out of their way to educate newbies on the intricacies of the eve universe.

Louis roscommon is a 2009 pilot. This honourable space warrior took time out of his busy day to visit newbie system Cistuvaert and educate 6-day-old pilot Macus sork about highsec aggression mechanics, potentially saving him from losing an expensive ship someday. A valuable lesson!

Louis hereby becomes the first recipient of the eve-fail early education grant. The grant thanks Louis for outstanding services in new player education, and awards him a taranis hull.

PS: Trolololol ^_^

Monthly financial report (January)

 I thought this would be a bad month. I was wrong.



Most of the income that didn't come from manufacturing is from exploration (and the a-type invuln hasn't even sold yet...), but otherwise I think I'm going to stop tracking off-sheet income and expenses. For one thing, it's boring; for another, it hasn't been adding up lately -- probably because of sales of the cap mods and fuel I stock my building system with. I don't track this, and don't really mean to make large profits on it, but it seems to be making at least a billion isk per month.

What? Yeah, a billion isk per month by accident, NBD~~~

Maybe I should think about stocking more systems. There's one in particular I know would be a good market....

Anyway. The new 'ships carried' category under month-over-month change is for ships which were sold but won't appear on the sheet until next month because it's easier that way.

A noteworthy event is that I have actual liquid isk for the first time since starting manufacturing. This will probably go toward replacement component blueprints soon (tm).

Loot pr0n

Went out to null for some exploration (using the minimize trick to avoid crashes). First site of the day is a 6/10 and bam.

Drop is worth 3458m at the time of writing.

EDIT: Prices on the invulns are dropping quickly, but I managed to sell it for 2.46b.

Incursion tears: Epic edition

So anyway. You've probably heard of the incursion interdiction, in which people are forming fleets to kill sansha motherships, forcing incursions to despawn instead of letting the incursion runners farm them for days. This - even before they started killing moms - has produced an endless ocean of tears on the forums, to rival even the ice interdiction. And these are the very best sort of tears, the ones produced by highsec 'elitists' with an entitlement complex. The sheer, sadistic joy of watching them curse the gods and shake their tiny fists in impotent rage is intoxicating.


On saturday the incursion griefers rolled out and shut down all the highsec incursions. Three more popped up overnight, and by euro prime the mom sites were available. The interdictors rolled out again, and this time I joined up in a shitfit tempest.

We formed at 2100, hit the first site, and BTL contested it and tried to suicide gank us with ECM and smartbombs. The fun was doubled!

We lost a guardian to the gank attempt, they lost their ships and somehow managed to pod their own fc. We finished the site, burned to the other two incursion sites and took them out too, cackling madly on comms all the while. It took 1 hour and 50 minutes to end all three of them, completely shutting down highsec incursion running.

May need to open in new tab

Now, serious business. Incursions are good because they get people to people work together. The incursion interdiction is also good because it is emergent, player generated content where people work together, as well as the most fun I've had in eve in years.

If you'd like to join in, here's how you do it:

Join:
Channel: Grief the bears
Teamspeak 3: 178.32.239.141

Fleets seem to roll around 2000

If you just want to harvest tears, watch the 'btl pub' and 'the ditanian fleet' channels, and the forums.

What is this I don't even

 

You see this?

That kestrel has been sitting in otsela since WI lost geminate.  

Two years ago.