Fickle RNG Gods

The Repetitiveness of Same

It's difficult to know what to say, after all this time, and all those losses.

Is David Bladelane (DBL) a broken bot?

Doing the same thing, the same way, during an active war dec, losing ship, after ship, after ship, and then no change of behaviour.

We see that with bots, and sometimes with forgotten bots that are just blindly performing their last instructions as best they can, until the subscription or some other resource runs out.

At first it was hilarious, then a little strange, and now it's weird.

Not like Portland USA weird, which is just attention seeking to try and justify their existence in an uncaring world, but backing away slowly and looking for the exits weird.

Want to lay odds on another Anshar loss in Amarr, to war deccers, in another fifteen days or so?

I suspect the TAB would have already stopped allowing bets on that one.

Utterly fascinating.

Harsh Loot Fairy

What War Dec?

Not everyone believes war decs apply to them, certainly not David Bladelane (DBL), who after a quiet time on the killboards, perhaps to replenish real world funds, has landed with a vengeance once again.

This time he lost a jump freighter in Jita, to war targets, who were PIRAT.

Exactly what the thought process was here I'm not sure about, perhaps he was hoping the blinding speed of an aligning jump freighter would warp him safely away from the stargate? 

The mere fact he managed to gate jump that close to Jita without being caught is also interesting, but the inevitability of his demise increased rapidly the closer he approached the trade hub.

So once again we have a loss from DBL, though this time the loot fairies were not kind.

https://zkillboard.com/kill/72889719/

Our alliance is still at war.

Further Ant Adventures

More than a year ago I squeezed out a post about an ant, hopefully I've linked it below.

https://yosagiyojimbo.blogspot.com/2017/07/between-sheets.html

Ahh I did, handy.

The transformation of the deceased ant has been quite interesting.

For the sake of simplicity I'll divide the ant into three sections, the head, the middle, and the rear.  For a more scientific explanation please visit this link.

When the ant first presented itself in one of my monitors it was vertical and quite prominent, I could not miss it.  I thought about swapping those monitors around, but that screen also has some minor screen burn from displaying the same browser day in and day out, so they stayed in place.

In time the ant has rotated almost one hundred and eighty degrees to the right, and is now facing almost downwards.  The ant itself has decreased in size quite markedly, now to the stage of almost being lost amongst the text and other ephemera displayed on that screen during a typical day.

The head of the ant would still be the most prominent, but has faded, so now it's quite a bit smaller, and broken into two sections.  The middle has disappeared entirely, and now creates a gap between the head and the rear.  The rear is now very tiny, essentially a single pixel, or near enough to it, in size.

I've been speculating as to why this has happened.  My two working theories, and they are not mutually exclusive, is the constant photon bombardment has chipped away, for want of a better term, at the body of the ant, so now it's a shadow of its former self.  The other theory is the heat the body would be subjected to, which would be relatively high considering the proximity to the heat source, may  have desiccated the ant carcass, with the remains being too small to see, and/or having dropped down into the bottom of the screens bezel and out of my view.

Our alliance is still at war.

The Others

Way back in the early days, the dinosaurs had barely cooled, and the sky was a looming rain of meteorites for a thousand years or so, Captain Chuckles turned to Reverend Kev and said, “Sadye would be a great place for a citadel”.

So it was created.

Fast forward a few years or so, and then rewind one, and we have our Sadye market, now known as Market Best Market (MBM), plugging away as our own personal market, and a burgeoning marketplace for the surrounding systems.

Little did we know a terrible time bomb had been unwittingly set.

One day, I noticed some folks were buying and selling PLEX in MBM and I thought that was cool.

“That’s cool”, I said.

Over time, and not much time, the PLEX market grew, and grew, and grew. It became so big that others noticed, others who didn’t like what it had become.

The “terrible” time bomb that had been set long ago was a brokerage tax rate set so low, that it became an affront to The Others.

Little did we know, The Others had set their rate at about 2.0%, ours was at 0.2%, this was fine for us as we needed very little ISK, but The Others needed ever more ISK, and soon they plotted against MBM.

One day we received a war dec, then another, then another, and some more. Soon we were marvelling at the amount of war decs, but having weathered a few wars before, we were confident in our ability to defend what was ours.

The Others didn’t have numbers, they had ISK, mountains of ISK. The Others paid others to fight for them, and they paid large amounts of ISK, and large amounts of others came.

The Others, and the others, put MBM on the brink of being lost.

So, the alliance members decided to move, as an alliance is the people and not the things.

They moved into a bigger home, one that is stronger, one that a new market can be established in, and protected, as this home cannot be destroyed.

The alliance set up their new home, and then looked outwards, towards other systems, some far away, some closer, and planned the retaliation.

For the alliance had kept everything that was important. 

- Yosagi Yojimbo

- L0G0F CEO

L0G0F T1 Cruiser Tournament Sept 2018

Round One

Lord Czar (Vexor) vs Tekkaa (Bellicose) - Winner Lord Czar

Major Panther (Arbitrator) vs Hellrazor24601 (Rupture) - Winner Major Panther

Grey Area Aka-MF (Vexor) vs Scazzy Auduin (Vexor) - Winner Scazzy Auduin

Oh hi Denny (Caracal) vs Redone6 Sixonered (Thorax) - Winner Redone6 Sixonered

Revi Xadi - Bye


Round Two

Redone6 Sixonered (Thorax) vs Revi Xadi (Maller) - Winner Revi Xadi

All other pilots have a bye in Round Two.


Round Three

Lord Czar (Arbitrator) vs Major Panther (Arbitrator) - Winner TBA

Scazzy Auduin (TBA) vs Revi Xadi (TBA) - Winner TBA

The losers of Round Three will be put into the semi final to determine third place.  This means you'll need a cruiser for that round.

-----------------------------

Here are the rules for the Alliance Cruiser Tournament II September 2018.

The planned first round date is Monday the 3rd of September 2018.

Mail Yosagi Yojimbo in game if you wish to take part, no need to nominate ships until the ladder has been created and the nominations for the first round have been called for.

Our previous tournament - http://yosagiyojimbo.blogspot.com/2017/07/l0g0f-frigate-tournament-julyaugust-2017.html

-----------------------------

1. Standard Cruiser T1 hulls only. No faction, no pirate, no T2, etc.

2. Modules T1 or T2 only, no faction, officer etc.

2a. ECM modules or drones are not permitted.

3. Rigs T1 only.

4. Drones T1 or T2 only.

5. Ammo - no limitation.

6. Implants - no limitation.

7. Boosters - no limitation.

8. Only one entry per pilot per real life alliance member.

9. Pilots must be in the same fleet as each other.

9a. Pilots are not to fleet, wing, or squad warp the other pilot anywhere.

9b. No podding.

10. Use the in game DUELLING function to initiate combat.

11. One pilot within 100km of the Azbel, the other within 100km of the Rait, start duel, warp, fight.

11a. Both pilots must warp away from a citadel and remain away from any citadels and remain un-tethered for the duration of the fight.  (NEW 29/08/18)

12. Both pilots must stay in the solar system, leaving the solar system will forfeit the fight, winner should SS for proof.

12a. Fights will be performed in Sadye.

13. No ISK buy in required to participate.

14. Pilot seeding will be based on the pilots in game age.

15. For each round the pilot will nominate which ship they will be using, they will then be restricted to that ship for that round.

16. For the next round a different, or the same ship can be nominated.

17. Once the ship type the pilot nominates is posted in game to Yosagi Yojimbo
(YY), that ship type is fixed for that round.

18. Once all the ship types for a round have been received by YY, all the ship types, and opponents for that round will be posted online for all to see at the YY-GE blog.

18a. Should a pilot not use their posted ship type they will forfeit the fight.

18b. Should both pilots not use their posted ship type they will both forfeit the fight.

19. Pilots will then have 48 hours from the following Eve Online Down Time (DT) after the round details are posted to organise and complete their fights, the winner then needs to mail YY the kill mail details.

20. Both pilots need to make their best efforts to organise the fight between each other, attend and complete the fight.  Failure to complete the fight within the specified time will leave the final result to YY's discretion.

21. Once undocked for the duel the pilot cannot redock until the fight is concluded.

22. A fight is concluded once a kill mail is generated.

23. In the event of a double kill mail the one with the earlier time stamp will be declared the winner.

24. If the double kill mails time stamps are identical then the younger pilot will be declared the winner, as the older pilot really should be better than that.

25. Draft and final rules will be posted on a web page at YY-GE blog, that same page will then be updated with the pilot seeding, posted ships the pilots intend to use, and the results as they all become available.

26. Prizes will be awarded for 1st, 2nd, 3rd and Very Interesting Losing Fit (VILF).

27. The Single Elimination Tournament format will be used - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-elimination_tournament

28. Prizes currently include but are not limited to, T1 and T2 SKINS, ISK, ship or ships.

29. All rules are subject to change.

30. If rule changes are required the changes will be posted at YY-GE blog between rounds and other places time permitting.

31. YY has the final say on all aspect and rules of this competition.

Commence Digging Up!

I was not prepared for this.

David Bladelane (DBL) destroyed some ships, and they were not his own!

The shock!

https://zkillboard.com/kill/71055451/

https://zkillboard.com/kill/71055472/

https://zkillboard.com/kill/71978868/

Ignoring the fact that those kills are sandwiched by 4.8 billion ISK of mining drone losses, this could be the turning point, we might start seeing it all turn around.

Or not.

Maybe He Hates The Anshar?

Only a few days after the last one, we once again have a DBL loss, once again in an Anshar.

The seemingly one man (?) crusade against the Anshar continues. Yet another of these very useful ships became space dust.

It would seem this time he bounced off a station and subsequently became the victim of a Nyx.

The cargo was some basic blueprints, more bombs, and twenty six Vexor's.

Look out for Vexor loss mails in his future.

At least the Expanded Cargoholds were cheaper.

I guess that's progress...

https://zkillboard.com/kill/70975817/

The Wonder Continues

It is getting hard to keep up!

All those losses, seeding New Eden with new loot for the hungry masses.

DBL is like an exploding star making it possible for other more complicated life forms to eventually exist.

It's almost a public service.

This time he had one thousand Void Bombs for some reason, and some rather expensive ORE Expanded Cargo
holds just for the thrill of it I suppose.

Another Anshar bites the dust, yet more ISK removed from New Eden, about 10.6B for a total of 11.2B.

The loot fairies were not kind.

Maybe they're tired?

https://zkillboard.com/kill/70902752/

He's Like Christmas and Easter

David Bladelane, the constant self inflicted victim of Eve Online, has been struck, not once, but twice, again!

In his never ending quest to repopulate New Eden with loot and salvage from his lost ships alone, this time we have the losses of a Viator and Pod, worth about 450 million, and then a short while later an Ashar which tips the ISK scales at 11.07 billion.

I've seen the way some pets follow people around looking for crumbs or more substantial scraps of food, if I was a resident of catch I'd keep an eye on DBL at all times.

He could put your kids through college!

https://zkillboard.com/kill/70584735/

https://zkillboard.com/kill/70584740/

https://zkillboard.com/kill/70586015/

The Frozen Abyss Quandary

I'll start this off by saying I think Eve Online is alright.

Wrong Abyss

Considering I've been in this "game" for about ten years now that statement may be slightly incorrect.

Recently CCP introduced new content, and massaged some older content but I'll talk about that later.

The Abyss was introduced into Eve Online, and like all new content they bring into the game their is always some trepidation, as CCP have a rather hit and miss reputation when it comes to this sort of thing.

So imagine my surprise when The Abyss actually turns out to be rather well designed, and enjoyable.

Is that legal?  Should they be allowed to make fun Science Fiction?  What if Science Fiction is taken less seriously as the future drones on?  Have they created something new?

Probably not, but The Abyss is the closest you will come to actual PVP while staying firmly in the PVE realm.

It has five tiers, with level one being the easiest and five the hardest.  However each tier is generated somewhat randomly, within limits, so a hard level one could still kick your arse if you're not paying attention and/or your ship isn't the best.

In a level two abyss I've managed to get into significant trouble by not paying enough attention, finding myself outside the allowed area, getting damaged by that, in addition to the ships also shooting at me.

Losing an Ishtar in a level two abyss site would be embarrassing, if it happens I'll say it was a level four, nobody will ever know.

The next coolest thing about the new abyss sites are the mutated items.  You can obtain a module that when used with another "normal" module, can produce something new, but it's not without risks.  The new module may not be better than the base one, but it could be better, pray to the RNG gods.

Even better is something from my Eve Online wish list, when those new items are created your name is stamped on them forever!  Now if only that would happen with all created items, and I could search for them on zkillboard, that would be great!

The older content that has been massaged is Planetary Interaction (PI), which became Planetary Colonies (PC), and is now called Planetary Production (PP).  Why the name changes I don't know, and looking through the CCP sites even they mix up some of the terms, but for now we have PP.

(some comment here about purile humour, but Blogger ate it)

CCP have changed the way PP is controlled, which is wonderful as it was so bad I created a special hot key just as a double click for my mouse!

Look Ma I've doubled my productivity!

Why the HELL did it take Hilmar using PP, although at the time it was actually PI, or maybe even PC, for everyone to suddenly find out it was a horrible click fest and some changes were required?  Didn't the much vaunted CCP Seagull know it was terrible to use?  Or maybe she did, but no time was provided to fix the future RSI law suits that PI/PC had become.

I guess we will never know.

He's Not Great

Eve Online's favourite loot pinata, David Bladelane (DBL), has been struck once again, this time in Jita, specifically at Jita 4-4, as it is assumed he didn't warp to zero and was immediately ganked by one of the many desperate Tornado pilots hungry to justify their existence, and time, spent hovering just outside the undock in Jita.

DBL has form for losing expensive stuff in ways that can only be described as desperately pathetic.

Known for losing numerous Rorqual's in null sec, visiting Jita isn't a usual activity for the frequent benefactor to the ship holds of many other pilots in Eve Online.  Visit Jita he did though, and the results speak for themselves.

https://zkillboard.com/kill/69915017/

Much speculation has been made in the past about the source of DBL's seemingly inexhaustible supply of wealth.  Does he have a squad of miners hitting the 'roids 23.5/7? Is it all billed to the credit card of unwitting parents?  Does he have a goblin in the basement that dislikes people, and the outside, but produces some quite excellent paintings which are then sold?

We may never know.

L0G0F Video Collection

As time passes our alliance has created a small amount of videos about our adventures in Eve Online.

At some stage we created a Youtube channel to bring these videos together for the enjoyment of some.

Many, but certainly not all, have been created by me.

Here they are.