Archive for May, 2009

Kidnap kitty's continuing escapades

Saturday, May 30th, 2009

My neighbour's cat moved in with me and the neighbour was concerned about the kitty being a nuisance. A couple of short discussions helped convince my neighbour that, actually, I really like cats and I'm fine with her treating my flat like a hotel, as that's what cats do. ...

Guitar Hero: World Tour

Friday, May 29th, 2009

I have had a few brief flirtations with the Guitar Hero style of game, picking up a Fisher Price guitar and single-string strumming in time with downwards-scrolling notes, but as my initial forays in to the genre were with a group my self-consciousness kicked in to overdrive and I became ...

Places I've been

Friday, May 29th, 2009

The Inner Sanctum of the Ninveah presents a map of the systems Kirith Kodachi has been, colour-coded with stronger colours representing systems visited the most, and compels me to do the same: It shouldn't be much of a surprise that I have stayed mostly within Caldari space, and almost exclusively in ...

Need to expand

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

Waiting for the scrapmetal processing skill and its prerequisites to train saw my stock run quite low and once I could refine my mission loot I set to replenish my stocks to healthy levels. In picking out the BPOs for the modules I was confident would sell I install ...

Almost hitting the wall

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009

I had previously considered that reaching 80th level is not the end of the game and that I would continue doing exactly what I had been doing before just without gaining XP, but I turned out to be wrong. I find myself logging in to Azeroth and wondering what ...

Becoming a daytrader

Tuesday, May 26th, 2009

My latest production run of modules comes off the manufacturing line and I ship them to the handful of markets I have found to be lucrative, finding again that one station with a level three mission agent has no heavy missiles and so is ripe to be exploited. Some ...

Hat news today

Monday, May 25th, 2009

Browsing around at LOLCATS I notice an advert for Shana Logic, an on-line company whose adverts I have seen here before as they often show off attractive and stylish wares at the side of the photos of cats with wacky captions. This time something catches my attention enough to ...

Wintergrasp mining risks and rewards

Friday, May 22nd, 2009

Wintergrasp is not just a zone for a regular PvP battle, it persists outside of the battle times. It isn't quite an 80th level zone in its own right, as there is no standard quest hub or paths in to the area, but there are NPC mobs extant outside ...

The first one hundred million ISK is the hardest

Thursday, May 21st, 2009

As I refine scrap mission loot in my current Core Complexion, Inc. base, before gathering more scrap from my cobweb-gathering home base and on to my Caldari Navy mission base, I take jumping around the region as an opportunity to modify the few sell orders I have outstanding. The ...

Bugs and exploits in the battle for Lake Wintergrasp

Wednesday, May 20th, 2009

Like any aspect of a complex MMORPG the battle for Lake Wintergrasp is not without its problems. Some are problems of balance that can be expected to occur for an open PvP zone without guaranteed or limited attendance on either side, which Blizzard have tried to solve with the ...