Archive for July, 2009

Tweaking my Guitar Hero drum kit

Wednesday, July 8th, 2009

Rather than get more frustrated at missed notes on my Guitar Hero: World Tour fake plastic drum kit I take some time out from practice to get the kit set up as best I can. This involves a little modification beyond changing the sensitivities, as detailed in a guide ...

Getting back to encounter missions

Wednesday, July 8th, 2009

I'm still working with my manufacturing agent for Core Complexion, Inc., aiming to improve my standings to gain access to level four R&D agents so that I can get a steady stream of datacores and continue pushing invention jobs through the laboratory. Most of the missions given to me ...

Putting a price on Tech II invention

Tuesday, July 7th, 2009

I have a couple of Tech II BPCs! I had better make modules out of them, so that I can begin to reap the profits of my medium-term industrial venture. Checking the manufacturing tab of the BPC I get a list of the parts required to produce the ...

Tech II invention doesn't greet you with open arms

Monday, July 6th, 2009

With some time available in high-sec space to run my industrial operations I think it is perhaps time to try inventing some Tech II modules, if only to convince myself that I am not simply flitting from one short-term goal to another and am making overall progress in my desired ...

Removing server boundaries

Friday, July 3rd, 2009

Twice recently, for City of Heroes and World of Warcraft, I find getting together with a friend in an MMORPG thwarted by being on different servers, even on a different continent and different Supermicro computers. Even if there were a way to transfer a character to another server my ...

One-way to known space

Thursday, July 2nd, 2009

I find myself alone at the corporation's POS in w-space with information that a new wormhole to known space has opened up and that we should start shipping out, preparing to move to a new system. The wormhole leads to low-sec Caldari space, but only a couple of hops ...

On considering a second build for my warrior

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

In the midst of the Azerothian midsummer celebrations a guild friend invites me in to a group that is heading to the Slave Pens, where Ahune the Frost Lord awaits. As we get coordinated and ready to fight it is interesting to find myself at odds again because of ...