Archive for December, 2009

EVE Peeves

Monday, December 7th, 2009

I get an error message, informing me that my connection has been dropped. I can't quit the game, I need to 'force quit' to get back to the desktop. It happens occasionally. Except tonight it is happening regularly. When I can't get back to the desktop ...

Bistot and a Buzzard

Saturday, December 5th, 2009

It's another quiet evening mining arkonor. Of course, being in w-space, mining could lead to being ambushed by stealth bombers, your own corporation colleagues on manoeuvres, or the inevitable space madness. Luckily, I have a companion with me who is actually skilled at shooting rocks. I still ...

Guitar Hero provokes a conditioned response to coloured lights

Friday, December 4th, 2009

I am continuing my drumming lessons, learing different patterns and building the strength of my timing and co-ordination. I am also still practicing on the fake plastic drums fairly regularly, although not as frequently as I did with Guitar Hero: World Tour, perhaps because of the lack of motivation ...

Violating thermodynamics with Guardians

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009

Twin Guardians! These logistics ships need a test. Theoretically, they can both feed the other enough energy to keep their capacitors stable whilst running four large remote armour repair modules. For a cruiser-sized hull, that is mind-blowing. For an engineer, it's utter nonsense, the equivalent of ...

Picking up a cheap Guardian

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009

A new ship arrives at the tower, a Guardian logistics ship, heralding the return of Kename Fin to w-space. The Guardian is designed to stay close to but out of combat, providing support to other ships as they need it. The logistic ship bonuses to remote armour repairs ...

Filesystem Checkwits go to the library

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009

I hear there's a cleric in an Alliance camp in Desolace who has skeletons in his quest log. Although I have travelled through various regions already, I still have quite a trek ahead of me to reach him. My route takes me through Ratchet, as I still have ...