FC Review - 22 May 2011

So after much needling from some of my partners in crime in Caldari FW, I took the reins for a roaming gang last night. All in all it started out fairly boring - we'd initially shipped for frigates and fast cruisers and set out for Enaluri to roam the pipes toward our mortal enemies' headquarters in Heydieles. The first leg of the roam didn't go as well as I'd planned, ending in a small scrap between Oinasiken and Pynekastoh that lost us a Caracal and Enyo.

The Gallente gang we engaged was somewhat heavier than hours, with roughly even numbers but more battlecruisers compared to our frigates and cruisers, so I pulled our fleet back to the State Protectorate station in Rakapas to clear my head and allow the pilots who were based there to re-ship. While we were there, we picked up a couple more fleet members in Drakes, while losing several due to various other commitments combined with the late hour of the evening. Once everyone was ready to move again, we set out.

Just for the Hull of It

One of the recurring themes of both my PVP career and my "ooo, shiny!" approach to skill training plans is being unable to decide which ships I want to fly. Recently I took the opportunity to sit down and look seriously at which hulls I've been undocking the most. The results I ended up with were very different than I thought they would be.

Back in Action

Time goes by more quickly than I realized - it didn't occur to me that it's been a month since my last post. A surprising amount has happened in that time, and I've had a lot of things I've been meaning to write about rattling around in my head. Naturally, somehow those have never made it to "paper". I'm going to try to correct this over the next few days by putting up a few posts with what I've been thinking about lately.

One thing that's really struck me about EVE is that there's an amusing distinction between "the game" and "the community". Part of the reason I haven't written recently is because I simply haven't been in-game, due to some RL issues that are finally starting to sort themselves out. During that time, I found that I had a huge number of ideas for blog posts I wanted to write, fits I wanted to fly in-game, plans for how I wanted to set up my skill training and many other things. It was as if the time I spent away from playing the game gave me the opportunity I needed to think about the game. (Wensley, stop EFTing and reading EVE blogs and get back to work, you're taking a break for a reason. :P)

In any case, rather than turning my posts into a mass of text worthy of standing next to the Great Wall of China, I'll be breaking them up into smaller, more topic-oriented entries. I can't guarantee they won't still be long-winded - if you've read my blog before I'm sure you'll have seen that my writing is far from brief - but at least they'll be relatively concise instead of jumping from topic to topic.

In the meantime, good hunting, everyone. o/