Be careful when mining

Some griefer got me by using a lame tactic. Stole from a loot can that was in space, so he started flashing red. Sent my drones after him. He barely got out. Then he came back in a much larger ship (probably a BS, judging from the killmail) and almost one shot my retriever out of the sky… I should have better inspecting the character, thought it was some kinda n00b, but he’s probably an experienced player.

War

2006.03.16 02:59
Amarria Auxilia has declared war on Rakeriku.
After 24 hours fighting can legally occur between those involved.

So we now have a war on our hands. Hope it’s gonna be interesting ;).

EDIT:  War is over now. Didnt last all that long because the Initiave came in and decided to help us out. More on that on the Eve-O forum. Was an interesting experience for us though. Lost a few cheap frigs and a Blackbird, but had loads of fun ;).

Illegal Activities

Finished this 3 part mission series and it was actually fun. Once you warp out of part 1 and come back, you can pick the frigs and cruisers off one by one. Part 2 and 3 didnt even need any warping, they were doable. Ofcourse it helps when your modules actually respond once you click on them !
Science is almost done now, will be doing Rocket Science with the La Dai corporation ;).

Slow week

Ever since the blood patch the server stabibilty has been crap. Lag has returned. Tried to run a few lvl 3 missions that were the usual snoozefest, then all of a sudden I get illegal activities which is pretty insane. Very tough frigs, and while you’re killing those a few cruisers on top :(. Then my modules responded very slowly, could barely warp out and had 1% hull left. Nice 1.2 mil repair bill, which is more than the mission is worth. Logged out in disgust.

Why cant CCP balance these missions a bit. Theyre either way too easy or way too tough. Didnt thye learn from those previous new missions that were ridiculous as well ? And dont start me talking about the crap loot on missions, miner I anyone ?
I am done with the Intel. and memory skill training, now doing a bit of science so I can use an R&D agent. To be honest an industrial/mission running character is a bit of a bore. Am having more fun with my pvp / combat oriented character. Will see how this all works out…

Hi Tech Connections

So I read all these stories about ppl with a zillion loyalty points who never get a good offer. Well my first offer from a lvl 3 agent with whom I got over 15k lp with offered me this skill book ;). Like I said, this game has been very kind to me… Hoping to sell it for 100 mil or so.

I am not spending much these days, but it’s nice to have a well filled wallet in case I have to pick up something !

New Cluster Coming !

Great news, next week the new hardware for the Eve Cluster will be installed.

That’s right, this is the day we’ve all been waiting for. It’s time to go live with the new cluster. This Tuesday, in a 24 hour extended downtime, old Tranquility hardware is replaced with 70 new IBM 64-bit AMD dual processor blade servers. This operation should double, if not triple the performance on our proxy and application layers.

This is a very high-risk and extensive upgrade and we suggest you set long skill training, in case anything goes wrong. Join us in wishing our server crew good luck.

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