Homeless Gamers

So I joined up with GMSEC about a week ago, after hearing promises of riches and more ore than anyone could ever mine. I figured, sure the loot will be nice, but could the mining really be as good as they say?

Well lets take a look at what 400 million isk looks like floating in space…and strangely I think I now know where tiberium comes from!

Well I just fired up some PHPBB forums to add a little spice to the site. Im working on integrating the posts with the forums, but might be a few more bugs as I tweak them. When all is said and done, hopefully people will be able to post on the forums and argue there =)

So its no secret to those who know me that Im a bit of an arrogant prick that kind of likes to run my own thing. Its not that I dont “play well with others” its simply that after running my own guilds for the better part of a decade its just hard for me not to reach up into someones setup slap them and ask WTF ARE YOU DOING!? That being said none of my friends like playing eve with me. So I can try and build up a guild solo…which is hard, or I can join a guild, learn the more advanced ropes to pvp, 0.0, and sovereignty and later if I feel the need make my own corp…hopefully with lots of friends, contacts and allies.

So after flipping through the forums I decided to give GMSEC a shot. They seemed like cool people, werent too big, and seemed to have a very laid back fun attitude.

So the first night I join a wardec is going live from some empire corp, and the PvP wing has moved to empire to play. I joined up in the frigate gang and went roaming. Sadly our targets, who wardeced us I might add, seem to enjoy the confines of stations and safespots more than they do fighting us. So sadly we had no encounters… but I did get some nice screen shots of some scenery and a Legion… its almost worth cross training amar for this bad boy.

I ended up the evening by contracting my BS’s to the logistics group for movement out to 0.0, and then moved my Cov-ops pilot out to their space.

I have very little experience out in 0.0, but with a cov ops ship its rather hard to get popped…or so I thought. I had already gone through 6 low sec systems and 3 0.0 systems, and was beginning to think this was going to be a breeze. I saw a few folks but no gate camps and no real hostiles.

Sadly when I hit Jorund I was already rather zoned out listening to the folks in vent. There were 4 people in local but no one at the gate. So I clicked the next gate, clicked warp to zero and taped the cloak button. What I didnt realize was there was another stealth ship out there waiting, watching, hunting. The second I popped up on the over view the hic dropped a bubble and MWD’d to my location. I of course didnt realize till he was already inside of 5k. I tried to dodge him, but at that range it was to close and he broke my cloak. I fired up my AB, aimed for the edge of the bubble and hoped that I could get out of the bubble range before my little ship was toast. Needless to say I didnt make it, my pod however did.

I had to head back to jita to get another Helios, and this time through I played it ultra paranoid. Kicked the AB in after every jump, made sure to do a 90 degree turn after recloaking and always pre scanned the gates. Thankfully I made it on the second trip… shaking just a bit from the adrenaline rush that took a bit of time to fade.

I think thats the one thing that eve does better than anyone else, not only does it capture the “OH SHIT!” moments it drives them home with a feeling that literally reaches out through the monitor and shakes you. I just wish more MMO’s could capture that feeling.

Oh well, here’s hoping tomorrow the WT’s show some balls, and hopefully I can get some more 0.0 experience this week to boot!

I recently found this blog article out there about the new google chrome beta.

Apparently you can now sync your bookmarks for the chrome browser on any pc anywhere. So if you are like me and pretty much book mark everything, you now never have to get ticked off cause you left the link on your other pc.

Anyways take a look at the post, and stop losing pages!

So I was hoping around on some eve related websites and found this little gem.

I gotta say stories like this are definitely the true heart of eve, and why it draws me like no other game, click read more for the entire story. Read the rest of this entry →

First off, force them to watch this video to give them a general idea.

Once they have completed that, have them watch the personal message from CCP.

By now they should be rather interested, follow up with whats coming in the future.

Finally hook them up with the trial. If they can watch all of the above, and arent interested there is no hope for them.

Its possible we might be making a return to EvE. Aion has proven to be rather grindy. Check back soon for more info!

Alrighty folks, with a new game on the horizon, we will be moving the guild website for Aion back to www.TheDarkKnights.com Im not quite sure what Ill do with HG.com, but for now its going to be mothballed.

Well we had a rather long grindy weekend with the RQI group, but unlike normal we were in a different game, Aion. I had some rather mixed expectations. Most of the mmos that have come out in the past year have been rather large disapointments, so I went into the beta weekend with rather low expectations. However after playing the game for about 30 hours (yeah…we really are that sick), I hate to say it but I am rather excited.

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We here at RQI usually change things up about once a month. One of eve’s biggest selling points is the fact that there are so many different options and ways to play the game that no matter what your interests or time availability you can always find something.

Last month we lived in W-space, this month we tried out high sec wars,  for august, we are going to be launching two new campaigns.

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