Close Your Eye's and Click Your Heals 3 Times

And that's how fast the move was to Seppuku Warriors. I was brought into the fold by our very own EVE Blog Pack Member and Seppuku Warrior Director Dee Carson. Mad greetings of Welcome,Howdy and you finally made it assaulted me as I was transported into SW corp chat and then I had a client crash. LoL I hope this isn't a sign of things to come.

Oh BTW totally off subject, if you haven't heard the recording of the Epic EVE Nerd Rage you just have to give it a listen. This is brought to us by the one and only SiliconBuddha of Fly Reckless podcast fame

Ok thats it for now. Off to bed with me before my eye lids slam shut.

Fly like you ass is on fire.

JamesS

And thats the way it is this 21st of Janurary 2009

Well I've gone and done it. I've dropped roles with EVE University and I'm going to be a member of Seppuku Warriors.

It wasn't an easy thing to do, it was kinda like the same feeling you get when you go off to boot camp or just leave something that familiar. I'm npt going to be able to fly with some of my old buddy's due to our being a VERY PVP centric corp and wanting to keep E-Uni's diplomatic neutrality. I told them I'd give them a good reference if they wanted to try and join SW after there tenure so there's hope for a reunion yet.

After this I'm not sure. I might seek a teaching job at another academy in EVE or I might follow my long term goal to become a member of a Mercenary Corp. Who Knows?

For now I'll just keep writing about my goings on around EVE.

Fly like your ass is on fire.

JamesS

PS. Moving all my stuff is a Bitch

EvE's Dream Team

Sabre A (Yes that Sabre A) has assembled what only can be called the EvE equivalent of the Dream Team. He has brought some of the finest PVPer's in the game under one banner to form the core instructors of Seppuku Warrior's. These individuals have put aside the political differences to teach select few the fine art of small gang PVP to include but not limited to fast roaming gangs, Sniper Fleets, Remote Repairing Fleets.

Seppuku Warrior's stellar team of instructors are:

Rooman(ANZAC) - The CEO and Leader Of Southern Cross Alliance

00Tricky(RKK) - Director of Reikoku and GBC Senior FC

Acacia Incana(EVOL) - Ex IVY PvP Instructor that made it Big

Mijstor Jedann(SHIVA) - NC Senior FC and CEO of Seppuku Warriors

KOTH Fluf(SHIVA) - CEO, NC Senior FC and Ex Leader of Morsus Mihi, VC and FA

SirMolle(EVOL) - The CEO and Leader Of The Band of Brothers Alliance

There is yet another unconfirmed instructor that I am not at the liberty to disclose at this time. But as soon as that information is made available I will post an update.

These played have come together to teach what they know about PVP. Setting aside there differences to give back to players of EvE.

I for one hope for the opportunity to learn from these masters of the game

Sixth Alliance Tournament Team Listings

The listings of Team participating in the Sixth Alliance Tournament have just been announced. I see a lot of old faces and quite a few new ones. I myself thought that EVE University was going to field a team but I guess I was wrong. But I do see that each race has a factional warfare team, it will be interesting if we see the factional teams stick with there races ships or will they barrow from another???. Will the Ev0ke be hindered because of the problems within the past few months??? Will the Privatears fold under pressure like they did in there war with EVE University Will it be a team from one of the large alliances or a new up and comer to rise above the rest at the end. We'll just have to tune in and see won't we. For the latest and greatest on the Sixth Alliance Tournament tune in here or at the EVE Online Tournament Page

EON #14 and Ivy Leage Corp

Just a quick and shameless plug for the new EON magazine issue #14 and in it is a Corp profile of Ivy Leage Alliance and EvE University which I'm a member of. So go out and buy a copy and read why EvE-Uni is one of the best Corps around.

2008 in Review

The year is just about over and I thought I'd write a little bit on what I've done this past year, people that have helped throughout and a little about what I'm hoping for the year to come.

A little less than a year ago I reinstalled EvE looking for a game that I could make my own destiny. After a 2 year sabbatical do to work and real life commitments I was hopeful EvE would let me venture back with what little time I could afford and with the help of CrazyKinux bloggings and a few other resources I was able to to step back in to the world of internet spaceships and as we all know flying internet spaceships is serious business

My first order of business was to find a corporation where I could relearn what little knowledge I had of EvE and gather more information. In my searches through the Forums and The Drone Bay Podcast I came across EVE University where they teach everything and I’ve been there ever since. I’ve grown as a pilot and have actually set goals from what I’ve learned from the members, but I’m getting ahead of myself.

There are a few people I’d like to thank for making this past year a little bit more fun.

First and foremost my wife and two precocious sons for enduring my fascination with EvE and the occasional calls of primary and secondary targets over teamspeak in the wee hours of the morning.


CrazyKinux, SiliconBuddha, Roc Wieler, kirith kodachi, Mynxee and the rest of the Blog Pack Crew for their encouragement and without it you wouldn’t be reading this.

Finally my Corp Mates: Morning Maniac, Dierdra Vaal, Silentbrick, Dee Carson, Melissa Dawn,Kelduum Revaan and yes even Sabre A. Over the past months you have brought me up to speed with your teachings all the while laughing my ass off.

That brings us to next year. I’m still on course to becoming a carrier pilot and my eventual travels into 0.0 space, but not before having all the logistical support for that venture and after taking another look at EVEmon I’ll be talking about this in 2010. But hey who knows.

Have Fun, Stay Focused and fly like your ass is on fire.

JamesS

Ninja Edit: This is still a work in progress give me a break :-)

26 Noobs + 30 days of WarDec’s = One Dead Broadsword

Cazzah one of the guys in EVE Uni came up with a great idea of us taking out a bunch of fellow students and either going up against some of our current war targets ( The Darwin Award Foundation ) or having a little fun down in lowsec with NOOBSHIPS. It was decided that we’d pay a visit to the Atomic Battle Penguins in Urlen.

So 26 of us got into our trusty noobships, all ship races were present and we headed to Urlen were we thought we’d meet certain doom. When we arrived, there were 2 WT’s docked up so we waited for about 10 minutes outside of Urlen while our scouts went poking around. All of a sudden a scout calls out that a war target has undocked right in next to him so we all jump through the gate and warp to the scout. Within a few seconds we had him scrammed, webbed, and jammed. What happened next was something like having a pillow fight against a rhino as guns, missiles, drones and snowballs came flying at the Megathron with great effect to its shield but doing nothing whatsoever to the armor. This went on for about 5 minutes with us loosing an ibis or 4 and me having reloaded my snowball launcher 2 or 3 times, when he must have gotten bored and unleashed his drone and we figured it was time to get the hell out of dodge. So back to HQ we went but not before GF’s and WTF were that, were sent back and forth in local.

Surprised that we hadn’t all gotten popped we decided to press our luck with a trip to Rancer. I not wanting to lose my Christmas gift from CCP stowed my snowball launcher and rejoined the fleet and off we went to Rancer. Our scouts were ahead of us when they called that they spotted a gate camp in Oijanen. There were a few ships on the gate including a Drake and a Broadsword sharing tanking the guns on the gate. When the Broadsword started tanking the gun is when we jumped into system.
We locked both ships and command called for the HICtor to be primary and the drake to be jammed and have drones sent after it. The drake wasn’t having any of it so it bugged out leaving the HICtor to feel the full fury of the Noobship fleet of death and about half way through its shields the pilot set his ship to self-destruct knowing that we had him beat. The next thing we knew there was a flash and the pod was in warp. Cries of Yaaarrrr, Woot and GF’s were sent in local, funny thing we didn’t get any well wishes back???

Well to make an even longer story a little bit shorter we regrouped and continued down to Rancer were upon jumping in and escaping one gate camp and thinking we’d be able to take down another were promptly killed by a Disco wielding Battleship bent on stopping our trip into lowsec. I’m really glad I stowed my snowball launcher. 
And what did I learn for this outing of ours.

1. There isn’t an end all be all ship in EVE.
2. A group of noobs can do a lot of damage even in noobships.
3. The snowball launcher is a good thing.
4. Trust your FC and he just might get you an unsuspected kill
5. EVE University Noobship fleet of death was a good idea
6. There is no 6

Oh and there is a post script to this. There's a saying I like, pictures or it didn't happen. Here is the killmail to prove it Noobship fleet of Death vs The Broadsword