MEDIC.......

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It has been a bit since I've last blogged regularly, actually that's quite a while in fact, but I am going to be working on making it a more regularly thing here on.

My wife is now well and truly addicted, and together our little t2 business is humming along nicely, but that is to be the subject of my next post (I promise it won't be far away).

Rather, this post is more related to the other evidence of her addiction. Namely, that she has 2nd account on which she is training a logistics pilot to go to 0.0

As a result of her decision, I've actually increased the amount of time I spend in a logistics myself. In fact it would be more accurate to say I am somewhat dedicated to the ship type currently.

.... and I am having a ball!!!

The play style is uniquely different to the normal pvp roles you experience.

Instead of having an overview of reds, you typically have your "purples" showing, so you can maintain a good position in relation to the rest of the fleet (i.e. keep them within your rep range, but also not slip to the edge of the fleet too much).

Your main focus becomes the both the broadcast window, for your fellow gang makes screaming "MEDIC" as they are primaried... Once you see that broadcast, it becomes a race to lock them up, and start repping them in hope of saving them.

The sight of a fellow pilots armour/shields going back up, even under full fire from the enemy, is truly a sense of satisfaction.

Of course at the same time you are doing this, you are also watching your watch list, that typically is populated with the other logistics in your fleet, so that can be prioritised if they come under fire. Though it does feel bad to abandon a pilot in a BS to save a logistics, it is the right call, as every dead logistic makes the enemies job that much easier.

To top this off, you also have the issue that you have de-target ships, once they have been repped, or you find yourself all out of targeting slots for the new ships being targeted, assuming you saved the ships.

While throughout this, you also have to listen to an FC bark orders to primary X, while listening for the important orders that still apply to you; align, warp, jump, hold, etc....

Logistics is not an easy job.

However at the end of a fight, when the fleet realises that although the enemy was wiped out, our fleet lost barely anyone, and that was due to the logistic pilots; the sense of satisfaction in a job well done is immense.

It is a role that I now love, and I find myself sitting on 4 logistics ships currently on my hanger, and with the capability of building two of the four races of ships. Indeed I have now the ability to fly all four races, and have logistics to V, purely because of the joy I get from this role.

Logistics, give it a go!!!!

7 years old...... DAMN...

Well Eve has done it, made it to the 7 year mark, and I think we can all safely say that is a damn impressive feat.

Think of all those other MMOs that came, tried to succeed, but eventually failed... either closed down, or fading away.....

Myself, I started playing Eve nearly nearly 3 years after it started, in February 06 to be exact, so that makes me a 4+ year veteran, something I still find hard to comprehend.

When I came to eve, I had been playing WOW for nearly a year, and although I was enjoying it a lot, I always felt "restricted", unable to do what I wanted to do. Forced to follow a certain path to get anywhere.

Reading about the great heists, and wars that were occurring in Eve, I was inspired to give it a try. Though admittedly a childhood of playing Elite, probably also had an lot to do with it.

I spent the first 6 months of my time in Eve alone, I was too worried I didn't know enough to join one of these might "player corporations" (in hindsight one of my greatest mistakes). Until the stories of piracy peaked my interest, and my 2nd account was begun.

My 2nd account was as a direct result of quitting WOW, as my wife said she was happy to have a 2nd eve account, if it meant no extra costs....

(The irony now being that she also plays, and between us we have 5 accounts).

I didn't end up getting into piracy, but instead joined my first corp, a little high sec corp with big dreams, that unfortunately never went very far. However it increased my confidence, and within several months I had decided that I really wanted to get in on this 0.0 action.

Late 06 or early 07, I joined my first 0.0 corp, and made some great friends, that even to this day are some of my most trusted friends in game (and dare I say it, out of game as well).

I found myself in the Drone Regions, in the space that was eventually renamed "Perrigen Falls", in the FREGE alliance. A lot of bad things were said of FREGE over the years, but I have personally have fond memories, as it was there that I learnt the basics of 0.0 combat, and moved into the first T2 ships I ever owned.

With the fall of FREGE, I found myself back in high sec, and I quickly realised that in my heart that my home will always be in the depths of 0.0, and so I returned, this time with Ethereal Dawn.

My history beyond that, has been previously covered in this blog.... but really the point of this, is that looking back, the depth of the life in Eve is immense.

We all have a stories, and pasts, within Eve, but what makes Eve so great is that they are all so different, yet also all matter and are interconnected. Compare this to any sharded game, where everyone has done the same instances, over and over again...

This is why Eve keeps going, why it has lasted 7 years, because we create our own world, our own goals...

To CCP and all my fellow eve players (be the red, neutral, or blue) - tonight I drink to you all!!!!

CHEERS and see you on the field....

Blah blah blah....

0.0 warfare is well and truly broken at the moment.

Gone are the good fights, and instead they are replaced by races to get into the system in question first.

Even when the "2nd" to arrive has greater numbers, the risk of jumping in, and being lagged out, is so high, that they usually turn and leave.

In short very very very very very very boring!!!

However, having been in the jumping in side once, I can not criticise any FC from turning from that situation, the loss in ships and morale is just too great...

C'mon CCP lets get this sorted ASAP!!!

Despite this, I have been participating in as many operations staged by my alliance as RL has allowed (given that here it is summer, and so outside activities have been taking priority).

I did find myself yesterday in a situation for the first time, with me helping to reinforce a POS belonging to the BPINC corporation I used to belong to.

Seeing someone I respected and flew with less than a year ago, inside the shields of the POS I was bashing, was somewhat disconcerting, but I've always known it was going to happen at some point.

Although I would never go out of my way to shoot a friend that was red to me, when it comes to outright warfare, it's just par for the course, and I'd expect nothing less from them.

In other news, my wife is now well and truly addicted to Eve it seems, and indeed on the day we were going away, she logged in before 7am to "check skills" - the words of an addict.

I'm so proud....

This is admittedly one of my least thought out posts, but conscious that I have not posted in a bit, I thought I should at least put up something, to show that I am in fact still playing, and haven't forgotten about my blog.