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  seems like leadership is doing pretty well, (you been on recently?) : cdbeckman
  • Was on last night, got my Drake outta 0,0. : mace
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  I just got my gatling cannons, and I'm blowing up pirates with nary a worry. One day I'll research after... : lolpatrol
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    You should make that day today. AB and MWD are pretty much a necessity for effective PvP in ships belo... : korruptedone
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      MWD? Actually, I'm confused, when they gave me the afterburners during one of the training missions, it ... : lolpatrol
      • MWD stands for MicroWarp Drive. : JuffoWup
      • MWD is a microwarp drive, which is basically a super afterburner. You'll get a 500 percent speed boost f... : korruptedone
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  photon should stop listening to six. she is going to make him even more crazy than he already is. no one : m0rfus
  • Nicely done! : mace
  • The POS has already been moved out. : r_picmip 5
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  I retrreated away from torrinos 25 jumps over to the system i originated in, so that i can do some missio... : re-verse
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    what level is the skill "connections" at? i was doing missions for lvl1 agent, then trained up skill to r... : Klebold
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      ^^ this. Train up connections and other connection skills. Also fleet up with someone to do higher level ... : g0nk
      • Fantastic! I should be able to play dedicated salvager by then and split those profits too :D : cdbeckman
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      Hmmm connections level 2 right now. I wonder if it will be significantly better if i move it up to 3 or 4 : re-verse
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        It might make the difference between being able to do higher ups and not. I also suggest checking here... : korruptedone
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          Thank you very much, I'll check it out. : re-verse
          • upgrade this skill too: http://wiki.eveonline.com/wiki/Social helps as well! : AlexXdude
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  Can I play EVE too Mace? : Chepito.
  • Yes you can!!!! : mace
  • you won't play eve :( : re-verse
  • you should not play EVE : m0rfus
  • In mother Russia, Eve plays you! : one random winner
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    Chepito. : geedeck
    • ^^^ this. : re-verse
    • this made me lol for some reason : AlexXdude
• Piracy! : Finestaut
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  [PHOTN] guys. I'm starting up a "mission night". Depending on where we go and what is discussed tonight... : g0nk
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    Mission and MIning nights are great and everything but I'm more interested in the overall goal. This who... : r_picmip 5
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      http://www.photon-ventures.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=123&start=60 : mace
      • I saw that :) Looking forward to tonight. The corp was always lacking in open discussion and communicat : r_picmip 5
  • Replied. I should definitely be in. : hawkeye
• I wish I could play! Sadly, sitting is very uncomfortable (had surgery yesterday) and I can't play from t... : tashtego
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  I think we should be chillaxing here and talking about operational ideas in other places : geedeck
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    I do not think there is any harm in hearing ideas and opinions. I mean, we are talking in a general br... : mace
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      Agreed. As long as it's not, "We're moving all of our operations to Timbuktu tonight and will have millo : hawkeye
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        "Nothing in EVE is near anything else either." go go wormhole space :) : korruptedone
        • wm2wm? : m0rfus
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          oh so people can actually open wormholes to specific chosen locations? Cool. : re-verse
          • negative : m0rfus
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            Nope, but it's kind of cool to go through one and end up hundreds of jumps from where you started. : Finestaut
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              That doesn't sound cool at all, that sounds awful. : hawkeye
              • You can go back. Assuming your fat ass didn't collapse the damn thing. : Finestaut
              • no way it's like Star Trek Voyager except cool! : cpt_gloval
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                Oh no it's great. We (my corp) live in WH space at the moment. Almost daily we have a new exit to a dif... : korruptedone
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                  How is W-Space homesteading? you make good money out there? : Finestaut
                  • We're in a Class 3 at the moment but we've pwnt all the sites. ISK is delicious when there are sites, th... : korruptedone
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                  This sounds fucking ridiculously amazing funtimes. And you fuel the POS with ice fields in the system? ... : Lunaran
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                    We make runs to empire with Blockade Runners in order to keep the tower fueled and also resources from in... : korruptedone
                    • yeah, depends on what size tower it is. If you guys took an Orca out there, though, you can fit huge ass ... : MisterPhoton
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              How do you find them? : Arcanum
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                Probes, it's actually kind of complicated, but you send out four probes, and you get signals from each pr... : Finestaut
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                  Jesus christ, I just realized something. We're not playing a game. : cdbeckman
                  • lol then what are we doing? : korruptedone
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                    Yep we're really killing Formics. : cpt_gloval
                    • Hahahahaha. : ArcKnight
                    • LOL : r_picmip 5
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                Scan probes. Astrometrics skill. Check this dev blog out to get the gist. You can find all kinds of ... : korruptedone
                • Nifty. : Arcanum
      • what are the belts like in timbuktu? We may need to rethink our planning. : jonin
  • This^^ : hashd
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  The Adama Maneuver! that scene and the opening fights at that ragnar anchorage....both reminded me of ... : nitrus
  • Agreed. : m0rfus
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  man I love being on vacation. Just woke up. Had a bowl of cereal. Am looking at EVEMON and EFT to determi... : ejectorpod
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    i've got some shiny new Modulated Strip Miner IIs just waiting for their first bite of veldspar. : cpt_gloval
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      The mineral market is so depressing. Modulated Strip Miner 2's on Veldspar? That's like saying I've got... : Finestaut
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        donuts, man. it's all i have any more :( : cpt_gloval
        • seriously, until some of my contracts in pure blind sell i have about 5 mil isk liquid. : cpt_gloval
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        Veld = Trit which is actually a good sell : mrasparagus
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          i make about 4 mil/hr off it sitting in a 0.8 belt, it's not a horrible way to play with EFT :) my spr... : cpt_gloval
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            I know it is, and it drives me INSANE. There's no point in mining anything between Hemo and Plag. The... : Finestaut
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              good ol free market :p : cpt_gloval
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                good ol free market with a surplus of cheap mid-range minerals deposited by poorly balanced mission rewar... : Finestaut
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                  I've heard it all got up ended when they nuked shuttles from the npc manufacturing list. But I do agree ... : JuffoWup
                  • How often do they change the npc manufacturing list? Is there an straightforward summary of the player b... : Zhaneel
• Well, thanks to a generous donation by Streega, I'm now piloting my fully fitted and stable Thorax :D On... : SolrFlare
• SO SAY WE ALL : Delaric
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  i tried out the weapon grouping feature last night. holy shit makes managing fire in a destroyer 100% eas... : cpt_gloval
  • I prefer shouting out ENGAGE! whenever I lock onto a rat and mashing F1 through F7 : AlexXdude
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    Wut? Pls explain. I usually hit F1-F7 everytime. : g0nk
    • http://wiki.eveonline.com/wiki/Weapon_Grouping : cpt_gloval
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      You can group your weapons together if they are the same. So if you had 7 Malkuth Heavy Missile Launcher... : ejectorpod
      • and it looks cool on turret ships watching all guns fire at once. : JuffoWup
      • you can also do it in space. hit the arrow next to your modules, go to grouping mode (ammo unloaded from ... : Joseph
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  QUESTION if someone flips your can in hisec, and you fire at them, are they then free to fire back, or... : cpt_gloval
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    They can fire back. They can also fire at you if you try and take the ore back after they've flipped it. : r_picmip 5
    • yeah. i did an awesome refip the other night. i carefully positioned my badger, then aligned to station, ... : cpt_gloval
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    QUESTION HIJACK can you bait with cans? Since it seems you're allowed to attack someone if they steal ... : re-verse
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      I really want to try this, actually. Put a lone barge in a belt with some known-flippers in system, and have several corpmates waiting for the word a jump away, or at a safe spot in system.

      May 07, 2009 1:47pm PDT
      I really want to try this, actually. Put a lone barge in a belt with some known-flippers in system, and h... : cpt_gloval
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      Probably, my guess is no one would do this unless they were in a guild built to do this. And not every n... : one random winner
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        I've nabbed millions worth of ISK of stuff from people leaving items in cans (not just minerals) either o... : AlexXdude
        • Yes, but if you were grabbing stuff and constantly getting griefed you'd quit doing that, it's a simple s... : one random winner
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      Yes you can do this, and it's a common tactic. Remember the person has to actually take the item out of ... : r_picmip 5
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        a can half full of veld is worth about 1.5 mil near Jita, takes about 20 minutes for me to fill one that ... : cpt_gloval
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          My hulk mines about 4 cans an hour without gang bonuses :) : YerMothah
          • there's a way to make it enticing! :) : cpt_gloval
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  So I installed, and activated a trial... Had fun in the first hour or so I spent on the tutorial... ... : etherboy
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    1) Character creation is non-restrictive now that they've allowed for attribute respecs. 2) Covop frig... : MisterPhoton
    • I think I will work on the stealth bomber goal... then look at force/combat recon... So I started trai : etherboy
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      Stealth bombers can NOT warp cloaked. : YerMothah
      • They can now. : Finestaut
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        They just re-worked them last patch. It can fit covops cloak and use torpedos instead of cruise now. : semaphore
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          Torps and warping while cloaked is a better combo? Just curious because it's probably months out for m... : etherboy
          • longer than that. : mindfk
      • lol, see how silly you look now. : MisterPhoton
  • Work towards Covert Ops first. It'll take you about a month or two, depending on what other skills you tr... : AlexXdude
  • Covert ops is a pretty humble, realistic, short to medium term goal. Recon ships are pretty advanced, an... : Finestaut
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    Thanks for all the advice! My plan at this point is to just play out the trial... then if I'm really d... : etherboy
    • go for it, you'll be able to finish the missions faster for each of you (you won't be sharing the same sp... : JuffoWup
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    Is there a skill planner that doesn't require access to your account and a third-party app? I have Ev... : etherboy
    • bump... : etherboy
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  Question : Just picked Eve Online up, installing now. I figure there's a rag-tag bunch of Shacker... : Kolpath
  • Join the Shacknews channel when in game. : mace
  • HQ is in Torrinos, you can apply there. AFAIK, your app won't be accepted if you don't have your shacknam... : cpt_gloval
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    Join the Shacknews channel ingame. There is a little button on the left named "channels", go in there and... : loboca
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      Great stuff, thanks for the pointers. : Kolpath
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        Stupid n00b tips I wished someone had told me a week ago : - Don't be lazy and use autopilot to do long... : Dimmona
        • Get the feeling I may well spend an eternity dolefully staring at asteroids.. more than likely while punc... : Kolpath
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  HOLD UP HOLD UP!!!! I just learned something new and cool!!!!! NWS is in an alliance with angry Russia... : mace
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    Ya, we're their pets and basically do what we're told. : loboca
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      That's not what I am getting at... Do you guys ever do ops with them using TS or Eve Speak? : mace
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        Ah, well, stupid post aside, I believe we 'could' if we so chose. But I'm not 100% on that. : loboca
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          (btw that was MY stupid post) : loboca
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            wut? : mace
            • My post about being their pets was the aforementioned 'stupid post'. : loboca
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          LOL, nothing would feed my uber nerd Internet Spaceship fetish more, then to have a thick Russian accent ... : mace
          • pretty sure they'd just be talking russian nonsense ;p : cpt_gloval
          • копи зат, товарищ! : electroly
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            What's funny, is when I was typing this post, I had to make a mental note to careful and NOT type "thick ... : mace
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              Force of habit? : loboca
              • I don't know... just one of those things I wanted to make sure I didn't accidentally'd : mace
            • interesting, mace. : BongSlayerB
            • please dont tell me you write stories for www.literotica.com; im under the assumption only beautiful wome... : Klebold
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            All I can picture is mace squealing "EEEEEE!!!!" whenever that thick Rusky accent comes on over the TS. : MercFox1
            • Hell I still get a boner whenever I watch 2010.. Helen Mirren.. not quite the most believable russian, bu... : Kolpath
          • unfortunately it seems like very few of them either know english or are willing to speak/type in english.... : mindfk
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  I have not played EVE since middle of last summer. Update is 2 frakking gigs. : Delaric
  • That's because they did a major graphical update in the last six months or so. : Arcanum