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    Eve Online discussions here!

    I would like to hear suggestions from Eve Shackers on the topic of where/what we should do.

    I feel like I am in season one of BSG!!!
    May 07, 2009 7:22am PDT
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    Eve Online discussions here! I would like to hear suggestions from Eve Shackers on the topic of where/... : maceThis person is cool!

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      seems like leadership is doing pretty well, (you been on recently?) : cdbeckmanThis person is cool!
      • Was on last night, got my Drake outta 0,0. : maceThis person is cool!
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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. : JuffoWupThis person is cool!
          • 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! : maceThis person is cool!
      • The POS has already been moved out. : r_picmip 5This person is cool!
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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-verseThis person is cool!
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        what level is the skill "connections" at? i was doing missions for lvl1 agent, then trained up skill to r... : KleboldThis person is cool!
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          ^^ this. Train up connections and other connection skills. Also fleet up with someone to do higher level ... : g0nkThis person is cool!
          • Fantastic! I should be able to play dedicated salvager by then and split those profits too :D : cdbeckmanThis person is cool!
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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-verseThis person is cool!
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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-verseThis person is cool!
              • 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!!!! : maceThis person is cool!
      • you won't play eve :( : re-verseThis person is cool!
      • you should not play EVE : m0rfus
      • In mother Russia, Eve plays you! : one random winner
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        Chepito. : geedeckThis person is cool!
        • ^^^ this. : re-verseThis person is cool!
        • this made me lol for some reason : AlexXdude
    • Piracy! : FinestautThis person is cool!
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      [PHOTN] guys. I'm starting up a "mission night". Depending on where we go and what is discussed tonight... : g0nkThis person is cool!
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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 5This person is cool!
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          http://www.photon-ventures.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=123&start=60 : maceThis person is cool!
          • I saw that :) Looking forward to tonight. The corp was always lacking in open discussion and communicat : r_picmip 5This person is cool!
      • Replied. I should definitely be in. : hawkeyeThis person is cool!
    • 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 : geedeckThis person is cool!
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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... : maceThis person is cool!
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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 : hawkeyeThis person is cool!
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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-verseThis person is cool!
              • 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. : FinestautThis person is cool!
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                  That doesn't sound cool at all, that sounds awful. : hawkeyeThis person is cool!
                  • You can go back. Assuming your fat ass didn't collapse the damn thing. : FinestautThis person is cool!
                  • no way it's like Star Trek Voyager except cool! : cpt_glovalThis person is cool!
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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? : FinestautThis person is cool!
                      • 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? : ArcanumThis person is cool!
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                    Probes, it's actually kind of complicated, but you send out four probes, and you get signals from each pr... : FinestautThis person is cool!
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                      Jesus christ, I just realized something. We're not playing a game. : cdbeckmanThis person is cool!
                      • lol then what are we doing? : korruptedone
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                        Yep we're really killing Formics. : cpt_glovalThis person is cool!
                        • Hahahahaha. : ArcKnight
                        • LOL : r_picmip 5This person is cool!
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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. : ArcanumThis person is cool!
          • what are the belts like in timbuktu? We may need to rethink our planning. : joninThis person is cool!
      • This^^ : hashdThis person is cool!
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      The Adama Maneuver! that scene and the opening fights at that ragnar anchorage....both reminded me of ... : nitrusThis person is cool!
      • 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... : ejectorpodThis person is cool!
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        i've got some shiny new Modulated Strip Miner IIs just waiting for their first bite of veldspar. : cpt_glovalThis person is cool!
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          The mineral market is so depressing. Modulated Strip Miner 2's on Veldspar? That's like saying I've got... : FinestautThis person is cool!
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            donuts, man. it's all i have any more :( : cpt_glovalThis person is cool!
            • seriously, until some of my contracts in pure blind sell i have about 5 mil isk liquid. : cpt_glovalThis person is cool!
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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_glovalThis person is cool!
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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... : FinestautThis person is cool!
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                  good ol free market :p : cpt_glovalThis person is cool!
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                    good ol free market with a surplus of cheap mid-range minerals deposited by poorly balanced mission rewar... : FinestautThis person is cool!
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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 ... : JuffoWupThis person is cool!
                      • 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... : SolrFlareThis person is cool!
    • 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_glovalThis person is cool!
      • 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. : g0nkThis person is cool!
        • http://wiki.eveonline.com/wiki/Weapon_Grouping : cpt_glovalThis person is cool!
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          You can group your weapons together if they are the same. So if you had 7 Malkuth Heavy Missile Launcher... : ejectorpodThis person is cool!
          • and it looks cool on turret ships watching all guns fire at once. : JuffoWupThis person is cool!
          • you can also do it in space. hit the arrow next to your modules, go to grouping mode (ammo unloaded from ... : JosephThis person is cool!
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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_glovalThis person is cool!
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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 5This person is cool!
        • yeah. i did an awesome refip the other night. i carefully positioned my badger, then aligned to station, ... : cpt_glovalThis person is cool!
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        QUESTION HIJACK can you bait with cans? Since it seems you're allowed to attack someone if they steal ... : re-verseThis person is cool!
        • I really want to try this, actually. Put a lone barge in a belt with some known-flippers in system, and h... : cpt_glovalThis person is cool!
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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 5This person is cool!
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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_glovalThis person is cool!
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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_glovalThis person is cool!
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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. : FinestautThis person is cool!
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            They just re-worked them last patch. It can fit covops cloak and use torpedos instead of cruise now. : semaphoreThis person is cool!
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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. : mindfkThis person is cool!
          • 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... : FinestautThis person is cool!
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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... : JuffoWupThis person is cool!
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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... : KolpathThis person is cool!
      • Join the Shacknews channel when in game. : maceThis person is cool!
      • HQ is in Torrinos, you can apply there. AFAIK, your app won't be accepted if you don't have your shacknam... : cpt_glovalThis person is cool!
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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. : KolpathThis person is cool!
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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... : DimmonaThis person is cool!
            • Get the feeling I may well spend an eternity dolefully staring at asteroids.. more than likely while punc... : KolpathThis person is cool!
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      HOLD UP HOLD UP!!!! I just learned something new and cool!!!!! NWS is in an alliance with angry Russia... : maceThis person is cool!
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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? : maceThis person is cool!
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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? : maceThis person is cool!
                • 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 ... : maceThis person is cool!
              • pretty sure they'd just be talking russian nonsense ;p : cpt_glovalThis person is cool!
              • копи зат, товарищ! : electrolyThis person is cool!
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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 ... : maceThis person is cool!
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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 : maceThis person is cool!
                • interesting, mace. : BongSlayerBThis person is cool!
                • please dont tell me you write stories for www.literotica.com; im under the assumption only beautiful wome... : KleboldThis person is cool!
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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... : KolpathThis person is cool!
              • unfortunately it seems like very few of them either know english or are willing to speak/type in english.... : mindfkThis person is cool!
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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. : ArcanumThis person is cool!