Back in the Game

Well, that didn't take long. The dev blogs started to look promising again, and I was missing the spaceships, so I decided to resub for three months and see how it goes with the winter expansion. There's still quite a few bugs that aren't being fixed, or talked about by the devs, so my time in EvE may be limited to the end of the current subscription. Already the random disconnect bug has cost me my first pod. Ships I don't mind losing, but my pod, my god my pod.

One of the really annoying things about EvE is that it seems to be very sensitive to dropped packets and, to me at least, has a hair-trigger OMGWTF get-the-hell-out response to them. I had been running three clients on one machine, before I unsubed them all, and would have one drop out (lost contact with server) but the others remain connected*. It was always the one that seemed to be talking to the server, or busy doing something, so it would drop at very important times. Like when I was being shot at, or trying to swap ships in the orca. Or trying to align a ship that's going to explode so I can get the pod out. 

That's what happened this time. My 'geddon was going down fast, so I right click in space as the armor gets to about 50% to get an align on a celestial somewhere. As the mouse hovers over 'planets' in the menu I hear the armor alarm go. Then, black screen and disconnected. I finally get logged back in to find I'm in my clone station. Yea me... podded by a Hurricane!?!? It took a few days to realize that, yes, that was the first time I've lost a pod, on TQ, since I started playing.

All the talk recently about all the things that are 'broken' in EvE, from FW to 0.0, there isn't much mention of the annoyances. The basic things that need to work so you can even get to the broken FW. These are the things, that if they don't get fixed, will eventually drive me away from the game. So here's hoping that along with the changes to SCs, and bringing back ship spinning, they get to fixing the little things that need to work in order for me to be able to actually play the game. They've got three months, I hope they can make it count.

*This is one of the problems that came up after the Incarna update. There are others, but I really feel that, lost in all the monocle-gate hubbub, was the fact that Incarna was a buggy release. For me at least, it marked the beginning of my "don't know what to do 'cause it's too broken to fight" phase, which eventually led to my unsubbing my accounts.

Introduction

I started playing Eve in July of 2009. After getting somewhat bored, and a bit ragey, with WoW I was looking for another game like it, but different. Being on a Mac limited my options somewhat and after looking around a bit I found an ad for Eve and decided to give it a go.


The first character I made was Gallente. I think at the time that I was still pretty much 100% bear. I had done some PvP in WoW (BG's and such), but mainly I played on a PvE server and did the usual instance/quest/grind stuff and was used to, and comfortable with, the constricted PvP rules that exist in WoW. Eve was a big change from that, and I liked the change.


About two weeks in I realized that Gallente just didn't feel right to me, plus I had really f'd up the portrait and with no way to change that I decided to create another character and so Toshiko was born and the first character was biomassed a couple of days later.


My original intent with Tosh was to be a pirate (Yar!) 'cause that's what sounded good at the time. What I ended up doing instead was spending the next few months just trying to learn the in's and out's of Eve. I found a high-sec home that I liked and settled into a life of missioning, which really wasn't a bad idea for me. Then circumstances led to me letting the account lapse for about six months or so.


When I returned I did some missioning, some ganking in Hulkageddon IV, and some high-sec ninja work with SN. Now, with the recent events of the summer, and some recent RL events that have limited my discretionary income, I've let the account lapse again, but it's in a stasis. I haven't completely given up on CCP, so I'm keeping an eye on #tweetfleet and watching the forums to see how things work out. Hopefully I'll be back in the pod before too long.


Tosh