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Code­name “Oper­a­tion Star­fall” is a weekend-long inva­sion by our alliance, Trans­mis­sion Lost, against the cor­po­ra­tion of Stargazer Explo­ration Com­panyat their C6 home space with the goal of remov­ing their pres­ence in that sys­tem.  Although PoS bash­ing may not be very inter­est­ing to some, being my first time par­tic­i­pat­ing in an oper­a­tion of this scale, it was a fac­si­nat­ing and valu­able experience.

Back­story

The event which led Stargaz­ers to become our our vic­tim:  when SPLU (a mem­ber corp of our alliance) plexed in Stargazer’s C6 sys­tem, some­one from Stargazer used cap­i­tal ships to trig­ger esca­la­tion waves in cos­mic anom­alies that SPLU fleet was doing.   Although we did not lose any plex­ing ships from that inci­dent, after gath­er­ing intel on the aggres­sor corp, we found them to be a suit­able tar­get to evict.  As one have put it, we “esca­lated” on them in return.

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I ded­i­cate this post in remem­ber­ance of my main char­ac­ter has reached 6 mil­lion SP and the first time that CCP pissed me off for real…

I was forced to take a break from the month-long hon­ey­moon (read: addiction) in w-space due to CCP’s Tyran­nis 1.1 fail­patch. The game’s inter­face was  bro­ken after the ini­tial patch and remained so until the sec­ond “optional patch” was released.  Unlike the self claimed “bit­ter­vets” in the player com­mu­nity, I have been quite happy about the gen­eral direc­tion CCP is going with this game, namely Incarna and Incur­sion which, in the­ory, would open up the community’s demo­graph­ics and make the game more polit­i­cally main­stream.  What I do not under­stand is how would any remotely com­pe­tent devel­op­ers release a patch that breaks most play­ers’ GUI.  Log­i­cally speak­ing, GUI bugs/glitches are eas­i­est to detect and fix; CCP appar­ently have failed epi­cally in this case.

It makes me won­der what is the pur­pose of Sin­gu­lar­ity test server and test client builds.  Con­spir­acy the­ory of the year: does CCP not test their patches before they release them to public?

In any case, life moves on.  After join­ing a w-space corp and liv­ing in a comfy C2 sys­tem (with con­ve­nient C4 and High­sec exits), I dare to say that I expe­ri­enced many, if not most, of the fun aspects of a worm­hole dweller.  We had a high­sec wardec, formed an alliance, had another corp move in to be our good neigh­bor, did a lot of pvp and pve fleet ops, bashed two PoS tow­ers.  None of those activ­ity were meant to be hardcore–our sys­tem is C2 any­way… but some­how there’s always an end­less list of things to do:  Explor­ing neigh­bor­ing high­sec sys­tems, gas har­vest­ing in adja­cent w-space sys­tems, and most honorable-mention–EFT war­rior­ing

Hav­ing enough ISK to buy all the ships of inter­est that I can fly surely is sat­is­fy­ing.  I have to thank all the pilots in our corp and alliance to facil­i­tate such a sup­port­ive learn­ing and oper­at­ing envi­ron­ment; with­out them, my EVE adven­ture could still be con­fined in high­sec L4 mis­sion­ing.  The unfor­tu­nate side effect of my devoted atten­tion to my inter­net space­ship is apparent–I haven’t posted any­thing in the past two months.  As of now I am going to try reroute my focus a bit and assume a more laid back approach to EVE.  Know­ing my ISK going to pay for my game time while my char­ac­ter trains for bet­ter skills, and also know­ing that I can make such amount of ISK with ease, is one of my orig­i­nal goals.  The sense of accom­plish­ment is over­flow­ing; is it time to move on?

It is a true story.  Through my so-far enjoy­able expe­ri­ence in EVE Online, none was encap­su­lat­ing as my first (seri­ous) w-space oper­a­tion; risk and reward, I’ve got­ten both.  The expe­ri­ence fur­ther incites my desire of becom­ing one of the worm­hole dwellers with con­struc­tive (and hope­fully, sus­tain­able) PvP lifestyle.

I orig­i­nally posted this on my corp’s forum, titled “When the inevitable comes, care­bear­ing saves the day!” Also, wall of text warn­ing :p

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