Eve Online

There is a new video section that i plan to expand when i can.

I realized how small the blog actually is after trying to give this theme more life, but i think this is as good as it gets. Im having problems putting up the eve online affiliate banner, and also for some reason my post titles are not showing and its making the blog look ugly.

Im also toying with the idea of hiring someone to write an article or guide. I can perfect the trading guide, but the only other thing i really do is run missions and stuff for the corp, so if i want good content i will have to branch out. Paying isk per article sounds like a great idea. Apart from that, its been a slow week.

Kai.

I am now hosting this blog on bluehost. I stupidly read that using wordpress on on a host is dead easy, just one click installation and off you go! What i didn’t ask was the small details, exporting and importing XML stuffs, figuring out why my pages wont show etc.

The pages not showing is the most frustrating issue I’ve came across. Googling on the net for the solution only causes more confusion. I actually accidentally found out that you have to select them to be shown from the appearance tab and the theme options.

Once that was out of the way, my post titles wont show. I can find them on the blog, but they are set to show as a horizontal next option just under the pages.

Lastly is trying to redirect traffic from my old blog to this one. I have absolutely no idea what I’m doing. Every guide on the same thing are all different. Hopefully i will get the hang of it. Its a good way of forcing me to get familiar with MySQL and CSS. Always wanted to learn how to use them but never had enough reason to and got bored. Now its my sanity on the line so I’m fully motivated.

Kai.

This is just a small post let people know what i have planned. Hopefully not many people would of subscribed to the RSS feed yet (not even sure how that works) so i can at least put this down and let everyone know i havnt abandoned my amazing blog already without annoying anyone expecting some eve related post.

Guides – I want to make a small guide on how to use Evemon. I find it invaluable managing my skills and seeing what i need to train for what. The guide will only cover the basics, and i will link all the other more in depth guides out there in the mini-review page.

The station trading guide is still a work in progress. I have no idea about its usefulness since i haven’t had any proper feedback yet. I changed the comment reply settings so no-one has to register or enter there e-mail, so all ya have to do is type what you think about it and put it out there. I was thinking of a trade route guide as well. I don’t have any experience hauling crap loads of anything from one lucrative place to another, but i think ill give it a go.

Ships – The ship overview page is something i think i will always be adding to and updating. I think its useful since it adds together in one page all the best suggested fittings out there.

New page – I will add a video page, embedding all of what i think are the best eve online videos. It will have everything from epic fleet battles, pirating exploits and emorages.

That’s all!

Kai.

I lost my maelstrom yesterday to a “stop the thief” level 4. I was webbed so badly that i couldn’t align the smallest amount to warp to safety. This was an important event for me, losing my beloved, expensive maelstrom. I had planned to make the mother of all mission ships, so much tank and dps that my salvager wouldn’t be able to keep up. This involved spending around a bil in isk fitting the ship with officer gear. I wont hide what i lost, because it was a lesson for me and it should be for anyone else who has the bright idea of trying to what i did.

I lost my 3 hakim 1200mm arty’s, my 1 x caldari shield boost amp and 2 x republic gyros.

Now, the amp and the gyros i wouldn’t mind losing. The turrets on the other hand took me AGES to get on contracts. Also, a few days before this happened, i was just about to buy a 1 bil officer cap module so i would be perma-tanking in the mael. Regardless of my shield rep, i would of lost the ship anyway, and if i lost that cap recharger i would of had to jump in front of a car or join goonswarm after losing my sanity.

But then again, its just a Internet spaceship. I have another mael set up for pvp that can replace my old maelstrom. Also, after losing those few precious modules, it has kicked me into realising how flawed my fitting was. I had no resist mods at all. I thought i was brilliant in my almost perma-boosted maelstrom. I couldn’t tank the bonus room on AE, or evidently stop the thief, but a perma-tanked mael was supposedly something epic. I cant even remember where i saw the suggested fitting.

So, the moral of the story is a old mantra that null sec ratters strictly live by, one of those sayings that you want to ignore when you find a domination gyro to fit on your hurricane and go back out to rat in a empty and quiet system, or fit officer gear on a mission maelstrom. No matter how careful you are or what your doing, you will eventually LOSE your ship. Unless you fly a Raven.

Kai.

Your blog sucks

Posted by Spectre on his blog.

It’s a good post to read, very funny but also i think relevant.

I cant really give a strong opinion on his post, since i have only known of the few big blogs fairly recently after doing some research after making my own. I am not a loyal reader to any of them yet because i never knew they existed. I really like Crazykinux’s blog, alot of information flowing on there and he seems like a great guy. I will have to learn how to use RSS at some point to keep track of his blog among others.

Anyway, im posting about Spectre’s post because i feel like it has set me a benchmark on what i should do with my own blog. Some of his examples of bad blogs were really bad. I guess there is a swamp of eve blogs that never really touch on anything more then what they did today on Eve, and then write it in a bad way. I also felt that he was talking about my blog as well. I never considered my blog as apart of anything more then what it is, and i really hope i can achieve more then what the average blog is. I hope i have something worthwhile and meaninful to post about!

Kai.

Just finished my Hurricane overview in the ship section of the blog. It will be on the ship page i think i will be constantly working on, among other articles and guides i have planned already.

This is my first day blogging. From 9am to 11pm i have been working on this blog, and i am really happy with what i have done so far. I work full time in the worst job imaginable, so my time is limited, but i will keep this updated regularly with new content when i can. Apart from that,  it looks like blogging is second to Eve as my favourite way of burning my days off!

If you stumble on this blog, please leave a comment! Any critique is welcome at this stage, and i will take everything on board to help improve the content i have put out so far.

Kai.

A new and very cool clip from the big expansion Ambulation, that should be released at the end of this year. Ambulation will let us walk around in stations and also take part in a mini-game that is similar to the popular mini-game Slay.

By the end of tomorrow i should have a small guide on how to use Evemon. It is one of the most useful tool’s i have used so far in planning my skills and viewing the stats of every ship and item in the game. This will be my first guide so feedback would be very welcome!

Kai.