Something I enjoyed working on! A first look and walkthrough of the new ship skinner.

My first mistake as a new player was to join a corp because a recruiter pressed me into it. It turned out to be a technique to just impose high taxes on unknowing new players who hadn't got their heads around the game yet. They kept changing corp roles on me so I couldn't leave.

I ended up having to shoot other corp members before they let me out. It left a sour taste in my mouth.

The lesson is, do a little research on a corp / alliance before you join it.

The bounty I was waiting for....

This is a pro-ganking post - specifically High Sec suicide ganking.

HS Ganking matches much of the gameplay pattern in Eve in that it's hours of waiting and then an explosive moment of excitement. As you scan ship after ship, you slip into a trance-like state where you're relying on muscle memory. Your brain is continually looking for those little Large Skill Injector / Extractor / Plex icons in the cargo scans. I've often described it as being like fishing. In that sense, it's actually quite relaxing.

As someone who's done Low Sec pvp, null sec blob-fests and plenty of PvE, there are few thrills as great as killing a ship which you know has goodies on board. You shoot. Did it die? Then the heart races as you wait to find out if anything good dropped into the wreck; if you can loot the wreck ahead of everyone else; and if your looter can get away without getting into trouble.

Some nay-sayers describe it as a low-skill game style. That can be true. Anyone with two characters can set up to be a ganker. But if you're doing it in a market hub, you will have competition. You will have other gankers, thieves, anti-gankers and opportunists. So anyone can do it, but you need to be very, very good to survive.

So, does it make New Eden a better place? I say YES - as much as any other style of play. Us gankers have a tight community. We share stories, killmails, intel and advice. Every week, we see stories of big ganks on reddit and the Eve forum. As well all know, it's this community engagement that makes Eve what it is.

Here is a comprehensive review of the introduction of Pirate Insurgency and subsequent changes to Faction Warfare introduced by Eve's Havoc Expansion.

Wandering randomly around at any given time in New Eden is Tom's Shuttle. It's CCP's tribute to David Bowie (Major Tom). It's as rare as anything can be in Eve. Just a tiny ship, making it's own way through the universe, in memory of an amazing artist. Simply beautiful.

This is fun, hilarious and a mechanic that most players don't even know about.

You can actually get killed mid-warp. It's true. It's mind-blowing if you don't already know about it.

Here's how to do it.....

I propose something akin to the 1v1 events that we used to have in the arenas.

Players can enter in advance and the top 16 or 32 pilots in qualifiers could be drawn against GMs. Then the competition advances to see if the regular pilots can best the GMs.

Stream it and offer big prizes. Or just for pride and bragging rights!

A pilot who docked in Amarr Received grief cos he was Minmatar He tried to undock And got a big shock When he saw the four huge Avatar

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The Deathless has tried to be scary But it's hard when your head isn't hairy He's more bald then bold And his skull is quite cold But I heard he once snogged the Loot Fairy

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A pilot who was a pos-basher

Would hi-jack killmails - a gate-crasher!

But karma's quite real

And he got a bad deal

When he lost all his plex to a thrasher

A pilot who didn't learn his tech

Tried to shoot an old man in low-sec

The gate guns went boom

And he screamed in his room

As his new ship turned into a wreck

A few drinks had left me quite tipsy

Shooting guns was a little bit tricksy

I didn't realise

Through the beer-addled eyes

That I'd tried to shoot police in Dodixie

Ganking is often a hoot

Till some *%!o£ runs off with the loot

But I can't get that mad

Over stuff I never had

And I've still got the killmail to boot!

While searching for a suitable rhyme

I was ganking cos I love the crime

Then I scanned a big cargo

But was dealt an unfair blow

When my client switched off for downtime

That's it. No more.