Well, I have finally settled on the new theme for the site. I’ve made a number of changes. On the right side of the page, you will see an extensive listing of links to various player blogs as well as other EVE related websites.
If you have a site that you would like linked here, please do let me know and I will be happy to link it here.
Now, off to bed, it’s late and I am tired.
See you out there!!!
I always get into these ruts, where I just don’t add to my blogs and they become stagnate. For instance, I have not really updated anything substantial here except the theme as a change was much needed.
I have been very busy IRL and playing EVE. I’ve not spent a whole lot of time on the next episode of The Bleeding Rose. Thank you to everyone who has read what I have written so far and thank you for your words of encouragement as well as your constructive feedback. I am working on the next episode. The problem is that I have so much I want to tell, I keep end up writing about 3 to 4 different stories. I need to focus on one item. I also wanted to move more away from the typical gank story as all the previous episodes focused on a PvP battle. I’ll figure it out.
I have done a few things on my checklist from last time. I have finally gotten up to date on the major postings on the EVE forums. All the rabble on the upcoming nano changes led to a lot of “passionate posts”. Yeah, I’m just gonna leave this one alone. As many of you already know, I am not going to go into a rant on the upcoming changes, mainly because I am in the Pro-Balance camp so to speak.
I must admit, I do have a few ships that I have used in a nano-gang. The most fun I have had has not been with a nano-HIC or a nano-BS, but with a nano-Logistics ship. Yup, me and my corp mates would load up, me in my Onerios, others in Scimitars and we would remote rep each other while wreaking havoc. Now, I do believe this will still work, we just won’t be able to outrun the missiles anymore. That’s fine, with decent logistics skills, this will still make logistics gangs a reality and still much fun.
Will this kill the game? No, it will not. All ships will fall in line in respect to speed. Will this make solo PvP die? No it will not. I engage in plenty of solo PvP without using a nano ship. Hell, I still engage in belt piracy. It’s a question of hunting a kill down and working for the kill. Piracy is not easy, otherwise everyone would do it.
Changes to warp disrupting will make things interesting. Afterburners will be more popular as if you are warp scrammed, you will not be able to use your MWD. Well, think about the name of that class of moduel, Micro Warp Drive. Makes sense if you think about it. Does this boost gate camps? Well, yes it does in a way, but remember, the gate campers will have to decide whether to fit a MWD now as well.
I am looking forward to these changes hitting, will make people realize that there is not a single “god mode” way to play the game. It’s an MMORPG, a social game where you have to work together. That’s the point. It’s not a first person shooter, it’s not WoW. It’s a smart person’s game, time that the game met the standard of intellect of it’s player’s. This is a step in the right direction.
As many people said on the forums, “Adapt or Die”.
I finally updated to the latest version of the EVE Dev.net killboard. I also, just for kicks, added in the rank mod that seems to be all the rage. It’s kind of cool, give you a nicer layout for some stats and helps to rank you on specific ships that you have used based on custom set values.
I also added in a value fetch mod that you can also get form EVE Dev, just so that the ship and items values were more accurate.
The updated killboard is now up and running.
The Drone Bay went live!!! Awesome, keep up the content guys!!!! The Drone Bay
In case you have not noticed, the url for this website has changed. The new url is http://www.eve-druid.com. Eve Bloggers was not generating any new accounts and the old accounts have moved onto their own domains. With the ease of use of several blogging applications out on the net, it just did not make any sense to keep the old domain up and running.
So, Wandering Druid has been moved to a more apt domain name.
I have also updated the graphics and themes used here, moved some code around and a lot of general housekeeping. So, please feel free to look around and enjoy the new site!!
