Clear Skies and Clear Skies 3

Updated: CS3 Movie
Just have been a bit busy at doing a lot of stuff in EVE and been trying to get around to posting on the blog. I though I would get some quiet time to make a post earlier today when the EVE servers went down for the extended patch for Incursion 1.6. Instead I made the detour to cruise a few of the EVE forum sections a bit for just trying to keep up on general stuff and info and came across a fairly new thread about Clear Skies 3 a movie and the recent just released version of it days ago.

I had not the slightest of idea what exactly Clear Skies was or what it was about. But judging a bit from reading, it seemed like some movies series made by a player set in EVE. Seemed like quite many people liked the previous ones as well judging from all the reading through the forum threads.

I decided since EVE servers were down well maybe I should check out watching the Clear Skies series to catch up on what I must have been missing. I ended up at YouTube and started watching the entire series episodes for Clear Skies 1 & 2. Needless to say I really had a lot of fun and laughs watching all the episodes and how well they were made and put together in script and scenes. I was really impressed as the first 2 series were really great! Also couldn’t wait to get to each of the next episodes watching them. They were really awesome! Kept wondering how come have never heard of the series as well. But anyway was watching them now.

Truth be as well, I had more fun watching Clear Skies 1 & 2 so far compared to watching any of CCP actually professionally released game movies about the game. I just though it was that good in my opinion and with a great story. So now I’m caught up a bit somewhat and most eagerly waiting to watch Clear Skies 3 which was just days ago released. I’m sure many of you have already seen it as well, yet I’m sure many have never heard of it either. But at the moment I’m killing my internet at the moment trying to download it all with much eagerness to watch the new series episodes. I can only bet its just awesome to see and can’t wait to see what happens next. If you’ve never seen Clear Skies you might just want to go check it out. It’s just Epic Awesomeness. At the moment patiently breaking my Internet to patiently download Clear Skies 3….

Referenced Forum Links
Clear Skies 3
Clear Skies 3
Clear Skies 3 has Launched

Update: Took a lot of hours downloading the CS3 movie and still plenty to go on download. Finally found a newly uploaded version on YouTube and was able to watch the entire movie. It was really worth the wait to see as it turned out to be as awesome a movie as expected. Can only hope we get to see a CS4 sometime.

Best Billion ISK I ever made

Some capsuleer bought a regular missile blueprint on the market and in the process I made 1.2 Billion ISK in the sale transaction. Yeah I was quite a bit tickled as well when I saw it in my wallet log mulling over the previous night sales. At first I was a bit dumfounded about it. How the hell did that happen. Especially when nothing I’m selling even cost over 100 Million ISK at most.

Well that certainly was my biggest one time sale ever! Not only that my biggest one day total sale ever as well. Certainly my wallet was bulging a bit after that. After getting over being tickled about the sale transaction i certainly knew exactly what had happened.

Someone else market price scam had backfired in a way so to speak and instead when the transaction occurred my item was sold, and I also received the higher selected purchase price. I’ve heard of things like this happening before often understanding how it happens. I’ve had it happen on much smaller transaction sale but nothing involving that many zero’s. I could only guess maybe the capsuleer was a bit drunk maybe or just often not paying attention while station shopping.

What apparently did happen was in the station I was selling some blueprints another capsuleer had some time back spiked the cost astronomically to well over a billion ISK on the same print on the market and just let the order stay there till it expire. I had seen their sell order and just usually ignore it knowing why it’s there. You can see it often on all kind of goods across any region. What would normally happen is if the station completely sold out of almost all the blueprints/item and only the very last one remained at the high price listing in this particular case over a billion ISK then it has some slim chance “maybe” someone gets desperate and buys it. Can be any market item at almost any location. Easy enough to understand.

What happens when other items of similar listing is being sold at the very same station and someone comes along often not paying attention and click on any higher prices item with cheaper listed items in the same station? Then the transaction occurs where the cheapest item in the same station get sold automatically on the market but at the higher price you initially selected to buy it at. Happens all the time and if you sell enough stuff and check sales carefully in wallet log you see the differences often enough. Certainly glad the capsuleer had enough ISK in their wallet to cushion the purchase on a mistake purchase of over a billion ISK.

So in this case someone came along and instead of paying 1-2 Million ISK for any of the more than half a dozen normally priced cheaper sell orders for a blueprint item at the station, instead for whatever reason selected the highest price blueprint in the entire station for well over 1.2 Billion ISK. That triggered a sale on one my items and made me quite happy for the best billion ever made. If my sell order wasn’t there it would have being someone else order and instead they would have gotten the benefit of the sales transaction.

If your drunk while playing EVE, it may also not be the best idea for your wallet to also decide to go shopping at your nearest station hub, you could lose a good chunk of it to market traders.

EVE Online: My first year space odyssey

Where I've been for my first year in EVE

Just past that point a few days ago. As it was just over a year ago on April 23rd 2010 my character Ametius started playing EVE for the very first time on a trial account. At this point last year I looking for a more Interesting MMO game to play, maybe something a bit different, something with depth and something quite interesting to pickup and learn to play. Maybe a game I could get lost in learning how to play. And though I had always somehow kept seeing and reading about EVE Online as a new game to try out I had always kept putting it off somehow. So a year ago I finally decided to give it a go.

This is probably the longest blog post I’ve tried to write. For over a week now that I just couldn’t decide what to write for this post and even when I did write I kept deleting and re-writing the post. When I wrote I  was still at odds what to write about. And the longer I’m stuck trying to figure out how or what to write the further I get behind in everything else and the more time it consumes. Even this post has drastically been reduced. Sometimes just hard to decide what to write. So at this point I just want to get the post over with I guess.

But I’d heard about EVE Online for years and never gave it a look, yet I had no clue what it was really about either. I remember reading about EVE Online launch way back in 2003 on some game sites back then and just never quite understood the game and instead decided to play another online game. It just wasn’t my time to play EVE and never understood the game back then. So one year ago I decided it was finally time to give the game a decent shot and not just a whirl. After three days playing on trial account I knew It was my kind of game. I learned enough of something and found the game quite interesting with allot to learn and all kind of things to learn about and do. EVE to me is what you make of the choices you have and the life you wish to live in New Eden.

I was also struck and drawn in by the beauty of the game and all ships and objects in space. Yeah many the ships in EVE do look quite odd to me but I was drawn in by the beauty of the game as well as the opportunity to choose your own path in career. In time I found other things of interest beyond the beauty of space. But it didn’t take long to decide to make a new life in New Eden as a capsuleer. And I guess I haven’t regretted it as one year later I’m still playing, learning, having fun and continuing my journey as it continue to evolve in EVE Online. I’ve found many things in the game over time interesting to do or for a career. To me EVE is a journey and how you live the life and progress on the path of that journey in the huge universe that is EVE. So many new players never make it pass their first week on trial in EVE or their first month let alone make it pass their first year. The great myth is that EVE is not that hard to learn, it take time & patience and it does take effort to learn vs been spoon fed all the answers easily.

With just passing 1 year of playing EVE this also makes my 775 blog post about playing MMO games. 80 of those blog post were about EVE Online in the last year. Some weeks I blog more often than others. But I guess I should blog more. But I guess if your busy playing the game its hard to be just as busy writing about it. As well I don’t really consider myself a EVE blogger, as I think of myself as a MMO gamer that happens to play EVE the most. Yet it’s also nice to have been accepted into the EVE Community as a one of the more junior members of The EVE Blog Pack. I just usually blog about whatever game I’m playing and EVE Online is the game I played the most in the last year. It’s just one of two MMO games I happen to be playing.

I’ve thought about what to maybe write about but i just couldn’t really decide as really writing a perspective on one’s experience and thoughts of one year in EVE is not as easy as it seems to write about and quite time-consuming. How one measure ones progress in EVE can seem to have a few answers from my perspective in Skill Points trained, assets acquired and probably all the things you learn over that time doing things which is allot and invaluable to learn. So maybe a snapshot.

Skill Points

Corporation Management – 3 skills: 8750

Drones – 15 skills: 199795

Electronics – 16 skills: 1288798

Engineering – 14 skills: 504849

Gunnery – 13 skills: 1106510

Industry – 16 skills: 1633680

Leadership – 6 skills: 3915

Mechanic – 21 skills: 1171824

Missile Launcher Operation – 12 skills: 213255

Navigation – 7 skills: 213422

Planet Management – 5 skills: 732080

Science – 33 skills: 4972163

Social – 8 skills: 664295

Spaceship Command – 18 skills: 3041339

Trade – 12 skills: 1114555

Total Skill Points after exactly 1 year – 199 skills: 17869230

How much ISK spent on learning all those skills? Have not the slightest exact idea, but I know it’s a heck of a lot of ISK in training skills. like several hundred million ISK if not close to a Billion ISK just about invested in subliminal skill training continuously for a year.

I fly mostly Amarr/Caldari ships. Though I can fly more Amarrian ships than Caldari. Biggest ship can fly being a Amarr Battleship. Though the ship I enjoy flying the most is my tiny Covert Ops Buzzard as a high-speed shuttle. For my trader alt he can fly Industrials, Caldari Transport ship (Crane) and a Freighter which he owns.

My first player Corp in EVE was a small corp which changed names three times in the three months or so I was a member. About half of the corp back then were newbies including myself and the other half including the CEO did missions, and high-sec pirating. Somehow we used to get wardec every week almost for some reasons I never used to understand. Over time most the new members quit EVE slowly and eventually over time the CEO played less and less. Eventually barely anyone was left active in the corp and corp fell apart. I learned allot in that whole process. And so I moved on to finding my 2nd player Corp. I found a much better player Corp and so have been a member of my present Corp for the last eight plus months. Out of being in my first Corp I guess found what eventually became one my best friends in EVE as we remained friends though we are in different Corps. Through it all I realize finding a good player Corp is really important.

In short my career occupation in EVE is pretty much as a Trader making most my ISK from market activities. However also do Industrial Production, Planetary Interaction, Research, Invention and T2 Production. I do find Exploration an interesting activity as well. Once in a while I visit a mission agent to keep working at lowering my brokerage taxes. It sometime feel odd as a EVE blogger where the vast majority of EVE bloggers are pirates of one form or another or wormhole pirates.

After a year in New Eden the game is still quite fun, with so much to learn and yet so much to still do. I never though when I started in EVE that I would be here a year later. If I knew what I knew now years back, I would have picked up the game years earlier. It’s also not as hard as most new players think the game is to learn. I guess that’s a myth. It’s a shame so many new players quit the game in their first month without having the patience to really try to learn the game and the various ways they can choose to play it.