Ashin

Apropos: https://twitter.com/CCP_Fozzie/status/679385773511061508

I used to hear the word "schnauzer" all the time when I was growing up - that was my grandmother's preferred way of referring to someone's nose!

Curious if you saw this

https://suitonia.wordpress.com/2015/12/22/the-top-5-most-oppressive-things-in-the-solosmall-gang-meta-right-now/

And whether you agreed / disagreed?

How did your Domi work out?

Hello Sindri,

First, thanks for your patience and persistence!  We keep missing each other like proverbial ships in the night.  So I'm glad you decided to jump start the conversation here.

I was curious about ELITE:Dangerous, but realistically I don't have time for multiple games (especially multiple online games!), so I've stayed away from it.  Is it good?  I was trying to get a sense for how much depth there is in that game (relative to EVE, for example).

We actually approached null-sec a year ago with a mindset similar to what you described.  We had each played 2 or 3 times in the past, once together (but in a super casual way).  This time we decided to systematically try different areas of the game as a group until something really caught us.  We lazily ran missions in hi-sec while attempting micro-gang roams into nearby null space.  We lived out of a wormhole for a month whilst being hell-camped by two sociopaths (I think literally).  And then we decided to try out life in null.

That was what stuck, so over the past 6-9 months we made a commitment to grow the corp as a null-sec entity.  I'm not promising you will have the same experience, but I hope you will!  Whether its the lucrative ratting or mining, the epic fleet clashes or the political intrigue, null has a lot to offer.

Could we get a sense of your skillpoints - how many and where have you focused so far?

That's really great - I hope not to be your prey any time in the near future.

Actually if it's not too forward - can we see the Raven fit you used to accomplish that task?  Some of us are toying with Raven fits recently.

How exactly did you trick him into making his mistake?

Nice one!

Welcome to the corp!  Look forward to getting to know you.

Hi Ertic and welcome to the corp!  It's going to be a struggle for me not to call you Eric.

I don't share your reservations about soloing a bottle of wine, but you're viewpoint is probably the correct one.  Have you been to Seattle before?  I really really enjoyed my first visit - actually a few of us from SoH met there for PAX.

All three are good in different ways. If I had to pick a favorite - dragonfall.

Welcome!  Did you play the recent Shadowrun PC games by Harebrained?

Perhaps the head recruiter was waiting to see if Bob actually decided to join!

Oh, I already did the background check.  He's clean!

Drink of choice is typically beer. For those in NOVA it's hard to beat Devils Backbone Vienna Lager. My wife prefers cider so Strongbow is usually in the rotation as well.

Oh, may I ask whereabouts in NoVa?  I'm in Reston and work near Leesburg.

I don't drink beer often, but I have to agree that vienna lager is very tasty.

Cool.  I'm Valence Benedetto in game, but due to holiday parties not likely to be in game until Saturday morning!

Looking forward to further conversations.

PFR is a great choice - we've spoken with Walter Cohen before, and think highly of what they do.  Actually we strongly considered joining them.. twice!

The point you bring up about the killboard is a really good one.  To be totally candid, SOHCO continues to explore that topic, and we have no yet articulated any firm rules.  We do want all of our pilots to maintain an active and positive killboard.  We don't get our panties in a bunch any time someone makes a mistake - we may ask what happened, either to learn from your mistake or to help you learn to avoid repeating it.  We don't like to see ridiculous fits (either terrible or excessively blingy) in the red on our killboard, and that would probably prompt a conversation.  We had a recruit hauling PI material in an Orca - it was frustrating to see that loss on our kb for sure.

So if I think about the scenario you described - someone is active in pvp, has a positive and active killboard, but lost something expensive the off times he got carried away - I don't see a problem with that.  I think you're right to say that's how the game is meant to be enjoyed.  I might ask that you build up a reservoir of green before you give us the red golem, tho.  How does that sound?

Hello and thanks for stopping by.  Don't mind Inedit - she refuses to try Eve because of space mining!

I'm glad our post caught your eye, and we should definitely chat in game.  You can join our public channel, although folks are a bit scarce with lots of holiday activities happening.  I probably won't be back in game until Saturday morning.

Can you give us some idea of how your character is trained and what you've done in the past - ie, have you lived in null before?  If not, what's got you interested in trying it?  PvP experience?

Others will haze you with non-game related questions, so I'll stop here for now.

Do you really use a straw when you drink bubbly?  Please tell me you don't do that in public..

You're supporting Bud Light but boycotting flavored malt beverages???  Come on now...

My standard drunk-drink is jack and diet coke.  But generally I'm a wine guy.  I like beer fine but.. those calories...

Hey there Bob.  Valence here - nice to see you made it to our message board.  It's just one more step in the long series of crap you need to sign up / register for in order to begin your exciting new adventure into Null Sec!

You and I have already talked in game and in mumble.  And I've performed your background check.  So I don't have any new questions.

Perhaps you could let everyone know what you're thinking in terms of timing?  I think that you and I discussed maybe waiting until after the holidays?

I tuned in to hear your daughter tell a fish that her alien/blob was throwing to "suffocate and die" !

Yay for the new EVE members - glad to have you guys aboard!

Yay!

I'm going to be a donor, but if I go 24 hours without sleep it's just not good anymore...

I'm waiting to see what kind of bribes will be offered before I donate!