MirthBlog - Day 21

So, I set out in-game ( EvE) to do a bit of prospecting, and ended up playing detective.
I got to an asteroid field in my new ship and was gonna trying earning the money from ore to buy a mining barge.
Soon as I arrive I see 2 Retrievers strip mining the field.
“Bugger!” I thought no point staying here with other advanced players, and I was just about to leave……
…… when the nosey bit of intuition in me noticed that both their “names” were random consonants and made no sense. I hailed them in local chat. No reply.
Waited a couple mins . Called again. No reply. ??????
So then I bumped the nearest ship. Well rammed actually, hehe. , and still they ignored me. Something fishy going on here I thought. Bloody macro miners !
Looking at their bio’s I saw both had been in game about 5 months, yet they still belonged to their tutorial corporations. No-one does that.
So I began writing an exploit ticket to the devs to report these credit farmers.

Just then a 3rd ship arrived a mammoth hauler. Same bio type as the others . This one collected their ore and shuttled it back to a space station.
Ok, I was doing mobile surveillance now, and my next step was to check the markets . But , NO ore was up for sale in the whole system?? Weird??
I hovered alongside the station thinking I had hit a dead end, and wondering if I imagined it, but then, after just a few minutes a huge Iteron 5 industrial hauler entered the system and proceeded to dock at the station. It left a few minutes later, and would you believe he also belonged to the noob corp, despite have 6 months experience and a big ship.
I couldn’t follw, cos it was getting late, but I got the name and he’ll be back.
The trail is very warm now and I am out to take down the whole gang……..

I know its an ongoing problem in all MMO’s. However in EvE there is a difference.
Grinding skills to a useful level takes ages. Months.

If we could all get together and stage a kill the credit-farming macro miners day,
Then it may not be worth them returning. It would take them about 2 to 3 months to grind up new alts to a working level.

One Hunting expedition per quarter and we could keep this game clean.

It just needs a bit of organizing.Any volunteers?

MirthBlog - Day 18

"Life imitates art ! "

....well , apparently so, and in my lives this week I can see the comparison.

Real Life this week we got a nice new people carrier, a Kia Sedona.
It will be used mostly by the Missus for school runs, but I'll use at weekends and on family outings.

It's fitted with all mod cons, such as DvD , Dual Air con and Privacy glass,etc...

In-game , on the other hand , Mirth too has been splashing out. In fact he/I was finally able to buy something that has been a dream for months.
The Amarr "Prophecy" Battlecruiser, hehe . So let the pirates beware now.
It also has lots of added extras.
Warp-Drive, Big Guns(lots of them) Thick armour and shields.
I do like coincidences :)