Why girls/women don’t play EvE

An interesting post on the forum this last week or so on the Eve forum

It went something like “Any hot girls play Eve?”

And it gave me one of the many answers to the quesion why girls don’t play Eve

1. None of the females who do play Eve want to be hassled by immature players asking stupid questions

2. The one who do play don’t admit that they are for the same reason

3. I’ve finally understood why the Hellcats (greetings to you, fair ladies *tips hat*) won’t allow males in the corp. They just want to play Eve, not get hassled.

Of all the players I have met and flown alongside, two have admitted to being actual females. And I am proud to say I didn’t ask stupid questions, act immature or any way, shape or form hassle them. I did speak my mind to one who I thought was being a bit mean to some of the players who were renting alliance space, but that’s hardly hassling.  I didn’t really like that alliance anyway, 99% of them were idiots.

Until next time

Lord Yu

So a funny thing happened…

My hauler alt has just gotten into an Orca, and I am enjoying it immensely.

Not for that fact that it can hold around 51,000 m3 of ore, although that is a nice feature. Not for the fact that it can run 3 gang links simultaneously (I run 2 plus a small tractor beam), although that too is a nice feature. And it’s not the fact that if a mining crystal breaks, my miner can grab a new one out of the corp hangars, but yes, that too is a nice feature

It’s the fact I can dump ore from my miner’s cargo hold into the corp hold of the Orca.

This feature came in very handy on Monday when, for the first time in a long time, someone tried to steal ore from the jetcan I had floating nearby. It was just blind luck I spotted the guy approaching, and switched from my miner to my hauler. I managed to grab around 21,000 m3 of ore and put into one of the corp hangars before transferring into the cargo hold of the Orca. Not getting the hint that I didn’t need to drop a can to mine, the one-sided conversation went like this:

***************: ha ha you lose

***************: oh and don’t bother hanging around because I can mine right into the corp hangar of that orca there

***************: so bye bye

After that, the would-be ore thief left the system.

Oh, and I blanked out my miner’s name because I don’t want every tom, dick and harry convoing me asking what system I mine in so I can fleet them. I don’t fleet non-corp pilots.

Until next time

Lord Yu

Hardcore Eve players

If there’s one thing in Eve that annoys me more than isk farmers and ore thievesm it’s idiots who think just because they pvp, they’re the lord of everyone in the game and demand respect whether they deserve it or not

Some players have been known to act like this in 0.0

Well guess what, people? Acting like a dick and saying “I’m so great because I can take 50 million pvp’ers in BS’s in a frigate and kill them all with one shot” is only going to prove one thing to me:  that you actually are a dick and you don’t deserve my respect

The pvp’er who turns to me and says “Yes, I do think I’m good at pvp because I’ve managed to kill 2 or 3 cruisers out of 6 while in a frigate, but they got me in the end” is going to earn my respect even more because

a) He/ she fought back against odds that were unwinnable

b) He/she managed to take down a few enemies before going down him/herself

c) He/she admiited that, in the end, the battle was unwinnable, admitted that they did get killed and did not act like a whiney baby because they lost their ship.

Also, you are not going to earn my respect if

a) you ONLY kill people who are flying industrial ships and mining barges

b) you take 10 friends along to gank a single frigate/cruiser

c) you pirate to ransom players for their ships/pods, take their isk and blow them up anyway (even pirates in real life, while committing criminal activities, honour their profession by letting ships go after the ransom has been paid).

To this day, I have only pvp’d a handful of times, each time either finding no one to pvp against or losing my ship. And each time, the opponents have been gracious in victory, never saying “Ha ha, you lost your ship, go back to high sec loser”.

I prefer to hear that from the hardcore players no likes or respects. Because then I laugh and think to myself “At least I’m in a player run corp and not in some npc noon corp because I act like a jerk all the time”.

So, there you have it. Acting like a jerk in Eve will only earn you enemies. Being gracious both in victory and defeat will earn you more friends than you can count.

Until next time

Lord Yu