Status - Elite

For many, becoming "Elite" at a video game is one of their goals. In Eve Online, with so many metrics one can be measured upon to judge one's success, it is tricky to say when one has finally reached this level.

However, I believe I have finally become "Elite". You don't believe me? Look below.

From The Tusker Killboard, found here

 The sigificance of the number 1337? Urban Dictionary is your friend.

The journey has been long, the fights interesting and the action non-stop! My final kill was soloing this fail-fit Dominix class Battleship in my Abaddon class Battleship, affectionately nicknamed Rend. Whilst the fight and the kill were unremarkable except for the fact that I destroyed the vessel before its pilot managed to get it into warp, my 1335 & 1336 kills as a Tusker were marvelous but that is a story for another time.

I have also submitted the Dominix killmail for Ga'len's Fail Mail Friday on his blog. Fingers crossed, it might win this week's contest.

Expect more posts in the coming weeks, I've got a host of stories to tell.

Assault Frigate Tournament - Audio!

Video still taking a while, mostly due to the video footage currently being 60GB and stored on a hard drive 1000 kilometres away! Sent the audio files away and the corpmate with the video footage ItsmeHck1 is slowly putting it away.

In the meantime, participants were offered the chance to choose a song that playedas they were called out, as their own introduction song. Below is a list of their chosen songs, some good, some interesting, some frankly very Python-esque songs and even a song produced by one of their participants themselves!

1. Tsubutai - Erasure - Always
2. Golden Helmet - Golden Helmet of Mambrino
   
3. Kazaji - Top Gun - Theme Song
4. RichardCypherr - None chosen
5. SuperMaugen - Blah Blah Blah Kesha Mp3 Ft. 3OH!3 
6. CLETIS TEE - None chosen 
7. Cyber Ten - NAPPsquad - Shut up Woman Get on my horse!
8. Lachesis VII - Spaceballs - Spaceballs
9. Sintei Ruhl - None chosen
10. Causticum - Tony Renis - Quando, quando, quando
11. Bourreau - Yello - Oh Yea
12. Htrag - Shakira ft. Freshlyground - Waka Waka (This Time for Africa)
13. Platypus King - Mulan - I'll make a man out of you
14. Zombiedeadhead (Stand in for Xydros) - The Clash - I fought the Law 
15. IEATCRAYONS - Holland Boys - I am Gay 
16. Trony - Survivor - Eye of the Tiger
17. Jaxley - LCD Soundsystem - Drunk Girls
18. Tressin Khiyne - You Are A Pirate (Lazy Town)
19. Ilik Tanikalot - Kokiriko bushi
20. von Diel - Copacabana - Barry Manilow
21. SolusLunes - SolusLunes - Nameless (his own song)
22. Andrea Skye - BearForce1 - BearForce1
23. ItsmeHck1 - K3 - De drie biggetjes (Random Dutch song?)
24. Dotard - Bondage Fairies - He Man

Due to technicial difficulties (Eve refusing to save my chatlogs of that evening), I have been unable to get a full list of song requests for further rounds. However, the ones I have managed to recover are below:

3 Man FFA (Round #2) song requests:

von Diel - Loituma - Ieva's polka, Ievan Polkka
Andrea Skye - Tomboy - It's OK to be gay
Kazaji - BARBIE GIRL! (Chosen with love by GoldenHelmet)
Dotard - Wagner - RIDE OF THE VALKYRIES - Furtwangler
Lachesis VII - Oingo Boingo - Little Girls: Relaid Audio

Semi-Finals (Round #3) song requests:

Andrea Skye - Mindless Self Indulgence - Bitches

Final (Round #4) song requests:

Lachesis VII - Sex Dwarf 
Trony - Urban Cookie Collective - The Key, The Secret

If you participated in the Tournament, but not all of your songs are listed above, feel free to comment below or send me an Evemail and I'll correct the mistake.




Even if you weren't there, any thoughts on the songs chosen? Any particular favorites?

Interim #2

Been busy in RL recently, giving me less time to play Eve and get things sorted. The Assault Frigate Tournament Videos will not be out for at least another few days; I have a few new ideas for how to present them to make them more interesting.

However, I still have some more data to chug through, so below is a graph showing the weapon systems used in the Assault Frigate Tournament.

Interesting to note that nobody used Gatling Pulse Lasers nor Gatling 75mm Rails, despite their ease of fitting and high tracking (at least for the Pulses!). Also, Light Neutron Blaster IIs were not used, most likely due to their high fitting requirements as well as low tracking.

Next update will be a bit more substantial, I promise!

Assault Frigate Tournament - Fittings!

Below is a list of participants for the Assault Frigate Tournament, along with their fittings. The progression of each participant will be shown in the next blog post.

1. Tsubutai - Ishkur 
2. Golden Helmet - Vengeance
   
3. Kazaji - Retribution
4. RichardCypherr - Jaguar
5. SuperMaugen - Ishkur 
6. CLETIS TEE - Ishkur 
7. Cyber Ten - Retribution
8. Lachesis VII - Retribution 
9. Sintei Ruhl - Wolf
10. Causticum - Jaguar
11. Bourreau - Wolf
12. Htrag - Harpy
13. Platypus King - Jaguar 
14. Zombiedeadhead (Stand in for Xydros) - Wolf 
15. IEATCRAYONS - Hawk 
16. Trony -Wolf 
17. Jaxley - Enyo 
18. Tressin Khiyne - Wolf 
19. Ilik Tanikalot - Enyo 
20. von Diel - Ishkur 
21. SolusLunes - Vengeance
22. Andrea Skye -Retribution 
23. ItsmeHck1 - Ishkur 
24. Dotard - Wolf

Interesting fact is that all 8 Assault Frigates were present. I did not expect to see so many Retributions and Wolfs. I guess people thought that their main weakness (lack of mids) is not that big in a Tournament where you do not need to keep someone warp scrambled. Ishkurs are unsurprisingly popular, the combination of the large drone bay and amble mid slots means that you can play around with their fittings quite freely.

Another interesting fact is that 3 of the top 4 players were flying Retributions, with the winner flying a Wolf.

Pretty graph!