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The More You Know
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Thukk You, Frill Me: Sucide Gank Raffle Details
The Thukk You, Frill Me: The Vagabond Protest event is today! As my part of this event, I will be holding a suicide gank raffle at 1800 EVE time (that's 2pm EST / 1pm Central / noon MST / 11am PST). Go to Jatate III -… -
Giving Up on EveHQ
I've long been a fan of the all-in-one EveHQ tool. EveHQ did everything that EFT and EveMon and more: * Skill tracking and planning * Ship fitting simulation * Personal/corporate asset tracking * Order monitoring * POS… -
The Faction Warfare "Stupid ISK For Little Work" HOWTO
Now that the cat is out of the bag about making a ton of loyalty points with faction warfare for little work - WITHOUT EXPLOITS - I'll provide the real details on how to do this yourself. Why am I doing this? Because as… -
The Curious Case of the DPC
Some months ago I switched my graphics from an NVIDIA 9800GTX+ to a pair of cards: An ATI Radeon 5770 and an ATI Radeon 5750. I did this mainly to mine Bitcoins as I wrote before , but I figured it also gave more video… -
An All-In-One Guide to Ninja Salvaging
So a lot of the time I spend online, I see newer players coming into the SN public chat looking for advice on how to start up with doing ninja salvage. MLYT has hosted many guides, on how to scan, find a system, and… -
Spaceships, Cooper Colors, OODA Loops, and Combat Mindset
Khalia has already posted about the recent wormhole engagement in which he and I were jumped while running sites, resulting in the loss of a Thanatos and other small ships. I highly recommend you read that post first. I… -
Not Our Finest Hour
It had already been a long day for me working a 12-hour shift with my volunteer ambulance service and then having dinner with my grandparents. When I got home Paul, who is going into his weekend, was up for doing… -
How to Get EVE GTC for (sort of) Free
About a month ago, Paul introduced me to Bitcoins , a form of virtual currency. The mechanics behind how Bitcoins work involves a lot of math and cryptography; if you're so interested, read the Bitcoins FAQ page. Like… -
Macro Miners and Some Ideas
If you haven't already, go have a listen to the most recent Fly Reckless , where our very own Paul is a featured guest. It's pretty funny (shout out to drunk Angus!), but they do cover some serious topics, including… -
Corp Theft Trick: The Long Arm of the Orca
So you've gotten your infiltration alt into a victim corp. They've got Orcas in space which you intend to bump out of the shield and into the hands of your waiting Orca pilot. Upon opening the SMA, you also see a small… -
Sometimes the Bear Eats You
"Sometimes you eat the bear, and sometimes the bear eats you." - Elwin Charles Roe, major league pitcher Paul and I have never made any illusion that we are invincible, amazing players. His best line on this was, "We… -
Graphs Are Nifty!
You may recall the Longest Route contest I did a week or so ago. To my pleasure, Planet Risk has done a nice two-part series with more interesting details about the Eve universe - Living On A Graph . It's a good read,… -
The Longest Route - Winners and Results
Last week I asked for the longest hisec and lowsec/nullsec routes, with a 25M cash prize for the winners of each. The results: Hisec - Jorus to Bashyam , 51 jumps, by Archentar Symonia . It is to be noted that two other… -
How To Choose A System For Ninja Salvage
This question has been asked frequently, so I made this tutorial. -
Make Some ISK, Expand Our Knoweldge
Based on some conversation in The Ninja Alliance, I'm offering two rewards, of 25M ISK each, for the following: 1) The longest hisec to hisec route, by number of hops. This does not include hisec 'islands' which require… -
CCP Finally Doin' It Right
I'm AFK from Eve, but I'm still paying attention to Eve-universe news. Which is why I jumped up and down with joy at this dev blog . Short-range T2 ammo buff? SWEET! Rocket buff? SWEET! Faction ships on regular market… -
The Kind-of Butterfly Effect
Yes, another post today. Well.. it is 1:30 AM here... oh well. I was just doing what I do occasionally to get a good laugh - reviewing old Jerks posts and their comments. I came to my posted guide on corporate… -
Abusing Concord For Fun and Profit
You may have noticed that My Loot, Your Tears has been rather quiet recently. Captain Charismatic is starting a new school semester, Khalia is working a 2nd-shift job, and Paul.... ok, Paul is just lazy. Lacking any… -
Details, Details, Details
We've received an overwhelming response from our readers with offline POSes to shoot - thank you! Keep them coming. If you're going to send them to us, please include: * Solar system, planet, moon * Name of the… -
POS Value Calculator
I got tired of opening Market and then looking up each POS module value, when trying to determine if a POS is worth shooting. So I wrote this excel spreadsheet to do it for me. Simply add the number of modules for each… -
How To Quickly Find An Offline POS
By request, here is my guide to quickly determine if any offline POSes exist in a system, and at which planet and moon they are anchored. As a general tip for finding offline POS towers, remember that POS towers can… -
CCP: Aggro Extension is a Bug. Just say it.
From my most recent exchange with GMs: As we have stated in our replies, what you are referring to is not an advertised or supported feature. It may, at our discretion, in the future be declared an exploit. Current… -
Ask a Jerk: Infiltration Alts, Buddy Invites, and API
A blog reader asks: If you create a 21-day trial with the buddy system, Then activate it with a PLEX (crediting both accounts with the 30days, As I understand it) -- Is there any connection between the accounts that… -
I Love You Guys, In The Totally Gay Way
Paul and I were just discussing our different styles of posting stories on My Loot, Your Tears. In particular we are both highly amused that we often get people giving us grief in the comments section, because they… -
War! Ludi Sacerdotales, Part 2
Part 2 of the war journal isn't going to be nearly as exciting reading as part 1. From our last report, Ludi Sacerdotales had just dropped out of their self-owned alliance to get a 24-hour break from our wardec. Our new… -
This Is Not Right
While CCP are trying to put the magic smoke back in the servers - which apparently are now on a 36-hour downtime instead of a 6-hour downtime - I have been reading the Eve Blog Pack. Mail Lite over at The Beginnings of… -
Vote!
[soapbox] For CSM5, I'd like to suggest you vote for Manalapan . Here is is platform: "I love EVE for the sandbox, the complexity, the player driven market, PVP mentality, but most of all I love it for the lawls. That… -
CSM5 Voting is Underway
Vote now ! It only takes a couple of minutes. My four votes were split between Mynxee and Manalapan . Tchell Dahnn should come back and run for CSM6. Or maybe I will. Hmmm. -
So You Want to Be a Jerk
In September of last year, I resigned as Director of Salvage Operations at Suddenly Ninjas. I was exhausted from the administrative tasks associate with managing NinjaFleets. Frankly, I was tired of tutoring newbie… -
How To Scan For Mission Runners - Fast and Easy
Update, 9/11/2011: Due to changes by CCP to the scanning mechanics, this method is outdated. The basics work, but you will instead want to use EIGHT probes: 7 on north-south-east-west-top-bottom-center, and one more… -
JerkTengu Goes Down: An Important Lesson for Ninjas
Tonight I warped back to a mission bookmark that I had salvaged/looted at a while earlier. It had been closed and cleared, but just as I arrived in my Dramiel, the MR, Soban Vuex, landed in a Vexor and locked me. He… -
Dominion skill changes...
Or: Old farts shaking fists at the those darned kids and how they have it better So there I was grinding away at work (not really I was reading eve blogs and ducking my boss) and Mynxee went and made me hijack Paul's… -
Warning: Using CCP in a scam is uncool.
I received this a few hours ago from "Eve System": 2009.11.01 16:02 This is an official warning for using CCP in an ingame scam. We do not condone using our name in a scam. The offensive text is here, where you falsly… -
Mahna Mahna: A Ninja Scanning Demonstration
This is my first attempt at a YouTube video. What do you think? If feedback is good I'll start recording my carebear ganks and post them as well. -
Ninja Tip: Ship's Crew and other mission objectives
Tonight I was salvaging in Emol under the noses of WTs from the fail carebear alliance that has us under wardec, when I came across an Angel/Sansha Worlds Collide mission being run by two Ravens. Long story short, I…