dead and buried?

Well dear readers another 2 weeks have gone by since my last post. Where is my life going too? I am once again extremely busy with work so that is having a knock on effect with the amount of time I can spend within entropia and hence the amount of time promoting 100sweat2ahangar. Today whilst I was promoting it in twin I came across Ben Milky Allen.

Who it turnds out is not only doing the same redpaperclip idea as myself he is doing EXACTLY the same goal 100 sweat into a hangar. Now i'm not sure whether to be flattered by this or feel a little off about it.

Anyways, the guy approahced me in twin with the simple question "why?". Obviously this threw me for a second. It turns out he believes my own quest was dead and buried long ago and wasn't even sure I was the originator of it. He did say that we should both team up but I declined this and wished him luck in his own efforts to trade up to a hangar.

I want to assure all you people out there that this is a long term quest and is still very much alive. One of the main reasons behind me not actively promoting it as much recently is the belief that my current trade item (full makeover by sorg) will only really be tradeable after the next vu when the new avatar enhancement eengine is introduced.

A rather shocking experience

Well dear readers it's been a few days since what I am about to post about happened. I have pretty much calmed myself down now. A few days ago I was out mining near Akmuul. I was perilously close to the contaminated zone whilst I was marking out an area I felt would yield me a decent find. During the course of this I see on the horizon another colonist running towards me chased by a flying drone.

He brings the drone over to me so it starts attacking me and begins to run away again. Irritated by this manouvre I think what a git.So I proceed to run it back to him. Needless to say I stepped over the contaminated zone boundary where in an instant the guy then turned around and shot me. I was stunned and furious with myself for being so stupid. I am still shocked at the underhand way I was robbed. I know a lot of you readers will dispute the severity of the term robbed saying that it's part of the game etc and you shouldn't be near pvp4 blah blah. Personally I agree that it is part of the game. However, I still believe it is robbery. Always have always will. What surprises me though is there was no global message saying I was killed in combat and looted for xyz. Now this should have happened since I was carrying close to 100 ped loot which consisted of a XII ganga find and a X lysterium find if memory serves along with several other bits and bobs. ALL of which was mined OUTSIDE of pvp4. Therefore the argument "well you took the risk" just does not wash with me here. If i'd mined in pvp4 and been shot I would curse myself for a fool and just shrug my shoulders and "accept" being robbed. However, like this it just leaves a bitter taste in my mouth. Thankfully it was for such a low amount it really isn't worth worrying about.

A trip to the Lakes.

Yesterday the weather was so nice we decided to head to the lakes. Soon enough, we found ourself in the idyllic setting of Lake Windermere. The views were breathtaking as we began approaching Windermere. Finding a parking space wasn't as easy as it sounds! 15 minutes and 2 wrong turns later we finally found a patch of grass 10 minutes' walk from the lake itself. Our day comprised of walking along the lake and we also had a nice meal in a period home turned restaurant. We then decided to head for a lake cruise and chose the Blue Cruise, which is a 45 minutes' spin around the islands. Beautiful water, glorious skies, friendly people waving as we glided past, it was all perfect. However, halfway through, a cloud overshadowed the sun and things got a little chillier. This was a prompt for MIL (mother-in-law) to harp on about going below decks because it was "cold". We didn't allow her to and eventually the sun
re-appeared and all was well. We even had war planes doing menouvres over our heads as we sailed along! As we were sailing we saw this mountain.

I said to the wife "I should tp across and drop a bomb. Bet there are some nice resources there!"

After returning to land, we had a little walk around the shops by the lake, stuffed our faces with ice-creams and picked up a few postcards for FIL (father-in-law). We then stopped off at the amusements before heading back to the car. It was a breath of fresh air to find games costing 10p a go. It brought back a few memories of seaside towns I used to visit as a child! It even had one of my favourite games. The kentucky derby! So while I amused myself for about 10 minutes spending £1 on these machines the Mrs spent £1 for two minutes on House of the Dead 4! Still... she put up a heroic fight, drilling through the undead and shaking them off until her own dying breath. What a girl.

A strange signal...

Just a quick post to share with you readers something that I didn't even know could happen! I slipped onto eu this morning to drop a few bombs before going up to the lakes and hit a spaceship. Now the strange thing is It was udner water! I never knew that could happen. But hey you live and learn. At least the drones drowned so it was easy to loot :)

I thought i'd snapped a screenshot but it looks like I didn't :(

The funniest thing!

Well here I go again. I had just written a really long post. Decided I wanted the wife to edit it so highlighted it but before I could copy it it just vanished! "Damn" I thought. Then I realised phew there's a auto save feature it will be there at least even if I means having to rewrite the last few lines. I go into the autosaved bit only to find the post empty! It must have autosaved again after wiping the whole post :o(

What I was hoping to do dear reader is share a very funny episode that happened to me last night whilst out mining. I had decided to visit Palms Corner with the idea of seeking out some zinc.

Upon my arrival there I discovered a purple dot on my radar. It turned out a soc mate had already mined up there. Now I am not a great believer in "you shouldn't mine where other miners have just mined" So I headed SE and started to drop some bombs. Within a few bombs I hit a X zinc find (it may even have been a XII I forget now). Anyway I extract this find pleased with the start and continue on my way. After several more bombs my wife calls me over for dinner. So I log off to go eat.

After relogging in I find a avatar 50-100m in front of me who within a couple of bombs hits a zinc global. I think to myself "would I have hitten that global?". After all it was in my mining path and I would have covered that area. I shrug my shoulders knowing I will never know the answer and begin to mine. I am heading in the same direction I was going before going to dinner which happens to be in the same direction the other avatar was heading.

This avatar (hally I believe) says in global chat "that's so uncool". I'm like "eh?". It turns out hally doesn't believe I should be mining anywhere near him/her and begins a tirade about it. I point out the fact that I was here before him/her and only left to have dinner. This seems to have no effect upon them and they continue to whinge and gripe. I am sat at my keyboard almost in tears i'm laughing so hard. The conversation ends in the lamest of ways. Hally says to me "pity it's not pvp so we could settle this". I just think to myself. Settle what? I never claimed to have a better hunting avatar than him/her or better weaponry. So what is there to settle? What would pvp prove? He/she is the one with the problem.

Return from CND

Well dear readers it is sad to say a lost pretty much everything bar my shirt on CND. I in fact only left myself with enough peds to be able to fly back down with. Even then I was tempted to go spend this and if ned be sweat the cost of the flight down! Thankfully I resisted and made the trip back down.

I just don't know what it is about me and CND. Maybe my avatar is not skilled enough. Maybe the technique I use planetside doesn't work quite as good on CND. WHo knows? Only MA have the answer and they are not saying.

After landing planetside side I raided my storage and sold a lot of my rainy day stock. Enough to buy me a oa101 and 200 bombs and set off into the wilderness. With 25 bombs left of the trip I got the feeling I was ready to global. So I said in soc chat "with these last 25 bombs I will hit a global" or words to that effect. Well I was beginning to think that my prediction would prove false. I stood looking at my last bomb for a moment thinking "how did I not global?" ran forward a little dodged to the left dropped and then BOOM! I hit the following with it:

Only a small one I know but a global none the less. At the end of the day several hundred bombs 1 global 1 large and quite a few X and IX finds later I found myself roughly 200ped up again after markup. It makes no sense to me. Plaentside ore mining I usually at least break even and profit. occassionally i'll make a small loss and very occasionally a big loss (usually when i'm testing new mining theories or doing enmatter too!).

Speaking of which I decided to test someone elses theory out after reading it on ef. I tp'd over to Treasure Island north tp and headed a little NW. Facing West I dropped a bomb and then ran forwqard for 100M and dropped another bomb. I kept doing this without extracting any finds several more times until finally I turned South ran for 150m dropped a bomb turned E and began dropping every 100m. After covering the area I went back to extract my finds (very few of them I may add). On the way to the first one I was wondering "hmm what would double bombing do?" So I began to double bomb. On my second to last bomb I hit a XII cobalt find. Now this baffled me. After all it is in an area already previously covered by my bombing! Oh well best not to dwell on it to much.

Yesterday was my wife's birthday so my Entropia time was limited. Hopefully tomorrow will bring that all elusive tower not that I have finally maxed out the of-105...

PS anyone with a reasonably priced Z20 give me a shout!

PPS The more astute of you may find my last post is a little easier to read and a little bit different to this and previous posts of mine. This is because the length of my last post was such I decided to get my wife to edit it for me to make sure it flowed with the correct punctuation as my grammar gets worse every day!