An interview with a fellow traveller

It's becoming a bit of a habit, which I don't mind at all - interviewing people that I find as I travel around New Eden. I really enjoy this, finding people to interview, and exploring their experiences and their motivations and their goals. Everyone in New Eden has a story, and I love finding out a bit about their story.

Today's interview is with Mercurye, a fellow traveller who I met via the New Eden recruitment forums. One thing led to another, and here's the interview I did with her. I hope you enjoy!

23 tips for surviving lowsec

With TOURING's focus on travel without dying, I'm going to be posting a few articles here and there on how to travel around New Eden without dying. Some articles have been done by me many years ago, but are still relevant today, so I'll be reprinting or rewriting some of them. This is one of those articles.

It's for those of you who want to travel in lowsec (low security space, between 0.1 and 0.4). I know there's a few non-combat oriented pilots that read this blog, and most of TOURING's members are non-combat pilots too. You might have never flown a ship in combat against another pilot, or if you have, you've lost because you didn't know what you're doing. So here's a few tips (ok, a whole bunch of tips!) on how to survive out there.

Touring New Eden is for the hippie space ninjas

Hippie - a person who rejects conventional society to live a life based on peace and love.
Space - the vast emptiness that we call New Eden.
Ninjas - expert practitioners of stealth and evasion.

Hippie Space Ninjas: people who reject conventional society and expectations for a life based on peace and love, living anywhere throughout New Eden, and who are experts at stealth and evasion.

Day 28 - Insmother

Another day... But today is a very interesting new day. You see, last night I learned something that I didn't know before. All this time I've been travelling from system to system, from gate to planet to gate, avoiding catch bubbles along the way. And you know what I learned?

Day 27 - Insmother

So after doing some blog updates and corp administration, I got straight back into it. Let the travels commence!

An interview with the CEO of OUCH

I started playing Eve back in 2006, as Black Claw. Over the years, I've done a lot of things, put my hand into many different ventures. Even started a new character (Alexia Morgan) to focus on a career of covert ops PVP. One of my ventures was creating the Open University of Celestial Hardship (OUCH) to provide noobs and carebears nullsec survival and PVP training.

Don't fall in love with your ship

Many pod pilots get amazingly attached to their ships. It's almost as if their ship is a loved partner or something. They go through elaborate ceremonies with building, naming, and flying their beloved. And then they lose it in act of violent destruction, and their life, for a brief moment, seems like it's come to an end.

An interview with a highsec griefer

One of the things I've enjoyed doing in the past is interviewing people I've met in my travels. I'm going to be doing that again, and my first interview this year is with:

Tenaris Zeratul of the Killmail Crusaders

Latest donations from generous supporters

I can't do this without the support of those who generously donate to help me travel the New Eden cluster. Thanks to them, I can afford to replace my ship should I get attacked and lose it.

I'm trying to get around the entire cluster of more than 5,000 systems without losing the ship. An ambitious goal, I know, but I do think it's achievable.

Day 26 - Insmother

I've been busy. Ever since getting back into my ship I've had to fly from Berta (Derelik) back to where I left off in Insmother. A full 40 jumps back through lowsec and into nullsec.

But it's been a fantastic time! I've had some ideas that I've followed through on while I've been slowly making my way back to where I needed to be.