I present to you another pretty gallery.  It is incomplete and is bound to be updated as the week progresses, so check back everyday!

You have probably never seen these pictures before, but they are all taken from the Singularity server!

Plus, it’s all alphabetized!

Enjoy once more, and click to be delighted.

Oh by the way, there are exactly 99 pictures!

Acceleration Gate

Armor Repairer

Asteroid Fields

Autocannons

Cans (Giant, Jet – 2, Large)

Character Selection Screen

Cloaks (Gate – 2, Module – 2)

Concord Billboard

Cyno

Note the Anshar is enveloped in a bubble from the cyno circle.

Drones (Neut – 3, Shield Bot – 5)

Note that screenshot #1 has 3 different sized bots, and the #2 is all small bots.

Drones Pop

Electronic Warefare Effects

Energy Transfer Array

Engine Effects

Note the flare from the afterburners and microwarpdrives are more noticeable.

Fitting Window

Jump Effect

Note it is similar to the cyno effect, the ship is enveloped in a bubble.

Lasers

Loki Strategic Cruiser

Login Screen

Magnate

Note that it’s not as good of a looking ship as it was.

Mining Laser

Note that in my opinion, mining still sucks with shinier graphics

Mixed Effects

Neut Effects

Proteus Strategic Cruiser

Railguns (Large – 2, Small – 4)

Self Destruction

Sensor Booster

Shield Booster

Note shot #3 is zoomed out, and the effect is still visible.

Shield Hardener

Shield Transporter

Star

Note Casiella Truza had requested I take a picture of a star.

Star

Tengu Strategic Cruiser

Note that most of them look like a variation of the Drake and the name reminds me of a penguin.

Tractor Beam Effects

Warp Effects

Wormhole Effects

Note that on SiSi, it seems that they are spawned at almost every POS just as an effect and cannot be activated. And yes, that is the new POS bubble, not a moon, and again, yes, there are two unpiloted dreads sitting in the bubble.

I might run missions a lot and you may see me play around with my friends, but if you screw me over you will regret it. If you contact me for help on your mission and later don’t split the loot, I’ll come out, probe you down, and pop your ass.

Alright, now that the informalities are done with, hello, I’m Tonglil; also know as EVE’s Weekend Warrior.

Primarily, I grew up to a family working for the Caldari Navy, my dad is an ex-CovOps pilot and my mother was a Navigation Officer in Command aboard a Widow Class ship. Ironically they both did espionage and spy work behind enemy lines avoiding fire, while I prefer to get right in my foe’s face.

My dad is living in Nonni now after retiring, my mother passed away when I was 12 during an assignment to bridge forces for surveillance in a part of 0.0 close to this constellation. I have a very good job with my agent in Umokka, who always seems to acquire and give me the best missions in the region. I can earn a fair share of good money from these tasks and it’s always good to keep the nice Caldari space clean and non-infested by pirates.

I told my agent I need less stress around this time of the year and he understands. Sometimes he would contact me about a great mission before suggesting it to the other pilots lining outside of his doors. I appreciate him for that, but I am trying to acquire more funds for my expeditions with the industry sides of the universe.

But yes, if you do mess with me, expect to lose something; either your mission wrecks, your ship, or your way of income.

I have lots of friends…

Or not.

A Spark of Idea

As it is the usual Saturday afternoon, the three of us in my corp (Saft, Zoe, and I) sat in the corp chat channel discussing ship setups, plans, and researching something that was of the unknown.  Sooner or later, these conversations would lead us to an op; either missioning, can flipping, or very rarely, a mining op.  That night, however, was different.  As Saft questioned me about CovOp ships and other information on probing, this idea about ninja-salvaging came into his mind.

Ninja-Salvaging

He was training Astrometrics when he remembered the time we were ninja-salvaged from and he suggested we do the same thing.  I was at Astro. 3 and could use my probe launchers and 2 of the 5 recon probes.  Good enough.  Saft asked me to explain more on this subject to him and so I did; it was to scan down in a system any CNR’s, Ravens, and other missioning ships, then warp in on them and steal their salvage while they sit there helplessly.  It sounded like it’s a pretty fun way to get a few million eh?

Setting it all in Motion

Saft and I loaded up in our special new ship setups, and with our special ships they fit just perfectly!  These Manticore stealth bombers do the trick just perfect.  Enough space for salvaging as well as enough CPU for those probe launchers!  Undocking threw us out and we formulated a few plans.  First, find some spots in the system so we can get good cover with out probes.  At the time, I could only use the Fathom and Snoop probe, and Saft could only drop the Snoop.  So every 10AUs or so we bookmarked and dropped a  probe, and once half of the system was covered, we scanned.  This was my first time so I acted very noob, scanning for Cosmic Anomalies and Cosmic Signatures with recon probes.  A good waste of 5 minutes but hey, a lesson was learned.  Next up I finally remembered what someone said to me, “scan for ships!”.  No doubt, this next scan brought me a lot of results!

Yum Yum

We found 3 deadspaces marked by CNRs (Caldari Navy Ravens) on our first scans, and immediately after I start salvaging in one, I pressed analyze again.  While the computers were sweeping the system looking for ships, I blasted the afterburner and hurtled towards a what seemed to be a large Guristas wreck and as soon as I got into a range of 5000m, I activated all 3 of my Salvager Is.  One my first run I was successful, yes!  Saft flew in beside me into the complex and began his salvaging.  At this same time, Zoe became interested in what we were doing and decided to observe us and tag along in his Buzzard.  We hadn’t even noticed where he was when he told us he was right there beside us, thanks to his CovOps cloak that enabled him to warp unseen.

More of Us

Wow, there was quite the bit of people also ninja-salvaging.  During our time so far, we had met about 3 other ships trying to get and salvage what they can.  Of course, we were faster and managed to get to the salvage faster and pull the materials out quicker.  Thank goodness for lots of high slots and good skills, I think today’s work will pay off very well…

One Down, Two Left

On accident, Zoe pressed warp on an acceleration gate and was slung into the next room of the deadspace.  Once he arrived, all the space debris around him decloaked his ship and then the enemies began to shoot on him.  The debris that decloaked him also bumped the Buzzard around and the warp vector he was trying to go to did not align with his ship.  A few seconds later, the frigate became a blue flash in the sky and he was left in his pod.  A distress signal was sent to Saft and I and we began evacuation procedures right away.  When Saft warped in with his Manticore, he got shot before he could retrieve Zoe’s belongings so he had to make an emergency dock… at a station without any repair mechanics!  A quick message was sent to a private contractor and in less than 10 minutes, his ship was repaired and ready to go again.  While Saft missed his goal, I was able to switch out of the stealth bomber for a speedy interceptor and zipped over to Zoe’s wrecks, grabbed everything I could and got the heck out of there!

Two Down, One Left

Okay, after that first incident, Saft and I split up and Zoe left for a while.  During this time, I happily salvaged about 4 more deadspace pockets before Saft told me he was shot down.  Oh dear, what happened this time?  The transmission between us two kept cutting out, but eventually I found his wreck and retrieved his stuff.  Probe launcher, probes, some salvage; hey, most of the good stuff survived!

Let’s Call it a Day

T’was getting late, ships were being blow up, voices grew tiresome, and a good chunk of salvage has been found.  Zoe retired a long time ago and Saft decided to go dock up, adjust some orders and finish his routines.  As I headed back to the station, I scanned one more time to see one last time if there are any delicious stuff still laying around.  Bingo, a hit with a Drake, a Nightmare, and a Cormorant!  Tired, but I though I could do this one last one as if there were more than two people doing a mission, then sure had to be full of salvage!  I took off to the location and when I landed, I saw the Nightmare tractoring loot in for salvage and loot.  Quickly I turned on the afterburners and caught up to it.  Before he could even get another cycle on the salvage, I yoinked them from his grasps and he broadcasts into the local channel demanding I give him his stuff back.  Like I always do, I ignored his request and keep going.

The Waiting Game

His friends must have warped out of the next room because as soon as I got the last wreck, they warped into the first, already cleared room.  A guy named Beepus started a private message conversation with me and I replied:

Beepus: u want this stuff m8? go for it, u warp in and tank for us and u can keep the stuff
Me: Nah, i’ll let you tank!
Beepus: hows ur patience tank m8?
Me: Good, it’s a slow sunday afternoon so i’m pretty chill.
Beepus: well good man, i got so much pot and alcohol and powders we coulod be here for a week ;)
Me: Cool stuff.

Looks like he wanted to wait.  Alright then, no problem with me.  Then after a while when his patience got to him, he said:

Beepus: for sure, u obvuioulsy not 13.. that gives u a few plus points
Beepus: ok ur boring, we going thru the gate gonna clean up, dont know what ur doing
Beepus: u smoke or drink?

I was doing some maintenance on the ship so I didn’t bother to respond to him*.  I have lots of patience!

Hurry Into the Pod

I ran towards my pod as the ship began to buckle; I had to act quick to survive.  The crew has already scramble for whatever was available or left and just as I jumped into the little egg, the ship exploded; the second blue flash I saw today.  So this Beepus guy hired a mercenary and both of them suicide killed me with Caracals.  Hehe, I laughed and went back to the station to grab my Crow again.  In no time I was able to warp back and loot all three ship’s wrecks while his friend in the Nightmare just sat there looking at space.  Hey, I got some pretty nice stuff; my ship was uninsured because T2 insurance is just corrupt; there were T2 heavy missile launchers and various other good stuff!

The Final Act

Done and done, finally.  Lost my ship but tonight covered all expenses.  It was a super fun night and after signing some contracts, I made for my quarters.

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*I actually wasn’t working on the ship, but rather alt-tabbed out doing some homework…  That is another lesson learned in the same day; EVE is not a game to be played in AFK mode!

Even before I got my Crow, lately it’s just been a lot of cruising around in belts looking for Guristas and doing some small complexes that are not empty. I guess it’s fun for the first bit while, but then it gets really redundant.

Then I tried to spice things up by flipping cans, waiting for can flippers, and taking wrecks hoping someone would engage in a 1 vs 1 battle with me. So far that hasn’t been working out very well either.

Other than that, here is a small list of past events:

• Had scouting help from Zoe for a hauling route through some low sec systems to retrieve my order of tritanium with my Badger Mark II.
• Almost got a kill in Akiainavas (Moa) with my Crow but he got out of warp scramble range, which is 24km, for some reason. Almost had him, he was down to 20% hull. Then we were able to recruit a new corp mate who is an active miner.
• Me and Zoe joined in on a mining operation with our good friends over in the Kul corporation and at the end, Saft surprised me and interrupted me when he brought in his cloaked Manticore.
• Then our corp did some little PVP and had some fun flying our ships
• The corp did a few missions for fun times.
• Went and tried to gang flipped cans. We first tried to lure other people to us by dropping our own can with minerals in it. Not a lot of people tried to steal our containers so we stole from others. Very good operation for a first fleet flip.
• Received another new corp mate
• Back to level 4’s with Saft, Zoe, and Busta. Yay!

Ya, that’s what I do, besides throwing up some sell orders and contracts.

I also wanted to share with you guys on how things have been going and to present to you some of the beautiful scenery of EVE online!

Jita:

Missioning:

Can Flipping:

Ratting

Mining:

So training to level 5 in Caldari frigate took 10 days even with some implants. Now I must train for electronic upgrades to level 5. Yesh, how long will it take to get a stealth bomber?

Anyways, sorry for the afk-ness. I was on vacation for the past week. A little journey into the Canadian Rockies.

Before I left, I set 17 orders of large quantities that could be considered to be fairly expensive in the marketplace. Now that I have returned, the wallet got a boost from 30 million to 110 million. How the heck did that happen? I estimated I would have had a profit of 40 million. But 80 million, 2x, that’s cool!

Now with that money I will be able to afford a stealth bomber, maybe go do some level 3 missions. I have not done those since I lost my Drake a few weeks back. Oh that Drake will be missed.

After getting a Manitcore, my plans are to start the training for an interceptor. It’ll be another long training session, ugh.