CSM voting begins; Not sure who to vote for?

CSM voting has now begun.

If you are struggling to find the right candidate for your votes then take a look at Vote Match. Created by Dierdra Vaal it has been designed to help you match your own views with the views of the candidates.

I'd stress looking deeper into the campaign material of your potential candidate but it is certainly an excellent little tool for getting a quick first look at who is following your own train of thought, and of course who is not.

Busy days

It's been a rather busy few weeks here both in Shadows and for me at home.

In game my corp has just held its first official AGM's, prompting much debate, discussion and planning. I myself have been busy pimping around with recruitment as well as working on a new medal system for the corp (I do so love all that pointless but fluffy stuff). Our first new members are getting settled in although I was surprised to see one had left the corp unexpectedly within just a few days. Upon checking my mail I found a message from him explaining that in a moment of drunkenness he tried to remove himself from a fleet... but removed himself from the corp instead, and could he please come back. I have a funny feeling he's going to fit in just fine around here.

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A blatant plug

Yes yes a crass usage of my deep and inspiring blog platform to promote a corp. But I'm the Recruitment Director what do you expect eh?

Actually my reason for posting something on here is far more selfish than that. It gives me a place to show off the above artwork. I spent 4 hours on it, getting it just right. Our corp logo was re-imagined and created from scratch. I trawled screenshots to get ones that would go just right. The strap lines at the bottom giving a lighthearted Gallente Federation RP edge to the scene. I proudly showcased my work on our forum, hoping it would be approved by the other directors to use in our official Eve forum recruitment post - only to have it likened to a tampon advert... bleh.

So I started again, stripped it all down to the bare bones and created a new piece of "art" in less than 5mins which, I think, says a lot about our corp. It also stars our very own CEO.

Want to see how it looks? >>Well here is the final advert<<

If I knew then what I know now…

This post is in response to the EVE Blog Banter #16 question from ChainTrap of the Into the unknown with gun and camera Eve Blog. He asked: What do you wish that someone had taken the time to tell you when you were first starting out? Or what have you learned in the interim that you'd like to share with the wider Eve community?"

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Intermission

Wow! Have had some lovely initial feedback, from friends and strangers alike. So thank you very much everyone, I shall endeavour to continue as I have started.

I have quite a stack of posts developing (does anyone else wake up in the night with new ideas and have to write things down?!) though I am wary of burning myself out. I think an update a week is a good start unless say I get the killing blow on a Titan and feel the need to brag about it...

My PC is crying out for an upgrade so I'm tied up with that for a few days. In the mean time I thought I would share some exclusive top secret artwork related to DUST 514...

Enjoy! ;-)

The meaning of Faction War

So the endless debate on plexing rages on…

For me Faction War is all about the pilots & corps who fly in it. That is all that really matters.

Many people assume that FW is a bunch of newbies flying around in T1 frigates and destroyers - OK sure that’s how a lot get started however it is seriously short sighted to believe that this is all that FW is all about.

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