Having a day off from my day job, pulled a morning shift today. Said hello to some great pilots including MiG-9, Kunzite, James.Corbin, Shooter, robinson, Zathos, Viraxo, and the deadly ]bd[Miyamoto.Musashi.
Thoroughly enjoyed the great role-play by the dreaded Lane Hacker Chris.Bellerd and his holiness [TAZ]The.Southern.Dream.
Was also nice to share the noob helping duties with [Helper]Deadline.
A minor incident with a pilot trying his hand at "rule lawyering", thankfully he didn't go far down that path to nowhere.
Got on for an hour this evening to help out as it's been way too long. Sat around Harrisburg for the majority of the time helping numerous people out with their queries. Gave a bit of advice to The.Caravan on how to set up his own media empire, sorted out a small issue of rule enfringement (or however you spell it) for a guy called Jack.Carter. Aaaaaaaand directed a Bounty Hunter called Tracker-Daniel.Arrows to the best place to drown in Alcohol on Erie.
Well, I pulled a bit of a shift tonight.
Despite the amount of time spent in-game, little of note really happened.
Enola.Gay and I tried to solve the Adventure of the Malvolent Freeport - that is, Bethlehem base. It kept shooting at everyone. It lay there in the depths of space, crouching beneath the glowering, flickering orange planet above. Any ships in range it would shoot at, like a hydra lashing out in its death-pangs. A noble Cruiser and two Gunboats took it upon themselves to charge the station, most valiantly attacking the beast head-on, with a flurry of missiles, ion pulses, and blue laser gun thingies. They passed the station, broadsiding it - and it kept firing at them! They moved past it, out of range, and circled around again, charging once more into the breach!
That time around, dear friends, the breach was closed up by Libertonian bodies.
Namely the Cruiser and consorts, which quite literally wedged themselves into Bethlehem.
Aaaaaaand once we were done cleaning up that mess, I had a chance to help out an aspiring miner - a certain Dr.Blargh. I ended up sending him down into Rheinland to mine Cobalt - should be safer and less stressful than anything that goes up to Kusari.
And no one was able to figure out how a raven is like a writing desk.
Next time, I guess.
Server's still not as busy as it usually is.
Suspect it'll become more busy once the IP gets patched in.
Hey Sprolfie, good to see you pull a shift. After shining up my halo I punched the time clock and headed into New York. Am happy to report I was quite busy.
I met, chatted with, and/or helped out the following groovy pilots: Barney_Quinn, Tam, Hell.Hunter, DD.Inc]Shipping.01, Zeleni.Barun (this chap actually shot at my ship well I helped a pilot with a transfer), X-Vault, Easy.To.Detect, Secret, Berny|Sails (nice fellow for a pirate), Aluwulf, Phil.Benford, and John.Rowan.
Had a long chat with the evil Shade. He's also a nice fellow deep down.
Watched a nice battle with Long.John.Silver. He's quite handy in a gunboat until he's pawned by a profusion of Liberty indie capital ship pilots.
I did lots-o-stuff. Helped with equipment transfers, assisted with character creation, advice about jumphole and battleship locations, gave out a few credits here and there, and long discussion on Das Wilde, their role-play, and best strategy for becoming one of those vile creatures of death.
Had a great chat with RM Hans Putzkammer. Helped pilots including Lynxifer, CAP_LONG, Propok, Lexiol, LSF Junko Zane, Engelbaine, and Lyza.T.
Assisted with freighter upgrade options, sell location of the Barracuda, ore sell locations and prices (little rusty with this), gave out some credits, lots of great roleplay. Educated a pilot new to the server on roleplay when I saw a lot of game chat in the system channel.
Helped [1st]Jimmy.Patterson help a player having forum trouble. Seems his parents blocked access to the Discovery websites. Recommend talking to his parents or running down to the local public library to access the forums.
Had a great time watching Jack.Scott and -IPG-Scorpio attempt to rob a hapless miner flying a BWT in Pennsylvania. After a failure to communicate with said miner, Jack introduced him to his supernova cannon. Was a short discussion after that point.
Pulled a shift today, ran a quiz for a while about the server rules, allowing under level 30's to win up to 5 million.
Worked pretty well, one guy was a tad ungrateful. Had a lot of help from a fellow called Zoner.01 who was passing by though, so his bank balance mysteriously increased by a couple of million credits.
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