So the deal with POS Pinata Day is that EvE is implementing a change to the way that player-owned towers are going to be fueled, and PPD is the date on which the towers will switch over to the new fuel (which is actually a Soylent Green style fuel cube composed of all the little fuel bits we used to have to feed into the tower separately).
Anyway, the theory is that people take breaks from MMOs, and that some of those people own Towers, and that some of those towers are out in wormhole space and, when the fuel switch-over happens, will suddenly be without power and, thus, without force fields.
So come the day of the switch, lots of wormhole dwellers (and those in other parts of EvE, I’m sure) are planning to jump from system to system looking for magically-offlined towers, fragile and filled with loot.
We planned that as well.
There were just two things we hadn’t considered.
Our pilots put in a lot of extra effort in the recent system-defense shenanigans, and now that that’s no longer an ongoing issue, we have some non-EvE things that need our attention. Yes, we’re all fairly certain those pilots will be back, and continue to habitually hit d-scan whenever we see any of them log in, but for now things are back to normal, and we have other priorities to see to.
2. Searching through a bunch of systems for offline towers requires a lot of wormhole-crashing.
Do we poke around a couple of wormholes? Sure, but when we find nothing valuable in the first constellation of systems and the time comes to roll our current class-two connection and start over, we sort of decide we have better things to do.
In this case, that means getting into various fast frigates and drag-racing each other while one of our pilots shoots at everyone with a hurricane. Sounds kind of silly, but we could honestly use some silly right now.
There’s no big jackpot and no big explosions, but everyone’s on and having some fun together, so I have no problems at all chalking it up as a good night.
I feel like commenting on your blog after reading all of the Eve related posts in one day is necessary. I have been traveling though countries without proper internet access or a computer capable of doing more then just updating my skills for the past six months; and for the last month I have really been missing Eve. Whenever I find somewhere with good internet I am always on r/eve looking up the latest news and the crucible update is making me salivate. Finding your blog has helped with the cravings a little bit and it is making me want to try wormholes when I get back. A large benefit to this trip concerning Eve is I will have nine whole months of training to play with when I get back, only three more months to go. Keep up the good work, you aren’t making me lose my mind at all. 😛