My Oddyssey Post...

~or, To Journey With The Gods…

OK, I’ma jump on the bandwagon and make me an Odyssey post but… mine is simple, to the point and covers something no one else has (AFAIK)…

You ALL have by now Jumped multiple gates and been variously stunned, awed & amazed… and/or bored, irritated and pissed that you can’t TURN IT OFF. But no matter what your take on it, it is a small Baby Jesus Feature in its own right. It is a sea change in travelling from one star system to another… and IMHO it does tie them together much better than the old Loading Bar.

For me, I found I am ok with them. If you don’t watch every time you jump the transition takes the same amount of time as before, so a net no change and if you do watch, it is visually a vast improvement over a ‘Loading Bar’… I don’t care who you are that is the plain truth. So yea, I like it… it adds no time to my travels and adds Immersion to our 'verse, Kudos CCP…

But, in order for me to take the New Gate Ride I have to leave Bastion first… and that entailed a 3 hop pipe to Lowsec  than put us 4 lows from Hi and a total of 10(ish, don’t remember exactly now) hops from Amarr. Not a bad pipe, not a great pipe, but quiet and so, doable.

I ran my nightly PI. I have not been as anal about my PI as I should and my production chains are suffering for it… but Robos are still getting made daily just not at peak efficiency… (If Mab ever saw my lackluster PI management he’d prolly try to POD me… LOL)

But, I am doing OK, the wallet, while not bursting, is fat enough for any ship losses not covered by SYJ, Robos are still being made and each one is future ISK so I am happy there, and my current Main Project, Tur’s Dual Empire & Anoikis Fleet is on track.

FYI, I am basically making 2 almost mirror fleets, one in Empire and one in Anoikis. My Empire Fleet is geared moar towards Lo and Nullsec roams (Pewage Fleet) and the Anoikis Fleet is geared towards Site Runs, Gas Raids (ISK Support) & Anoikis PvP Fleets.

So, as I said I had completed PI, and I had broke the Amarr HIC skills, so that Devoter sitting in the POS was now ready to be fitted out, which I did... and after that I was contemplating whether to run the pipe for fuel or a fleet addition when it occurred to me not once had I heard one damn thing about wormhole transitions… The Gates got the love, did my beloved wormholes?

I decided as I had done a half month of fuel runs a few nights ago I would shuttle down the pipe to get a new ship and see what I would see…

And see I did. First, I had spent no time checking out the changes to Dscan while in Bas as I was facefirst in the PI screens and then in PYFA and multiple screens... Ship Fitting/Cargo Bay/Hangar Bay/etc. … I get the Devoter done to my satisfaction, run a quick sea trial, christen and park her, jump inna shuttle and I’m off to the static.

Now I get my first real look at the Dscan changes… Huh… Ummm… well…. OK. It’s… ok. It is a big change from what I have grown comfortable and used to, but it does have its allure. Then, during the warp to the Static I see why I do like it. Immersion.

You see while so much more info is up on screen it is in real time and reflects your changing location insystem as you fly from place to place. OK, now that I do like… it’s like when CCP aligned the Gates and rebuilt the whole damn sky so as you moved gate to gate your references in the sky were correct… you felt as though you really were travelling as the scenery changed in relation to your travel. Now, with the new Dscan Returns on screen we have the same Immersion insystem. Yes, I like.

OK, I land on the hole… and jump… D A M N.

Not ONLY is it New & Improved but… it is NOT a Gate Fire jump down that long, dark, nimbus & lightning walled tunnel… OH NOE!!!!  It is, IMHO, FAR FAR better!!

Don’t believe me? See for yourself…

As you can see we aren’t ‘thrown’ billions of kilometers and thousands or millions of lightyears from gate to gate like a Templar Pro Baseball players implant and biomech enhanced ‘burn-the-cover-off-the-ball’ pitch… oh no… we transition gracefully, in an almost godlike transcendence from one realm of Einsteinian 3-space to the next… so beautiful… so very beautiful…

Gate jumping is a forceful transition through hyperspace, powerful and scary (and fun!)…

Wormhole jumping… is akin to travelling with the Gods…

Thank you CCP. I, a mere immortal, your most humble and unworthy scribe… withdraw all complaints.

Fly Safe and see you in the Sky  =/|)=