Essentials, Let's go live.

Så er det tid til at gå live med essentials. Det har taget sin tid at komme igennem det hele, ikke fordi det er mig selv der sidder med configurationen. Faktisk er det lykkes mig at udlicitere netop denne opgave. Og dettte har givet nogle sjove problemer.

Dem der kender mig ved jeg efterhånden er en rimelig gammel konservativ gut, hvilket clasher meget med den moderne tankegang om at sparke noget sammen, slam bam, launch.

Med hensyn til Bukkit og essentials er min sædvanlige metode med at forstå det hele til bunds også lave den korrekte løsning i første hug bare ikke realistisk, enten er jeg for gammel og langsom, eller også er tingene for indviklede (lol).

Efter noget der ligner et par måneder har min samarbejdspartner og jeg fået sendt en zip pakket fil via nettet, redigeret i filerne, og jeg sidder nu og laver en backup af testserveren, inden jeg smider produktet på. Til ligningen skal tilføjes at vi jo er på hver vores platform og tidsalder tror jeg. Serveren er selvfølgelig java, men det ligger i en standard Windows filstruktur, hvilket vist ikke bare er når man snakker MacOS, hvilket også har en del problemer med pakkeværktøjer. Eller også ligger blockaden i hvordan vi behandler vores filer.

Oveni dette dukkede der et problem op med at Essentials vist ikke bare er at smide på en FTB bukkit (MCPC+) pga de mange plugins der laver nye itemIDs og det begyndte at lyde til at der skulle laves nye java filer, altså at konfigurationen var helt ned i Dev niveau. Den nuværende test er original udgaven og jeg satser på det virker. ellers lander jeg nemlig i at jeg selv må gøre det hele, hvilket bliver en vanskelig opgave med mine rådighedstimer:  Don't disturb me, please.

Alt i alt ser det dog ud til at have været en succes i sidste ende. Synes faktisk min howto video her er okay til folk der ikke har prøvet det før, lige bortset fra jeg let og elefant springer over hele turen med at lave selve permission setuppet, men det ved jeg så heller ikke voldsomt meget om jo.

Back in the Mack

So after a good sprint in the mission running circles I find my self back in the mackinaw.
For a while I took good please in not having to worry about the plex status, and then things seems to have blown up. Literally.

Back in my old mining system and sector in general a new entity have grown into strength, to the point where they excerpt influence. The Order they call them self.

Their main purpose publicly is to cleanse the high sec system of afk miners as they say.
Now anyone mining in a barge or exhumer, frankly mining in general would know that the activity is not something you stare at. You set the lasers and start doing the stuff you'd like to do, like market stuff, of general social interaction and this leaves your ship vulnerable.

Usually that's no problem as you quickly learn how to tank the local denizens of blood raiders and the like, and you start having faith in Concord to uphold the law.

What these guys do is they specialize in fitting gank ships, mostly destroyers as they are cheap and can deal a devastating punch. Of course they usually get popped by concord, the trick is to survive for the Police to show up. This is normally doable with a decent tank, yet when sec levels get too low the Concord response is too slow and they achieve to fire that last shot they pops your boat.

A mack will cost you some 250-300m to get and fit, add clone costs and implants. All looking good on a isk killboard, but it's like hunting cows... The target is mostly defenseless (any retaliation will cancel the concord inbound), The barges are big and slow, they don't sorta run away. And usually the pilot is occupied with a good bunch of active windows.

Let me link them up here: The New Order

As you can quickly see these people are the basic griefers, yet their actions are legit. I've had a few chats with agents of their order, and I have trouble figuring out if they believe their bullshit or it's merely their excuse?

The effects of what they are doing is they drive off the mineral miners, which has a fun effect on prices, as no one are mining it. Yet that is their goal. I don't really know and I really should think too much about them. Ignoring them is the best weapon against them, as they seek attention first and foremost.

What do you think of this type of lifestyle?