Contest Submissions - Name Our Meeting Rooms – Round Two!

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Zephyr
Room used for pitching high-concept ideas which are easily shot down by more pragmatic thinkers.

Loki

Because Loki Odinson is just the best. :slight_smile:

TRISTAN

“So, I be workin on dah Ice belts to make the ISK man, but dats just dah day job.

Chu gotta let loose sometimes, and nuthin duz this bettah dan my tricked out candy skinned Tristan! It make me smile every time I call dis one out dah hangah.

ZEF stylin, wit pimp flyin, aint evah no time for dem cryin. I be chewin dem pills and hitten dem boosterz lookin for dat candy crush but I always got me jumpah rdy if dey pop pod pop me.

Win or looz, chu gotta say no worriz man, coz it just be dah circle of life.

Dis, is dah NEW EDEN.”

Hakunah Matatah

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Drone
I know it’s not a ship, but a weapons systems and a region (larger than your stated regions), but lets be honest that’s what happens in meeting rooms.

SIN

I still haven’t flown it myself but am training into it. This ship changed my perspective in EVE and what is possible. I participated in an EVE University Blops fleet where we cyno’d and jumped our way out into Null from Low Sec to see what we could surprise. Scouting is a major fun factor for me and having a scout so far out all alone to set the cyno for the SIN and the rest of the fleet to jump into was a really intense and fun way get some PvP. It requires commitment and trust on a different level because you can’t necessarily just run from a fight that far out into the void. Route planning takes on a new perspective and can create some interesting scenarios if not done correctly with all that expensive hardware. Aside from all that the name is just too good not to use for a room where stealthy plans can be made and surprise events hashed out. My vote goes to the SIN. PS - Everything Las Vegas related must be planned in this room edit - OK, no more Vegas strill plenty of reason to use the name :crazy_face:

Is that you Nexdoom?

Among all the ships in New Eden ships that are available to be used by Omega & Alpha players should be considered.

  1. Gnosis
  2. Praxis

Reason being a new player or a veteran player can fly these sips without any spaceship command skills allowing players to focus on skills such as gunnery, missiles, shield/armor compensation and Drone management.

All ships can be flown without any specific spaceship command skills thus taking less time in overall training.

The better your skill set in these areas will definitely effect you abilities as a capsuleer to shine through no matter whether you plan on doing in EveOnline whether it be Exploration, PVP or mission running.

Miners on the other hand would be better in ships designed for mining yield & ore hold capacity.

Nereus-A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing
Once, long ago in FW space, I came across a lone Nereus loitering around a 'plex acceleration gate. Intrigued, I hailed it’s pilot “What are you doing here, in that?” I asked. “Care to find out?” came the smug reply, along with a duel request. Just what I wanted. I locked him, burned into range, srammed and began cycling my blasters. They tore through his shields. All was going as planned…and then…it happened. In an instant, my capacitor was empty and my shields and armor had fallen prey to relentless drones. I could only watch as my proud Incursus disintegrated into the void of space. That day, I learned that sometimes the hunter, may very well be the prey.

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Phoenix

In mythology, a Phoenix will rise from it’s own ashes after dying. In a way, I feel like that is exactly what CCP is doing is doing right now and why I think it’s fitting. The with the hard work of everyone at CCP, eve seems to be revitalizing in a way that I haven’t seen in years and have given a lot of players a new found confidence both in the future of Eve and in CCP itself. While I might be nervous about the future changes CCP are planning, I am confident they are in a much better position to respond if it doesn’t have the intended effect. Thank you all for your hard work.

Hyperion
“Many solar cycles ago, I had just undergone the capsuleer procedure and was exploring the vast galaxy of new opportunities that had been opened to me. I was heading back to a station after a mining op in my little Venture. Then something happened that would change me forever. As I exited warp, a massive signature suddenly appeared on my scanners. As the interference from the warp died down, I found myself before a massive Hyperion…I was awestruck. As it slowly glided from the station, something within me awakened. “One day, I too will be the proud pilot of such a colossus!” I thought to myself. And to this day, that passion continues to drive me as I write my legacy among the stars.”
-Fuyuki Kisaragi

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Incursus
This feisty little frigate was the first ship that afforded me a proper chance to experience PvP in EVE. It was in this hull that I learned how to properly utilize ambush tactics and brawl other pilots in low sec. And although I did take it into some very unfavorable encounters (such as a 2v1 against a Rifter and Merlin), it surprised me with it’s grit and survivability (I fought off the Merlin, and almost popped the Rifter). To me, this ship represents the beginning of a new chapter in my EVE experience. I hope that as a meeting room, it does the same in representing a place where new ideas and experiences can be crafted for all the pilots of New Eden.

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Venture

The venture is one of the most iconic ships for every EVE player. Is by the way, the most important ship in the game, IMO, cause it’s the start of all players who mine and produce every ship in the game.

Besides. Everyday is an ad-Venture.

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Probe

The humble Minmatar probe is a grwat ship to fly around. Inconspicuous and vulnerable (unlike the infamous trap magnate or heron, which you can evaluate as bait by the lack of a hacking module) it has proven to be an awesome bait ship, helping me rack a lot of unsuspecting Astero trophies across multiple alts.

Its ability to mount an analyzer on top of a decent perma-armor-tank and decent tackle has worked wonders into luring unsuspecting predators into the deadly embrace of its scram, ab and autocannons. Nowadays I just bling them a lot and, with enough patience it can take an astero all by itself.

Catalyst would be my preferred name for a room, this ship has featured through my Eve experience since being reduced to a single catalyst and 20,000 isk as our noobie corp was roundly thrashed and on the run during a war (the leadership had fled and eventually somebody had the sense to surrender!), to growing in confidence and eventually using massed destroyers as a long ranged ganking tool to helping out with newbro fleets and showing the players the versatile nature of combined frigate and destroyers fleets. Small gangs can be great fun and a massed fleet can inflict death by a thousand cuts and take out some big stuff, winning the isk war with lots of giggles! Hitting you from 85k!

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Guardian

Tasked with watching the state of health of all. Quietly performing a vital support role then takes control of the maelstrom when all hell breaks loose.

PDP11 of Burroughs Corporation [51Bit]
Problem and Change Management.

This background information is just for your amusement and to explain my character. It is not meant to be in my 100-150 words…

Starting when I was 15 years old my apprenticeship was in the field of radio and radar. Training included first generation, digital logic with vacuum tube/valve logic gates, flip-flops, mono-stables, etc. Radio systems tended to be located in boiling hot or freezing cold in winter, tin sheds while computer systems were air conditioned. An incentive to move sideways into computer system maintenance.

After some years years I was performing hardware maintenance on Digital Equipment Corporation PDP-11 and VAX minicomputers plus a Burroughs 51-bit, B6700 mainframe. Don’t believe the 51-bits, look it up. Aligning hard drive in front of the chillers meant that in the middle of summer I would be wearing thick woollen jumpers and a coat to keep warm. To buy lunch on a 40 degree, summers day I could walk right across the university camps and back again without raising a sweat.

In the early 1980s my home PCs were a PDP-11 running the RSX-11M multi-tasking operating system plus a VAX-11/750 minicomputer running VMS. At that stage I could interpret microcode, code in various assemblers, BASIC, COBOL, FORTRAN, Pascal and wouldn’t be lost in Algol or Ada. I went back to night school to finish my years 11 and 12 High School education. One subject was computer science and this was centred around flow charts as the school didn’t have any computers for students.

At one stage I was an inspector in materials quality assurance for a large corporate and inherited the local defective materials reporting system which was a flat file with fixed width fields on a mainframe. All staff could do was enter data and get a printout in part number order. No sorting or searching. I asked our headquarters why such a limited system and was told that it was impossible to make changes to the system. Nobody was going to provide somebody as junior as me with an IT budget. IT department was not going to let field staff have an account to program applications on the mainframe. Eventually I was sent on the internal training course to learn how to use a computer terminal. Once I was issued with the certificate that qualified me to use a computer terminal I was issued with my own account to access the mainframe application.

My introduction to science fiction was Heinleins’s Have Spacesuit - Will Travel novel. At work it had just become have command line access will program. Coded some COBOL to make my life easier. Then the programs were taken off me, distributed around the country and headquarters claimed the credit.

By the time the IBM PC had evolved into the 286 AT my section joined the computer revolution and bought a network of CP/M machines. Not my choice. I had previously used Word Master and Word Star on CP/M and I managed to obtain the optional spell checker. This was over the objections of our printed dictionary using local management who couldn’t see any reason for using a computer to spell check a document.

When the network was installed the company generously handed over 10 forms for reporting defects. Life lesson, do not give an area called quality assurance the means to report defects. After about 100 defect reports had been submitted our local management had the option to cancel the existing contract and the company would instead supply a network of IBM AT clones. Needless to say our local management decided to persist with CP/M as it was the way of the future.

The corporation had two drawing offices. One drafting office used a minicomputer system and the other used AutoCAD. The two areas were to be amalgamated but no Manager would select the CAD package so an external consultant was engaged as the ‘Expert’. They recommended AotoCAD then proceeded to sell a number of PCs fitted with every conceivable option into the drafting areas. Problem was the PCs would not reliably work on the Novell LAN. As the LAN a
Catch was they had installed so many unnecessary peripherals that they had run out of interrupts. All backups were performed at the server so PC tape drives were never used. Disabling the tape drives that were not used allowed the Ethernet cards to be configured.

Years later I asked the ‘Expert’ why they had done such a poor job with the AutoCAD PCs and was told they didn’t know any better.

ITIL Problem Manager - Qualified cat herder

phantasm

Not many people seem to use it allot anymore… its to bad! This ship is a masterpiece … A room called this should be the room were the “phantasicm” ideas come from! And the idea”s should be as sharp as the shape of this ship!

This game needs poking from time to time and this ship/room will do the work for you

Much love
MrNoodless

This is my Brutix. There are many like it, but this one is mine.

My Brutix is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it as I must master my life.

Without me, my Brutix is useless. Without my Brutix, I am useless. I must fire my railguns true. I must launch drones faster than my enemy who is trying to kill me. I must shoot him before he shoots me. I will …

My Brutix and I know that what counts in war is not the rounds we fire, the size of our drones, nor the speed of our lock. We know that it is the hits that count. We will hit …

My Brutix is human, even as I, because it is my life. Thus, I will learn it as a brother. I will learn its weaknesses, its strength, its modules, its optimal fits, its align time and its hardpoints. I will undock my Brutix clean and ready, even as I am clean and ready. We will become part of each other. We will …

Before Bob, I swear this creed. My Brutix and I are the defenders of my wormhole. We are the masters of the Sleepers. We are the saviors of my clone.

So be it, until victory is ours and there is no enemy, but peace!

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Ferox
The Ferox has always been one of my favorite ships. I started using it in the earlier days of my Eve career for mission running because it was tough enough to tank those level 3’s I would eventually gain the standings for. I’m also very fond of it as a well-rounded fleet ship with its versatility to be either a brawler or a sniper and it’s ability to fit into various support roles. Finally, its utilitarian and intimidating caldari hull design has always been cause for hesitation when being engaged, which is why I have continued to use it throughout my 9+ years playing Eve Online.

Damnation

Because the name exemplifies CCP’s approach to game design and management.