In-Game Events and Gatherings

I'm still discovering wonderful things about Blink!

I want to thank you for the Jump Freighter I won for saving bottle caps (or was it tokens?) because any way you look at it - it was free! I like free.

My friends who play Eve have been sending me mixed signals about being involved with a "lottery", as we have seen so many come and go when the their scam folded over the years. I think I have them all convinced now that Blink is on the level. They know about my wierd connection to statistics as I have always been the one who turned raw data into charts and bar graphs for our web pages. One year, all their birthday cards contained bar graphs on the previous year's alcohol/coffee consumption, hours of golf/fishing, number of lies about golf/fishing, and several other categories of things old guys do, or don't do very much any more. The last bar was a double with half being the total number of seconds of romance during the previous year and second half was the total number of hours claimed to have been involved in romantic behavior. The wife filled out those bars. Anyway, most of them are so busy delivering their favorite form of mayhem that they are afraid to step away and try out something they may like better than what they are doing now, but I'm giving them time. They will come around.

My friends are all old Army buddies and we all knew or knew of each other when we sort of fell into playing Rogue Spear when it first came out. Then we moved to Ghost Recon and later it was the Battlefield Series. Along the way, a couple of guys got involved in the beta of some silly space ship game, but we were soldiers with boots on the ground using weps, vehicles, most importantly tactics we could relate to. It paid off as we overwhelmed any bunch of players who just happened to log in about the same time.

We were having one of regular get-togethers at the home of one the guys who had been in the beta of a space ship game, something with a real testerone free name of "Eve" and just released. He played on some humomgus flat screen TV and had us all gather in front ot he the TV - ok, he bribed us with beer - and brought up a shot of a really oddly shaped little silly sci- fi space ship floating out side of this big ugly brown thng he called a station. It had little lights shining like their might be somebody home. The odd shape of the ship. something called an Armageddon, lol - and the shape of the station did not look as though anyone sober had been on the design team. Well our friend and the other guy who had been in the beta were standing near the screen drooling and expecting the rest of us to be drooling as well, but we were more interested in getting the lan party going with a good scrimmage on BF42 on all the computers we had drug from different parts of the US to his Tampa home. it just so happened that our host was also the president of our clan, so we were humoring him to be sure he would not put some syrup of ipecac into the marinade of that night's meal. He looked back and forth at the screen and then at us, kind of like he thought we would all lean forward and say a hushed "wow" but we were more into making fun of the scene. Someone asked if he could zoom on a certain window because he thought he could see a woman taking a shower. Finally, our host said, "Just look at it - see the detail! Isn't that a great shot?" Most of us yawned and said, "me too" to the guy who was going for another beer. We had the BF42 lan party going in a couple of minutes.

None of us would have guessed that within a few months, during the spring of 2004, we would all be playing a silly space ship game. And now, for the most part, with a very few departures (they'll be back) and few additions, we are all still in the game at some level of activity. We divided up into new corps after a while to pursue our different interests, but still consider us all a part of the "greater group" and that our real loyalties belong to the greater group. We have six different corps and we number in the mid 70s, we all have alts (and alts and alts - this character is an alt in a one person corp). Many of our alts are in other corps, both large and medium sized and which have no knowledge of the greater group or the sisterhood of our six main corps. We have been in corps who were at war with each other. In fact, I've had one of my toons kill another one of my other toons while their corps were at war. Well, it was a meeting engagement I could see possibly happening, so my guy who I didn't pod just happened to show up in a frig with cheap weps (don't think there was anything called t2 then). My two guys found each other and as would have been predicted at the time the stronger corp won the engagement, so it was only right that my sacrificed guy had to to be taken out, but there was no sense in his losing a Maller with decent weps, when he could just as easjly go down in punisher with a cheap fit.

I have one friend in a corp which has no jump freighters who has been salivating at the idea of a sporting around New Eden in one, but his corp is not very active compared to the rest of us. I bestowed the Ark on him and he is feeling pretty invincible and will as long as he is in a station and until he can get an armada together to escort him about 40j back to their little part of null which lives in conjunction with our most powerful sisterhood corp with a little sov out there somewhere.

I see so many players have been active on the forums and I got to know many of them so much better by spending a few hours reading my way through a little history of Blink from primarily the player's viewpoint, so I thought I would turn this thanks for the JF into a kind of introduction to me, as if that was really necessary after the way I drone on in the chat.

I wish you all good luck in the game and in life, and I hope you are visited by good sportsmanship!

"Wall of text" - I'll bet you say that to everything which will take you more than an hour to read!!!




You may have noticed that this thread is all about blink and is the thread I believed to be posting to originally instead of posting the the forum sell orders. I took it down moments after placing it on what you seem to think is YOUR forum and move it here, tho the correct thread.

I did not post in the wrong place to advertise Blink as that is against their rules. I did not post the promo code which a new player can use to get a few million when signing up and by using my code - which I again say, as it seems you have difficulty understanding simple things, I did not place in my post.

Just so you don't think I am trying to steal the crown jewels, I will inform you that I am now going to the wrong place I originally posted and remove any reference which may seem like advertising. I merely placee it there as a courtesy without realizing it would be seen by those without much foresight as a dastardly act.

Woo! Another bonk draw, another crowd of winners!

In this week's draw, for the minibonks:

Mirikana won a dread, a carrier, all the cap skillbooks to fly them both, and a HG slave or crystal implant set!
Prety Zinta won 5 BILLION in free blink credit, and the 5k promo tokens that go with it!
Captain Jagfx won one of every pirate faction frig, cruiser, and battleship!
Tridik won 5 hulks, 5 macks, 2 orcas, a rorqual, and a mining foreman implant!

And in the main bonk:
Nova Kusoni, AfgMErc, and snowman1 each won a Supercarrier BPO of their choice!

Congrats to all the winners - and stay tuned, the 250T celebration is flying up FAST!

I've won a couple more since this \o/

I had about over 8B invested on that bonk, others were saying the odds will still against me but they were hoping I would win and I did haha!

Thanks for 50B!

I will use it wisely

We will try to be present fot The 250T celebration \o/
I just need to win some stuffs :)

Was given a bunch of money by a friend. Just tossed in 40m and on my first Blink I won a Tengu. These guys are awesome.

Holy cow this is stupidly addictive

"God does not roll dice" - Albert Einstein

"Stop telling God what to do" - Niels Bohr

"I play Blink" - God

Only 130 left!!!