Cans And Cans And Cans
Posted by: Marlenus, in Notable Smacktalk, Salvage Notes, Today In IronfleetMarlenus here. Jim Bridger finally shamed me into logging on.
After his recent battle Mammoth fun, I thought about setting up a classic BattleBadger. But, truth to tell, I don’t have Jim’s skill in small weapons. So I decided to stick with one of my old trusty combat Cranes.
Out to the belts. Second belt I checked, there’s a Retriever and an Osprey mining into a cluster of Giant Secure Cans. And by cluster, I mean six of them … a tight cluster, without the minimum 5 kilometer separation needed for anchoring.
Sadly, ever since they redesigned the graphics for the cans, my broken color vision makes it impossible for me to see whether a Giant Secure Can is anchored or not. There used to be a red nav light on anchored cans and a green one on unanchored ones, hard to see but distinguisable. In the redesign, they took this off, or made the shading more subtle, I’m not sure which … but now, the only way I can tell if a can is scoopable is to see it too near another can.
This cluster: too obvious to miss.
So, back I went for the big rigged bustard. Warp to the cluster of cans, silently scoop them. As my old friends in Suddenly Ninjas would have said: YOINK!
There was no sign that anybody noticed, so I docked.
Judging by the names, four of the cans “belonged” to the Retriever pilot, two of them “belonged” to the Osprey pilot. Between the six cans, there were four full cans-worth of Azure Plagioclase.
Then I went to lunch. When I came back, I had the following Notification in my mailbox:
Your contact level has been modified
From: Goa’ul Ra
Sent: 2010.06.22 17:57Goa’ul Ra has changed your contact level to Terrible Standing
u mother f***ker i will get u
Charmed, I’m sure.
Remember, boys and girls, a Giant Secure Can is only secure when it has been anchored. That is all!
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