Explaining Eve

I’ve been playing (and talking about) mmorpgs for a long time. I’ve played PvE games, PvP games, fantasy and sci-fi games. I’ve been a crafter, a fighter, a pilot and a member of gaming communities.  EQ, DAOC, SWG, and WoW have all captured long hours of my life, and I’ve tried lots of other massive [...]

I feel smarter

I was talking to one of my old DAOC guildmates in Eve last night, one of two who are ensconced in 0.0 space. As we were both running missions, he was asking me what I was training, how I was making money, and offering advice.
To make a long story short, he clued me in to [...]

With friends like these…

I found out over the weekend that a couple of friends from my old DAOC guild have been playing Eve for about a year. They’re out in 0.0 space and issued a standing invitation to come join them. Suddenly, the game looks quite different.
Like a lot of people playing Eve, I’m an Empire person. I’ve [...]

Call me Sybil

If you couldn’t tell by my stock WordPress theme and lack of personalization on the blog, I’m way new to blogging. I’m noticing some weird things, like my blog name is different than my username is different from my nickname. I’m going to try and consolidate that somehow, so my blogs and comments have some [...]

R versus R!

Darren at the Common Sense Gamer posted some thoughts about wanting meaningful PvP in his mmorpg, and he asked for feedback. In my usual style, I started to respond in the Comments on his blog, but then realized I was writing another novel and decided to pull the long post back here.
As you can tell [...]

Ain’t talking ’bout love

Raph Koster made some notes on a talk given by Clay Shirky at the Supernova conference, and one of the sentences jumped out at me. The context of Raph’s notes were talking about open source software solutions, but I’m going to steal a sentence and transition to mmorpg’s.
“You will make more accurate predictions about software [...]

Raid Thrash

Some of the blogs I read regularly have been arguing about endgame raiding and the massive amounts of time it can take to gear up from those encounters. Anyone who’s mucked around with PVE endgames in WoW, EQ or EQ2 can certainly relate to the highly skewed ratio of time spent vs. loot rewards.
Darren over [...]

Slash Random

First post. Well, “first” after I nuked the WordPress generic first post, anyway. Fear me, I am Mod.
I’ve noticed that my replies to other blogs are getting too damn long. If I have that much to say, I should be polite enough not to use up everyone else’s Comment real estate. Nothing breaks up a [...]