Eve on a Mac, Part 2

My post about playing Eve on my MacBook Pro, via Boot Camp, is the post that gets the most hits on the site. Some combination of Eve, Mac and OSX is among the Google search hits that bring people here as well. In case that trend continues, I figured I should write a short update. [...]

Moment of silence for ISD

Crazykinux  posted a link to an article about CCP re-organizing their Eve support, announced in their Dev Blog on the 21st of this month.  The Inquirer article makes it sound fairly dramatic and perhaps detrimental to Eve’s players. The Dev Blog post makes it sound like a normal re-organization for a growing corporation. The truth [...]

It really is rocket science.

To casual observers, mmorpg’s might seem very similar. You inhabit some sort of avatar, you generally fight your way through a virtual world, you gain skills and loot along the way, and you get to have all this fun in the company of friends (or at least while listening to crazy people in General chat [...]

Back from the beach

It’s good to be home. We had a blast all week long and god knows, I needed the break, but it’s nice to be back in our own place again. And it’s nice to have internet access again! There was a cafe with internet access, but we always seemed to be busy during the day [...]

Making friends – PvP vs. PvE

“The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.” Ulysses S. Grant Tobold wrote a thoughtful post a couple weeks ago about what he [...]

/Afk, beach

I’ll be heading for the beach on Sunday for a week. I have one more draft in the works that I hope to get posted before I leave, but things should be quiet here until the week of the 20th, unless I find a coffee shop with wireless access For everyone that’s stopped by in [...]

Eve Online is a casual mmorpg

I know what you’re thinking. Eve, one of the more technical and complex mmorpg’s, a universe of pirates, spies, intrigue and PvP, a casual game? Well, yeah, in some ways, Eve is one of the more casual mmorpg’s that I’ve played. Stick with me for a bit, and consider the following ideas. Richard Bartle talks [...]

First contact

My corporation is still at war. There are now two enemy corporations who have declared war on us. Both of them are small corps (10 members and 6 members, approximately) who seemed to think that picking a fight with Eve University would provide them with a system full of clueless targets for killing. That could [...]

Eve Online on a Mac

There’s a reason I haven’t posted in a week. I was playing Eve on my PC at home, and I pulled a level 2 mission called The Blockade. I’ve run this before (at work) where I’ve got a thoroughbred PC. My home system is o-l-d old, and I’ve gotten used to running missions in Eve [...]