Winning by dying

Nate Combs has a series about Eve on Terra Nova, and his latest post got me thinking again about Eve, Dark Age of Camelot, and why I enjoy their PvP mechanics so much. It was a link to an earlier post on his blog that prompted this response. I started this post as a comment to [...]

Going dark for a couple days

It’s holiday time, and we’ll be doing some traveling over the next couple days. I’ll be bringing the laptop, but I’ll most likely be playing single-player games, maybe some Titan Quest. It’s a good “staying at the relatives” game, I can take out my dysfunctional family frustrations on virtual monsters instead of starting trouble with [...]

Robbery at Eve University

My corporation was robbed last Friday, November 16th. I didn’t know about it until I saw a mail from our diplomat, Kelduum Revaan, which was a link to an internal forum post. There’s an external link on the Eve-O forums that covers the details, or at least everything the directors wanted to release.
I don’t know [...]

Jumping the shark

Looks like Blizzard took some dubious marketing advice and created WoW ads starring William Shatner and Mr. T. The commercials are well-produced, and Mr. T. looks damn good for being like 100 years old, but wtf Blizzard, Chuck Norris was busy? Can “CSI: Dalaran” be far behind?

Want!

Damn it CCP, stop spending so much time on movies and interviews and screenshots and wallpaper and just release Trinity! Yes, I love how my Minmatar battleship will look in Trinity. Yes, I saw how cool the Rifter (or was that Jaguar? Or a Wolf?) looked in the trailer, and I want one now. Yes, [...]

Chess and checkers

I’ve been splitting my limited game time this week between Eve and World of Warcraft. I hardly ever talk about WoW here, but I’ve been playing since the beta, and I still continue to monkey around with it. WoW is my Diablo of mmorpg gaming. I don’t raid, I rarely run instances…in fact, I hardly [...]

Eve’s first Quarterly Economic Newsletter (QEN)

Before I start talking about how cool it is that CCP has employed a full-time economist, I find it wildly humorous (and perhaps a little sad) that I’m far more interested in the economy of a virtual world than I am in the economy in the real world. Maybe it’s the subject matter or presentation; [...]

Battleship down

I’m not the kind of person to write a blog post every time I lose a ship. I’ve lost plenty of ships in the past, trying to do too much in missions, or making mistakes like aggroing too many at once, or stubbornly trying to take out “just one more ship” before I warp to [...]

Eve mentioned on 1up podcast

I listen to quite a few gaming podcasts on my commute to work. I generally enjoy the 1up.com podcast, even though they’re not as geeky about mmorpg’s as I am. (As we are, I suppose. If you’re reading this, you’re far geekier about mmorpg’s than the folks at 1up.)
The episode for 11-09-2007 talks a bit [...]

Eve under OSX/Leopard, update

I’ve been playing quite a bit of Eve on the Leopard partition of my Macbook Pro since the release on Tuesday. I don’t really have any serious complaints. The touchpad problem remains. If I don’t use a mouse, it’s very difficult to use 2 fingers on the touchpad for scrolling up and down in my [...]

Level 4 missions

After spending a long time flying my battlecruiser, a Hurricane, training up Tech 2 armor tanking skills and Tech 2 medium artillery, I’ve finally trained Minmatar battleships. I had heard from my corp that it made sense to train up my T2 tanking skills while running the battlecruiser before I made the jump to a [...]

Going Native

Bah. Not only was I wrong about Trinity being released yesterday (told you I’m distracted by school!), but the Mac client I had downloaded for Multiplicity was not patchable from Tranquility. I had to re-download the entire client, which stalled three times around 500 MB into an 884 MB download. I changed locations, hoping [...]