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EVE Vegas: CCP Dropbear

EVE Vegas has completed, but my notes still keep coming. CCP Dropbear, who may have the most epic name I’ve ever heard (“Nick Blood”), gave the last presentation on Saturday evening, and did so in appropriate CCP fashion: inebriated. In … Read the rest of this entry

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EVE Vegas: Community and Monkeys

EVE Vegas kicked off for real today, at least in terms of the conference. While they’d expected about 20 people to show up for last night’s pub crawl, over 60 of us actually showed up. If anything seems wrong to … Read the rest of this entry

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EVE Vegas: Arrival and pub crawl

So I’ve arrived in Las Vegas for a gathering of Internet spaceship nerds. The temperature here actually compares favorably with that in my home of Dallas, so the weather’s bearable. After I got to the hotel and checked in early, … Read the rest of this entry

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CSM Crowdsourcing Votes

The CSM needs our help for the July 2011 prioritization crowdsourcing. This means, essentially, you go through the list and vote for items you want CCP to prioritize. You can also vote against certain items, though I chose not to … Read the rest of this entry

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Musing on highsec piracy corporations

Lately, I’ve started to grow a little bored with my market efforts. Iurnan Mileghere still makes quite a bit of ISK on the market, enough to fund PLEXes for several accounts and still turn profit. But after the events of … Read the rest of this entry

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CSM May 2011 analysis

The minutes for the CSM Summit in May 2011 have lots of useful and interesting information. Most of this impacts the larger issues of the game, of course, but some of it has specific application to roleplay. Here, I’ll review … Read the rest of this entry

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Who was there?

CCP released the Incarna trailer last week, and if you haven’t seen it: Please upgrade your browser I know I frequently call out CCP when they do something that I think deserves criticism. Fairness requires me to say this, then: … Read the rest of this entry

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CSM Emergency Summit Wrap-up

CCP and CSM wrap up their emergency summit, the CSM wing their way back home, and the players keep wondering what happened… Now we know. First, watch the video. It makes it clear to me that, while CCP might have … Read the rest of this entry

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Provisional arrest

Based on today’s response from CCP, I have put my plans to leave EVE on hold for now. But I’ve also put my plans for my corp on ice. The rest of this post just has a brief analysis of … Read the rest of this entry

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Good run while it lasted

My EVE ‘career’ has come to an end. Arnar/Zulu just administered the execution serum to EVE Online. The body may thrash for a few minutes, but it’s already as good as dead. I don’t feel anger or bitterness, but resignation … Read the rest of this entry

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