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Posted on 2011-08-01 by Ecliptic Rift

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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Posted on 2011-07-31 by Ecliptic Rift

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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Posted on 2011-07-30 by Ecliptic Rift

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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Posted on 2011-07-26 by Ecliptic Rift

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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Posted on 2011-07-18 by Ecliptic Rift

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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Posted on 2011-07-17 by Ecliptic Rift

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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Posted on 2011-07-02 by Ecliptic Rift

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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Posted on 2011-06-22 by Ecliptic Rift

Alleged leak of internal CCP memo

EVE News 24 has released a PDF that they claim to be an internal CCP newsletter regarding microtransactions. Some folks are having trouble getting it, so I’ve mirrored it. PDF password is “dominixevenews24″. I couldn’t get it to open in … Read the rest of this entry →

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Posted on 2011-06-22 by Ecliptic Rift

CCP shooting blues

TL;DR: The Business Development (BizDev) team at CCP has gotten out of control and simply does not understand their market nor the culture surrounding their primary service. Their corp mates need to pod them back into station before they shoot … Read the rest of this entry →

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Posted on 2011-06-14 by Ecliptic Rift

Wind of change

Blows straight into the face of time CCP had the idea to sell specially-skinned Scorpions directly for Aurum. This process wouldn’t have required a ship to trade in, nor would it have created a BPC for an industrialist to use. … Read the rest of this entry →

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