Tag Archives: Lowsec

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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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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Storytelling through mechanics

Over at Backstage, we’ve been having a discussion about “where the storyline went”. Wanoah, a long-time member of the EVE RP community, posted a very thoughtful comment (as he does). One paragraph particularly resonated with me: The gameworld should have … Read the rest of this entry

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Reviewing the market: QEN Q3 2010

NB: This analysis generally distinguishes between summarizing CCP’s results and my own conclusions. Where the text contains mistakes, generally I accept the blame for them except in the cases where I specifically note faults in the QEN itself. Review CCP … Read the rest of this entry

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Piracy everywhere

This is based on a post I wrote on the Ghost Festival forum in a planning area. For obvious reasons, I’ve edited it significantly regarding operational details, but I liked the core analysis. You are welcome to disagree in the … Read the rest of this entry

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Collecting my Massively CSM comments

Massively has a good review of the community backlash regarding the CSM. I know I wanted to stay away from this topic, but I at least thought I’d sum up my comments from the article here. For future reference, if … Read the rest of this entry

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Don’t get podded!

New pilots frequently mention “getting podded” as one of the risks they fear in lowsec. Losing implants can indeed get very expensive, especially if you’ve got hardwirings in your head. Fortunately, you can take steps to reduce your risk significantly. … Read the rest of this entry

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Copernicus Coalition launch

With great pride and anticipation, I’d like to point my readers toward the new Copernicus Coalition. From our coordinator (for lack of a better word), Rettic: The Copernicus Coalition is a network of independent pilots and small corporations working to … Read the rest of this entry

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Non-aggressive play style

I don’t think I’m a carebear. Or perhaps, not completely. Sure, most of my gameplay has little to do with direct combat PVP. I mostly explore, trade, possibly run some missions, or go about some science & industry (invention, manufacturing, … Read the rest of this entry

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Review of mineral & insurance changes

CCP Chronotis published a dev blog today titled “The Circle of Life“. First, a quick summary of the coming changes: Tech 1 Meta 0 loot drops from NPCs will be nerfed, replaced with scrap metal and tags. Rogue drone compounds … Read the rest of this entry

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