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Emoragequitting to make a statement accomplishes nothing.

I’m fascinated with what increases and decreases a player base in an MMO.  I’m sure that companies like Blizzard and CCP do focus groups and other studies to determine what makes players stay and what makes players go.  I’d like, for instance, to know what percentage of trial accounts turn into subscriptions, and of new [ READ MORE ]

No Love for the Big Man Uptown

It seems that the Northern Coalition has become a poster child for all that’s wrong with the current state of affairs in Null-Sec.  This opinion is especially prevalent amongst those Eve pilots who find themselves at odds with the colossus uptown, or who, try as they might, have been unsuccessful in driving a wedge into [ READ MORE ]

Getting My Feet Wet

It has been said that PvP is the engine that drives consumption in Eve.  Miners mine, industrialists research and build, and traders trade because the resources and assets that exist in the Eve universe vaporize under the stress of constant conflict.  PvP consumes.  That’s just about all it does.  Ask any persistent PvPer; they are [ READ MORE ]

Being Just a Number

Some of us, We’re hardly ever here The rest of us, we’re born to disappear How do I stop myself from Being just a number How will I hold my head To keep from going under “Vulchers” – John Mayer I’ve been in a null-sec alliance for all but eleven months of my Eve experience. [ READ MORE ]

The Waiting Game

As I write this post, my Drake is sitting 1,700 meters off of a Ragnarok class Titan in Germinate.  I have been sitting here with over 100 of my best friends for the better part of 45 minutes.  For those of you who frequently bridge here and there, you know that this is not a [ READ MORE ]

A different sort of clone upgrade

As I’m sure you know, the latest installment of the Incursion expansion has brought us the much anticipated “Character Creator”.  Sinclair has turned into a completely different person.  He no longer looks like some sort of fairy folk with a receding hairline (back in the day, Eve players would sacrifice good looks for good starting [ READ MORE ]

What’s in my hangar

Just did a quick inventory of the ship hulls currently residing in my hangar: Apocalypse Blackbird x2 Buzzard Caldari Shuttle x2 Caracal x2 Cerberus Cormorant x2 Crow Drake x3 Echelon Griffin Harpy Kestrel Kitsune Mammoth Manticore Megathron Merlin x 3 Onyx Raven Rokh Zealot Zephyr Total estimated value of the hulls is 957,739,381.71 (based on [ READ MORE ]

Eve Online makes PC Gamer cover

The global authority on PC games has featured Eve Online on its January 2010 cover. Most notable is that it’s not splash featuring fleets of ships against a background of glowing nebula clouds or dazzling planet-scapes. It features…a dude. A friend commented on the cover in this way: “Can you imagine what this cover would [ READ MORE ]

Playing Planetville

It was my original intent to put off doing anything with Planetary Interaction until it had undergone it’s January face lift. Everyone who currently makes use of it has basically told me that I would be wasting my time by setting up operations now, since the revamp will bring so many changes. I looked at [ READ MORE ]

Bubble Up

Today, I’m a bit over 2d 15h away from having Propulsion Jamming V. Bloody level 5 skills. What a pain. Anyway, I’m continuing my efforts to train for hulls that my alliance will find useful. As with most alliances, we have very frequent CTAs, and those CTAs call for specific ships as a priority. As [ READ MORE ]

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