It was an almost perfect EVE weekend. Having spent the few hours of EVE I could steal during the week on making tactical bookmarks and getting a basic lineup of PvP ships fitted in the Tribal staging system. Did I already mention I am in love with my new Oracle? The switch from a shield … Continue reading
Maybe it’s because the route to our new home lead me through wide swaths of high security space, maybe the thoughts that will spill from my mind momentarily have simply cooked there for too long. Today I am going to put out some musings about highsec, PvP and emergent gameplay. [tl;dr The debate on highsec … Continue reading
I became a capsuleer shortly after the new battlecruisers were launched by the imperial navys a good year ago. Vividly do I remember my days fresh out of academy when my grandest dream was to fly an Oracle class battlecruiser into combat. For a long time I was convinced this would never happen, given the … Continue reading
One of the key phrases that you quickly come across reading about EVE Online is Emergent Gameplay. It is a cornerstone of how the game is designed, how we discuss about it and also how CCP makes a business model out of the MMO. The developers have called it the Sandbox. But what is Emergence actually? Why … Continue reading
The pitfalls for the casual player… last weekend we have left WhyS0 and joined Tribal. Since I had real life stuff going on I managed to log in only when the freight train already had left and my clone awakened in a now hostile station. It’s like that in nullsec. Not only does it mean … Continue reading
This transcript has been done during the CSM Townhall meeting on 03-02-2013. I did not record precises quotes. Nor do I try to attribute the statements to individual CSM members. Most statements are paraphrased from what I understood as the main points of the answers. The full podcast is available at EVERadio. Please drop any … Continue reading