tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9420598134810835662012-02-02T08:53:09.546-06:00NoizyGamerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17315716516032999133noreply@blogger.comBlogger5891100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-942059813481083566.post-36838027803650002562012-02-02T08:53:00.000-06:002012-02-02T08:53:09.553-06:00

Have I mentioned before that I work a lot?  Well, I am going to Fanfest, but my plans changed slightly.  Yes, I still get to take a week-and-a-half off and go to Iceland, but I have to take my work laptop with me.  That means my gaming laptop will stay at home as I am not going to put a computer in my checked luggage. So what does that mean?  I'll be working sometime during my stay in Reykjavík.

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Last night I got home really late from work and didn't plan on doing anything except update my skill queues, drink a beer and go to sleep.  I started doing a little surfing on the net and ran into a post on MMO Melting Pot about how to turn World of Warcraft into a social network.  A blogger named Cynwise wrote a post speculating on how social media could be worked into an MMO like WoW.  A

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I've played Star Wars: The Old Republic for 5 weeks and gotten a Smuggler/Scoundrel up to level 37.5.  Then I used the /played command and yelped.  I've played the game for 135 hours, or 27 hours a week.  Almost 4 hours a day!  Not good.  The game was eating almost all of my spare time.  Yes, I said was.  Last night I went ahead and cancelled my subscription.  To its credit, I have to say that

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Over the weekend I booked my reservations to attend my first gaming convention in 10 years.  That's right, I'm going to CCP's Fanfest 2012 in Reykjavik, Iceland.  From 1994-2002 I was a regular attendee of gaming conventions, particularly GenCon (both in Milwaukee and Indianapolis) and Origins in Columbus, Ohio.  One year I even splurged and flew down to Atlanta to attend DragonCon.  So this trip

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"What is it about the metagame that breathes life into the experience of game-playing? Through the metagame, players are inducted into a larger game community. Often, the metagame is an event in which many, many people are playing—more than can possibly compete in the smaller base game. The event can become so large that no individual can know all parts of the game; while no single

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"We don't have any advantages, so we can't obey your stupid 'space bushido'. We're going to spy, we're going to use defectors, we're going to lie, cheat, steal and be bastards."  - The Mittani Tuesday's look at how my journey through MMOs resulted in my Smuggler's name in Star Wars: The Old Republic got me thinking about how I first became interested in Eve Online.  I've written before that

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On Saturday I finally finished Chapter 1 in Star Wars: The Old Republic and was able to select my legacy name.  The legacy system sounds interesting as all your characters on a server are part of a family and have the same last name.  As I typed in the name I thought of the long journey that brought me to typing those four keystrokes. Back in 2006 I started playing my second MMORPG, EverQuest 2.

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Ever since I first heard about xtranormal I wanted to make my own video using it.  After finally getting my legacy in The Old Republic Saturday, I was ready for a break from questing.  So after logging into Eve and playing around with the on-board scanner for another hour-and-a-half, I looked to write a blog entry.  Something about SW:TOR?  Didn't feel like it.  But I didn't really like the way

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I've spent a lot of time playing Star Wars: The Old Republic over the past 3 weeks and have done a lot of missions.  (I guess sci-fi MMOs call their quests missions).  So many missions that I actually took a break this weekend and spent about 90 minutes logged into Eve Online practicing my directional scanning.  I will keep on playing SW:TOR because I really want to finish the Smuggler's class

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I read an interesting article in Gamasutra called "Minecraft, Intellectual Property, and the Future of Copyright" by Terra Nova blogger Greg Lastowka that showed how Minecraft goes against the conventional wisdom when it comes to copywrite laws and game developers.  The Professor of Law at the Rutgers School of Law-Camden argues that intellectual property law in the U.S. leads game studios to

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"SOPA is misguided. "SOPA is nuking from orbit."SOPA is just so dumb."SOPA is legislation that, at its very base level, is contrary to human interaction. Human interaction is what my employer, as a game publisher, thrives on. We design whole universes around it."- CCP Manifest I didn't expect to write another post on the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect Intellectual Property Act so soon,

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The debate on the Stop Online Piracy Act in the House and the Protect Intellectual Property Act in the Senate is getting closer to coming for a vote.  As much as we hear about the partisan wars in Washington these days, the debate over protecting intellectual property rights vs defending the freedom of the Internet transcends political parties and even ideological bounds.  Those backing the

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To say that CCP endured some bad PR last summer over the launch of Eve Online's Incarna expansion might be the understatement of the year.  One thing that will upset players is unexpected poor performance.  For those who regularly read dev blogs, the fact that system requirements were increasing caused some stir among the player base.  Those who don't pay attention received a rude shock at

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Today is the day of the New Hampshire primaries, the first primary election in the United States that the major political parties use to select their presidential nominees for the election in November.  The leading candidate in the Republican Party is Mitt Romney.  Since Mitt is not his first name, the 60 Minutes/Vanity Fair poll asked 951 respondents what his real first name is.  Two percent

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MMORPG's differ from single-player computer games because they rely on keeping players involved in the games for months, even years.  So how do game developers do that?  Many games rely on raids to keep players interested.  Warhammer Online came up with the Tome of Knowledge that Blizzard copied to create its achievement system for World of Warcraft to give players something else to do.  Other

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I remember listening to a podcast (I think it was Shut Up, We're Talking) and listening to a discussion about how MMOs seemed to bog down in design when a player reached level 30 or so.  The idea was that game designers were focused on making the beginning of the game so good that it hooks players and end game content to retain players that an area in the middle levels dropped off in quality and

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One of the political battles in the United States that should interest on-line gamers concerns legislation called Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect IP Act.  The major backers of the bills are the entertainment (movie, music) industry and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce while Internet-based businesses like Google, Facebook, Twitter, Zynga, eBay, Mozilla, Yahoo, AOL and LinkedIn oppose the

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I will admit up front that I originally did not intend to play Star Wars: The Old Republic this close to launch.  I had not heard a lot of good things about SWTOR so I fully intended to wait 6 months or for news that the game was a total bust and not waste my money.  I wanted to play eventually because a combination of World of Warcraft + Dragon Age in the Star Wars universe is just too 

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Happy New Year!  I usually prefer to look ahead to the new year but I made some predictions for 2011 and I should look at how well I did before moving on to looking at 2012.  So here is a look back to see just how insightful I really was. New Games:  I made predictions about two games, Star Wars: The Old Republic and RIFT.  I almost predicted that SW:TOR would launch in 2012 but chickened out

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After salvaging as much of the situation as possible following the Christmas Eve battle rescuing the InterBus passengers, it was time to go to work.  Time to buy a new Maelstrom but, more importantly, time to review the tactics and fittings I had used over the last few months.  My two-pilot gang always works best when moving fast and engaging in hit-and-run tactics, but I had looked at others

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I realize I haven't written about CCP's War On Bots™ in awhile.  That doesn't mean I've changed my mind about botters and how CCP handles them.  So I'll apologize in advance if you get caught for botting or illicit RMT activities and come to my comments, cry about it and I don't offer you any sympathy.  I won't apologize for what I write if you come onto my blog, complain about CCP banning you

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For the second year in a row, I managed to lose the most powerful combat ship I could fly over Christmas.  While painful, this year events turned out a lot better than the events of last year. The events began after the latest Sansha Nation incursion in the Ani constellation.  After the victory of the anti-Incursion fleets, my corporation the Khumaak Flying Circus began operations out of the

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"Cheaters are unethical individuals who can model the position of individuals in large-scale non-hierarchical communities that abuse the shared social space. In online social networks, they can model the abuse of available, legal tools, such as intensive use of communication tools for political activism. Taken to the extreme, such behavior leads to the tragedy of the commons: all players become

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I originally intended to take today off and finish my Christmas shopping and kill a few Angel Cartel ships but events caused a change of plans.  Today's dev blogs, in combination with this week's earlier leadership announcement, were just too enticing not to write about today. Today's big news is that DUST 514 has emerged from the land of vaporware as CCP announced that beta signup begins today.

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I am currently working on a post aimed at those just beginning to play Eve Online designed to get them started in the universe of New Eden.  The task is a little bigger than I originally thought and I may not get it finished before Christmas.  So since some people may begin playing over the holiday weekend I thought I would at least post the three sources and one Eve-related application I use the

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Over the past two nights I decided I do not like combat missions.  Sure, combat missions are a nice break from courier missions every once in a while, but as the main thing I do?  They are not for me.  I have to add one caveat.  I like missions where I kill members of the Angel Cartel. Why the Angel Cartel?  I do have a long term goal that requires acquiring Angel tags and killing the Angel

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Over the weekend I moved much of my operations to Nakugard in Metropolis' Ani constellation.  The Ani constellation is interesting because not only is it the Minmatar COSMOS highsec constellation with all systems having a security status of .5, but all of the Minmatar-owned stations as well as the Sisters of EVE Bureau stations have cloning facilities.  So I figured I'd run some missions for the

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I wrote a few weeks ago about Fratt Asmurdik, an agent for the Republic Parliament and his apparent infatuation with Wandering Rose.  But now that the Khumaak Flying Circus has met its goals concerning relations with the Republic Parliament (over 9.9 standings) Fratt is no longer necessary to her plans.  So after receiving another offer to do a kill mission, Wandering Rose just ignored Fratt.  

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This week saw two big on-line gaming companies, go public with initial public offerings (IPO) worth over $1 billion.   U.S.-based Zynga, makers of Farmville, raised $1 billion with an IPO of 100 million shares at $10 each.  The Tokyo-based Nexon, creators of Maple Story, raised approximately $1.2 billion with a sale of 70 million shares at 1,300 yen, or approximately $16.90 per share.  I know

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I've written in the past how I am somewhat reluctant to recommend Eve Online to people I know.  Eve is a sci-fi PvP sandbox game with so-so PvE play but the most sophisticated economic system in MMORPGs.  In other words, a game not for everyone.  But New Eden, the universe of Eve?  That is something I recommend to any gamer who wants to see what a virtual world can be.  And that universe will

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While CCP is developing a new set of implants that improve a pilot's intelligence and perception for delivery during the holiday season, researchers at Boston University and ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories in Kyoto are working to turn our game play into reality. "For the first time, researchers have been able to hack into the process of learning in the brain, using induced brain

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No plan survives contact with the enemy.  In Eve Online, that enemy too often is a player's own ignorance.  Take for example my plan to get the blueprint copies for three of the Minmatar faction ships.  Late last night I finished getting both Rosewalker and Wandering Rose up to what I hope is the required 9.9 unmodified standing with the Republic Parliament in order to get the Tempest Fleet Issue

NoizyGamerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17315716516032999133noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-942059813481083566.post-57216981697599968402011-12-09T08:50:00.003-06:002011-12-09T08:56:50.740-06:00

In what I hope is not a stunning developement, the International Red Cross will not have Helicity Boson or The Mittani, co-organizers of Hulkageddon V, dragged before the International Criminal Court in The Hague to face war crimes charges.  Apparently a story was circulating among news sources on the Internet stating that the Red Cross wanted to charge players of any game, not just Eve Online,

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As much as I complain about some of the massive grinds in MMOs, I committed myself in August to getting blueprint copies for three of the Minmatar faction ships, the Tempest Fleet Issue, the Stabber Fleet Issue and the Republic Fleet Firetail.  Back then, I didn't think I could accomplish the goal in less than a year.  I might have been too pessimistic because I am about to finish the first of

NoizyGamerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17315716516032999133noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-942059813481083566.post-91337740889362242362011-12-05T06:00:00.001-06:002011-12-05T06:00:05.500-06:00

A lot of players are upset over the introduction of player-owned customs offices (POCO) to replace the existing customs offices used in Eve Online's planetary interaction feature.  I'm late jumping onto the subject because I wanted to think about the subject after the shock of the tax increases wore off.  Hopefully I can provide a little insight from a little different perspective. Who called

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The Arek'Jaalan Project continues to discover new elements of New Eden even as its home base in Eram falls under attack.  The latest news comes from Mark726 of Eve Travel who continues to do research in relation to Project Compass.  The famed explorer submitted the following report this morning to the members of the Arek'Jaalan Project: For those of you who may not recall, near the beginning of

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The action is heating up in Eram as Site One of the Arek'Jaalan project was attacked twice.  In the initial attack on Wednesday, a Raven piloted by a day-old pilot with a -10 standing engaged the security forces around the Arek'Jaalan facility and was destroyed as well as a Crow that later warped in to salvage the Raven.  The Crow was also piloted by a day-old pilot with -10 standings.  Myrhial

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As launches of MMORPG expansions go, yesterday's launch of Crucible went pretty smoothy, at least for me.  The announcement that the expansion was deployed went up around 1700, or about 3 hours after the scheduled time.  Of course, working in Chicago like I do, that was 9 hours before I could get home, plenty of time for everyone to download the game before I tried. I have to update two clients

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The rollout of Crucible expansion is underway now so I thought I'd review some of the more interesting (to me at least) items we will soon see on Tranquility.  I keep hearing how Crucible may be the best Eve Online expansion ever.  I realize I was not around for Red Moon Rising, but I was around for Apocrypha and I do not think Crucible will surpass that.  So here is my look at the patch notes.

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I think almost everyone who has played MMORPG's for any length of time has heard stories of guys giving female avatars free stuff to attract attention.  My main in Everquest 2 was a female wood-elf ranger and I did receive a few items in my time in-game.  Things are a bit different in Eve Online because with the overwhelming majority of players (over 95%) being male, I think people assume you are

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I've spent my time in Eve this week grinding faction with the Republic Parliament.  I really should have visited Singularity to see the latest changes.  I hear they are beautiful.  But one change I'm not really thrilled with is the changes to planetary interaction.  Instead of listening to people, I really should have just visited SiSi and seen for myself.  Of course, that would have taken away

NoizyGamerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17315716516032999133noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-942059813481083566.post-44934956743853679892011-11-24T10:02:00.001-06:002011-11-24T10:04:20.700-06:00

I listened to the rewind of Bigcountry's talk show on Eve Radio from Wednesday which ran during TEST's eviction of Chribba from 9UY4-H.  His guest showed up late due to having to FC the TEST fleet in Providence that took 9UY4-H away from Chribba.  So who was the FC? More evidence that Pandemic Legion and TEST are getting closer together?

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Test Alliance Please Ignore's campaign of vengeance against CCP for permanently banning DurrHurrDurr successfully culminated today in the capture of the Unity Station in 9UY4-H from Chribba's Otherworld Empire.  The IHUB was destroyed on 19 November with the TCU falling to the forces of Pandemic Legion at 0105 this morning. Of course, DurrHurrDurr was not actually permanently banned, as the

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I saw this comparison of World of Warcraft vs. Eve Online in the Eve-Radio in-game chat channel and just had to post it so I don't forget it. "WoW holds your hand from 1-85, and makes sure you get a cookie regardless if you win or lose.  Eve not only takes your cookie, but laughs at you for bringing one in the first place." And that is why I like flying cloaky ships.  You can't take my cookies if

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Yesterday while watching the Bears-Chargers game (go Bears!) I saw the premier of the latest Blizzard commercial for World of Warcraft featuring Chuck Norris.  Yes, a Chuck Norris commerical was inevitable, wasn't it?  And I was there!  In an effort to keep from getting round-house kicked, since my game is Eve Online, here it is.

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Players in Eve Online finally found a reason to like CCP's World of Darkness project as four devs from Atlanta switched gears from working on vampires to improving an internet spaceship game for three weeks.  The resulting dev blog is getting rave reviews as the temporary Team Papercuts worked from Team BFF's Thousand Papercuts list improving the quality of life in New Eden greatly.  As nice as

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I know that a lot of people will be disappointed that CCP is not giving out snowball launchers (yet) this holiday season, but players in Eve Online will receive something almost as cool: implants: CCP is pleased to announce that starting with the release of the Crucible expansion and throughout the holiday season, we will be giving away several gifts to players with active subscriptions to EVE

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Sleep.  Blessed sleep.  I don't even have the excuse of a CTA to blame for needing it.  I was up at 3am yesterday to do some testing and I had more testing to do at 10pm.  All I managed to do yesterday was move my new PI alt 25 jumps from Amarr to Derelik.  Thankfully I take the train into Chicago instead of driving. At least I got more accomplished than TEST in their war against CCP.  As I post

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Sometimes Eve Online makes as much sense as real life politics.  The latest example is Test Alliance Please Ignore's intentions to take 9UY4-H system away from Otherworld Emipre.  The Eve News 24 article left out some embarrassing information.  What could be more embarrassing than picking on Chribba?  Let's follow the timeline. Apparently the MOTD for the Recruitment channel was changed to not

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Every so often I check out the latest listings of the Eve Pod Pack and last night I started listening to Tech 4 News.  Tech 4 News features an all-star cast of New Eden podcasters getting together to bring the news from the non-capsuleer standpoint.  Or, as the in-character description on the site states: "Tech Four is an independent broadcast dedicated to bringing news of capsuleer activity to

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Since creating and playing my new industrial alt I have spent some time thinking about planetary interaction.  At first glance PI really seems appealing.  I spent a week training my planetary interaction skills to a level I could really start making some money (and for a week old player, a half million isk a day is a nice payout).  On my established characters I'm making at least 200 million isk

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I have to admit upfront I am a PC gamer.  Also, I do not play first person shooters (FPS).  So when people started debating the feasibility of CCP making DUST 514 and integrating the game into the New Eden universe, I didn't really have any perspective on whether the move was realistic.  But since Eve Online will start seeing these planet-bound mercs showing up in the next couple of months as the

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I received this in my Evemail when I got home from work yesterday. Greetings all, I have some excellent news to report, which is that we've all but acquired the remaining materials for Site One's construction in Eram. Faulx is standing by to provide the last of the supercomputers, but beyond that we're done. On behalf of a very grateful Eifyr & Co. I want to thank each and every one of

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Due to a freight train derailment this morning, I have a little time to write a post.  I didn't write one last night because I was too busy moving ships around.  On my industrial alt, my experiment about how fast a player with knowledge of the game can get 5 planetary interaction colonies up and running on a new account hit a snag because, even though I had been doing courier missions, the

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Last night I finally took the plunge into actual role playing in Eve Online.  Back in July I remember reading about the defection of the Caldari scientist Hilen Tukoss to the Minmatar Republic.  I read in August a post by Mike Azariah on how to join the Arek'Jaalan Project but I never followed up.  Until now. Since the Khumaak Flying Circus (or at least Wandering Rose) has such a close

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With the reintroduction of the Power of 2 promotion I went ahead and signed up for a third Eve Online account.  Why not?  I need another industrial alt and I've grown attached to both Rosewalker and Wandering Rose and do not want to stop either of their training. So, what exactly do I look for in an industrial alt?  First, the pilot needs to fly cargo ships because I don't want my main

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On Thursday, I wrote about my decision not to play Star Wars: The Old Republic.  I decided that I wanted to reserve the money for possibly getting a third account for Eve Online.  Someone in Iceland must be reading my blog, because on Friday CCP announced another Power of Two promotion.  That's a promotion for existing subscribers that gives 6 months of playtime for $49.95.  Plus you get a

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I have to make a decision relatively soon about my game playing.  Do I line up for Star Wars: The Old Republic due to launch on 20 December or do I triple down and get another Eve Online account?  At first, this may seem like a stupid question.  Of course I'd play The Old Republic!  I love science fiction and have seen all the Star Wars movies (yes, even Episode 1 unfortunately).  And I haven't

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One of the burning questions surrounding Eve Online is just how many subscribers does the game still have?  Given the latest information revealed in Brendan Drain's EVE Evolved article yesterday, I may have an answer that is relatively close. Since CCP stopped the publication of the Quarterly Economic Newsletter (presumably to keep the bad news about subscription numbers from appearing), we

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"The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated." - Mark Twain Some people are using last week's layoffs as proof that CCP is either about to go out of business or sold to a larger company.  One prominent blogger who really hates CCP and Eve Online even used a post of mine to justify a prediction that CCP would declare bankruptcy in 2012.  While I appreciate the traffic, my first thought

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One of the 20% laid off by CCP on Wednesday was CCP Sreegs.  Among other things, CCP Sreegs was in charge of CCP's War on Bots™.  CCP could afford to wage all-out war on botting when times were good, but with the massive subscription drop that led to the layoffs, can CCP continue the war? I expect that all offensive action against botters will now end.  In my opinion, CCP will continue to take

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"In the 2011 winter expansion we‘ll certainly focus more than ever before on iterating and polishing up all the features that EVE has expanded to in the then eight years. What those specific systems are, I don‘t know as we haven‘t started the planning phase for that yet." CCP Zulu, 16 July 2010Back in June 2010, CCP announced a strategic decision to concentrate on developing Walking in

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Apparently the GoonSwarm Shrugged Gallente Ice Interdiction operation is more significant than an event that actually enticed The Mittani to log in and play Eve Online.  Indiana University's Edward Castronova, a leading scholar of virtual worlds, posted a blog comparing the Goons' operation to the Enron scandal from 10 years ago.  Here is the money quote: "But now if someone asks me whether an

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While I was in Bulgaria CCP published a dev blog about the upcoming capital/supercapital changes.  Just a few days before Chribba celebrated his 1 year anniversary of holding sov of the 9UY4-H system in Providence Sunday, CCP let loose the information that the Veldfleet, Chribba's capital/supercapital mining fleet, was about to be nerfed to hell and back. The changes that affect the Veldfleet

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Sofia, BG - As I may have mentioned, my first two weeks in Sofia was business and this last week is a vacation.  Of course, the weather during the last two weeks was beautiful, sunny with high temperatures between 20-25°C.  Of course, on Saturday, my first really free day, the rain and cold came.  As I mentioned to a colleague on my first full day in Sofia, adventure is something bad happening

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Sofia, BG - One of the curious differences in body languages between Bulgarians and most of the rest of the world is how they indicate yes and no.  For "no", instead of shaking their heads left and right, they nod their heads up and down.  The story of how this came to be has a very Minmatar flavor to it. As was explained to me over dinner last week, when Bulgaria was under the Ottoman yoke,

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Sofia, BG - Last night was the first time since I arrived in Sofia I did not see protesters on the streets or outside the National Palace of Culture.  There was an extremely heavy police presence the past two days, although on Tuesday I saw protesters waving a Bulgarian flag as police looked on.  Last night, the area was quiet as a counted at least 30 police officers in and around the building. 

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Sofia, BG - With everything going on in the world today, I doubt many in the West are looking at what is happening in Bulgaria today.  On Saturday, as I was flying to Sofia, protests began after a young man was run down by an associate of a mafia boss, known as Tsar Kiro,  in the village of Katunitsa.  From my imperfect understanding of the situation, this Tsar Kiro is a Roma, or a gypsy, a

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Sofia, BG - I can give you a reason that Eve pilots should not land on planets as part of DUST 514.  Jet lag.  When you are in space, you can set your own clock, whether it be European, U.S. or Australian (and what is the lore for those designations, anyway?).  But on a planet, a pilot would have to adjust to a diurnal pattern of life.  That's way to inconvenient.  I'm a pod pilot, the world

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O'Hare Airport, Chicago - This past week has been brutal at work, soaking up almost all of my time.  My time in Eve has been almost non-existent.  The trend continued today as I had to settle an issue and didn't finish until 10:30.  By the time I completed my last second packing (iPad, Kindle and laptop got packed last) it was almost 11:30 and I was being picked up at noon. This was important,

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It appears the big news is a dev blog about a new font for the UI.  A much needed improvement, but nothing earthshaking.  From the screenshots in the dev blog, I like the change.

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With my upcoming trip to Bulgaria, I knew I wouldn't be posting much while I was in Europe.  I didn't quite expect all the work required before I hopped on the airplane.  In a sense, that is a good thing as that means work is really busy.  But that has been a drag on the things I do for fun.  Over the weekend, all I really got to do in Eve is sell my planetary interaction products and make a run

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Yesterday CCP t0rfifrans published a dev blog with some things players have been waiting for.  Ship spinning returns, the turret icons become distinguishable again, graphics in Captain's Quarters improve for those who wish to turn the feature on, and a new cyno effect are on the way to Tranquility Soon™.  But the news got more interesting as CCP Fallout posted on Twitter: "but it's not the

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In the real world of intelligence gathering, open source intelligence refers to "overt, publicly available sources (as opposed to covert or classified sources)."  Those who deal or have dealt with real world intel might tell you this about a fact they just stated to make clear that they are not revealing any information that could potentially land them in jail for revealing state secrets.  Those

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Yesterday afternoon I managed to free up some time to play Eve so I continued with The Ani Campaign, what I'm calling my time doing the high-sec COSMOS missions in the Ani constellation.  I had moved on to The Asylum in Lanngisi and started doing the missions from Godun Sakt, "Godun's Flunky".  As I've mentioned in the past, the Evelopedia entries for the Minmatar missions are not exactly the

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While surfing the net yesterday I came across a story about a real life drone that can attack information networks. Hacking on high: The SkyNet drone, built from a toy quadricopter and a small computer, can fly for up to 13 minutes, or land and then operate for nearly two hours. Credit: Stevens Institute of Technology  Attackers bent on espionage could use such drones to find a weak

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On Friday (2 September) The Mittani posted his dissatisfaction with CCP management on Kugutsuman: "There are two fronts to the political metagame of the CSM. On one front, that of micro-level gameplay, we have done very well with FiS negotiation, focusing the next expansion on 0.0 issues and communicating our views with absolute clarity. On the other front, dealing with macro-level business

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I continued doing the COSMOS missions in the Ani constellation over the weekend.  I had to move on from The Glass Edge because the final agent, Dalkar Kersos, didn't have any work for me.  I'm not sure if that is because faction standings don't count for doing COSMOS missions or whether sometime in the distant past I had talked with the agent.  I'll probably find out later. But before moving on

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Sometimes I see things on televisions that indicate that MMO's are gaining wider acceptance in society.  Commercials like World of Warcraft's Mr T. and Ozzie Ozborne brought attention to the genre.  But a yogurt commercial I saw last night might be the old PvP/PvE divide creeping into popular culture.  I'll let you decide.  

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Having helped out the Republic Security Service's Them Burkur, I moved on to the other level 2 agent in The Glass Edge, Penda Rakken.  But even with all my previous work, the Republic Rarliament agent still didn't trust me.  So off I went on "The Ani Build-Up - Extra Medical Supplies": "Although I'm sure you're just itching to get into combat, I'd like to put you to a small test first... to see

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What happened?  No, scratch that, I know what happened.  From 31 July to 31 August the 7 day rolling average of peak concurrent users on Eve Online's Tranquility server dropped 10%.  The question I have is, "why?" Is it because of summer?  I didn't really start paying attention to the peak concurrent user numbers until this spring, so I really don't know if Eve always experiences a slump in

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Having completed the level 1 missions for Kraimir Mork, I then moved on to the level 2 missions.  The first agent I worked for was Them Burkur of the Republic Security Services.  Once again looking at the background of the agent's corporation gives some nice information. "The Minmatars learnt early on in their freedom that it can only be kept by wrapping it in secrets and deceit. The vigilance

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I saw a tidbit while surfing the net yesterday and couldn't resist posting about it.  Orbital Technologies Corporation, based in Madison, Wisconsin, has plans for a space hotel in Earth orbit.  graphic: Orbital Technologies Yes, we are getting closer to a corporation in space.  And a corporation moving to get its own Captain's Quarters into space.  The real life version might be a lot

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"Nakugard is the entry system into the Ani constellation, ancestral home of the Nefantar tribe.  The constellation enjoyed great prominence while the Minmatars suffered under the Amarrian yoke.  The Glass Edge served once as a surveillance outpost for the Nefantars, but today it serves as a reminder of what the Nefantars stood for.  The tribe used its privileged position to gather great wealth

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Part 1 "Okay little sister, what's Plan B?" Rosewalker said looking at the holographic model of the old Nefantar stronghold.  "There are a lot of those Gist Angels hanging around there." "Ruptures," Wandering Rose replied.  "We set up a couple of Ruptures with analyzers, park at the containers, deploy the drones, and kill all the scavengers and treasurer hunters until the interference ends and

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The first COSMOS mission I chose to do was Ripple Effects, a level 1 mission.  I did some research but didn't find a description of the mission.  So I thought I'd do a write-up.  Then things got interesting and a "quick" write-up turned into something more... The first location Wandering Rose assigned Rosewalker to check was the reactor factory in Nakugard.  According to the listings from XXXX,

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Having decided what I wanted to do the COSMOS missions in the Ani constellation and done some preliminary intelligence gathering using the Evelopedia and Dotlan, the next step was to actually deploy my ships to the Republic University School station located at Nakugard V.  Why there?  Four reasons.  The first is that Nakugard is centrally located, not only just one jump to 6 of the 7 other

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The Minmatar high-sec COSMOS missions are found in the Ani Constellation.  But the Ani Constellation offers more to players than just a chance at rapid faction gains and a chance to get some meta-level 3 blueprint copies.  Here are some additional reasons why I looked at the Ani Constellation as a fun place to spend the next few weeks playing Eve. Security: The Ani Constellation is a bit unusual

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On Friday I decided I could have fun running COSMOS missions.  But I definitely needed to know more about COSMOS missions.  I'm glad I checked, because these missions are a bit different than the normal ones found in stations.  First off, the agents are found in space.  That's actually part of the reason I want to do the missions; agents in space is different.  Next, COSMOS missions come in two

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Sometimes blogging is very good aid in playing Eve.  I just came across an example.  I was researching an article on uses for dog tags and I stumbled across the Minmatar COSMOS Guide.  Although I'd heard of them vaguely when I read about how to get faction battleships using pirate tags in ISK 3.0, I never really looked into them before now.  I think I've been missing out on an interesting piece

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"Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the

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CCP Sreegs came out with a dev blog yesterday about the use of the new "Report A Bot" feature.  More than 500 reports of suspected bots have come in, and apparently in many cases the person submitting the report is so bad at telling a bot from a real player that CCP Sreegs actually suspects some players are actually using the feature to try to grief other players.  Hard to believe, right? Being

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The skill queue.  For some, the fact that learning skills are time-based is an absolute turn-off to playing Eve Online.  For me, creating and maintaining my skill queues is an interesting mini-game that I spent most of my dedicated Eve time on this weekend. Grasping and accepting the skill queue in Eve takes a different mindset than when playing a fantasy MMORPG like World of Warcraft.  In a

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At the beginning of the year I wrote about how I wanted to lose another 10 pounds on top of the 45 pounds I lost last year.  After a bunch of starts and stops I think I'm finally in the dieting groove and I'm only 3 pounds away from my goal.  But temptation is always out there and today I faced my biggest test yet: cupcakes.  I'm not sure exactly who brought them in, but there were cupcakes

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Last night I managed to sneak in one mission before going to sleep.  Eve Survival is nice that way.  I can look up the mission and figure out how long it will take.  I did part one of The Rogue Slave Trader and it only took 15 minutes.  That fit right in my play schedule. While doing the mission I decided to play with the tactical display for the first time.  I must not have used it right,

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Today marks the two year anniversary of when I began playing Eve Online.  Two years!  And looking back, one year ago today a player lost 74 PLEX while flying in a Kestrel in Jita while war-dec'd.  I usually take a look back every six months or so to just look back at what I've done and what I'd like to do in the future. So what have I accomplished over the past year?  Not much, if anything

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I've wasted the last few weekends trying to catch up on sleep.  I'm getting old and getting home from work at 2am and leaving the house at 7 or 7:30am is just not something I can effortlessly do anymore.  But this weekend looks to be different and hopefully the little bit of time I could devote to Eve last night is a good sign. First, I was inventing Muninn blueprint copies and when I started

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I've spent a good portion of my time figuring out how to fit my cargo-carrying ships and Nanofiber Internal Structure II modules always seem to wind up in my fits.  I have a need for speed in wanting to get places fast.  Maybe that's just natural for all Minmatar pilots.  I don't know.  But as I surf the internet, I'm discovering that nanofibers are not just some futuristic material that someone

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Today is the day that Rosewalker receives his Elite Core Competency certificate.  I've always thought that rule 2 of Eve should be: don't fly what you can't fly well.  I might not have the actual skill to fly a ship well, but I don't have the excuse I can't fit my ship properly.  Here is the description of Elite Core Competency: "This certificate represents an elite skillset in core skills. It

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Now that CCP will no longer release the Quarterly Economic Report, attempting to get subscription numbers will be a challenge.  Is the cancellation of the QEN a reaction to bad news caused by Monoclegate?  And does that mean the subscription numbers are bad? I thought I'd take a look at July's peak concurrent user (PCU) numbers and try to determine the answer for myself. One thing that stuck

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