With the latest EVE Online expansion, Inferno, comes the promise of many things; a revitalised faction warfare dynamic, a refined system for defining wars and allies, the means to hire mercenaries and some spectacular new combat animations (see EVE Online: So Beautiful, I Can’t See It for more on this). Read more…
One quiet Sunday afternoon two gentlemen bloggers, rather than waxing lyrical upon the idiosyncrasies of our favourite internet spaceship game and mulling over the finer points of bloggery, decided to blow the crap out of each other instead. Of course, bloggers being bloggers meant we had to write about it Read more…
For some, the thrill of ship combat in EVE Online is heading out into the unknown in search of conflict. However, I find lengthy roams are often fruitless and unrewarding and, in my experience, the victor is often decided by weight of numbers. But one man’s “Blob” is another man’s “Good Fite”. Read more…
They say you shouldn’t undock in anything you’re not prepared to lose. My recent duels with blogging forefather and upstart colonial Kirith Kodachi seem to show I’ve taken this ethos a step further and only undock if I’m prepared to do everything in my power to ensure my own destruction. Read more…
These days, my EVE-related activities are more metagame than actual EVE-playing. I spend hours every week reading, writing and recording EVE-flavoured things, but very little time actively flying my internet spaceships. This makes me sad. I enjoy the meta-activities too much to give them up and until I learn how Read more…
For the last few weeks I’ve been indulging myself in the glorious visuals of the Singularity server. Within hours (and probably by the time you read this) the visual feast will spill over into New Eden proper. The breathtaking beauty of the nebulae backgrounds has been well documented elsewhere (Interstellar Read more…
The majority of ships seen in New Eden are of common stock, their hull designs originating from one of the four major Empires. Every once in a while a less common ‘faction’ ship will be sighted, flown by the more affluent capsuleers. But look amongst the NPC fleets encountered in Read more…
Incarna and the NeX store have been sidelined and presumably with them CCP’s plans to experiment with EVE Online’s subscription model. The brave folly of Incarna development was an attempt to make EVE Online attractive to a new demographic whilst introducing a new revenue stream. Sadly, neither is looking likely Read more…
The “Devblog” The internet is a strange and unpredictable thing, especially when populated with EVE players. Last week, whilst suffering from a bout of post-night shift insomnia, I entertained myself for a few hours by following up on a half-baked idea I’d been sitting on. I posted a link to Read more…
Having been bothered by the discontent of many EVE players in recent months, I gave some thought to how I might ease their strife. One of the key issues that was causing upset was the high graphical demands of the Captain’s Quarters allegedly melting graphics cards and bringing lesser machines Read more…