In my last Guild Launch Exploring EVE Online column, The Metagame Rabbit Hole, I discussed the complex communications and entertainment infrastructure that supports CCP Pokethulhu’s “Nation of EVE”. As with any society, EVE Online‘s intertwined communities are linked together by a broad spectrum of interaction, most notably the player-driven news media. Read more…
Following news that CCP are re-introducing live events into New Eden, they also tantalisingly hint in this developers blog that they will involve “interactive storylines”, the first of which has already begun “in-game across all sectors of space and through other out-of-game mediums” and involves “one of New Eden’s oldest Read more…
Although a few days later than originally scheduled, the first part of the Freebooter’s duel for CEO status took place last night. Our heated pre-combat discussions were witnessed by Rebecca Aventine, a local war correspondent who has been visiting the Old Pond Pub channel to sample the ‘local colour’ of Read more…
“Mos Eisley spaceport: You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.” – Obi-wan Kenobi, Star Wars With the low-sec regions north of Providence now relatively unpoliced after the TREAD exodus, things in the Derelik region have settled into a new routine. It’s fairly quiet, with small Read more…
It is a sad thing to report the collapse of an alliance and I’ve left it long enough now for it to almost be old news, so this is more of an obituary and a tribute. TREAD alliance has been disbanded. My association with TREAD alliance was brief and as Read more…
Greenbeard, the egocentric narcissist that founded Greenbeard’s Freebooters, has returned to the spacelanes of New Eden after several months of apparent cabbage-worrying. The first thing he did was challenge yours truly for the CEOship of our corporation. So the gauntlet has been cast down and picked up. We’ve agreed to Read more…
Odd as it may seem, despite our corporation being nearly seven years old we’ve never been part of an alliance, even though I’m still convinced I invented alliances back in early 2004. However, this has finally changed and I can proudly announce that Greenbeard’s Freebooters are now members of the Read more…
Hardly breaking news, but CrazyKinux‘s Blog Pack has just absorbed lots of new blogs, including this one. Now it’s more of a Blog Mob, but in a good way rather than pitchforks-and-torches kind of way or even an organised crime kind of way. Although now I think about it, I Read more…
So there’s to be a shake-up in the upper echelons of the EVE blogosphere. Interesting. CrazyKinux, the blogger behind the organisation and selection of the original Blog Pack, is looking to revitalise the format by removing inactive bloggers and allowing the community to nominate replacements. Initially, I was led to Read more…