Eve Online

I recently resubscribed to EVE Online (a Terrible Spacehip Game In Space) and re-joined my old alliance, Goonswarm Federation. Catching up on what’s been going on, I came across this talk by Sion Kumitomo, our chief diplomat. Diplomacy is a hugely important factor in how the GSF ascended to where it is right now and has remained there, even after being almost destroyed. As player presentations go, this is one of the best I’ve seen in a long time. ...

Come November, New Eden will be potentially thrown into chaos. I suspect this because the upcoming sovereignty changes will drastically overhaul how territory is held in EVE Online and will make 0.0 much more accessible to the myriad lowsec corporations and alliances with designs on greatness. I, for one, welcome the change, assuming CCP don’t fuck it up and break everything. While it will not eliminate the phenomenon of New Eden’s power blocs holding vast swathes of space: ...

I’ve been digging through our forum archives and have come across a bunch of funny ‘fanfics’, if you can call them that, harking back to the Syndicate days. So I share one of them with you now. Goonswarm presents: Flight of the Burkey Remedial stood upon the main observation deck of S-U8A4 V – Moon 1, Ishukone Corporation Factory, giggling as the Band of Brothers formed a blockade around the undock point. ...

As those of you not living under a digital rock may be aware, BoB is no longer. See: https://myeve.eve-online.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=990381 if you do exist under 10 thousand tons of e-rock. Since then, we have made a beeline (hah, bee joke!) for Delve, understandably, along with the rest of our motley crew of allies (Pandemic Legion, Razor, ZAF, UNL, etc), well-wishers (everyone that hates BoB) and space ninjas (hi TCF!). Since then, we have been steadily gaining ground in systems in Delve. ...

This news may not come as a massive surprise to most people who keep vaguely up-to-date with the goings-on in the world of New Eden. In fact it’s been covered by a few newspapers and magazines and so forth, if rumours are to be believed. I mean, of course, the Council of Stellar Management (CSM) which CCP have introduced as a (somewhat late) response to the outrage that a lot of players expressed at their atrocious handling of the T20 incident – where a CCP developer in Band of Brothers (BoB) spawned and gave his corpmates T2 BPOs. ...

I’ve been reading about, and harshly ending the dreams of, small 0.0 alliances along with the rest of Goonfleet for a while now and a pattern has emerged that has proven true for a lot of them. They claimed to possess power far greater than they actually did and inflated their egos far beyond what is reasonable, acceptable and, frankly, healthy. Case in point: Triumvirate – a 0.0 alliance which has, admittedly existed in the North for a good while, since the D2 wars. ...

Currently the Red Swarm Federation and associated allied entities controls about 1/3rd of 0.0 (at least in terms of space that’s worth anything). Some people like the article in May’s PC Gamer claim that we are now doing what BoB did by installing vassal corps and alliances in our space to hold it, but in truth what we do is vastly different. While BoB charged for their space and expected the rent to be paid promptly or the renting alliance would face expulsion or military action, the Swarm gives out the space freely to allies with no strings attached. ...

It’s been a while since I’ve done an EVE-related post, largely down to the fact that I have been doing university work and as such have not had chance to play EVE to any greater extent than “Log in, change skill, log out” As a result of this, my assets are now stuck in an enemy-owned station and I suspect I am the last GF member to have a character there. ...

Joy! Another EVE post you cry! Meh. Trinity II is upon us now. For those not in the know (or in the care), Trinity is the new shiny all-singing, all-dancing graphics overhaul that EVE has undergone. It comes in 2 flavours: classic and premium. The difference is that the premium version (which is free, oddly) comes with the aforementioned shiny new things like new ship models, station models and the like as well as the new modular interface (finally). ...

Picking up where I left off in the previous blog post, I will now try to explain why I said that CCP is stupid for meddling in the mechanics of the game without first gaining a more thorough understanding of the effects of their changes. Before I go into the hows and wherefores of CCP’s perceived stupidity, I would like to explain the unique structures that exist in EVE’s economic sandbox. ...

Yet another blog about that wonderfully detailed and in-depth game, EVE Online which I play on a fairly regular basis. This time it’s less about what I do on the day-to-day basis and the War and so forth. I’d like to take a step back, or out, if you will and talk about CCP‘s intervention in the game. The case in point is that over the last 6 months or so, CCP have implemented a number of changes to the game, some of which have been beneficial, while others have been detrimental. ...

This is EVE. A game of incredible depth and limitless possibilities for the good, the evil, the criminally insane and the megalomaniacal. A game where anything goes. Player-created markets Territorial conflict Player-run corporations (corps) and alliances No defined “endgame” Lying, cheating, stealing, scamming all allowed. In the midst of this is a power struggle of titanic proportions. A war the likes of which no online game has ever seen. ...

Canary Wharf Panoramic Yet another weekend sailed by without me noticing it much. It’s good when they do that. Means you’ve had a good time. Spent the weekend at my friend’s place and yet again I return with yet more marks of dubious origin all over me. Good fun. Spent saturday mostly asleep. I dimly recall getting up for food, deciding we were gonna go see Bourne Supremacy and then passing out again. ...