Category: EVE Online

[Eve] Managing Expectations

The past few weeks I have gotten a great deal of positive feedback about my Eve adventures both here, via email and in-game.   We have seen a sizable number of new players subscribe to Eve, in part because of my promotion of the game and the enjoyment I am experiencing with it.

I need to manage expectations somewhat, because I am cognizant of the fact that I am misleading some people in terms of what they can reasonable expect as a new player starting out in Eve.   To understand my Eve attitude, you need to understand me.

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[Eve] PLEXcapade

Today was a fabulous day in New Eden.   Today my net worth broke 1,000,000,000 ISK* for the first time.   I wish I could claim this was the result of my being some smarter than average capitalist, or a titan of industry, but the fact is, I got lucky.  It was a simple case of being in the right place, at the right time and doing something about the information.

It was just a little PLEXcapade, but I netted just over 500,000,000 ISK in a few short hours.

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[Eve] Wormhole Living

The last few days have been a roller-coaster ride… a  flurry of activity, acclimation and excitement.   We have settled the Wormhole, gotten nearly all of the equipment that we needed into our Station and onlined both our industrial capacities and our defences. 

The past three days have seen us focused on beginning to reap the rewards of our risk-taking, and clear Cosmic Anomalies, mine in our Gravametric sites and we have even had a few members out hitting the Radar, Mag and Ladar sites…

As it turns out, Wormhole living is very ideally suited to a Corporation like INQ-E.  

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[Eve] Some People Call Me A Space Cowboy

Last night, I was floating in our Wormhole, chatting and getting to know some of my Corpmates in INQ-E.   Though I feel like I have been with these guys forever, and have even been promoted to Director of Recruitment for the Corp, it has only been a very short time that I have been playing with them.   Why then, has Eve grabbed ahold of me so completely where dozens of better funded, newer, and shinier MMOs have left me wanting?

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[Eve] Skinning Cats

Someone told me recently that “in Eve there is always more than one way to skin the cat.”

I haven’t done much cat skinning in my day, but since according to the ‘media’ the entire Eve community is sociopathic, sado-masachists who try to murder each other in and out of the game, do all sorts of nasty things and kick puppies for fun, the saying sort of fits…

So there I was ‘skinning my cat’ with little to no success for hours on end… scanning low-sec systems for what we were after… a wormhole to call home.

One of the amazing things that I have come to understand about Eve, is that everything, and I mean everything, is for sale.    Especially information.  You need a reliable contact who knows how to get what you want, and you need a lot of ISK.   Fortunately we have both, and the prize we have been hunting fruitlessly for quite some time was just a several hundred million ISK payment away.

While I was out scanning down sites, the CEO had discover another technique for cat skinning…  Eve Wormhole Real Estate Brokers.   No…  really.   Everything in Eve is for sale.

Last night, after a grand adventure, we moved into our new home, and I couldn’t be happier.   It is exciting and crazy, epic in scope, and so totally unpredictable that it makes me smile that MMOs can in fact deliver content that is dynamic and changeable in a gigantic sandbox.

~Cyndre

 

[GW2] The Speed of Gold

Since ArenaNet has ordained EVE Online to be a spiritual guide to gems in Guild Wars 2, I figured it would be worth taking a look at some of the EVE Online blog bits, which were linked to me by smarter people than I. EVE Online is all about economy. PLEX, which are  1-month subscription coupons, are traded on a market for ISK (gold). Players with a few extra bucks to spend might forego a 3D movie and buy a PLEX to turn it into ISK for their next big spaceship project. Simple economics says that the more demand for PLEX the more ISK someone can make in selling one to the market.

Moonshine-still economics says that this will also get players “farming” more ISK to get more PLEX, and eventually PLEX will be an unworthy amount of time-played value worth of ISK. That’s the way economics works on 180-proof corn mash anyway. Continue reading [GW2] The Speed of Gold

[Eve] Highway To The Dangerzone

I am in the soup now.

24 hours ago, orders came down from the CEO that my particular proclivities could benefit the Corp’s current near term goals in a very specific way.   I enjoy this sort of thing, so fast forward to now, and I am cloaked deep in questionable territory with potential enemies all around, scanning me while I scan them.   So far, I haven’t had to test my evasive maneuvering skills, but I suspect it will only be a matter of time.

Did I mention I like soup?

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[Eve] No Risk, No ISK

It is well established by now that I am as new to New Eden as you can be.   Eight days in, and I have a nice hangar of ships, and around 100,000,000 ISK in the bank.   Who then, in their right mind, would spend 75,000,000 of that hard-earned loot on a Noctis hull plus fittings?  Well, I would of course.

No risk, no ISK!

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