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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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[DD] Financial Models

As I write this, Dungeon Defenders costs $14.99 on Steam and has $39.84 worth of DLC. This soundly trumps last year’s post on Civ V, and it is something I did not see coming for this game. Only a few dollars of that is purely cosmetic; it includes new classes, missions, holiday events, and conventional expansions. At the end of last year, you could get the whole game with all expansions for $6.20 on sale. If this works for them, Trendy Entertainment has found a highly profitable variation on the cash shop model.

Of course, this comes nowhere close to Railworks 3: Train Simulator 2012. As I write this, it costs $34.99 and has $1,869.03 (not a typo) worth of DLC. It seems to be priced to be competitive with buying actual miniature train sets.

: Zubon

Update: as commenter Galaji mentions, the Dungeon Defenders holiday event DLCs are free if you get them at the time. I was rather surprised by the Presidents Day event.

Platform Independence

Say what you will about their product, Taco Bell is serious about getting people to take customer satisfaction surveys. The back of the receipt asks you to visit this website, or call this number, or scan this barcode to connect on your mobile phone, or text them “TACO” to have the link sent to your phone. The survey is asking you to do something for them for the minute chance of a reward, and they are making it convenient to do so. Most companies make it more difficult to give them money.

: Zubon

#takeyourmodelswhereyoucangetthem

[GW] HoM Check: 25/50

The Hall of Monuments provides a convenient way of summarizing how much “stuff” you’ve done in Guild Wars, at least to completion. I am at 25 points. I have done almost everything there is to do in-game at least once. I still have two Eye of the North dungeons I have not visited, a few Factions challenge missions I have never run, and I have only tried the solo-queue PvP options. I also have not run every quest, but the only one left that seems strongly recommended is the titan-clearing chain at the end of Prophecies. I have repeated some but not all on hard mode.

Touring Hall of Monuments categories: Continue reading [GW] HoM Check: 25/50

[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

 

[SWTOR] Return of the Jedis

My son and I are still happily playing Star Wars: The Old Republic with our Jedi characters. We have reached level 14. We’ve tried a few Heroic quests and a Flashpoint but most were a little too difficult for us at the level we attempted them. Regardless, there are a lot of quests to do and stories to play out and we are loving every minute of it. It’s been a long time since I’ve played a game that I had fun with and was in no rush to finish. I feel no need to hurry up to catch up with friends, no big item hanging in front of me to rush towards. Just plain fun play.

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[GW2] GameStop Pre-Sellurchasing CE Today!

For better or worse, the only Guild Wars 2 Collector’s Edition retailer in the U.S., GameStop, has the Collector’s Edition in their system, and they are ready to start selling it now. I went to my local GameStop to pre-order the pre-purchase, which will be available April 10, 2012. Here’s why: Continue reading [GW2] GameStop Pre-Sellurchasing CE Today!

[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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