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Back To War

EVE[EVE Online] I left our alliance station in 0.0 space to make the long trip back out to empire. I was flying my Rifter, loaded up with lots of go-fast parts and warp core stabilizers to try to avoid any gate campers along the way.

Not having a lot of people on at the time, I decided to fly it solo without the benefit of a scout. Luckily, the 23 jump trip was uneventful. I then decided to fly another 20+ hops in empire space out to our corporation’s HQ. This trip was safe as there is no war declarations on us. Or should I say was…

Exile has declared war against HUZZAH once again, so starting tonight we will not be safe in empire space. Oh well, at least I got my jump clone set up now. I will attempt to find me some pvp action this time around.

Unfortunately for Exile, they stirred up a bit of a hornets nest this time as they “claimed” ownership of the Misaba system (Update: Exile is denying this) and that pissed off the Curatores Veritatis Alliance. Therefore, the CVA has returned the favor by declaring war on Exile. There are rumors of even more war declarations against Exile forthcoming.

Should be fun.

– Ethic

CCP Cracks The Whip

EVE[EVE Online] CCP just posted a new devBlog and it comes down really hard on cheaters. It appears to even say they are going to go after people that cheated in the past. Mostly it concerns the act of buying/selling ISK via an auction site such as ebay.

I really like what they have to say and I hope it’s not just all smoke and mirrors, which is what I’ve come to expect from previous games attempts to stop such deals. I’ll attach the devBlog below, for those that cannot find it on the main site:

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Life in 0.0

EVE[EVE Online] I took a little trip into 0.0 space. 23 jumps inside 0.0 space to be exact. In all reality, it was a boring trip. Not a single shot was fired.

Thanks to a an escort from my buddy Mathir, and pretty much everyone doing something else, we were able to finally get that BPO delivered to our station. Now I’m kind of stuck there until we get a bit of a convoy back out. I saved a jumpclone so I can come back later to do some PvP.

It’s not all boring out here though, oh no. Check out this little map screen capture from a battle our alliance was involved in tonight. Reports appear to be in our favor, but what a battle it must have been for both sides.

From our corporation press release: “Ars Caelestis pilot Achilles Thorongmor personally assisted in a mammoth twenty two kills, over half of which were Battleship kills.”

Wish I was there.

P.S. New video card! About time I moved up from that 9700pro.

– Ethic

War Changes You

EVE[EVE Online] I recently accepted the offer from my new corporation, which put me at war. The alliance we belong to had another corporation declare war upon us. This allows them to attack us anywhere in the game, even in Empire (normally pretty safe). Concord will not intervene. The only safe spots are when you are docked in a station.

Being 30 jumps away from our 0.0 station, I decided I should fly out there to save a jumpclone. The process to fly from one place to another used to be as simple as setting the destination and clicking the autopilot button. Now, I need to be on the alert all the time.

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Learning Skills

EVE[EVE Online] One of the things EVE Online is known for is skill training in real time. That is, you click the start button, and the skill trains. It takes a certain amount of time, whether you are online or not, and then you get the skill level when that time is up. Pretty simple.

About the only way to make this go faster is to improve your attributes (Perception, Intelligence, etc.), either through the Learning skill set or by buying valuable cybernetic implants. Conversely, the only thing those attributes do is cut skill training times.

As a player, you face a simple choice: learn Learning skills or go for directly useful ones. You must play for a long period of time for the time spent on the Learning skills to pay itself back, but the best time to train those skills is from day one, before you really know whether you want to play EVE. This must have interesting effects on player retention, and I presume that someone at CCP has done the math.

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Return of the Janitor

EVE[EVE Online] I have mentioned before about the Important Storyline mission of “give the janitor a ride to his vacation spot.” Working for another corporation recently, I was again offered the chance to be a janitor’s taxi, a mission that strongly affected my standings with several empires. This is a janitor of some import. I realized, talking with him while we warped between systems, that the janitor is actually Chuck Norris.

As the greatest actor of our time might say, “Whoa.”

: Zubon

Work vs. Game

In-game, we do not have five-hour meetings. When we get a large group of people together for five hours, we are going to slaughter things by the thousand.

In-game, we do not spend the first half hour of our gathering engaging in a clever ice-breaker, to help get those creative juices flowing and put everyone in the right mental place for a free-wheeling discussion. We spend the first half-hour alt-tabbed, reading web pages while waiting for everyone to get to the right zone. We may also be discussing character builds or the latest test server notes on Teamspeak. (If anyone has a way for me to alt-tab from life during clever ice-breakers, please post it in the comments. No PDAs.)

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War: What’s It Good For?

EVE[EVE Online] I have decided to join up with a corporation thanks to a good friend in EVE. Now I find myself on the verge of an all-out war. The alliance the corp belongs to is at war, so we are at war. I have not yet accepted the offer from the corp, I am still relatively safe.

A whole new portion of the game is opening before my eyes. How can I get out to the somewhat safe space controlled by my new corp? I could fly out as close as possible in Empire and then accept the offer – flying the final distance in a fast ship. Another option is that I could get an escort.

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Stay Tuned

wow[World of Warcraft] I met a friend that I haven’t seen in a while for lunch today. He’s been playing WoW since Beta thanks to a friend at Blizzard that got him in. His guild has been around since then and is now the top guild in his PvP server. The man loves the game and talking to him about it can be frustrating at times since he has developed a bit of an ego about it. His server is currently lagging far behind my humble low population PvE server and I took the chance today to rip him about it a little. He sounded dejected the moment I brought it up and went on to explain how bad things have gotten on his server.

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