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Jin’terviews – Merkelchen on the CSM 14 Summer Summit
Earlier this week, before the release of the CSM minutes, I had the chance to sit down with Merkelchen in order to discuss his thoughts on the summit. Whilst the news cycle will undoubtedly be focusing on those minutes, it’s......
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Two Months of “Chaos”
Two months ago, I wrote a short little piece entitled “Why the Nullsec Blackout Won’t Fix EVE.” In it, I made some observations about what CCP said they were up to, how some groups of players were seeing it as......
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Jin’talks – Stop Reworking the NPE
During the past 3 years we’ve seen 3 consecutive different New Player Experience models. We entered 2016 with the traditional basis of the tutorial agents, which had been the core of EVE’s NPE for over 5 years at that point,......
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September Release: Cynos, Triglavian Implants, Animations, and Fitting Updates
Game developer CCP’s upcoming patch will introduce some changes that are widely anticipated, and others that have been announced only recently. One particular change affects the way capital, supercapital, and industrial ships travel. These changes ...
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Eve Online October Update: New Triglavian Content
Spoilers about really cool stuff in the game that got me excited to play and talk about Eve Online below. You have been warned. The latest update for Eve Online has been delivered, bringing a new Triglavian site for players…
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An Evening Killing Triglavians
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FW Leaders Agree to Moratorium on Mission Farming
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Elite Dangerous Community in Uproar After Botched Patch
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WinterCo Keepstars: Buy Five, Let Five Go Free
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Jin’terviews – Merkelchen on the CSM 14 Summer Summit
Earlier this week, before the release of the CSM minutes, I had the chance to sit down with Merkelchen in order to discuss his thoughts on the summit. Whilst the news cycle will undoubtedly be focusing on those minutes, it’s…
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Raindancing, Demigods and A Conspicious Lack of Vision: CSM Summit Minutes Released
CCP have released the Summit Minutes of CSM 14. Weighing in at around 70 pages, it details most of the 20+ Sessions that pertained between 2-5 September in Iceland. This opinionated bullet-pointed summary details some of the key points of…
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IN DEFENSE OF POS WARFARE, PART ONE
This is the first of a series of articles intended to address the current failings of EVE’s nullsec game mechanics and to compare these mechanics to those of antiquity in a likely-foolhardy attempt to advocate for a complete revamp of…
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PSA: Triglavian Invasion in New Player Hub
As we all know, the Triglavian Collective has been invading high-security space in recent months, and following the most recent patch, they have expanded their invasion front further to include low-sec. However, low-sec areas are not the only place the…
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Jin’talks – What Has CCP Gotten Right in 2019?
It was pointed out to me in a few conversations recently that my articles have been predominantly negative, as I’ve looked at aspects of the game that I don’t think have been well handled, from Citadels through Supercapitals to the…
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Showdown in Detorid
A hotly anticipated assault on Winter Coalition iHubs was carried out across downtime and the early afternoon of September 22, in the Detorid region. With seventeen iHubs on the menu (including the key IAS-I5 keepstar system), both Legacy and Winter…
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Inner Hell’s Hole Control Mastery Equals N0MEX Keepstar Kill
Early Saturday, September 21, Anomalous Existence [N0MEX] lost its Keepstar in J150869, a C2 wormhole they’ve called home since early 2013. The loss cost the corp and its alliance Spatial Instability [SPIN] an estimated 500b ISK, which included subcaps, caps…
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