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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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The Future of EVE Online: A Question Session
In recent weeks, CCP Games have taken EVE Online into a new “Era of Chaos.” This new era in EVE Online’s development is about “acting more and thinking less,” according to CCP CEO Hilmar Veigar Pétursson, and it is the......
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It’s the Economy, stupid: How imperfect data can tell a perfect tale
This was going to be an article about the MER looking at the impact of the blackout. Then, CCP also announced the blackout was ending, so I was not sure whether to write this piece. During the Great Blackout of…
Eve Online
Breaking News: Freighter with Faction Fortizar Inside killed in J164430
On September 14, an Obelisk with a faction fortizar and fittings was killed in the system of J164430, which is the home system of Scary Wormhole People. The total loss was estimated to be 54.5 billion isk by Zkillboard. According…
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PSA: Nullsec Blackout Ending on Monday
Fresh from the ground at G-Fleet comes some breaking news: the Nullsec Blackout is ending on Monday. That’s right folks, all your issues with local chat and the intel it provides will be no more by downtime on Monday, September…
Eve Online
Human Behavior in the Era of Chaos
“Men wanted for hazardous journey. Low wages, bitter cold, long hours of complete darkness. Safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in event of success.” – advertisement in a London paper for the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, according to legend. Antarctica is…
Eve Online
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…
Op-Ed
How The Minerals We Mine Became Free
One of the oldest memes in EVE (after the currently popular #EVEisDying) was ‘the minerals I mine are free’. With this opening, I have triggered about 10% or more of the EVE player base, and 100% of the economically literate….
Eve Online
Sid Meier’s EVE Online—Learning Lessons from Civilization
Civilization is a series that has been in existence for nearly 30 years. There’s a very good chance that everyone reading this article will have at least heard of it, and an equal chance that almost everyone will have played…
Eve Online
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,…
Eve Online
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 release at downtime on September…
Eve Online
EVE Online is not a PVP game
EVE Online is not a PVP game. It never has been. It’s been a simulation with PVP in it, but it has never been a PVP game. The other day I played a few matches in World of Warships. That…
Eve Online
Iron Armada joins Goonswarm Federation
Iron Armada [FLEEP], is consolidating into a single corporation and joining Goonswarm Federation. This move has come with a number of questions from people within and outside both groups. In order to provide some answers, the announcement comes with a…
News
PSA: The Logs Show Something
On Monday September 2, a post to Reddit revealed the ability for players and bots to detect cloaked ships entering and leaving grids by reading the in-game logging file. The use of this technique will most likely be ruled as…
Op-Ed
The Future of EVE Online: A Question Session
In recent weeks, CCP Games have taken EVE Online into a new “Era of Chaos.” This new era in EVE Online’s development is about “acting more and thinking less,” according to CCP CEO Hilmar Veigar Pétursson, and it is the…
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Kerbal Space Program 2 – Blasting off next spring
One announcement from Gamescom 2019 took the entire internet by storm – Kerbal Space Program 2! The sequel has a tentative release date of Spring 2020 and will expand on the first game’s formula significantly. According to the announcement, we…
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