Arrendis
At almost nine years, EVE is the third-longest bad habit of my life. When not playing EVE, I'm usually spouting off about something in a way that's going to make someone irritated, or spending time with the incomparable Fluffy von Bloodletter, whose actual name is Hank. But let's face it, Fluffy von Bloodletter's a much better name, even for a cat.
Contact Information
- Name: Bill McDonough
- Public Email: bmcdonough@themittani.com
- Discord Name: Arrendis
My Articles
Devblog
CCP 2020 EVE Security Update
On July 29, CCP released their EVE Security Update for 2020. In it, they put up a bunch of interesting numbers: botting accounts banned, number of reports files, number of accounts filing reports, and more, all for the first seven…
News
CSM15 Election Results
The results of the CSM15 Election are in! Despite an abbreviated campaign and voting season this year, players cast over 36,000 votes in this year’s election. The winners are: Brisc Rubal—The Initiative. Gobbins—Pandemic Horde Innominate—Goonswarm Federation Kenneth Feld—Pandemic Legion Maria…
Eve Online
FANFEST 2020 CANCELLED
FEBRUARY 28—CCP announced today that FanFest 2020 is cancelled. The move comes in response to the continuing spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus, and is being taken as a precautionary measure. In the announcement, and accompanying EVE Pulse video CCP Dopamine…
Eve Online
The Imperium Welcomes Ranger Regiment as Trial Members
Ranger Regiment has joined the Imperium. In a post of the same title on the official Goonfleet forums, Goonswarm alliance CEO and Imperium autocrat the Mittani announced the move and extended the coalition’s hand in friendship. “I would like to…
Eve Online
Saviors Are Nothing Of the Sort
Three weeks ago, Dirk Stetille and I interviewed CCP Masterplan, of Team Talos. During that interview, we talked about how Talos sees Fleet Logistics—remote assistance—as a thing that’s inhibiting conflict in EVE. At the time, I said (in the interview,…
News
FALCON DEPARTS CCP
In a tweet released earlier today, Verone, a.k.a. ex-CCP Falcon, announced his departure from CCP. The announcement came after nearly a week of speculation on reddit and other sites, stemming mostly from Falcon’s absence at EVE Vegas, as well as an extended…
Talkshows
Announcing Reboot of The Meta Show
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 6, 2019 INN Announcement: Reboot of “The Meta Show” Addition of New Co-Host, Format and Style The Imperium News Network, EVE Online’s largest player-run media enterprise, is announcing today that it is rebooting its flagship EVE…
News
EVE Vegas 2019: EVE Echoes Into The Future
EVE Online is a game with a strong, active metagame that has come to consume large segments of the game. Now, CCP is learning to play the metagame themselves. In a new press release, CCP has beat themselves to the…
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
Cyno Changes: Too Long For Twitter
This afternoon, someone pointed me to a tweet from the official EVE Online account that asked for a response. It’s about the cyno changes, and how people feel about them. So I started to respond. Then I realized there’s no…
Humor
Nullsec Blackout: Triglavian Inversion
GALACTIC NEWS HOUR ROUNDUP: WHAT THE HELL IS THIS CRAP? EDITION Hysteria rules as all across New Eden, as reports come in of communications systems gone completely haywire. In nullsec, Local has suddenly and mysteriously begun functioning again, while it…
Eve Online
Why the Nullsec Blackout Won’t Fix EVE
After Downtime on Friday, Jul 12, nullsec went dark. The Nullsec Blackout is a period of ‘undetermined’ duration, during which Local chat will function in ‘delayed mode’. This means that until a character enters text into Local, they will not…
Eve Online
Local Blackout Scheduled, CCP Already Inconsistent
Nullsec is going dark. At downtime on Friday, July 12, CCP will be enacting the ‘Nullsec Blackout’, an attempt to shake things up in null and see what happens. The outage is a test, first announced in a Scope video…
Eve Online
Drifter Onslaught—What We Know, What We Think, What We’ve Heard
On Wednesday, June 26, Drifter forces began attacking capsuleer structures all over New Eden’s null-sec regions. The sudden assault came as a surprise (though some have claimed ‘I totally knew it was coming’), and reinforced or destroyed structures from Esoteria…
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