ErickAsmock
CEO of Patriotic Tendencies. Bad Golfer, Bad at EVE since 2006, Purveyor of Strawberry Pancakes, Believer that real bacon goes with anything and Canadian bacon is just ham. I enjoy Single Malts and assorted other adult beverages.
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- Name: Erick Asmock
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My Articles
Op-Ed
Why EVE or CCP Games Needs to Fail
(Editor’s Note: The opinions and speculations in this piece are entirely those of the author, and do not represent the position of INN.) Why? Why would someone want a game to fail that they have played for almost two decades?…
Eve Online
EVEsterdam: Updates and Announcements
This year’s EVE Invasion World Tour kicked off this weekend with EVEsterdam. It opened with a keynote that was best characterized as subdued. Part of that, no doubt, stemmed from this being the final public event for CCP Guard. We were, however,…
News
Aether Engine Mass Test
Dubbed Aether Wars by CCP and Hadean, the maker of the Aether Engine, was about to debut. With a hefty target of 10,000 concurrent players, we all waited for the servers to open up access. Would this be the glorious…
News
BREAKING NEWS: CCP Guard Leaving CCP
Art by Major Sniper. CCP Guard, unquestionably one of the most visible faces of EVE Online, announced today he is leaving CCP Games to pursue a new career outside the gaming industry. His announcement, titled Thank You for Everything, appeared…
Eve Online
Renting Period Basis – At a Steep Discount
Today on The Meta Show, Aryth announced Imperium plans to make Period Basis a rental region. This confirms the speculation many have offered as the end game of the work of the last two months. In recent months, The Imperium…
Eve Online
The Next Step in CCP’s Journey
On September 6th, the universe of EVE Online was in the grips of CCP’s latest announcement, that the company was acquired by Pearl Abyss for $425 million—roughly half a billion US dollars. EVE is a game where a billion ISK is…
News
Some Thoughts on the the July 2018 MER and EVE’s Economic Numbers in General
CCP has once again produced the Monthly Economic Report for July 2018 for this paradise we call New Eden. Here we are just beyond the halfway point of 2018. It seems like yesterday we were in the cold grasp of…
News
Two Dev Blogs from CCP Karkur and CCP Fozzie Clues us in to “Little Things” in September and a Personal Cargo Option Released on SISI
On August 29 CCP Karkur released a Little Things Dev Post related to the September Release. CCP looks for “little things” in the game that makes using the interface or some process more challenging than it ought to be. Crusty…
Editorial
Introducing: Delve Time Units
On June 16 on Push to Talk, we introduced the Delve Time Unit, an abstract meta-currency built on the total amount of wealth generated daily in Delve, extrapolated from the Monthly Economic Report. Each month, CCP releases economic data from…
News
May EVE Monthly Economic Report Released
If you’re looking for the data on the May Monthly Economic Report, stay away from CCP’s website unless you like seeing the HTTP 404 errors…for days. I usually stay away from all forums because I consider them a half step…
Eve Online
April Monthly Economic Report – Diving into Numbers off the Beaten Path
Header art by Empanada Welcome to another fun episode of the EVE Online Monthly Economic Report. The April edition has a few gems hidden in it. This month we are going to take a look at Delve in comparison to…
Eve Online
CCP Releases March Economic Report – Highsec Loses Its Production Dominance
Header art by Smultar A few days ago CCP released the latest edition of the Monthly Economic Report for March. For residents of Delve, it did not disappoint. It may even have surprised a few folks. The big news that…
Eve Online
CCP Releases the January 2018 Monthly Economic Report
The first thing I do with the MER each month is to quickly run through the report and see what catches my interest, or makes me go “whoa!”. It’s a terrible habit. Since the scale changes from month to month…
Eve Online
December MER Update
MER, MER on the wall… That’s right I don’t call it the M E R. I am stuck in MER as in mirror. Am I right or wrong…I simply don’t care. The bottom line is that it continues to say…
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