Gwailar
Gwailar first tried EVE in 2008. In 2016 during the Saranen hellcamp he joined Karmafleet. An analyst by nature, he focuses on the strategic and metagame aspects of EVE. If you like his writing, he likes ISK. Tips are welcome.
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Eve Online
Imperium Supercapitals: From Deklein to Delve
When the music stops, whoever has the most [Titans and Supercarriers] wins. The Mittani Five years ago this May, the Imperium was in the midst of a strategic collapse. In the space of a month, one of the most dominant…
Eve Online
Clash of Lowsec Titans: A Trillion ISK Snuffed in Amamake
Early on the morning of April 6, a surprise attack on Snuffed Out’s staging Keepstar in the Amamake system turned into the biggest fight since M2 as Snuffed Out (Snuff) and friends met the attackers (Rekkingcrew (RC) and friends) in…
News
Battle Report: USTZ Border Skirmishes in O-EIMK
For two consecutive nights on April 2 and 3 in USTZ, border skirmishes between PAPI and the Imperium in the O-EIMK constellation in Delve have consumed almost 150 billion ISK in losses. While nothing definitive was gained or lost on…
Eve Online
CCP Industry Changes Livestream
On Monday, March 29, CCP hosted a roundtable discussion and Q&A on their official Twitch channel. The discussion centered on the industry changes announced in via dev blog on March 26. Participants in the almost 90-minute broadcast (which begins at…
Eve Online
PAPI Holds Karmafleet IHUBs
Two days after a large sov victory in which the Imperium captured one IHUB and reinforced several more in the Karmafleet pocket in Delve, PAPI forces have held the line in the followup battle and prevented the Imperium from flipping…
Eve Online
The Imperium Strikes Back
In the early hours of March 13, less than a week after abandoning the M2 hellcamp and within hours of the fall of Big Disco’s Keepstar, the Imperium struck back against PAPI’s conquest of Delve. For the for first time…
Analysis
The HyperNet Relay: A Year in Review
Fifteen months ago CCP introduced a raffle system into EVE called the HyperNet Relay. At the time of its announcement and launch it prompted both a significant amount of hype and a significant amount of pushback among EVE’s player base….
News
Imperium Ends M2 Hellcamp
After an unprecedented nine weeks on grid, the Imperium announced the end of the M2 hellcamp today. “Eventually these things have to end,” Imperium leader The Mittani said in Saturday’s Fireside chat. “This has been the longest hellcamp in the…
Eve Online
BRAVE Rolls the Dice on Querious
After weeks of publicly released and leaked information about Legacy member Brave Collective’s intention to formally relocate its home from Catch to Querious, new details of their plans have emerged in the form of a flowchart that is designed to…
News
CCP Rattati Twitch Q and A
CCP Director of Product CCP Rattati gave a Q&A yesterday on the economics-focused Twitch stream of Oz_Eve. The frank and friendly conversation began with a discussion of CCP Rattati’s promotion to director of product, a leadership and strategic role that…
Op-Ed
Legacy is Bleeding
Test Alliance Please Ignore (TEST), the lead alliance in Legacy coalition, is flying high. Eight months into the current war, their member count is as high as it’s ever been, and the alliance holds more sov than at almost any…
News
Snuff Bluffs
After destroying the Tranquility Trading Consortium’s (TTC) lowsec holdings in Ignoitton last week, lowsec power Snuffed Out (Snuff) announced its intention to mount a similar attack on TTC’s primary holdings, situated in the highsec system of Perimeter. Snuff’s sabre rattling…
Devblog
CCP’s “Expert Systems”
CCP announced today the upcoming launch of a pay-to-play option to help new players get embedded in the game more quickly. Called “Expert Systems,” it will allow players to temporarily buy trained skills in the EVE store. These skills (not…
Op-Ed
The Role of Tribe in EVE
New Eden is a brutal place. Scamming, theft, betrayal – a whole world of bad behavior – are part of the very fabric of this game, and because at each end of every transaction there are real people, the line…
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