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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......
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June 2020 Monthly Economic Report Analysis and EVE’s Potential Economic Crisis
The Monthly Economic Report for June was released on July 23rd, and it paints a clear picture of the consequences created by changes to money-making activities and the ships that perform those activities. We can see that NPC bounties are......
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A Very Conservative War
“De l’audace, encore de l’audace, toujours de l’audace . . .” -Georges Danton. War never changes, at least in EVE Online. No matter how many times CCP changes the sov system, the ship mechanics, the resource mechanics, the funda...
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World War Bee: Week Three
Three weeks into World War Bee and the advantage between its parties has stabilized at about a 60-40% ISK loss split. That equals roughly 2.9 trillion ISK lost by the Imperium and 2 trillion ISK by PandaFam and Legacy. By aggregating battle......
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Sins of a Solar Spymaster
38: Self-Immolation for Fun and Profit
The saga of Goonswarm could only end in two ways. The first was the way 90% of alliances die, a tale so humdrum that it draws preemptive yawns as soon as someone begins launching into it: yet another tale of…
Sins of a Solar Spymaster
37: War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning
At last, war has returned to Delve. We may look back on the past week and say that this was the beginning of the Third Great War, or we may end up merely smirking and giggling and making one of…
Sins of a Solar Spymaster
36: All Bugged Up
Dominion! A galaxy full of war! Large scale conflicts in every major sector, TCUs and SBUs popping up all across New Eden, fleets and supercapitals exploding and dying in appropriately dramatic ways! It’s a pity that the servers are horrifically…
Sins of a Solar Spymaster
34: Dominion Analysis
I had a few ideas for this week’s column, but it kept getting put off. Not because I didn’t have a topic, but because I kept finding myself playing a spaceship game called “Eve Online” in my spare time, a…
Sins of a Solar Spymaster
33: Preparing for Patch Day
Survival in EVE is never easy, and life in New Eden becomes even more Darwinian when patch day hits. The Tranquility server goes up and down like a cheap whore, the markets are thrown into total chaos, and alliances scramble…
Sins of a Solar Spymaster
32: The Most Dangerous Agent
No player personifies the ‘operator’ class of agent quite like this man, who has chosen to be referred to as ‘Darwin’s Accelerator’ for this interview. Unlike many agents who pull off a big win and then bask in fame after…
Sins of a Solar Spymaster
31: Lessons from a Failed Invasion
Invasions are one of the more common events in nullsec, yet they are always the focus of intense interest, captivating the attention of the playerbase. The vast majority of invasions fail, with the aggressing alliance falling afoul of the defender’s…
Sins of a Solar Spymaster
30: Dominion Preview
Barely over one month to go until Dominion releases, and at last – amidst the flotsam and jetsam of post-Fanfest flus, hangovers, and developer chit-chat – at last we have some hard data, real numbers, and SiSi patches to pore…
Sins of a Solar Spymaster
29: Partying the Right Way at Fanfest
As I write this, Serious Gaming Journalists are rushing to scoop each other about the Dust 514 announcements and various changes to EVE gameplay uncovered at Fanfest 2009. In about a week we’ll be able to link to interviews, EVE-TV…
Sins of a Solar Spymaster
28: Irresponsible Speculation Edition
I bash this out on the verge of my red-eye flight to the land of ‘people who eat rotten shark and make spaceship games’ for the 2009 EVE Fanfest – my first time attending the event. One goon helpfully offered…
Sins of a Solar Spymaster
27: The Five Types of Alliance Leader
With the upcoming Dominion expansion’s emphasis on introducing a broader section of the playerbase to the joys of alliance life and warfare, now is a great time to examine some of the most common types of leader. In the past…
Sins of a Solar Spymaster
26: The Doomsday Epitath
News is beginning to leak steadily about the upcoming Dominion expansion and its planned changes to the sovereignty mechanics, both from official channels like the CCP blogs, and from conversations with developers at events like PAX. Of all the radical…
Sins of a Solar Spymaster
25: Unholy DUST
A week full of big EVE news occurred while I was away in the wilds of northern Michigan on vacation, sans internet. Nothing provides entertainment in New Eden quite like wondering what the beer-addled Devs are going to pull out…
Sins of a Solar Spymaster
24: An Interview with the Rat
One of the most effective and long-serving agents in the GIA, Vile Rat, has done double-duty as both an agent and a diplomat in Goonswarm. Often, the lines between diplomacy and espionage blur. I’ve taken some of his time to…
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