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Jin’terviews – Merkelchen on the CSM 14 Summer Summit
Earlier this week, before the release of the CSM minutes, I had the chance to sit down with Merkelchen in order to discuss his thoughts on the summit. Whilst the news cycle will undoubtedly be focusing on those minutes, it’s......
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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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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…
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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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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…
Eve Online
Weekly Roundup: More Cyno Changes, EVE Vegas, EVE Portal 2019
EVE developer CCP served up two portions of ‘chaos’ and one new out-of-game resource in the last week. These announcements, momentous in their own right, might have been overlooked as players in CCP’s ‘Chaos Era’ increasingly view major changes as,…
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Blackout – A Positive Side
TLDR: A bunch of kill reports since blackout that started with my corp getting together and deciding we wanted to do stuff. Some yielded huge success, some yielded welps. None of these were any more than 1-1.5 hours of prep…
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Shooting the Messenger: A Perspective on the Age of Chaos
An Icy Reception I can already hear the bleating… “Nullbear!” “Carebear!” “Adapt or die!” “When you quit, can I have your stuff?” So, before I step into the ring and criticise CCP’s proposed cyno changes—their latest foray in their ongoing,…
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Devpost: Update to Planned Cyno Changes
As everyone knows by now, one major change in the next update is which ships can use the different types of cynos. Currently, there are two types in the game: the standard cyno that any ship with the fittings and…
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Inner Hell Destroys The Mighty Beans in J165940
On August 26 in J165940 a massive battle took place over the final timer of a faction Fortizar owned by The Mighty Beans. The attackers, Inner Hell, have recently evicted multiple C5 PvP corps and started evicting the defenders, The…
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Blackout! CHAOS! MER July 2019!
[WARNING: CONTAINS GRAPHS] On August 23, CCP finally released the July Monthly Economic Report. Here at INN, we have been discussing doing an in-depth quarterly report to give perspective on the MER, but in light of the changes that are…
Eve Online
A Month With Theta Squad
Hello, dear capsuleers. I am once again bringing you an article about life inside the Imperium. During the war against NCdot, I covered the Scouts and Recon SIGs in an interview with Moomin Amatin. For this review, I spent a…
Eve Online
Trillion ISK fight over Faction Fortizar
As most of you will be aware, August 20 just after downtime a massive fight erupted between Snuffed Out, Initiative and Dead Coalition over the final timer for a Tatara and a Marganis Fortizar belonging to Theran Alliance. Quite often…
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The Fall of Null and Rise of Low
For years there have been cries of how ‘Eve is dead’ and how one update or another will bring about the end of the game. Some of the recent reasons include how the blackout will destroy nullsec (security ratings of…
Op-Ed
Hilmar’s Hubris: Self-Congratulation and Contradiction in the ‘Age of Chaos’
EVE developer CCP is embroiled in a comedy of internal contradiction in the second month of its scorched-earth campaign to break all the toys in New Eden. It all began with an ‘invasion’ of Drifter NPCs in late June, compelling…
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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…
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