CCP Games video interview on the Council of Stellar Management
Massively — Filed under: Sci-fi, Video, EVE Online, Economy, Events, real-world, Interviews, MMO industry, News items MMORPG.com's video scoop from the Leipzig Games Convention wasn't limited to info on EVE Online's upcoming expansions. They also got some face time with Lead Economist Dr. Eyjólfur Guðmundsson of CCP Games, who discusses some of CCP's projects and initiatives, namely the Council of Stellar Management (CSM). Dr. Guðmundsson shares his point ...

Silicon Knights developer says EVE is better than WoW
Massively — ... Silicon Knights President Dennis Dyack is apparently a balanced gamer. Sure, he's worked on games like Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain and he's president of the company behind the big Xbox 360 exclusive Too Human. But it would appear that he's also a connoisseur of MMOs. He told videogaming247 that EVE Online is (for him, at least) a better game than World of Warcraft. "I know it's a lot harder core," he said, "but the depth of it's unparalleled and I love it." It's been mentioned again and again how ...

The 10 Commandments of EVE
Massively — ... EVE Online tends to appeal to MMO players who like the depth and complexity of a sci-fi game where players have the freedom to act as they wish in a vast galaxy. But that freedom comes with a price; ...

EVE Visual Guide: The Birth of New Eden
Massively — ... The backstory of EVE Online is one of the game's major strengths. Not all players immerse themselves in the setting, which is a shame as the backstory -- built up over years -- is rich. No epic science fiction tale is without a grand struggle, and the story of ...

EVE's Empyrean Age 1.1 patch to bring "power to the people"
Massively — Filed under: Sci-fi, EVE Online, Bugs, Expansions, Game mechanics, Patches, News items CCP Games promised a number of fixes to EVE Online in Empyrean Age 1.1, the "power to the people" patch. Now that the patch notes are up, it seems they weren't exaggerating the extent to which the game is being tweaked. The patch will be deployed on Tuesday, September 2nd. Although it's a lengthy downtime (11:00 - 17:00 GMT), they don't anticipate the forums being taken down. ...

EVE Fanfest PvP Tournament rules announced with video demo
Massively — ... in July, but they've now clarified the rules and systems to be used; a video they've put up on the official EVE site does a good job of explaining how it's all going to work. ...

CCP Games video interview on player interaction with fiction
Massively — Filed under: Sci-fi, Video, EVE Online, Events, real-world, Events, in-game, Expansions, Interviews, Lore, PvP, News items, PvE The backstory of EVE Online is something that CCP Games has put a great deal of time and effort into creating. As all MMOs are ongoing works, so too are EVE's backstory and the storyline that players experience. To that end, CCP has people like Lead Writer Tony Gonzales (author of The Empyrean Age ...

EVE Online interview discusses players determining storyline
Massively — ... a gamer-run internet radio station (with a noticeable sci-fi MMO bent) recently interviewed Scott Holden, Lead Content Creator of EVE Online at ...

EVE Evolved: Money for nothing
Massively — ... In most MMOs, making currency without actually playing usually involves rule-breaking macro-farming which risks getting your account banned. In EVE Online, however, a number of viable options exist for making ISK with absolutely no effort. From hiring research and development agents to public investment schemes and even a player-run bank, there are plenty of ways to make ISK in ...

The great divide between EVE's players and developers
Massively — ... Once upon a time, there was a game about internet spaceships set in a vast galaxy, just waiting to be explored and conquered. It wasn't a huge game in terms of subscribers, in fact it was quite niche, but its small following was devoted. The size of the community allowed ...

Drugs aren't bad in EVE, m'kay?
Massively — ... To understand boosters though, we'll need to look into the game's setting a bit first. The thing to remember is that as a player, you're a capsuleer. You're not standing on the bridge of your ship barking orders at subordinates. Rather, you're floating inside a metallic capsule deep within your ship. Your mind is interfaced with the ship you pilot via neural implants, thus your vessel is an extension of your body and its senses; you regulate the ship's activities merely by thinking about them. Not all people in EVE's setting of New Eden have the raw ...

MMO features that haven't made it into Warhammer Online
Massively — ... like to see in WAR, you know he's not bashing a game that's not even out of the gate yet. Rather, he's genuinely looking at ways the game could be better. Syp puts forth his ideal WAR feature set, which includes capturable and trainable pets similar to World of Warcraft's system and the player-created content and sidekicks of City of Heroes. Syp would also like to see WAR include an in-game music player like EVE Online, and other features drawn from Everquest 2 and Lord of the ...

Strategy Informer interviews CCP Games about the future of EVE Online
Massively — Filed under: Sci-fi, EVE Online, Business models, Culture, Economy, Game mechanics, Interviews, Crafting Gaming site Strategy Informer recently spoke with CCP Games about what the future may hold for EVE Online. The interview focused on two facets of the game: EVE's economy, and the fact that with other sci-fi MMO titles like Jumpgate Evolution on the way, EVE may face increased competition in the coming months and ...

EVE Online's answer to GPS
Massively — ... EVE Online is a vast setting where all players interact in one galaxy. While other MMOs are sharded across different servers, some with different locales, ...

The political machinations of EVE Online
Massively — Filed under: Sci-fi, EVE Online, Economy, Events, in-game, Game mechanics, Guilds, MMO industry, PvP, Endgame, News items, Politics, Roleplaying Game journalist and EVE Online player Jim Rossignol has been coming to grips with the idea of conflict in EVE, in a series of articles written for Eurogamer. Rossignol began by looking at "the basic principles of killing people" and progressing to the large scale conflicts between ...

Age of Conan direct download available on Steam
Massively — Filed under: Fantasy, Age of Conan, MMO industryAge of Conan is now available for purchase and download on Steam, the direct download service run by Half-Life 2 publisher/developer Valve Software. It joins EVE Online in representing the genre in the massive digital store. ...

Painful lessons learned by an EVE newb
Massively — Filed under: Sci-fi, EVE Online, Game mechanics, PvP, Tips and tricks, Opinion One of the newest sites out there devoted to EVE Online is EVE-Mag, which is now much-improved through its revamped site design. While some of EVE-Mag's articles are written by and for experienced players of the game, they're also covering topics of interest to newer EVE players as well. Sam Guss (writing as "Malori Veneer") has a column called 'EVE Newb' where he chronicles his experiences, ...

Research profiles the typical fantasy MMO player
Massively — ... player demographics in there, some of which is surprising. For example, older players play more than younger players, and EQ2 players in general are physically healthier than the general population. There's a shocker! Of course, EQ2 arguably has a different sort of playerbase than something like EVE Online, or even other dikus like ...

EVE Evolved: Electronic warfare, part 1
Massively — ... Electronic warfare involves the use of modules that debilitate the enemy indirectly rather than attacking them head-on. This includes using target jammers to cause the enemy to lose his active target locks, sensor dampeners to decrease his lock range and energy neutralisers to deplete his capacitor. A good electronic warfare ship has the potential to remove several enemy ships from the battle, cutting the effectiveness of the enemy fleet down significantly. For this reason, a good electronic warfare wing in your fleet can be seen as a force multiplier, allowing ...

SUWT #33
The Grouchy Gamer — ... Everquest EA Blogroll /Random Anyway Games Broken Toys Common Sense Gamer Gestalt Mind Heartless_ Hudson’s Hideout Kill Ten Rats Massively Moorgard Nerfbat p0tsh0t Schilling’s 38 Pitches Tenfold Hate The Ancient Gaming Noob The Ramblings of JoBildo Tobolds Wall of Text West Karana Game Links 38 Studios Age of Conan EVE Online Everquest Everquest II LOTRO Star Wars Galaxies Steam ...

New details surface about EVE's 'Walking in Stations' expansion
Massively — ... Ambulation, or 'Walking in Stations' as it now seems to be known, is a hotly anticipated feature coming to EVE Online. It represents the first effort by ...

EVE Online: the board game?!
Massively — Filed under: Sci-fi, EVE Online, OpinionEVE Online's 'Walking in Stations' expansion isn't the only new way fans will be playing the sci-fi title this winter. CCP Games will also be releasing a 'big box' board game called "EVE: Conquests," suitable for two to four players, which will come with a large fold-out board and cards. However, this game won't come cheap; EVE: Conquests will be priced at a steep $75, putting the game -- and its presumably ornate playing pieces -- out of the reach of most casual players. Pop ...

EVE Gets Board
Wandering Goblin — ... From pen & paper to tabletop to graphics-heavy, computer-generated goodness; games have had quite a history, with the modern PC-based MMO being the brain-child of it all.  Now EVE Online joins those ranks by making a board game called EVE: Conquests. There's not alot out about the gameplay yet, however, we can expect it to be a very strategical game. ...

Track EVE skill training on your iPhone
Massively — ... Having a pared-down, mobile version of the EVE Online client has been on the wish list of many players, as well as the to-do list of the ...

CCP re-launches Power of 2 EVE promotion, supporting multi-boxing
Massively — ... CCP is renewing its Power of 2 promotion for EVE Online. The promotion encourages multi-boxing by allowing existing subscribers to add a second account at the discounted rate of $49.95 for six months. After the six months expire, the account will switch to the normal $14.95 per month rate. Last time CCP gave players the option to sign the account up for another $49.95 deal after a while. No guarantee it'll do that this time, though. The promotional e-mail sent out by CCP says that the account can not only be used for training ...

One Shots: Mining Ice
Massively — ... In the darkness of space, no one can hear you scream. That is unless you're on Vent with the rest of your Corp-mates, playing EVE Online. New Eden is a dark, merciless place, where the sandbox has "land mines" as our friend ...

EVE's alliance warfare the largest virtual conflict ever waged
Massively — ... Alliance warfare is an aspect of EVE Online that sets it apart from virtually any other MMO on the market. It commands a devoted following of players who continually exert their collective strength to conquer new regions of space while subjugating their numerous opponents. ...

CrazyKinux answers EVE Online questions for WoW players
Massively — ... If you're a World of Warcraft player looking for something completely different, head over to CrazyKinux's blog and read what he has to say to WoW players looking to make the move to ...

EVE Evolved: Electronic warfare, part 2
Massively — ... , I delved into the world of electronic warfare in EVE Online. In this second segment, I examine the skills and equipment you'll need to be an electronic warfare specialist with special regard to ECM jammers, remote sensor dampeners and tracking disruptors. Contrary to popular belief, ...

GotGame tries to bring a browser and social networking inside Azeroth
WoW.com — ... as well recently), mostly because I already know what my gaming friends are playing, and I've got enough social services running to distract me from my work anyway. And while an ingame browser is kind of nice (EVE Online actually has one built-in to the game), my own browser is already just an alt-tab away (and I've always got ...

Inspired thinking
Going Nuts In Norrath — ... ago. There, conversation was handled with a basic form of stat-based card game, the results having effects on your rise to power in the former Soviet satellite. And I gather it’s much the same in Vanguard, minus the trip to a Siberian gulag if you choose to bribe the wrong person. So it’s led me to do some thinking about innovation in MMO gaming – true innovation, not just refining what’s gone before. WAR ’s public quests for instance, real-time skill training in EVE Online (and now, Football Manager Live ), or just the entirety of Empire Of ...

October Newsletter
EVE Vault - The Ultimate Resource — The Web The Site [image] [image] [image] October Newsletter [ Comment [image] ] Print News | Category: EVE: Online News It's mid-October and the EVE team just released their latest newsletter . [image] Take a read for their latest updates, some info on the upcoming Fan Fest , and more! -- NextWeek @ Friday, 17 Oct, 2008 [image] [image] [image] [image] [image] Most recent posts on the EVE Online [image] October Newsletter - posted by ...

The Orca
EVE Vault - The Ultimate Resource — The Orca [ Comment [image] ] Print News | Category: EVE: Online News The busy folks over at CCP are about to unleash The Orca into Singularity, the public server, for more testing. [image] The Orca The Orca is a collaboration between Outer Ring Excavations and Deep Core Mining Inc. Designed as a "sub capital" logistical ship with a mining command focus, it is ideal for the day to day needs of corporations or individuals. It is perhaps a stepping stone towards capital ships, filling a void between the regular and capital ...

Does EVE Online Have the Same Old Forums? Heck No!
EVE Vault - The Ultimate Resource — Does EVE Online Have the Same Old Forums? Heck No! [ Comment [image] ] Print News | Category: EVE: Online News The Official EVE Online is completely revamping their forums to streamline the user's experience. The forum sections are now better explained, other sections have been merged and a new portal will reveal new updates. And those are just a few of the changes coming. Read their latest blog and let us know in our forums what you think. -- NextWeek @ Thursday, 23 Oct, 2008 [image]

EVE Online Say What?
Wandering Goblin — ... All this sounds wonderful, and if you don't already know about EVE, it is definitely worth taking a peak at least, but they are not holding back as they continue to expand the games borders. ...

EVE: Coming to a Box Near You!
EVE Vault - The Ultimate Resource — ... CCP just announced that EVE Online will soon be available at retail outlets throughout the world starting next March. Formerly just a download, they're now aiming to reach a wider audience. So as the game itself is growing, so to will its audience. Stay tuned for your chance to hold EVE in a tangible form. REYKJAVIK, Iceland & LYON, France--Atari and CCP, one of the world's leading independent game developers, today announced a partnership which will see Atari exclusively distribute boxed versions of CCP's award winning PC MMOG, EVE Online. The game will be available in ...

Quantum has Risen
EVE Vault - The Ultimate Resource — ... Last Tuesday, November 11, Quantum Rise was unleashed upon EVE Online . So...HOW IS IT? Do you like the changes? What's your opinion on the new content? You can check out some patch notes over at the ...

EVE Blog Banter #2: Space, the Final Frontier...
CrazyKinux's Musing — ... Today, I'm still torn between these two dreams, but I've got a place where I can catch a glimpse of what it must be like to explore new worlds, new systems, to conquer new regions of space, to build an Empire. This place is New Eden, the universe is EVE Online. ...

EVE Online: Inside the Head of the Composer
WarCry Network : Latest News — EVE Online features some very moody and interesting music. A new developer blog written by Jon "RealX" Hallur Haraldsson has shown up and gives readers a chance to 'see' the process involved in composition. Check it out! For Quantum Rise I wrote ten new tracks to accompany the 57 that are already in the game. Since this is an addition to a proven design, the main inspiration for them was the previous tracks, and the inspiration for those was always the artwork and the feel of EVE. Special mad props go to Ásgeir Jón Ásgeirsson former concept artist and now Art Director for EVE ...

EVE Online: Snowball Fight!
Wandering Goblin — The last thing you think of when talking about EVE Online and its creator CCP, is the ability for them to have a little fun, it's such a serious game.  But, CCP know's how to celebrate the holidays. When players log into the game they'll find that they now have a Snowball Launcher and a pack of 300 snowballs to lob at fellow players.  What a way to get into the spirit of the season.  But I was thinking...in space, wouldn't a snowball just turn into a hard piece of ice midway through launch?  You could totally bring down another spacecraft if ...

Free vs Paid Expansions
Werit — Is there anything more exciting than new MMO content? Maybe, but for this blog post, no. Most often this new content comes to us via expansions. Sometimes they are free, sometimes they need to be paid for. Each MMO has its own idea of how this should be done. For this post, content additions and expansions are roughly equal. On the free side you have games like Eve, Star Wars Galaxies and City of Heroes/Villains. They tend to release new content, at decent intervals, for just the cost of the subscription. SWG recently released the Battle for ...

6 ways to improve WAR’s auction house
reroller: a warhammer online and mmorpg blog — ... WAR’s development. It’s a pity Expand on the available auction types If you’ve ever dealt with auctions in any other format or outside of gaming altogether (which is quite common), you’ll probably be aware that WAR’s auction system is quite limited compared to the available options. There are a lot of possibilities here, from adding a consignments mechanism for crafters and their buyers, to something along the lines of EVE Online’s contract system. There’s also more traditional forms of ...

Fixing MMOs Is Hard
Broken Toys — ... some of them are such obvious truths it’s hard to disagree with (even for me, and I’m a professional curmudgeon.) 10) Launch when it’s finished Yes, that’d be swell. When is finished? When the game is fun? That’d be great. When you run out of money and are going to lay everyone off unless you shove it out the door prematurely? True more times than I care to remember, including some eventual market successes. But yes, in an ideal world we’d be free of budgetary pressures and, ...

World of Warcraft no longer legally for sale in Australia
WoW.com — ... etc... Our sister site Massively covered this extensively last week, and Tateru Nino's article on it has been picked up by the editors over at Slashdot. This is in particular interest to World of Warcraft folks in that WoW doesn't have a classification, and thus cannot be legally sold in Australia. According to Tateru's research, the only two MMOs that are presently available for Australia are Vanguard: Saga of Heroes and EVE Online. If someone was to sell WoW in Australia, they would face a ...

One Shots: More new ship hotness
Massively — ... With the promise of upcoming Tech 3 ships, so many EVE Online players just can't wait for Apocrypha to come out. Packed with all manner of new features for ...

One Shots: Another EVE ship under construction
Massively — ... As time draws nearer for the newest EVE Online expansion Apocrypha to be released, players are getting more and more excited about all the great things coming with this new patch. The ability to build cool new ships is just the tip of the iceberg as to what's coming in this ambitious new expansion. Today's One Shots shows off another angle on one of the ship variations we've already seen from Feffrey - a topside image of the Amarr T3 Legion. While it's missing its textures, it does give you an idea of how it will look once this ...

New EVE Online characters will initially train skills twice as fast in Apocrypha
Massively — Filed under: Sci-fi, EVE Online, Expansions, Forums, Game mechanics Massively recently mentioned a few of the changes coming to EVE Online through the New Player Experience, part of the Apocrypha expansion which rolls out next month. Of particular interest, or concern, to some EVE players is CCP's decision to reduce a starting character's skillpoints to 50k from the current 800k many existing characters began with. CCP Games apparently hopes to clarify this decision, and thus ...

EVE Evolved: Apocrypha expansion preview
Massively — ... As March 10th draws ever closer, EVE Online's Apocrypha expansion is coming more and more into focus. Information on the ...

EVE Community Spotlight: LaVista Vista
Massively — ... The idea of players being elected as representatives of the subscriber base is a dimension to EVE Online that sets it apart from all other MMOs. This player-elected ...

EVE Online extending reach into Russia and Japan
Massively — ... The sci-fi massively multiplayer online title EVE Online is very much a game of galactic conquest. In that spirit of world domination, CCP Games has been working on establishing the title's presence in both Russia and Japan. EVE developer ...

One Shots: Not a place you want to be
Massively — ... While today's EVE Online One Shots may only be one ship as opposed to an entire fleet shot, that's still not a ship we'd want to be on the business end of. With a whole bank of turrets, this is definitely a nasty ship. Levaria, one of EVE's many brave pilots, grabbed this image and sent it to us with the following note: I thought I would throw in a picture I snapped of one of my buddies Mura Lee's Amarr Armageddon Battleships dishing out some much needed Amarrian justice Large T2 laser style in a PvP fight a few weeks ago. Ouch. We ...

EVE Online developer Noah Ward on player drama in the sandbox
Massively — ... There's been no shortage of player-driven drama in EVE Online over the past few months. The things players can do within the game is a testament to ...

Major graphics overhaul of EVE's asteroid belts in Apocrypha expansion
Massively — ... was deployed in 2007, it brought with it a drastic difference in graphical quality, but the Premium Graphics engine initially only rendered ships and space stations. Premium Graphics as of next month's expansion will complete CCP's across-the-board overhaul of the game's look. Among those numerous graphical enhancements coming to EVE Online in the forthcoming ...

New Black Prophecy website launched
Massively — ... Have you been looking for a sci-fi spaceship shoot-em-up along the lines of EVE Online, but without the long skill training times? Well, if ...

Massively's EVE Online Apocrypha expansion hands-on
Massively — Filed under: Sci-fi, EVE Online, Expansions, Game mechanics, Lore, MMO industry, PvP, PvE, Races, Massively Interviews, Massively Hands-on Massively got word that EVE Online lead game designer Noah Ward, aka CCP Hammerhead, would be in New York City last week. We jumped at the chance to find out more about the Apocrypha expansion, and Ward was kind enough to give us our own hands-on demo while answering our questions about where ...

EVE Evolved: The secret of EVE Online's success
Massively — ... When it launched in 2003, space-borne MMO EVE Online wasn't an overnight success. It launched to far less fanfare than newer titles are accustomed to and claimed only 50,000 subscriptions by late 2004. ...

The Daily Grind: Will you be picking up the EVE Online retail box?
Massively — ... It's been a while coming, but EVE Online's new expansion, Apocrypha, is here - and the 13 hours of downtime that goes with it, as James noted last night. Of course, along with this enormous chunk of new expansion content, EVE players in North America also have the option of picking up a special copy of EVE Online from their favorite retailer. It comes with all updates including Apocrypha, a special ship specifically for the retail box, and two months of free game time as opposed to the normal month most games come with. (Apparently, Europe ...

One Shots: Beware the wormholes
Massively — ... With today's patch on the download for so many, we thought we'd take a quick look at something that's popped up on the EVE Online test servers - wormholes! Today's ...

WRUP: Lost in unknown space edition
Massively — ... : EVE Online: I've been getting my corp ready for wormholes, getting a fleet assembled and discussing tactics for engaging sleepers. We lost our chance to enter a really good wormhole system we found because one of the Russian alliances got there first, unfortunately. This weekend will be spent scanning down wormholes in the hopes of finding that perfect system for us to settle in and trying to rescue our corpmate ToG who is currently lost in unknown space and having trouble finding an exit. ...

One Shots: Beautiful nebula
Massively — ... comes to us from Chad A, who found this gorgeous area while flying around in EVE Online. He writes in: This is my Minmatar cruiser, the Scythe. Just having warped into a deadspace encounter, ready to blow up some pirates, I saw this breathtaking nebula in the distance. I stopped in my tracks and decided to allow the pirates to live their repair station to function just a bit longer while I captured this scene. It's absolutely gorgeous. ...

EVE Evolved: A guide to probing in Apocrypha
Massively — ... Several years ago, CCP released a new upgrade for EVE Online's standard system scanner. Scanner probes were deployable tools that could be used to find ships, drones and a few hidden complexes lost in the vastness of space. The system was later expanded to provide an awesome exploration experience - combat encounters, dungeons and rich asteroid belts were strewn throughout space for some lucky explorer to find. With EVE's latest expansion, the exploration system received a complete overhaul. A new scanning ...

Vivox to offer cross-platform browser plugin for game VOIP
Massively — Filed under: Business models, MMO industry, News itemsVivox, already firmly entrenched as the in-game voice over IP option for EVE Online, several of SOE's games, and Second Life, is now upping the ante by announcing that they intend to take their service cross-platform - and potentially cross-game, if the developers allow it. If they manage to do that, it means you could play EverQuest II and still hang out and talk smack with your friends flying through space in EVE Online ...

EVE Evolved: Have wormholes revitalised EVE?
Massively — ... It's been just over a week since the Apocrypha expansion went live and EVE Online is already starting to see the impact of the new content on gameplay. ...

One Shots: Just passing through
Massively — ... On a good day, things are still dangerous on New Eden. You never know what's docked at the next station and if anyone hanging out there there is just waiting to nail you the second you undock. That's the way things are in EVE Online, where the risks - and the rewards - can be wide-reaching and (game) universe changing. Today's ...

You Aren’t Cool Unless You Hate WOW
MMORPG Games & MMO News - MMOCrunch — ... not a huge fan of the diluted, boiled-down MMO that WOW became (or even started off as, I guess).  But, I have really, really fond memories of WOW.  I spent a lot of time having fun with the game, and with familes and friends that played it.  I wouldn’t touch WOW with a 10-foot pole today, but why hate on WOW just because other people are still finding ways to enjoy the game?  In my opinion, it doesn’t hold a torch to a sandbox game like EVE Online, which I’m currently digging into, but that doesn’t mean I have to hate it. ...

The Daily Grind: Is it luck?
Massively — ... , and thus has that shiny "first mmo love" with it (as anyone who has played MMOs over the years can attest - the first one that really gets you always has a part of your heart long after you leave) but then proceeds to judge everything else by World of Warcraft. The further away it is, the more it sucks, the more it will fail, etc. This is really telling when they are talking about a game with completely different mechanics like say, EVE Online, which you can't even begin to put into the same general neighborhood if you've ever actually played the two ...

EVE Evolved: Features we want in EVE Online
Massively — ... . No matter where you go in-game, everyone has their own opinion on what features EVE Online needs. For some people, being able to put mining rigs on planets would sound interesting. Others might prefer a new ...

The Daily Grind: Doing the (WoW) dew?
Massively — ... Mtn Dew? If WoW isn't your game, would you drink it if they made a variety for your favorite MMO - like low-sec EVE Black Mtn Dew as an example? Or will you just buy it because you'll be buying Mountain Dew anyway? ...

One Shots: Hive mind
Massively — ... Ever since the recent updates, the sheer amount of EVE Online players sending in screenshots has jumped. Of course, with the way things look now with the refinements, we really can't blame them. What used to just look cool now looks truly awesome. Today's ...

EVE Evolved: Storytelling in EVE Online
Massively — ... . Quests and expansions in an MMO usually lead the character through an interactive story where the player assumes the role of a hero. Although space-borne MMO EVE Online doesn't share that pattern and the the game's storyline doesn't develop during play, storytelling may actually be more important to ...

The Daily Grind: How did you find your guild?
Massively — ... Guilds, fellowships, corporations, group of rum-soaked adventurers; whatever your core gaming group decides to call itself, many of us have people that we tend to play with in our different MMOs. For example, I joined an EVE Online Corp last night that an old RL friend of mine is a director in. In my last game, a few friends started a loose group, we merged into a guild of like-minded folks we met in game which split, so then we reformed again. Before that I was in supergroups based on themes (TaxiBots, for example) with a small core group of MMO and RL friends in ...

One Shots: Home again, home again
Massively — ... In many MMOs, traveling from place to place is just a simple matter of hop on, set it and forget it travel. The game will get you from point A to point B, and you'll never face any type of interruption. In EVE Online, while there is an autopilot function, it's not generally advisable to use it in losec or nosec space. Going AFK and letting your ship fly around unattended can make all the difference between making it there in your ship with all your cargo, and waking up wherever your clone is, and someone else scoring your cargo - and a kill. Today's ...

EVE Evolved: Making EVE beautiful
Massively — ... When it was released back in 2003, EVE Online was one of the most visually impressive games on the market. Over the coming years, the graphics aged gracefully next to competitors on the market and all seemed well. Nonetheless, ...

WRUP: Pick an MMO, any MMO edition
Massively — ... : EVE Online. This weekend I've been testing out the tweaks to the new scanning system and helping my newbie friend run complexes for some fat loot. My little alliance is planning to pack up and leave our wormhole system in 1-2 weeks, which will signal an end to our second successful nomadic expedition. Whether we'll have a third or not I don't know but we have certainly learned a lot from them so far. Yesterday, we came across a strange new Talocan cosmic anomaly called the "Integrated Terminus," which provided a little glimpse of storyline showing that the Talocan ...

EVE Evolved: A year of EVE Evolved - 5 most popular articles
Massively — ... on EVE Online. I can hardly believe it's been a year since I was the newbie here at Massively, learning the ropes. To celebrate the one year anniversary of the EVE Evolved column, Massively is giving you the chance to win a free battleship of your choice, pre-fitted and ready to undock. ...

One Shots: Outnumbered
Massively — ... In a sandbox game like EVE Online, it's very easy to find yourself cornered, and the fight turned against you. One moment, you think you're going to win the fight, and the next, a whole fleet of big, nasty ships drop out of warp right next to you. If it's a particularly bad day like today's ...

EVE Evolved: Combat boosters
Massively — ... The drug trade has been a part of EVE since the very beginning. Originally, drugs were nothing more than a trading commodity occasionally demanded by agents in low security space. The old drug trade goods still exist in ...

One Shots: Old-school capitals
Massively — ... When it comes to EVE Online, people have been protecting their space for a very long time. Of course, you can also tell who the older-school players are. Not only do they have old-school shots like this, but they also generally fly some really enormous ships. Today's ...

Clear Skies 2 now ready to dock on your computer
Massively — ... For those of us EVE Online players - or just fans of great machinima - who have been patiently waiting for Clear Skies 2, the wait is over! Ian Chisholm and his crew have managed to crank out Clear Skies 2 in amazing time, offering up yet another exciting adventure in the dangerous space of New Eden. As with everything awesome that we want omg right now - the load on EVE Files is insanely high right now. May want to consider using the torrent for the moment, if you can. In the meantime, while you're waiting for the ...

One Shots: New to New Eden
Massively — ... There's nobody on staff here that will tell you that starting out in EVE Online is easy. While it certainly is easier than it used to be, sandbox MMOs take a time and patience to get the hang of - and finding a group of friends to play with really helps the most. The good news is that while New Eden can be terribly unforgiving to a new capsuleer, it certainly isn't hard on the eyes! Today's ...

EVE Evolved: A stealth bomber adventure
Massively — ... . They launched cruise missiles at foes from a distance and dealt very high damage to small ships like cruisers and other frigates. With the changes in the recent EVE Online expansion, ...

One Shots: Not as bad as it looks
Massively — ... When it comes to images like this, you might think someone's gotten themselves into far too much trouble. Originally, that's what we'd thought too, until we read the helpful note sent in with today's EVE Online ...

EVE Evolved: Has faction warfare been abandoned?
Massively — ... EVE Online's Faction Warfare system was released almost one year ago with the Empyrean Age expansion and was initially a complete success. It provided a stage on which thousands of players waged war. From fleets of over a hundred players to gangs as small as two or three pilots, everyone found their own place in the conflict. After the initial wave of success, questions began to arise on the lack of rewards to offset the cost of losing ships in PvP. In addition, while the point of faction warfare initially revolved around capturing systems, ...

One Shots: Obvious statement is obvious
Massively — ... We love easter eggs and other strange little things from various video games. Today's One Shots showing one off from EVE Online is pretty fun - and thankfully more OK with the GMs than some of the can art we've had sent in to us. This particular shot was sent in to us by Nicholas J, who also sent the following note: [Here's] a little easter egg that you can occasionally find in a few places. Of course, if you want to see the obvious statement, you'll have to click on through to the full-size image to see it; it just doesn't work when the image is ...

EVE Evolved: Competition for EVE Online
Massively — ... Although the most popular MMOs of today are in the fantasy genre, a niche within the MMO market has always existed for sci-fi games. For quite some time, EVE Online has dominated this niche with a steadily growing playerbase ...

EVE Evolved: EVE Online's aggression mechanics
Massively — ... The aggression mechanics are something that every pilot in EVE Online should learn about. This is a set of rules that determines who you can attack in high security space, who can attack you and whether you can dock or use a stargate. Knowing them inside and out can mean the difference between losing your ship and keeping it in one piece, even ...

EVE Evolved: World events in EVE Online
Massively — ... , developers and game masters routinely ran special once-only events to immerse the playerbase in a game's storyline. Storytelling has always been one of EVE Online's strongest features and in the early days of ...

New EVE quarterly economic newsletter
Massively — ... Dr. Eyjólfur Guðmundsson from CCP has released another quarterly EVE Online economic newsletters, this time for the 1st quarter of 2009. Despite the quarterly name this is the first report since the one for Q1 2008. ...

EVE Evolved: EVE's economic underworld
Massively — ... EVE Online's in-game economy has been the subject of intense study over the years. The markets of EVE react very effectively to accomplish goals with the same economic laws that apply to many real-life marketplaces. The game's developers CCP even hired a professional economist to analyse the in-game economy, advise them on problem issues and deliver interesting quarterly reports. The driving force behind EVE's markets is often assumed to be basic supply and demand but this isn't always the most ...

EVE Evolved: Courier contracts used for theft
Massively — ... Many of EVE Online's most prolific marketeers use courier contracts to collect together items from their region-wide buy orders but that's not all they can be used for. Courier contracts were originally intended as a way to pay another player to haul items for you securely using a standard collateral deal but if you know how, they can also be used for theft. Over the years, players have found ways to use courier contracts for profiteering, gambling, and even corporate theft. In EVE's Machiavellian universe, anything you can get away with ...

EVE Evolved: Mission-running - the basics
Massively — ... Agent missions are one of EVE Online's most popular pastimes. While EVE is most often lauded for its open-ended gameplay, player-determined markets and PvP action, a significant portion of the game's players use missions as their primary income source. There is something comforting about missions that seems to draw players in. For many, running missions and upgrading their ship with the ISK becomes the focus of their achievements and their primary measure of progress. The ability of mission-running to provide a direct ...

EVE Evolved: Mission-running ship design
Massively — ... , I explained the basics of mission-running in EVE Online and how to find your best agent. In this second part of the guide, I get into the nitty gritty details of essential ship designs for mission-runners. Choosing an appropriate ship and fitting it adequately are arguably the two most important factors in mission-running. While having a weak ...

Loyola University professor drives City of Heroes/Villains players crazy, all for sociology
Massively — ... is finally coming forward, revealing a controversial look at how defying the cultural rules of a population can turn a person into a social outcast. The study's goal was to play only by the developer's rules, ignoring any extra rules that might be created by the population. For example, the concept of "kill stealing" and "fair fights" are thrown out the window as they are created by the population, not the game. Think of it like EVE Online -- if the game allows it, he does it. ...

EVE Evolved: Mission-running top five tips
Massively — ... In the first two parts of this guide on mission-running in EVE Online, I explained the basics of mission-running and went on to give a race-by-race breakdown of the most popular mission-running ships. In this final instalment of the EVE Evolved mission-running guide, I dig up my top five tips and tricks for improving your standings, mission-running speed and general mission income in EVE. Tip #1 - Gaining faction standing As high faction standing unlocks the agents of every corp in an entire ...

EVE Evolved: Untangling the mystery of the Sleepers
Massively — ... When EVE Online's Apocrypha expansion was released, details on how wormholes and the 2500 new systems that came with them worked were sketchy. The advanced Sleeper AI found protecting these systems were a force to be feared, unknown and mysterious. There were no guides, no stories of encounters on the forums and anyone that had mounted a successful expedition was keeping their closely guarded secrets to themselves and raking in the ISK. My corporation (Pillowsoft) were among the first to launch their expedition, having previously prepared an ...

Redefining MMOs: Player developers!
Massively — ... handing the reigns of an MMO to its players is considered heresy and we shudder to think of what horrible quests and areas players would construct if given a chance. But is our aversion justified or is it something developers should strive to overcome? Certainly Second Life has successfully capitalised on letting players develop almost every aspect of its virtual world but could successful mainstream MMOs make use of it too? City of Heroes, EVE Online and even World of Warcraft are prime examples which suggest they ...

EVE Evolved: Just another week in the Sleeper's den
Massively — ... siege, a system invasion and a lot of drama. At the end of it all, I'm left with a renewed sense of awe for the unique experiences EVE Online can deliver if you're just willing to seek them out and actively involve yourself. At times I can truly immerse myself in ...

EVE Evolved: Finding the perfect corporation in five easy steps
Massively — ... It's said that sandbox MMO EVE Online doesn't really begin to shine until you join a good player-run corporation. There's only so much a lone pilot can accomplish and a lot of the game's most rewarding experiences are based around groups and collaboration. Wormhole expeditions, PvP, territorial wars, politics and much of EVE's other emergent gameplay routes rely heavily on forming groups and friendships in-game. In fact, I think you'd be hard pressed to find an MMO which doesn't have its game experience improved by group ...

EVE Evolved: Top five EVE Online apps
Massively — ... Back in 2004, a friend introduced me to a relatively new space MMO called EVE Online, where the markets were run by the players and there were undiscovered frontiers to chart. A short time after, I became obsessed with pre-calculating everything in the game. I thought that if the game server can calculate everything we do, I must be able to replicate the process and come up with some interesting results. I wasn't alone, many other pilots had previously created simple spreadsheets and web-databases of EVE's items. Rather than the game's developers hoarding ...

Skill-based MMOs: Passive vs. active gain
Massively — There are two main progression models in MMOs: Level-based and skill-based. In level-based MMOs, you kill things and complete tasks to earn experience. This experience leads to new levels and the new levels generally lead to newer and more powerful skills. In skill-based MMOs, it ...

EVE Evolved: Wormhole piracy 101
Massively — ... many different aspects of EVE Online, from exploration and corporate goals to small gang PvP and piracy. In previous articles, I looked at ...

One Shots: The dust settles
Massively — ... sending shockwaves across the MMOGsphere, we couldn't resist taking a look into the PC MMO it will be tied to: EVE Online. While there are still a lot of questions in terms of just precisely things are going to play out between ...

One Shots: Time to move on
Massively — ... When you talk to EVE Online players, they always stress to you how important it is to get into a corp. While it's true that you can run around solo, the game really opens up when you have the ability to get in with a group who are able to do all that the game really allows for. Today's ...

EVE Evolved: DUST in the wind
Massively — ... , we could only guess that it was the promised EVE Online themed first person shooter. In an email with one of my regular column readers before the announcement, I suggested off-hand that it would be awesome if it were a new ...

EVE Evolved: One account is good enough
Massively — ... that they use to try out different classes or starting areas. EVE Online is different in that it's not really feasible to play multiple characters on the same account. While each ...

One Shots: All together now
Massively — ... One of the best ways to play EVE Online is in a corp, which we've heard time and time again. Of course, without a group, pictures like this really aren't generally possible. We figure if this many ...

EVE Evolved: Tech 3 Strategic Cruisers
Massively — ... With EVE Online's Apocrypha expansion came an entire new class of ship. Tech 3 Strategic Cruisers represent a new wave of technology in EVE. Rather than being simply improved versions of the existing Tech 2 ships, Strategic Cruisers are modular ships reverse engineered from ancient Sleeper and Talocan components. They allow players to design their own ship from a base hull and a set of five subsystems. Each subsystem has four options, with a fifth possibly in the works. Original designs called for the ship to improve as it was ...

EVE Evolved: Organising your own PvP tournament
Massively — ... If you've been following the latest official Alliance Tournament in EVE Online, you've probably been glued to the match videos being posted on Youtube. Every year as I watch the matches, I find myself wishing I'd entered even though my rag-tag group of pilots would probably get knocked out in the qualifying rounds. What you might not know is that the official Alliance Tournament wasn't the first PvP tournament on the block and it's certainly not the only one running. Players have been taking advantage of EVE's open-ended ...

One Shots: Oooh, shiny
Massively — ... Sometimes it's not just a question of the great graphics in a game - sometimes it's a question of a great upgrade to your computer! Your experience goes from old and dated to upgraded and awesome in the blink of an eye, as today's new-ish EVE Online player, Warick, noticed. He writes in: I've just upgraded my 3 year old faithful 17 inch Monitor to a 22 inch widescreen, and anyone who tells you that there is no point in getting a monitor so big should be hit with the "you're a big fat liar" stick. EVE has gone from looking pretty ordinary to absolutely stunning. So ...

EVE Evolved: The road ahead for 0.0 alliances
Massively — ... A lot of MMOs rarely (if ever) revisit old gameplay mechanics or areas, focusing instead on new expansions. EVE Online is different in that the developers go back and re-visit old aspects of gameplay rather than just focusing on new mechanics and content. Even ...

EVE Evolved: Corporate Infiltration for fun and profit
Massively — ... Of all the EVE Online stories I've heard over the years, none have impressed and inspired me as much as those detailing a well-planned corporate heist. These aren't your ...

The Daily Grind: Naming and shaming?
Massively — ... One side felt that by doing this on a single-shard game (much like EVE Online in this aspect) they could potentially stop people from being flaming jerks because the community would immediately be aware of what they were doing. Others pointed out that since there are members of the community who thrive on being jerks, there was a certain element that would likely step up their griefing just to get an award like this - considering it a mark of honor to actually get named. Some pointed out that screenshots and chat logs could be faked easily; others pointed out ...

EVE Evolved: The Council of Stellar Management
Massively — ... If you play EVE Online or follow its news, you've probably heard of the Council of Stellar Management (or CSM for short). They're a democratically elected group of players that volunteer a lot of free time to help the developers improve EVE. The CSM's job is outlined in the official summary document as "to represent society interests to CCP". They act as an intermediary between CCP's development team and the EVE players but what do they actually do and have they made a positive impact on the game? I initially ...

One Shots: Makes you wonder what Blackwind III did
Massively — ... Sometimes, all you need is one great picture and a very few words to convey an interesting story. Such is the case with today's One Shots from EVE Online. We got an image titled only "The Death of Blackwind III" along with the following note from Redwense: "Wow." ...

WRUP: The where'd everybody go edition
Massively — ... strategic cruiser setup in EVE Online. I used the covert ops subsystem and the interdiction nullifier to easily bypass enemy camps and get to my destination, from where I've been trying out pirate missions. It seems to be working out so far! ...

EVE Evolved: Running your own corporation
Massively — ... The term "corporation" in EVE Online is something of a misnomer. While a corp can be run as a full-on business entity, most are just like guilds or clans in other MMOs. It's a group of pilots that join together under one banner for mutual benefit, organised operations or even just to have some nice people to chat to while you mine. For those that ...

One Shots: The site of war
Massively — ... While there are certainly wretched hives of scum and villainy when it comes to EVE Online, New Eden in itself is a lovely bundle of surprises when it comes to eye-catching visuals. One moment you could be warping along looking for trouble, and the next you'll be greeted by sights like this one, sent in to us by Kai Eradinis. Kai writes in: I'm continually impressed by just how visually striking ...

EVE Evolved: Graphical upgrades for EVE Online
Massively — ... the different graphical updates EVE Online has received over the years and what was to come. The ship graphics were renovated years ago with the Trinity expansion and much of the rest of the game was left looking dated in comparison. The Apocrypha expansion picked up on the upgrades where Trinity left off, with ...

EVE pirate corp Hellcats running player event, Saturday Oct 24
Massively — ... is well known to many EVE Online players as the game's only all-women pirate corp. They're holding an in-game event this Saturday, October 24th -- ...

One Shots: It's all about the PvP
Massively — ... While mining may not be the most exciting thing one can do when playing EVE Online, there is something to be said for it - it can be pretty solid ISK! Get into a group and it's a lot more interesting. Join a bigger group and go hunting resources in nullsec, and mining gets a lot more interesting! Today's lovely ...

EVE Evolved: Postcards from EVE: Wish you were here!
Massively — ... EVE's Official magazine EON runs a regular feature called "Postcards from the Edge" where players write in with a screenshot and a short story about it. As a tribute to EON, who I wrote for before coming to Massively, this week and next I present galleries full of postcards from my own travels in EVE. They're all high-resolution shots suitable to be used as widescreen backgrounds, feel free to save them out from your browser to get them at full resolution. ...

One Shots: One among many
Massively — ... The one thing that really differentiates EVE Online from many other MMOs out there is the depth of control that players have over sectors and all the machinations that go on daily in the universe of New Eden. You never know when friend will become foe; when trusted ally will become ultimate enemy. Today's great ...

EVE Evolved: Postcards from EVE: Reader Submissions
Massively — ... As a tribute to EON Magazine's "Postcards from the Edge" feature, last week I started this two-part series of postcards from all around EVE Online. In last week's first part I presented a gallery full of postcards from my own travels in EVE. I then asked readers to email in any of their own screenshots that they wanted to appear as postcards. This week, I finish the series with a mixture of reader submissions and my own remaining postcards. As with last week, they're all high-resolution shots suitable to be used as widescreen ...

EVE Evolved: Dominion be damned
Massively — ... At the last EVE Online fanfest, it was announced that the Dominion expansion is slated for December 1st to coincide with Iceland's Sovereignty day. With less than a month to go until launch, there has been growing concern at the extreme lack of information on the new sovereignty mechanics at the expansion's core. There have been a few scheduled tests and several devblogs but few factual details on the mechanics we'll be using once the expansion goes live. I've even been on the test server and tried the new mechanics out but they're far from finished. ...

One Shots: At the heart of things
Massively — ... , who sends us great visual postcards and interesting stories from within the galaxies of EVE Online. Today's One Shots is a stunning image captured during a recent skirmish. Before we turn today's post over, remember if you'd like to get in on the fun, email your image to us here at oneshots AT massively DOT com. be sure to include your name, the name of the game, and a quick description. For now, we'll leave the explanation of this image to Redwense. Be sure to check out the rest of the story behind the break! ...

EVE Evolved: Trading: The basics
Massively — ... Of all the moneymaking endeavours you can take in EVE Online, trading is perhaps the one with the highest potential for profit. While ...

One Shots: Waxing poetic
Massively — ... One of the things that EVE Online has managed to do since its early days is inspire an incredibly loyal, devoted fanbase. They travel around the world to attend the Fan Fest in Iceland, they write fiction about the game, and of course - they send in crazy excellent ...

Sell Darkfall to your friends, get paid and get more n00bs to shank
Massively — ... store that will give you credit when a game is sold. For each game client sold, you'll make 20% of the sale in commission. Right now, as the Darkfall box is still going for 50 dollars, so that means you'll get 10 dollars every time you sell a copy of Darkfall. High selling users will be offered better commission rates and may be invited to work with the Darkfall publishing team. Is this anything new? Well, it is if you haven't seen EVE Online's affiliate program. However, it is certainly a smart use of the very ...

EVE Evolved: Trading: Advanced trading
Massively — ... of trading in EVE Online and some of the jobs best suited to newer players. There's a lot more to trading than buying low and selling high and in this week's installment, I'll cover some of the more ...

New EVE Online trailer shows the glory of Dominion
Massively — ... In just a matter of days -- December 1st to be exact -- Dominion will be launching, bringing an early holiday gift for EVE Online players around the world. For those not familiar, Dominion, the 12th free expansion in CCP's ever-evolving interstellar game of life, will bring enormous changes to the sovereignty system and ship re-balancing -- aspects of what many consider EVE Online's "endgame." Along with the change to sov, pilots in New Eden can look forward to Pirate faction epic story-arcs, a fleet ...

One Shots: The stars look very different today
Massively — ... In just a couple of days, EVE Online players will revel in the release of Dominion, the highly anticipated update promising lots of changes to sov and so much more. But as far as One Shots is concerned, this change to EVE Online means lots of beautiful new planet shots and upgraded stars as seen in this image sent to us by James A. He writes in: I logged into Sisi yesterday and snapped these of the new stars and planets. I know that in and of themselves, planets and stars really aren't all that interesting, nor are they new, but ...

EVE Evolved: Trading: Tips and tricks
Massively — ... So far in this guide to trading in EVE Online, I've covered the jobs best suited to new players and some of the more advanced trading techniques like margin trading, market speculation and price manipulation. This is by no means the entirety of what can happen in EVE's marketplaces, but serves as a good foundation for those trying to break into the trading game. In the hyper-capitalistic world of New Eden, the markets are hugely competitive and any edge you can get will help. With that in mind, this final part of the guide will cover ...