notadiary.typepad.com - 3/19/2009
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Responding to a post on Ardwulf's Lair about EVE, my comment brought up another topic that I feel is interesting to discuss some more - expanding EVE's passive game via out-of game-web client tools. You'll see my comment did tie into the original posting and his thoughts of going jumping back ...
EVE University celebrates fifth anniversary —
Massively
Anyone who's played EVE Online for any length of time is likely to concede that it can be a complex game. While the developers have taken steps to better guide new players into EVE 's setting of New Eden through the New Player Experience and the EVE Careers Guide , it's really the ...
EVE Online: Education is Expensive. Even in a Virtual World —
Mystic Worlds
I’ve started working on my plan to join EVE Online Faction Warfare (FW) as my return to space adventure. FW was supposed to lower the bar for getting players engaged in PVP. I’m about to see how well it works. My methodical mind won’t allow me to jump in headfirst. No, I must have a plan and ...
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. Wormholes in particular have revitalised gameplay for so many individuals that Apocrypha may just be the best EVE expansion to date. ...
EVE Careers Guide available as free download —
Massively
A major strength of the sci-fi massively multiplayer online game EVE Online is that there are no classes and certainly no professions that a player is locked into. EVE 's professions are freeform , but this can lead to new players being unsure about what to do (or be) in the game. The ...
EVE Online PvP Tournament champ on tactics and player-politics —
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EVE Online is a game where there are essentially two tiers to guilds, corporations and groups of corporations that join together to form larger and more powerful alliances. Given how integral alliance warfare is to gameplay, EVE Online 's annual Alliance PvP Tournament is a major event each ...
EVE and Internet Tomfoolery —
Ardwulf's Lair
I’m getting a little of the EVE itch right now after listening to Shut Up, We’re Talking episode #43 , which talks quite a bit about EVE from the standpoint of how it’s different from other MMOs past and present. I agree with many of the points made, and differ with others. One thing that ...
CCP honored with two awards for innovation —
Massively
While the latest EVE Online expansion, Apocrypha , has hit the main server and the retail boxes for EVE have reappeared on game store shelves, CCP has been busy winning awards for all of their work with EVE . CCP's awards include the Icelandic Innovation and Knowledge Award from the ...
Varying perspectives on EVE Online's new player experience —
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The sci-fi massively multiplayer online game EVE Online has long been known for its harsh setting but also for its (almost) equally unforgiving learning curve. That is, until the Apocrypha expansion launched, bringing EVE 's New Player Experience (NPE) with it. CCP Games aims to slowly ease ...
EVE Online: Joining Faction Warfare —
Mystic Worlds
While the blog has been flooded with Runes of Magic posts, I’m still subscribed to EVE Online (EO). I’ve kept my training going but switched gears again. I was training to do some basic production in order to get my crafting fix on. With no other full featured MMO in my diet, I had to get ...
Adam and EVE, the True Hollywood Story! —
The Ancient Gaming Noob
The rush into space is on! Interest in EVE Online in our little community has hit a new height. Our wee corporation has nearly a dozen active accounts. Not bad considering that for months at a stretch, the corp was just me.
So it was about time for some EVE corporate drama.
Among those ...
Eve: Well…that was interesting —
The Common Sense Gamer
The LOTRO group logged off earlier than usual last night, which was good because we were down one man and we didn’t want to get too far ahead. With just a little extra time left over before going to bed, I decided to give Eve exploration a try just to see how the mechanic worked. Both ...
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 ...
One Shots: Beautiful nebula —
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With Apocrypha having launched, so many are heading back to take advantage of all that New Eden has to offer. Today's One Shots 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 ...