Category Archives: EVE

Internet Spaceships Bring The Aid

“All this means that in a very real sense, the industrial barons of EVE who made their fortunes mining virtual asteroids and moons are turning their virtual wealth into physical life-saving supplies in Haiti.
Truly, we live in strange times.”
via EVE ISK for Haiti..

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I’ll just leave this here: Dust 514

In a Massively post, CCP outlines their plan for console gamers: Dust 514, wherein console mercs kill each other on planets for the amusement and strategy of their pod pilot overlords.

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Linkdump!

Wall Street on the Tundra | vanityfair.com. – Iceland joins the Dutch in the great crazes of all time.
New accounting rules for the Federal Budget.
Band of Brothers, one of the EVE mega-alliances, ceases to be. Heavily infiltrated, their forums cloned by the Goons, BoB chose to make their forums public.
Vegas is running out of water, [...]

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Some fantastic OP-ED.

From various sources, but mostly Dolphin.
- Can Americans handle the truth?
- Abuse of executive orders is not enough. Now we can ignore all process? Grr.
- You bet I’m bitter. Sign me up. Bitter as hell here.
- Savages in Caves.  Perhaps we overestimate al Queda?
- NearlyFreeSpeech.net.  Web hosting in terms of pennies.
- [...]

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Dark, cold winters in the middle of the Atlantic…

High divorce rate, high birth rate, and lots of women working outside the home. Welcome to Iceland, the happiest country on Earth. Dual Iceland/New Zealand citizenship? Hmm.

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This is NOT going to buff out.

Very equivalent to your first carrier or freighter loss in EVE.     B-2 crashes in Guam.     How bad do you have to feel when you crash 1.2 billion USD?

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MMO Real World Ransoming GONE WILD!!

You know you are badass when you get kidnapped for your RPG account.   Sadly, the kidnappers lacked the pvp and ransoming experience to make a quick buck.     Back to the tutorials for them
FULL ARTICLE HERE

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I’m guessing the Curse is primary, right?

Tonight has been odd, we push, they push warfare.   With the exception of some transit losses, we’ve done decently.   Our current war targets are being pretty cool about things, all things considered, and the normal piracy in SYNDICATE is what it is.
We’re moving out some members that don’t spend much time in 0.0, [...]

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Debacle : First EVE post.

I misidentified a Slepneir as a Cyclone tonight.
Same class of ship and different tech. In my defense, There were a good 4 other people than the Slep in sector, MHC – in fact on the gate as I warped in.   I tried to identify them during the next 30 seconds as they died [...]

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