Tuesday, July 07, 2009

EVE Online Postcard for Tuesday July 7th, 2009


Treenara, my character, is Gallente. Pure Gallente. She's actually my second character. My first, Saoundra Meezo, was Amarrian. I have to be honest with you guys, I chose my characters solely based on their races' ships. And the Amarr have always had, in my opinion, the best looking ships in New Eden.

The Providence is one such ship. It gives me goose bumps whenever I cross path with one. There's something majestic about this behemoth that gets my geeky nerdy side all excited! The shot above does that every time!

What's your favorite looking ship?

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

EVE Blog Banter #9: If I were a CCP Dev I would...


Welcome to the ninth installment of the EVE Blog Banter and its first contest, the monthly EVE Online blogging extravaganza created by CrazyKinux. The EVE Blog Banter involves an enthusiastic group of gaming bloggers, a common topic within the realm of EVE Online, and a week to post articles pertaining to the said topic. The resulting articles can either be short or quite extensive, either funny or dead serious, but are always a great fun to read! Any questions about the EVE Blog Banter should be directed here. Check out other EVE Blog Banter articles at the bottom of this post!

"Last month Ga'len asked us which game mechanic we would most like to see added to EVE. This month Keith "WebMandrill" Nielson proposes to reverse the question and ask what may be a controversial question: Which game mechanic would you most like to see removed completely from EVE and why? I can see this getting quite heated so lets keep it civil eh?"

Since I'll be judging this banter for the contest, along with my fellow judges James Egan and Richie Shoemaker, I've deceided not to participate and to focus my attention on going through the articles. Please remember that the banter and article submission is open for one (1) week. After which, no additional articles will get added or be open to the contest. Good luck to all!

List of Participants:
    1. Diary of a Space Jockey, Blog Banter: BE GONE!
    2. EVE Newb, (EVE) Remove You
    3. Miner With Fangs, Blog Banter - It's the Scotch
    4. The Eden Explorer, Blog Banter: The Map! The Map!
    5. The Wandering Druid of Tranquility, "Beacons, beacons, beacons, beacons, beacons, mushroom, MUSHROOM!!!"
    6. Inner Sanctum of the Ninveah, Kill the Rats
    7. Mercspector @ EVE, Scotty
    8. EVE's Weekend Warrior, EVE Blog Banter #9
    9. A Merry Life and a Short One, Eve Blog Banter #9: Why Won't You Die?
    10. Into the unknown with gun and camera, Blog Banter – The Hokey Cokey
    11. The Flightless Geek, EVE Blog Banter #9: Remove a Game Mechanic
    12. Sweet Little Bad Girl, Blog Banter 9: Who is Nibbling at My House?
    13. One Man and His Spaceship, Blog Banter 9: What could you do without?
    14. Life in Low Sec, EVE Blog Banter #9: Stop Tarnishing My Halo
    15. Cle Demaari: Citizen, Blog Banter #9: Training for all my men!
    16. A Mule in EVE, He who giveth, also taketh away?
    17. Dense Veldspar, Blog Banter 9
    18. Morphisat’s Blog, Blog Banter #9 – Randomness Be Gone !
    19. Facepalm's Blog, EVE Blog Banter #9: What a new pilot could do without
    20. Memoires of New Eden, You're Fired
    21. Kyle Langdon's Journeys in EVE, EVE Blog Banter #9 Titans? What's a Titan?
    22. Achernar, The gates! The gates are down!
    23. Speed Fairy, EVE Blog Banter #9: Down with Downtime!
    24. I am Keith Neilson, EVE Blog Banter #9-F**K Da Police
    25. Ripe Lacunae, The UI… Where do I begin… (Eve Blog Banter #9)
    26. Clown Punchers, EvE Blogs: What game mechanic would you get rid of?
    27. Estel Arador Corp Services, You've got mail
    28. Epic Slant, Let Mom and Pop Play: EVE Blog Banter #9
    29. Deaf Plasma's EVE Musings, Blog Banter #9 - Removal of Anchoring Delay of POS modules
    30. Podded Once Again, Blog Banter #9 - Do we really need to go AFK?
    31. Postcards from EVE, 2009.07.02.00.29.06
    32. Harbinger Zero, Blog Banter #9 – War Declarations & Sec Status
    33. Warp Scrammed, Blog Banter 9 – Never Too Fast
    34. Ecaf Ersa (EVE Mag), Can a Tractor Tractor a Can?
    35. Thoughts from an Accidental Minmatar Revolutionary, EVE Blog Banter #9 - Aggression timers, WTs and Stargates
    36. Mike Azariah, I don't put much stock in it...
    37. Rettic's Log, Blog Banter: Overview Overload
    38. A Sebiestor Scholar, [OOC] EVE Blog Banter #9: Slaves
    39. Diary of a pod pilot, [OOC] EVE blog banter #9: Because of Falcon
    40. Roc's Ramblings, Blog Banter #9 – Taking Things Slow
    41. The Gaming-Griefer, EVE Sucks, But I Love It: The Memoir of a Masochist
    42. Letrange's EVE Blog, Blog Banter #9: Bye Bye Learning Skills
    43. Lyietfinvar, Remove that monopoly
    44. Sceadugenga, Blog Banter #9
    45. Industrialist with Teeth, EVE Blog Banter #9
    [ To the Participants: please make sure to add the Introduction (first two paragraphs of this post) to your Banter, as well as the list pf participants at the end. Then, comment on each others post! ]

                Friday, June 19, 2009

                The Drone Bay: Episode 22 - Like a Dysfunctional Family Reunion...












                Recorded on Monday evening, the latest Drone Bay podcast was released today. And yes, all 3 cohosts were present during this recording! It had been over 8 months since we were last all together on a show, but it felt great to be back and talk about EVE together. This latest episode is a bit more open in format since it's was a bit of a re-introduction. The next shows should have the old structure back.


                The Drone Bay Episode 22: Like a Dysfunctional Family Reunion

                ZOMG a proper Drone Bay! Well...kinda. All three hosts are back, and there is some EVE talk for you all. We are hoping this is the beginning of a more regular recording schedule, so listen up and enjoy as the Three Musketeers (or is that Amigos?) of EVE podcasting return to the airwaves!

                Contact Info:

                In-Game Channel:
                The Drone Bay

                E-Mail:
                dronebay|at|gmail.com (comments/questions for everyone)
                crovan|at|eve-mail.net
                crazykinux|at|gmail.com
                alsedrech|at|gmail.com

                Blogs:
                Bitter Old Noob (Crovan)
                CrazyKinux’s Musing
                The Littlest Drone (Alsedrech)

                Friday Video: Is an EVE Online FPS about to be announced?


                Way back in November of last year, Fanfest attendees were bombarded with information on what the devs were planning in the near and far future for the EVE Online franchise. I say franchise because it's well know that CCP North America (formerly CCP White Wolf) was working on bringing their World of Darkness RPG to the world of MMOGs.

                Amongst the information we were showed was the video below. Unfortunately, I was taken a bit by surprised when the clip started and missed the begin. In the first few seconds of the video, we see the interior of a ship as the player roams around. This was something very similar to a wish I shared with you back about a year ago, in which I compared Gears of War 2 with a potential EVE FPS. I guess I wasn't far off. After those videos and slides were shown (see the EVE Ecosystem for XBOX360 & PS3 dev platforms), a lot of the gaming press started speculating as well (see Massively, 1Up.com and EuroGamer as examples of that coverage).


                If CCP Games decides to make (or already has) an EVE FPS, they'll need to get the required industry expertise. And they're going to need to have someone to oversee this corporate expansion. Something the Icelandic Devs are fairly familiar with.

                Case in point, earlier today, Massively's James Egan wrote about a tweet I made earlier this week in regards to CCP NA looking for an HR Manager. Seems their Atlanta office is about to see some important growth. At this point in time, it's all speculation. And even though Hilmar (CCP's CEO) is about to make a major announcement at GDC Europe later this summer, an FPS might be a bit too early. We'll just have to wait in anticipation of Hilmar's address.