Category Archives: EVE Online

EVE: My enemies are my friends

Posted on December 6, 2011 by SynCaine

DiS’s second war is coming to an end today. To call it a war is somewhat misleading, because in reality it was a week of DiS ships going boom. Early in the week we gave it our all, and had … Continue reading →

Posted in EVE Online, MMO design, PvP | 25 Comments

EVE: Dodging the tax man

Posted on December 2, 2011 by SynCaine

Via Jester’s Trek, Letrange does some of the Excel work on the new Planetary Interaction (PI) taxes, what impact they have, and what the risk/reward ratios might look like if a Corp moves to low/null sec space to setup their … Continue reading →

Posted in EVE Online, MMO design | 10 Comments

The more things change…

Posted on December 1, 2011 by SynCaine

Timing is everything. Today Raph has a post showing a 3-part “History of MMOs” video. (well worth watching btw, especially for those who started playing post-2004) Also today Tobold has a post about how bots could easily play certain MMOs … Continue reading →

Posted in Asheron's Call, Console Gaming, Dark Age of Camelot, EQ2, EVE Online, Guild Wars, MMO design, Random, Rant, SW:TOR, Ultima Online, World of Warcraft | 13 Comments

EVE: Day one reactions to Crucible, and another war for DiS

Posted on November 30, 2011 by SynCaine

I feel that I greatly underestimated Crucible in terms of its overall impact on EVE (at least day-one impact), which is somewhat surprising to me since I watched all the dev videos and read all the blogs. I thought I … Continue reading →

Posted in EVE Online, Patch Notes, PvP | 12 Comments

MMO Expansions

Posted on November 29, 2011 by SynCaine

It’s expansion day in EVE today, and Crucible sounds like it will get the game back to its winning ways. What’s interesting about Crucible is that it comes without a ‘killer app’ of a feature. Nothing that really jumps out … Continue reading →

Posted in Darkfall Online, EVE Online, Inquisition Clan, League of Legends, Mass Media, MMO design, Rant, World of Warcraft | 18 Comments

Back from vacation

Posted on November 28, 2011 by SynCaine

I find it very amusing that Trion has called their latest event currency a “unique snowflake”, considering the actual event sounds like a rehash of every other event. I’m laughing, but not WITH you Trion. I’m still playing a lot … Continue reading →

Posted in EVE Online, Patch Notes, Random, Rift | 6 Comments

EVE: Grind leads to greatness

Posted on November 22, 2011 by SynCaine

I found a few comments interested related to the R&K video I posted last weekend. In particular, the mention of ‘grind’ related to getting into Nova. If getting into Nova was not ‘hard’, Nova would not be worth what it’s … Continue reading →

Posted in EVE Online, MMO design, PvP, Rant | 13 Comments

EVE: Losing the battle, ‘winning’ the war

Posted on November 21, 2011 by SynCaine

My ‘war’ preview linked to my kill mail, and left people guessing at what happened. Pretty interesting to see people try to piece things together. Here is what actually happened. The war-dec was pulled back shortly after it was declared, … Continue reading →

Posted in EVE Online, PvP | 18 Comments

EVE: Best 37 minutes of your weekend, possibly your year

Posted on November 19, 2011 by SynCaine

Rooks and Kings: Clarion Call 3 It’s 37 minutes. Watch it. 100% totally worth it whether you play EVE or not. PS: That’s basically how PvP looks for me. Basically… PPS: I have no clue wtf was going on in … Continue reading →

Posted in EVE Online | 21 Comments

EVE: War story preview

Posted on November 19, 2011 by SynCaine

Yup

Posted in EVE Online, PvP | 8 Comments