The short version: It was a mechanic which discouraged people from actually flying ships. That is, discouraged them from playing the game. The longer version: While clone costs aren't really high, until you start getting into the really high levels of SP, they form a mental block for people. 'You're flying a Rifter. Your Pod […] Read more
The Election is almost on us, and that means suggested voting lists. As you can't just put me 14 times, I have a number of suggested candidates. Other than myself, I'm not really suggesting any particular order (me first!). Pick people that are appropriate for your play style, or where you live. If you're an […] Read more
I've had someone asking me about my feelings about NPC corporations, on Twitter, and while I answered him, I thought I'd give a fuller answer here. NPC corporations are fine. But there should always be an advantage of not being in one. Also, you shouldn't be able to use one to avoid consequences. So, let's […] Read more
Industry in EVE needs work. It's not been touched, save for the addition of new things to make, in quite a while. When people talk about it, they tend to talk about things like changes to the UI, to make it simpler to put in jobs in batches, or adding a queue. What I'm going […] Read more
There have been a few criticisms coming out of the recent live event, which saw a bunch of people leaving high sec to attack a target in NPC Nullsec. Most of them were people whining. Some were more valid, mostly focusing around in game organisation. This post flows from one of the latter. One of […] Read more
tl;dr: In this post, I talk about how I'd change industry, to shake things up a bit, while not crippling anyone. Change highsec slots and costs to make station based industry less attractive. A lot of the following depends on significant updates to POS, and corp role management. Specifically the ability to launch POSes for […] Read more
This is all inspired by A post by Two step about where he'd like to see POSes going. I pretty much agree with what he's saying, but it inspired a few more detailed thoughts than I was happy putting into a comment on someone elses blog. So, I'm writing this one. The method for placing […] Read more
Time to spew my drivel over yet another stellar cluster. :) Who am I? I'm a Carebear, and I'm a small time PvPer. Different Characters, for different purposes. I won't say I'm good at PvP. Hilariously bad is possibly a better description right now, but I'm working in it. Long term, I'll be throwing up […] Read more