Brinelan’s Adventures in Gaming
Just a quick note that I am still here. It has been a busy few weeks between work and getting our new house ready to move in.
In eq2 I have been working on shard armor and AA’s and in eve I am still doing my manufacturing however I moved out to 0.0 and am stocking the local market with mods and ammo.
Posted in Massive Games.
I came across a site today (ok so I really just finally clicked the link in his sig and it brought me to his page of sigs he created) and I have to say, they made me lol, which is not good when you are at work.
They are so true about Eve. Give them a read when you get a few minutes camping that gate..
The whole collection - http://desusig.crumplecorn.com
Here are a few I liked
Posted in EVE Online.
My new Rokh class battleship for POS Busting.
I got a new toy today. It is a Rokh class battleship for busting POSses. You can see her in all her glory on her maiden voyage in a 0.0 system prior to going off to war.
Posted in EVE Online.
Welcome to the second installment of the EVE Blog Banter, 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!
This month’s EVE Blog Banter comes to us from Brinelan over at The Shard. He asks: What drew us into EVE, what keeps us playing the game and what brought us back if we’ve ever left?
Sorry for being late with my post. Anyway, I had the idea for the topic while I was admiring the beauty of eve on a long trip doing courier missions.
A Smuggler's Gate in Vale of the Silent
I started playing on a recommendation from a friend. I had started up in 2005, and got stuck in the tutorial. After that it was almost a year before I tried to get out of that tutorial, and after playing for over 2 years since then I wish I had tried harder the first time around.
I have taken breaks in the 2 years that I have been playing, but what really keeps me in and what I compare every game to is the same. I love the depth and complexity of the world. The market is as deep and complex as you want it to be. No other economy or market can compare. It is always interesting when you see prices fluctuate, and then it can be traced back to a major conflict in some far off region of space. Minerals are being affected by that right now. There is a lot of capital ships dying in the wars going on in 0.0, and mineral prices are showing that. Hi-end minerals are tanking as alliances dump them en masse on the market to get money to replace ships. What game out there has such a complex economy ? None that I have seen.
I also love the sandboxy nature of the game. You can really do what you want, and there is a place for everyone. If you want to be safeish then hisec is for you, and if you want a bit of danger yet still have some of the amenities of hisec there is low sec, and if you want to build your own empire from scratch and take part in epic conflicts there is 0.0.
I have been in 0.0 for almost 2 years, and as a break I went back to empire for a little bit. All I can say is that it is seriously like playing two totally different games. The markets are different, the dangers are different. I feel much safer in 0.0 then I do in empire. In empire, any ship sitting on any gate could be the one to lock you in its sights and kill you, where in 0.0 you know the people around you and you know who will be the one removing your ship from around your pod.
Lastly, the beauty of the game can really be astonishing at times. I did an article about the beauty of eve back in June and I think that really says it all. I normally play with the game not taking up my whole widescreen monitor so that I can have another eve window’s chat windows open for intel, but on a roaming op I will put my game using the whole screen so that I can enjoy the views (Premium graphics with shadows and bloom effects really throw things over the top!). You would never know the game is over 7 years old (5 years open to the public).
I have certainly played a lot of other games and the depth is really something I haven’t seen elsewhere. Many other games are more-or-less on rails, yet eve is open ended. You make your own path, and make your own fortunes. I am glad that I came back and stuck with it.
This view greeted me as I came out of a jump.
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Posted in EVE Online, Eve Blog Banter.
With the market all screwey since the QR patch, I took the opportunity to run courier missions and slow down production a bit. I wanted the option of being able to put up my towers without paying someone for standings every time. Plus, with the renovations on the house we just bought, and my recent appendix surgery I couldn’t do much else so this was a nice way to unwind at the end of the day.
I did get to 7 with Caldari State finally (yay!)
Other then that, I am looking at new markets to start building in and I think I may want to look at freighter production. Unfortunately there is a large capital investment required for the prints, so it’ll be something I will have to work up to.
And I almost got scammed this week. A character (Cyrin Miosa) had sent me a convo saying that they were interested in my covetor bpo I was selling, and wanted me to deliver it. Now at this point I was thinking there was something not right, but I flew it out to this person’s station 5 jumps away in hisec caldari space. I always do business with most things by the contract system, so when the trade window appeared as I docked I knew something was up. Sure enough, they put in 2.5m instead of 2.5b in the trade window. I cancelled the trade, put up a contract and it was promptly rejected. Just another person to add to the block list.
All in all, a quiet week in my little corner of the universe.
Posted in EVE Online.
The trailer came out about an hour ago for Quantum Rise. Seriously, the video guys at CCP really need to do a full length movie. Their videos are so full of win!
This is a low quality version, once the high def version comes out on eve-online.com definately check it out!
Posted in Massive Games.
I was shopping around today for Tritanium, since I currently am going through about 42 million units of the stuff a week (roughly) and am getting ready to enter a market where I will be upping that weekly amount. Ifigured that I would get a jump on building stockpiles so it is ready to go for when the prints come out of the labs.
In Lonetrek there is plenty of tritanium below the Jita average of 3.4 isk, yet you have to go through at least 1 lowsec system on the route. I do have autopilot set to avoid lowsec.
Well, if anyone knows of a good mineral supplier that does weekly contracts then leave a comment. I need the entire range of minerals in quantity.
Posted in EVE Online.
I made some changes to the permalink structure. I had never looked at the site in Internet Explorer, so when I checked from my work computer I noticed that the categories were too messy looking and jumbled up from there not being enough room on the bar. In the process of cleaning it up, I also changed the permalink structure to be a bit cleaner as well. Sorry if this caused any problems, epecially with the Blog Banter posts.
Posted in Site Stuff.
Welcome to the first installment of the EVE Blog Banter, 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!
This month’s topic comes to us from PsycheDiver: Ambulation: What are your hopes for your avatar and new functionality of stations?
A Caracal waits for its prey by a stargate in the drone regions.
I have been following the planned addition since the details first surfaced and it looks ambitious yet very cool. There is a thread going on the main forums that has been around since 2007 when it was first announced (Linky).
My hopes for Ambulation as a whole
I would love to see the graphical buaty of EvE’s space and ships extend to this new inner station world. I am picturing a grand and detailed area that is bigger then the eye can see!
You get out of your craft, and walk down the ramp into the station proper. You are greeted with the mass chaos that is the busy loading and unloading area for the multitude of ships docked in the station’s massive docking bay. All around you forklifts are busily moving crates and supplies to the myriad of different ships, and people frantically running around making sure they got each and every last bit of cargo and supplies for their journey.
Heading away from the docking area you walk out to the station itself, which is more like a city, with tramways and people everywhere. Even the least populated station would be a busy place full of people and activity. As you get on the tram, you pass a busy commercial area with shops, bars and restaurants of all kinds where you can have a nice meal or a cold quafe. Lastly you arrive at a quiet area away from everything where you can get a good nights sleep in a small apartment.
Features
Being a bit of an industrialist, I would hope to be able to have not only shops but a way to entice people to come and browse my wares. I know there are things in the works with Quantum Rise but everythin is always subject to change, and not much about the expansion has been talked about yet.
Another idea that I really liked when I heard about it was the tactical map (Devblog). The tactical map concept they are talking about is a map that multiple people can use to plan tactics and operations. There were some neat ideas tossed around in the thread, the one I liked is how it can have points of interest, tactical data etc sent to it and displayed from scouts in the field. So cool!
Wrap up
Ambulation is a very ambitious project, and it looks really good so far. I unfortunately will not be attending fanfest this year but I will be eagerly awaiting any footage and talk of the Ambulation demonstration that CCP is planning to have there. I can’t wait for the new chance to explore the world of New Eden, even if it is only a small piece in a bigger universe.
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Posted in Eve Blog Banter.
I was raiding Shard of Hate with my EQ2 guild and we looted this off A Vexed Abhorrance.. It is a zombie looking mob.. I guess even zombies like minty fresh breath! Go figure
Posted in Everquest 2.
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