In Harm's Way
While the battle at Z9PP-H was unable to complete due to node crash, it's a singular fight in that capital ships came out to play in force, and both sides in the fight have said that they had...
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The Perils of Prognostication
"It ain't over 'til the fat lady sings." - Ralph CarpenterThe Fabled Kodachi Snow Globe For the most part Kirith Kodachi is a conservative writer.Which is not to say he goes clubbing with Anne...
View ArticleThe Cost of Kingdoms
The recent birth announcements for Britain's new little Saxe Coburg Gotha princeling have gotten me thinking about Richard III and those who pay the cost of kingdoms.Richard, of course, died at...
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Barbarians!
If you hang out in nullsec long enough, there's going to come a day when the barbarians get inside the walls. They're going to pillage and burn. They're going to perform unnatural acts with the...
View ArticleEVE Lore: Blog Banter 48
This month's topic is a request from CCP Sisyphus who wants to know how important is Lore in EVE Online?How important is “fluff” in Eve online? Would eve online be the same if it were purely numbers...
View ArticleCarebear Empires
"When beggars die there are no comets seen;The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes." - Shakespeare, Julius Caesar Over at Jester's Trek, Ripard has been looking at the...
View ArticleUndead Again
"Call it mental toughness. Call it 'Too dumb to die'. Call it zombification. Whatever. -A- have an annoying way of not knowing when they're beaten. You can knock them down, shoot them...
View ArticleA Tyranny of Choice
Undead Again was intended as a good-natured tweak at the noses of some fellow bloggers (you know who you are) over their premature predictions with regard to the fate of -A- back around the turn of the...
View ArticleWatch This Space
Yes, I know. It's been two months and change. Apologies for that. Life in real-time has moved at a blistering pace. It does that, at times, without much in the way of warning. Between new corporate...
View ArticleA Little Night Music
[Highsec] industrialists will clamor and fight over single-percentage-point margins... and null industry will not exist when it's essentially raw cost plus shipping to get it to front lines. -...
View ArticleIf
Let's imagine that everyone's worst nightmares about EVE and RMT are true.What if RMT (by which I mean the trade of EVE's in-game currency, the ISK, for for real world currency) is not only being done...
View ArticleThe Spies Among Us
Seems that when an Pakistani nuclear scientist, a Venezuelan embassy driver or a senior member of Iran’s republican guard knock off for the day they, like many of us, are in the mood for a bit cartoon...
View ArticleWolves of the Southern Wilds
And now, what’s going to happen to us without barbarians?They were, those people, a kind of solution. - C.P. Cavafy - Waiting for the BarbariansThe word 'barbarian' was coined, to the best of our...
View ArticleA Series of Unfortunate Events
"The war situation has developed not necessarily to Japan's advantage." - Emperor Hirohito Wars have consequences and the nullsec war in Fountain last summer was no exception to that rule....
View ArticleSeraph Basarab and Org Chart of Doom
Over at EVE News 24, Seraph IX Basarab has written a good post on the organizational structure of Clusterfuck Coalition (CFC). It is a significant piece and well worth your time. Much of the...
View ArticleThe Butterfly Effect
Once upon a time, roughly 1,150 years ago, a pimply teen-aged boy did what pimply teen-aged boys have always done since pimply teen-aged boys first walked the earth. He screwed up his courage, asked a...
View ArticleThe Gaming Media
I'm in mid-think about events surrounding and related to battle at B-R5RB. Most of what can be said about the immediate outcomes and aftermath has already been said. The battle has been a high...
View ArticleMord, Lord of Delve
I've been thinking or ruling Delve. Mord, Lord of Delve. It has a deep, sonorous ring to it that's pleasing to to the ear. It tolls majestically, as a name from the Nibelung or the Poetic Edda....
View ArticleSpreadsheets in Space
In real life I do an excellent impersonation of a responsible adult. While I don't hide the fact that I play EVE Online, it's not something I wear on my sleeve. As a (ahem) mature player I am of the...
View ArticleBlue Balls and Adverse Possession
If a barbarian horde comes over your borders and you won’t or can’t field a force to turn them back, you’ve no one to blame but yourself when they start drinking your tea, eating cake off the good...
View ArticleHeroikos
Blog Banter #54 - HerosWelcome to the continuing monthly EVE Blog Banters and our 54th edition! For more details about what the blog banters are visit the Blog Banter page.* * * * *Today's topic comes...
View ArticleThe Icarus Agenda
"You have no power or desire to lay New Eden low," unbending Hilmar called after him. "And even didst thou, it is the stage 'pon which your own reputation struts. Turn off New Eden's lights and you...
View ArticleVisions
"Any industry feature must be balanced around our risk versus reward philosophy." - CCP Ytterbium For those of you who missed it, the value of nullsec real estate went up the other day. As more...
View ArticleThat'll Do
As Ripard Teg wrote in a recent blog post, CCP has undertaken to break the back of industry in EVE's highsec and lowsec space in order to make nullsec the center of gravity for most of EVE's industry....
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The Infinite Reach
"Always with the writing," she said with, I thought, a slight strain in her voice."Always with the writing," I affirmed quietly. - Interlude Terminales As I commented in my last post, and in...
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