Friday Bullet Points About New Eden Wilhelm Arcturus Some little things about EVE Online in one post because I can’t quite get a full post about any one thing going. Anniversary Gifts Claim If you were as diligent as I was, then today you ought to be able to claim the 16th and final gift for the game’s 16th anniversary. Last gifts for me The final gift was a lot of skill points. Skill points are always the right size Before this I had over a million unallocated skill points, now I have over two million. I keep saving them in case I need a skill quickly. Right now I can get a long skill like Fleet Command V if I need it. But do I need it. If you missed a day or two… and somehow I fell behind on one account… you can still keep doing the daily redeem thing for two more days. Will War Come Tomorrow? On Monday I was writing about the coming war, now on Friday I wonder if it will come at all. There is a State of the Goonion slated for tomorrow, after which we are supposed to move to war. However, the most likely targets, Pandemic Legion and Northern Coalition, have, according to Reddit, packed up their stuff to evac to low sec. This must be that Fabian defense I have heard so much about. Anyway, we will hear about our destination, if there is one, tomorrow. It will be amusing if it isn’t Tribute and PL/NCDot, but even if it is we’ll still go blow up all their ihubs. CSM14 Candidate Applications Closed The window for registering to be a candidate for CSM14 closed at the start of the week. If you are still thinking about running, it is too late. While we won’t get the official ballot from CCP until May 25th at EVE Down Under, you can look at the current estimated list of candidates over at CSM Wire. They have identified 42 candidates so far. Evaluating the chances of various candidates pretty much means asking who their constituency is. Aryth will be at the top of the Imperium ballot, a built-in constituency, so he is pretty much guaranteed a seat. Others like Steve Ronuken or Mike Azariah have built independent constituencies over the years, so seem likely to return. One interesting addition to the list this year is Matterall, the owner/host of Talking in Stations. While he is a null sec bloc player, he has his own popular constituency based on his show. A bunch of people on that list though, they have no visible constituency. We’ll see if they have some real support when the winners are announced on June 22nd at EVE North. Only 10 people get elected, and I can spot at least 10 candidates with viable followings. My gut-level guess at winners right now, in no particular order: Ayrth (whoever gets #2 spot on the Imperium ballot) Dunk Dinkle Matterall Steve Ronuken Manic Velocity Mike Azariah Vily BlazingBunny BigChols That would be 7 null sec players, 6 if you count Matterall as an outsider, but I doubt people will, which would be about par for the course. Empires of EVE II Update On the one year anniversary of the end of the Kickstarter Campaign for Empires of EVE Vol. II, Andrew Groen put out an update. While the initial estimate for the book was this month, stretch goals and complications have pushed out the ship date to the end of 2019. However, it sounds like a lot of progress has been made and that it will be a solid follow on to the original book. EVE Classic With the rush of news about WoW Classic earlier this week retro enthusiast have been agitating for various other dream trips back to old versions of MMOs, and EVE Online has not been spared. But an EVE Online Classic would be a disaster for the game. Leaving aside giant technical issues (as we saw at BlizzCon last year, that WoW Classic was possible depended a lot on luck, and CCP ain’t ever that lucky) and the civil war that would erupt over defining what era is “classic,” EVE Online is not WoW or EQ. It cannot be chopped up into a bunch of discreet servers and remain viable. WoW you could play solo or with a few friends or with a big guild, and not notice much difference, depending on what you want out of the game. A server with 100 regulars would probably be an okay experience. EVE Online though, it depends on everybody being on the same server. You can bring up Singularity, the Chinese server, if you want, but you’ll note that major groups from there have moved to Tranquility because, basically, a second server isn’t really viable. EVE Online depends on its in-game economy like no other game I have played, and that requires a critical mass of players. Splitting off a bunch of players from Tranquility… and we have seen with retro servers in other games like EQ and LOTRO that a bunch of the players come straight from the live servers… and the market is at risk. And if the market goes, if players can’t go to Jita or Amarr to reship and reload, things grind to a halt pretty quickly. Also, if you are dreaming of another server where you can leave Goons and gankers and scammers and botters and pirates and blobs behind, forget about it. When you’re done creating your character and pass through the tutorial you will find that they have all gotten there ahead of you, and will be all the more efficient at restoring things to their play style due to years of experience. The people you hate, they are always the most likely to show up to the party. http://bit.ly/2Hykn3f
Some little things about EVE Online in one post because I can’t quite get a full post about any one thing going.
- Anniversary Gifts Claim
If you were as diligent as I was, then today you ought to be able to claim the 16th and final gift for the game’s 16th anniversary.
Last gifts for me
The final gift was a lot of skill points.
Skill points are always the right size
Before this I had over a million unallocated skill points, now I have over two million. I keep saving them in case I need a skill quickly. Right now I can get a long skill like Fleet Command V if I need it. But do I need it.
If you missed a day or two… and somehow I fell behind on one account… you can still keep doing the daily redeem thing for two more days.
- Will War Come Tomorrow?
On Monday I was writing about the coming war, now on Friday I wonder if it will come at all. There is a State of the Goonion slated for tomorrow, after which we are supposed to move to war. However, the most likely targets, Pandemic Legion and Northern Coalition, have, according to Reddit, packed up their stuff to evac to low sec. This must be that Fabian defense I have heard so much about.
Anyway, we will hear about our destination, if there is one, tomorrow. It will be amusing if it isn’t Tribute and PL/NCDot, but even if it is we’ll still go blow up all their ihubs.
- CSM14 Candidate Applications Closed
The window for registering to be a candidate for CSM14 closed at the start of the week. If you are still thinking about running, it is too late.
While we won’t get the official ballot from CCP until May 25th at EVE Down Under, you can look at the current estimated list of candidates over at CSM Wire. They have identified 42 candidates so far.
Evaluating the chances of various candidates pretty much means asking who their constituency is. Aryth will be at the top of the Imperium ballot, a built-in constituency, so he is pretty much guaranteed a seat. Others like Steve Ronuken or Mike Azariah have built independent constituencies over the years, so seem likely to return.
One interesting addition to the list this year is Matterall, the owner/host of Talking in Stations. While he is a null sec bloc player, he has his own popular constituency based on his show.
A bunch of people on that list though, they have no visible constituency. We’ll see if they have some real support when the winners are announced on June 22nd at EVE North. Only 10 people get elected, and I can spot at least 10 candidates with viable followings. My gut-level guess at winners right now, in no particular order:
- Ayrth
- (whoever gets #2 spot on the Imperium ballot)
- Dunk Dinkle
- Matterall
- Steve Ronuken
- Manic Velocity
- Mike Azariah
- Vily
- BlazingBunny
- BigChols
That would be 7 null sec players, 6 if you count Matterall as an outsider, but I doubt people will, which would be about par for the course.
- Empires of EVE II Update
On the one year anniversary of the end of the Kickstarter Campaign for Empires of EVE Vol. II, Andrew Groen put out an update. While the initial estimate for the book was this month, stretch goals and complications have pushed out the ship date to the end of 2019. However, it sounds like a lot of progress has been made and that it will be a solid follow on to the original book.
- EVE Classic
With the rush of news about WoW Classic earlier this week retro enthusiast have been agitating for various other dream trips back to old versions of MMOs, and EVE Online has not been spared.
But an EVE Online Classic would be a disaster for the game. Leaving aside giant technical issues (as we saw at BlizzCon last year, that WoW Classic was possible depended a lot on luck, and CCP ain’t ever that lucky) and the civil war that would erupt over defining what era is “classic,” EVE Online is not WoW or EQ. It cannot be chopped up into a bunch of discreet servers and remain viable. WoW you could play solo or with a few friends or with a big guild, and not notice much difference, depending on what you want out of the game. A server with 100 regulars would probably be an okay experience.
EVE Online though, it depends on everybody being on the same server.
You can bring up Singularity, the Chinese server, if you want, but you’ll note that major groups from there have moved to Tranquility because, basically, a second server isn’t really viable.
EVE Online depends on its in-game economy like no other game I have played, and that requires a critical mass of players. Splitting off a bunch of players from Tranquility… and we have seen with retro servers in other games like EQ and LOTRO that a bunch of the players come straight from the live servers… and the market is at risk. And if the market goes, if players can’t go to Jita or Amarr to reship and reload, things grind to a halt pretty quickly.
Also, if you are dreaming of another server where you can leave Goons and gankers and scammers and botters and pirates and blobs behind, forget about it. When you’re done creating your character and pass through the tutorial you will find that they have all gotten there ahead of you, and will be all the more efficient at restoring things to their play style due to years of experience. The people you hate, they are always the most likely to show up to the party.
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