Monday, August 29, 2011
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Thoughts on CCP
I started my EVE adventure after reading about the game for a few weeks. As I read about EVE I become fascinated with the level of player and developer cooperation. I read that the developers would routinely add functionality to the game for activities the players were already doing.
EVE was the game I didn't know I was looking for but once I found it I was hooked. One server, conquerable space, training without grinding, player economy.... I'd never seen any game so sophisticated, and so I've been playing happily for almost 2 years now.
Over the last few months I've noticed a very negative trend in CCP towards their playerbase. They wanted to make money so they introduced the infamous NeX store where they sold $60 monocles after they promised that MT was never coming to EVE. Recently they banned an angry EVE player who told one of their employees he should die in a fire.
The EVE community is mad, and the anger is growing because despite massive forum threads, petition after petition, and even in-game riots, CCP has given no ground. None at all. No real apology and no change in the game itself. They have said to themselves, "we will simply wait out this storm and because the players are addicted to our game we'll be fine." To a certain degree that is probably true. They will probably survive this and a number of other self-serving changes they make in the future.
I'm sad to see that what attracted me to the game may be a thing of the past. CCP and the players are no longer on the same side.
CCP this pains me to say but I'm drawing my line in the sand right now. If you sell anything that changes game mechanics. I'm quitting, I'll go find a new game to play. Please do yourselves a favor and close that silly store.
Kilrath out.
EVE was the game I didn't know I was looking for but once I found it I was hooked. One server, conquerable space, training without grinding, player economy.... I'd never seen any game so sophisticated, and so I've been playing happily for almost 2 years now.
Over the last few months I've noticed a very negative trend in CCP towards their playerbase. They wanted to make money so they introduced the infamous NeX store where they sold $60 monocles after they promised that MT was never coming to EVE. Recently they banned an angry EVE player who told one of their employees he should die in a fire.
The EVE community is mad, and the anger is growing because despite massive forum threads, petition after petition, and even in-game riots, CCP has given no ground. None at all. No real apology and no change in the game itself. They have said to themselves, "we will simply wait out this storm and because the players are addicted to our game we'll be fine." To a certain degree that is probably true. They will probably survive this and a number of other self-serving changes they make in the future.
I'm sad to see that what attracted me to the game may be a thing of the past. CCP and the players are no longer on the same side.
CCP this pains me to say but I'm drawing my line in the sand right now. If you sell anything that changes game mechanics. I'm quitting, I'll go find a new game to play. Please do yourselves a favor and close that silly store.
Kilrath out.
Monday, August 8, 2011
My poor Raven...
First report from nullsec. I lost one of my Raven's today. Been impatient waiting for my stuff to be moved from high sec via jump freighter so I went back to move one of my battleships to my new home system. Fitted it with a passive tank, warp core stabilizer, and an afterburner then loaded it up with as much cargo as I could carry.
In high sec this would normally be fairly safe. What I've learned is that warp bubble's in 0.0 completely change the situation and fitting a WCS is no longer a ticket to safety.
I made it 13 jumps and then made the last jump into my home system... on the other side of the gate there was neut gang welcoming party! Congratulations Kilrath you made it home. Two warp bubbles were dropped and I was pointed and webbed. I attempted to burn back to the gate but no love. They got me and then got my capsule.
Not the first entry I would have liked to have on the Krysis. killboard but such is life.
What I learned: Wait for the jump freighter.
Kilrath out.
In high sec this would normally be fairly safe. What I've learned is that warp bubble's in 0.0 completely change the situation and fitting a WCS is no longer a ticket to safety.
I made it 13 jumps and then made the last jump into my home system... on the other side of the gate there was neut gang welcoming party! Congratulations Kilrath you made it home. Two warp bubbles were dropped and I was pointed and webbed. I attempted to burn back to the gate but no love. They got me and then got my capsule.
Not the first entry I would have liked to have on the Krysis. killboard but such is life.
What I learned: Wait for the jump freighter.
Kilrath out.
Friday, August 5, 2011
It's Krysis. time!
To the vast emptiness,
Been playing for a while now, learned some things (aka lost a bunch of ships), went some places. But now its time to out of Empire and into 0.0. The jolly good lads of Advent Chaos Theory were nice enough to recruit me and I have begun preparations to move to Querious.
I never realized how much stuff I'd left scattered across High Sec until I had to move it all to one place. In the end I just found all of the ships I wanted to keep and moved all the junk I had in those systems.
The last year and a half or so has been spent mostly in Eve University and in a WH corp that me and some RL friends started. That was fun for a while but we didn't have the skills or knowledge to really be out there, more lessons learned.
Everything I've ever heard of any importance has happened in 0.0 and so I am excited for the opportunity to get out there and see what all the fuss is about.
Take Care,
Kilrath Uskarl
Been playing for a while now, learned some things (aka lost a bunch of ships), went some places. But now its time to out of Empire and into 0.0. The jolly good lads of Advent Chaos Theory were nice enough to recruit me and I have begun preparations to move to Querious.
I never realized how much stuff I'd left scattered across High Sec until I had to move it all to one place. In the end I just found all of the ships I wanted to keep and moved all the junk I had in those systems.
The last year and a half or so has been spent mostly in Eve University and in a WH corp that me and some RL friends started. That was fun for a while but we didn't have the skills or knowledge to really be out there, more lessons learned.
Everything I've ever heard of any importance has happened in 0.0 and so I am excited for the opportunity to get out there and see what all the fuss is about.
Take Care,
Kilrath Uskarl
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