As much as I like picking up Caldari and Amarr dogtags from my kills and selling them for lots of ISK to pilots who pretend loyalty to those violent races, it’s getting to the point where I can hardly warp into Amarr or Caldari space without warnings to move off or be shot down. Since I do like running trade routes into Caldari-owned Jita for spare change, this could become a problem. Only my training in Diplomacy lets me dock at 4-4. ...
The weekend wasn’t ALL EVE Online, though it could have been. That game is just SO addictive, though, that I have to consciously NOT log in, find something else to do. Thankfully, I had Torchlight backing me up. My Torchlight Vanquisher is about 4/5 of the way through the main storyline, and I’m already thinking about her retirement. In Torchlight, once you’ve finished the main storyline, you can continue on with custom maps or user mods, or retire the character. Retired characters can pass along one special item to their heir, and this item will become simultaneously more powerful and lower level. You can keep doing this until you eventually make the most powerful item in the game that can be wielded by a very low level character. My plan now is to retire the Vanquisher Marksman and start a Vanquisher Rogue – a two-bladed dervish of spinning steel, and then use that character to run user mods. ...
When I created my alt EVE character, Etha Preve, as part of CCP’s “Power of 2” promotion (have a second account for cheap for six months), I didn’t have any specific plans for her. But I’d always wanted a good hauler to help with the mining and just moving stuff around. Last week, she finally finished the necessary training to fly a Iteron Mark V, a hauler so huge it can nearly carry the contents of an entire jetcan. The PERFECT companion for mining ops, running the trade route from Jita to Dodixie, or picking up buy orders from around the Sinq Laison region. ...
The mega-EVE alliance Curatores Veritatis Alliance (CVA), one of the alliances that keep the nullsec Providence region mostly safe and pirate free, was dissolved today. CVA leaders are calling it an account hacking and have vowed to either get CCP to roll the hack back or to form a new alliance from the ashes of the old. ...
Wow, it’s been a week since I posted? Really? It’s been a REALLY BUSY week, though. And having to leave really early in the morning for the bus and come back really late because of the bus isn’t helping – but I DO get to read every morning and night. I’m reading Mark Twain’s “Innocents Abroad”, his journey through Europe, Asia and the Holy Land while in exile. I’m really mining that Google Book partnership with Sony’s eBook reader. ...
The latest update to Wizard101 hits the servers Friday, and it has all the things we saw on the test server, and more! (Well, and less – the Wishing Well will not be coming to Wizard City after all). Announcing Mounts for you to Ride! The next major new content being developed for Wizard101 is a series of Wizard Mounts that provide a fun, fast, and stylish way of getting around. Many different types of Wizard Mounts will be available with more to come in the future. Initially, four will be introduced: Brooms, Horses, Cats, and Dragons! ...
This Devoter would be the last sight I saw before I was blown out of space by an unstoppable force. That’s my Myrmidon in the background. It would be a twisted pile of tritanium before the night was through. I need to assure you that the Devoter is, as far as I know, fine. So relax! OtakuDyne had the rare opportunity to tag along with another corp on their Wednesday night ops run. This corp has rented space for a POS (Player-Operated Starbase) from a powerful alliance in the Providence region (yes, the region where we brushed with CVA a month ago), and they are about to join an alliance which will enlist them in the defense of a large portion of hotly-desired space. ...
Earth Eternal’s Sylvan have to put up with this every day…. First off, responding to parental concerns that their children would be gambling away their RMT currency for minimal rewards, KingsIsle has announced that the “wishing well” cash slot machine will NOT be making it out of test. Thanks to Fallon of Diary of a Wizard for the scoop! Kaozz of EC Tunnel has compiled a list of a lot of Octember All Hallow’s Eve events for all the major MMOs – including Maple Story, big props for including even the MMOs that are way more popular than WoW – so there’s your to-do list for fall fun. ...
We last left our intrepid duo of Marissa, 34 Myth wizard, and Allison, 36 Balance wizard, exhausted from having herded half a hundred howling cats in Katzenstein’s Laboratory. Needing a rest before pursuing the evil Meowiarty up the numberless lifts and staircases of the Big Ben clock tower, they went their separate ways, but came together last night to complete the job: to prevent Malistaire from getting his foul hands on the sacred Krokonomicon, once stolen from the Order of the Fang by Meowiarty’s murderous clockworks, with which he will complete the destruction of all the worlds of the Spiral. ...
A guest article by Lemons :) A moderately multiplayer FPS by a single man? What an amazing feat, and when promised some of the best things, such as human-like AI and an almost dream-like virtual world … one can get very excited over a game and follow it for a year or two. The visuals look almost like watercolors painted on a life canvas. But then said game becomes playable and I spend the next two or three hours wandering around aimlessly in what seems like a mushroom trip without the fun or laughing but instead frustration and confusion. ...