In his recent “That’s just the way it is” post on Jester’s Trek, blogger Ripard Teg posits that the established EVE player-base has come to accept many of EVE’s design idiosyncrasies, rarely questioning their purpose or benefit. Conversely, he also suggests that new players might not be so forgiving of these “quirks”. In an interview with Gamasutra, Senior Producer CCP Unifex describes EVE Online’s developers as “relatively hands-off janitors of the virtual world”, underlining that he has only four content developers but “a lot” of programmers and engineers. Continue reading →

The beauty of a planet from orbit always mesmerized her. Whether the violent storms of a plasma planet, the erupting landscape of lava planets or the serene beauty of oceanic planets, there was simply something majestic and captivating about these seemingly eternal pearls suspended in space.

She smiled despite her current situation, the tears in her eyes being wiped away by the violent winds buffeting her as she plunged towards the planet’s surface. He short hair blew violently around her, whipping into and out of her face as she struggled to take breaths of what thin air there was at this altitude. She refused to blackout. She wanted to face her imminent death head on. Continue reading →

And away we go …

I respect people’s beliefs. Wait, that’s not entirely correct. I respect people having the right to believe, not necessarily what they believe. It’s important I am concise in this as I have a feeling this could turn into a volatile subject, as it has in the past. So, let me rephrase again. I respect people having the right to believe provided it does not impede on the rights of another. I’ll probably rephrase again by the time we’re doing discussing this. Continue reading →