For people living in high-sec, ganking is a constant problem and they demand more protection from the developers, especially during/after a serious ganking campaign. The other part of the community answers that there is already the stupidly overpowered
We know that there are about 100K PLEX bought every month. So about 1/3 of the 350K accounts are not self-sustaining, they need constant ISK influx in form of selling PLEX on the market to keep on going. It also means that about 1/3 of accounts are played
Before I'd start describing how The One Empire of EVE will look like, I'd like to emphasize that I am a politologist of forming this Empire, a "think tank" if you wish and not at all a politician or a leader. I cannot be a leader,
Let's say that 1 tritanium cost 6 ISK on the major hub in your zone. You find an item for mere 1 ISK on the market that you can reprocess for 10000 tritanium. Then you craft an item from that 10000 tritanum and sell it for 40000 ISK. What is your
This titan business of mine has opened me to the nullsec without actually going there. Hundreds of people are giving me info in comments, mails, links to forums. God, I thrown some really big rock into the pond with my "I'll just buy a titan"
Imagine that 5-years old boy runs in the house with eyes sparkling "Mommy, I've beaten Dad in football!". Would you think that he actually won? Or rather that daddy let him win to make his son happy and to motivate him to play more? Obviously
I think I managed to organize the worst mining fleet ever. At first I did not survey systems where good ores can be found, so in the hurry I just hit a random one. It had Veldspar but that wouldn't be a problem as Veld is surprisingly profitable
For long I dismissed 0.01 ISK or 1c undercutters as "punks", considering them something that happens only in MMOs, abusing the fact that it's illegal to use a bot to manage orders and also, since there is no brand or quality in game, the
I got lot of negative comments to my titan plans, either on the basis that titans don't matter (probably the alliances have them for vanity purposes), or that no serious alliance would take me anyway as they need experienced pilots with huge killboard.
I wrote that I have the hunch of World of Tanks being a rigged game, where via matchmaking, tinkering with penetration (and probably hit) chances and damage numbers the developers guarantee that everyone remains close to the average in terms of kills
It's time to make our first group effort, a mining fleet. Mining has terribly low income compared to trading, so why bother? Because there are huge changes in the mineral economy: rogue drones no longer drop alloys that were reprocessed to minerals
I wanted to prove that one can survive in the "harsh" world of EVE. After earning 7B in my very first two months, we can consider it done. The fact that "the last 365 days saw 1.12 million market transactions involving PLEX" means
There are many items which have more or less fixed prices. The NPC sold items are completely fixed. The random mission loot that you collect from morons who don't know the way to the nearest hub via region-wide orders is almost fixed. Items that
This is a "sort of" permanent page, I will update it often and clean the old comments after incorporating them into the texts. Please reference the suggestions with their numbers. This is a list of UI upgrade suggestions that I'd like
The Goon motto is "Goonswarm is not here to destroy the game, but your game." The burn Jita event is one of their latest action in that. At first I did not even understand how could their idea to blockade Jita make any effect. I mean you can
There are 4 market hubs: Jita, Amarr, Dodixie and Rens. If you already have the knowledge to station trade on one, why not do the same on all 4 to multiply the profit? It's easy: you start a second account and create 3 alts on them. Philosophical
World of tanks is an extremely successful game with 20 million users and 30% paying rate. That's 6M paying customer, in the same league as WoW, despite much smaller developer budget. To make it more awesome, World of Tanks is a PvP game, while
I'm a strict supporter of profitable pirating. The smart shall exploit the dumb and the lazy. Also, I believe that the rise of profitable pirates can decrease the amount of griefers more than anything else. Players tend to go for rewards, and if
I wrote a post advising everyone to stay away from station trading. Lot have changed since then, so I choose to remove that post as I consider it now misleading. However the main point of that post is true: new players and non-professional traders must
And some more fun for the weekend, a beautiful moron: Paying 130M for that book is bad enough already, but he did so when there was a page of lower priced ones on the same station. I mean clicking on the first one and press "buy" is less
Do you know what a singing ransom is? The griefers tackle a ship. Ask the pilot to come on voice chat. Tell him that if he sings a song his ship will be spared. They record the "song" and then put it on the internet for public amusement and
Real World economies moved away from barter trading long ago and use immaterial "money" as currency. Bartering has several disadvantages, since it need you to create or get some product you are not going to consume, nor can you produce effectively,
I was very dismissive with outside Courier Contracts where you hire other people to haul for you. Moving your assets is a key thing in trading and I believed that you must do it on your own. I'm not so restrictive now and see reasons when it's
I wrote that PLEX trade and Diablo III RMAH are not making the games play-to-cheat. I uphold this statement in a sense that in these games you aren't cheated if you don't participate. In a pay-to-cheat game like World of Tanks, your relative
I made some long-overdue maintenance on my permanent pages. The most important change is in my core work, the "play to win vs play for fun" which was changed to be much more understandable. The concept "ego" made it much simpler and
After loooong waiting for my mem/int skills to complete and cutting off several which I can live without for some months, unlike without ships, I finally made my remap to full perception/willpower, and also put on +4 implants to these slots. Finally,
Jester was thinking about the lack of new blood in EVE. He isn't alone in this. The people guess that it's the "too hard" or "there is one style left (the min-maxed)" are the reasons. This is a topic where I can write from
Do you know what material research is? How high is your research skill? Do you have advanced mass production 5? Production efficiency 5? Do you know where to get datacores to T2 BP research? No? Then keep away from production n00b! Or not. Even with
Playing EVE you often encounter nice people who offer you help or gifts or some kind of trade that is highly beneficial for you. These people are known as scammers. Check out a few: You can find similars in endless numbers in the rookie help, the corporate
I won't continue whining over the fact that large portion of EVE is "space WoW": players get tailored, instanced, a la carte missions which reward them for spending mindless time. I concentrate on the part which is not space WoW: everything