Owning up your mistakes

I told that EVE Online is just as easy to in the early game as WoW. I still hold it that it's not harder to do it good. However I faced what makes it hard for a social person: in EVE you must own up your mistakes or you can't progress and have fun. In WoW if you suck, even if you suck terribly, at the level of melee arcane mage, spirit cloth warrior and so on you'll "progress" (actually you don't increase your place on the ladder as everyone else "progresses"), and you can have ...

Articles tagged with: Philosophy

Limiting AND empowering ganking: the social solution


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 ...

Where does the PLEX-money go?


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 ...

The One Empire: assimilation and openness


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, you'll see why ...

EVE is to be won!


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" idea. ...

Future of gaming: "daddy lets toddler win"?


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 the ...