Archive for the ‘Gaming’ Category
Friday, May 29th, 2009
The Inner Sanctum of the Ninveah presents a map of the systems Kirith Kodachi has been, colour-coded with stronger colours representing systems visited the most, and compels me to do the same:
It shouldn't be much of a surprise that I have stayed mostly within Caldari space, and almost exclusively in ...
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Thursday, May 28th, 2009
Waiting for the scrapmetal processing skill and its prerequisites to train saw my stock run quite low and once I could refine my mission loot I set to replenish my stocks to healthy levels. In picking out the BPOs for the modules I was confident would sell I install ...
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Wednesday, May 27th, 2009
I had previously considered that reaching 80th level is not the end of the game and that I would continue doing exactly what I had been doing before just without gaining XP, but I turned out to be wrong. I find myself logging in to Azeroth and wondering what ...
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Tuesday, May 26th, 2009
My latest production run of modules comes off the manufacturing line and I ship them to the handful of markets I have found to be lucrative, finding again that one station with a level three mission agent has no heavy missiles and so is ripe to be exploited. Some ...
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Friday, May 22nd, 2009
Wintergrasp is not just a zone for a regular PvP battle, it persists outside of the battle times. It isn't quite an 80th level zone in its own right, as there is no standard quest hub or paths in to the area, but there are NPC mobs extant outside ...
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Thursday, May 21st, 2009
As I refine scrap mission loot in my current Core Complexion, Inc. base, before gathering more scrap from my cobweb-gathering home base and on to my Caldari Navy mission base, I take jumping around the region as an opportunity to modify the few sell orders I have outstanding. The ...
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Wednesday, May 20th, 2009
Like any aspect of a complex MMORPG the battle for Lake Wintergrasp is not without its problems. Some are problems of balance that can be expected to occur for an open PvP zone without guaranteed or limited attendance on either side, which Blizzard have tried to solve with the ...
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Tuesday, May 19th, 2009
With sell orders running low and no new manufacturing jobs running I take a break from building up my standings with Core Complexion, Inc. to replenish my stocks. This isn't a random series of events though, as I have been training in scrapmetal processing recently. This should let ...
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Monday, May 18th, 2009
Larísa over at the Pink Pigtail Inn is concerned about the marginalisation experienced by gamers when discussing weekend activities, pointing out that any description of a successful weekend in World of Warcraft would cause non-gamers' eyes to glaze over in stark contrast to similar weekend stories by people with 'regular' ...
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Thursday, May 14th, 2009
Tucked behind the achivements pane in World of Warcraft is the potentially interesting statistics pane, showing plenty of detail about your character's exploits during her time in Azeroth. There is information about the total amount of damage dealt and received, the biggest single hits dealt and recieved, along with ...
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