Archive for the ‘Gaming’ Category

EVE Online informational snippets

Monday, August 11th, 2008

It's time to reveal a few more minor functional details that I have discovered recently in EVE Online. The tactical overlay extends a line from your ship to your current selected target. If this target is outside of targeting range the overlay will draw a cross on the surface of ...

Deadspace reconnaissance

Monday, August 11th, 2008

My agent sends me on an important mission, asking me to recon some deadspace complexes to see if they are safe for transit for a convoy, or if pirates or mercenaries would hinder operations. With him offering a huge 476,000 ISK mission reward I throw myself out of dock barely ...

PvB: player versus bully

Sunday, August 10th, 2008

I knew EVE Online was a player vs. player (PvP) game when I started, and I knew that I probably wouldn't like the PvP aspects of the game if they were anything like my previous unfettered PvP experiences. Specifically, experiences where the only PvP people engage in are the ...

Opening the cargo hold whilst in dock

Saturday, August 9th, 2008

Being able to open the cargo hold of your ship whilst in dock in a space station is rather important in EVE Online. It is how cargo is transferred between the ship and the station, and is necessary in order to pick up items for courier missions. This ...

Cruising to mine

Friday, August 8th, 2008

I had read somewhere previously about finding ores rarer than normally found in a system existing in deadspace whilst on missions, and had found some omber of my own recently. In that instance, I took my Caracal home to Jita, dusted off my mining Bantam frigate and went back ...

Sapphire bumps in to a gnome

Thursday, August 7th, 2008

It seems that I am still nervous about meeting new people. Despite wanting to level Sapphire quickly so that I can get to the Outlands and start tanking for my transatlantic group, and for a better chance of getting in to other instances, I turned down a random invitation ...

Concluding Technological Secrets

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

The explosion-damping module is fitted, the heavy launcher is swapped out for a fourth assault launcher, all launchers are fully loaded with Bloodclaw missiles for kinetic damage; I'm ready to end the Minmatar threat I was made aware of in the level two mission Technological Secrets. The Minmatar ships are converging ...

iPod Touch applications

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

I poked around the new application store for the iPhone and iPod Touch when it was opened a couple of weeks ago. Apart from getting the Remote application, which allows my iPod Touch to control iTunes on my desktop machine over the wireless network, nothing really grabbed me as ...

Technological Secrets

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

My agent in EVE Online gives me an important level two mission. Codenamed Technological Secrets I am to find and capture a rebel captain, which means fighting off a few waves of his mercenaries first. I am going to encounter Minmatar ships again, so I keep the Ladar ...

Sapphire breaks 40th level

Monday, August 4th, 2008

Having recently mused about getting my neglected tank in World of Warcraft levelled up quickly so that I can enter the Outlands I logged in to see what I could do. I was concerned about running through the same content yet again, particularly as I had neglected Sapphire because ...