Archive for the ‘Gaming’ Category
Friday, July 18th, 2008
I made what must be a noob mistake in EVE Online. When I first became a capsuleer I trained in the learning skill, remember others mentioning its importance, as it reduces training times for all other skills. My training in the Caldari military had also given me a ...
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Friday, July 18th, 2008
Over at Killed in a Smiling Accident Zoso posited a theory about on-line gaming and how players flit from game-to-game after their first experience with the genre. That got me thinking about how I like both platform and racing games as genres and will seek out new games of ...
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Thursday, July 17th, 2008
I mentioned yesterday about heading in to the Lonetrek region to find a new agent. Space in EVE Online is split up in to large regions, within which there are constellations, and the constellations are made from individual solar systems. All of the stars of these systems can ...
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Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
I boarded my brand new Caracal cruiser last night, christening it Tiger Lily. It has comfy seats, an iPod connector for the stereo, and what a capacitor! No three-pronged effort here, but a Catherine Wheel of brightly lit energy, teasing me to try to drain all that power. ...
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Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
It's a good thing that the wrecks of spaceships are generally tougher than the spaceships themselves. For example, they can take a missile blast from close range without disintegrating.
In perhaps related news, I need to remember which button in the cockpit activates the launchers and which activates the salvager ...
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Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
It could really have been just an ordinary evening spent in EVE Online last night. I flew a few missions, salvaged some modules, made some ISK. There doesn't seem to be too much to report on. The most interesting event of the evening seemed to occur during ...
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Friday, July 11th, 2008
In their latest newsletter, Thinkgeek highlights the Nintendo Wall Graphics product, which is a set of large vinyl stickers that can be reversibly applied to most walls to create scenes from either Super Mario Bros. or Donkey Kong. I have quite a soft spot for Super Mario Bros., having ...
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Thursday, July 10th, 2008
Last night I got my salvager on-line. After training the mechanic skill to level three, buying the skill book for the survey skill and training that to level three, then spending a cool 919,000 ISK for the salvaging skill book itself and training the first level, I was finally ready ...
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Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
I wrote before about how the keymapping for screen grabs in EVE Online is locked but makes no sense for the Mac version. The only solution I found was a general hint simply referring to the in-built screen grab mechanism in OS X, which is to hit Cmd-Shift-3.
I already ...
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Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
Penny Ibramovic, space cadet, has been happy dealing with the two agents in Perimeter so far. Quite how I got to Perimeter in the first place is not remembered, and probably simply the result of ending up there after the tutorial agent got bored with me. Despite having ...
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