Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
If you're Kruul, it's likely I'm going to blow up your ship
Kruul got himself a back-up clone alive and kicking after our last encounter and was up to his old tricks. He had again kidnapped some damsel and was holding her at his pleasure den for his own amusement. ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Friday, August 1st, 2008
After my introduction to level two missions in EVE Online I contact my agent to pick up another couple of missions, now that he trusts me enough to offer me the decent jobs. Before I take any new assignments I hit the market and look at different launchers, after ...
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Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
Penny Ibramovic checked out of space station Haatamo to jump to strange new systems, to seek out new agents and new clusters of rats to kill, to boldly go where everyone else has been some years before me. My choice of agents offering me level two missions first took ...
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