This Weekly Highlights posts is a bit different than my last ones because I have something to celebrate. I’ve been playing EVE Online as Ga’len for four years now.
Yup, 4 years….wow.
Five years ago my wife created a character in EVE online. I joined her in trying out EVE, but my attention at the time was with another MMORPG. That game fail cascaded in such a fashion that when someone utters the words, Star Wars Galaxies, well, if you don’t know, go Google it.
So, after that debacle, I had free time to spend and I thought I would give EVE a go again. That was four years ago and I tell ya, it’s been a fun ride. I’ve spent time as a carebear in Empire, fought in many Empire wars, been a solo pirate and merc, been a director of a pirate alliance, fought for a nullsec alliance and most recently, joined HellFleet for more Yarr-ing fun.
I can say that I’ve pretty much done it all. So, what do you do after four years? Well, I tell ya, I’ve spent all my time doing these things and it’s always been a surprise how things have gone. I’ll do what I always have done, just wander about and let things happen. That’s when you have the most fun, when you get pulled into something.
And now, here are some of the highlights for the week:
- Piracy fun with HellFleet is well underway. We took down a POS owned by an inactive corp. Much fun ensued, read the whole story over at Mynxee’s blog, The Measure of Success!
- ProviWar continues (http://www.eve-druid.com/ProviWar). I may no longer be fighting as a Warrior of the Ushra’Khan, but I can’t stop watching what’s going on. They are still my friends and I do hope they succeed in these operations. -A- continue their push into Providence, Sylph is no more (congratulations to Ushra’Khan) and things continue to progress as -A- takes sov in Y-MPWL and Ushra’Khan takes G-5EN2. This closed the connections from Providence to High Sec space in Tash-Murkon and NPC 0.0 in Derelik respectively. The only other high sec entrance/exit into Providence is now the R3-K7K/Misaba gate as all other systems high sec entrance/exit points have been taken. It is highly likely that this system will also fall by this weekend as I can see while I finish up this blog post on Thursday evening, CVA has lost sov there. With the only other logistical option being the use of jump freighters to get materials into the region and no guarantee of safely flying out said jump freighters, it will only be a matter of time before they regions completely falls. CVA and friends are very neatly boxed into their space.
- CCP released a very open and honest devblog concerning the server stability issues that have been plaguing the game since late November. I know I have been very critical of CCP for these issues in the past. I want to say, this devblog is a step in the right direction. The more technical information concerning these issues is communicated will lead to more of us who work with these technologies being able to provide help. Keep it coming CCP, we are here to help you and we are more than willing.
- CCP “Laser Focus” God Torfi was interview at Ten Ton Hammer on the upcoming Tyrannis Expansion, read all about the cool stuff they are going to do with Planetary Interaction.
- Silver Night has announced a fiction writing contest with some decent prizes, head over and get out those writing tools!
- The next EVE novel, EVE: The Burning Life, is available for pre-order on Amazon.com for less than the listing price. The novel should be released on March 30th as per the Amazon ordering page. Head over and order your copy today!
- More and more people are posting pictures of their “EVESpace”, you can read all about them.
- EVOGANDA has put together a little something for all us iPhone/iPod Touch users, some wallpapers! Check them out!
- As always, update work for the blogs listed on The EVE Online Portal and the OPML download files Mandrill and I maintain continues. Head over and see who we added this week!
