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Guess what happens to part-time gamers when real life hits? Yep. They wind up not gaming for a while, particularly when the game at hand is as massive as EVE Online. I don’t know how long it will be, but real life demands my attention, so I need to take a break from. This provides a good opportunity to look back at the last few months of EVE Online and evaluate how things went. After all, I wanted to see if a game this large could even be fun for a….

They always say first impressions are the strongest. Making a good one is important when getting to know people. Making a bad one can be tough to overcome, but with some luck you might get to have a good laugh. Guess which kind I have in mind? As I was out merrily working to hone my PVP skills and regularly getting splattered all over screens worldwide, I decided to have go at it on the cheap using a free rookie ship, one of the little Reapers. The….

A philosophy I try to adhere to says not to judge things, but to take them as they are, essentially accepting that “it is what it is.” This line of thinking brings to mind the user interface in EVE Online, notably that your character is, for most practical purposes, a ship rather than a person. What effect on game play does that have? As a fairly typical male of my species–I leave the identity thereof to your imagination and sense of humor–I note that in EVE Online….

A few weeks back I had conjured images in my mind of myself as a latter-day Captain Jack Sparrow, a fabulously successful — albeit unconventional — pirate. Add an eye patch and the vision was complete. It sounded like fun, and I was bored with what I was doing. In fact, I became fixated on the idea and wanted to get started right away. As they say, “location, location, location,” and with piracy comes LowSec. But I just knew I could make this….

It’s tempting to think that bigger is better in EVE Online. Get the bigger ship, the bigger guns, whatever. Bigger always seems better, at least on the surface — then sometimes I find that things aren’t quite like I’d imagined. I had been flying these little frigates — gnats, really — all over the place and had been shot up and blown up a few times, and I started thinking: “You know, maybe something bigger might not get blown up quite as easily. Maybe I….