I love the reading The Escapist, particularly the video reviews by Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw on Zero Punctuation. His review of EvE Online is really funny because in parts, it is quite close to the truth.
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The Escapist Reviews EvE Online
Ramains of the Day
Last night B13 and myself became trapped in wormhole space after one of our fleet caused the collapse of the exit wormhole, returning to back to Empire. Initially we were dismayed at the situation, but then we received a comms in local, a request from another pilot to exit wormhole space after being trapped for 3 days!
Needless to say that this poor fellow was charged 30million isk with the promise of leaving via the wormhole we entered, he was then led to a safe-spot and murdered by our group. He wasn't happy, but he got what he paid for, he got out.
3 days! I'm not sure if that is true, and when asked if he returned to the same system he entered he declined to respond, funny that. Needless to say it got me thinking, would it be possible to live in wormhole space, farming the DED's, gas clouds and the asteroid belts and taking advantage of naive pilots who stray into this realm?
At the time of writing our group is still in wormhole space, exploring the system and farming what we find all the while scanning for new wormholes. We are no longer within the original 'unknown' system as we have already travelled through another wormhole we've found into another 'unknown' system. I wonder long we can keep jumping?
We could, theoretically remain indefinitely. Our only problem at the moment is on-board cargo space. After just one day we are all full to bursting with loot, minerals and salvage that we cannot continue looting without clearing the cargo somehow.
So the next wormhole we hope to find back into normal space will be a welcomed discovery, but only to un-load our cargo. We plan to return, scanning, farming and pirating for the next few days. Now there are better and much more effective ways to aquire isk, but few are as dangerous, or as much of a challenge as the one we find ourselves in.
I figure that 10 days should be an adequate test of this theory. If we survive the adventure then we may make it a regular event, perhaps calling in support in the form of a hauler or even a Capital, to provide us with the cubic meters to loot to our hearts content. Bringing a capital ship into wormhole space is risky, but done correctly, who knows what you could get in here. Only time will tell, and we appear to have plenty to kill, in every sense of the word.
Nexus - The Jupiter Incident
I had played this game quite a lot, until I found EvE Online. If you want to get away from EvE Online for a while, then this game may have what you are looking for.
It has many great features, and graphically it can still hold it's own against many modern games. I have never before seen an asteroid field dealt with so effectivley as this game. They are massive and very densely polpulated by 'roids.' The weapon effects are cool too as are the ships themselves which have retro thrusters all over their sufaces to control attitude, yaw and roll (a feature I'd wish they'd employ within EvE Online). Played with very much the same sort of mechanic as EvE Online, shields, armour, hull and utilising weapons such as lasers, missiles and ECM, Nexus - The Jupiter Incident is worth a look.
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Nexus - The Jupiter Incident
War Has Come To EvE Online
Another movie by KyokoSakoda. This time showing the build up to war for the Empyrean Age expansion. Again, well produced and plenty of action (not a bad soundtrack either). I tip my hat to you sir, keep up the good work.
The Angel Cartel (push eject)
I found this movie on YouTube. It's a fan made video by KyokoSakoda. Visit the link to see more of his great EvE Online videos. I have posted it because it is an awsomely compiled video and I have a soft spot for the Angel Cartel, and indeed piracy.
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Can't Sleep?
My camera drones were able to grab this image of the Sleepers as B13 and I engaged them for the first time. Unlike anything seen before, these vessels are equipped with some sort of laser which can cause some serious damage very quickly. Be prepared to run!
Advanced Scanning Techniques
NOTE: These techniques were developed based on a zero deviation assumption. These techniques can be used with deep space probes but the deviations make it very impractical. The best time to use these would be when you are narrowing down the site with core scanner probes and after reducing your scan radii, you only get a ring or dots (This because the deviations are much smaller).
Get a decent fix using 3 probes: Once you have 3 probes in space, you will have 2 dots as your result. If you then move one of the 3 probes and scan again, you will get 2 dots again but one of the dots will have shifted. The dot that didn't shift is where the site is.
Tiree-Catryes planar method for 3 probes Once you have the ring with 2 probes, Drop a third probe and move all three probes into the plane of the ring. This should make the two dots right on top of each other.
Get a decent fix using 2 probes: Once you have 2 probes in space, you will have a ring as your result. If you then move one of the 2 probes and scan again, you will get another ring but shifted. The site has to be on both rings so remember where the first ring was and look for the spot where the second ring goes through the same spot. The site will be there.
Get a decent fix using 1 probe: Theoretically possible but what a headache. This is however your last resort, when everything fail this will let you know where the site is with a very good degree of precision. You'd have to remember the signature strength of the site, move the probe, scan again, and look whether the scan strength increased or decreased. Good luck with that though.
Taken from the Advanced Scanning Tutorial - EvE Online Wikipedia
Futher Reading
wiki.eveonline.com Apocryphea exploration
Apocrypha Scanning Tutorial
Wormhole Exploration Guide Part 1
EvE Online Development Contributions
This is a link to my development discussions, and general ranting on the EvE Online forums. Bear in mind that I only rant at EvE's short-commings because I love the game so dearly.
If you have ideas and want to say something that you would like to see added, changed or removed from the game then contribute to the relevant discussion threads.
CCP appreciate the input from all of us, most of the time.
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