Out of Pod Experience

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It was pretty funny when he came into work and I was straight up wearing it. Guy is a good bit taller than I am, but the hoodie still fit somehow, with the excpetion of the hood itself. Was a bit of a wtf moment for him.

AoC felt like a game really, EVE felt more real with spaceships and a lot of upcoming Incarna stuff, so I now fly in EVE. I will really look at Star Citizen when it will be ready, or Elite dangerous when it will get avatars.

BTW, I think some scammers moved from EVE to Elite already.

So that is what makes Mario invincible.

Nini o/

I think I've never explained my first attempt at playing EVE... It was in 2006 and I had no idea of what MMOs were supposed to be, and also had only a vague idea that EVE Online was a online videogame about spaceships. Since I already had some Google-Fu by then, I did what was my usual approach: look for the manual and read it.

Of course, turned that EVE had no manual, but I found a page with plenty of information on the game. It was in English, of course, yet I don't remember which one it was. I started reading about lasers, and found out that there were different laser types, and then there were also crystals which had different attributes based on their wavelength thus they caused different amounts of thermal and electromagnetic damage. I was puzzled with that prolix accont on lasers but thought that well, if lasers were the weapon of the game, they had been carefully modeled. then I read about missiles, and something called blasters, so tun rned that lasers were only one weapon system of many... after 2 hours reading, I had the disctinct imrpession that such reading could go forever, and I wasn't really learning anything on how to play the bloody game. Since it was a subscription game, I thought it would be silly to mess with such a complex thing without a manual and with all that pile of uselessly detailed information. And this is how I dismissed EVE Online in 2006 and looked for other games to play online.

Those were Pirates of the Burning Sea, which I played for a few months until seeing that it was headed for doom, and then I moved on to AoC because the graphics loooked cool and I never had bothered with Conan so it was a mostly unknown fictional universe for me. Music was gorgeous, characters looked amazing, so I read about it, got useful information, thought that Herald of Whatever was my appropiate class and created a burning hot brown skinned brunette with nice yet realistic boobs.

Unfortunately AoC was kinda mediocre as a game, despite the music and graphics, and it teached me that I don't like themeparks, which is coherent with all the time I've spent playing sandboxey games and how my favorite toy as a child was a construction set. I've never enjoyed toys given to me as they are, rather building stuff to play with it grew strong into me. In that sense, EVE was for me the greatest videogame I ever played... until it turned that sandbox notwithstanding, I liked the wrong blocks and was using them in the wrong way because !!CCP!!. *sigh*

Nighties lovelies!


Also: construction sets, everybody loves'em!

I wish...

Come to Borovets, bring laptop :(

Hello everyone,

Usually I get into a big debate on CODE threads, most of the time it ends up being a Forum Flame War.

However it seems this time Nana Skalski stepped up to the plate and tackled the job straight on. Thread was basically someone saying thanks to CODE for blowing up their Mining Barges. The thread says they started doing production of Mining Ships and have tripled their ISK investment.

Anyway, creds to Nana Skalski for not losing control and keeping it cool.

o7



DMC

It's a ski resort, honest.

o7