Welcome to the sixteenth installment of the EVE Blog Banter, the monthly EVE Online blogging extravaganza created by CrazyKinux. The EVE Blog Banter involves an enthusiastic group of gaming bloggers, a common topic within the realm of EVE Online, and a week to post articles pertaining to the said topic. The resulting articles can either be short or quite extensive, either funny or dead serious, but are always a great fun to read! Any questions about the EVE Blog Banter should be directed to crazykinux@gmail.com. Check out other EVE Blog Banter articles at the bottom of this post!

With the recent completion of the 3rd installment of the Hulkageddon last month, @CyberinEVE, author of Hands Off, My Loots!, asks: “Griefing is a very big part of EVE. Ninja Salvaging, Suicide Ganking, Trolling, and Scamming are all a very large part of the game. What do you think about all these things? You can talk about one, or all…but just let us know your overall opinion on Griefing, and any recommendations you may have to change it if you think it’s needed.”

EVE is a sandbox, a game where no single place is safe, it’s cold and unforgiving. This is what CCP envisioned EVE to and what EVE is today.

This means that all the things named above are viable and legitimate playstyles even if the people on the receiving end don’t like it, especially if the people on the receiving end don’t like it.

If all these forms of gameplay would be removed it would kill the sandbox principle, EVE is in some aspects already too limited if you ask me, limiting gameplay possibilities would indeed kill EVE (Or at least part of it).

So guess I brought over my point pretty well there, anything currently allowed by CCP should be kept as is with perhaps a few exceptions in extreme cases, and in some cases it should be even less strict.

Sorry if this is quite short, I somehow ended up saying everything I wanted in just a few sentences, well at least it sounds pretty good.

Regards, Xeross

So let’s see the supposed question is

This months topic comes to us from @evepress, and he asks: The CSM: CCP’s Meta Game? – The CSM, an eve players voice to CCP.Right? In the grand scheme of things yes, the players bring up issues and the CSM presents them to CCP. But in its current iteration the CSM was supposed to be given small authority to assign CCP assets toprojects that the CSM thought needed work on. As it has not come outthis was not the case. So fellow bloggers, is the CSM worth it, has the CSM improved the game in any way, or is it just a well thought out scamby CCP to give us players a false sense of input in the game? What’s your take?

Now I myself always try to be grammatically correct something that this question obviously fails to do, it also lacks neutrality as also stated by Casiella Truza on Ecliptic Rift.

Now to answer the question, I’m positive about the CSM, CCP really tries their best and it seems that the CSM keeps improving.

CCP however perceived the last meeting as a great success where the CSM still thought the meeting didn’t go all that well as CCP claimed.

On the bright side, CCP has already stated they’re trying to figure out what went wrong.

I also suggest reading my post about the meeting minutes with some further opinions about the CSM and relayed activities from me.

Welcome to the sixteenth installment of the EVE Blog Banter, the monthly EVE Online blogging extravaganza created by CrazyKinux. The EVE Blog Banter involves an enthusiastic group of gaming bloggers, a common topic within the realm of EVE Online, and a week to post articles pertaining to the said topic. The resulting articles can either be short or quite extensive, either funny or dead serious, but are always a great fun to read! Any questions about the EVE Blog Banter should be directed to crazykinux@gmail.com. Check out other EVE Blog Banter articles at the bottom of this post!

The third Blog Banter of 2010 comes to us from ChainTrap of the Into the unknown with gun and camera EVE Blog. He asks us: “Eve University turns six years old on March 15th; six years spent helping the new pilots of New Eden gain experience and understanding in a supportive environment. Eve is clearly a complicated game, with a ton to learn, so much that you never stop learning. So, the question is; What do you wish that someone had taken the time to tell you when you were first starting out? Or what have you learned in the interim that you’d like to share with the wider Eve community?”

Yes indeed the new Blog Banter is upon us, and an interesting question indeed, so let’s get started. When I started as a new pilot in New Eden not too long ago (the 31st of July 2009) everything was of course new and unknown, and after learning a lot of the basics of the game I still discovered a few things I would like to have known earlier, so here they are:

• Ctrl-Clicking something in the overview will make you lock it (If it’s in range).
• You can group guns of the same type by shift-click dragging them in the fitting window (Or by using grouping mode when undocked (HUD-Arrow -> Enter Grouping Mode)
• Make sure you know whether a module is passive or active, else you might end up with an active module you think is passive (Yes it happens a lot)

Other than that I also have some resources for the new players (And the players that are new to certain parts of the game) the list follows:

• Useful EVE Links
  This is a collection of links I gathered, it’s a bit outdated I guess but there’s still some very useful tools in it
• Drone & Rat Damage Types
  A list of the damage types your drones and the average rats/mission NPCs do
• Null-Sec Guide for Null-Sec Newbs
  A work-in-progress guide to explain the wonders and horrors of null-sec to the average new guy that’s planning to move to null-sec.
• Simple Chain Ratting Guide
  A simple to follow chain ratting guide. It’s the null/low-sec people so most of the time that’s not the new people, but for some of ‘em it might be useful.

And finally, congratulations to EVE Uni and huge props for getting us more stuff to shoot at since 2004. Now I’m sure the other blog banter participants also have lots of useful tips so check ‘em out below.

List of Participants

1. CrazyKinux: The Three Pillars of Wisdom
2. The Elitist: Helping the new guy/gal
3. Hands Off, My Loots: Nothing Needed
4. Rantuket: Blog Banter 16
5. EVE Opportunist: Nooby Cluey
6. Into the Unknown With Gun and Camera: EVE University
7. Zero Kelvin: We’re the young ones!
8. I am Keith Neilson: Set Your Destination
9. Prano’s Journey: Just Like the Very First Time
10. A Merry Life and a Short One: No Seriously
11. Yarrbear Tales: Nublet 101
12. A Mule In EVE: If I only knew
13. The Planet Risk Show: Dared to be Bold
14. Diary of a Space Jockey: WTH did I get myself into?!
15. EVOGANDA: Why?
16. A Memoir From Space: 16th Blog Banter
17. Death’s Sweetest Kiss: Who What When Where Why How??
18. Freebooted: Beyond the Shortcuts
19. Learning to Fly: Noobing
20. Caldari Outcast: My First Blog Banter Post!
21. Roc’s Ramblings: Financial Survival
22. Diary of a Pod Pilot: Free Knowledge Inside
23. Nullsec Carebear: I could’ve been less of an idiot
24. Facepalm’s Ramblings: Something Smells Fishy
25. Kirith Darkblade: Do you wish to know more?
26. Autopilot Disabled: I’m still starting…
27. Finders & Keepers: Relax
28. Confounded Capsuleer: What have you got to loose?
29. Clan Oriana: Sixteen
30. Flashfresh: EVE Blog Banter #16
31. Rettic’s The Chronofile: You Make EVE
32. Diary of a Bored Spaceman: Past Imperfect
33. Chocolate Heaven: Known Unknowns
34. Victoria Aut Mors: Blog Banter #16
35. Where the frack is my ship: If I knew then what I know now…

Welcome to the fourteenth installment of the EVE Blog Banter, the monthly EVE Online blogging extravaganza created by CrazyKinux. The EVE Blog Banter involves an enthusiastic group of gaming bloggers, a common topic within the realm of EVE Online, and a week to post articles pertaining to the said topic. The resulting articles can either be short or quite extensive, either funny or dead serious, but are always a great fun to read! Any questions about the EVE Blog Banter should be directed to crazykinux@gmail.com. Check out other EVE Blog Banter articles at the bottom of this post!

The first banter of 2010 comes to us from the EVE Blog Father, CrazyKinux himself, who asks the following: As we begin another year in New Eden, ask yourselves “What Now?” What will I attempt next? What haven’t I done so far in EVE? Was it out fear, funds, or knowledge? Have I always wanted to start my own corporation, but have never dared doing so? Is there a fledging mercenary waiting to come out of its shell? Or maybe an Industrialist? What steps and objectives will I set myself to accomplish in order to reach my ultimate goal for this year? EVE is what you make of it. So, what is it going to be for you?

Kind of a coincidental subject if you ask me, well let’s get started with the plans for 2010.

First of all I’m going to be focusing more on PvP, I’ve been flying solo trying to pirate people for a few days now and I really like it so far. Currently training up my skills to fit my Rifter even better, and my first kill is a fact.

Other then this I’ll be helping Lord Baltor to bring some life back into Novadyne Dynamics, at the moment we’re kind of inactive and we need to get back into it again, I’ll primarily be helping him and the corp by creating a website and hosting a forum.

And another goal of mine is to fly a Golem by the end of the year, calculations indicate training for it would take approximately 240 days so it should be achievable.

And well, also train up my trade skills to become a better trader, and my mining skills to make mining more profitable.

As you can see I want to train for a very broad spectrum of “Classes” which is kind of difficult with this skill system unless you take your time, So well I guess this is the entire plan for 2010.

~Xeross

List of Participants:

1. CrazyKinux’s Musing - A beginning is a very delicate time…
2. The Wandering Druid of Tranquility - Words, words, words…
3. My God It’s Full of Stars - What Now?
4. The Elitist - Plans for 112yc
5. Into the unknown with gun and camera - Show me the money
6. Ecliptic Rift - Enabling the future
7. Inanity and Doom - New Year’s Resolutions, New Eden Style
8. Break Vol - Blog Banter #14
9. Guns Ablaze - What Now?
10. Adventures in Mission Running - The Way Forward
11. Diary of a Pod Pilot - Things I want to do
12. Inner Sanctum of the Ninveah - The Year That Will Be
13. Roc’s Ramblings - WordPress ate my blog
14. Vive Virtual - Frontier Living
15. A Mule in EVE - Next on the chopping block
16. Prano’s Journey - I Peer Into My Crystal Pod…
17. Life in Low Sec - Expanding the Franchise
18. The Light of Stars - Testing the claims of CCP
19. A Memoir From Space - A New Direction
20. The Chronofile - Blog Banter 2010
21. FlashFresh - What now for Flash?
22. EVE Opportunist - Fyreite in 112
23. Mike Azariah - Jiorj
24. Yarrbear Tales - Year in Review
25. The Independant Analyst - The Year Ahead
26. The Travels of Black Claw - Where ma I going?
27. Warp Scrammed - What to do this year
28. Sered’s Lives - Searching for directions in 2010
29. Finders & Keepers - New Tears, Same Great Taste
30. The Captain’s Log - To Dream of the Future
31. The Lathspell of Mithrandir - Resolutions
32. The Midnight Sun - EVE Blog Banter #14
33. More to come…

Welcome to the thirteenth installment of the EVE Blog Banter, the monthly EVE Online blogging extravaganza created by CrazyKinux. The EVE Blog Banter involves an enthusiastic group of gaming bloggers, a common topic within the realm of EVE Online, and a week to post articles pertaining to the said topic. The resulting articles can either be short or quite extensive, either funny or dead serious, but are always a great fun to read! Any questions about the EVE Blog Banter should be directed here. Check out other EVE Blog Banter articles at the bottom of this post!

The first banter of this 2nd year of EVE Blog Banters comes to us from Zargyl from A Sebiestor Scholar, who asked the following: On the EVE Fanfest 2009 page are pictures of prizes for the Silent Auction that was held during the event. One of these photos was entitled “Design your own EVE mission”. My question now would be what kind of mission would you write if you got that prize? What would the mission be about? Would it be one using the new system of epic mission arks? What would be the story told by it? Feel free to expand upon his questions and put together your very own mission!

Time to write my second Blog Banter post, let’s see design my own mission, I’ll try to go all out on this one and not restrict myself to the current game mechanics.

Mission name: Guristas Invasion (Part 1 of 3)

Mission level: V

Description

We suspect the Guristas are up to something, we need someone to infiltrate one of their bases to get information on what they’re planning to do.

Objectives

• Gain entrance to their base but make sure you aren’t detected.
• Steal their plans.
• Get out, still unseen.

Mission name: Guristas Invasion (Part 2 of 3)

Mission level: V

Description

Thanks to your previous mission we’ve discovered that the Guristas are planning on launching a full fledged attack on X, Go over there and contact Y for further instructions.

Objectives

• Go to X and report to Y (Talk to him and hit the “Complete Mission” button)

Mission name: Guristas Invasion (Part 3 of 3)

Mission level: V

Description

According to the intel you gathered the Guristas could be here any minute now, join our fleet and fend of the incoming attack.

Objectives

• Join the navy fleet at the specified location.
• Fight with them to fight off the Guristas fleet.
• Report back to Y.

Notes

This mission will make the player automatically join a fleet with other players and NPCs, and because I like them battles big let’s keep it at 200 people/NPCs in that fleet (If there ain’t 200 people those spots will be NPCs)

Well that’s it, I’ve left X (System that’s going to be attacked) and Y (Person to report to) empty because I don’t have enough knowledge about EvE to fill em in. to me it sounds pretty awesome, leave a comment and tell me what you think.

Regards, Xeross

List of Participants:

1. CrazyKinux’s Musing – Your Mission, should you decide to accept it…
2. Zen and the Art of Internet Spaceship Maintenance – First Blood
3. The Elitist – Guristas Invasion (This Post ^^)
4. The Wandering Druid of Tranquility – …It’s another episode of Design Star: EVE Style…
5. Level Cap -Epic Battles
6. Roc’s Ramblings – The Cave of Time
7. Aether – Teach a man to fish…
8. Inner Sanctum of the Ninveah – Mission: Tangled Webs
9. Adventures in Mission Running – I can haz spaceship?
10. Nuke Thoughts – EVE Blog Banter 13
11. Diary of a Pod Pilot - Distressing The Damse
12. Guns Ablaze - Dynamic Missions
13. Achernar - Confidential Report
14. More to come…

Welcome to the twelfth installment of the EVE Blog Banter, the monthly EVE Online blogging extravaganza created by CrazyKinux. The EVE Blog Banter involves an enthusiastic group of gaming bloggers, a common topic within the realm of EVE Online, and a week to post articles pertaining to the said topic. The resulting articles can either be short or quite extensive, either funny or dead serious, but are always a great fun to read! Any questions about the EVE Blog Banter should be directed here. Check out other EVE Blog Banter articles at the bottom of this post!

This month’s banter comes to us from CrazyKinux himself, who asks the following: First there was the MMO on the PC, and now with the recent announcement of DUST 514, EVE will soon be moving onto consoles. But what about mobile? Allow your imagination to run wild for a second and describe how you would see EVE being ported to mobile devices, whether the iPhone/iPod touch, Blackberrys or Android-based devices. Dream the impossible for us!

FIrst of all, as you can see I decided to join the EVE blog banter. Second of all I’m working on reacreating my blog’s theme because it has some display issues in Internet Explorer. And third, well let’s get started on the actual topic now shall we.

I’ve been playing EVE for some time now, and I have found that the lack of portability is a little annoying. I’d like to see some kind of implementation on handheld game systems like the Nintendo DS and PSP, even if it’s just a training queue manager or something it would be better then nothing.

well on to the weird and crazy imagination stuff. EVE Online in it’s full glory on NDS/PSP and possibly also on all other major consoles and handhelds, it would probably not look as good and be a little more pixely but being able to play EVE till deep in the night in my bed (Have a mom that wants me to stop at 9PM) would be a welcome addition. It might not be ideal for missioning but as you don’t really need any visuals for missioning only your target list, vital status and overview it would be possible to do missions on it. and the thing I need most (Skill queueing while not on my PC) would not require that much resources anyways.

Well I hope I did okay for my first blog banter, and I’m sure my writing will improve as time passes by and I blog more. I’d say leave your comments on how I did and start a discussion about this subject if you want.

Regards, Xeross

List of Participants:

1. CrazyKinux’s Musing – Tying the dots and locking me in!
2. A Merry Life and a Short One – I Don’t Own a Working Phone
3. Yarrbear Tales – EVE on Mobile Devices? Eh.
4. Hands Off, My Loots! – EVE Mobile…Possibility?
5. Achernar – Trapped on Planet Horror
6. Rettic’s Log – The Cronofile – Blog Banter: EVE Mobile
7. A Mule in EVE – EVE Mobility
8. Inner Sanctum of the Ninveah – EVE Mobile
9. My Life in EVE – 12th Blog Banter
10. My God, it’s Full of Stars! – 12th EVE Blog Banter
11. The Wandering Druid of Tranquility – WOW, look at that ‘micro-Dust’
12. Adventures in Mission Running – 12th EVE Blog Banter
13. Ecliptic Rift – EVE Everywhere
14. Roc’s Ramblings – EVE Mobile
15. EVE Monkey – EVE on a Mobile Device?
16. Nashh Kadavr’s EVE Blog – I-pod Capsuleer
17. Escoce – EVE Trade – Dynamic System Security
18. Break Vol – EVE Blog Banter 12
19. Mikeazariah – EVE Mobility
20. Pods and Pills – The 12th EVE Blog Banter: EVE on the MOVE!
21. Lords of Space – EVE on my Iphone?
22. Cle Demaari – Is that EVE in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?
23. Life in Low Sec – Wormholes On the Go
24. The Elitist – EVE On Mobile Devices
25. Into the unknown with gun and camera – Blog Banter 12: Glue
26. Zero Kelvin – A year of banting!
27. Corrupted Datacore – Blog Banter #12: MyEVE
28. Many more to come…