Industrial operations are becoming more streamlined, which is good. My Indy alt has been starting to feel less like an alt recently. Things are still a bit rocky, partly because we’re learning to use some of the more technical aspects of eveHQ and partly because we all seem to fail at basic addition and reading comprehension.
That being said, we’re looking at something close to a 1B return this week, which should keep G in ships for some time.
It’s an exciting time to be new in EVE. Recent and ongoing changes to the game have made New Eden a less daunting place for the newbie. Changes affecting mining and mineral values have made it easier for new players to make a buck. Factional warfare, a feature that was overlooked for years, is now a great venue for new players to quickly get their feet wet in PVP and interact with other players toward a common goal. The ongoing ship rebalance initiative is effectively adding a ton of new, cheap and effective ships for old and new players alike to fly. Changes to tutorials and CCP’s ongoing commitment to the New Player Experience are working to erode EVE’s infamous learning cliff.
Despite these changes, however, EVE is still a deep, complex and often unintuitive game. Guidance is important in learning some of the more complex concepts necessary to be successful: ship fitting, d-scan, aggression mechanics, opportunity cost… In this guide I’m not going to talk about any of that. I’m going to talk about something much more fundamental. I want to talk about the two B’s: Boredom and Burnout. The two most dangerous things in New Eden.
Ahh the good old days. Here’s one of the old news bulletins we posted back in the early days of Endland in 2003 when the devs were starting to talk about planetary/moon mining.
U of Caille Professors believe planetary mining may disrupt local wildlife
With more and more of a research shortage in the inner sectors of known space many large corporations are requesting a repeal of the historical ban on planetary strip mining to offset mineral shortages.
“We need those minerals to continue to grow as a company and produce all of the wonderful products that make us famous,” said Hamato Yan, a representative for Ishukone corporation, echoing the sentiment of many corporations galaxy wide. Hamato refused to comment on what exactly it is that his corporation manufactures
The Gallente federation, historically opposed to planetary mining, has offered the greatest resistance to the growing corporate desire. “Planetary mining is just environmental negligence. It has already been demonstrated that planetary strip mining can reduce most moons to dust in a matter of weeks,” argues Prof. DeFarge, Professor emeritus of astrogeology at the University of Caille. “Without moons and planets navigation becomes incredibly complicated, and the devastating effect that strip mining has upon local wildlife has already been demonstrated in the initial test phases.”
I’ve got ISK; I’ve got a sweet pad at Jita 4-4; I’ve got a pimped out Atron with shiny rims and a hold full of exotic dancers, and now I’ve got a hyperlink page to bleat my wisdom to the masses. I am, I have to admit, a pretty awesome guy.
At the moment Ghenna just has me working as the public face of this site like I’m some kind of alt. I’ll be operating the twitter thing, posting some guides here and there and maybe the occasional Market Kill Mail.