Thanks for sharing this.

Thanks for calling out the player mob for being spoiled children. Only someone who has been there can make those statements with any authority and only someone who isn't there now can get away with it in the eyes of the mob.

I'm sorry you lost your job and I wish you luck in your search. But welcome back to the community.

Too bad. The guys are still trying to figure out what "the ultimate troll" was. I think the whole thing was just silly.

It's not all bad though. Seems like you have all the benefits of an alliance in the way the local pirates work together against a common threat, though. Who needs that billion isk name anyway?

He's the goonlord, of course he's going to take more credit than he deserves.

I have hybrids fitted to several ships and I don't feel like a dufus. Maybe I should? They could certainly be improved though. It's like you said the other day ... you need variety when cooking.

I'm hoping the "new e-war drones" is about small and medium web drones (blaster Ishkur with web drones?). The others, as you said, just need some rebalancing. Stacking penalties really screw them.

In general, looking forward to find out more. But I'd get trolled out of EVE if I admitted that I am a little disappointed Incarna interaction isn't coming soon(er).

Congratulations on hitting the 50m mark! You must have missed your bitter vet association welcome aboard package as you're still far too optimistic about, well, everything.

Generally all that 50 million skillpoints means is all you have left are long skill trainings. As a new player, I kind of figured once I got a lot of skillpoints I would just start kicking everyone's ass. Reality is not nearly as grandiose. But it is nice to be able to fly a selection of ships and fly them very well, isn't it.

Paritybit has nearly 50 million skillpoints. They are literally all flying-in-space-combat-type-skills, and there is not a battleship skill among them (unless you count Torpedoes IV for that one time I hopped into a stealth bomber).

Here is how to define blobs: whenever you make a kill, you were not in a blob. Whenever you are killed, you were blobbed -- and that one guy in the blob was into hull before you went down.

(you meaning whoever is reading this, not any particular person)

You are equating the results of your poll with the wishes of the player base; and I know you are a propagandist, but the people voting in your poll are not representative of the player base. Our ego (the ego of the blog writers) leads us to believe that our audience is everyone -- but deep down you have to know it's not. While bloggers were rage quitting and shooting at a statue in Jita, normal players went about their business just as they always do: running a mission, building a warp core stabalizer II, stealing the missioner's loot or camping gates in a heavy interdictor that would make previously mentioned WCS II useless.

I've said this before and I'll say it again. The problem with Incarna, as far as I'm concerned, is that it's not really Incarna. It's a single room with no interaction. I would agree they haven't shared the vision properly, but I'm very much looking forward to Incarna even though I spend most of my time in space.

It's not that I don't want more flying in space content -- I do. But when CCP calls EVE their science fiction simulator I get all tingly inside. I want to be able to get out of my ship and look around on rare occasion. But I don't want to do it if it means not interacting with other players; interaction is much of the reason we play.

I elaborated on my blog; I am not much of a self-promoter though, so I didn't link it.

I think the silent group have desires, they just don't know or care enough to try to influence CCP's direction. I talk to players all the time who don't read or care about forums, blogs or any of the other community outlets.

I think the problem with Incarna is that it isn't really Incarna. It's a room with no view. It's a room that you see in every station you visit. It's not interesting at all except from a new player perspective. I am looking forward to the real Incarna very much, unlike many of the most vocal people out there (the entire CSM included). We (bloggers) and our brother and sister forum warriors are not representative of the entire player base. Neither is the CSM representative of the player base. I think that, along with the fact that the ideals behind the CSM have been forgotten, is the problem.

I like to blame the people that fill in a framework and not the framework itself. But then again I'm an idealist and we all know the world will never meet it's ideal. I wrote a longer response on my blog: http://paritybit.wordpress.com/2011/09/13/space-p...

I disagree that the CSM as an institution is bad. It can be bad, yes. But it can be good as well. The people involved in the institution and the perception of the institution are what make it good or bad at any given time. I have never thought the CSM was anything more than an advisory council. Unfortunately, they have tried to convince anyone who would listen that it is more than that.

The CSM does not speak for the player base as much as it thinks it does. There is a very vocal minority in EVE that acts as if it speaks for the entire player base. It does not. EVE bloggers are not typical EVE players. Forum posters are not even a complete cross section of the player base.

It is bizarre that the current CSM is actively working against CCP. Their mandate is to the game and the player base to keep CCP in touch with their game and its players. But they have taken it as a mandate to try to force CCP to develop EVE with CSM ideals.

Yay, lets tell the gaming media that EVE is dying and even its own players don't want to continue playing it -- that will certainly make new players flock to EVE and do wonders for it's perception in the larger gaming community.