All the games I've played recently all seem to have decided that Tuesdays are the best day to patch. I can't deny this since Tuesday is the best day to do many things. This week, for instance, I shall probably be going to a pub instead of patching my games and will therefore avoid the chaos that will probably ensue. The patches are the new Jedi system patch for SWG and the last major patch of this phase of Eve. I shall summarise the two patches to save you the trouble. EVE More tech 2. New ships. Bleh. More of the same, not...

This blog here is written by the infamous m0o priate corporation. Not a lot I can say about it really, reading a paragraph at random says all that needs to be said. An interesting look into the mind of a pirate corp.

Last week an exploit turned up in SWG that allowed people to duplicate money. This has always been a popular type of exploit and so nowadays games tend to have code in them to detect duplicated items and so using these exploits is generally a bad idea. I once accidenty used one once, and ended up with two shuttleports in a town with the knowledge that trying to destroy one would create a third, but that's another story. The interesting thing is the way that this exploit was handled. Everybody who had duplicated credits was banned. Now imagine that this exploit...

This weekend I was flying missions in Eve and my trusty old cruiser came to a sticky end at the hands of another player in a battleship. All I was doing was flying between systems and I wasn't even in that dangerous space (there were still sentry guns around the gate that opened up on him, but he shrugged them off long enough to take me out). He didn't even ask for cash first. Loosing the ship wasn't too much of a problem, I'll loot new versions of all the special equipment I had in a week or so probably,...

I have another blog here that covers my job, but I don't think it's a good idea to talk too much about other things on tthat blog so I've created this one to talk about games. Mostly this is going to be about online games as I currently play Eve and Star Wars Galaxies. Expect comments about how the games play, the sort of people in them and the changes that are made as the games are patched over time.