April 2007 Entries

The Exiled

Well the news is that the EVE CCG is getting a new expansion in a few months called The Exiled and the official site has started posting some details about it. The first news is that the four main pirate factions are getting added. The Minmatar get access to the Angels, Amarr get Blood Raiders, Caldari get Guristas and Gallente get the Serpentis. No word yet on specifics, but it’ll make things interesting. The second piece of news is that they’ve started describing the inevitable new ship abilities by describing the first two: Sentry and Exile. Sentry gives you various things such...

An update

Well, my corp went to war again, but yet again we came away with no shots being fired. What is it with that anyway? Another small corp of course, so It doesn't stop us playing; we don't run off scared at the first sign of a fight and we're even self confessed carebears. If you're an aggressor corp and you pay your cash and get to shoot us, but you don't do anything about it then what are you hoping? That we're sitting in our stations scared? The most frustrating part about the war were the times that we could...

Learning to play the Eve CCG

The Eve CCG is a simple enough game to understand once you're experienced, but the first few games tend to be a steep learning curve if you're not used to CCGs. What the game really needs is a good tutorial. Not one to do anything the simple way CCP have produced a very nice flash based tutorial and posted it on their site. I don't know how long it's been up because I seem to have totally missed any announcement about it, but if you play, want to play or are just curious it's worth a look. http://www.eve-ccg.com/tutorial Technorati...