I have a very big problem with Eve, and it’s not one that many of my readers have. I have a podcast, and Eve gets talked about a lot. It’s my main game, and it also generates the most interesting subjects to talk about. Warhammer has innovative PvP? Bit small isn’t it, why not have the scope of Eve. WoW is adding new tradeskills? What they really need is a proper player economy like Eve! Conan has a well developed first 20 levels of PvE content? Well Eve… OK, it breaks down there.
My problem is that I can’t talk about some of it. I have a corp and 100odd people I’m responsible for so I have to be careful what I say. I have comments about certain corps and alliances we deal with, but me saying something on the podcast will only cause trouble.
My biggest fear is that I’ll attract some corp of griefers who will come after the corp. Not that we can’t defend ourselves but because war is very disruptive, we’re mainly an industrial corp and so need to shift large volumes of materials around the universe, including freshly built capital ships. When this gets more difficult it slows down and we make less cash. It’s as simple as that.
There’s a voice in the back of my head saying that I shouldn’t have mentioned that we make capitals. What if it attracts an attacker? What if I’ve disrupted how my members want to play with this post? I’m paranoid about the fact that I’m putting myself out in the public eye, I know that a lot of our podcast listeners are Eve players and so far they’ve all been groovy. What if somebody isn’t? Like I said, paranoid.
I’m sure one day somebody out of the thrill of fighting industrial corps will put two and two together and turn up on our doorstep and we’ll have to make a point about how not all industrial corps are an easy target. But until that day I’ll keep on talking about stuff.
In the meantime I need to go edit out all the juicy alliance gossip from our latest podcast before I get into trouble.
posted @ Sunday, August 03, 2008 10:31 PM