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In Extremis?

in ex·tre·mis ˌin ikˈstrāmis,ˌin ikˈstrēmis/ adverb 1. in an extremely difficult situation."they suddenly find themselves in extremis 20 miles out to sea"  ◦ at the point of death.      Given the recent lack of activity here in these vaunted pages, it would only be natural to start assuming that I've decided to stop writing in the blog. Perhaps I am burned out. Toasted. Turning bitter old vet, or else have succumbed to distraction. After all, I do have a lot of irons in the fire these days. The truth is buried somewhere in there, but the fact is that I was simply taking a nice break from writing here in these pages. I have no intention of stopping any time soon. If ever. There is just too much sweat equity in these words and images. Having said that, I did purposefully take a short break. Primarily because my usual morning window for writing has collapsed due to my new job. Put that up against the energy expended in the lead up to Fanfest and then the

Eve is Dying Again?

By now most of you have probably seen this chart collection making the rounds. Once again the cries that Eve Online is dying are bouncing around the community and everyone has their own opinion about the reasons why. If you are wondering, I don't have an opinion. I have a lot of thoughts about it. I have some general ideas about it. But I'm in the business of knowing things, of using data to come to conclusions, and then using my experience, talent, and wisdom to develop solutions that work. I simply have none of those things right now. I don't work for CCP and I have no access to any real information. Without that all I'm left with is what we see above and that is not good. In fact, it is pretty damn horrible. I'd point you to this article published way back in 2013 that makes the case that MMOs are doomed to failure. It is an interesting read. Just keep in mind that it was written nine years ago. I'd also point you to various sources all over the internet t

Uprising

Check out the news here in case you missed it. FW changes are on the way. New Ships, which are most likely Faction Destroyers, but we do not know that for certain. New immersive hangars. And mysterious ship balances. While "Uprising" sounds like an old-school expansion, it's more of a Fall/Winter roll-out that is starting this month. Or perhaps, and more accurately, started already. Many of the steps leading to this have already been out and working for awhile now. Which is cool. I fully support the concept of narrative development inside of Eve and I think most of the best changes have often happened this way over the years. So it is good to see this happening and unfolding over time. The upcoming Faction Warfare changes are only the beginning of that process however and some of the most exciting and transformative changes won't be coming until early next year. But you have to start somewhere. I'm most excited for those changes obviously. FW has the chance to b

The State of EVE Online | A Response

I encourage you to go read Dunk Dinkle's recent column entitled "The State of EVE Online - Summer 2022" before you read the following response. I'm not going to spend my time arguing or debating the points that Dunk brings up in his column, because I'm sure he believes the things he says and has given his column a lot of considered thought. He is free to believe what he has written. And his perspective is a lot different than my own. He is looking at the game from being intimately involved with a large Null Sec alliance and his experiences on that side of Eve. Which again, is fine. We all have our own perspectives. I have mine, others have theirs. But, like Dunk, I've also played Eve for 14 years now. So I'd like to offer my own opinion, perspective, and outlook based around the column he has written. So let me try and offer and alternative viewpoint. Perspective is important. As mentioned above Dunk and myself come at this game from two different perspe

Foundational Principles

Eve Online is built upon some serious foundational principles. It is a sandbox. All players operate under the same rule set. There is no Golden Ammo Principle. Time is the great investment. These are just some of the important understandings that the game operates under every single day. There are others of course. And we could, as we build a list, start to get into areas of disagreement and perspective. As we all know by now, this is yet another pillar in the foundation of Eve Online - everyone has an opinion. I would argue that the community around Eve is also a foundational principle. But this is not the topic of today's post. There are other, more abstract, principles at play. And one of those is the actual topic of today's post. I've written about this before and I'm circling around to it again because I'm starting to worry. The problem continues to linger. And has continued for longer than I thought it would. What I'm talking about is empty ships, withou

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