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Random Update: What am I playing?

2015-12-08 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers One comment

I’ve accidentally taken a fairly long break from gaming, whether you are talking about table top or computer games. The

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A few thoughts on EVE, a static playerbase, and how I'd fix it

2013-12-21 doycet Links & Resources One comment

Reshared post from +Doyce Testerman A few thoughts on EVE, a static playerbase, and how I'd fix it. (Also: the

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Life in Eve: Pretty Good Weekend

2013-05-06 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers

Like most ten-year-olds, EVE celebrated its birthday on the nearest weekend (just past), rather than the actual date (today), in

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Life in Eve: Illustrated Thought for the Day

2013-05-02 doycet MMO & Computers, Musing One comment
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Life in Eve: April Fools

2013-05-01 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers One comment

April got off to a rocky start, so I wasn’t really sure how things would look as the month wrapped

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Life in Eve: You Play How You Practice – Putting the Play into Practice (4/4)

2013-04-30 doycet Game Design, MMO & Computers, Musing 5 comments

Whew. Okay, let’s see if we can pull all this musing into some kind of coherent plan for missions. There’s

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Eve Forever

2013-04-29 doycet Links & Resources, MMO & Computers

I have trouble explaining to my non-Eve-playing gamer friends what it is about the game that I find so compelling.

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Semi Eve-related, semi book-related

2013-04-21 doycet Links & Resources 2 comments

A few weeks ago, I noticed a call for book reviewers over at themittani.com, a website that focuses mostly on

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Life in Eve: You Play How You Practice (3/4): Stages of a Mission

2013-04-19 doycet Game Design, MMO & Computers, Musing 6 comments

So let’s continue this conversation about how to create new PvE missions in Eve that are more engaging, interesting, and

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Life in Eve: You Play How You Practice (2.5/4) — Answering Questions and Comments

2013-04-18 doycet Game Design, MMO & Computers, Musing 2 comments

The last couple posts have attracted some good questions and feedback, and raise some points I want to address before

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Life in Eve: You Play How You Practice (2/?)

2013-04-17 doycet Game Design, MMO & Computers, Musing 8 comments

So here’s the premise: PvE mission content in Eve comprises some of the weakest PvE content in any MMO, and

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Life in Eve: You Play How You Practice (1/?)

2013-04-16 doycet Game Design, MMO & Computers, Musing 3 comments

When I first started playing Eve in earnest (which does not count the attempt some seven years ago) I went

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Life in Eve: Same War, Different Front

2013-04-10 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers

“So this is a done deal?” CB sprawled across my couch, watching an animated children’s show on the main display

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Life in Eve: Junkies

2013-04-08 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers One comment

  March was a really, really good month for our corporation. By most any standard, it was the best month

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Life in Eve: Voting for CSM 8

2013-04-03 doycet MMO & Computers, Musing One comment

The elections for the eighth Council of Stellar Management (the CSM: a  group of players elected to represent player interests,

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Live in Eve: March in Review

2013-04-01 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers

So with March in the bag, I thought I’d look back and see how the corp did, both in terms

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Life in Eve: Local is Fine, and Here’s How to Fix It.

2013-03-22 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers, Musing 13 comments

First, a brief background, for the non-EvE players: Like most MMOs, Eve has a number of text-based chat channels built

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Life in Eve: Gambit Roulette

2013-03-19 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers, Musing 4 comments

Regardless of the game, I’ve never been particularly drawn to stealth classes. Rogues, Burglars, Assassins… you know the type. The

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Life in Eve: Tys R Us, now open in Sinq Laison and all points East

2013-03-11 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers 2 comments

So about a month ago, it became evident that the pilots in our corp would need to get into replacement

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Life in Eve: In Like a Lion

2013-03-11 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers

I want to say the month really got going when we got the escape pod with a set of low-grade

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Life in Eve: Post-February Grab Bag

2013-03-01 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers 6 comments

  No time or inclination to put up an organized post, so instead you get a bunch of random stuff

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Life in Eve: Jesus Wept

2013-02-21 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers 2 comments

Tormentor, Inquisitor, Fed Navy Comet all in system. All in different complexes. All with the same ship name. Hmm. Tormentor’s

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Life in Eve: Losing While Winning

2013-02-15 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers

This is one of those blog posts that says “I haven’t been writing about playing Eve very much, because of

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Eve Online: The Point of a Frigate

2013-02-06 doycet MMO & Computers 2 comments

I don’t much care about my character’s (or my corp’s) killboard (the term for API-powered websites that list and analyze

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Life in Eve: Heavy Hangs the Head

2013-02-05 doycet Game Design, MMO & Computers, Musing 5 comments

This bit of reflection came out of a (sadly) half-finished conversation with Dave and Margie, where we were talking about

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Life in Eve: How I Learned to Love Hating “Safe Zones” in New Eden

2013-01-31 doycet Game Design, Musing 5 comments

I didn’t intend to write any more stuff about CCP and the development direction of Eve; it’s not really what

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Life in Eve: Life on the Playground

2013-01-30 doycet Game Design, Musing 10 comments

My kids go to a charter school. This may not mean much to anyone reading this, so I’ll sum up

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Life in Eve: The Perfect Storm

2013-01-23 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers 2 comments

“Okay guys,” I said over voice comms. “I’ll be back in ten days. Don’t lose Isbrabata while I’m gone.” I

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Life in EvE: Year in Review

2013-01-02 doycet MMO & Computers One comment

My actual anniversary with Eve doesn’t come for a few more weeks, but I’m going to be away from home

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Life in EvE: A Funny Way to Say Hello

2012-12-21 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers

Another virtual screen snapped to life in front of me, automatically arranging itself among the flickering three dimensional headshots of

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