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Life in a Wormhole: The Great Debate #eveonline

2011-08-31 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers One comment

The next couple of days feel like one very long debate about the merits of joining a new alliance. I’m

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Life in a Wormhole: Sifting through the White Noise #eveonline

2011-08-30 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers

My evemail box is brimming with messages when I log in, and for a few seconds I get excited; after

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Life in a Wormhole: “We’re like Keystone Kops out here.” #eveonline

2011-08-29 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers

I get online later than normal and it takes CB and me awhile to get organized — usually, I’ve scanned

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“What do you Get out of it?” #eveonline

2011-08-27 doycet MMO & Computers, Musing One comment

So last weekend, De asked me what it is that I get out of EVE; what the payoff is for

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Life in a Wormhole: Missed Opportunity #eveonline

2011-08-26 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers

It’s early in the morning — very early, thanks to the tiny copilot half-asleep on my lap — and the

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Life in a Wormhole: The Lulling Sounds of Laser fire #eveonline

2011-08-25 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers One comment

The home system continues to recover, new sleeper sites popping up like dandelions, and while the tasty radar anomaly beckons,

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Life in a Wormhole: Still Doing it Wrong #eveonline

2011-08-23 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers 7 comments

We’ve spent the last couple nights chasing after looters out of high-sec without being able to actually catch them —

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Life in a Wormhole: Kicking the Anthill #eveonline

2011-08-22 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers 2 comments

It’s an early Saturday morning, and the cupboard (by which I mean “our home system”) is bare. The random number

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Life in a Wormhole: What are the Odds? #eveonline

2011-08-20 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers

It’s been a few days since the Rattlesnake/Orca Debacle of Aught-leven, and things have been quiet around the home system

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Life in a Wormhole: Fall Down Seven Times, Stand Up Eight #eveonline

2011-08-19 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers 6 comments

“New rule,” says Gor. “When one of use loses over a half-billion isk in ships in one go, everyone gets

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Life in a Wormhole: “Don’t Go After the Frisbee” #eveonline

2011-08-18 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers 9 comments

This is one of those stories that makes people who don’t play EVE swear that they’re never going to play

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Life in a Wormhole: Worst Case Scenarios #eveonline

2011-08-17 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers One comment

Gor really shouldn’t feel bad about struggling with fittings for his ships in the wormhole; sleeper combat is a bit

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Life in a Wormhole: All Alone #eveonline

2011-08-16 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers 2 comments

The Germans, it appears, are moving out of the system we’ve been sharing for the last month. One of their

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Life in a Wormhole: Windfalls #eveonline

2011-08-15 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers 4 comments

I return from South Dakota to find our tower brimming with loot. None of it’s mine, but that doesn’t mean

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Life in a Wormhole: Making room and Settling In

2011-08-12 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers

Bree is back in the wormhole, albeit only with one of her Buzzard cov-ops ships and not her entire fleet,

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Life in a Wormhole: Escape from Nullsec #eveonline

2011-08-11 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers

The home system is quiet the day after the destruction of the Drake, and even two days later the sleepers

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Life in a Wormhole: Parasite EVE #eveonline

2011-08-09 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers

Sean wakes me up right after the daily downtime; I log in to email both the corp and our German

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Life in a Wormhole: the Tapeworm #eveonline

2011-08-08 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers

The interesting and wonderful thing about wormholes is that situation changes constantly. The day after Gor and I blew up

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Life in a Wormhole: “Want to Ruin His Day?” #eveonline

2011-08-05 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers

Enough moping about nullsec dissatisfaction! Yes, Bre is somewhat stuck in Curse. Yes, the rest of our alliance is moving

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Life in a Wormhole: Compare and Contrast #eveonline

2011-08-04 doycet MMO & Computers, Musing

I’m back from our first vacation of the summer, reflecting on how much nicer 95 degrees is when you don’t

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Life in a Wormhole: A Miner’s Tale

2011-08-02 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers

The next week is a whirlwind of activity, and very little of it involves EVE. We’re in Orlando for a

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Life in a Wormhole: Germans, Planets, and Gilas

2011-08-01 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers

Our relations with our German neighbors continue to improve from our original neutral baseline. We started off with an agreement

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Life in a Wormhole: Valuable Resources #eveonline

2011-07-27 doycet MMO & Computers One comment

Apparently, one of the things that happened while I was putting together how-to scanning videos was CB’s triumphant return to

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Life in a Wormhole: The Fine Art of Scanning #eveonline

2011-07-26 doycet MMO & Computers

As I’ve already mentioned, the use of scanning probes to tri-, quad-, or quintangulate on various cosmic phenomena is a

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Life in a Wormhole: Don’t Shoot the Good Guys #eveonline

2011-07-24 doycet Links & Resources

The formidable weaponry of our fully armed and operational battle station has been brought to bear on a hapless intruder

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Life in a Wormhole: If you’re going to be a Criminal, be a Smart Criminal #eveonline

2011-07-22 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers One comment

Over emails the next day, CB points out that instead of a floating tower in space with guns, e-warfare modules,

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Life in a Wormhole: The Moving-day Hangover

2011-07-21 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers

It’s one of those days you remember from college; everyone’s moving a bit slowly, trying to make as little noise

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Life in a Wormhole: … if it is possible to avoid hitting. #eveonline

2011-07-20 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers 2 comments

I drafted my evemail, aiming for a mix of “we’re all just trying to get along” and “we have no

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Life in a Wormhole: What do you mean, “Neighbors?”

2011-07-19 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers

There was a moment of stunned disbelief following CB’s question. I hit d-scan several times on several characters and got

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Life in a Wormhole: Time to Get Lost

2011-07-18 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers One comment

Gor has advocated for starting the trip further into the evening, so as to avoid the prime hours of activity

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Having gotten to Cobalt Reach (finally), Tim and I pull out The Quiet Year to build the new sector; all part of our brief to explore more indie games during our play.

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We make some sacrifices to get things running again. Sometimes, it even works!

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After a long break for personal time and some big life changes, we return to Quintin and Kiri as they try to get things patched up and working again.

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"Let's try out the combat system," they said.
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