Memorial Day….remembering Jack

Its Memorial Day here in the US, a day when we suppose to stop to think, reflect maybe and honor many of those who paid the ultimate price with their lives in our War and forgotten Wars in this nations history. For some it’s just another day and excuse just to go shopping for sales [...]

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2 Years of EVE Online and what’s next

EVE Online turns 9 years old today, hard to believe almost a decade has gone by since I started playing online games. I roughly started playing online games right around the exact same time that EVE was launched. Today also completes the full cycle of 2 years of EVE Online for both my characters. Main [...]

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Blog Banter #35: “Perceptions”

Welcome the thirty-fifth EVE Blog Banter. Now approaching its tenth year, the EVE Online player community has matured into an intricate and multi-faceted society viewed with envy by other game developers, but is frequently regarded with suspicion by the wider gaming community.  Is this perception deserved? Should “The Nation of EVE” be concerned by its [...]

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PI: Improving PI Performance by Optimization of Planetary Links

Merriam-Webster definition of Optimization: an act, process, or methodology of making something (as a design, system, or decision) as fully perfect, functional, or effective as possible; specifically : the mathematical procedures (as finding the maximum of a function) involved in this. What the hell does optimizing anything have to do with PI in a game of Internet Spaceships? Quite [...]

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30 Days of Crucible

It has been almost 30 days since Crucible expansion has affected life all over New Eden. Life in highsec has been quite busy since as a Trade Industrialist and Research Scientist. Business has also been good as well for the past month. Sometime when your busy playing a game it can be hard to really [...]

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Happy Veterans Day

I use to run and do maintenance on those huge Gas Turbine Propulsion Engines and Gas Turbine Electrical Generators as a Gas Turbine Technician. It used to be fun times back then not to along ago it seemed. It was my years serving aboard that ship while stationed in Yokosuka Japan. It was the best [...]

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25 Million Skill Points and the last quarter

Its been unusually quiet here around the blog for a while, yeah I’ve noticed that too. However in other news I’ve recently just passed the 25 Million Skill Points mark in my EVE career and a year and a half of playing EVE Online. Apparently passed the mark completing training for Cruiser Construction V which [...]

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Moving Along

Things just seem to be moving along though nothing all too exciting as compared to life as a pirate. Business throughout the trade network is growing and it seems if things just keep moving along will soon hit ten billion in ISK mark. I will probably get a bit excited about that. However competition seem [...]

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EVE Online: My first year space odyssey

Just past that point a few days ago. As it was just over a year ago on April 23rd 2010 my character Ametius started playing EVE for the very first time on a trial account. At this point last year I looking for a more Interesting MMO game to play, maybe something a bit different, [...]

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Back to Business

I’ve been working at getting back to the business of trade mostly. That also includes some industry effort and working on R&D. Have done quite a bit of buying lately in Jita on buy orders that even had to take the rarely flown Providence for a few spin trip at turtle speed back and forth [...]

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