Welcome to the ninth installment of the EVE Blog Banter and its first contest, the monthly EVE Online blogging extravaganza created by CrazyKinux. The EVE Blog Banter involves an enthusiastic group of gaming bloggers, a common topic within the realm of EVE Online, and a week to post articles pertaining to the said topic. The resulting articles can either be short or quite extensive, either funny or dead serious, but are always a great fun to read! Any questions about the EVE Blog Banter should be directed here. Check out other EVE Blog Banter articles at the bottom of this post!

“Last month Ga’len asked us which game mechanic we would most like to see added to EVE. This month Keith “WebMandrill” Neilson proposes to reverse the question and ask what may be a controversial question: Which game mechanic would you most like to see removed completely from EVE and why? I can see this getting quite heated so lets keep it civil eh?”

Read on for my contribution…
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Building on Ga’lens stalwart work in compiling an OPML file of the majority of EVE blogs I took it upon myself to categorize them according to a variety of criteria.

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So, I’ve still not amanged to get an awful lot of time in-game under my belt this week. However there ahve been some interesting developements in the meta-world surrounding eve which merit some mention.

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I would like to take this opportunity to announce The EVE Directory Project, and ask for the assistance of the EVE community in populating it with links.

The EVE Directory Project (EDP) aims to provide an online directory of every EVE related website, past (if they still exist), present, and future. In this very early stage of testing and tweaking it will look pretty plain (I’m working on that) but should be fully functional. I’ll be adding features such as featured links, and paid links (with ISK, mainly aimed at in game services and corporations) in future.

So if you have a website you’d like to see included, or know of one that isn’t there but should be, head on over to http://evedir.keithneilson.co.uk and add it in.

A few guidelines for submissions:

• Submitted websites should be EVE related.
• ISK sellers need not apply
• Every submission will be manually checked by me, if a site is not approved I’ll endeavour to explain why by email.

Till next time, good hunting and don’t let the reds get you down.

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EVE is a demanding game, even more so since they abandoned the old classic client for the new premium lite. Its visual beauty is something which, once experienced, canot be discarded for somthing of lesser fidelity.

This is not a post about the technical requirements for EVE, as even with its stunning graphics it can still be played on a relatively low-end machine. This is a post about the more meta requirements that EVE demands of its players (its also a creative way of explaining my lack of play time in the last couple of weeks)

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An unknown hacker, calling himself VAD3R, has attacked GameScribe, the hosted blogging service for gamers.

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…although not as much as I would like due to some big changes in my RL living arrangements.

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I missed posting last week’s Vertical Slice due to RL happenings, so here it is, along with this week’s.

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In my previous guide to the overview some questions regarding the grid arose which I endeavoured to answer through some minimal testing. It seems that the grid is far more complex an entity than I previously thought as a document prepared by Goonswarm has come to light which explains the sometimes bizzare nature of the grid and some esoteric methods for its manipulation and use as a tactical tool.

I present you with Grid-Fu, A Practical Manual (PDF)

Till next time, good hunting and don’t let the reds get you down

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Its that time of the month again, time to get my banter on and join my fellow EVE bloggers in a discussion about our favourite game…

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