Welcome to the nineteenth installment of the EVE Blog Banter, 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 to crazykinux@gmail.com. Check out other EVE Blog Banter articles at the bottom of this post!
What We’re Dealing With Here…
…Is a Failure to Communicate.
You may have noticed that the Dev Blog Breakdown has been missing from these pages for the last couple of weeks, this is due to busyness with other things and the release of the CSM Summit minutes was foremost amongst these. Yesterday, however, we got a Dev Blog from the new Senior Producer at CCP, CCP Zulu. He was the guy interviewed by CrunchGear earlier in the week which prompted this post.
Read on for my take on this…
What are CruchGear Doing interviewing CCP?
CruchGear, which describes itsefl as a blog covering gadgets, gear and computer hardware, has an interview with CCP’s Arnar Gylfason who is a senior producer on EVE Online. I find myself wondering why CrunchGear would be interested in an MMO, as it is neither a gadget, peice of gear or computer hardware. Read on for my impressions.
Lots of Pale Blue Dots – Part 3
This is the third part in my rough guide to PI. Part 1 covered the basics and general principles, whilst part 2 covered general guidelines for the planning, construction and operation of your own PI networks. In this part I will go into some detail regarding my own operations and the practical aspects of my operations.
United EVE Blogosphere
This is a sticky post for the moment, new content can be found by scrolling down.
With reference to the CSM Summit meetings, and the ensuing discussion in the comments on Max Torp’s blog, we (that is Max, Helicity, and I) have come to the conclusion that as eve bloggers we should present a somewhat united front to CCP and protest in some way. Now the ofrm this protest is going to take has not yet been decided (rough ideas at the moment
If you are interested in taking part, providing input, or simply showing your support please register your interest using the form below the jump. You will be contacted in due course via email.
Summit Minutes Published, Nothing New Here.
So the minutes are out, and they’re pretty much what everyone expected…
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Eva-Gate – What are the Consequences?
Earlier today CCP announced in a cryptic news story that Ankehsentapemkah was removed from the CSM for an apparent breach of the non-disclosure agreement that all delegates are required to sign upon taking office.
What are the implications, speculations and tinfoil hattery that is being bandied about? Read on…
CSM Member Removed For Breaking NDA
BREAKING NEWS….
Lots of Pale Blue Dots – Part 2
This is the second part of my brief series on Planetary Interaction, the new gameplay mechanic added to EVE Online with the Tyrannis Expansion Last month. Part 1 can be found here
What is a Pirate?
An encounter in the EVE-bloggers channel in game this morning prompted me to thinking. What is a pirate?











