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Reykjavik
Wednesday, 30th of SeptemberThe hotel where I am does actually sell access to Internet. In Iceland, in 2009. I got pretty disappointed about that. (Tap water was free.) Moreover, it’s the kind of access where you can basically just surf the web and not do anything remotely exciting like, you know, plugging a cable to…
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Trapped on Planet Horror
This post is part of the EVE Blog Banter, a monthly EVE Online blogging extravaganza created by CrazyKinux. Any questions about the EVE Blog Banter should be directed to him. The twelfth topic comes from CrazyKinux, who asks us: « First there was the MMO on the PC, and now with the recent announcement of DUST…
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Player-owned arenas
Does Eve need arenas? Kirith Kodachi thinks it does. He lists both the reasons (give the players the option to self-organize consensual pvp) and the tools (similar to those currently used in Alliance tournaments). There are multiple ways to consider arenas. Let’s forget a bit about consensual pvp and stick with the exciting word « arena« ,…
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Worlds of Darkness 6: day and night
The hard parts There is an ongoing discussion thread in the Planet Vampire forum about how the designers of the World of Darkness MMO would deal with the « hard parts » of the setting. What elements of the pen-and-paper Vampire: The Requiem roleplaying game would be difficult to adapt into an MMO format? Daylight makes vampires…
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Clone monologues 13
Speculation. I used to hate the very word. Stealing money, that’s what I used to think it was. Now, I think of speculation as a socially useful activity. By speculating, I bring the prices to less unnatural levels, making sure items are easier to buy and to sell. I remunerate myself in the process. I…