Kreation’s Edge

Pretty cool interview was done by IGN with Haydn Dalton, Lead Designer on Darksiders. Cool Beans

Well rumor has it that currently on test server they switched out the model of the very good looking Maulus Hull for the Gallente Covert ops ship with Imicus on Test server. Never mind that most Gallente find the Imicus very unattractive (pretty much all of us thinks it looks like complete crap). It seems that CCP has decided that the covert ops frigates should be using their Tech I counterparts. This makes sense however, the Imicus is very ugly when compared to the very sleek looking Maulus design. This really upsets me because I worked very hard to get into this ship. I think this is where ‘Tactical Transparency’ falls down once again. If player’s could design their own ‘hulls’ then we wouldn’t have to worry about the Developer’s getting the bright idea to come tamper with our visual appearance. Developers never do seem to put enough emphasis into our appearances online.

This reminds of back in City of Heroes when the Developers decided to switch out the Aura for Invulnerability Brutes with a more ‘evil’ version. Players were furious when they logged into their avatars to see their cool looking Invulnerability aura replaced with a crappy looking, plain black aura.

So ironic- it is our virtual avatar and yet the Developer’s can just deform that at will.

Well here is a pic of cool looking recon. It’s very fun being able to warp while cloaked. Right now working on Astrometrics 4 so I can try my hand at Exploration.

Well I trained cap skills up a bit and now I’m running more thermal hardeners so that’s helped improved my tanking quite a bit. In a few days I’ll have Battlecruiser 4 trained which means even more drone DPS for Myrmidon and even better armor repair.

Been enjoying my recon ship it’s fun warping around cloaked. It can pretty much insta-warp cloak after I jump through a gate.

Built myself a few cheap little PVP frigates the looting out here in 0.0 has been pretty good. Within bout 3-4 days I have bout 3.9m3 volume can full of loot. Think I have almost 2 mil Trit and a bunch of zydrine and quite a bit of megacyte. To top it all off megacyte, zydrine, and nocxium is fairly low weight so if I ever need to I can smuggle around minerals in my covops. But for that I mostly just use my hauler

Havent been training offensive skills for my Stealth Bomber yet but I hope to soon.

CCP referenced an article by IGN that covered common misconceptions about EVE Online. I thought it was a pretty good read that hit some good points

More importantly, Cloaking IV is almost done training in about 1hr 25mins. After it’s done, I plan to put the Covert Ops Cloaking Device on my Helios and make a run to 0.0 to drop off some supplies at a new area in space we moved to. I need to drop off some implants, Drone Link Augementor I, and maybe some blueprints to help make some ISK for myself out in deep space

I’ve also been running missions here and there. I have a low quality Level 4 Agent that just became available. I’m tempted to give one of her missions a try…

So weird this morning I thought about Robert Aspirin and his old Myth Adventure books. I can’t remember fine details atm but I recall really loving this series. In this book, magic was spread out over the universe in the form of ‘power lines’ that only wizard’s can see. If a planet does not have any power lines, then a Wizard has no power source to fuel his/her powers. I might go try to order these books it will be like reading a brand new fiction since I was a kid when I first read them

Good news is I can fly a Stealth Bomber. Bad news is I need to now train skills to make it fully functional. For instance, if I want to use Cruise Missiles I will probably need to invest bout 6 days into training those skills. If I want to use a Bomb Launcher I will need to train for that. I can of course use basic Missile Launchers on there that I already have trained but that wouldn’t be optimal for a ship specialized at either Cruise Missiles or Bomb Launchers.

I have a Myrmidon out in 0.0 I’ve been trying to outfit for good healthy Sansha killing. Was testing out a new setup last night. Seemed to work well but its a pretty big drain on my Cap. So I will need to probably prioritize Cap skills pretty soon, sigh.

Was talking to a vet about the Gallente Force Recons and he was telling me those are actually shield tanks. Apparently, most players (especially Gallente) expect all Gallente ships to be armor Tankers. I was curious because I noticed on EVE message boards players seemed unhappy with their Gallente Force Recons so this explains it

Anyway, this is a pic of my beloved Stealth Bomber

Was reading a review of Sins of a Solar Empire in latest copy of Game Informer. Looks pretty good I’m downloading the demo now. Let’s see if I have time to play between GTA 4 and Lost Odyssesy though

I really dont see any other MMORPGs coming out anytime soon that I am remotely interested in. But Fable 2 looks like a real gem. It will be a full blown sandbox COOP RPG. This is my bag baby! I really look forward to playing a true sandbox fantasy RPG with friends. I really hope they dedicate a lot of effort to make this one very polished. And what is even more exciting too me is that this game won’t rely on ‘grind’ to maintain our interest. It should be plain fun and I’m really stoked.

So here we are tomorrow I will have Electronics Upgrade V trained. I have over 111mil ISK in my wallet. About 11pm my time tomorrow I can hop into my very first Stealth Bomber. I wont be able to put Bomb Launchers on there yet but I see a lot of BattleClinic loadouts that I will be able to run. This might be fun. I was pretty discouraged about how long I’ve hate to wait (Real Time skill traning in EVE) but maybe it will all be worth it tomorrow. I will finally be able to fly a Tech II frigate in 24 hours.

This might be really, really cool. After this I suppose I will still want Missile Bombardment V so I can run Bomb Launchers and then after that I’ll shoot for Cloaking IV. Man its amazing how many skills you have to train to really be flexible in this ship. But hopefully it will be all worth it soon.

I’m still no big fan of Time Based Advancement but EVE Online definitely has a certain addictive factor to it. It’s a little grindy but it is satisfying once you reach a major landmark in your avatar’s career.

Grand Theft Auto 4: Been focusing on this title with majority of my time. It’s a lot of fun. The multiplayer is amazing and while I play I thank God for making me another fun game that has no grind to it whatsoever. I can jump in and just PWN. I don’t have to wait a month in order to unlock a decent skill for PVP. I can just in there on Day #1 and start having fun.