Housekeeping!

I noticed, somewhat belatedly, that this site was not notifying me when a comment was made and I then needed to moderate it.  This caused a delay of sometimes a month or two before I remembered to check if any comments were waiting for moderation.

This has now been fixed.

Probably.

Avoiding the Gank

A small quick video to try and help some folks in avoiding the dreaded gank at a trade hub, using Amarr as an example.

The Delayed Opt-In Paradox

CCP are introducing, what they call, a delayed local chat system into null security space.  The bumf suggests this will be temporary as the "stress" on the yada yada yada.

Null security local chat is changing.

However they continue to misrepresent what it actually is, an opt-in system, not a delayed one.

The crutch of many a sports guest speaker, with thanks to the Cambridge Dictionary lets look at the definitions of the two terms.

Seems straightforward.  Happily, they could have also used the term "retardation", which seems appropriate for null sec.

Moving on,  the definition of opt-in.

Clearly the change to null security local chat, as described by CCP, means you will not appear in local until you choose too.  Obviously this is opt-in and not delayed.

I support the local chat change, but at least call a duck a duck.

It Is a Concern

I'm sort of just existing in Eve Online at the moment, not very dissimilar to what's happening out in my real world.  One of the things I've been doing to keep active, for a given value of active, is selling via contract Blue Print Copies.  I've been making the copies in a cheap citadel run by a group of French people who have a very loose relationship with fuelling the structure on time, every time.  I liken it to a good, but cheap, Motel.  Once in a while something just isn't going to work the way you want it to and I just need to find a way around that.  At least it doesn't have thin walls and three hours of hooker sex in the room next door.  Not the good kind either.

I'll be patient and see if they fuel it again after a couple of days.  The citadel, not the other thing.

I've also started, using my recently purchased microphone and additional mixer, an audio/video post about my last twelve months in Eve Online.  Well I say started, closer to the truth would be I've thought about it quite a bit, and I'm busy over the next few days so anything practical happening before Monday is about as likely as the Orange Idiot suddenly gaining some morals.  Next week, maybe.

On a slight segue we talk about Mittens, especially the one in "charge" of goons and, in their minds anyway, all of null sec, even the bits they don't control.  I'm sure they have a poster somewhere that says something like they choose not to control all of null sec to provide content to all goon members, and those lucky enough to be attacked by goons.  Who knows what goes on in diseased minds.  With the recent invasion by NPC's into null sec space, Mittens, and other "lesser" beings, have been moaning about being forced to react in ways, or play differently, or something something.

Fuck Those Guys.

However, it will be worth keeping an ear to the ground about the "protest" they are planning in high security space to somehow show CCP that goons and by extension, null sec space, run Eve Online.

Should be interesting.

I have to find those high, low and null sec space player numbers again.  From memory high sec has the most, but admittedly that's from a while ago and the apparent decline of Eve Online may have skewed them into null secs favour. 

Everything is content, but the quality varies.

The impression I receive from CCP at the moment is of a large business doing very little.

It is a concern.