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One Busy Creep – Fallen Earth and EVE Online

  By Creep | March 1, 2011 - 6:08 pm | EVE, Fallen Earth
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Strategiest: Yes I totally spelled the name wrong when I started this char, teeny text is bad on my eyes.

Not only am I rocking out in the wastelands, but I’m having a little fun in EVE too.

Fallen Earth:

I’m trying to help some buddies get a new clan off the ground in Fallen Earth called “Wasteland Roughnecks”. If you’re looking for a clan in FE send me a tell in game or mail, or just find me and hit me on the back of the head. We’re all clones so it’s fine. I’m Geistig in game by the way.

I’m still working on tier 2 vehicle research, so aside from the new clan, there’s not a whole lot going on for me in FE right now. I’m pretty much just sitting in the science labs dancing by myself. I’d be embarrassed, but let’s face it, I’m so past being cool that I’ve come back through the other side.

EVE Online:

Getting back into EVE Online has been quite a slow experience. I realized that I have a whole lot of ZERO combat skills and I need to boost almost all of my basic skills to help out with basic ship issues. Stabilizing my ships is priority one so I’m working with that first and then I’m going to work on my combat skills.

Fortunately I’ve already put a lot of points into drones (since I’m Gallente I figured “what the hell right?”). Those little bastards are a girl’s best friend. Screw diamonds and hand over the drones.

At the moment I’m running missions in a Catalysts. I don’t really have enough faith in myself or my skills to move up into anything bigger at the moment. Sadly Catalysts only have room for one drone on board but they do have room for 8 turrets. That’s some pretty satisfying firepower.

My first real mission in my Catalyst had me pretty nervous since it involved going up against a bunch of drones. For some reason I remembered drones as being really really painful to go up against.

The 8 125mm railguns on my ship however, made short work of those. I mean really, lock, fire, bye bye drone.  It left me sitting there with my jaw on the floor. This of course as my poor little Hobgoblin was getting impatient wondering why the hell I wasn’t firing at something else. Poor little guy.

I really want to load a couple of scavenger modules on my Catalyst in place of two of the hybrid turrets. At this point though I’m a little too nervous of my skillz to remove any of them. Once I’ve pumped up my gunnery skills a bit, maybe then I’ll swap out some firepower for some scavenge power so I can get some extra ISK.

In Closing:

So that’s what I’ve been up to since my last post. Nothing special really. I’m having a little fun here and there. Until next time I’m going to go get lost in the wastelands or somewhere in space, who knows.

EVE Online – Checking Out the New

  By Creep | February 26, 2011 - 1:22 am | EVE
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I had received an e-mail from the folks at EVE Online offering 5 days free to step back into EVE. I was almost going to let it lapse but a friend in Fallen Earth mentioned the new character creator tool and it peaked my interest.

Since the last time I’d played EVE some pretty important things had occurred. Lately though CCP is ramping up to let the pilots out of the ships. Now that’s a big deal for EVE folks. The clones have been in the ships since the beginning of the game. I’m pretty sure they’ll be stoked to get a chance to wander around.

I logged into my poorly spelled character Strategiest, and worked through the character creator. It was odd to get to grips with at first, but once I figured out how to get the mouse to drag things around I ended up with something I like ok.

The new character creation screen is pretty promising. That and the screenshots recently released of the upcoming captains quarters has my curiosity piqued.

The thing about EVE is that there’s a lot of downtime in the game, while you’re waiting on skills or things in production, or things in process. Being able to step out of the ship while doing some of the base bound things just sounds neat.

It will definitely bring a new side to EVE.

Fallen Earth – Quick Break

  By Creep | February 25, 2011 - 12:08 am | EVE, Fallen Earth, MMO
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The last couple of days I’ve taken a break from Fallen Earth. Not because I’m not enjoying the game, but because I just need a break.

I downloaded and logged into Eve Online just to check out some of the changes and ended up feeling beyond lost.

I have logged into Fallen Earth. Right now I’m feeling frustrated at the fact that I can’t make some things I’d like to make. Then again though I am still level 17 and I don’t want to allocate all of my AP towards Intelligence right now. The more AP allocated to Intelligence, the higher level a person can craft.

I threw some more points in and I’m sitting at a crafting level of 72 right now. I want to get up to 75 as soon as I can so I can start working on some specific armor pieces as well as getting to work on making Dune Buggies.

I have a whole town full  of quests in Copper Mine to clean out. Though I’m halfway to 18, I haven’t felt the drive to get those quests knocked out over the last couple of days. But there are other things going on that have a stronger grip on my attention right now.

I’m not sure if I’ll get back into the swing of things over the weekend, but who knows. I think I really do need to spend a day just doing some scavenging and making ammo. That always gets me inspired to do anything other than scavenging heh.

Well until next time, I’ll just be getting lost.

Non-WoW Relevant MMO’s

  By Creep | October 21, 2010 - 3:33 pm | Alganon, EVE, Fallen Earth, Free Realms, Gaming, MMO, MMORPG
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Openedge posed this query over twitter a few days ago and it really got me thinking. What MMO’s would you consider being unique and in some way adding an element if not two to MMO’s. That is of course aside from WoW.

Warhammer – Realm vs Realm pvp, lots of folks like that, I’ve never tried Warhammer so I couldn’t say.

Runes of Magic – showed us that the eastern free to play with an in game shop is a viable market for games that just don’t have the gusto to compete as subscription based games. Oh and that people will pay $10 for a horse.

FreeRealms & Wizard 101 – showed us that there are more people out there willing to try and play MMO’s when demographics are researched and designed for properly.

Eve Online – An oldie but a goodie, has proven that there is a place for niche MMO’s that tailor to specific gaming styles.

I mean really, any MMO put out impacts the industry and the player base some how. Even poor Alganon showed us how interesting the legal battles can get (linkie).

One game that has kind of fallen through the cracks is Fallen Earth I’d like to see where this one goes over time. Why? Because this one has a dedicated development team and player base. So in that respect it has the same niche element working for it that EvE Online has.

Though one of it’s biggest benefits is that you don’t lose time leveling if you take time off for crafting. You actually gain leveling XP as you scavenge and craft. I really like this idea because, if you’re into crafting, you don’t feel like you’re torn between leveling and crafting. Fallen Earth allows you to keep up with your crafting without sacrificing leveling xp to do so.

Granted most people just say forget it and go with collecting skills only, and honestly I get that, but it’s still pretty frikking annoying.

Any who that’s my two cents.

EVE Online: New Corp

  By Creep | December 7, 2009 - 11:52 am | EVE
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I know I usually give out my character names etc in games but for EVE I’m keeping everything under my hat for various reasons. The biggest one is that I’m enjoying the fact is the gender barrier.

At least in my starter Corp, things were pretty much the rudest and crudest I’ve seen in an MMO so far. I mean you’ve got a whole bunch of dudes with no real reason to keep their tongue in check so of course the chat window tended to get just plain wrong at times. Some of it I laughed at and for the most part I’d just ask questions, guide the conversations in new and unique areas and giggle as the boys tried to hit on the only openly female person in the group and constantly get shot down.

Towards the end though, I started to enjoy it. I got to see what mining operations were like and I got a lot of advice on mining, exploring and well just EVE in general. Even though I had a lot of my corp blocked out from time to time, those that where worth keeping off the blocked list were very handy and valuable sources of information. It seems like quite a few folks started their EVE careers in the noob corp (or NPC corps) and just never left. For alts though, it just makes sense.

In my new corp, I’m also going the gender bender route once again and letting them think I’m a dude. Well no one’s asked so I’m not going to volunteer the info. It’s a corp that’s looking into wormhole operations which is something I’d been hoping to get into.

Wormhole operations pretty much mean that I’d be able to use exploration skills to find wormholes and/or my way back out of them as well as mine like crazy. So far these are really the only two aspects of the game I’m interested in. I mean so far my only pvp experience involved getting locked by a day old player in a rookie ship. My drones killed him before I had a chance to call them off, poor bastage.

Despite the fact that I’d really like to get into exploring now that I have a mining barge to support myself, it looks like the corp would prefer that I go ahead and push for an exhumer like the Hulk. I don’t mind too much really since it’ll mean more ISK in the long run. I mine for the corp, the corp gives me monies, what’s not to love.

Well I do miss the creative conversations I’d listen in on back in my old corp, but I really would like to get out into EVE and I don’t think that staying in the NPC corp was really going to get me where I want to go.

Now I just need to get into EVEmon and set up a plan for getting into an Hulk or maybe a Mackinaw.