Comments on: EVE Online: Cul-de-Wormhole

By: Tipa

Tipa — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 12:35:08 +0000

Cartographer sounds perfect! Thanks!

By: Wrapye

Wrapye — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 05:33:28 +0000

I think the official title closest to it might be ‘Cartographer’, or at least training up those skills ends up getting you the Cartographer certs.

By: Cj Didge

Cj Didge — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 11:17:31 +0000

AFK mineing in a wormhole, madness i tell you. Nice writeup though and a warning for everyone about wormhole capacitities.

By: Callan S.

Callan S. — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 10:19:10 +0000

When people say they want open PVP, they are saying it while imagining themselves pwning everyone. Everyone wears gamblers goggles, imagining themselves winning. And obviously, not everyone can win. Cept in PVE.

But I have to say, the idea of constant threat doesn’t sound fun simply because it’s endless. You never have to run a gauntlet of X threat and then there is no more because you have completed the game. It’s just a lifestyle of endless threat.

Though to try and not to ‘endless’ games, if by running a gauntlet it gave you X amount of respite, where you get some resources for free, that’d seem a bit less heavy.

By: Toldain

Toldain — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 05:35:37 +0000

Gosh, I actually blushed when I read that. Corporate Scout will do. And I do it for the cut on your mining that I get. After all, it’s what I’m flying.

As to the PvP nature of EVE, I say to my offline friends about EVE: humans make much better villains than computers.

Actually, the best rush is hearing the lock alarm go off in your Iteron. When you aren’t on AP, and get away, it’s the best “so long, suckers!” feeling ever.

By: Allods Tidbits and Beta Keys « Tish Tosh Tesh

Allods Tidbits and Beta Keys « Tish Tosh Tesh — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 01:00:28 +0000

[...] aspects of the game. It would be awesome if they incorporated things like wormholes in EVE (thanks to Tipa for a fun article on wormhole exploring). Cooperative PvE and multiship PvP really are a blast in Puzzle Pirates, even to this old, [...]

By: wilhelm2451

wilhelm2451 — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 23:20:53 +0000

There is something to the rush you get when you come through a gate or a wormhole and find a flashing red ship on your overview.

And nobody wants to read how you did a level 4 mission UNLESS you screw up and lose ships. Everybody loves that.

By: Tesh

Tesh — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 18:28:57 +0000

Tangentially, that “tang” of thrill is what makes Puzzle Pirates work, too. Any time you set sail, you’re consenting to PvP. If you’re a juicy target, expect to defend yourself.

I think I’d really like EVE… if I had the time and money. *shrug* Thanks for the writeups!

By: Longasc

Longasc — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 12:51:35 +0000

I think you are right about the danger and thrill of getting shot. And EVE is not that bloodthirsty either. One of my friends is cool enough to autopilot through low sec in smaller transporters like Iterons. He usually got shot by a player named Ginger Magician, but all in all he made it through quite a lot. This probably does not work everywhere though…^^

I think we have a general problem with open pvp. People always say they want it, once they get it, they think of various ways to restrict it to prevent “unfair” things to happen to them… sigh. The result is battleground and arena style only pvp in MMOs, which I don’t like that much.

Maybe I would be a wormhole explorer nowadays, too… I always loved to fly to “hidden” complexes. I got the coordinates usually from websites like http://eve.grismar.net/