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Eve Online: Walking in Stations

Oh my gawd. Oh my freakin gawd. I did a google search today and it turns out the rumors are true. Several people have claimed that CCP is currently working on a build for Eve where players will be able to walk around and interact inside the space stations. At first I thought this was just a rumor, but the idea was too awesome to ignore. It turns out CCP has actually released demo video of what they are working on. 

Ohmygod ohmygod ohmygod. This is going to be so freakin sweet. Ok first thing I’m gonna do is get me some totally badass uniform. Then I’m gonna find the station bar and sit in a dark corner drinking cyber-beer after cyber-beer and waiting for an opportunity to shank that sonofabitch who ganked me last week.

Gave up Trying to Play Eve on a Mac

I took the step today and bought a pc. I’ve been using Macs for about six years now. I was so amazed when I bought my first Mac, with its software that actually worked and its operating system that didn’t crash every ten minutes, that I swore I would never spend my hard earned money on another PC computer. Eve Online finally did me in.

If they had just not offered a Mac version of the game, I would have been fine. I would have lived my life with a Macbook Pro and always enjoyed its stable and effective operation. But no. Instead CCP offers a Mac version of their game that works just barely good enough for us poor Mac nerds to realize what we are missing.

What we are missing is a computer that can actually play games. Anybody who tries to play video games on a Macbook Pro quickly becomes alarmed at the sound of its cooling fans ramping up to beat the devil, just before the video card goes Ka-floppo and turns the screen white, which is probably the same color as the overheated GPU.  It’s strange, I could probably re-record Physical Graffiti on this thing without breaking a sweat, but flying cartoon space ships around is not going to happen.

So I went out and bought a lower priced “gaming” laptop, one of the Gateway FX series: 17 inch screen, 4 megs of ram, and a 1 gig video card. We’ll see how it compares as soon as I have time to stop grading papers and fire that bad boy up.

See you all in Yona. Vrooooom.

Selling ISK For Cash Legally? Not Yet

I have to confess that one of my goals in life is to make money playing a video game. This stems from my childhood desire to grow up to be a video game tester, a desire that has, alas, not panned out. It wouldn’t have to be a lot of money, mind you, just a little would be good enough to say I did it.

The only game I’m playing right now is EVE Online and they unfortunately don’t allow you to sell your virtual game money for real cash, the was Second Life does.

The thing is, I think they will have to eventually set up a system, similar to what Linden Labs has made for Second Life, through which players and buy and sell ISK. They have already made it possible to buy game money through the the in-game Plex cards that can be purchased from the website. (please take a moment to notice my “shamless promotion” for Battleclinic.com)

Having already ignored that one decent argument for allowing people to buy ISK, that it is not fair to people who make all their money, in-game, it can’t be long before CCP decides to allow us to legally sell that money back to the company as well. Until then, I’ll be stuffing my space piggy bank.

Taking Eve Screenshots With a Mac

For some reason it took me forever to figure this out, so I thought I would spread the word in case other eve online mac users are having the same problem. To take a screen shot on a mac, press the apple button, shift, and 3 all at the same time.

Here is a picture I took of my ship, Montblanc, flying through an asteriod field. Neat, huh?

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