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The Ships of EVE Online

Money plays a central role to life in EVE. I’ve been kind of cavalierly throwing around numbers about money, like in this post about Hulkageddon. What does 200B ISK in damage actually look like? When I lose a Battleship, how much is that setting me back? How many Logistics ships could you buy instead of [...]

Anomalies in the Magic Circle

“An anonymous source close to ATLAS reports that the “K25 battle saw less than 30 losses in a fight which was [heavily affected by spatial anomalies interfering with our fleet operations].”
The story that a world like EVE tells about itself is that it is a coherent, self-contained, and persistent world that a player’s computer gives [...]

Fleet Communication

I put together a video from an operation I was on early last week. No combat this time, but it shows you a bit about how fleet commanders communicate with their fleets. You’ll see a friendly gatecamp, a failed bombing run exercise, a conversation about the strategic objectives of our mission, and a fleet of [...]

The Single Universe Problem, Part One

And God said, “Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to separate the day from the night; and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years, and let them be lights in the firmament of the heavens to give light upon the earth.” And it was so. [...]