Antipwn

Voting for the fifth Council of Stellar Management went live today. This is a player advocacy group that has been established by CCP to work with the dev teams in Eve online. The remit is to raise visibility of player issues and to help prioritise them in the dev schedule. I was an alternate in the last CSM which meant that I could take part in the closed debates and vote if a full delegate was absent but I couldn’t bring issues forwards myself. I’m running again as a candidate for CSM 5 and those of you with active Eve Online accounts can vote for me by following this link.

You’ll find my official campaign thread on the Eve forums here and my general campaign site is here.

Vote early, vote often and tell your friends. Voting is open from today through to the 19th of May.

Thank you for your support.

How much power is too much to give to your players?

By now the latest EvE dramaquake is old news but the discussions are still happening. Scott Jennings gives a pretty flippant account which then turns into a threadnought in the comments as is usual. The actual story is pretty simple once all the extraneous bits are trimmed away – guy gets fed up with life in one gigantic power bloc, defects to different gigantic power bloc and turns the lights out as he leaves the building.

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I read this article about ingame intelligence gathering in Eve recently and it made me think once again of the question of skill in games. As games become more complex and more realistic (not just graphically but in the way that they allow complex interactions between different players and environments), so we need to reassess our previously held benchmarks for player skill or game difficulty. Continue reading