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“Curzon Dax stole Christmas.” Words I never thought I’d be writing here, but there it is. EVE Online player and forum personality “Curzon Dax” — perhaps best known for his many song parodies of the game and its players — has unveiled his in-game IPO for what it really was: a multi-billion ISK confidence scam. Curzon made the announcement on Christmas, no less, and placed the scam at 374.4 billion ISK raised.
While the players who were taken for those billions will certainly be less excited by this news, Curzon accomplished something that’s becoming less and less common in the game. For every player that uses cunning to profit in New Eden, there is a horde of player alts who resort to copy-paste scams in local chat at most any mission and trade hub in EVE. As these players simply try to profit from mislabeling items in contracts or spam local chat with the ubiquitous “I’m quitting EVE. Send me ISK and I’ll send you 10x back!” garbage, Curzon aimed much higher and cultivated an image which he used to draw his marks in.
Continue reading How the Grinch Stole Christmas EVE
Filed under: Sci-fi, EVE Online, News items
How the Grinch Stole Christmas EVE originally appeared on Massively on Mon, 28 Dec 2009 20:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted on December 28th, 2009 at 8:00pm by James Egan
Filed Under: Theft, ccp, ccp-games, curzon-dax, deception, eve, eve-online, new-eden, scams, sci-fi
While the Dominion expansion for EVE Online has been focused on changing how alliances claim and hold territory in New Eden, CCP Games has also given the game quite a facelift. We’ve mentioned the updated starry backgrounds and shown you a bit about how the planets have changed before, but we came across something new today.
While the footage put together by the players was great, CCP has put together a “Planet Tour” video that’s quite stunning. It flies the viewer past the different planet types that players can now encounter — lava and ice, planetary rings, green continents and swirling clouds. We’ve got a video embed of the EVE Online Dominion Planet Tour (check out 3:34!) for you after the jump.
Continue reading CCP Games releases video tour of EVE’s new planets
Filed under: Sci-fi, Video, EVE Online, Expansions
CCP Games releases video tour of EVE’s new planets originally appeared on Massively on Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted on December 14th, 2009 at 6:00pm by James Egan
Filed Under: ccp, ccp-games, dominion, eve, eve-online, expansions, graphics, planets, sci-fi, stars, trinity, video
The EVE Online developers have announced that some of their proposed changes to capital ships will not deploy with the Dominion expansion as originally planned. This may come as good news to some of EVE’s supercarrier (formerly “mothership”) pilots who’ve expressed no small amount of dissatisfaction at how their ships were slated to be changed. With the supercarrier changes not going through, this also means that the fighter bombers — anti-capital ship drones intended to bathe EVE’s largest ships in waves of torpedo explosions — will not arrive on December 1 with Dominion.
Changes to other capital ship weapons systems like XL Turrets, however, are another matter entirely. They’re discussed at length in a dev blog from CCP Nozh titled “Capital Ships in Dominion” as are the new Citadel Cruise Missile Launchers intended to be a long range weapon system.
Continue reading CCP Games alters plans for EVE’s capital ships in Dominion expansion
Filed under: Sci-fi, EVE Online, Expansions, Game mechanics, PvP
CCP Games alters plans for EVE’s capital ships in Dominion expansion originally appeared on Massively on Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted on November 20th, 2009 at 9:00pm by James Egan
Filed Under: capital-ships, ccp, ccp-games, ccp-nozh, dev-blog, dominion, eve, eve-online, expansions, fighter-bombers, fighters, game-mechanics, motherships, pvp, sci-fi, supercarriers, titan, titans
Goonswarm spymaster The Mittani took a different approach with his latest EVE Online column at Ten Ton Hammer, and conducted an interview with a corporate saboteur titled “The Most Dangerous Agent”. While it should be stated that most players in EVE do not engage in espionage, it’s a career path of sorts that any player could potentially engage in, provided they have the combination of intelligence, social skills, and dedication needed to succeed. It’s that aspect of dedication which often goes unmentioned — the challenge of maintaining long-term duplicity.
The Mittani’s interview with a player anonymously referred to as “Darwin’s Accelerator” explains how a player with destructive aims greater than simply engaging a few enemy ships at a time can use intel to devastating effect, wiping out entire fleets. Maintaining a persona that fits in with the target organization and thus won’t arouse suspicion, however, can be difficult if the infiltrator genuinely dislikes the members that comprise the corporation or alliance.
Continue reading The challenges and rewards of espionage in EVE Online
Filed under: Sci-fi, EVE Online, Interviews
The challenges and rewards of espionage in EVE Online originally appeared on Massively on Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted on November 20th, 2009 at 12:00pm by James Egan
Filed Under: ccp, ccp-games, corporate-espionage, darwins-accelerator, deception, espionage, eve, eve-online, goonfleet, goonswarm, interviews, sandbox, sci-fi, sins-of-a-solar-spymaster, spies, spy, the-mittani
Filed under: Sci-fi, Screenshots, Classes, MMO industry, Stargate Worlds, News items
It’s been a long, difficult road for Stargate Worlds — a game that has been mired in financial woes for quite some time. Now and again we do get to report some positive news about the sci-fi MMO, but it’s clear that Stargate Worlds isn’t out of the woods quite yet. Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment recently made an announcement to the game’s fan community, thanking them for their support through tough times. CME stated, “We know you expect nothing less than the AAA content in Stargate Worlds our development team is working hard to give you along with some additional exciting news we will be revealing very soon! We want to thank everyone for their continued support and passion for Stargate Worlds and we can’t wait to show you more of what we’ve been cooking up over here.”
As to what they’ve been working on, Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment released some new screenshots of the armor and weapons for the Goa’uld, Jaffa, Soldier, and Scientist classes. CME explains, “Each of these armor sets will have unique traits that make them ideal for certain situations. As players become familiar with each world and the various environments they will encounter, they will discover which sets of armor best suit their play.” The most recent Stargate Worlds images can be seen at the top of the gallery on the SGW Community Site.
Stargate Worlds: We’re still kicking, the pics prove it originally appeared on Massively on Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted on November 16th, 2009 at 3:00pm by James Egan
Filed Under: armor, cheyenne-mountain-entertainment, classes, cme, goauld, jaffa, mmo-industry, sci-fi, scientist, sgw, soldier, stargate, stargate-worlds, weapons
