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If I had a life to spare, I'd play EVE... I'd love to watch some kind of weekly news round up, is there anything like that?

by tudorw 9y ago

gcp 9y ago
imperium.news As explained elsewhere, don't expect to find 100% objective reporting anywhere.
- tudorw 9y ago
  thanks to all, and the heads up, I guess I don't expect 100% objective reporting in the real world either ;)
- thg 9y ago
  > don't expect to find 100% objective reporting anywhere. Especially not there. imperium.news is a propaganda website first and a news website second.
JWLong 9y ago
https://crossingzebras.com/ https://crossingzebras.com/ is a decent source
- rl3 9y ago
  Any idea what in-game entity is behind that? I've been out of the loop. I know Imperium.news used to be The Mittani and is basically a propaganda outlet for Goonswarm's power bloc. Likewise evenews24.com at least used to be under the control of NC./PL as a more subtle propaganda outlet, but I've no idea what its deal is today. I have to admit that when out-of-game news sites serve as a mechanism of information warfare, it speaks very well of EVE's metagame.
  - JWLong 9y ago
    Then you'll be disappointed to know that crossing zebras appears to be the least interesting of them all. :P The founders: Xander Phoena, Niden, and Jeg Elsker hail from different groups. The corp, Zebra Corp, that the rag gets its name from, has been a part of several different major alliances, ranging from CO2, to Goonswarm, but doesn't appear to have any bearing on the reporting, itself.
  - lflux 9y ago
    Pandemic Legion pretty much.
kensai 9y ago
Have a look here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOdXie85VX8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOdXie85VX8
thg 9y ago
http://evenews24.com/ http://evenews24.com/ EVE is a lot more fun to read about than it is to play it. You aren't missing all that much by not playing it...
- yannis7 9y ago
  EVE is even more fun to listen to... I often have the soundtrack playing while working
- cellover 9y ago
  I do not agree. To me it sounds a little bit like saying 'life is not so much fun'. You can enjoy it if you decide to make it enjoyable. EVE online allows that kind of behavior which makes it a unique game in my opinion. That's how I try to play the game and have had so many thrilling moments. I'm not even in a corp, I play solo but have so much fun with the game!
  - thg 9y ago
    It depends on what you find enjoyable. If you find mining asteroids or mission running enjoyable, all the power to you. But that's not the way EVE is portrayed in news articles. Articles are about the betrayals, the massive battles, the wars. Few people will ever reach that level of meta-gaming and those massive battles don't happen on a daily basis but several months apart, neither are they very fun to participate in. Unless, of course, you consider listening to your fleet commander and pressing a button every few minutes fun. For the non-EVE players: EVE has a system called Time Dilation, TiDi in short, that slows down the gameplay to give the server more time to process. It gets as slow as 10% of normal speed, which doesn't sound all that bad at first, except that stuff tends to no longer work as expected when the server load increases beyond what is manageable on that level. New commands are thrown on a stack and get worked down in order, which causes massive lags between giving a command and the game executing it, if it doesn't get lost somewhere along the way. Those massive battles with thousands of players sound awesome in writing. They're very boring in reality.
    - chii 9y ago

If I had a life to spare, I'd play EVE... I'd love to watch some kind of weekly news round up, is there anything like that?

by tudorw 9y ago

If I had a life to spare, I'd play EVE... I'd love to watch some kind of weekly news round up, is there anything like that?

gcp 9y ago

imperium.news As explained elsewhere, don't expect to find 100% objective reporting anywhere.

tudorw 9y ago
thanks to all, and the heads up, I guess I don't expect 100% objective reporting in the real world either ;)
thg 9y ago
> don't expect to find 100% objective reporting anywhere. Especially not there. imperium.news is a propaganda website first and a news website second.

JWLong 9y ago

https://crossingzebras.com/ https://crossingzebras.com/ is a decent source

rl3 9y ago
Any idea what in-game entity is behind that? I've been out of the loop. I know Imperium.news used to be The Mittani and is basically a propaganda outlet for Goonswarm's power bloc. Likewise evenews24.com at least used to be under the control of NC./PL as a more subtle propaganda outlet, but I've no idea what its deal is today. I have to admit that when out-of-game news sites serve as a mechanism of information warfare, it speaks very well of EVE's metagame.
- JWLong 9y ago
  Then you'll be disappointed to know that crossing zebras appears to be the least interesting of them all. :P The founders: Xander Phoena, Niden, and Jeg Elsker hail from different groups. The corp, Zebra Corp, that the rag gets its name from, has been a part of several different major alliances, ranging from CO2, to Goonswarm, but doesn't appear to have any bearing on the reporting, itself.
- lflux 9y ago
  Pandemic Legion pretty much.

kensai 9y ago

Have a look here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOdXie85VX8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOdXie85VX8

thg 9y ago

http://evenews24.com/ http://evenews24.com/ EVE is a lot more fun to read about than it is to play it. You aren't missing all that much by not playing it...

yannis7 9y ago
EVE is even more fun to listen to... I often have the soundtrack playing while working
cellover 9y ago
I do not agree. To me it sounds a little bit like saying 'life is not so much fun'. You can enjoy it if you decide to make it enjoyable. EVE online allows that kind of behavior which makes it a unique game in my opinion. That's how I try to play the game and have had so many thrilling moments. I'm not even in a corp, I play solo but have so much fun with the game!
- thg 9y ago
  It depends on what you find enjoyable. If you find mining asteroids or mission running enjoyable, all the power to you. But that's not the way EVE is portrayed in news articles. Articles are about the betrayals, the massive battles, the wars. Few people will ever reach that level of meta-gaming and those massive battles don't happen on a daily basis but several months apart, neither are they very fun to participate in. Unless, of course, you consider listening to your fleet commander and pressing a button every few minutes fun. For the non-EVE players: EVE has a system called Time Dilation, TiDi in short, that slows down the gameplay to give the server more time to process. It gets as slow as 10% of normal speed, which doesn't sound all that bad at first, except that stuff tends to no longer work as expected when the server load increases beyond what is manageable on that level. New commands are thrown on a stack and get worked down in order, which causes massive lags between giving a command and the game executing it, if it doesn't get lost somewhere along the way. Those massive battles with thousands of players sound awesome in writing. They're very boring in reality.
  - chii 9y ago