Hey Boys and girls …. after several long years it has finaly happaned. Natural selection 2 has got their promo site online. Witch has a awsome Video on it
witch you can see here
they started taking Pre-Orders. I preordered my game just a few moments ago.
their currently selling 2 versions premium and standard.
premium includes things like earlier beta(and alpha) access
and a special black marine skin.
standard gives out just Beta access
The Unknown Worlds development team is happy with my money as you can see in this image
I personaly have a long history with Natural Selection. to summerize it
Member of second clan ever formed for Natural selection (EGC: endgame clan)
this clan sadly kicked the bucked quite soon after release becouse of time constrains so i continued
with my other thing i was doing for the natural selection community i already was a IRC veteran.
and trough IRC I discovered NSRadio. after djing several times i eventualy made it on to a management position.
Soon after that combat came out and the classic became to compatitive for me so it was time for me to move on to start doing Rl and eve online…. to bad eve took up my RL.
So now its understandable that im extremely happy with this news about Natural selection 2.
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hey guys and gals as you can see it has been long overdue but i got the layout working for Roogle.eu.
now it actualy looks like a eve website … sorta maybe ill add in some animations or a few ships in the background.
ofcourse as i just seen i spotted some minor visual bugs that wont even bother most ppl or be noticed but i gotta get rid of them
Now on to eve.
I’ve been mining my ass off to pay off a financial mistake i made of half a bill witch kinda sucks.
In the uni itself it has been quiet for a while thank god … we are finaly able to mine etc and get on with teaching.
one thing im dreading is the febuary release of eve-in-box witch can bring in a gigantic influx of newbies witch will come to the corp.
usualy the downside is that allot of those newbies are the not fun kind that just like to pirate and pvp all day long.
and like usual they prolly wont do their research like most of the wardecs the uni gets.
Remember i ordered a Orca…. well the guy didnt come trough so that order got canceled.
now i ordered a orca from some friends of mine. and well lets hope it comes out of the cooker soon.
then i can resell it for a LOSS yea a loss witch sucks quite allot. but ill try to do my best to make some money out of it.
on a other note i’ve been very busy with the website and soon we be getting a upgrade to the page witch should make it nicely eve themed.
also Miraki and i have been looking at doing a update to the eve ivy site … eventough miraki is doing pretty much all the work. it looks that we are going to incorporate a wordpress blog. since i found some plugins that allow phpbb3 and wordpress linking
Today Dee Carson the current Executive officer of the eve uni/ivy league announced that he dropped his rolls and was leaving corp when he can.
This came quite suddenly even to allot of the directors.
Good Luck in yer future ventures Dee. may the isk be plentyfull. and the kills be allot
Now incase your wondering who is going to take over Dee his position ….. all i can say is …NOT IT
all jokes aside there have been names tossed around. soon you will see the new exec officer.
Its again a period of war for the uni …. a long ass period of useless pointless war. Its getting tiresome getting decced by 1 or 2 man corps, Or the other variant the one that doesnt do its research and doesnt come out to play.
Lately the wars have been more often and often. This is ofcourse due to the fact that we are a large alliance and people often think
“lets go gankage” eventough this is all nice and stuff it realy shows a broken mechanic in eve… the Wardec system is useless in eve
its main use is to just bribe concord so you can station camp and grief without concord interfearance.
I’m now wondering what can CCP change to make the wardec system more usefull and intresting to us players in empire.
i’ve heard stuff beeing tossed around on forums or other means of communication … and pretty much ALL of them seem better then the current wardec system. Becouse they all see that the current system is broken.
lets take a example of a wardec in eve : i pay 50 million isk to have ConCord look the other way. so i can shoot the opposing force. when i have decced i can Choose not to undock for the entire week and here lies the problem. There is no Goal to wardeccing somebody in empire… if there was a goal it would be allot more intresting.
what i would love to see is a set of strategic goals that a agressive corp must set when they wardec somebody .. the goals ofcourse would stay hidden to the oposite party… if the goals are not acciefed in time X then the wardec automaticly gets declared invalid.
what would also help is the upping of the amount it actualy requires to wardec somebody and have it depend on the amounts of players in the corp or the ratio of players to enemy or in that direction… basicly ISK is to low if 1 character can grind enough isk to wardec somebody for a month the price is to low.
So basicly it boils down to this :
Currenly a wardec is only used to grief/shoot the other party there is no way of deciding a victor exept with the meta game. what Allot of people want is a wardec system that does give you a true way of beeing the victor at the end of the battle and not just a killboard metagame victory.
ok as you can probably see in a post a couple of days ago i was wondering if goldfarmers are evil or not ?
today i’ve come to the conclusion that its not the actual goldfarmer that bothers us its mainly the gold seller who pisses everybody off royaly with his selling spam just to get higher in his google search. If he is making that much money to justify spammage why doesnt he just buy advertising space.
when you look at the problem there is only 1 problem. Most of the MMO company’s out there don’t give out gold for money. if a MMO company would do something allong the lines of CCP’s Eve online then the goldseller could be out of a job fast. what CCP does is they allow players to sell time codes for ISK(ingame currency) that way you can “buy” your isk with real money by just offering a gametimecard for sale.
goldfarmers the scourge of gaming or are they just poor people that are trying to get the best out of their possiblity’s in life? watch the video and you decide.
Are goldfarmers hurting MMO economy’s ? in some games the evidence is clear eve for example gets hurt by goldfarmers. but what about games like World of Warcraft and other games where there isn’t a player run economy and where astroids dont run out but a new mob just respawns.
i personaly dont see the goldfarmer hurting that much there since he is just providing a service for the people who dont have the time to grind out items. If people wouldnt have a RL and only no social life computer nerds would play mmo’s then the goldfarmer would not get his sales to justify his work. but since the reality is that there are always people willing to spend real currency for virtual goods the market will be there for the gold farmers.
The downside is that in eve-online and other player run economy games the goldfarmer/seller can have a massive effect on the game. the goldfarmer can cause massive inflation by just grinding out the ISK like there is no tommorrow. Miners are without a doubt the most shafted by macroers or goldfarmers/sellers since they are going for a resource that is depletable and the amount on the market is often in direct correlation with the prices of the minerals.
Personaly i dont mind the goldseller/farmer since he is just playing the game aswell it just sucks that those characters play 24/7 if they didnt im sure we wouldnt even notice them.
the war with castle grayskull (sabre a’s corp) is ending.
Sabre is getting busy with his shiva character so he canceled the dec.
like he said before and he just did again his war wasnt personal but he announced it when he left the uni.
only thing is we where like “yeah right sabre go ATM Baby”
now only the Royal Hiigaran Navy war with those mercs.
They are quite lame they dont show up for battles and they dont post their losses…. typical look at me im a merc corp without any status and im deccing a school to get on the map …. then they get their asses kicked in by newbies.
Hey guys, it was about time i found the time to get my site up and running. still no idea what do blog about tough.
yeah its a difficult choice what to write about. I’m not going to write about me since i want some readers not my family and friends only. i also don’t want to be one of the bunch of blogs about X Y Z. so getting a topic
is a difficult choice…. especialy since its the biggest choice that i can make on this site at the moment.
but for now i better be happy with just my blog and ill continue setting it up so i can get some readers going.
