Teppotastic

I often find myself return to games I’d played previously for a few weeks every year. I certainly do with Anarchy Online (my first ever MMO, not counting the likes of Aardwolf, Discworld and Terris MUDs) along with a couple of others including Dungeons and Dragons Online and Eve Online. Now I love my Sci-Fi, so Eve is a pretty logical choice for a static MMO for me but I could never quite stick with it. This was for a number of reasons, including the now infamous learning curve/cliff and the somewhat alien (to me at least) sandbox nature of the game. It was frankly overwhelming. So toe-dipping like the intrepid MMO paddler I am continued for some years. With the release of the Apocrypha though and some regular gaming buddies chatting about it on and off, I decided to take everyone’s advice and get stuck in with a corp.

In step EMC Mining Corp and the Puppy Reprocessing Plant alliance. Now I’ve been in afew corps/guilds/kinships/whatever in a great many games and some of them are just plain rubbish. The vast majority, from what I’ve seen. The best ones I’ve been in have involved people I know IRL, like my regular LotrO and CoX groups but EMC really bucked that trend. A friendly (and slightly unhinged) group of people, generally getting stuck in for the good of the corp and dispensing advice and goodwill as and when required. 

So I’ve been filling my odd hours (and an evening or two a week) with Eve lately. I’ve finally got into my first Mining Barge, a Retriever and I’m almost ready to fly Amarr Battleships (Style > Substance!). I’ll also discovered the joy of banter of the mining lasers in afew corp mining ops, and the utter boredom of a bad war dec’ XD

But if there’s one bad thing to say about all this, it’s this. Why can’t CCP realise a patch that doesn’t cause me to have to do a clean install?! Every single patch, it crashes during the patching process and corrupts my install >.< It’s might frustrating!

Oh and for all those who have missed it, here’s a link to the first part of Clear Skies ep 2 on YouTube: