The CFC goes to war on a simple, tested strategy: grind the moons down, and only later bother grinding sov. Hostiles should be either massacred or blueballed to ensure their playing experience is ruined. Relentless metagaming should take place such that the conflict is as demoralizing and unfair as possible. To us, sov is essentially […]

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier. -Colin Powell Everybody thinks their side is winning. There is a huge temptation to look at the last battle, the last kill vs. loss report, the last sovereignty change and to pronounce that one side couldn’t possibly winning because look how badly they just did.  That is what most […]

TEST and its numerous allies, after losing the hotly contested J5A system, have started pushing back hard on the CFC foothold on the eastern edge Fountain. This morning there were a number of fleets in motion laying what appeared to be traps and counter traps.  The CFC had a Caracal fleet out shooting structures.  TEST […]

There wasn’t anything before MUD1… Richard Bartle on MUDs, from the Birth of MMOs interview That is the best I could do in trying to extract an inflammatory, out of context quote from the article. That aside, the linked article is an interesting read, though you may already know the tale of how we got […]

Another day, another 1,000+ ship fight in Fountain. Screen shots from Gaff, who was there in a Caracal. That is pretty much a giant battle every day for the first week of the campaign in Fountain.  A hectic pace for a what will no doubt end up being a long war of attrition. Filed under: […]

Hey, I can take fuel out of the jump bridge! What is the password for the bubble on the gate? How do I use FoF missiles? -What voice coms are like when we don’t have a solid mission A couple of years back I was having some sort of comment thread argument with SyCaine about […]

The crew running TorilMUD just announced that they have a beta HTML 5 web client available for people to try out.  It offers some pretty reasonable features. Scripts in the Cloud: Create aliases and triggers once on the web client and use them from anywhere. Script packages: Organize scripts into “packages” that are shared throughout […]

The time has come, the day is here.  Trion Worlds has followed through on their plan and changed Rift from a monthly subscription game into yet another contestant on the free to play field. I actually have not been playing Rift for a while now.  Not because of the business model transition, but because our […]

CCP reports that the Odyssey expansion has been successfully deployed. TQ is open for business ladies and gentlemen! Welcome to EVE Online: Odyssey! #tweetfleet #eveonline— CCP Fozzie (@CCP_Fozzie) June 04, 2013 I suppose one of the joys of EVE for people whole live on the West coast of the United States is that all this […]

While I do not play TorilMUD any more, I do watch their for updates and remain interested in how the game continues to change and evolve nearly 20 years after I started playing its direct antecedent, Sojourn MUD. (Interesting that they distinguish the two now.) An update went out last week around some new changes […]

In writing yesterday’s post about TorilMUD I ended up reading through a bunch of older posts on the subject.  That always happens.  It is, frankly, one of the reasons I have a blog. One of the posts I ended up re-reading was from February 2011 about what I called the Commoditization of Roles. In that […]

We’re going to war. This is a fact we can’t ignore. We’re going to war. In case you hadn’t heard before, I think they think we’re going to war. We’re going to war. I think they think we’re going to war. We’re going to war. We’re going to war. We’re going to war! The War […]

I was keen to get down to the staging base for the was in Fountain.  So as soon as I could get into the game, I started looking for a convoy op that was headed down to B-DBYQ, the initial CFC base of operations for the war.  I remember the delopment to Delve last year […]

MY PEOPLE: TEST is vowing to stand down and cede us J5A, leaving the first ‘battle’ of Fountain to us. Why? Of 900 online in their alliance, barely more than 300 are in Karan, their new lowsec staging point. Our response to this will be more sieging and flaying. TEST is vowing to return for […]

DoraTheExplora Taft > Log the fuck in and get your friends in!  Ill be raffling plexes away at random to people if we get over 900 in our fleets.  Ill start off with 5 plexes and add an extra plex to each additional 50 pilots we get. -A TEST motivational technique in action The war […]

Today at E3 it was dueling presentations between Microsoft’s Xbox One and Sony’s PlayStation 4. Microsoft went first.  I think this sums it up. Remember that Sony had all day to soak in MS's presentation and KNOW they were about to destroy them. How good a day was that for them?— Chris Hanel (@ChrisHanel) June […]

Today at E3 it was dueling presentations between Microsoft’s Xbox One and Sony’s PlayStation 4. Microsoft went first.  I think this sums it up. Remember that Sony had all day to soak in MS's presentation and KNOW they were about to destroy them. How good a day was that for them?— Chris Hanel (@ChrisHanel) June […]

DoraTheExplora Taft > Log the fuck in and get your friends in!  Ill be raffling plexes away at random to people if we get over 900 in our fleets.  Ill start off with 5 plexes and add an extra plex to each additional 50 pilots we get. -A TEST motivational technique in action The war […]

MY PEOPLE: TEST is vowing to stand down and cede us J5A, leaving the first ‘battle’ of Fountain to us. Why? Of 900 online in their alliance, barely more than 300 are in Karan, their new lowsec staging point. Our response to this will be more sieging and flaying. TEST is vowing to return for […]

I was keen to get down to the staging base for the was in Fountain.  So as soon as I could get into the game, I started looking for a convoy op that was headed down to B-DBYQ, the initial CFC base of operations for the war.  I remember the delopment to Delve last year […]

We’re going to war. This is a fact we can’t ignore. We’re going to war. In case you hadn’t heard before, I think they think we’re going to war. We’re going to war. I think they think we’re going to war. We’re going to war. We’re going to war. We’re going to war! The War […]

In writing yesterday’s post about TorilMUD I ended up reading through a bunch of older posts on the subject.  That always happens.  It is, frankly, one of the reasons I have a blog. One of the posts I ended up re-reading was from February 2011 about what I called the Commoditization of Roles. In that […]

While I do not play TorilMUD any more, I do watch their for updates and remain interested in how the game continues to change and evolve nearly 20 years after I started playing its direct antecedent, Sojourn MUD. (Interesting that they distinguish the two now.) An update went out last week around some new changes […]

CCP reports that the Odyssey expansion has been successfully deployed. TQ is open for business ladies and gentlemen! Welcome to EVE Online: Odyssey! #tweetfleet #eveonline— CCP Fozzie (@CCP_Fozzie) June 04, 2013 I suppose one of the joys of EVE for people whole live on the West coast of the United States is that all this […]

Last week my focus was a huge game of Civilization V. Early in the week I started a few games on the largest map size (going with the Lakes option, so lots of land warfare) with a dozen competing civilizations and the usual complement of city states until I got a situation that looked good.  […]