I drifted away from Slashdot site long ago, but I had to come back to comment on this. For a certain period of my life, Slashdot was a major chunk of my day, every day. The stories and community here never failed to make me happy, angry, informed, distracted, thoughtful, content, and LOL many times a day, and some of the friendships I made here have held fast since I left. All the best of luck to you, Taco. I look forward to whatever you do next, I predict it will be awesome.

Really? I find tackling to be one of the most thrilling and nail-biting experiences in the entire game! Diving toward an enemy battleship as your prey launches his drones in an attempt to shoot you down, mashing the scanner button and praying that the rest of your fleet will arrive before enemy reinforcements do, overloading your systems in an attempt to stay ahead of the incoming damage. It's the most fun I've ever had in EVE.

Note: (for the uninitiated, tackling is the act of using a small, fast ship to engage and prevent an enemy from escaping while larger, heavier ships bring their weapons to bear on it)

Actually, a year ago, there were even larger battles that were functional.

Can you cite a source for that? I haven't heard of a functional fleet battle involving 1200 players happening on non-reinforced nodes that long ago.

Well, depending on the distance to the exoplanet, the local gravity, and the voluptuousness of said Orion slave girl, 3.5km/hour may well be within the capacity of the young woman's mammaries.

Sadly, by the time those wonderful images reach humanity the young slave girl will be far past her prime, so it would serve as nothing more than a cruel tease to those who know that the funbags in question will no longer be so young and perky.

If CCP spend their time listening to casual gamers EVE would likely be thrown in the large pile of failed MMOs. EVE thrives because if fulfills a niche that no other game provides for myself and a few hundred thousand other gamers - I've never played an MMO where combat against other players can be as complex and fun as EVE's. If CCP spent its time listening to casual gamers there would be very little loss, the market would no longer be player-controlled, and it would be possible to obtain every ship without cooperating with other players in any form.

EVE has been a success because it knows what its players want. Attempting to cater to a casual audience and become a space-based version of World of Warcraft would destroy it and drive away the vast majority of its players.

Throw in the sound of the TARDIS from Doctor Who and I'll finally have a reason to get a driver's license.

While I always find it satisfying when cheaters like these are found out and dealt with, they do provide some benefits to the rest of the playerbase in terms of humor. I've seen guys like him before - flying around in ships far too expensive for them to have ever afforded under the misguided assumption that money in EVE will buy you universal superiority in combat.

It may be entertaining to know that destroying someone's internet spaceship is the equivalent of grabbing a few bucks out of their wallet, but please Slashdotters - don't be like him. Everything in EVE is so much more satisfying if you earn what you fly instead of just shelling out cash to gain a (dubious) advantage.

You play WoW with a controller? Wow, you must be really addicted!

Are...are you hiring? Oh god, please, tell me you're hiring.

You just overwrote so much joy and positive feelings about my profession. I just died a little inside.

Indeed! If I know anything, private industry has never led us astray in the recent past. Right, guys?

I object to this ignorant oversimplification of EVE's player demographic. I have absolutely no interest in economic simulations!

To Summarize:

• The Gallenteans and the Caldari are two civilizations that don't much like each other
• Caldari extremists commit an act of terrorism that killed hundreds of thousand of Gallenteans
• The Gallenteans declare war on the Caldari and begin bombarding their home planet
• An admiral takes a small taskforce and launches a counter-offensive that takes the Gallente by surprise
• Caldari are given much-needed time to evacuate their home planet as a result
• The Admiral is eventually caught and sacrifices his flagship, killing several thousand Gallente civilians

Any Questions?

And if she does, does this make her a qualified Vulcanologist?