PL ATXII: Weekend One & Two

Sep 19, 2014 Forlorn Wongraven

In my previous article on Crossing Zebras I talked about the meta of the Alliance Tournament XII. Today’s piece captures the first two matches of Pandemic Legion’s path to the…

Alliance Tournament XII Review

Sep 12, 2014 Forlorn Wongraven

After a long four weeks, EVE’s 12th Alliance Tournament wrapped up last weekend. Over the next few Fridays I will dissect several aspects of this year‘s Tournament. In this piece,…

Crius Market Trends

Aug 22, 2014 Forlorn Wongraven

Four weeks ago CCP released Crius, the first expansion in New Eden’s new six week sprint development cycle. The main feature was the complete revamp of industry, invention and related…

ATXII: One Day Left

Aug 15, 2014 Forlorn Wongraven

This Saturday my personal highlight of the 2014 EVE year starts. Even bigger than B-R5RB. It will be a very interesting day as the Pandemic Legion tourney team will be…

Tournament Update

Aug 8, 2014 Forlorn Wongraven

Since CCP’s promotion for its premium e-sports event leaves something to be desired yet again, it is my pleasure to remind everybody that ATXII starts next Saturday. While I obviously…

Obalyu Blues

Jul 25, 2014 Forlorn Wongraven

On Tuesday CCP deployed Crius, their first six week sprint expansion for EVE online. It was known for about four weeks beforehand that CCP would implement changes to anchoring of…

ATXII Watchlist

Jul 18, 2014 Forlorn Wongraven

As I already mentioned in Crossing Zebras episode 45 I spend most of my EVE-related time doing testing for Alliance Tournament XII. Pandemic Legion‘s tourney team has used Singularity to…

No Envy

Jul 11, 2014 Forlorn Wongraven

The summer of 2014 is no different than all previous summers as far as EVE is concerned. Activity is going down, players let their subscriptions lapse and wait for winter…

NEX(t) Debacle

Jul 4, 2014 Forlorn Wongraven

While CCP successfully works with a subscription fee based model, many games nowadays are free-to-play with microtransactions. Popular games like LoL or WoT offer cosmetic changes or uniques for a…

In Between

Jun 27, 2014 Forlorn Wongraven

As the Alliance Tournament gets closer and I dive deeper into the meta of a small 125km bubble I disconnect myself from the usual EVE community. Finding a topic for my CZ…