Extracting Rage

Feb 7, 2016 Tarek Raimo

Pay-To-Win has always been a very sensitive subject among the EVE player community. CCP created a game which did not require any grind to acquire experience points, but at the…

That Grr Goons PL Site

Jan 25, 2016 Tarek Raimo

In the minds of many EVE players there is a strong tendency to think in terms of antagonistic absolutes. People are relegated to pigeonholes like carebears, griefers, blobbers, elite-PVPers, lowsec…

Flying With A Newbie

Jan 18, 2016 Tarek Raimo

There is regular discussion about the way new players experience EVE and which problems they face, what makes them stay or leave, and which path they could or should be…

Our Inheritance

Jan 4, 2016 Tarek Raimo

We are used to receiving gifts from CCP during the holiday season, but this year we got something unexpected. Two days before Christmas, CCP Delegate Zero released a new chronicle…

Seasonal Secrets

Dec 28, 2015 Tarek Raimo

It is a longstanding tradition for CCP to gift players with a range of items during the winter holiday season (summer for all our friends on the southern hemisphere of…

The End Of Epic EVE?

Dec 15, 2015 Tarek Raimo

There is a tendency – especially among older players – to declare that EVE is missing content on a grand epic scale these days, implying that this is a central…

Greed And Loathing In New Eden

Nov 30, 2015 Tarek Raimo

I imagine that virtually everyone who comes here to read this piece will be familiar with the escalating war of words around the ill-received Fountain War kickstarter. Don’t worry, I…

Living on the Edge

Nov 21, 2015 Tarek Raimo

Lots of work and an intermediate period of sickness that prevented me from looking at a screen has kept me away from EVE for two weeks. I didn’t even follow…

He Who Controls The Past …

Nov 5, 2015 Tarek Raimo

In May 1915, a German submarine torpedoed and sunk the British ocean liner Lusitania off the coast of Ireland. The German Kriegsmarine insisted that their action was based on solid…

Faith And Spirituality In New Eden – Part II

Oct 26, 2015 Tarek Raimo

In the first part of this series, I discussed the most prominent religion of New Eden and probably the most unexpected spiritual paradigm that has developed among the remaining settlers…