For those of you who were wondering WTF happened with us, or those of you who have been missing us on the radiowaves.. well.. rejoice! :-p

We’ll be broadcasting live from Split Infinity Radio, at 8pm GMT this Wednesday, 7th Dec 2011. Tune-in at www.siradio.fm!

We haven’t done this for a while and we both wanted to catch up with ya and we welcome any excuse to get more drinking done.. We’ll be talking about various topics, EVE ofc being one of them, although it won’t be a pure Planet Risk Show so it won’t be recorded for a podcast - make sure you tune in live!

Lumi & qp

However, I did mention that this is going to be our final post (at least for the time being). Both me and Quivering Palm have decided to take a long-long break from EVE and focus on this Massively Multiplayer Offline game called Real Life™. Not much to be said other than that it has been a helluva ride.

I’m extending huge gratitude to all the people who have followed us throughout these years, who spent their gaming time with us, who laughed at our jokes and tolerated our 3 hour long nonsense and drunken stupor. It’s time for us to pull the curtain and go for that lengthy intermission. I do say ‘intermission’ because you never know.. we could be back some day. When will that be though… putting it in Duke Nukem Forever terms.. “When we will”…

You can still catch me on Split Infinity Radio ever Monday and Wednesday for the WTF Show as well as on the EU East/Nordic server of League of Legends under the nick “aMUSiC” (yeah I know blasphemy… but it’s free ehehehe).

So long… and thanks for all the fedos =)

To all CSM members going over to Iceland next week, as well to any angry vet that thinks their game is at stake, I suggest you spend some time to watch this presentation, from a GM of a gaming company that was faced with the same question CCP is faced today. “Should we enable game-changing items in our game via MT?”. After watching this video, all the doubts in my mind about what the future holds for EVE were gone.

In my humble opinion, being working for a multinational money-driven corporation in real life for many years, I always believed that, although CCP does pretend to listen to their customers, at the end of the day, as a company that values their P&L, would have no option but to enable EVE players to buy game-changing items through their NEX store.

CCP’s published devblogs, the leaked Fearless magazine and Hilmar’s leaked email all lead to the same conclusion. The emergency summon of the CSM next weekend is just a PR stunt to either throw dust in our eyes or to come out clean and present us with their vision of adding game-affecting items through the NEX store.

So, for me it’s clear. Sooner or later, CCP will add game-affecting items through their NEX store. Bitch as much as you want about it. They will do it sooner or later.

What sort of items would they be adding? That I don’t know. Here are my guesses:

- Customization Items, that don’t affect gameplay but are used primarily within station environments

• Clothes, Monocles and other stuff that will satisfy the “peacock” player amongst us (what true pirate wouldn’t want to have a parrot on their shoulder?”
• Racing stripes on ships, custom paint jobs
• Dancing poles and other stuff that you can put up in your CQ’s

- Game Booster Items, that will help a player “catchup” or grow faster than others

• Skill Points booster – buying this would double the SP/hour you’d be training for a period of time, say 24hrs or a full week
• ISK booster – buying this would double the ISK you make from bounties, killing rats etc for a period of time
• Skill Point reset – buy this and you can re-allocate all your skill points the way you like.

- Premium items, that will give you a competitive edge against other players

• T3 items that have better fitting and add more damage, optimal range or are for some reason better than anything in the game today
• T3 ships or T2,5 ships that give better bonuses or are somehow better than what we have today
• T3 implants and boosters that give you better bonuses etc..

Feel free to add to the comments below your ideas as well!

Now, if CCP does it well, this is going to be fun for all.

If they add Customization items, they need to ensure it doesn’t break the immersion element of New Eden. If they enable custom paintjobs they need to ensure that we won’t see pink hello kitty ships or Thoraxes that do look like giant cocks (that won’t be difficult to pull off).

If they add Game booster items, they need to price them correctly and give a nice variety that will help newer players boost their training plans, but also allow veterans to re-map their skills or offer some other form of “booster” for vets.

If they add Premium items, they need to make sure that these items are dropped and that are being produced by in-game materials. New weapons systems? yeah! New ships? hell yeah! New ammo? sure!

My only worry is the implementation and integration with the already existing in-game-market of EVE. Note to CCP: Please don’t make a secondary Aurum-driven market for those items. What you have already is magnificent, don’t make a secondary market that you’ll need to have Aurum to pay for any of the above items.

I already hate the idea that I have to convert ISK to Aurum for the existing (poor choice) of items available to NEX store. Why not just use my ISK? Why do I have to get plex first and then convert it to Aurum? That is complicated without need – well we are talking about CCP here so… anyways…

At least for non-clothes and stuff, give players the BPCs for any in-game items, not the finished goods, and finaly allow us to see pod-killmails with the implants your clones carry. This way, every bitter vet that is now against this idea will have the chance to high-sec gank your T3-fitted hulk in highsec, pod your expensive +10 learning pod and loot your expensive T3 gun or Golden ammo.

EVE is a game of more than just SPs and ISK – adding Golden Ammo is something good for the game in the long term.

At the end of the day, EVE is a game where how good your ship is, or how many SPs you have play a secondary role. I still recall my loss of my T2 interceptor against a rifter pilot that knew what he was doing. I am still losing T2 Recon Cruisers when I make the wrong calls, and we still win with our BC gang against Faction-fitted nano Vagas and Dramiels and Cynabals.

Do it right CCP and we’ll love you about it. Do it wrong and you’ll get a lot of people sad. Given your history, you will probably launch it half-baked, full of bugs and won’t ever bother to fix it. This is a dangerous path, failing to do this right will probably have quite a negative impact on your P&L for next year…

my 2 thoughts,

qp

I’d like to give a quick shoutout to Nashh and wish him happy 3-0 and also give a heads up to all of you who would like to have some PVP fun.

Nashh, the (in)famous Celebrity Deathmatch organizer and blogger, is organizing an in-game party with a PVP brawl to celebrate his 30th birthday.

I’ll try to be there as well – the more the merrier

See here for details: http://nashhkadavreveblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/big-three-o.html

qp

Tasha Aramata – 2011.05.20

SIRadio would like to help spread the word that Rixx Javix author of the EVEOGANDA Blog has announce the next installment of the Death Race!

Registration is only 5 million isk and has over 4 BILLION in prizes available. You can find the Official Death Race 2 site here.

Dare to be bold pilot… Dare to be bold…

Thanks for tuning in…

~Tasha

We did..  twice in Planet Risk.. and finally up close and personal. These gentlemen dear readers, are the guys whose butt we kicked on the Valentine Day Massacre… and who kicked our butts on the Steak and Blowjob Massacre. Guillotine  Therapy corp, from the Rooks and Kings.

As much as we hated them back in the days for ruining our almost year long op in W-space, up close and personal they’re one of the coolest guys around, with a formidable approach to the game. Gotta say that I loved their input and standpoints in the Wormhole roundtable. Too bad the roundtable itself was chaotic and totally out of sync.

Expect a video interview with Guillotine Theraphy uploaded Soon™

Greetings my fellow corp men, women, & blog readers!!!

It is that time of the year again! SI Radio is opening its doors to new recruits. So are you ready to tread beyond the safety of High Security space? Have you been tempted to venture into the adventure Null Sec is? Wondered what it is like to shoot AT someone rather than be shot BY someone?

Are you ready to go from Carebear to Nub?

Then come join SI Radio!

What we do: We are currently residing in the small piece of space known as KW-OAM. We are boldly pillaging and looting the spoils of class 5 & 6 wormholes from the confines of 0.0 space. The ships we field are a dedicated & specialized fleet. We provide T1 frigates so you can go out and learn how to fly in PvP. *Additionally Split Infinity Alliance leadership has established a ship replacement program for its defensive operations of KW-OAM*

But be prepared: We have to defend our space… our home. Random gangs and solo PvPers roam the lands of Null Sec looking for all unwary Carebears & Nubs. You will have to learn to survive, and be part of a part of team. You will lose ships! That is right… You WILL lose ships!

So if you are NOT willing to be part of a team, or you are TOO SCARED to lose a ship… Hell, if you are happy being a Carebear… You need not apply!

However… If you are interested in doing more than missions in Hi Sec, like to sit around playing EvE while having a beer and chatting it up with a group of friends, then send an EvEMAIL (Subject Line: SI Radio Application) with your answers to the following questions to Agatir Solenth:

1. Are you a girl? (if, No are you a bitch?)
2. What EvE podcasts do you listen to?
3. What is your favorite EvE Blog?
4. What is your favorite beer?
5. If you are going to get drunk, what would you be drinking?
6. Where do you live in the “real world”?
7. What times are you most active while playing? (EvE time or TZ – QP says, “please say EU”)
8. How do you currently make your ISK in EvE?
9. Have you ever lived in Low Sec, Null Sec, or Wormholes? (If Yes, how was your experience?)
10. What ships do you like to fly?
11. Can you fly T3 ships? (If Yes, which hulls?)
12. What is your favorite role to play in a fleet? (or, What role do you think you would like to fill?)
13. Do you have a microphone & know how to use Teamspeak or Ventrillo?
14. Have you flown with any SI Radio member that would be willing to voucher for you?
15. What will you add to SI Radio?
Fly Safe… Stay Profitable…

Ag

Reykjavik

We are in Reykjavik, Iceland and we are broadcasting to you from EVE Online FanFest 2011

We will be publishing daily updates on our YouTube Channel – so make sure to subscribe over there to get the latest stories from FanFest, including Dev Interviews, Beer talk, Community Spotlight and more!

We are currently uploading our T minus 3 Days video – it is taking too damn long already!

Stay Tuned!

qp & Lumi

Turns out that coming just for fanfest was more expensive than coming for a full week – so we arrive Monday afternoon and leaving sunday morning

If you plan to be in FanFest this year do let us know and seek us out

I”ll be carrying my camera in the hopes of video-blogging during the event – ofc depending on how much drunk we are heheehe

Cya all there!!

qp & Lumi