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Fifteen Years of Kill Mails in New Eden

Today marks the 15th anniversary of my starting off in EVE Online.  As has become tradition, I put up a post on the day that takes a look at some aspect of the game, because otherwise I’ll go on about my first days, the horrible excuse for a tutorial the game had, how my first mission was Worlds Collide, and the fact that it influenced my decision to start this blog, and I’ve told that story…

CCP Should Build its Own EVE Online Kill Board

Over the weekend we were once again reminded about how much CCP and the EVE Onlinecommunity depend on unpaid third party developers for much of the game’s knowledge infrastructure.  As part of the null sec blackout both ZKillboard and DOTLAN EVE Maps hid data that we have grown accustomed to having, with ZKillboard going completely dark for the weekend.  This led to glee, annoyance, and reactive…

The Titan and the Frigate

The header info over at ZKillboard, the third party sites that shows ship and structure losses from EVE Online, indicates that it has been an interesting week.

The big loss of late was a Komodo, the Guristas faction titan that came into the game about a year and a half back with the Lifeblood expansion.

The Komodo titan

News of that loss spread aroundnot only because losing a faction titan means…