Community Advertising

In what I thought was going to be my last entry about it, I was wondering if ingame advertising in the short term was mostly going to be something developers and publishers used on a game that needed to be saved through the incorporation of a new revenue stream.

But with this entry by Raph on Wednesday, I’m now wondering if we’re moving beyond just ingame advertising, into a broader field. Continue reading Community Advertising…

Eve: The Newbie Trader

I went back to Eve with the goal of exploring the Combat and Missions parts of the experience. That part is pretty fun, though resembles greatly the rather generic Mission Terminal missions from Star Wars Galaxies. Visit an Agent, accept the mission, go out and kill or collect or both, return for cash and an increase in one’s standing with that Agent. Other bonuses happen, and there’s an entire ladder of Agent Levels to climb, but this is all pretty standard-faire stuff here. If you’ve played an MMORPG, you can run missions in Eve, once you learn the basics like ship flight and management.

The money isn’t bad either, but there’s easier money to be made for a newbie. And I’m making it.

About a week ago, a good buddy from my SWG days joined us in Eve. Vedi was, in SWG, a Master Armorsmith that ran his own business for quite a while. He was also a guild member, and a customer of my Energy business, but he’s always had an eye to business. Being fresh to Eve, he seems to have approached this galaxy with the same eye he applied to the previous one.