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Dual Boxing

Saturday, February 20th, 2010 by admin

If you are not aware of Dual Boxing or what it is then read the article our site by Westley

It seems there are two main schools of thought on the subject – its cheating or its an allowable advantage.

I can see the point of the cheating claim but I feel they are missing the point as nothing that can be done by a player using two accounts is better than two players colluding together. In fact its probably harder for a single player to control two accounts and certainly in a combat situation this would be the case.

I think my view is settled in the allowable advantage camp and I’m going to give it a try.

I see many, many players posting in the forums that they use more than one account and I don’t think dual boxing is a small minority of players. If I only benefit from the help in mining and salvaging I think it will be worth it. Plus I’ve got alts that haven’t really been trained as I would like and I wish I had taken the time to research training skills as soon as I started playing Eve.

This could be a way to train up a character for the additional functions I’m currently missing out on.

Now I just need to justify the additional expense.. :)

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Useless Weblinks

Thursday, February 18th, 2010 by admin

I posted to the sticky thread on the Eve Online Sell forum regarding the Classified Ad’s service we host. In the reply I posted a table of results from Google searches to indicate our service was being spidered succesfully by Google. I suggest you read the post on the sticky first to understand the context of this.

In response Estel Arador wanted to know why using our service was of benefit to advertisers when there were other links in the Google results that were equally of relevance to the advertiser – what made our service any better than those other links.

Here is the reply:

This sticky is not the place for a protracted discussion and if you wish to continue this elsewhere please post another thread.

However, to answer your questions (again) – as I said the table was an indication the website is being spidered succesfully. I also indicated our advertisers will be provided with details of website hits to their advert etc.

Regarding how our site can help when other results are shown on Google searches. You are quite correct that Google shows other results but not necessarily links that are of any use to the advertisers.

For example – take the Chribba link.

Searching on Google for Chribba’s 3rd party service brings up these results:

1 – Eve Online Wiki

A very nice wiki article about Chribba – no link to Chribba’s advert or thread

2 – Eve Search

Page 13 of 18 thread posts – Dated 6 June 2009 and another click to go to page one and see what Chribba was actually advertising

3 – Eve Search

Result 1-20 of 43 for by author Nori traps all about Recruiting 0.0 PVP players – no link to Chribba’s advert or thread

4 – Massively.Com

EVE Online Community Spotlight: a Q&A with Chribba – a real nice profile of Chribba – no immediate link to Chribba’s advert or thread

5 – Solar Sentinel Classified Ad’s

Chribba’s advert and a direct link to his forum thread – Dated 14 Jan 2010

I use this as an example but I dare say all the results for any advert will be similar. Check it for yourself and tell me which link you would click on if you were looking for an advertised service.

Plus if you had used Solar Sentinel Classified Ad’s to find a service before you know you are going to get the information you want – not something totally irrelevant like o.o PVP recruiting…

You seem to be interested so why not sign up and test it for yourself? The worst that can happen is you don’t get any hits on our site. The best and more probable result is you get an increase in business.

It is FREE and you have nothing to lose – and every chance it will help you.

Also remember that not everyone is like you and Chribba with long and well established services.

There are those who are just starting out and as you see from many of the messages in this sticky – they can’t even get listed as an available service. This is one of the reasons the classifieds were put on our site – because we along with a multitude of others have had our requests to be listed in this sticky completely ignored.

If you wish to ask any further questions then I suggest you post in another thread or speak to me in game.

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I think those results speak for themselve don’t you?

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Welcome to SOS!

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010 by admin

Hello there and welcome.

The purpose of this blog is to track my progress in Eve, the experiences I have had within the game and in the making of this website. I hope you won’t mind my diversions as we progress and eventually you will find some Smatterings Of Sense amongst it all.

There have been good and bad (mostly good) experiences and all have served the purpose of helping educate me in the ways of Eve. I would venture that everything so far experienced has been of benefit, even when sometimes it wasn’t very pleasant…

This website is new – very new. It is so new the ink hasn’t dried so watch where you are putting you fingers as you leaf through the various pages.Try not to leave any smudges.

It has been a couple of months in the building and has only recently gone ‘live’ to the general public. The reception has been positive from those who have visited and I am encouraged by the supportive comments received. So far so good!

One thing that has pleased me is the tone of the comments received has been predominantly constructive and aimed at helping us build a site that will provide a value to the Eve Community.

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In the last week I have been approached ingame by several individuals who have spent a great deal of time with me and educated me in some elements of Eve that I had not previously considered. Not the basic game mechanics or how to trade kind of info but some of the factors that make Eve the wonderful experience it can be. It has been an eye opener and has definitely refocused my thoughts on the kind of direction that this website may take and my objectives in the game itself.

It has been invaluable and my thanks go out to all of them – you know who you are….

One comment in particular and the discussion that followed has struck a chord within me:-

‘Eve in itself is not where the fun lies – it is the tools that Eve provides, allowing you to make your own fun, that gives the game its depth and makes it so appealing.‘

These ‘tools’ are not just the modules, weapons and ships you strive for in trying to make you better at PVP or the like. These ‘tools’ can be found throughout the game and in a variety of guises. Some of them are obvious – like using peoples innate greed to concoct a scam. The tool is their greed and your skill is using that greed, leveraging that ‘tool’, to convince them you have a ‘…sure fire winner of a scheme, it’ll make us Billionaires….honest’

Other tools may not be so easy to recognise and some players may never, ever realise there are ‘tools’ to be used in an ongoing backdrop to Eve. A ‘behind the scenes’ adventure going on all the time, in every system, in every station. I’ve been given a ‘peek’ at this in recent days and discovered that many players are using tools of a totally different nature and having a great deal of fun in the process. I’m only beginning to realise that Eve allows you to open the door to a new adventure every day.

I am at the start of my journey and it means adopting a new kind of mindset about Eve…you don’t have to follow but there might be some fun along the way..

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