Upskirt shots of cartoon girls who look about 12 is a tad too close to child porn for me. I do appreciate it’s a different aesthetic, that anime draws females child-like, but I’ve not been exposed to it enough to become used to it.

Which is probably just as well – what will non gamers/anime fans think when they look at a middle aged man’s computer and see some of the more compromising Tera imagery?

Then someone told me you could just press C (or was it alt C). And you’d auto-dock.

I bet you guys are sooo glad I told you that now

That said, I went into Eve Online with the idea that it’d be Elite Online because I don’t really care about big and mean your community is. What bugged me was that the gameplay itself was pretty dull.

The moment someone comes out with a more action orientated spaceship sandbox MMO, or at least one were combat isn’t clumsly, dull and annoying, EVE will hemmorage players.

(Of course, if you don’t like beefcake, you get a choice of High Elf male or Moogle/Hamster Guy. If you don’t like cheesecake, play a different game.) It’s interesting-the character creator is pretty good-not as good as Aion(would have liked height sliders, even limiting them to +/- a couple of ‘feet’ to keep the microscopic characters out would have been good), there’s a lot of facial choice, but no body type choices. It’s going to be a niche game, and I suspect it’s going to go more freemium type later. Not sure if it can support P2P really(though one can hope maybe after the beta, P2P might scare off some of the worst people.)

I’m kinda glad I pre-ordered, it’ll basically be my summer MMO in between a lighter summer raid schedule, the MoP beta and eagerly awaiting Guild Wars 2(as well as playing stuff like Warriors Orochi 3, Darksiders 2, and Dragon’s Dogma.) I don’t see myself sticking with it forever; GW2 will very much likely be pushing that one to the back.

Besides which, The Mittani has already been trying to target players for perma-death from what I can gather ;P

Eve of course is based on Elite and for many of us it’s a trading game.

Very interesting to see someone start over from basic principles. I’m really looking forward to what he comes up with.

The politics in a world where popular people can declare a player they don’t like targetable by permadeath will make the stories from Eve sound like Jack and Jill.

I should probably avoid saying anything mean about The Mittani when it comes out!