MrSlapHappy

I am an Engineering Assistant which basically means that I am a Draftsman with a fancy title, that occasionally they let do a wee bit of design work.

If you take my job from the perspective just as Engineering, the hardest part of it is actually that I don't really get to do it. You spend about 1 hour engineering stuff for every day or so of paperwork you do on that one thing to make it a real thing. I kind of wanted to make one of those "what people think I do, What I actually do" meme's for it but the one for nursing is close enough...and that trend needs to die anyways.

Taken as the low man on the pole Draftsman, the hardest part of my job is being that guy that has to pick up the slack between manufacturing and engineering. All those little paperwork, database, doting of I's and crossing of T's that neither side believes is their responsibility is what I do. But then, entry level anywhere is crap, so I guess that part is status quo.

Cool stuff, I think I will check out that Jaffe thing.

Its kind of interesting that it is "now available" on Steam considering Ryan had to download it from Steam after downloading it from gamersgate or whatever. That was like 2 months ago too, so the whole thing is shady, I wouldn't give that money. If I were to advise someone who did want to, I would suggest waiting until Steam had it on 90% discount during the spring or summer sale they will eventually have.

would be kind of sweet if you could win a copy of the game by playing some ridiculous amount of the beta, which they have given plenty of time to happen.

Hmm...what WILL they do with that extra money... Perhaps, they take the 400K they were looking for and make a little adventure game.

In the mean time, they just accidentally don't close the kickstarter and a few months roll by, suddenly there is like 10mil in there. Then they ask Notch for a 15mil loan and they have like 25mil for a sequel to a certain something.

Summer/Fall of 2010 a buddy of mine got me into Eve and I spent the next 2 or 3 months playing pretty much constantly. At the time I was working a part-time on call job, so anywhere from 5-35 hours a week, usually about 5 or 10 but otherwise had nothing else to do. I played a lot of Eve. It worked out to something like 350 hours in that amount of time, averaging 6-8 hours a session, daily. If you are looking for a time sink, you found it. I subscribed for another couple months after that, but didn't do much but train skills and move cargo to undercut people's prices.

That being said, I had a lot of fun (and a lot of frustration) during that time. I miss it now, but have since admitted to myself that I just don't have the time. I enjoyed it because if you wanted to bust out the spreadsheets and crunch the numbers, you could figure out how to do everything the best way and make the most money, with that eventual goal being to make your game sessions pay for your monthly sub (or that was my goal at least). You could also fly by the seat of your pants and as long as you have decent grasp of the mechanics, make it out well enough.

Finding a group of people is key for learning how Eve works though. I couldn't have made it through the first week without my friend and his corpmates giving me pointers and explaining stuff. If nothing else, there is the wiki's (i forget the exact url's because there were two that were good for different stuff). Also look into all the user-made sites and reference material. There are guys who have the game down to a science, they know what they are talking about. I would suggest downloading Evemon, i think its called (character progression tracking program) and there is another program for fitting up ships, its related to Battleclinic so searching for that would probably get you there.

Sorry, for the long post and vagueness, but I wanted to walk down Eve memory lane for a bit.

@Vexxan said:

Impressive, duder!

If only there was a Jeff Gerstmann Skylander figure.

YES!

The amount of air time he has devoted to their game, they probably owe him that much.

EA is Origin, SWTOR is EA, so Origin is SWTOR. Like trying to play Half Life 2 without Steam.

Careful, its not that hard to get ripped off selling hats for actual cash. I know a few people who have made and lost alot of money that way.

I bet it posts stuff to facebook too, so anybody on your feed will know that you not only paid for Tetris but also enjoy paying for it monthly.