ScuzzBlog: Diaries January 2025 Entry 10th January 2025: Post 1: Eve Online - Space Adventuring. Eve Online - Space Adventuring. Set your 'faces' on stun. This won't mean a whole heap of sense. When I was a kid I followed the Apollo space programme with great interest. I was so sure that in my lifetime we would conquer space and I would journey into the stars. How wrong was I. Star Trek seems to be the only space history, albeit fantasy, that will prevail as the world's possibilities had I lived long enough. When I reflect on 2001 Space Odyssey and the monolith beacons that triggered man's expansion into the stars I am left reflecting on what could have been. Sadly again, not in my lifetime. Trouble is I feel that man's appetite for space travel waned some decades ago. I guess you can blame fantasy worlds such as Star Wars and Star Trek for painting a future that most probably think is inevitable but not in our lifetime. Governement's of the planet Earth seem disinclined to spend vast amounts of money on space travel , of an adventurous kind, and I sense we will eventually consume all the fossil fuel necessary to eject ourselves from this world. Either way nothing is going to happen of a dramatic nature in my lifetime unless we get invaded by extra terrestrials. Given the obvious restrictions and my general dissatisfaction with the current population of this planet it has always been a great fascination to me, the idea of fantasy gaming and space travel. The problem is that the source material has been pretty crap. Whilst gaming on the computer started very early on with Star Wars and Star Trek, neither of the genre developed beyond a crude baseline. Tending to wallow in a late 60/70s envelope. The Amiga made a fist of it with Elite, K240 and further versions of Star Trek, but again these games looped around either an earlier formula or your usual punch co-ordinates into an endless map in the hope of generating world statistics that can be made entertaining. Its that latter pre-occupation with facts and figures that presumes all space games are about conquering space and expanding like the cancer that humans have become in terms of destroying it seems all that it comes into contact with. To be human is a more imposing force that can be respectful of its worlds, much like the way the original Avatar turned humans into considerate creatures worthy of coexisting on a world filled with many species. I believe that Gene Roddenberry always attempted to bring the human into his stories. The rules of interaction with other species became a core value in all later Star Trek series. So why am I waffling on about this... The reason is I started to play Eve Online again, and sadly in very little time I am back to my original gripe with most space exploration games. That being that its primarily technology driven and wants to educate endlessly on the primary components that make space ships work. Seriously who gives a shit. By the time you have evolved into a space fairing creature you probably already know how to drive a car. What is missing from Eve is the human aspects of just living in space. So you never really get to know anything about your character or the worlds you visit. Its all technical gibberish and space coordinates. I have been waiting for a 'space' that made it possible for me to escape this planet since I first played Asteroids. It has been a dream of mine and I do search for worthy products. Interestingly even though I played Stars, Star Trek Online, SWToR online and now Eve Online, I have never found a suitable space exploration game that focussed on the Captain Kirk style of play. That is to be a human first and then a Spock second. And so I still warm to the Tobias Richter simple PD Star Trek game that can be downloaded from Aminet. Remembering to insert the ASSIGNs if you intend playing on your Amiga hard drive. The idea of number punching, tactical manoeuvring, enhancing battle stats and embracing the technology may be what drives space exploration gamers, but for me its a drag. It's why I play Warcraft with no weapon. I just like to explore and adventure and 'escape'. I have no desire to make gaming into a work like project. Kirk would have always relied on his crew to do their job, so it really matters not how the bloody thing works. Kirk cheated. This time around with Eve I spent zero time customising my char given that I never see them anyway. So I took the base model and threw on a Ken Dodd wig and called her Darthveiga. Sadly I already am bored, given I spent most of the day learning and training etc. Anyhoo... I can escape in many other ways by simply watching the latest Blade Runner again.. I suppose. At least that way I don't get a half hour tutorial explaining something I should already know given I am supposed to be from that period in the story. Anyhoo... back to Azeroth tomorrow and more annoying Delves. I sense I shall simply warp into the nearest sun in Eve and no doubt be forced to rebuild myself like a self destructing Yorha. What ever. Good thing nobody can hear you scream in space.. Not sure my neighbours would agree. Eve Online - Space Adventuring.

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