When I started playing EVE two years ago, I set out immediately to start my own industrial corporation. We were just a few RL friends mining and building ships. We set goals, and started growing. We're still a small corporation by all standards, but the corporation makes isk. We make enough isk to invest most of it in new ventures, and still keep the profit. I never really thought of myself as a leader before being a CEO in EVE.
Now, in my senior year at game design school, as I began to treat RL team management like EVE team management, I noticed that the skill carried over.
I was elected as project manager for our graduation project by my class. I realized right away that I was approaching the group with more confidence and assertion, due to my dealings with my EVE corporation. I layed out goals, set plans, and assigned tasks. I ran into some EVE-like problems though.
Real people, like capsuleers, have their own agendas, keep their own best interests, and are always looking for something other than the grind to stimulate them. By implementing group communication techniques that are new and trendy, and keep people using new technologies, group interest in a project can stay fresh.
One thing that has helped our project is a Wiki. This is an awesome project management tool. If you're like me, just having a wiki to edit makes me 'want' to post content and create pages. The rest of the team follows suit and the ability to comment makes team members feel like their opinions will be heard by the entire team, where in a board-room-type setting they might not speak up.
Social networking sites like twitter and facebook that offer SMS updates to be sent directly to or from mobile devices are also a neat utility. Team members can send and recieve instant updates to the entire group. Having that information instantly gives a much more 'live' feel to the project. It makes it feel like it's running 24/7 which keeps the team more actively involved.
EVE runs 24/7. There is a live feel to the EVE universe because it never stops. Even when the servers are down for DT, characters continue training, POS's continue churning materials, and the isk printing machines(corps) keep printing isk. People from all over the world can contribute to the corporation because of being able to utilize in-game communications methods as well as external web based resources to convey corporate goals, policies, and tasks.
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
(OOC)Testing Mobile Blogging
Just got the ability to start mobile blogging.
edit:
looks like I lack the functionality to post titles to the mobile blogs... Not cool
So Blogger offers the 'mobile blogging' function which allows one to post blogs by sending a simple SMS text message from a mobile device. While initially this sounded like a cool feature, it simply lacks any type of document formatting which forces you into one-line posts in something akin to twitter. Just having the ability to post a title would make all the difference.
edit:
looks like I lack the functionality to post titles to the mobile blogs... Not cool
So Blogger offers the 'mobile blogging' function which allows one to post blogs by sending a simple SMS text message from a mobile device. While initially this sounded like a cool feature, it simply lacks any type of document formatting which forces you into one-line posts in something akin to twitter. Just having the ability to post a title would make all the difference.
Friday, April 17, 2009
Exploration Log: 111.04.17
Exploration Log: 111.04.17
Locus: Classified
Class: 2
Vast Frontier Reservoir - Fullerite-C32, Fullerite-C38
Barren Perimeter Reservoir - Fullerite-C50, Fullerite-C60
Token Perimeter Reservoir - Fullerite-C60, Fullerite-C70
Minor Perimeter Reservoir - Fullerite-C70, Fullerite-C72
Sizable Perimeter Deposit - Fullerite-C50, Fullerite-C84
Personal Note: All these sites in one system!? Better get the corp in on this.
End Log
Locus: Classified
Class: 2
Vast Frontier Reservoir - Fullerite-C32, Fullerite-C38
Barren Perimeter Reservoir - Fullerite-C50, Fullerite-C60
Token Perimeter Reservoir - Fullerite-C60, Fullerite-C70
Minor Perimeter Reservoir - Fullerite-C70, Fullerite-C72
Sizable Perimeter Deposit - Fullerite-C50, Fullerite-C84
Personal Note: All these sites in one system!? Better get the corp in on this.
End Log
Monday, April 13, 2009
Exploration Log: 111.04.12
Exploration Log: 111.04.12
Locale: Locus signature classified
Minor Perimeter Reservoir - Fullerite-C70, Fullerite-C72
2 Cruisers
Personal Note: The last Minor Perimeter Reservoir had the same level of defenses, 2 cruisers.
End Log
Locale: Locus signature classified
Minor Perimeter Reservoir - Fullerite-C70, Fullerite-C72
2 Cruisers
Personal Note: The last Minor Perimeter Reservoir had the same level of defenses, 2 cruisers.
End Log
Friday, April 10, 2009
Exploration Log: 111.04.09
Exploration Log: 111.04.09
Locale: Locus signature classified
Minor Perimeter Reservoir - Fullerite-C70, Fullerite-C72
2 Cruisers
Personal Note: Capsuleers on GalNet have discussed enough of their own research to fill the holes in my own. R&D is going to have a field day.
End Log
Locale: Locus signature classified
Minor Perimeter Reservoir - Fullerite-C70, Fullerite-C72
2 Cruisers
Personal Note: Capsuleers on GalNet have discussed enough of their own research to fill the holes in my own. R&D is going to have a field day.
End Log
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Destiny, Loyalty, and Faith: Part 6
I've been spending a lot of time with the people that live at 'Altus Mining' station, and I feel I'm finally starting to develop a rapport with some of them. When I first arrived, people peered at me through the windows in their living quarters as I walked through the hallways, and everyone I spoke to stammered and fumbled their words as though I might execute them for saying the wrong thing. This troubled me deeply, and is due no doubt to the portrayal of Amarr capsuleers in the media. Holders are seen by many as slave driving gluttons consumed with power and riches. For most, it's quite the contrary. So I made a personal vow to show them that while we posses untold power some capsuleers wield it responsibly and lead with the good of the people in mind, and ultimately to show them the way to God.
Tonight, after bringing the fuel in, I brought some of the crew along for inspection of Altus' line of Exhumers, after which I brought them aboard my personal Exhumer, the 'Altus Maximus I'. I showed them how to maintain the specialized strip miners that require focusing crystals for the beams. Most of them had never seen this type of strip miner before. I promised the ship maintenance crew that I would take a few of them out to an asteroid belt tomorrow and actually get some mining done. They were more than excited.
Turns out that one of the crew has actually been with me since my first 'Omen' crew. His name is 'Ulias Naida'. After crewing the Omen, he was aboard my first mining barge and eventually the 'Altus Maximus I'. When we formed Altus he was re-stationed at 'Altus Mining' station due to my constatnt activity in the Crusade and my mining activities falling to the wayside.
After learning of Ulias Naida's continuing service and loyalty, I approached him about attending Hedion University to become a capsuleer. He was speechless, before he excitedly accepted. I also told him that I would personally fly him to Hedion to begin his schooling. He told me that he never dreamed that he would rise above his current station in life. And I told him that, "Service, be it to the people, or to God will always be rewarded in time."
Tonight, after bringing the fuel in, I brought some of the crew along for inspection of Altus' line of Exhumers, after which I brought them aboard my personal Exhumer, the 'Altus Maximus I'. I showed them how to maintain the specialized strip miners that require focusing crystals for the beams. Most of them had never seen this type of strip miner before. I promised the ship maintenance crew that I would take a few of them out to an asteroid belt tomorrow and actually get some mining done. They were more than excited.
Turns out that one of the crew has actually been with me since my first 'Omen' crew. His name is 'Ulias Naida'. After crewing the Omen, he was aboard my first mining barge and eventually the 'Altus Maximus I'. When we formed Altus he was re-stationed at 'Altus Mining' station due to my constatnt activity in the Crusade and my mining activities falling to the wayside.
After learning of Ulias Naida's continuing service and loyalty, I approached him about attending Hedion University to become a capsuleer. He was speechless, before he excitedly accepted. I also told him that I would personally fly him to Hedion to begin his schooling. He told me that he never dreamed that he would rise above his current station in life. And I told him that, "Service, be it to the people, or to God will always be rewarded in time."
Saturday, April 4, 2009
Exploration Log: 111.04.04
Exploration Log: 111.04.04
Locale: Locus signature classified
Barren Perimeter Reservoir - Fullerite-C50, Fullerite-C60
5 Emergent Frigates
Personal Note: Emergent software makes these drones feel alive. However, not one has acknowledged any communication requests. Attempts to hack their software remotely have also been unsuccessful.
End Log
Locale: Locus signature classified
Barren Perimeter Reservoir - Fullerite-C50, Fullerite-C60
5 Emergent Frigates
Personal Note: Emergent software makes these drones feel alive. However, not one has acknowledged any communication requests. Attempts to hack their software remotely have also been unsuccessful.
End Log
Friday, April 3, 2009
Exploration Log: 111.04.03
Exploration Log: 111.04.03
Locale: Locus signature classified
Sizable Perimeter Deposit - Fullerite-C50, Fullerite-C84
6 - Emergent Frigates
I focused my intent on the C84 per the requisitions from R&D.
Personal Note: I will continue to personally oversee the research done on these fullerites. Each moment I spend searching for them is more gratifying than the next.
End Log
Locale: Locus signature classified
Sizable Perimeter Deposit - Fullerite-C50, Fullerite-C84
6 - Emergent Frigates
I focused my intent on the C84 per the requisitions from R&D.
Personal Note: I will continue to personally oversee the research done on these fullerites. Each moment I spend searching for them is more gratifying than the next.
End Log
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Research Log: 111.04.02
TheOnlyProphet
Research Log: 111.04.02
Fullerite-c70 Gas:
Shock-induced phase transitions of C70 fullerite with hexagonal close-packed structure were experimentally studied in the pressure range 8 to 36 GPa. It was found that C70 fullerite undergoes a series of polymorphic phase transitions under step-like shock-wave compression. The hexagonal close-packed structure of C70 fullerite remained practically unchanged at shock pressure up to 8 GPa. Shock-induced transformation of the hexagonal structure into face centered cubic structure was fixed at pressures in the range 8-23.5 GPa. The depth of this transformation increases with the shock pressure. Upon further increase of the shock pressure the destruction of C70 molecules occurs. This destruction is accompanied by the formation of graphite-like carbon.
End Log
(OOC Source)
Research Log: 111.04.02
Fullerite-c70 Gas:
Shock-induced phase transitions of C70 fullerite with hexagonal close-packed structure were experimentally studied in the pressure range 8 to 36 GPa. It was found that C70 fullerite undergoes a series of polymorphic phase transitions under step-like shock-wave compression. The hexagonal close-packed structure of C70 fullerite remained practically unchanged at shock pressure up to 8 GPa. Shock-induced transformation of the hexagonal structure into face centered cubic structure was fixed at pressures in the range 8-23.5 GPa. The depth of this transformation increases with the shock pressure. Upon further increase of the shock pressure the destruction of C70 molecules occurs. This destruction is accompanied by the formation of graphite-like carbon.
End Log
(OOC Source)
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Destiny, Loyalty, and Faith: Part 5
It was 111.03.11 when the reports started coming in about the wormholes popping up all over the cluster. This both excited and frightened me. Of course I was anxious to research and explore these new anomalies, but I could sense this was a foreboding event. It was like the pink sky during a morning rain on Kador Prime, telling all who witnessed it of the tempest to follow that afternoon.
However, I was not deterred. I knew this had to be the event my dream told me of, so I went straight to it.
At first, I found only what others are reporting; evidence of some ancient peoples whose technology surpasses our own. Then, after nearly three weeks, I found something of note. I located a deposit of strange gasses called fullerite-c60 and fullerite-c70. My databases showed no records of these gasses in New Eden, and my scans determined them to be pure and volatile. So I returned to known space to get a proper ship and some help from my corp mates.
I refit "The Scientia" with some gas harvesters, and rallied Darth and Zyra to go with me. Darth was to bring the industrial ship to haul the gas back to Empire. We set to harvesting the gas, when almost immediately, a small group of Sleeper drones warped in.
"Strange that they would still be protecting these deposits.", I thought.
Darth, immediately got the gas to a safespot, while Zyra and I made quick work of the Sleepers. I gave Darth the all clear to bring the industrial back in. Knowing the space wasn't safe, I was also directionaly scanning every few seconds. This helps in a lot of situations, but not when ships are cloaked.
Darth had them on scan moments before I did. He called out, "Broadsword, Scorpion, and Eos on scan!"
I commanded, "Get out! Get the gas out of here, now!"
No sooner than the last word had left my mouth, the Broadsword landed right on top of me and dropped a warp disruption sphere just in time to see Darth disappear from the overview with our gas safe in hand. We had already won the fight, even though I new this was the end for my Harbinger.
I burned for the edge of the sphere's effect range. Then I saw the Scorpion, Eos, and a Baalghorn land a few short kilometers from me. Missiles and lasers rained on "The Scientia" for almost five minutes. Although I was on the brink of escape several times, my Harbinger simply couldn't out maneuver the smaller, much more nimble Broadsword. Eventually, "The Scientia" was no more.
In a stroke of luck, the Broadsword had switched from using his warp distruption sphere, to a focused script. That allowed me the opportunity to escape in my capsule, as there was not enough time to drop a new bubble before I could get out. I smiled and told the pirates, "Good fight." I new we had protected the harvest and I knew they had enjoyed destroying my ship, even if they didn't get much from it...
However, I was not deterred. I knew this had to be the event my dream told me of, so I went straight to it.
At first, I found only what others are reporting; evidence of some ancient peoples whose technology surpasses our own. Then, after nearly three weeks, I found something of note. I located a deposit of strange gasses called fullerite-c60 and fullerite-c70. My databases showed no records of these gasses in New Eden, and my scans determined them to be pure and volatile. So I returned to known space to get a proper ship and some help from my corp mates.
I refit "The Scientia" with some gas harvesters, and rallied Darth and Zyra to go with me. Darth was to bring the industrial ship to haul the gas back to Empire. We set to harvesting the gas, when almost immediately, a small group of Sleeper drones warped in.
"Strange that they would still be protecting these deposits.", I thought.
Darth, immediately got the gas to a safespot, while Zyra and I made quick work of the Sleepers. I gave Darth the all clear to bring the industrial back in. Knowing the space wasn't safe, I was also directionaly scanning every few seconds. This helps in a lot of situations, but not when ships are cloaked.
Darth had them on scan moments before I did. He called out, "Broadsword, Scorpion, and Eos on scan!"
I commanded, "Get out! Get the gas out of here, now!"
No sooner than the last word had left my mouth, the Broadsword landed right on top of me and dropped a warp disruption sphere just in time to see Darth disappear from the overview with our gas safe in hand. We had already won the fight, even though I new this was the end for my Harbinger.
I burned for the edge of the sphere's effect range. Then I saw the Scorpion, Eos, and a Baalghorn land a few short kilometers from me. Missiles and lasers rained on "The Scientia" for almost five minutes. Although I was on the brink of escape several times, my Harbinger simply couldn't out maneuver the smaller, much more nimble Broadsword. Eventually, "The Scientia" was no more.
In a stroke of luck, the Broadsword had switched from using his warp distruption sphere, to a focused script. That allowed me the opportunity to escape in my capsule, as there was not enough time to drop a new bubble before I could get out. I smiled and told the pirates, "Good fight." I new we had protected the harvest and I knew they had enjoyed destroying my ship, even if they didn't get much from it...
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