Crime and Punishment

First off, I've been spending way too much time playing EVE. Since I've started, I've probably been spending 25-35 hours a week on it, which is about 10 hours more a week then I ussually spend gaming. On the down side, it's kind of hurt the amount of sleep I get, but on the plus side I'm saving money in the gas I'm not using to drive to places.

As to the review of the game, the best way to describe it is as the anti-CoH. Where CoH is mission driven, has a rigidly defined class and leveling structure, and no economy to speak of, EVE is economicly driven, has an open to all skill system, and its economy can best be described as capatalistic. There are missions in the game, but rather than tell an interesting and immeservie story, they're there to help one gain standing with NPC corporations and Factions. The crafting system is different, and not only are there skills to improve one's ability to craft, one can also invest time and money to improve the default blue prints, which is pretty nice. The skills in the game, as I said earlier, are open to anyone. When you start the game, you choose some basic skills and attributes. You then can improve those skills, and buy new ones. Skills improve based upon time, litterary. You choose a skill to train, click train skill, and it will begin training to the next level. The speed at which it trains is determined not by how often you perform the action, but by your learning skill ranks. Of course, regardless, it can take a long time to learn some skills (Training Industry to level 5 taks about 10 days with decent learning skill ranks.) Luckily, you can train your skills with out actually being logged in, just set one before you log out.

Now that the (poorly done) EVE review is handled, on to more pressing things about life. I spent 30 hours at the gas station over the weekend, and the reason for that is that we fired 2 of the 3 people who worked night shift for theft. What they stole was lottery tickets to feed their gambling habbits. I don't think it was for the money, but I could be wrong. I know that one of the two had a major gambling problem, and because of this incident we are now sending home any employee caught playing the lottery while on the clock. I thought they were honest until they did this, and for their betrayal, I hope they rot in Hell for it. It's not just the money that it makes it bad, it's their deseption, and their apparent apathy towards the fact that they're doing this to their benefactor, and I feel horrible that this happened.

School is going ok, though I'm going to need to find a text book for my chem class. I'm actually not all there in terms of school this semester. I'm fairly lethergic this semester, and I've already missed my European History course twice this semester. That's kind of bad, considering that the semester started less than a month ago. It's that my job and all my other classes are night, or close to it, while this class is morning. I'm (currently) on good terms with the teacher, so I'll talk to him about it, maybe get some suggestions on what to do. Ya, I know, going to sleep before midnight might help, but I normally don't get home until midnight, which can make going to sleep before then either impossible, or dangerous (sleeping on the road is not a good idea).

I have about a thousand other things I'd like to post today, including the fact that I'm upset that I can't seem post more than once a week at best =(, but all those things are going to have to wait till a day I don't need to get ready for my dead end conscripted job. So ~night!