EVE Morning Report provides news-style daily snapshot of game's economy
by James Egan 
Nov 23rd 2009 at 4:00PM
Filed under: Sci-fi, Podcasts, EVE Online, Economy
EVE Online is a game that can be different things to different people. While some players are intent on the destruction of their fellow capsuleers, others prefer to focus on other aspects of the game like trading and mass production. After all, EVE's setting of New Eden is one largely dominated by megacorporations. For those involved in the complexities of the game's economic side, having frequent snapshots of New Eden's virtual economy would be a boon. The game's would-be tycoons now have this, thanks to EVE Online player Utemetsu and the EVE Morning Report -- short, 5-minute audio recordings released daily that convey information about major commodities traded on the open market in New Eden.
EVE Morning Report with Erik Mumm is presented in the style of NPR or the Marketplace Morning Report. It also provides players with the graphed price history of major commodities, captured from the in-game tools. The sponsors of the EVE Morning Report are other players whose various services are mentioned each day in exchange for their patronage. Although Utemetsu's program has only been running for a few days, EVE Morning Report is already expanding to include interviews with New Eden's marketeers. Individual EVE players, corporations, or alliances interested in sponsoring EVE Morning Report can contact Erik (Utemetsu) via email or let him know in the program's thread on the official EVE forums.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Yoh said on 4:29PM 11-23-2009
That is kind of bad ass.
How many other games have an economy in which you can even do this?
No many, that's for damn sure.
~Yoh
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mpdivo said on 4:43PM 11-23-2009
I love the game because it fits well with my graduate studies. Flying around, mining, all things I can do while reading or working on papers. Making money by buying low and selling high is really easy to do. Eve is the best place for the small business owner!
The game is great because if you can make 300 million a month, you can buy PLEX and use that to play basically for free.
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mpdivo said on 4:46PM 11-23-2009
This guy needs to figure out how to do podcast.
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Swusn said on 5:00PM 11-23-2009
Now if someone can just convert this to a ticker that continuasly scrools across the bottom of my computer screen.
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Aevious said on 7:20PM 11-23-2009
Nice show but the vocals are like chalk screeching across a chalkboard. Don't try to listen with the volume up too loud or you'll swear your speakers are ripping lol.
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Schtix said on 11:05AM 11-24-2009
I listened to today's report and the quality was brilliant. He did mention getting a new mic, however. Either way, I really fancy this concept. It'd be cool if he could do a bit more reviewing though, maybe just once a week or something?
Guess we'll see. Very cool though. =]
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ariolander said on 3:52PM 11-24-2009
Yup the new mic and popfilter does wonders for the podcast. My only qualm is that he should maybe make a general market index for each category Minerals, Ice, Moon Goo, etc. so show the general movement of the market prices maybe?
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Glenn said on 4:14PM 11-25-2009
I am happy much with this. I am thinking like Lavista Vista in his interview on here saying the economy sucked him in and he was addicted. So, this just seems to sink the knife in deeper to my addiction, I am sold!
Oh and good job btw on the podcast!
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