Steven Croop Legacy Author, Author at The Escapist

Editorials

Aura is Aura By Any other Name

For all the chaff, teasing, and outright hatred that new players have to suffer through, initiates are just as essential an ingredient of ...

By Steven Croop Legacy AuthorMay 26, 2009

Editorials

EVE Online: In the Future, There is Only War

The state of nature was an argumentative device employed by political philosophers such as Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau that presumed ...

By Steven Croop Legacy AuthorApril 20, 2009

Editorials

The Enemy of By Enemy is My Blob

Combat in EVE Online is conducted on the basis of a cost-benefit analysis. From an alliance war declaration that rocks the political landscape ...

By Steven Croop Legacy AuthorApril 1, 2009

Editorials

Crazy Disjointed Wormhole Romp Deluxe

I’m just going to come right out and say that wormholes are the best addition to EVE Online – they’re what nullsec can’t ...

By Steven Croop Legacy AuthorMarch 17, 2009

Editorials

Tech Two Livestock: A Pirate in Name Only

Tech Two Livestock: A Pirate in Name Only (Getting Back Into the Game, Part Two) by Steven Croop Beyond the immediate ramifications of ...

By Steven Croop Legacy AuthorMarch 3, 2009

Editorials

EVE Online: Getting Back In the Game, Part One

EVE Online: Getting Back in the Game, Part One “EVE-Online is more fun to think about than it is to play,” is what ...

By Steven Croop Legacy AuthorFebruary 17, 2009

Guilty Pleasures

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Superman 64

There is hardly a greater contradiction of terms to which we give less thought than the judgment that something is “so bad it’s ...

By Steven Croop Legacy AuthorDecember 16, 2008

The Terabyte Tenderloin

Hit Them Where They Live

The internet, as the saying goes, is serious business. From Facebook fanatics who obsesses over how many online friends they have, to World ...

By Steven Croop Legacy AuthorNovember 25, 2008

Group Play

If Only Wally West Could Wavedash

Almost 10 years after the release of Blizzard’s StarCraft, the exclamation “kekeke Zerg rush” still causes gamers familiar with that finely honed horror ...

By Steven Croop Legacy AuthorFebruary 26, 2008