New little twitter widget on the side there, if you didn’t notice. Likely not going to use it much, since I can’t think of anything that would be necessary to twitter about that couldn’t just be a blog post, but figured since I want to follow some other gaming news sources and such — might as well throw it up there too. As you can see in the message, I’ve started grinding in EVE on missions — the goal is level 4′s to support my PvP character. This brings up a fun topic: grinding and how you do it.

I’m not going to go into the mechanics of actual grinding, that should be obvious enough, but into how you cope with it. Personally, I love music for grinding. Right now I have DI.fm going — Future Synthpop, Trance, Vocal Trance, EuroDance, and Gabber. To further enjoy the grind experience I’m writing this post up while my myrmidon is tanking a mission — drones doing the killing. News sites will take the place of the posting once it’s done.

Typically I wouldn’t be able to do this much while grinding, without a second computer at least. That’s one of the good points in your EVE — it is possible to do many things while semi-afk. Seemingly redundant at first — what’s the point of a game you don’t have to activly play? — it is quite nice when you want to do something else or have to do something else. While generally  viewed as a hardcore game, EVE has quite a few elements that really benefit casual gaming. Wouldn’t mind seeing more of this.