I’d love to write about Eve Online for your site.
I already do a great deal of writing about Eve Online, often for very substantial audiences. The most obvious is in my role as a director of the in-game Goonswarm alliance, where I am second in charge to the Mittani (author of the “Sins of a Solar Spymaster” column on Ten Ton Hammer). Arguably the most influential alliance in Eve History, Goonswarm has some six thousand members, and part of my role is to provide them with update posts several times a month, explaining what is happening in Eve and within the alliance. I am therefore well-used to writing on a deadline for large audiences and on a regular basis.
My alliance updates are shared in many places, and a conservative estimate would suggest that they reach readerships of over twenty thousand readers each time. EveNews24, the largest news site for the game syndicates them, while they are invariably cross-posted to Kugutsumen and the alliance forums of many friendly and hostile alliances, from Test Alliance to Pandemic Legion. I should hope that many of those readers would choose to follow any column I wrote, elsewhere.
I’m thoroughly immersed in the politics of Eve: I share a (largely unknown and very select!) jabber chatroom with the leaders of virtually every major alliance in Eve, with whom I can speak at any point. I talk with several members of the Eve Online CSM on a daily basis. And I discuss key issues with certain Eve developers on occasion. All of this gives me unique advantages in providing and creating content.
Unlike a great many senior, political figures in the game, however, I actually still log in and play Eve. In fact, I play Eve a lot. I also have knowledge and experience of many other MMOs, having played a large variety from Ultima Online and Star Wars Galaxies through World of Warcraft to World of Tanks. I would proudly describe myself as a keen gamer, whether the game is on one of console platforms, PC, pen and paper or even on the rugby pitch. I started gaming on 8 bit home computers, with Elite and Manic Miner, and have never dreamt of stopping.
My role in Eve, my access to key individuals, and my regular time in the game itself lend me a great range of topics upon which to write. Obviously, the recent turmoil at CCP and in Eve has left no shortage of topics: microtransactions; mass redundancies; restructuring and cancellations; a string of exciting new announcements on in-game issues; new ships and more. Each of these would provide the basis of a column. But beyond this I can write about the issues that affect your core audience: groups of players of Eve, many of whom are involved in – or would like to become involved in – the politics and wars of Eve. Indeed, I blogged recently on ways to grow, develop and run a corporation: something which would I have a lot of experience in.
I am capable of using a variety of different writing styles, depending on the occasion. My alliance updates are satirical, funny and, frankly, scabrous in tone, because that is what their particular audience delights in. When I ghost-write for the Mittani, to take another example, I adopt a very different style: you can see this in the Goonswarm Recruitment thread on the SomethingAwful forums. That thread has almost a million views and has yielded us over a thousand applicants, although I have written the replacement for this year (delivered, as ever, on deadline!) with which it will shortly be replaced.



