I had one of those “wait… what year is it?!” moments this week: I discovered that my old podcast co-host, Crovan, has brought The Drone Bay back… on YouTube.
The Drone Bay... The Drone WHAT?!!!
Originally, The Drone Bay was one of the early EVE podcasts way back in spring 2008, and seeing it resurface in 2024 hit me right in the nostalgia module.
That gameplay trailer for Resonance absolutely stopped my YouTube scroll.
There’s this immediate “okay, I need to know what this is” vibe: a lone alien explorer following a signal into the ruins of a dead (robotic) civilization… and then—because of course—waking up something colossal that really wasn’t asking to be disturbed.
The tone feels quiet, mysterious, and big in that “ancient machines + lonely planet” kind of way.
The atmosphere is gorgeous. The visuals absolutely attention-grabbing.
Not a questline living. Not a “the game hands you gold for showing up” living (though there's a bit of that of course).
But a real one.
New Eden is one of the only game worlds where “making money” isn’t a side activity. It’s a whole ecosystem. You can be a scavenger, a prospector, a courier, a trader, an industrialist, a pirate, a soldier-for-hire… and the economy actually has room for all of it because other players create the demand (and the chaos).
Crazy, eh? I know!
That’s the hook for this series. I’m putting together a practical, blueprint-style set of posts that maps out the major ways capsuleers make ISK—from the stuff you can start doing today, to the systems that feel like you accidentally enrolled in an MBA program run by space criminals.
No fluff. No “top 10 secrets.” No pretending there’s one “best” way.
Just a ladder you can climb.
