Strangely enough, doing laundry today. Pretty lazy Sunday, orbiting a POS in my interceptor, baking bread, laundry, shooting neutrals… you know, pretty typical EVE Sunday.
Podcast #46: EVE Vegas Special
Episode 46: EVE Vegas Special
downloads: virginworlds | eve-files
A bit of a departure from the regular format while Urban continues to
work his way through all the episodes of Gilmore Girls. We
concentrate on the upcoming EVE Vegas meet, and interview one of its
masterminds.
They’re Listening
You may or may not have noticed if you’re one of those players who doesn’t frequent the EVE forums (and really, I can’t blame you too much), but there’s a peculiar thing happening there these days. CCP’s asking your opinion on changes. You know, before they end up in the game.
I’m not kidding. The Game Development Forum on the EVE forums has a ton of stickied threads by the likes of CCP Nozh and CCP Chronotis, asking for opinions on proposed changes such as ECM, black ops, etc.
Most shocking about this is the amount of constructive discussion occurring in the threads. I mean I’m sure the great eye of Sauron (moderation team) is watching the threads with its flaming lidless gaze, but in general there’s an excellent dialogue going on between players and developers.
Get in there, get reading, and if you have an intelligent opinion get posting it. And a definite tip of the hat to CCP for sitting down with the community like this.
Source: Game Development Forum
Stealthy Update That’s Awesome
Every now and then when a patch comes out in EVE, CCP sneaks in some interesting new features that nobody noticed was coming. Well check this sucker out: the ship preview function.
Apocryphixes Coming
CCP has released patch notes for the upcoming 1.1 version of Apocrypha, and boy oh boy is it a biggie. There are pages and pages of patch notes, but there’s some notable changes coming.
Day of Darkness II
Seriously. Stop what you’re doing, click the link below, and watch this now.
This film covers a bit from the Caldari-Gallente war, based on the Chronicle The Breakout. It’s set 200 years ago, before any of the 4 races had pod technology. I tried to use ships that may have been around back then, though sadly there’s not a huge amount of information that I could find.
Source: Forum Post
Comic #175: Late Night
What the! A new comic, no way! Yes way.
Yeah I’ve been busy, we all have. Urban’s getting his work life sorted so podcasts will be on the backburner for the time being unless I come up with a more lightweight form factor for the short term. We’ll see.
In the meantime I’ve been plunking around with the new expansion and largely have had a lot of fun with it.
The latest mess with BoB is both hilarious and disappointing. Hilarious becauase people are just idiots, disappointing because it really shows how sad the EVE community can be. If it had been done to Goonswarm the same people would have been laughing instead of folding a new tinfoil hat.
Sixth Annual Get Drunk in Icelandfest
FINALLY.
Details have (officially) emerged about this year’s Fanfest.
It is time once again to start marking your calendars and making your reservations for the 2009 Fanfest in Reykjavik, Iceland! Get ready for another weekend of PVP tournaments, hanging out with the developers, and partying in a sea of fellow EVE Online fans. As always, Fanfest attendees will be treated to videos and announcements on the future of EVE and what players can expect in the upcoming expansions.
CCP Tyr somehow manages to forget to mention Iceland’s Penis Museum. Anyway..
I’m sure your dollar will go a lot further in Iceland this year compared to previous Fanfests. And even if that’s not the case, the two Fanfests I’ve been to in the past tell you that this will be a blast.
Source: Dev Blog
BoB Reloaded
KenZoku, the alliance formerly known as Band of Brothers, has been renamed to Band of Brothers Reloaded by CCP. As explained by CCP’s own GM Grimmi:
This action was limited to changing their name, as we have done before for others – we did not assist them in regaining their sovereignty after the Band of Brothers alliance was disbanded, nor did we assist with that now. Any other corporation or alliance finding themselves in the same situation would get the same treatment.
This action alone gives BoBR a huge advantage over every alliance in the game, and proves CCP favoritism—
Oh wait, it doesn’t.
If only there was a way to harness the energy of forum-based nerd rage over non-issues. For a good laugh, read through the posts on the EVE forum thread.
Source: Forum Thread
Apigrypha: The New Bacon
So Apocrypha’s out, and it’s pretty nifty in my opinion. There’s a lot of really cool stuff out for us to play in, and another interesting baconesque item has surfaced.
Wormholes collapse based on a couple of criteria, one of which is the amount of mass which passes through them. A sleek little frigate can come and go quite often, but that fatty battleship of yours might collapse it immediately. The game client only gives you a rough description of that maximum cumulative waistline size in the wormhole’s info window, however apparently more concrete data is available though more data dumpish means.
I imagine someone will come up with a tool to help with the acquisition of this information. Well, more helpful than the fact that CCP gives you one as part of the default game install. :) I haven’t tried this myself, but I imagine if this catches on CCP will probably shut the door on it.
Source: Forum Post