Poor Jita. It just can’t get a break. It’s so popular that CCP’s started cutting back the number of folks who can be in there concurrently. Lets hope a more eloquent fix is on the way soon.

I would have had a comic out last week, but I came down with some kind of annoying flu thing.  It’s going around, and even though I rarely ever get sick I managed to catch this one.   Feeling better now though. :)

A new podcast has also been recorded and should be out soon, so keep your eyes open for that!

I have to say I’ve not seen a patch with as many individual changes such as this.  It’s truly an impressive work on the part of CCP really.  1.1 is basically wholesale bug squashing, so while it’s light on whiz-bang features it should make the overall experience a lot better for folks.

A quick note, it seems winterblink.com got nailed with a javascript trojan.  Most virus scanners will catch it and warn you, it’s something at my hosting provider’s end so I’m having them look into the issue for me.  Definitely not intentional.  Will keep you all updated.

A recent discussion on the EVE forums brought about the notion of player-made billboards in EVE.  This topic tends to come up every once in a while, and in fact had been talked about by CCP as a potential feature.  Nothing’s materialized yet, of course, but if they do I can only hope they moderate the submissions. :)

I think we’ve all been there.  :)  Fleet fights are pretty interesting that way really, there’s usually such a presence of mind required when a situation is at hand, and unlike a lot of games there’s not a lot of possibility for you to take a rest.

I think a lot of that is the fact we’re not raiding NPCs really, but against people with some skills, and things can happen at any time.

Occasionally I snap a screen at random that can totally be interpreted in a very wrong way.  This is (yet another) one of those times. :)