At the tail end of last week, Veritas Immortalis released an Official Announcement of their disbanding. The announcement came the same day that many of us received our new copy of E-ON #6. As usual, Fanfest info, walking in stations and other upcoming changes, and alliance profiles are some of the game info and community news you can expect in this issue.
Utilities and Tools
EVEMon Version 1.1.8.571 was made available earlier this week with an extensive list of new features and changes. Visit evemon.battleclinic.com for the latest download plus full list of changes in this release.
Eradiani's Mineral Calculator Version 1.0 is now hosted at EVEVault! Features include refining rates, compound calculations, loading/saving characters, and on-the-fly saves of your changes. Download it here.
EVE-Radio.com announced the launch of its 8Mbps Unlimited Broadband product, a service specifically designed with EVE Online gamers and EVE-Radio listeners in mind. They've also got a commercial running for our contest. Yes, we're down to the last few days of...
CCP Devs Doing Wrong? Hot Topic of the Week[ 1 Comment ] Print News | Mail News | Category: EVE: Online News Join the Eve Vault Forum discussion on the recent allegations of developer misconduct in Eve. It has been reported that a dev (or devs?) have be helping some of the alliances in the game by either divulging valuable information to them or by directly handing over T2 BPO's to the players. If these allegations are true, a lot of CCP's credibility will go down the proverbial black hole. Join the thread and let us know what you think.
"There will be a small patch deployed tomorrow, 31 January, during the normal maintenance downtime. The maintenance period should not be extended to deploy the patch.
The following issues will be resolved:
The old machonet cache did not expire after patching the client. This has resulted in a number of errors.
Changing columns in the overview settings can cause the client to crash to desktop.
Eve-Radio Broadband Service[ Comment ] Print News | Mail News | Category: EVE: Online News EVE-Radio is proud to announce the launch of its 8Mbps Unlimited Broadband product, a service specifically designed with EVE Online gamers and EVE-Radio listeners in mind. The service caters specifically for online gamers by providing stable, fast broadband with no download limits or port restrictions. View the full post at Eve-Radio for more detials.
"Design a Logo for EVE-Central.com! Win 50Mil ISK!. We need a logo. That station picture shamelessly borrowed from the EVE webpages is getting somewhat old. Send me a logo or even a new design for the EVE-Central.com website by Febuary 10th, 2007 and I will place them up in a gallery allowing people to vote on their favorite.
The winner gets fame and 50mil ISK. The logo must also work and look good in the In Game Browser. No specific size requirements or color schemes, but if you're not prepared to give me a new color scheme for the main pages, your logo better look good in the current layout ;). Send the logo in a web-ready format, and a screenshot of any new web design. It would be nice to also have a source image (such as a .PSD file or vector file). New website designs need not be totally IGB compliant as our current bare-bones pages will work just fine for that, but it must work in both IE and Firefox.
1) perfect refine rates based on your skills and even exact station tax rates. (I have tested countless scenarios and everything seems to work - if it doesn't forward me information).
2) character saving on the fly (by default you make a change to the character skills and it will save it to the root directory upon exit) - this saves the mineral prices too!
3) loading of auto saved character - why put your character's skills in more than once?
4) optional character saving - can save individual characters to any location to be loaded later
5) loading of character sheets from Eve-Mon and the Eve-O websites
6) saving an operation - you can save all of the ore/compounds mined in an operation, the number of people there, and more to be loaded as needed.
"I have just sent the fifteen players chosen at random for participation in the survey an e-mail asking for their mailing addresses so the prizes may be sent to them.
If you received an e-mail from me, please respond within the next two weeks. If you do not respond within that time frame, alternates will be contacted."
"FFB: How do you plan to make the walking in stations feature a significant part of the game, instead of just a gimmick?
CCP: The vision we have for the in-station atmosphere is to initially create a purely social hub where players can engage in non-combat activities. While we have some ideas that we’re working toward, we’re also very interested to know what the players themselves feel would be points of interest or venues they would like to see there, so we’re keeping an eye out for that sort of feedback as we move toward introducing this feature. One aspect of walking in stations that could really add immersion is the Corporate War Room where corporation members can all gather and view a shared 3D map and discuss strategy."
What if someone told you that you could win a full year of EVE Online for free? Well that is exactly what we are giving away this month on EVE Vault in our "EVE Rocks" contest. Getting your entry in is easy.... just take a quick glance at the contest rules, then head on over to our submission form and get your creation in. You only have a few weeks left so don't let this chance slip past you! While your at it head on over to the gallery and see the some of the other entries.
Veritas Immortalis Disbands[ 5 Comments ] Print News | Mail News | Category: Site News Another one of the more predominant alliances in Eve is closing it's doors. Veritas Immortalis(-V-) announced on Thursday that it will cease to exist as we know it. This is a sad day for Eve as -V- was a very well respected alliance throughout the galaxy. Read the full press release on the Eve-O forums.
EON Issue #6 Arrives[ 2 Comments ] Print News | Mail News | Category: EVE: Online News Today I finally received my EON Issue #6. Contained in it's shiny white envelope was the beautiful slick pages of the magazine itself and a nice booster pack for the Eve CCG. Perhaps the most intriguing article in the mag this time around is the one found on page 28 entitled "Eve's Next Step". Here's the teaser...
"Fancy stretching your legs between lengthy trade runs? Ever wondered what the air smells like in all those stations in the depths of lowsec? Need to go to the loo before you undock? Fear not, CCP is already working on the answers to your prayers."
The article focuses on the CCP announcement made at Fanfest that soon pod pilots will be able to exit their "gooey capsules" and "swagger about in a manner befitting one of hte ultra-elite of EVE society".
Yes - you'll be able to walk around the stations.
The codename for this internal project is called 'Ambulation'. According to the article, "Ambulation will be something you won't be forced to engage in - it will be something you can do if you wish." The article goes on to assure us that Ambulation won't change current gameplay, only enhance it...
"One of our key objectives for walking about in stations is to not take away any of the functionality that we currently enjoy. In short, you won't be forced to get out of your pods in order to speak to your agents or refine ore - all that can still be taken care of from your own cocoon of life-enriching goo."
You can read the full article and much more by placing an order for Issue #6 of EON.
PVP-WOLFPACKS: Jan 21, 0200 Eve Time(Saturday Evening in America, Sunday very early in Europe)
PVP-BASIC: January 22nd, 2007 - 0200 Eve Time (Sunday Evening in the USA)
PVP-BASIC: January 27th, 2007 - 1800 Eve Time
So far everyone I have talked to that has attended one of AG's classes has been extremely pleased with them. If you've always wanted to learn how to PvP or if you already know how to survive but want some good pointers, check them out.
The first few entries in our "EVE Rocks" contest are in! Be sure to get yours submitted in order to have a shot at a free year of EVE Online! You can see the first few entries here, and then head on over to our contest page for the rules. After that all you need to do is get your submission in!
It's easy! Take a picture of the words "EVE Rocks!" in a public place and submit it using our contest submission form. It can be a sign your holding, a t-shirt you're wearing, or a great big billboard that you paid lots of cash to display... anything thathas "EVE Rocks" in apublic place.
"But Lok, I'm very shy. Besides, a binterong ate my camera."
Not a problem! You can still enter! Images can also be editted. using anything from Paintbrush to GIMP to Photoshop to add "EVE Rocks" to your favorite photo or image.
"Great! What're all the prizes, though?"
1st : ONE-YEAR PAID SUBSCRIPTION + $25 EVE STORE CREDIT
2nd : 60-DAY GAME TIME CARD + $25 EVE STORE CREDIT
3rd : 30-DAY GAME TIME CARD + $25 EVE STORE CREDIT
Click here for the big basic and pretty version of the rules. Read the Official Rules for all the legal stuff and big long sentences. Use the Submission Form to enter the coolest contest yet for 2007! Entries will be displayed in our "EVE Rocks!" Entry Gallery
"For the last two weeks my corp has been constantly harrased by ISS pilots. We have consistently been targeted by ISS pilots who we have not aggressed. We have no war with them, and until now had no reason to shoot them. This is now changing. The Praxis Initiative have been roaming around in curse and killing my corp members...
We have made contact with ISS reps who have done nothing. From now on all members of my corp shall agress ISS pilots on sight. We can not and will not continue to suffer losses to a supposedly neutral to all alliance.
We are more than willing to fight with any other corp or alliance who have also been stung by the injustice dished out by ISS in the south."
Is IAC being lured into a wardec against ISS by a third party? Is ISS trying to find a whipping boy to increase traffic at their outposts and thus increase their bottom line through war?
