On Tuesday, we got wind of a contest over at EVE Underground Radio. Make sure you tune into the Sunday Hangout at 16:00GMT on Sunday February 11,2007 for your chance to win one of two EVE-CCG starter packs!
Speaking of contests, the "EVE Rocks" contest has drawn to a close and the entries are being judged this week. Watch for the list of winners early next week! Until then, check out the full collection of submissions in the "EVE Rocks" Entry Gallery.
BadGoat has taken over the Screenshot of the Week, and this week he brings us a Badger in dire straits. If you've a screenshot that you'd like showcased, Send it in!
And I know I spend a couple weekly recaps doing the whole "Soon(tm)" thing about guides, but we really really do have some coming! *glances hopefully over to his team* Right, guys?
"Our goal is to provide the best possible game, gaming experience and development process possible. In light of that, we would like to address the recent allegations of CCP employee misconduct. CCP has taken these charges very seriously and since they surfaced we have launched a thorough investigation consisting of an examination of character histories ranging back to their creation as well as into any connected characters owned by the developers involved..."
For facts, tinfoil hats, new information, and grand conspiracies you can visit our thread in progress on the matter here.
Yaar Matey! Thar be a blog about thar Pirates on the EVE Vault![ 7 Comments ] Print News | Mail News | Category: Site News Ever wondered what a day in the life of a pirate is like? Ever have the urge to just go out and shoot anything and everything you see? Check out the new blog hosted by the EVE Vault. Follow the EVE Vault's own Caledric as he shares his experiences as a member of one of the most feared Pirate Alliances in EVE. Take the time to read it today, and share it with a friend!
"From my good friends over at White Wolf Gaming here in the states, I recieved 2 starter packs for the Eve-CCG card game. Tune into the Sunday Hangout at 16:00GMT on Sunday February 11,2007 for your change to win one of the two starter packs.
Please note, that if this goes well, i'll see what else i can get my hands on to send to my listeners. :) No worries the contest isn't going to be that difficult. Just make sure you study your quantum physics, and string theory. Okay okay kidding. I'll make it easy enough.
"There will be a small patch deployed on Thursday, 8 February, during the normal maintenance downtime. The maintenance period should not be extended to deploy the patch."
And for those of you who like to read how the progress of Revelations is coming but perhaps are not actively playing Eve (SHAME ON YOU!), the patch notes...
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.
