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Hello all.

Thank you for being a loyal reader of my blog and the other content on this site.

Starfleet Comms has been in existence in many forms over the years, initially supporting Starfleet Command fans but for the last 3 years supporting Eve Online.

You might want to coin the term "agile" as we leap from doing one thing to another.

We still want to support Eve Online but feel you want more than a blog or blog host. You deserve more than a news aggregator and you don't want yet another forum.

So we plan to change. Soon(tm).

Change is coming. Be ready.

This was my second visit to Fanfest and I'm absolutely certain it wasn't the last!

Each time I've gone though I have been expecting some wild announcement or earth shattering news about the game that non-attendees would not hear about until afterwards. Each time I've been slightly disappointed. But that is the only thing I have been disappointed with, everything else is great fun and CCP really do pull out all the stops to make it as engaging and fun as possible.  read the rest of this post»

Some pod pilots in Eve might be happily going about their daily business, blissfully unaware of the tension, angst, subterfuge and ecstasy that is part and parcel of the current Eve Online Alliance Tournament 7.

However there are those that are more aware of this phenomenon and many more are becoming aware day by day. There are even people interested in this Tournament who have not had the pleasure of being in a goo filled pod. Rude, I know.  read the rest of this post»

Hi all

Please accept our apologies but we are experiencing update issues at www.StarFleetComms.com.

There appears to be issues retrieving posts from the Eve Online forums, our automated service is no longer functioning.

We initially contacted our hosting provider who claim no changes have been made, likewise at CCP.

Meanwhile, alternative methods of providing this service are being sourced. Whether that means an alternative host, a new site build or a fix is undecided and is still in the investigative stages.  read the rest of this post»

Hey there. Max here. Lol, that's rather irritating isn't it? But after reading the forums over at Eve-O pretty much solidly this past week, Cat O'Ninetails' post style tends to imprint on you. Reading from work at break times I hasten to add!

Annoying as it is, alt posting seems to be the norm rather than the exception over at Eve-O. Thread starters seem to always be alts - rarely mains.

As I scrape the OP and the OP's name, this has become more apparent and frankly, a shame.  read the rest of this post»

Greetings,

Well, I never did get around to playing much as I promised myself in my previous blog. I got wrapped up in improving the comms link function here instead. Plus work is a bitch but hey, we all have to suffer that at some point.

The commslinks have now been improved over their previous state. Now the commslink title reflects the title of the thread. Which is a vast improvement over "Bobby Joe Posted 2009.12.01 18:00:01". It definately makes it more readable.  read the rest of this post»

It's been a couple of weeks since I introduced the new facility of grabbing posts from Eve Online forums and making it so you can all rate them and produce a digest.

It's been working really well and despite the odd hiccup it's proven quite a hit! A few requests have been made that I've now implemented. Many of them were sparked by the recent Satellite Watch/keylogger spam hitting Eve-Online forums.  read the rest of this post»

Greetings! Some of the more observant of you will have spotted the cunningly hidden advert slap bang in the centre of the front page of the site warbling on about tshirts and barcodes.

TL;DR at the bottom!

"What is all this about?", I hear you cry in excitement and wonder.

I'm glad you asked! It's about the merging of three areas. Fashion, mobile phones and the internet.  read the rest of this post»

So. You have been playing Eve for a while now and you are sitting there in your Dreadnought thinking life is rosy. Maybe a little bored. Maybe wondering if there is more to the game than PoS Warfare and blobfests.

Maybe you are new to Eve and simply want to know where to start and have a good foundation of knowledge to build from.  read the rest of this post»

This week has had the peanut gallery in stitches now that the bubble has burst over at E-Bank.

It seems like Ricdic basically weighed up his options and took out approx 230 Billion Isk worth about $4000 and as a result got his accounts banned by CCP for selling the ISK (RMT).  read the rest of this post»