This is an excerpt of one of the dev presentations taken at Fanfest 2007. Eris Discordia tells us about PvP!
Recorded by StarFleet Comms for Cyberspace Radio 2007.

17:59 minutes (16.46 MB)

Last year at the end of October I was transfixed as I watched parts of the Eve Online Fanfest on a player run TV station called Eve TV. It made my mind boggle that since 1992 or thereabouts when ' tinternet were young and the only thing you could download was grainy poor quality porn things had come so far so quickly.

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20 million Isk (in game)

100 Isk (on site)

If you can correctly guess exactly what this is.

Please post your answers as a reply to this Blog within the next 14 days. The first correct answer wins. The judges decision is final. No correspondence will be entered into and no you can't have my stuff.

Good luck!

20 million Isk (in game)

100 Isk (on site)

If you can guess what this is:

 

The prize is as stated above...quite cool for just identifying something you probably see quite often. No correspondence etc, judges decision final and so on.  read the rest of this post»

This is a test blog using email to post it and processing attached images to show. And you should see a pic unless I cocked up the dimensions... Cool, now you know you don't have to even visit the site to post a blog! Ideal for fanfests, meets and other such events. Great if your phone can send email.

Wow!

Just looks at this - 38,242 players online all at once on one server! I think that's a new record for Eve Online?

 

 

Reports of lag that night were not that loud as they have been in the past either so things are looking up...  read the rest of this post»

As I type the hamsters are idling and the GM's and Dev's are taking a step back, kinda....the server that runs on the huge supercomputer running Eve Online is going offline.  read the rest of this post»

IF YOU HAVEN'T INSTALLED YET INSTRUCTIONS
DO THIS BEFORE YOU RUN THE PREMIUM INSTALLER. IT DOESN'T MATTER IF YOU CAN SEE A BOOT.INI IN EXPLORER OR NOT  read the rest of this post»

Here we are, 14:30 GMT a good 16 hours or so after the deployment of the Trinity expansion for Eve Online.

I'm going to come across as a real fanboi to detractors and frankly I don't care.

I do appreciate that CCP really so love what they do and have created a fantastic game limited only by our imaginations.

I do think that CCP deserve hearty congratulations for an otherwise fantastic design, production and deployment of an expansion that gives the game so much.

I also think that a mistake is a mistake and that we all make them. Some have more consequences than others to be sure. But if you take a look at the Eve-o you'd think CCP had gone around murdering kittens.  read the rest of this post»

I've been playing Eve some time now and was lucky enough to join a corp in the ASCN alliance.  Mainly as a tackler but also with ewar I was useful and had a laugh.  read the rest of this post»

Trinity introduced several changes and one was what is being called the Sensor Boost nerf.  read the rest of this post»

This link appeared a couple of days ago but only in the last 24 hours on the Eve-O forums.... http://www.usethepiat.com/dec20bobts.mp3

Have a listen to that...

Now then, there are a number of points of view you can take with this...if I've missed any feel free to post.

1: BoB are crying whaaaambulance at lag and are plotting the downfall of CCP...

 

2: Goons are impersonating BoB crying whaaambulance at lag and plotting the downfall of BoB and CCP.

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Hey all.

This one is quite easy so many of you may actually get it. Or at least stand an excellent chance of getting it right.    So, it's first come first served!

 

The prize for this competition is 10 million ingame ISK and 100 ISK on this site which allows greater upload space and higher privileges.

 

Feel free to register on the site and post your answer. Don't forget to mention your ingame name so we can pay you. What is this a picture of?

 

 

1 Titan

3 Doomsday Device releases

850 pilots (approx)

1 Cataclysmic Solar Event

So there we are, in our uncontrollable ships zooming off in all directions with a 12 minute delay between issuing a command and the ship responding... Expecations are mounting though, this battle is going to be epic!

 

Shrike is under attack, he's bubbled and he's near a gate. Wrecks fill the screen as the Doomsday Device culls pilots in the hundreds.

 

Pilots frantically try to re-enter the system, sometimes only to find themselves in a pod, others have even less control of their ships than before.

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An excellent and rather quirky guide to the life of piracy by Two Ghosts and Ridley Tree. Well worth a watch!

The dark side is beckoning...

This is a test image in blog content.

You can see the larger version by clicking on the picture.

There is also a gallery here - you can post your own screenshots up too!

www.starfleetcomms.com/image

It's been a few weeks in coming and still needs a little bit of work doing but it is working at last!

Previously, we had a version of a wysiwyg editor people could use on this site that prevented us using certain scripts to display images.

So today, we've reverted to BBCode which many forum warriors are familiar with and to be fair it's all that is really needed.

After all, we're catering to gamers who play EvE, so it's a mature audience in many terms.  read the rest of this post»

I've been trawling through the server logs daily while bug fixing the site and been fascinated by some of the logs that show up.

It seems that either a string of infected machines are trying to find vulnerabilities with the server this site is housed on or a deliberate attempt is being made at finding these vulnerabilities.

An example log is here:

This just started a few days ago and I routinely block the ip addresses in question.

The attempts target varying possible database URLs that luckily, are not web facing on this server.  read the rest of this post»

Since writing this article, Virgin appear to have resolved the port 26000 issues but introduced other traffic shaping measures relating to bandwidth that shouldn't affect Eve gameplay as Eve uses relatively little bandwidth. I'm unsure about the Tiscali situation but reports still get posted on various gaming sites about port blocking and other traffic shaping methods.  read the rest of this post»

I thought I'd post this video, courtesy of Ten Ton Hammer before it gets lost in the mists of time as it were.

It relates to this discussion here where devs provide input and listen to the discussion.

Personally, I can't wait for this to happen, it will be a great aspect to the game and like everything else in EvE, a choice, you don't have to walk in the stations.

Note the voices in the video where they see the "high definition" (read Trinity) stations and ask if it was pre-rendered. Cool.

We previously had Terms & Conditions that really didn't offer you as a site contributor much in the way of protection nor you as a site user much in the way of information as to what you could do with stuff.

So, we have come up with the idea of making Creative Commons licensing available for your blogs and guides, should you wish to use them.

In a nutshell, "Share, Remix, Reuse — Legally

Creative Commons provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry. You can use CC to change your copyright terms from "All Rights Reserved" to "Some Rights Reserved."  read the rest of this post»