New dev blog:

http://myeve.eve-online.com/devblog.asp?a=blog&bid=603

Seems that is is not dead, he is very much alive.  Many new pieces of information in here.  It’s a huge post and worth reading every bit. It’s revealed about some of the intergration changes that are coming, more to be announced at fanfest.  Look for information about Eveolpedia, in game trading for GTC’s, etc..  He hints are fanfest having much more to reveal.

To make things even cooler now, the Quantum Rise features page is up on the EVE site (http://www.eve-online.com/features/QuantumRise).

What caught my eye was the hud changes.  Now, you will be able to move the combat hud to a different location on the screen!!  There is some info on the weapons grouping and many of the other new features, including a screenshot of the new stargate graphics.

Man, I can’t wait for this thing now!!!

UPDATE:  Seems I won’t have to wait long, it’s being deployed on November 11th!!!

AWESOME!!!!

In the age of voice communications in EVE with Teamspeak, Ventrillo or EVE Voice, people are spending less and less time with the in game sounds turned on.

So, it begs the question.  What do you listen to when you are playing the game?

Do you have the sound turned off so that you don’t miss a single order while in a gang or fleet operation?  Do you listen to the EVE soundtrack in the game client while you are gate camping, on a long travel in that hauler to Jita?  Do you leave the TV on in the background or do you opt for the complete silence of the void of space.

Are you a bit on the strange side and have an aeration pump for a fish tank bubbling next to you to recreate the sounds of being in a pod?

What do you listen to?

Black Claw recently discussed the state of carebears in the game with his post, ‘Carebears need to harden the fuck up’ (http://blackclawtravels.blogspot.com/2008/10/carebears-need-to-harden-fuck-up.html).  As I was reading his post and the comments to the post, I laughed and when I began to post my comment, I found that I was starting to create post of my own.  So, Black Claw, cheers to you mate, you are a muse for me today.

For those readers who do not understand, pirates refer to a player as a carebear who is more than simply another target.  They are a juicy target, with an expensive ship and the complete lack of abilities on how to use it effectivly.  They are the ones that think getting into a battleship after 3 months of play is a great idea as a bigger ship makes them safer.  They are the ones that whine and cry when you blow them up in high sec and tell you to go to low sec.  They are the same people who tell you the same thing when you blow them up in low sec, then tell you to go to 0.0 and of course, you blow them up in 0.0, they tell you to go to hell.  If they would just tell you to go to hell when you blow them up in high sec, they would have done you a service and like myself, I would have not spent so much time trying to figure out where I was supposed to be when I blew them up.

Now, many carebears complain that they are too young to die.  Many pirate will disagree with me as any carebear that is target locked with you is fair game.  But alas, the wisdom of my inner Druid does flow forth from time to time.

Ahem..

“Don’t cut down all the saplings in the forest.  If you continue to destroy the young ones of the wood, over time, you will find that you are standing in an empty field.  Let them grow, nurture them.  When they have grown tall and strong, then and only then, cut them down to the ground.”

Put simply, sometimes it’s worth letting those younger players go, if for no other reason, to let them grow up into a bigger, better target.  Give them time, they will continue to grow their character, get in to that bigger ship and when you pop them, those tears will be well aged like a fine wine.  In fact, you may be on the receiving end of a fine whine and that may make all that patience worth the time.

When me and my corp mates are out and about, roaming around, looking for a kill, we on occasion will lock down a young player, pop their ship and then give them a chance to save their pod.  We don’t ransom them for isk, we ransom them for a joke.  We give them a chance to find a sense of humor.  Sometimes they are quite rude, loosing their venom upon us.  Other times, we are laughing so hard from the wonderful joke that we let them go and wish them well.

I have to agree with Black Claw though, many carebears just don’t seem to understand.  EVE is not WOW.  It’s not a first person shooter that you can solo win in an afternoon.  You have to spend time thinking, reading, learning how to play the game.  EVE is a different class of MMORPG and once you understand that, you will have a lot more fun.

Yup, CCP Zulupark opened an interesting thread on the EVE forums last Friday, where he was willing to answer every question the community wanted to ask him.

So, where are things going?  I won’t steal his thunder here, I will simply tell you that you should read his thread:

http://myeve.eve-online.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=905941

Some items that you way wan to note and look for updates to be released at Fanfest:

• Ambulation updates
• Changes to Local Chat in 0.0 and in general
• Tech 3
• New Ships
• Changes to Sovereignty

I am even more upset that I will not be able to attend Fanfest this year, it sounds like there will be a lot of really interesting stuff.  To those of you who will be going this year, keep me updated!!!

It’s time for a fee updates to the OPML download

Sites Added:

EVE is broken (http://eveisbroken.blogspot.com)

I’ve not had a chance to really read all that is here, but the name suggests that there will be a lot to read in way of interesting suggestions on how to fix the various issues that exist in game.  Welcome aboard mate!!

Jalification (http://jalification.blogspot.com)

About Jalif
Jalif is a pirate in the world of eve-online. He fights in lowsec against others to ransom or kill them. He goes alone but when its possible or he feels like it he goes with some friends.

Why an blog? Well, I got also some skills in video editing but my computer can’t hold it when I record my fights. So a blog with additional screenshots will do fine for my purpuse.

After a few blogs I saw already that people who aren’t a pirate have a very diffrent vision about pirates in general & about me. I would like to show people that I like to play the game in a diffrent way then they do.

See you in space.

The Shard (http://www.theshard.org)

My in game name is Brinelan, also known as Scott when not in game.

I have been playing MMO’s since around 1999 with Ultima Online. I went with Everquest back in 2000 and played that for about 7 years. I did the raiding thing back in Kunark and Velious expansion era in EQ1, and from then it was mostly non raiding stuff since leaving the army.  I am currently enjoying EVE and Everquest 2.

I maintain the web sites for my Eve corp, Victory Not Vengeance, and my Everquest 2 guild Revelry and Honor.

Outside of game, I am a Senior Sales Trainer for Verizon Wireless. I enjoy technology, so this is a great job since I get to learn about all the products we offer and get to teach others about them.

I have a wife, Sarah and 2 boys Caleb (2 1/2) and Daniel (1). We live in Connecticut.

Site Changes:

A Mule in EVE (http://amuleineve.net)

Manasi has moved his site to anew domain and it looks awesome, check it out!!!

UPDATE:  There are two more blogs I just learned about this morning, they have also been added to the OPML download, thanx Black Claw and CK!!

The Adventures of Birdog Freelance Privateer (http://birdog-eve.blogspot.com)

The Adventures of Eirellle (http://eirelle.blogspot.com)

Paradise Engineering (http://paradiseengineering.blogspot.com)