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EVE Online: Cloudy with a Chance of Veldspar
Apr 16th
One of the biggest and most interesting features in EVE Online is its bustling economy. In today's One Jump Home, we take a look at the EVE Online economy and give our unique take on it. Keep reading!
But don't let me fool you into thinking I'm some sort of EVE economist, or have any economic background at all. For the most part, like everything in EVE when it comes to me, I have a passing interest in the clockwork operation of an element of the game. EVE's economy functions based on the creation, sale, and destruction of goods. Most if not ALL of EVE's actual ISK is generated by handouts from CONCORD. CONCORD pays bounties, mission rewards, incursion payouts, and so on regardless of the space you're in. CONCORD is effectively 'The Bank' (but not really).
Read more of Ross McDermott's One Jump Home: Cloudy with a Chance of Veldspar.
SOMER Blink Giveaway Celebration – news from EvE
Apr 16th
SOMER Blink, the EVE instant lottery corporation, has reached a record 150 Trillion ISK in distributed prizes, and is holding a monster giveaway celebration to mark the milestone.
Prizes include an Erebus Titan or 100 Billion ISK, a Heretic BPO, a Titan BPO of the winner’s choice, a supercarrier BPO of the winner’s choice and more.
In addition, they have also given away over 600 Billion ISK worth of prizes via free Promo blinks, with several days still left on the celebration.
The SOMER blink site, which strives to provide the ’everything on the line’ instant win/loss of a casino, was the brainchild of Somerset Mahm, and has grown into the largest lottery organization in New Eden, currently averaging more than a trillion ISK in winnings a day.
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Third Seyllin Conference Announced – news from EvE
Apr 16th
Seyllin, Essence; The third annual Seyllin Conference has been announced. It will take place on the 26th and 27th of May this year, starting at 22:00 on both days.
The conference will be held in the Planet 8, Moon 14 CreoDron station, and all capsuleers are welcome to attend.
The conference will be spread over two days, the first day covering ’Phenomena and Discoveries’, and the second will cover ’Fighting the Nation Threat’.
The conference, originally the brainchild of Julian Soter and the leadership of the early Synenose Accord, has run for three years, each year covering a different topic.
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Mass test on Thursday, April 12 – news from EvE
Apr 9th
The next mass test on our test-server Singularity will be this Thursday, the 12th of April, at 20:00 UTC. In this mass-test we will test changes for Escalation to Inferno and how they affect the performance of client and server. Please follow the instructions on the Singularity page in Evelopedia for connecting to Singularity.
Testing should last around 60 minutes. All participants will receive two million skillpoints on our main test server Singularity.
Please refer to this thread for more information about how you participate in the test, and this EVElopedia article for more information on mass testing.
EVE Online: The Road to Inferno and Beyond
Apr 4th
We had boots on the ground during the recent EVE Online Fanfest and we've got the full report about what the CCP team has in mind for the iconic game. See what's in store!
If Crucible was an apology to legions of disgruntled space-adventurers, then CCP's latest addition to Eve Online, Inferno, is a love letter. Following a traumatic 2011, the Icelandic developer is like a husband shamed by infidelity – it had a brief flirtation with micro transactions, but now they are back, flowers in hand, head hung, and ready to call the couch a bed until the players are ready to allow them back into their affections.
Read more of Adam Tingle's EVE Online: The Road to Inferno and Beyond.
EVE Online: The End of The Mittani Era
Apr 2nd
Last week, all hell broke loose in the EVE Online community with the revelation of what some called "bullying" by The Mittani, a legend in the EVE Online world. In our latest One Jump Home column, we offer the unique perspective about the issue. Read on and then share your thoughts in the comments.
Our story begins with Goonswarm Federation CEO, and Council of Stellar Management 6 chairman The Mittani being handed a microphone on stage and beginning what he would later recount as one of his lowest moments in EVE Online. Just a few days earlier a member of Goonswarm Federation had successfully polished off a tasty 80 Billion ISK scam which was sometime in the works, and executed with the sort of tactful grace that rewards he who dares with such a bountiful yield. However, the player in question hereafter referred to as W. was to become the centre of a controversy that quickly overcame both of them.
Read more of Ross McDermott's One Jump Home: The End of The Mittani Era.
Exploit notification: "Boomerang" – avoiding CONCORD in high security space. *Updated* – news from EvE
Mar 30th
It has come to our attention that players have been avoiding retaliation from CONCORD after committing criminal activities in high security space. We would like to remind you of the following information from Customer Support:
‘If you gain a Global Criminal Countdown by committing an illegal action in high security space, it is considered an exploit to attack a target after you warp away from the grid, or warp within the same grid, where you gained that GCC; even if you later return to that grid while still affected by that GCC.
It is a violation of game policy to avoid retaliation from CONCORD and players who are found using this exploit will have action taken by Game Masters on their accounts. A fix for this exploit, including proper patch notes, will be released as soon as possible.
Lead GM Grimmi
EVE Online: CSM Chairman Announces Resignation, Issues Apology
Mar 28th
The chairman of the EVE Online Council of Stellar Management has announced his intention to resign from his position as a result of an event last week in which a suicidal player was mocked during FanFest. The panel discussion was billed as "unfiltered" but, according to Gianturco, his actions were unacceptable.
According to a post on the EVE forums, Gianturco indicated that he was over intoxicated and didn't realize what he had said though he also qualified that this was not an excuse for his behavior.
I feel absolutely ashamed of my behavior at the Alliance Panel. It's one thing to play a villain in an online roleplaying game – when I post on these forums or on twitter, I usually do so as 'The Mittani', and do my level best to convince everyone that I'm an unrepentant space villain, as that kind of facade provides an in-game advantage to me and my alliance. But I am not that character in real life, as anyone who has met me can attest. I went way, way, /way/ past the line on Thursday night by mocking the Mackinaw miner at a real-life event. I, as a person, am not the entity that I play More >
Mass test on Thursday, March 29 – news from EvE
Mar 28th
A mass test will happen on our event test-server Duality this Thursday, the 29th of March, at 19:00 UTC (one hour earlier than usual). In this mass-test we will take a look at the general client performance and test fixes to client crashes and client clock drift. Please follow the instructions on the Duality page in Evelopedia for connecting to Duality.
Testing should last around 60 minutes. All participants will receive two million skillpoints on our main test server Singularity.
Please refer to this thread for more information about how you participate in the test, and this EVElopedia article for more information on mass testing.
EVE Online: Crucible 1.6 to be deployed on Wednesday, March 28 – news from EvE
Mar 28th
EVE Online: Crucible 1.6 is scheduled for deployment during an extended downtime on Wednesday, March 28. Downtime will begin at 11:00 UTC and is expected to be completed at 12:45 13:50 UTC.
Crucible 1.6 sees the launch of our Japanese client, the third localized client for Tranquility, along with a number of fixes and changes. Patch notes are available here.
Update:Downtime will be extended to 13:50 UTC.