Planetary interaction links
Where I begin my PLANETARY DOMINATION!!!
I’ve started posting all links I find regarding Tyrannis and planetary interaction up on my Delicious account with the tag “tyrannis”. You can browse them or subscribe to them. And feel free to send me more links via Delicious (“for:internetspaceships”) or comment here!
(Props to Ga’len for giving me the idea with his excellent use of Google Reader.)
Fiction contests
Silver Night has graciously decided to sponsor an EVE fiction contest:
Just write a short piece of Eve fiction. The contest will run 3 weeks from the time of this post. Submit your story in this thread (Either the story itself or a link to it). Winners will be picked by me at the end of the submission period.
He has several other requirements, including that the story not center on a capsuleer. First prize? A faction battleship with a 300m ISK fitting stipend… and the runner-up prizes look nearly as good. But beware that he has high standards. Check out his Syndicate Files story (written with Ciarente Roth) for what I mean.
As a side note, you still have time (but not much!) to get into Evemonkey’s February contest, with a Dramiel prize up for grabs.
jEveAssets
Last night, the Exploration channel had a nice discussion about a tool to manage your in-game asset inventory: jEveAssets.
Essentially, you give it your full-access API key and it fetches a list of all your assets, including corp assets if you have the appropriate roles. Then it grabs price data from EVE Central (or EVE Metrics if you prefer) and determines the valuation for the whole thing.
I like the fact that the tool will also list what you have in containers and ship fittings. The value data can get a little iffy at times, and of course items that do not appear on the market (e.g. faction modules and ships that only trade via contracts) will return a zero value. You can set the values for those items manually.
Other players have reported a few bugs like T2 rigs showing values equivalent to their T1 counterparts, but in general I found it a very useful tool. And, since it comes in a Java .JAR file, the tool can run on any platform including Mac and Linux. jEveAssets will definitely stay in my toolbox for a good while.
EVE Dallas concept
I’d like to see about getting EVE Dallas going. If you live anywhere nearby and might have an interest, go pimp the EVE Dallas thread.
Kirith Kodachi on roleplay
Normally, I would throw this on my tumbleblog, but Kirith’s post on roleplay in modern MMORPGs has so much to chew on, and hits so close to an area that matters dearly to me, that I wanted to link it here.
Go read it and comment on it (preferably at his blog if you can). I will have more to say about this later.
Hangar video wallpapers
CCP released four EVE video wallpapers based on what they used at Fanfest 2009. They each form a loop, though you might end up having to chop off the marketing and ESRB bits at the beginning and end. The forum has more info on how to do that (and background on the wallpapers themselves).
Blogroll moved
Due to its increasing size, I’ve moved my EVE Online blogroll to its own page. This includes every reasonably active blog I can find. Some of them blog about other things as well, usually gaming or digital media. So where possible, I link to their EVE Online category or tag, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t check out the rest of their content!
And as always, you may find more satisfaction in just using Ga’len’s EVE Player Blogs OPML. I like the little thrill of finding new blogs the old-fashioned way, but you may just want to get it all at once.
links for 2010-01-12
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Great high-level overview of EVE Online's infrastructure architecture.
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More accurately, the Law of Cause and Effect.
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Discussion on pod pilots actually being in, you know, pods.
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Reference with lots of links. Deal with it.
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Why anyone would WANT to become an auditor is another question entirely.
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Interesting discussion on low-sec piracy needing a boost.
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Troll but the ensuing discussion has some value.
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Could Sleeper AI be coming to a mission or plex near you soon? HOPE SO!!
links for 2009-12-30
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Lotteries are fairly popular in online games (as are traditional gambling mini-games). The traditional argument against these games being gambling is that there is no way for currency or items to "exit" the game. However, that is not what the legal definition implies…
links for 2009-12-27
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We keep track of known issues in the current Tranquility build. Some of these are serious enough to be listed as known issues. This list is usually not populated until the build has hit Tranquility. GM's and Quality Assurance maintain this list.
