Ecliptic Rift

Welcome to the twelfth installment of the EVE Blog Banter, the monthly EVE Online blogging extravaganza created by CrazyKinux. The EVE Blog Banter involves an enthusiastic group of gaming bloggers, a common topic within the realm of EVE Online, and a week to post articles pertaining to the said topic. The resulting articles can either be short or quite extensive, either funny or dead serious, but are always a great fun to read! Any questions about the EVE Blog Banter should be directed here. Check out other EVE Blog Banter articles at the bottom of this post!

This month’s banter comes to us from CrazyKinux himself, who asks the following: First there was the MMO on the PC, and now with the recent announcement of DUST 514, EVE will soon be moving onto consoles. But what about mobile? Allow your imagination to run wild for a second and describe how you would see EVE being ported to mobile devices, whether the iPhone/iPod touch, Blackberrys or Android-based devices. Dream the impossible for us!

I want EVE everywhere.

Mobile devices, netbooks, web sites, you name it. The API has gotten us started, of course, but only a start. Essentially, we should only require the client for undocking. Every other operation and activity can interact with the outside world. CCP should provide basic web clients, including a mobile version, but if they let us consume and manipulate the data via the API, we can see a vibrant ecosystem continue to grow and develop around it.

If I can do it without undocking, I want to do it remotely.

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To follow the lead of Manasi, Godlesswanderer, Tony, and Biomassed/Hitch, I present the breakdown of my approximately 24m skill points.

Yes, this means that nearly half of my skills come from Industry, Science, and Trade. Also, a big chunk of my Mechanics skills actually represent ship construction skills. And I can fly transport ships and freighters, so that should tell you something about my Spaceship Command skill breakdown.

I don’t use EVEHQ since it doesn’t run under Linux, nor does EVEMon to my knowledge (though I should probably test those out). So instead I just popped the numbers into Google Docs and generated the chart. The image you see actually comes directly from the data. Someday I should write a little script using the EVE API just to generate this. Though if anyone knows of a great web-based alternative to EVEMon, I’d love to hear about it.