Quafe Zero Speculation
Posted: 2011-05-06 Filed under: market | Tags: Quafe Leave a commentLet the trading begin! I can only imagine that the price of this item will increase over time. I do wonder if this is a first step into CCP’s vision of ‘trading drugs at the bar person-to-person’ Incarna-style.
Get yer Quafe Zero! Quafe Zero here for sale! 15 M a can! In this instance, I am all for pushing drugs on the general population.
Eve Market Forum thread for Quafe Zero Speculation.
Refined Capital Production Page
Posted: 2011-05-03 Filed under: industry | Tags: wallet 3 CommentsIf you are not aware, my friend James and I have been working on a custom wallet manager.
After many hours of coding, I’d like to show you all the finished Capital Production Page with the information for one of my favorite ships, the Nyx. The price data at the bottom is dummy data so no, I will not sell you a Nyx for 20B.
Up next is the Subcapital Production Page.
whoopsie daisy
Posted: 2011-04-21 Filed under: eveonline | Tags: corp, eve online, theft 2 CommentsIt’s a heckova feeling to be trying to memorize a psychology textbook for a midterm, click to Evegate out of utter boredom and see this:
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To: CORP
if anyone has a telephone number or something for a CEO / Director / … now would be like a very good time to use it.
or if a director or whoever is reading eve gate, GET ON NOW
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dated ten minutes old. It’s somewhere between “crap, I have to stop studying” and “awesome, I get to stop studying!”
So, I logon and PoS shields are down, SMAs destroyed and ships and wrecks are floating everywhere. A blue fleet orbits an offline tower with a CSMA, guarding it and giving me a wary eye.
In case you hadn’t gathered we’ve been hit with a corp spy. Losses aren’t so bad, but we didn’t have too much to steal. After some onlining of shields, questioning and more onlining, the shields were back up and people started pointing fingers at other peoples and some feelings were hurt.
Apparently our stepped-up recruitment drive had so many applicants we(the directors) accidentally gave access to the cap storage tower to a dude in corp for less than a week. Something about him being from another NC alliance and having a JF and ect ect ect.
Losses are at about five caps, no supers and a smattering of items. Total about 6 bil.
On the plus side, right my towers blew up and I said “fuck it” to anything moon goo related, the corp asked me to setup a moon goo chain for our pocket of nullsec. Since these towers were actually being used for things other than moon goo, tho, I had to get creative as far as where to stick the complex reactors(3000 CPU). My ceo drew the line at the cap ship storage tower.
Here’s what the end result looked like:
Despite being “impossible to understand” or something, the corp used this and various other….things and we’ve replaced most of the stuff lost. I’d like to clarify that, for the first time on this blog, these losses are not directly or indirectly my fault.
Ratting, you’re killing me Smalls
Posted: 2011-04-18 Filed under: eveonline | Tags: nullsec, ratting 6 CommentsWith Incursion 1.4 on April 6th, CCP changed the way anomalies work.
Below is a report showing the ratting statics of a 165 member nullsec corporation from February 14 to April 23, 2011. Our income from ratting is nosediving.
As a player that started in 2008, I’ve seen a lot of changes come to Eve and honestly this one is the first change that I really found unnerving. I feel as if I gave my dog a new chewtoy and while he was enjoying it, I took it away.
I believe that this feeling can best be described in a modern form of art called a ragecomic.
CCP Communication
Posted: 2011-04-13 Filed under: eveonline 2 CommentsI spent the first five years of my professional career out of college working as a consultant for small and medium sized business in the IT world in Chicago. At that job I learned a number of important business rules. One of them was boiled down to a single phrase that the CEO said to me during my first month – perception matters.
In the client’s eyes, it is not so much that a problem has occurred; there will always be problems and obstacles to work around. It doesn’t matter if you reformatted the server, lost an email, or simply forgot. What matters is what you are aware, working on it, and that this message is effectively and clearly communicated.
I toughly enjoy reading CCP’s Devblogs as they give me warm and fuzzy feelings. I am the eager client awaiting the new item and the Devblogs placate me.
In CPP Sreegs’ latest Devblog, New Forum Security Blog – Cookie Derp, the highly public facing issue of the new forums’ security measures were addressed: Yes, there were oversights. Yes, there was a breakdown of internal QA processes. Yes, there was mismanagement of resources. They are working on it and we have to wait. I would much rather know the details of the situation as outlined in the Devlog than be told that there simply ‘was an issue’. For this type of transparent client communication I am grateful.
I understand that many people are citing this as another one of CCP’s 80% implemented deliveries. I am also starting to notice these trends (or perhaps I am becoming a bitter vet) but you know what? I still subscribe, I still am involved in the community, and I am looking forward towards the next series of expansions.
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