For those of you keeping track, roughly once a year when my account is up for renewal, CCP screw it up somehow and I'm then handed some extra out of game time while they fix the issue.
Here is the post from last year.
http://yosagiyojimbo.blogspot.com.au/2013/07/the-painters-are-in.html
However this year they managed to get it right.
Well done.
Sunday, 24 August 2014
Saturday, 23 August 2014
Not Dead Yet
So...
How time flies when you're horribly ill and have to prioritise everything, which of course means this becomes neglected.
But no more!
Until next time anyway...
CCP have seen fit to validate this blog for another year, which I was pretty surprised about, but I guess they know what they're doing.
Don't they?
Anyway another expansion is almost upon us, but the improved update, sorry expansion, frequency has a nasty side effect of more extended down times. This may not impact much on the non Australians amongst you but it hits us right in the prime time plums.
So that is quite annoying.
The alliance is growing nicely, more corps and more members into our corp. We are building a nice little community in our pocket of space, which of course I've now ruined by mentioning it. Ahh well.
I've been thinking about some more fiction, thinking about mapping it out to try and create some sort of continuing story rather than two guys talking in a bar all the time. Though that could last for quite some time as committing the usual multi hour partially drunken conversation to the written word would fill up quite a few pages I'm sure.
"I love you mate!"
"No, no, no, no ... no, ... yes I love you too mate!"
That sort of stuff.
Before the next expansion comes out, which from memory is called Hyperion, I'll have a look at what we can expect and no doubt provide some ill thought out commentary that manages to get a significant percentage of it wrong.
/me crosses fingers
How time flies when you're horribly ill and have to prioritise everything, which of course means this becomes neglected.
But no more!
Until next time anyway...
CCP have seen fit to validate this blog for another year, which I was pretty surprised about, but I guess they know what they're doing.
Don't they?
Anyway another expansion is almost upon us, but the improved update, sorry expansion, frequency has a nasty side effect of more extended down times. This may not impact much on the non Australians amongst you but it hits us right in the prime time plums.
So that is quite annoying.
The alliance is growing nicely, more corps and more members into our corp. We are building a nice little community in our pocket of space, which of course I've now ruined by mentioning it. Ahh well.
I've been thinking about some more fiction, thinking about mapping it out to try and create some sort of continuing story rather than two guys talking in a bar all the time. Though that could last for quite some time as committing the usual multi hour partially drunken conversation to the written word would fill up quite a few pages I'm sure.
"I love you mate!"
"No, no, no, no ... no, ... yes I love you too mate!"
That sort of stuff.
Before the next expansion comes out, which from memory is called Hyperion, I'll have a look at what we can expect and no doubt provide some ill thought out commentary that manages to get a significant percentage of it wrong.
/me crosses fingers
Monday, 28 July 2014
News and DT Drama
It's been a fun old ten days or so. We have the industry update, the slew of late DT's after it, a resurgence of our alliance activity, not to mention a change of game leadership for Eve Online!
The industry update, known as Crius, finally landed and it has taken a while to figure out the ins and outs, but it is now settling down.
Crius update link
Crius patch notes
CCP Seagul is now the Executive Producer for Eve Online!
She seems to have been once of the main architects behind the change of update direction, although I believe this was mandated by a changing game landscape anyway. So it will be interesting to see how Eve goes over the next few updates.
Finally the repeated long DT's just hammered our corp and alliance activity, but it now looks to be recovering. As downtime is in our gaming prime time it hurts us deeply when it's extended.
A week of long DT's every six weeks when an update is released?
Yay...
Once more into the breach!
The industry update, known as Crius, finally landed and it has taken a while to figure out the ins and outs, but it is now settling down.
Crius update link
Crius patch notes
CCP Seagul is now the Executive Producer for Eve Online!
She seems to have been once of the main architects behind the change of update direction, although I believe this was mandated by a changing game landscape anyway. So it will be interesting to see how Eve goes over the next few updates.
Finally the repeated long DT's just hammered our corp and alliance activity, but it now looks to be recovering. As downtime is in our gaming prime time it hurts us deeply when it's extended.
A week of long DT's every six weeks when an update is released?
Yay...
Once more into the breach!
Saturday, 19 July 2014
We're Number Six! We're Number Six!
An interesting article over at superdataresearch.com showing the top ten MMO's in 2013, their revenues and market share.
EVE Online comes in at number six, which surprised me. I thought it was too niche to even be in the top ten, but apparently the subscriptions model works better for science fiction titles than fantasy.
Weird!
Article link > http://www.superdataresearch.com/blog/us-digital-games-market/
EVE Online comes in at number six, which surprised me. I thought it was too niche to even be in the top ten, but apparently the subscriptions model works better for science fiction titles than fantasy.
Weird!
Article link > http://www.superdataresearch.com/blog/us-digital-games-market/
Friday, 11 July 2014
The Rumour Mill
Rumours, one of the last bastions of the dull and inbred.
The latest one in Eve Online is the supposed removal of the In Game Browser (IGB). This was posted on mittens.com and also places of value, but of course it has little merit.
Although the CCP response, which I've posted below, does suggest that once the CREST technology is mature it may then be replaced, but this is so far into the future it's just common sense.
The old will be replaced by the new.
Hardly worth the hysteria.
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https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=4785990#post4785990
Oh wow, this is a pretty amazing thread. Mostly filled with a lot of misunderstanding so let me see if I can clear that up before we get to the Jita riots. Before continuing though, please be advised this post comes to you from a phone and is therefore likely to be filled with even more terribleness than my usual posts. I may try and proof read this though.
So, first and foremost the IGB is not being removed anytime soon and defiantly not without a lot of discussion with the CSM and more importantly you guys. When I say not anytime soon I mean there is no plan to remove it, there is not even a plan to look into how much effort it would be to it. Removing the IGB is as best I can tell years away from happening.
So that probably doesn't help this that much as all i have done is confirm we CCP want to remove the IGB and that it is years away from happening. That doesn't help the fact that many of you use the IGB and feel losing the IGB would hurt your gameplay.
So let me try something else. We don't want to remove the IGB until we have CREST up to the point of replacing it. The most common uses of the IGB are things like DOTLAN's radar or wormhole mapping software. Both those really just need your location information, which we can supply in the an even better way via CREST. Better CREST wouldn't require you to have the IGB open. Log into some website, give it permission to see your location, and even when you are not on that web site it know where you are. This means you get your whole corp to sign up and then only those looking at the mail need to open the browser. This is better in so many ways.
The other big thing the IGB offers is the ability to open links in the client. I don't think we have looked to deep into it, but we should be able to have you press a button on web site and then via CREST it tells the server which tells your client to open some window. Maybe a tad shower but again not only is the format and technology better for developers but the number of uses and possibilities is far greater than the IGB.
I could go on listing so many other things but the bottom line is this: CREST is a far newer technology and more importantly one we can maintain far easier than the IGB. We would like to remove the IGB but we will not do so until CREST, or even maybe something else, gets us feature equal to the IGB.
Really the only question and problem with moving from the IGB to CREST is the fact that you can browse the IGB from the client versus alt-tabbing. From our, or mine anyways, understanding most of you guys have multiple monitors and that's not an issue. There are also other applications that will overlay your current web browser with the game. Things like Overwolf I think it's called. The benefits from us doing things through CREST and relying on you guys to use an existing browser are immense. We get to focus on making cool things instead of trying to maintain a customized browser in the client. Not sure you guys realize just how much work there is in maintaining something as complex as a browser and how much of a security problem for everyone this is.
Anyways, nothing is happening anytime soon, when it does it will be because we, CCP and you the players and the CSM, have had a good long discussion about it, and only once something else is in place to replace it.
I hope that elevates (alleviates? - Yos) your concerns for now. Let's get back to blowing up spaceships and building an awesome universe together and enjoying the sun... Which I might be the only one doing :P
The latest one in Eve Online is the supposed removal of the In Game Browser (IGB). This was posted on mittens.com and also places of value, but of course it has little merit.
Although the CCP response, which I've posted below, does suggest that once the CREST technology is mature it may then be replaced, but this is so far into the future it's just common sense.
The old will be replaced by the new.
Hardly worth the hysteria.
----------------------
https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=4785990#post4785990
Oh wow, this is a pretty amazing thread. Mostly filled with a lot of misunderstanding so let me see if I can clear that up before we get to the Jita riots. Before continuing though, please be advised this post comes to you from a phone and is therefore likely to be filled with even more terribleness than my usual posts. I may try and proof read this though.
So, first and foremost the IGB is not being removed anytime soon and defiantly not without a lot of discussion with the CSM and more importantly you guys. When I say not anytime soon I mean there is no plan to remove it, there is not even a plan to look into how much effort it would be to it. Removing the IGB is as best I can tell years away from happening.
So that probably doesn't help this that much as all i have done is confirm we CCP want to remove the IGB and that it is years away from happening. That doesn't help the fact that many of you use the IGB and feel losing the IGB would hurt your gameplay.
So let me try something else. We don't want to remove the IGB until we have CREST up to the point of replacing it. The most common uses of the IGB are things like DOTLAN's radar or wormhole mapping software. Both those really just need your location information, which we can supply in the an even better way via CREST. Better CREST wouldn't require you to have the IGB open. Log into some website, give it permission to see your location, and even when you are not on that web site it know where you are. This means you get your whole corp to sign up and then only those looking at the mail need to open the browser. This is better in so many ways.
The other big thing the IGB offers is the ability to open links in the client. I don't think we have looked to deep into it, but we should be able to have you press a button on web site and then via CREST it tells the server which tells your client to open some window. Maybe a tad shower but again not only is the format and technology better for developers but the number of uses and possibilities is far greater than the IGB.
I could go on listing so many other things but the bottom line is this: CREST is a far newer technology and more importantly one we can maintain far easier than the IGB. We would like to remove the IGB but we will not do so until CREST, or even maybe something else, gets us feature equal to the IGB.
Really the only question and problem with moving from the IGB to CREST is the fact that you can browse the IGB from the client versus alt-tabbing. From our, or mine anyways, understanding most of you guys have multiple monitors and that's not an issue. There are also other applications that will overlay your current web browser with the game. Things like Overwolf I think it's called. The benefits from us doing things through CREST and relying on you guys to use an existing browser are immense. We get to focus on making cool things instead of trying to maintain a customized browser in the client. Not sure you guys realize just how much work there is in maintaining something as complex as a browser and how much of a security problem for everyone this is.
Anyways, nothing is happening anytime soon, when it does it will be because we, CCP and you the players and the CSM, have had a good long discussion about it, and only once something else is in place to replace it.
I hope that elevates (alleviates? - Yos) your concerns for now. Let's get back to blowing up spaceships and building an awesome universe together and enjoying the sun... Which I might be the only one doing :P
CCP FoxFour
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