August 2007 Entries

What you really need to play Eve right

In order to play Eve you really need a screen that shows 1920x1200 pixels. I can FINALLY show all the chat windows on screen that I need to at the same time! :) The Mac and Linux beta starts next week, hopefully I'm in and hopefully it's mean I can dump crossover and get sound back. Only kidding, I'd rather have the graphical glitches that crossover still has fixed instead. The worse one? The five square indicators on the character sheet that shows which level you have you skills at is missing. And the lack of colour on certain "shoot or...

Lazy sunday afternoons

It's a sunday afternoon, it's sunny out and Corp chat is quiet as everybody gets on with everything that they do when it's quiet and nobody is shooting at us. Wars are for winter, summer is for relaxing. Me? I'm getting annoyed that Carriers seem to cost less than Freighters nowadays, but that's mainly because I'm thinking of finally getting around to grabbing a freighter. On the plus side I've got an untextured Caldari Shuttle rotating on my XBOX 360. I haven't figured out what I'm doing wrong with the texturing yet though, but it's a start.

A week in Eve

Mumble mumble Alliance mumble mumble WAR! mumble mumble PEACE! mumble mumble More alliance mumble mumble IMPLANT TO REDUCE SCAN TIME BY 10%! Eve blogs are full of things that you can't talk about for political reasons. I can moan about grinding missions with a new agent to get the implant though, but that's as boring as the actual grinding. I've been playing with the new API for getting data out of the game, more importantly the ability to put your wallet into Excel. Yes, in Eve you can now even do your accounts properly. More specifically I've been trying to...