Happy 7th Birthday Eve!

Seven years ago today Eve was launched. Head over to the Eve-Online forums to add your birthday wishes.

(Hat Tip: Winterblink)

Titan = over $7000

Over at Jump On Contact, there is a diagram pointing out the real life cost of various ship classes from the humble Thorax at less than a dollar to the mighty Avatar titan, estimate at around 7600 dollars to build. Go over there and read the whole thing.

Schwing!

Holiday Gift from CCP!

As bitter cold descends upon our global offices, the EVE development crew has managed to thaw out it‘s frozen asteroid heart and give a little something back to you. Our team has been secretly planning and wrapping a holiday gift for pod pilots the universe over—the Zephyr.

The Zephyr is a unique starship design, relying almost entirely on solar winds for sublight propulsion. Super-light sails allow it to ride the torrents of photons streaming through space, and its barebones construction gives it a tiny sensor footprint and almost negligible mass. Originally conceived by the ascetic Intaki polymath Valsas en Dilat as a demonstration of minimalist starship design, it was never intended as a commercial venture. The recent discovery of the uncharted Sleeper Territories and their myriad wormholes has brought the Zephyr new attention - its mass makes it an ideal exploration vessel. Valsas remains adamant that the Zephyr never sees mass production, but at the close of YC111 he authorized the Intaki Syndicate to distribute a single hull, paired to a specialized Prototype Iris Probe Launcher, to every registered capsuleer.

 Sweet! Can't wait to try it out. :)

Sweet Jesus!

Now THOSE are planets!

This is Why I Play Eve

The Dronelands War: Battle for Etherium Reach

E-ON Award Voting Closed

The voting for the E-ON 2008 awards has been closed and we're promised results soon (tm).

After I first heard I was nominated for writer of the year, I spent the next week or so after that looking over every post I wrote and asking myself "is this worthy of Writer of the Year awards?" but then I realized I was being stupid. Whatever will be will be and I don't plan to change my writing style or blog content based on whether or not I want to win an award.

It was nice to be recognized though. When I hear the results I'll post them here of course.

Honoured

Last night I was online and noticed Mynxee and Silicon Buddha playfully bantering about getting the most votes on Twitter. Curious as to what they were talking about I found a link in the history and followed it to find out that the 2009 E-ON Magazine Awards nominees were up and voting was open until March 4th. Here is a screenshot for non-Eve subscribers:


Both Mynxee and Silicon Buddha have been nominated in the "Most Promising Newcomer" category and my congrats go out to them.

The other categories have lots of notable nominees and I'm not going to list them here in case I leave someone out and make them sad, but I will direct your attention to the last category on the page called "Writer of the Year". The nominees are:
- Alia Xi
- Flashfresh
- Galadriela
- Ombeve (which is his website name, the writer is Ombey)
- Winterblink
- AND ME!!!!

"Proof or STFU!":


Holy crap, I was floored. I AM floored. I am still.... on the floor. I know it sounds like a cliche but its true that I am so honoured to have been nominated and put into that category with such excellent writers. I suspect that my Eve Tribune articles combined with my running commentary on this blog have helped to get me nominated, so a huge shout out to the Tribune which got nominated itself in the Eve Fansite category.

So Eve pilots, go and vote. And thanks to the secret members of the "Dark Wheel" who nominated me.

OMG!

The new feature site for the next Eve expansion, The Empyrean Age, is up. Even if you are not an Eve player, check out that teaser trailer. That's AWESOME.

A Nyx mothership, second most expensive class of ships in the game, crashing into a station?! WOW! Best part is, during today's downtime the developers destroyed the station in game for real and its now a smoking wreck. AWESOME!

I was very stoked about Factional Warfare before, but CCP is going all out on this and I'm even more excited.