Speed Round

Rather than have several more small posts about several items that built up over the holiday hiatus, here is another speed round.

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New Blog: My friend from way back has decided to start a blog called Soul Ronin in the 33rd Century. Go over there and encourage him to post more!

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I got my Christmas wish and got a 24 inch widescreen monitor for my home computer along with a G15 keyboard so I can see who is talking on Teamspeak on its mini LCD display. Love the monitor, love the new keyboard... just need a more powerful computer now :P

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Turns out CNRs are not invulnerable. I got that mission that sends you to retrieve a case of Quafe from a warhouse and rats show up to ambush you? Well, the first tiny wave was a joke but the second wave was deadly! I nearly died, warping out with 11% shield left even with my X-Large Shield Booster running. Very nervewracking.

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The above happened on the Alliance mission day we had on the past weekend. I was working for a level four agent about 10 jumps from home and had only taken my CNR with me. However, this particular agent gave me 2 regular kill missions, the aforementioned ambush mission, several courier missions, and two missions that gave no bounties because one was against Caldari nationals and the other against Amarr navy. I rejected the Amarr navy one due to being worried about becoming shoot-on-site in Amarr high sec. Sigh. Needless to say I did not make the gobs of ISK for the corp that I wanted despite multiple hours of missions.

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I also got an IPod Shuffle for Christmas to try out listening to podcasts. I couldn't listen to them at home because I'm far to busy with the twins and can't concentrate on them at work, and I'm far too lazy to download them and burn them to CDs to listen to in the car while commuting to work, so the Shuffle seemed like a good idea.

I'm so glad I got it: listening to the podcasts have been great fun and I'm definitely going to download all the Eve related 'casts I can find. Expect a review of them later in the week.

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I admit a passing thought occurred to me to make my own podcast... No no stop it! You don't need more on your plate! You fool!

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That's all for now.

Review: Eve Commander

Eve Commander is a third party website for Eve pilots which takes the API keys for your characters and displays a lot of relevant data on an out of game website. UPDATE: For full disclosure I am using the partner program URL for the link above so I get some ISK for each full registration that uses de503954 as the personal partner key on the registration form.

What's really neat about this tool is that it allows you to see what ships are equipped with and in what station, something you can't do in game even!
You can also browse your wallet journal, transactions, market orders, and your complete list of assets including what is in containers in far off stations (again, something you cannot do in game).


You can't change anything in game from here, but seeing all your assets, ships, market orders, and skills in one place is truly impressive.

Its not free. Depending on how rich you are determines how much you pay per month to use this amazing tool. I find that kind of regressive and a cagey player might simply store his ISK in a corporate wallet or an alt's account, but the monthly cost is not overwhelming even at the maximum fee of 8 million ISK.

UPDATE: It was pointed out to me that the cost is per 90 days, not 30. This is a marvellous deal in that case as I was willing to pay 3 times as much for the service.

Also, the line "I find that kind of regressive" is confusing: I merely meant that the insanely rich (i.e. billions in wallet) benefit greater than the sort of rich (~500 million ISK). Its not a slam so much as an observation.
As the screenshot shows, there is no automatic subscription so your money is safe.

I'm currently running the trial account for my two mains but will definitely upgrade to full edition for one character at least, maybe both. The effort put into this tool (which looks to be continuing with more features on the way) is impressive and I look forward to the usefulness it will provide me, especially when looking for that rare module I thought I still had.

Note: There is a corporate subscription model but it was far to rich for my little indy's corp's blood.