Yet again, Eve online.

Dot on 21/11/2006 at 22:12

Oh my!

I used to play this game all the time, and I had a fairly decent number of skill points. I left the game awhile back, giving myself the impression that I didn't find it interesting, but now that I think of it more in-depth, I believe it was because my Mining Barge got killed, it didn't have insurance, and I was frustrated.

So, I used the last 70 million ISK or so that I had to buy some +3 implants, stuck them in my head, and quit the game. :o

I don't know, maybe I'll return to the scene someday... my character would probably be way behind, so perhaps I'd start a new one.

Can't say if it'll ever happen, but if you want to see my former character, search for ' Dottabus '. :p

dj_ivocha on 21/11/2006 at 23:11

I've just finished my first Level 2 agent mission and whacked at least 20 enemy NPC frigates, 4 of which almost as strong as my ship. The last enemy was a cruiser, which of course I whacked too. With my humble Tristan frigate, no less :sly:.

That was great fun, the big bastard just wouldn't die, it took me 10 minutes of pounding at him with my blasters and EMP rockets to bring him down. :D

Also, Ulu, I was kinda hoping for a somewhat bigger and more active corp, you know. ;)

The Alchemist on 24/11/2006 at 16:13

So I log on and I hardly see anyone in the channel, so I get bored and log off. This has been my problem with Eve, mostly. I had lost interest after all my rl friends stopped playing. I should join a corp, but the ones I like are either referal only or require 5m sp.

Guess ill abuse of some frigate rats.

Ulukai question: It takes me an ungodly amount of time to lock onto frigates in my battleship, is this just the nature of the targetting systems as they are so small or can the difference be evened out by high skills or something? Not that it matters since frigates tickle my massive armor, but it's obnoxious that they get a full 10 seconds to orbit me going pew pew while I anxiously hover my fingers over my seven cannons awaiting a lockon.

Uncia on 25/11/2006 at 12:22

Aren't you supposed to be using drones against such targets?

The Alchemist on 25/11/2006 at 19:11

Quote Posted by Uncia

Aren't you supposed to be using drones against such targets?

It would be more efficient than my turrets because of their size advantage giving me a considerably hard time tracking them, but I'm using small turrets because I havent trained in the larger ones yet. And I can only use one drone at a time atm. So yeah certainly, but not exclusively.

Ulukai on 25/11/2006 at 20:35

Quote Posted by The Alchemist

Ulukai question: It takes me an ungodly amount of time to lock onto frigates in my battleship, is this just the nature of the targetting systems as they are so small or can the difference be evened out by high skills or something?

There are two attributes you need to look at here:

* The Signature Radius of the ship you are trying to lock
* The Scan Resolution of the ship you are flying

Trying to lock a ship with a tiny signature radius (i.e. interceptor, frigate, shuttle etc.) in a ship with a low scan resolution (Battleship) will result in long lock times. You can lower the lock time by fitting sensor boosting modules to your ship, and also by training the Signature Analysis skill which will reduce lock time by 5% per level of the skill.

It's also possible to fly a ship with remote sensor boosting modules, where you can boost the scan resolution of one of your corp mates by activating special modules, but that's really for advanced fleet tactics and 'snipe' tactics, typically where a n'er do well will camp a gate out of range of the guns ( > 150KM) in a Tempest with 1400mm artillery cannons with one or more buddies sitting alongside boosting the scan resolution of the sniping ship. Nasty.

Dot on 26/11/2006 at 04:32

If I recall correctly, I believe that there are skill books out there that deal specifically with targeting enhancements, and perhaps a few targeting modules for your ship too.

I could be wrong, though. It's been months since I retired from EVE. :erg:

Ulukai on 26/11/2006 at 12:51

Yeah, you can fit Signal Amplifiers which boost both targeting range and scan resolution.

(http://imageshack.us)

Inline Image:

http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/9421/sigampji1.jpg

The Alchemist on 29/11/2006 at 05:56

Revelations is out, the first of three patches formerly known as Kali. It's added a bunch of stuff, of most interest to me are the tier 3 battleships and tier 2 battlecruisers. They've also changed the way the map/navigation system works. You can now zoom out from the local area to a system-scale map, which allows you to see everything relevant in the current solar system, as well as more specific details about each object.

Tons of other changes as well which can be reviewed (http://www.eve-online.com/features/revelations/) here and (http://myeve.eve-online.com/updates/patchnotes.asp?patchlogID=99) here.

Another detail I really like is that now the vast cluster of stars that make up the world of Eve are visible no matter where you are. I tried taking a good photo of this but ended up just drooling over my new ship instead, oh well, check it out (http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y148/x0101/one.jpg) here. And these two screenshots show off the new mapping system: (http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y148/x0101/two.jpg) Map 1 and (http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y148/x0101/three.jpg) Map2.

Edit: Oh god photobucket resized my images. How gay. They aren't over 100kb a piece, I guess they just dont like large images. Looking for better image host itt.

Renzatic on 29/11/2006 at 06:26

Screw it. I hate watching other people have fun without me, so I'm downloading the client now.

I'll post my screenname and other miscellaneous info when I get home tomorrow.

Oh, and since it has ingame VoIP now, can someone recommend me a good headset?