A Mule in EvE

Archive for November, 2009

So finally CCP has updated the patch notes as usual I won’t detail all the info here but they really have seemed to do a hell of a lot with the User Interface ( UI) that was, well not reported a great deal.

My belief ids that they crippled the already gimped Caldari dreadnought with the citadel launchers, but final analysis will ahve to wait till I can see one in action.

A great deal of work went into the New Character creation, I would be interested to hear thoughts on that once released.

looks like they also revamped the Agents and missions, one thing to note level 1

It is now impossible for players to never have access to agents. Level 1 agents, up to Quality 0, will be available to all players regardless of their faction, corporation, or personal standing with the agent. This does not affect Research Agents or access to the character location service offered by some agents, they maintain their high standards.

So that is actually quite good news for people like me who are -8.90 with the Sansha, ( not that I run missions now but if I did in the future it is worth noting)

Some big changes on the Corporation and Alliance changes:

• No longer do you have to travel to an HQ to join.  ( thank god for this change)
• Fleet finder seems to work well

• Corporations and Alliances now have a Bulletin Board accessible from the Corporation Neocom window.
• Each corporation and alliance can have a maximum of 10 bulletins of up to 2000 characters each available at once.
• The role “Communications Officer” has permission to add/edit/delete bulletins for the corporation and alliance.
• The bulletins are cached for 15 minutes so if you make changes expect up to that long to pass before other people will see it.

Now as a Director for my corporation I wonder what these will do?  Seems promising…I wonder if they will add some functionality…

Oh for the loveof god…the Naglfar has a missile bonus? as if anyone will use it now? What a waste..

The Naglfar has a new bonus: 5% bonus to Missile Launcher rate of fire per level of Minmatar Dreadnought Skill. In exchange, the Naglfar has lost its bonus to projectile rate of fire.

Missile do not do well in PvP, maybe this will be changing…who knows…[the reason for the complaint is people do not like to have them in fleets to begin with as they tend to bump every other damned ship around them so this just further adds to the issues with it.]

CCP did change projectiles a bit, more tinkering will have to be done to see what these changes actually bring for us Minmatar Pilots.

Some very interesting changes to skills, most made easier to acquire, some are very valuable. From the patch notes:

• Hacking has the following prerequisites: Science level 3(down from level 5), Electronics Upgrades level 3(down from level 5), Electronics level 1 (down from level 2), Engineering level 1 (down from level 2)
• Archaeology has the following prerequisites: Science level 3(down from level 5), Survey level 3 (down from level 5), Electronics level 1
• Salvaging has the following prerequisites: Mechanic level 3, Survey at level 3 and Engineering at level 1
• Cloaking has the following prerequisites Electronics level 4 ( was 5)
• High Speed Maneuvering has Navigation at level 3 and Afterburner at level 3 as its prerequisites (instead of all at level 4)
• Tactical Shield Manipulation has Engineering at level 3 as its prerequisites(instead of level 4)
• Trajectory Analysis has Gunnery at level 4 as a prerequisite (instead of 5)
• Bomb Deployment has missile bombardment at level 4 as a prerequisite (instead of level 5)
• Mining Upgrades now has Mining at level 3 as a prerequisite (instead of 4)
• Thermodynamics has Engineering at level 5, Energy Management at level 3(instead of 5) and Science at level 4

Sometimes I wonder if starting over again might now be worthwhile as I spent SOO much time training some of these to level 5…:(

Two very nice changes to the character sheet:

When opening the character sheet you will no longer see the typewriter effect in the character information – the text will be displayed instantly.
The location of your clone is now displayed on the character sheet under the clone grade.

Thank goodness about damned time if you ask me.

Lastly the number of fixes to the UI is well..just astounding. I have yet to wade through them all but holy moley.

TC till next time, and good hunting.

SO been down a while but am getting better now.  I was even able to play a little today and reconnect with the other guys.  Looks like SYS-K + allies downed ANOTHER goon titan.  ouch.  That makes 2 now.

Seeems as if dominion is also right around the corner so we shall see what that holds.

With all the changes and so much downtime I have a long list of reading to catch up with.

I hope all of you who celebrate American Thanksgiving, enjoyed it and I promise I will gte back to a more normal posting routine.

~TheMule

Yes.

Teadaze, the commentator and somewhat EvE celeb.  I used the CSM matching tool and where we differe we do not differ all that strongly.  SO I am throwing the three accounts I have behind him.  Mainly as a member of Agony Unleashed ( a sort of PvP training Corp) I like the Idea of Agony Unleashed and after really studing all the people available to vote for I felt most aligned with him. ( in the Hellcat event I made the mistake of saying he worked for CCp which he does not, sorry about that again mate!)

So why tell people?  Why not , maybe others will go and vote and perhaps put forward someone that they feel represents their views the best.

Many of the blog Pack have said to go and vote , so rather than admonish you to do it…I did it and am telling you I did it

Our corp is in a bit of disarray,  Many in my corp were afflicted with Swine flu, and or other flu symptoms.  Our CEO hurt his back , I am fighting an infection in my jaw ( don’t know how the hell it got there) but vicadin + eve play does not work. So, I have been trying my best to do some admin stuff. Hopefully my jaw will get better and not hurt like the blazes.

In other news there is a rumor ( yet to be verfied about a delay in Dominion) if anyone hs any info please share if you would be so kind.

in the USA thanksgiving is around the corner so no posts probably Wednesday or Thursday, we will see.  For those of you kind enough to comment I cannot thank you enough.  If you have not commented feel free to do so I don’t bite  ( ok, I bite but not that hard, and with my jaw hurting no biting atm)

Good hunting all, and always check your ‘six’.