It’s Friday and I’m in much less of a temper than final week I suppose and I’ve a number of gadgets about EVE On-line on my record that I by no means fairly bought round to this month, so how a couple of little bit of that?
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Crimson Harvest Arrives Subsequent Week
The annual New Eden Halloween occasion lands subsequent Thursday, October third, bringing with it the standard vary of actions and login rewards. If nothing else, there will likely be 650K ability factors to gather for Omega pilots.
Crimson Harvest – Previous emblem, however nonetheless good
The preview is obtainable right here, however I’ll seemingly put up about it once more subsequent week with full particulars.
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You Can Nonetheless (simply barely) Apply to run for CSM19
The CSM19 elections will likely be hitting subsequent month and, in keeping with the revealed timeline, you continue to have a few days to submit your software.
Council of Stellar Administration 19
I’ve an entire put up about that, however listed below are the remaining dates:
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- 17 September – 1 October: Candidate Submissions and software processing begins
- 4 October: Candidate Announcement
- 4-14 October: CSM 19 Marketing campaign Interval
- 17-24 October: CSM 19 Voting Interval
In fact, for those who’re nonetheless on the fence about whether or not or to not run… it’s in all probability an indication you shouldn’t run. As of this writing I solely see seven candidate threads within the CSM part of the discussion board, and there are a dozen seats to fill so… I don’t know, perhaps you’ll be able to apply late this 12 months and have a shot.
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Alliance Match XX is Coming Up
So long as I’m reminding individuals of dates I’d as nicely deliver up Alliance Match XX, which will likely be wrapping up within the again half of October.
I’m simply rolling this for all additional ATXX posts…
Particularly, these two weekends:
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- 19 & 20 October – Alliance Match XX weekend 1
- 26 & 27 October – Alliance Match XX weekend 2
I’d say extra… however, actually, CCP doesn’t do an excellent job of placing info on the market. I’m certain there’s, for instance, an inventory of the contributors on the market someplace, however I checked the boards, the 900 channels of the EVE On-line Discord server, and the dev blogs… and I’ve bought nothing. However there’s nonetheless a while. Flagship locks and advert submission have been solely this week… or perhaps subsequent week… I discovered two completely different dates listed for that.
The entire thing is nonetheless sponsored by the Guristas and can characteristic modified CONCORD hulls as prize ships.
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EVE Galaxy Conquest Subsequent Month
CCP’s run at a cellular title, EVE Galaxy Conquest, is slated to be out there world extensive on October 29, 2024. Previously often known as Venture M5, this was introduced at Fanfest final 12 months.
EVE Galaxy Conquest
I imply, I might be down for a 4X title primarily based on New Eden, however not on my cellphone. Nonetheless, they promised a PC consumer at some future date. We’ll see.
On the one hand, I believe I’ve been justified in my criticism of CCP and their try to “rejuvenate” null sec with what amounted to an enormous handful of throughout the board nerfs. What did CCP count on?
Taking pictures anyone’s shiny new Skyhook
Then again, I can admire how robust it’ll be now to get any type of constructive suggestions for any adjustments. The individuals who have been cheering CCP to interrupt null sec fully is not going to be completely satisfied if the corporate backtracks and the null sec residents now have their backs up on the lookout for any issues, a scenario not helped by CCP’s half measures try to stability their imaginative and prescient… which nonetheless smacks of the “if we make everyone poor they’ll battle extra” concept that has been polluting their imaginative and prescient since late 2020… severely, can CCP simply recover from their asinine and demonstrably unsuitable view of economics… with what is going to maintain null sec engaged and never only a useless house populated by die hards who prefer to go on concerning the good previous days when there was no warp to zero and POS towers dictated sovereignty.
Anyway, CCP has put out a dev weblog about how their coming replace to Skyhooks, the Participant Owned Customs Workplace alternative, are going to be fantastic and make every thing higher.
I actually don’t have the requisite information to cross judgement, but when the put up headlines in r/eve are any indication, this didn’t hit the mark.
The clincher in that dev weblog although is that transition to the brand new Equinox system will likely be necessary as of October 29, 2024, regardless of how unhealthy it’s. Brace for influence I suppose.
Zarzakh Below Siege after which Not
Some time again there was a dev weblog concerning the Drifters displaying up and placing Zarzakh beneath siege, the web results of which was that for those who went in by one of many 4 gates you had a timer on you that might stop you from exiting from any however the gate you got here in by.
That is how we siege Zarzakh
There was hypothesis this alteration was to plug the straightforward cross sport energy projection scenario that CCP created by primarily injecting a wormhole superhighway by 4 neighborhoods of New Eden. A lot significance was attributed to this occasion and the way it was the beginning of reshaping the sport.
After which the siege ended and issues went again to regular and CCP injected a number of unsubtle hints that this was a prelude for some upcoming change, seemingly the winter enlargement so… enterprise as typical for Zarzakh once more… not less than for some time.
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EVE Frontier Making an attempt to not be Crypto Rubbish
As I famous in my lower than sort put up concerning the transition from Venture Awakening to EVE Frontier, CCP has not been emphasizing the blockchain side of the title.
EVE Frontier – Warning: Crypto Rubbish Bullshit Detected
I imply, it nonetheless is a blockchain sport and it may be extraordinarily irritating to see CCP Overload on the market pitching the sport on Twitch streams the place he declares that blockchain is simply an append-only database, as if it was only a technical selection they made, and no one ever challenges him on WHY one would select that over the Microsoft SQL Server database that has efficiently pushed EVE On-line for over 20 years. (trace: It’s as a result of, it doesn’t matter what CCP Overload says, EVE Frontier goes to be a crypto rubbish play to earn title.)
I do know, you’ll be able to’t beat up your company and count on to get extra, however I really feel like that was such an apparent query after CCP Overload made the “it’s only a database” declaration that it might have been politely examined with out confrontation. As an alternative everyone simply acts like an entire instrument and fails to problem any assertion.
Anyway, you would argue that it hardly issues HOW CCP pitches this, the phrase is out among the many crypto followers that that is one other get wealthy fast scheme and, in a very predictable flip of occasions, the precisely unsuitable individuals you need round to make a enjoyable and profitable online game are displaying up as a result of they need to get in early, make some money, and get out earlier than the inevitable and fully unavoidable financial collapse hits the sport and its cryto foreign money backing.
There may be such a typical routine in crypto that when CCP introduced they have been going to do an in-game raffle the standard suspects instantly determined it was going to be an air drop… when a brand new crypto foreign money tries to construct pleasure and get the ball rolling by giving out free fractions of the newly minted coin… though CCP mentioned NO SUCH THING.
So, as lined over at TNG, CCP felt that they had to return and make clear that there could be no air drop. No crypto foreign money handed out to early adopters and such. This was not going to be that that form of celebration.
I really feel like CCP is attempting to keep away from making EVE Frontier a very predictable crypto rip-off title, however that it doesn’t matter what they do, as soon as blockchain is concerned it should drive issues that approach.
To cite Yoda, “When you begin down the darkish path, eternally will it dominate your future, devour you it’ll.”
Or, for those who want my grandfather’s take, “In case you lie down with canine you get fleas.”
