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2 hours to go :)
DrunkenW
Member Posts: 250
in EVE Online
Welcome 
2 hours to go. Lets have a count down here...
What is your favourite feature?
Mine is... hmm probably warp to zero.
2 hours to go. Lets have a count down here...
What is your favourite feature?
Mine is... hmm probably warp to zero.
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and no more wcs bs ftw
They may have finished early and the server could be back up - try logging in!
I wish my account was still active and i had less RL commitments so i could play again. Missing the game badly and am out of the loop with the new features of the expansion. However the new systems they're adding in will be cool - i imagine people have prepared a massive operation to gain control of those regions!
Other than that i'm most looking forward to the t2 battleships. Time to retire the Raven and get an upgrade...
On Singularity
"A ship-of-war is the best ambassador." - Oliver Cromwell
Even if we cant log on for the next month im just exited about the countdown
I recently restarted EVE, so i've got a special treat waiting for me. +350K sp's.
Can someone tell me about the new ships? heard somethin about a "rokh"?
cant take this waiting any longer................
/terminate
Any character who has less than 800k skill points will be bumped up to 800k skill points i guess based on the profession they chose when making the char, i could be wrong, i read it on official forums i believe.
Cryomatrix
You can see my sci-fi/WW2 book recommendations.
in other news that blasted fan is up. had to take down the mount and put up a new one even though they look the exact same the old one wouldn't fit
annnddd
it's 1 hour 44 mins from now. the servers went down at 8pm my time yesterday and it's 6:06
When exactly are the servers expected to come back up?
Also noob question: What is warp to zero?
My faviorate feature...dunno if this counts, but just the way the game is sandbox
reminds me of old SWG, only somewhat more in depth
Before now when you warped to a gate you came out like 15k or something away from it. now instead of littering the world with cans and bookmark you can simply warp right to the gate.
Servers are supposed to be back up by 02:00 GMT on Wednesday morning, so in less than 2 hours.
Warp to zero is a new feature that allows you to warp to 0km of a station etc. rather than the minimum of 15km that you could previously do, saving you the short pedestrian-paced jaunt to your location outside of warp speed.
So to clarify, you don't have to warp to 15km anymore, but directly on top of the place you intend to go.
I wonder if the graphics have improved? It's already impressive so I would be so shocked if it's better.
I'm so itching to take my ship for a warp spin...
No graphics update yet, but from what I've seen it runs smoother so that alone is a plus
The removal of instas alone massively boosted my performance. I was really surprised, though I probably shouldn't have been. After deleting everything but my safespots and insta-undocks, I was getting much quicker load times after warping, gating, docking and undocking. Coupled with new client optimizations, things are looking up as far as that stuff goes.
/me inserts appropriate crossing of fingers, tossing of salt over shoulders, and knocking on of wood.
57 mins
*edit*
sorry for that stupid poll. i was playing around and cancled it but it's there anyway
What am I looking foward to most?
Hurricane 4tw!
About 30 mins now. Warp to 0 = tougher to gatecamp in empire, but I can live with it. Also 50% to shield and armour HPs means my Navy Apoc will be the ultimate lvl 4 mission runner.
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience"
CS Lewis
Tech 1 battleships, cruisers and frigates get 25% increase
plates and extenders increased by 25%
Thank god they reduced it. 50% was just too much.
Which Final Fantasy Character Are You?
Final Fantasy 7
At the fanfest it's reported (accurately) that CCP are looking to implement graphics changes "as and when" and could be in Revelations II (sometime near June 2007) or Revelations III (December 2007).
On top of this there will be the option to still run the DX8 version that everyone is currently using, just in case your pc is a bit too old to hack the pace of the new version. Atleast, i think we're on DX8, we could be on DX9 and the new version would then be DX10, but whatever.
Hope that helps.
On top of this there will be the option to still run the DX8 version that everyone is currently using, just in case your pc is a bit too old to hack the pace of the new version. Atleast, i think we're on DX8, we could be on DX9 and the new version would then be DX10, but whatever.
Hope that helps.
You sure about this?
I thought Revelations II & II would be added by q2 2007?
quite long and might not answer your question, this details the
graphical changes CCP are going to implement sometime in the future:
answered was "when do the graphics upgrades go live"? No one would
definitively say Revelations II or Revelations III, so we'll stick to
what Dan Speed said in his presentation and say "when it's ready". It
definitely will not be in Revelations I, though.
MMORPG.com
Dan Speed showed off the
graphical plans of CCP to the eager audience, although regrettably he
had no Vista (DX10) examples to display. He did have the upgraded DX9
ships and a host of other musings on ways EVE may go.
Soon, EVE will have three
available graphical states. For those with ancient computers or a
desire to play EVE on an old laptop, the original client is not going
to be abandoned. However, for anyone who bought a new video card
lately, the DX9 upgrades bring some of the latest tricks to the EVE
world. Speed demonstrated a host of ships side-by-side with the ship
they're replacing. For a game that consistently wins awards for its
graphics, it was amazing how terrible the old ships looked compared to
the new ones. It is the difference between plastic toys and believable
space cruisers.
Speed also made clear that
while some of the bells and whistles require more recent computers to
run, they're not upping the graphical ante at the expense of
performance. He argued that the new ships and client will actually be
more efficient thanks to optimizations they've done.
In his presentation, he also
mentioned that along with the upgrades players will have the ability to
put corporation logos on their ships (which he showed off to rounds of
jeers or cheers based on which logo the ship carries) and hopefully,
down the road, chose their exterior colors.
Optimization was a key theme
of his presentation. Their first goal in all situations is to make
things faster. That doesn't mean though that they're not dreaming of
new and wonderful things.
In reference to the [Windows]
Vista upgrades, Speed mentioned that they are not so naive to think
that the moment Windows Vista ships that the entire world will upgrade.
A changeover on that scale can take years and that is why such effort
has been put into the DX9 upgrades. DX10 will allow even more
possibilities - he especially seemed keen on what it would let them do
with planets and other background - but for now there is content in the
works for all levels of hardware.
Over the course of the week,
we heard several possibilities as to when the DX9 and DX10 upgrades
would come down. Likely, they'll be part of one of the Revelations
expansions. Speed would only say "when it's done."
-EVE Fanfest Report: Part II: Avatars, Linux and Announcements (page 2 of 3)-
MMORPG.com
Now to answer your question about when exactly the Revelations II and III expansions are coming out.....
Revelations II and III
Before he went off into the very theoretical, Richardsson did start
with his feet firmly on the ground as he looked at Revelations.
Revelations I, as you know by now, launched on November 28th
(if it's deemed ready). Beyond that, Chapter II is slated for early
next summer. The main focuses of it are optimizations and warfare
upgrades. Chapter III then comes towards the end of 2007, but is not
clearly defined. The logic is to use Chapter III to react to I and II.
This is to say, expand those areas that are well received, fix things
that are not and make sure the radical changes to the game stay under
control.
MMORPG.com
How's that for service?
If you want to read the full articles then go over to the "features"
section of this site (like now you are in "forums") and then check
these out:
Fanfest: Revelations I & White Wolf
Fanfest: Avatars, Linux and Announcements!
Fanfest: Revelations II and III and More
They're all a good read and should keep you up-to-date. Hope that answered your question.