Tales from beyond the Belt

Stories from a prospering minmatar in the New Eden starcluster


Nice ...
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[info]eolruin
roaming around the galaxy ... but from time to time other events keep me busy - something like this ...
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Ah, crap :(
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*Grumble*

Oh those wonders of (after) patch days ... the thing worked well for months, more or less ;)

Ah yes, and:


Dragon 4557 Known issues

  • Major Issue: A graphical error is making BPOs appear as BPCs and BPCs appear to be BPOs in escrows. This is a *visual* bug only. Do not purchase BPs via escrow unless you are sure of the contents. Players exploiting this bug will be banned.
  • Courier missions will be replaced in the near future
  • Overview settings are erased after applying the patch.
  • It is not presently possible to move a ship into space from a ship assembly array.
  • Setting the default warp distance does not work. It automatically resets to 15km.
  • If you use the market button on the Neocom to toggle the market closed, the market will reopen when you next undergo a session change. (ie, dock, undock, jump)
  • The text in a buy/sell order window will not display correctly if the window is part of a stack.
  • Hanger sorting may not always apply correctly when the hanger is opened.
  • Switching between the security status panel and skills panel in the character sheet will cause the skill names to disappear
  • The size icon (frigate, cruiser etc) is broken for NPC's in some missions, and shows them all to be cruisers
  • The sound effect for entering/leaving warp is missing
  • The market in Tash-Murkon region appears to be broken. we are investigating.
  • Reloading while cloaked (or while jumping) will cause the ammo to be destroyed.
  • Stored overview settings are cleared
  • Agent offers and missions given out prior to the downtime may not be acceptable/completable due to the change in agents which occured during the patch.
  • The buddy list causes an exception when a buddy logs in. We recommend you press esc, and switch off the "show exceptions" option on the system menu.
  • Market history not displaying values over 9,999,999 properly
  • Overview does not auto refresh when names of objects are changed. need to close/open the overview to make the names update
  • Ally column on overview not showing alliance tags.
  • The login queue displayed on the login screen is not accurate. The queue is disabled at all times (unless we put a user limit on the server as we did last night for our dry runs).
  • Some incorrect text is displayed in the logs of audit log containers.
  • The Stasis Webifier I is being displayed as a Shadow Serpentis Stasis Webifier in clients with the German UI enabled.
  • The message when clearing a channels password is incorrect.
  • Overview columns automatically resize. This should stop occuring once you manually set the size of a column.
  • Switching skills being trained causes the character sheet icon in the overview to incorrectly state that you have no skills training.
  • Sorting by quantity when selecting items to enter into escrow does not work.
  • Sorting by "next free time" in the science and industry interface is incorrect. It sorts alphabetically, not numerically.
  • When entering items into escrow, the "Are you sure" popup is badly formatted.
  • You cannot access a refining arrays options from the selected items icons, only through the right click menu from the array itself.
  • The "My Agents" option on the map is very blobby if you have very good standings.

We need more bug reports on the following reported issues.

  • Agent offers not being displayed in the journal.
  • Columns in the overview resizing after every session change.
  • BP's in research no longer visible until a new bp is installed.
  • The option to warp to
Call the red one remote kick ;)

edit, 2006-08-24-0744 :
  • highlighted the most crucial (IMHO) in red

simply switching off prevents CTD:
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Ok ok ...
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[info]eolruin
I admin I came back peeking if EVE its there ...

But well, the tides on the player forum going up and down ... with some picks like



or



or



but compared with the last statement of the thumbnails I guess I get me a good book and play some TRL afterwards ...

See you in New Eden ;)
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Ja ! (German for "Yes !")
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and LOL !



The biggest shard in the world on online gaming ?
Ok, normally I have LONG time not seen less than 10,000 players. Normally we run with 20-22K players, with a record (currently) of



Unfortunately the auto patch dosent work for me (yet ...) and I guess all EVE junkies are currently trying to find the manual download and (prophecy!) will crash TQ with 30K peeps trying to login in simultanously ...
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OOC: Well . . .
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[info]eolruin
From time to time it happens.


(click image for details)

Many islandics work hard to get our server online.



Well, its 21:10 (21:00 "EVE" time).

Ever seen coming an IT project starting on time ?
(I have seen, but I dont tell to keep the myth ....)
  • looking forward for new features
  • less LAG
  • some bugs fewer
  • some bugs more
And best of all - for free ;)

I imagine good 'ol EverQuest time I went to the store every three months to PAY for the privelege getting new "virtual" things (next to pay every month as usual) ...

As long as I play EVE now (since two years) I never PAID A SINGLE cent for getting new features. Well, he had some problems ( The famous "Easter" Patchday ) but on the long run all problems have been solved (and more).

Go EVE go !

Ah yes for the meantime:
I suggest give yourself a read of a review of one of the greatest MMORPGs out there (playable during the downtime each day ...)
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MashUp [VAF] ....
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[info]eolruin
 Mashup - So they call currently the new Web 2.0 hype.

Since I plan no to go on vacation AND plan to plant a travelbug (explanation here) I thought it would be nice to have a map where this bug should travel. So I created the first

[VAF] in the world map

Enjoy it and if you are a VAF member AND want to be listed drop me a line in EVE or use our (VAF internal) forum.
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ASCN operations
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[info]eolruin
Lately ACSN decided to help out the friendly alliance Lotka Volterra with some trouble they have with the Red Alliance.
Next to other ASCN corps [VAF] also has been ordered to join this task force.

On command I run my way towards the field of operation.



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After our latest "Volunteers for Fun" event where we encountered MASSIVE LAG unfortunately, some hours later the EVE developers supported a explanation ....








No0bs ....
No0bs ....
Later on ... a message from the EVE Developers ...

A full transaction log ?
Well, guess they need now a CCP guy watching the empty space, or a script or whatever ....

Well shit happens, easy problem ... easy solution .... ONCE they realize ...

To bad Eli's event suffered a little from this ...
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"Volunteers for Fun"
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[info]eolruin
Lately Elieza/Shaina (one of our corp mates and also an employee of livejournal - inside better known as xb95) decided to show up his working mates some samples of the world of EVE in the New Eden starcluster.

Also our corp, Vanguard Frontiers, was asked to sho up for little demonstration of EVE. Fellow corpies joined that call and so we found each other next to our homebase in C9N-CC eagerly waiting for Shaina/Elieza (for ease of Blog now only referred as "Eli") to show up.

As usual - the operation has been postponed as some work mates of Eli blocked the meeting room ......
To defeat boredom xjudgedreadx and Dreadknot decided to do a little shootout in a raven 1:1 (well, in fact a CNR vs Raven 1:1....).

Fighting the sleep (well, actually 0200am here in Austria) I took the time to make some screenshots as reminder of that nice event.

Hopefully Eli can convince some mates to join EvE as we always have room for good, honest people helping us working on our dream of a 0.0 empire.

Have a look to some screeners of the event here.
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A fine addon to our Placid Purge
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[info]eolruin
Recently our brave FC Kurt Cobain showed up ... lets see how his multi million ISK ship helps the cause (not to mention his expertise as fleet commander).

To bad its 0112am ... *yawn*

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The biggest competion to EVE lately
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[info]eolruin
In those times with 32° C (about 90° Fahrenheit) guess what could be the biggest competition for the New Eden star cluster ?

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Placid Purge
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[info]eolruin
Sometimes it comes over us and we visit our old homes.
Near Grispire (where VAF or better RIMT) resided we come back from time to time to show some pirates that pirating dont pay off when we are around. Also its a tradition in VAF we dont like pirates. As far as I can remember VAF never encouraged pirate and/or disrespectful practices.
So coming back to our old home is always fun since there are always some nice pirate infestations in that surroundings.

As on duty I would like to share some impressions....


My Brave Ship
My Brave Ship
Sitting in my brave stiletto waiting for some pirates to show up.

Our Brave Gang (part of)

Our Brave Gang (part of)
Even in a fast moving gang you stay from time to time ...

Tessa dares to be devilish ...

Tessa dares to be devilish ...
Our BOSS in her new toy

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A nice brthday present ...
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[info]eolruin
Today its not only my birthday but also the first "real" mining OP we had for a longer time ...


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POS work at its finest ...
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[info]eolruin


After taking Paragon Soul into his assets our corp manegement decided we can dismantle our POS' originally helping ASCN's efforts of getting control of the region.

Two dozen jumps later I arrived at the POS sites looking at them in all their glory ....

Towards the POS

Towards the POS
It has been a lot of work to put all this up ...


Well this will be some work ...

Checking the cargo storages it started with emptying them - 500,000m³ to haul ...

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[info]eolruin

Normally EVE is quite reliable.

Not today. First thing I mentioned was me two times in a station ...



Later on I noted that modules which have been supposed to be online have been offline :(
Activating them gave only a strange message ...



Damn computers, I am a miner, no hacker ...

On my duty of defending ASCN space I noticed not only my hardeners have not been working ...
I engaged a bunch of Sansha's raiding the local belts and noticed that also my target computer ceased working - no lock on anything ...

On the other hand also the pirates didn't damage my shields - but I was in a mood I no longer trusted my readouts.
So I docked back and hope time will resolve this.

OOC: Hopefully downtime corrects that. If not any suggestions (except deleting cache and re-install the client) would be highly appreciated ?
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Syndicated EVE News
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[info]eolruin
I already syndicated feeds from EVE before - now I decided to bring it to an end ;)

Find here all (more or less) syndicated feeds from EVE-Online:

Roleplay Info:

CCP Announcements


Community Videos
You can also access all of them through my "friends filter" using this link. Or "friend" them yourself if interested ;)

I also color code the feeds, red is "roleplaying and background info", bright orange is, to say so "official CCP game news".

Enjoy.

Again my thanks go to SixApart - LJ rocks ;)
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URL's in EVE
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[info]eolruin
A corp mate of mine recently pointed out a (at least to me) new ´feature´:

Links inside chats (next that few sides show properly in the ingame browser if not optimized) only MIGHT work.

If the link is wrapped - it is not clickable.
No way
No way
Works ...
Works ...

Expandind the width of the chat window (so the link fits) and you can click it.
That explains why sometimes you get no feedback after postiong a URL - users wonder why they cant click it and
dont bother writing it directly in the browser (geeks are laaaaaaaaazy...)

BTW: Dont bother with the link if you are no [VAF] member.
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Natures wonders ...
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[info]eolruin
A rare event.
Captured in a 10/10 complex.

A new type of battleship... A new type of battleship...
This is how Machariels come into the world...
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[info]eolruin
This was the day I finally decided to reinstall windows ...

I took this decision after 3 months ... every weekend I decided to do it but no the time finally has come.
Easy taking ... fetching the installtion CD .. formatting good 'ol harddrive ... start to install (backup before for sure...)

Than it began:
Windows finally finished, but no LAN driver installed. Well, no problem - just fetch the Mainboard Install CD and ... WTF ? Where is it ?

Hmm - no network bad ... fortunately my gf had here linux box still available.
Short drama - linux (an older one) and USB memory cards ... *sigh*

After that ... well, LAN installed network configured, connected - BUT NO internet, no ping - no nothing ??!?!

Forty-five minutes later I figured my error - I entered the wrong sub-net *argh*.
Not that I typed something wrong - I wrote it wrong down from my old config ...

Well several reinstalls later there it is now:

Shiny and New - a fresh installation ;)

I always wonder how fast windows can be ... and how slow it gets after at least 6 months of use ...

Now I am ready to run ´our´ 10/10 complex

Information
Complex Info
The Complex Team
The Complex Team
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Towers of Death
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[info]eolruin
Ever encountered offline PvP ?

One of the advantages being POS director is you can see how good your ´toys´ work sometimes.
You get even kills if not online ...

Offline PvP
Offline PvP


A short excerpt from some days ...

2006.05.21 05:32

Victim: Radogor
Alliance: None
Corp: Hedgehogs In A Fog
Destroyed: Claw
System: D-FVI7
Security: 0.0

Involved parties:

Name: Minmatar Control Tower / Vanguard Frontiers (laid the final blow)

Destroyed items:

Faint Warp Prohibitor I (Cargo)
200mm AutoCannon II
10MN Afterburner II
Small 'Accommodation' Vestment Reconstructer I
Capacitor Power Relay I
Fusion S, Qty: 53

2006.05.19 18:12

Victim: Frozone
Alliance: None
Corp: Setenta Corp
Destroyed: Maulus
System: C9N-CC
Security: 0.0

Involved parties:

Name: Minmatar Control Tower / Vanguard Frontiers (laid the final blow)

2006.05.19 09:52

Victim: Xray
Alliance: None
Corp: freelancers inc
Destroyed: Caracal
System: C9N-CC
Security: 0.0

Involved parties:

Name: Minmatar Control Tower / Vanguard Frontiers (laid the final blow)

Name: GeMiPaT
Security: 5.0
Alliance: Ascendant Frontier
Corp: Celestial Fleet
Ship: Vagabond
Weapon: 220mm Vulcan AutoCannon II


Destroyed items:

Invulnerability Field I
Cap Recharger I
Warp Core Stabilizer I
Heavy Missile Launcher I
Heavy Missile Launcher I
Scourge Heavy Missile, Qty: 3256 (Cargo)
Scourge Heavy Missile, Qty: 30
Scourge Heavy Missile, Qty: 30
Scourge Heavy Missile, Qty: 30

Hehe - towers 4TW !
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