Its once again time to dive into the ranks of the unpaid, the underappreciated and undervalued volunteers of EVE Online.

This time we’ll be visiting talking to the head of the Mercury Team; those be the ones that produce content for the Evelopedia, the written fiction and partake in player events!

Team Mercury

They graciously donate their spare time to make yours more enjoyable.

ISD Galen

Read on about the content creator known as ISD Galen (more…)

2011 started for EVE Stratics! with a new Managing Editor (yours truly) stepping up. With the help of the TGN and Stratics team we created the new portal and started porting content over from the old platform to wordpress. A Lot of articles were initially pulled over, but we’re still missing quite a bit and we’ll work on getting the rest over in 2012.

The facelift was part of a sitewide change that aimed to bring the Stratics portals into an age where editing would take less time than typing the articles and it started right as the Arab Spring kicked off. Wow, what an amazing time to live in! To witness the changes across the world has been quite the experience, even as a spectator! This would later prove to transition into EVE Online, although possibly on a subconscious level.

At the end of January, TGN’s YouTube channel for EVE Online went live and was quickly populated with content by Logan, another TGN Director. The plan was to bring in more content, more directors and more views quickly. This changed (more…)

The Talos is the new Tier 3 Battlecruiser for the Gallente line of ships. As such, the prerequisite is to have Battlecruiser trained to III.

In comparison to the Oracle, this ship has more CPU but less Powergrid which is due to the lower powergrid demands of the Hybrid weapons so that is to be expected.

The Talos can carry a flight of light scout drones or a single Sentry Drone. It doesn’t have more room then that in the drone bay, so another options could be a few logi or ewar drones as a special surprise.

Do note though, that the damage output has likely (more…)

The Naga

Like the Oracle and the Talos, the Caldari are able to field their own version of the new Tier 3 Battlecruiser called the “Naga”.  The Naga was clearly designed to be a sniper platform as a counter to the Gallente Talos.  The Naga’s configuration and setup will certainly make it the dominant Railgun Battlecruiser, completely overshadowing the Ferox by a wide margin.  True, the Ferox can mount a better tank, but it is considerably slower and has far less damage capabilities, and most importantly, far less range.

The Naga is, of course, shield tanked, having six midslots and only a bare three lowslots to effectively use.  Even with the six midslots, however, the base shields are quite low, and so you can expect to only have an effective tank at around (more…)

The Tornado

Probably the most famous of the Tier 3 Battlecruisers is the Tornado.  This ship was originally designed as a Minmatar Battleship, so its release as a Battleship gun toting Battlecruiser was somewhat a surprise.  CCP went back to the original play book for this ship and made it fast and manuverable.  The battleship sided guns mask a fairly weak tanks, with neither enough midslots and lowslots as well as a fairly weak powergrid.  However, what it lacks in shield and armor strength, it makes up for in speed and agility.

The lacking CPU and Powergrid means that it was meant for close range combat.. i.e. Autocannons. I attempted to try to make decent 1400mm and 1200mm configurations, but the (more…)