RPG Vault has a second article in their EVE 5th Anniversary coverage. "EVE Online Memories" brings us some anecdotes from ten of CCP's finest!

Link:  RPG Vault - EVE Online Memories

"With our upcoming expansion, Empyrean Age, being just around the corner we thought it would only be fitting that the next Live Dev Blog focused on it. Mindstar, our always present host, will be joined by Greyscale from Game Design and t0nyG, author of the upcoming EVE novel, to discuss and answer your questions about Empyrean Age."

When: May 15th 2000 GMT
Where: Ingame in channel "Live Dev Blog"

Have some questions for them? Post them on this thread on the Official Forums!

We've 10 new entries in the Submission Gallery! Nice work, all!

Due to the extended maintenance we've had the past week, we're going to be extending the contest deadline another week. That's right, you have until May 26th to get your submissions in to win one of the three great prizes we're offering in the EVE Stratics Build-A-Billboard Contest!

RPG Vault gives a 5th Anniversary look at EVE Online, and brings us an article on five common misconceptions about the game.

• Newbies will never stand a fighting chance against old players
• EVE is only about combat
• Mining is the only way to earn money as a rookie
• You can't enjoy the game if you aren't in a major alliance
• EVE is not meant for casual players

Check out the article for the truth behind these very common myths. 

Link: RPG Vault - 'EVE Online Misconceptions' 

Win BIG in this latest lottery running May 5th to May 18th. Check out the great prizes available:

1. 1: 10 Billion ISK
2. 2: 5 Billion ISK
3. 3: 1 Billion ISK
4. 4: The Art of EVE book (should be signed)*
5. 5: EON 1 year subscription*
6. 6: 100 day GTC*
7. 7: 50 day GTC*
8. 8: EVE USB flash drive 1GB*
9. 9: EVE USB flash drive 1GB*
10. 10: Daredevil
11. 11: Daredevil

* = prize contributions from CCP!

Visit http://big.wayland.dk/lottery.asp for more info!

Just a heads up on the extended maintenance this week: 

Tuesday, 6 May - will be extended by one hour and last from 11.00 to 13.00 GMT to apply server-side changes to Tranquility.
Wednesday, 7 May - will be extended by one hour and last from 11.00 to 13.00 GMT to make some load balancer changes to Tranquility.

Seleene dropped a heck of a bomb on the official boards this morning... MC is cashing out.

"Most of the MC’s initial focus came from where I wanted my own corp to go. The fundamental, founding philosophy of BDCI was to function from empire as a group of mercs for hire. With that goal as our aim, our early months/years were one resounding success after another. We found other pilots of similar desire and began to build something truly special."

 Read the full post and send MC your final salute here.  

The first round of submissions are in! A gallery has been set up here with the current entries, and will be updated regularly as more come in. The contest runs until May 19th, so you've plenty of time to enter if you want a chance at winning some great EVE swag and gametime!

Great work, all!

Related links: Contest Rules and Info / Gallery of Submissions

Eve Online Hold'Em is teaming up with Otherworld Enterprises (thanks Chribba) to bring you something that has been talked about since our channel's inception. We will be hosting a 1050 million ISK buy-in tournament with a minimum of 9 players, and a maximum of 18 players. Since this is a large sum of money and many of you may not be familiar or trusting with our services, we have asked Chribba to assist us by holding buyins for this tournament.

Date: 21:00 EVE time on Saturday the 3rd of May

Visit the official forums thread for more information. Good luck!

Ouchies!

An issue has been discovered whereby Windows XP and older Windows OS users who have upgraded their EVE clients from Classic Graphics Content to Premium Graphics Content have their boot.ini file deleted. For users facing this issue, we recommend users DO NOT reboot their computers until this issue has been resolved.

We have taken down the ability to download the Classic to Premium upgrade patch until we have determined where the issue lies and how we can resolve this. Full install clients have not exhibited this issue and are safe to download.

Please note: This issue affects Windows XP and older users who have upgraded their EVE clients with the Classic to Premium version. It does not affect Vista, Mac or Linux users.

Users facing this issue are encouraged to visit this Microsoft Knowledge Base Item for a manual fix or try one of the below solutions:

Manual restoration of the boot.ini file

For users who have not rebooted their computers after installing the Classic to Premium patch:

1. Open notepad.
2. Copy the following text and paste it into notepad:
   
   [boot loader]
   timeout=30
   default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
   [operating systems]
   multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect
   
   Note: If your operating system is XP Home Edition, please replace the word "Professional" with "Home Edition" on the last line above.
3. Select "save as" from the File menu, ensuring and make sure you select "All Files" from the Save as type drop down menu and save the file as: c:\boot.ini
4. Click the Start button, then select Run
5. Type "cmd" in the Run window
6. Type "cd c:\" at the prompt and enter, then type "attrib +s +h +a boot.ini" when at the c:\ prompt
7. To verify, go back to steps 4 and 5, exchanging "msconfig" for "cmd" in step 5. You should see a tab for boot.ini in the System Configuration Utility.

For users who have rebooted their computers after installing the Classic to Premium patch:

1. Boot from your OS cd and follow the directions to start Recovery Console. You must be logged in as the machine's local administrator.
2. Choose the corresponding number asked of you for your OS is on, normally its #1 Then type:
   • Attrib -H -R -S C:\Boot.ini
   • DEL C:\Boot.ini
   • BootCfg /Rebuild
   • Fixboot

   Further discussion and updates can be found in this forum thread.

 

The time for EVE to evolve from beautiful to gorgeous has arrived! Trinity, EVE Online's newest content expansion, was deployed on Wednesday 5 December, and returned to service at 2204 GMT, nearly 4 hours before the estimated completion time.

Trinity is EVE Online's largest expansion to date and centers around a new graphics system. EVE players with DirectX9c and Shader 3 capable graphics cards can choose to upgrade their clients to Trinity's Premium Graphics Content. Players without cards supporting DX9c and Shader 3 technology will play EVE with the Classic Graphics Content, but will be able to upgrade once their system meet the Premium Graphics Content requirements. Mac and Linux users will be able to upgrade to Premium Graphics Content in early 2008.

To see examples of the Premium Graphics Content, you can download the 102M HD1080p EVE: Trinity Trailer or the smaller 64M HD720p EVE: Trinity Trailer.

EVE: Trinity Feedback discussion can be found in this forum thread. Post-deployment issues may be found in this thread.

Reported by CCP Lingorm

With the release of the new Mac and Linux clients today we thought it best to put together a list of common questions and answers. Some of the answers will be links to Knowledge Base articles that have the correct information, others will be direct answers. Ready? So here we go.

Q. Is this a native client?
Yes and No. Both Mac and Linux versions use the same underlying portability technology from TransGaming to give direct access to both the native graphics and cpu features of the host platform when running on non-Windows operating systems. In addition, ALL of the game logic is in the Python code which is common across all platforms. So the actual logic is being run exactly the same on Mac and Linux as it would be on Windows. This provides you with a seamless in-game experience regardless of your platform of choice.

Q. Is there a performance decrease?
A. Some. Our goal for the project was no more than a 15% decrease in performance on the new platforms. That being said there are configurations that are seeing no performance decrease and a couple of instances that have better performance.

Q. Can I run in windowed mode?
Yes. On the Macintosh, you can toggle between Full screen and Windowed modes by pressing Command-Enter. On Linux, run the EVE Online Configuration utility, Click on "Configure Options". In the General tab, deselect DX Grab and either select your Window resolution from the Run in Window dropdown, or type one in for wide screen resolutions.

To read the rest of the blog Click Here

Reported by CCP Wrangler

Space is a cold and dark place and sometimes you could use an extra hand to get ahead or even just to survive. Power of Two gives you the opportunity to create your own minion in EVE to do your bidding, be it to obtain ISK or fight your enemies.

The Power of Two offer is open for everyone who has had an active account before Wednesday. Included is account creation and 6 months of game time for a reduced price. To take part of this offer please visit Account Management. This offer is only valid until Monday, after that getting a second account will return to the normal price.

Discussion of this news item may be found in this forum thread.

Reported by CCP kieron

As announced earlier in this forum thread, Revelations 2.3 will be deployed on Tuesday, 6 November. This patch will contain a number of fixes which can all be viewed here, but most importantly it contains formal support for Mac OS X and Linux! If you would like to have a sneak preview of what it is going to be like playing on the supported OS of your choice, then I suggest you download the full installer and connect to our test server Multiplicity and try it out.

Here are the system requirements for Mac and Linux. Windows requirements are still the same. Cedega:

Minimum System Requirements:
OS: Ubuntu 7+, Suse 10+, Linspire 6
CPU: CPU speed equal to or greater than 1,8GHz Centrino
RAM: 1024 MB
HD space: 6.0 GB
Video: NVidia 6600, ATI is not supported.

Recommended system configuration for running EVE-Online:
OS: Ubuntu 7+, Suse 10+, Linspire 6
CPU: 2GHZ
RAM: 2GB
HD space: 6.0 GB
Video: Nvidia 7600 or later, ATI is not supported.

Cider:

Minimal system requirements
OS: OS X 10.4.9 or later.
CPU: Intel based computer with CPU speed equal or greater than 1.8GHz , the client does not run on a PPC.
Video: ATI X1600 or NVidia 7300
RAM: 1024 MB or more
HD space: 6 GB

Recommended system configuration for running EVE-Online:
OS: OS X 10.4.9 or later
CPU: Intel based CPU 2GHz or better, the client does not run on a PPC.
Video: ATI X1900 or Nvidia 7600
RAM: 2 GB
HD space: 6 Gb or more

How do I install EVE on Macintosh

The installation experience on Cider Runtime is identical to any Mac OS X installation procedure. In General, Cider Runtime uses a simple drag and drop installation, i.e. into the Applications folder.

1. Download the EVE Online client. The client will be packaged as a .dmg file.
2. Double-click the .dmg file.
3. Drag the EVE Online Icon to your Applications folder.

NOTE: EVE Online may be unstable if run from a disk or installation package. You can download EVE Online for Macintosh here.

How to install Eve on Linux

Download the package for your distribution:

openSUSE
Ubuntu, Linspire

The user installs EVE Online using a graphical or command line package manager. On installation a Starter Kit will install program shortcuts and installation configuration files.

On launch, via the Start Menu shortcut or command line, the Starter Kit will download and install all necessary files for the application on Cedega.

Tick the Internet radio button to download the latest Game Package release from the Internet and then click Continue.

Patches are automatically downloaded and applied using the regular Auto-patcher.
How to connect to Multiplicity:

1. Run the client
2. Once the log in screen appears type in 87.237.38.51 in the server Combo box.
3. Enter your username and password that you had on Tranquility the 2nd of October as the mirror was taken from Tranquility at that time.
4. Click Log in.
5. Profit?

We welcome your comments and feedback in this thread.

Reported by CCP Wrangler

EVE TV is up and running, broadcasting live from the EVE Fanfest 2007. The broadcast will go on until late this evening, covering everything from Oveur's Trinity presentation and hellmar's closing keynote to this evenings Party At The Top Of The World. In addition this there will be replays of select lectures and interviews from previous days. And of course, this is brought to you completely free of charge.

Just aim your browser to EVE TV and enjoy the show. All content - lectures, interviews and full shows - will be available online in the coming weeks.

Reported by CCP kieron

EVE TV are roaming the halls during the Fanfest. On Saturday there'll be broadcasts from 1200 GMT until late in the evening, including live coverage of all the major lectures (Oveur's presentation on Trinity, prepH's talk on graphics, hellmar's closing keynote, and the CCP Panel) and, of course, the Saturday night Party at the Top of the World. This is in addition to replays of select lectures and interviews from previous days, and it's all completely FREE.

Just aim your browser to EVE TV on Saturday at 12:00 and enjoy the show. All content - lectures, interviews and full shows - will be available online in the coming weeks.

Reported by CCP Wrangler

At 11.00 GMT today, 1 November, we opened the doors to the EVE Fanfest 2007!

This marked the start of 3 days of fun with presentations, roundtables, a trip to the Blue Lagoon, PvP tournament, CCG demonstration and tournament, silent auction charity, the dev band RöXör and of course a chance to meet friends and foes and devs. For the full schedule, please download the Fanfest brochure.

Everything will culminate on Saturday with the famous Party At The Top Of The World™!

Reported by CCP Wrangler

For those of you who are already arriving in Iceland, the Fanfest will open on Thursday at 11.00 GMT. You will register there and get your Fanfest Access pass. Registration or Fanfest access passes will not be available earlier and the Fanfest venue will be closed. You can not register or get Fanfest Access passes at your hotel.

For everyone who can't wait to get there, feel free to download and browse the EVE Fanfest 2007 Brochure! A paper version will of course be provided at the Fanfest.

Don't forget to go to Glaumbar tonight!

Reported by CCP Wrangler

The Sisters of EVE Access passes has sold out, we'd like to thank everyone who purchased one and we think you're going to enjoy the adventure!

We still have regular Fanfest Access passes left!