Sometimes, things get in the way of what you want to do, other times things pop up and you get swept away by them. Well its been a combination of these that I inadvertently took a hiatus from EvE online. Coupled with the release of Guild Wars 2 and some real life issues I simply stopped playing.

    I didn't really make a choice to stop it just kinda happened on its own and it could be that its a cycle I go through where I get so into something it burns me out. I really enjoy EvE and I genuinely started to missed flying in space with the friends i had made. I guess it is the people in the game I missed more then the game its self. There are some really awesome people out there, not just in eve but in the world. So I came back to the game the other night, things had changed a bit but my friends were still there talking to them was very awesome. I guess what I'm trying to say is steeping away from something you love can make you appreciate it more once you go back to it.

    Yes I have been playing a lot of Guild Wars 2 (my Sylvari Thief - Kiresian Rayven in screenshot) and it is a very fun game but eve has something that it dose not and not many games do, I'm trying to figure out what that something is for myself but its there and that's one reason I will always come back to the EvE universe.

    I have been meaning to update for quite a while however real life has got in the way of almost everything this past month. I went on vacation at the beginning of the month. Went camping for a week had a lot of fun hiked a bit and saw a bear(rawr!). We have had issues with mold in the place I was renting and asked the landlord to fix it and she went all insane on us, anyway that's over now and I am in a new apartment with less crazy so hopefully should be able to update more regularly and hopefully often that I have been.  >_<

    Sense I'm short on time at the moment I'm going to link you to Mintchip's EvE news video and an awesome song by Sindel Pellion titled Titan. Thats all for now later o/ .

              I started off eve mining and mission running, I still mine for my corp but its not something I do much alone due to the need of having a hauler move my ore to a station, frankly its a pain when you play at odd hours when no one else is on. With the planed update to the mining ships(bigger holds for ore) I could potentially mine on my own again and not need to go to the station every 5ish minutes. The new mining frigate is something that is needed badly the racial T1 frigates were lacking and just didn't cut it, this ship could make 0.0 mining in hostile space and possibly wormholes better. I am super excited about it! Also the planed adjustment to yields to all the ships to put them in line with the Hulk will make people getting into harvesting and industry a lot better as they train up.

                The alliance tournament started this past weekend, check out who's against who here, and tune in to watch it here. This year the prizes are sponsored by the Caldari State with a Osprey hull called the Etana which is a logistics ship with the added capacity to fit a covert ops cloak and is said to have powerful skill bonuses and a Merlin hull called Cambion that is a rocket ship with overheating bonuses. The ship graphics are still being designed so no screens yet. :(

                The Biggest news is the escalating war in Delve that's been going on for a little while now but has grown a lot with both sides numbering over 40 alliances and corps they have well over 50,000 characters that are now in delve raging war on one another. Test Alliance Please Ignore released a propaganda video claiming they came to Delve for good fights but were greeted with a massive force as well as the the Southern Coalition calming it started when Pandemic Legion launched a spy attack on Red Alliance and Nuked 9CG6-H. Whatever caused it dose not really matter, war is here!

    I have listed a few video's below for your viewing pleasure :D

2012.06.03 at 05:50
Ship: Kagemusha II - Anathema

    We started our wormhole survey mission in the Amdimmah constellation, Palas solar system. Quickly finding only one wormhole designation M555 we began our survey. M555 lead to system J172937. The system has eight planets 3 Temperate, 1 gas, 1 plasma, 1 ice, 1 barren, 1 storm. Nebula had distinctive orange streaks making a striking visual. System was very quiet no activity to note. Although there were no active ships there were three POS structures all found around Planet 4 the POS's were located at Moon 3, 4 and 16. All owned by  limited infinity. member of the  The Machine. alliance.

    With the Inferno expansion released it had a lot of awesome stuff, Missile graphics and launchers being added, new modules, Amarr V3, Faction Warfare overhaul and many more. The Unified Inventory was among them. Now its been a few weeks and the Inventory change has come with controversy and some frustration along with some fixes and new bugs.

    One of the of the problems that I think people who play the game don't see is that, if I am not mistaken, The game is almost ten years old with ten your old code that runs a good part of EvE Online. When trying to update someones code it can be very hard and time consuming and sometimes impossible. In a few recent EvE developer blogs they have mentioned having to rewrite code for entire systems in the game, the Crime Watch system is one example of this where the old code could not be modified any longer and had to be scraped and rewritten in order to make neechanges.

    The inventory system has not changed that much from the start of eve, its an old system that needed some love and attention. Game of Drones team set upon this daunting task. The Unified Inventory combined multiple separate inventory's into one inventory with one window. This changes a lot of things for people and makes some tasks harder to preform POS management and organization for reactions are examples of this.  They are making changes to inventory system to hopefully restore some of the previous functionality or at least alleviate some frustration when trying to do certain tasks. I do think that this was a necessary step in making EvE Online a better game however it should had been tested more thoroughly with more feedback from players before implementation.

    CCP has done an awesome job of keeping us the players informed on the changes coming to the inventory system and their progress on the bug fixes and changes they are working on. I hope that In the future when making massive UI changes they will allow for more testing and feedback before they push it to the live server.

    After a few suggestion and requests I have updated the Directional Scanning guide. I have added how to enable the Mapbrowser, enable brackets and added Images as examples to make things more clear for people and a few other things. If you have any suggestions or questions feel free to let me know ether buy mailing me in game, using the contact form on this web page or by leaving a comment in the blog bellow. I have all so started a Twitter account the other day it is  @Kitsunebisolray  I will be working on more stuff to add to the site soon as well. thanks for checking the site out!

 


          This morning I watched the successful launch of the Skywardsphere around 12GMT. CCP with the help of students of the University of Reykjavík  launched eve players into space via a high altitude balloon into the stratosphere, it was launched just north of CCP HQ. The balloon included a replica EVE pod that holds the names of players along with video, GPS and other devices.

       The stream started just before the launch. I joined in on twitter @KitsunebiSolRay for the action. They seemed to have three video feeds one was of the rooftop with a lot of CCP employee's and the harbor, one was the camera mounted to the balloon and a cell phone camera ("Siminn who is partnering with us in this adventure is providing us with live video feed and GPS tracking via their 3G network and Samsung Note."). The feed of the Harbor and rooftop were high-quality and the one on the balloon was pretty good as well. The cell however was not so good, the feed kept breaking up and were unable to hear what was being said most the time due to background noise and wind, which was unfortunate although for a phone streaming to 100's possibly 1000's of people it could had been worse. Everyone watched as the Employees gathered on the roof and saw bits and peaces of the preparation for launching the Pod shaped craft into space.

     I watched as the glorious pod took flight and made its way above the clouds, then higher and higher I was astonished to see the curve of the earth then space!, I was playing eve at the time so I was chatting with some alliance mates I looked back to the feed and the pod was gone!!! well we watched the balloon descend and finally the feed cut off when the balloon was very near the target lake. It was an awesome experience to watch live feed from a balloon travle up into space and back again. Check out the retreved photo's from CCP's FaceBook page.

I have two new guides! Low sec and Null sec guide on how to safely travel and what to expect when there and also a Guide on how to use the Directional scanner. If you find something that I have made an error on or that I have incorrect information feel free to let me know by emailing me on the about page or leaving a comment on the blog hope you enjoy the new guides. Also if you have any suggestions for something you would like to see let me know!

    On another note The new launcher seems not to work like it is supposed to, after the recent patch my desktop was able to patch through the launcher and work just fine but on my laptop something got screwy and now the whole client is fubared and possibly corrupted and even the repair tool can not fix it. Hopefully they will get the launcher working as intended soon, I do not like the idea of having to re instal the game every time there is an update for it. I am however excited about the new Amarr V3 skins and missile launchers in the upcoming expansion. With the change to the drones I might have to start mining more to make some nice isk!

That's all for now Kit's out.

PS: I like my sexy new hair style ^_^

Right now I am planing the low sec/ null sec survival guide and a few other things. Hopefully by next week I will have them up on the site. Well that's all for now! Kits out!