A few familiar faces will be returning to your screens, and the idea is to bolster their ranks by adding some new experts to the EVE TV team. To this end, we're opening the application process for experts. There are a few requirements, which will be listed below, but first, a small request:

I'd love to get a roleplaying representative on. Some feel they've been given short shrift on previous shows, so here's our invitation: If you know your PvP, and you're really into the RP side of the game, you should apply (we promise you'll be treated as well as anyone else).

So, you want to be an expert, but unsure of what you need? The list is here:

• You need to know combat. We don't despise industrialists, mission-runners, miners and macro-haulers, but as this is a PvP tournament, you need…

Greetings fellow pod pilots!

After the recent months of hard work to bring you the Trinity expansion, we have finally had a bit of time to start putting our heads together and get the wheels of the Fifth Alliance Tournament moving.

Under the watchful eye of GM Nova, the tournament committee of GM Xamother, CCP Fendahl, and CCP Mindstar (that?s me!) will be working to bring you the best tournament yet! Over the next few weeks we will be looking over the rules and points used in the last tournament, and working out what (if anything) we think could be better.

What I can tell you is that overall we felt the last tournament was a great success. As such, it will be quite similar to last time with a few tweaks here and there. If you have any suggestions or comments, there is a discussion thread in the PVP Tournament forum, where feedback would be very much appreciated.

In the interest of keeping you informed, there are a few bits of information we do know!

• Dates - We are planning to hold it over the first two weekends of March 2008 (Starting 29th Feb. Yes, it?s a leap year!).

During the creation of the Community Group, the forum policies were reviewed. As part of an ongoing streamlining process, the manner in which forum warnings and bans are issued have been changed to the following:

The number of warnings issued before forum bans are levied will be reduced and the duration of the bans increased-

• 1st Warning ? No action
• 2nd Warning ? 2 week forum ban
• 3rd Warning ? 1 month forum ban
• 4th Warning ? 3 month forum ban
• 5th Warning ? 6 month forum ban
• 6th and subsequent Warnings ? 6 month forum ban

Permanent bans will be issued under special circumstances, such as threats of physical harm to a player or developer, posting of pornography, racial slurs and epithets, etc. Existing forum permanent bans will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis, please e-mail community@ccpgames.comto request a review. Depending on our findings in the review, posting privileges will be reinstated…

New this time was that we had a dedicated person asking the questions. This honor fell on Mindstar, but as usual the questions asked came from the players.

Speakers
Hammerhead - Lead Game Designer
Zulupark - Game Designer

You can either listen to the recording in the flash player just below, or download it from here and listen to it in your own mp3 player.

We're now moving into a second development cycle with the new tools and we want to get your input on what we should focus our energy on. We've already decided that channel prioritization, where if someone speaks in the fleet channel he will sound louder than people speaking in squad channel, will be implemented Q1 2008, but we have to set a course for what more to do. Therefore we're looking at you, the day-to-day users of EVE Voice, to tell us what it is that you want to see implemented.

A few things that we've been looking into doing:

• Channel Positioning – set your fleet commanders to sound through the right speaker and the rest of the fleet to sound through the left one. If you have surround setup, you have lots of options.
• Client side recording – record your alliance council meeting, fleet ops (for fraps) or drunken Saturday night singing sessions.
• Rolling buffer – Missed what the fleet commander said?…

My name is Dr. Erlendur S. Thorsteinsson and I have been directing the EVE Online Software Group for the better part of this year. From my previous work experiences in the antivirus industry and following CCP for quite some time now, I have come to appreciate the need for full disclosure when things don't go according to plan.

Shortly after releasing EVE Online: Trinity at 22:04 GMT on Wednesday, 5 December, we started receiving reports that the Classic to Premium graphics content upgrade was causing problems to players by deleting the file C:\boot.ini, which is a Windows system startup file. In some cases the computer was not able to recover on the next startup and would not start until the file had been fixed. In this dev blog I want to tell you how this happened.

In the weeks leading up to the release of Trinity, one of our concerns was how to deliver this update to our players in a very short amount of time and to players that might not all have a good internet connection. Significant effort was therefore put into making the Classic to Premium graphics content upgrade as small as possible at various stages in…

This third Economic Dev blog presents statistics on corporations in the EVE Universe. The purpose is to give pilots a quick snapshot of the corporate population and some interesting numbers such as average tax rate and the type of ships pilots in NPC corporations vs. player corporations are flying.

Corporations are the foundation of social structure in EVE and it is therefore necessary to have some overview of how the demographics of corporations are and then review that again in about six month time or so, in order to see changes in the corporate environment and to do comparative analysis of the situation.

Total number of corporations and membership

Corporations are either player owned or operated by NPCs. Player characters can become members of NPC corporations but player owned corporations only has other player characters as members. The NPC corporations are assigned to a particular race or are pirate corps that operate in specific parts of the EVE Universe. The table below shows the number of NPC and player operated corporations and the number of members in each type of corporation.

Table1: Number of corporations and member count for NPC and player corporations.

In EVE there…

Up until now, you have relied on the forums and the recruitment channel, a channel that has grown into a monstrosity with an increasing number of players. I have done this before and while it can result in finding a corporation, you usually end up finding a corp through association, or just by stumbling upon it (or you just tried to get into the high profile ones).

If you already have a corporation, you are all…

November 24th will see the end of EVE TV Season One. Admittedly, we started a little shaky and took a few episodes to find our feet. But, we can all agree that the core EVE TV team (Xyliana, Loxyrider, StevieSG, Julian, Mike the Greek and Cynthia) did a wonderful job. Each member deserves a huge pat on the back. We would also like to thank all the guests who have made considerable strides to offer their expert opinions, humorous interviews and interesting debates regarding the EVE-verse.

Unfortunately, there were obstacles early on that we hadn’t expected to encounter. We struggled to select the right distribution model for the EVE community and clearly missed the mark. Learning from our experiences we transitioned to the Brightcove system, which includes advertising to create a revenue stream, thus allowing the viewer to watch for free. Unfortunately our timing was off and our instincts told us to remain cautiously vigilant. After serious consideration, the choice was made to re-evaluate the project and place EVE TV on a temporary break until February.

CCP & MMM Publishing will release a Fanfest compilation DVD. These DVDs will be distributed with every copy of E-ON issue #010, which will…

Attribute Reassignment Modifier Scripts

• Sensor boosters (Targeting Range and Scan Resolution)
• Remote sensor boosters (uses the same ARM scripts as sensor boosters)
• Remote sensor dampeners (Targeting Range Dampening and Scan Resolution Dampening)
• Tracking computers (Optimal Range and Tracking Speed)
• Tracking links (uses the same ARM scripts as tracking computers)
• Tracking disruptors (Optimal Range Disruption and Tracking Speed Disruption)
• Warp Disruption Field Generators (Focused Warp Disruption)

We may have looked like teachers, or scientists, or perhaps a team of lawn bowlers who had gotten lost and had to ask directions, but the E-ON "Pub Team" at least managed to get our collective asses in gear and get some shirts made up for this year's Fanfest. And a good thing we did too, as it turned out that there were a few people who didn't realise that E-ON even existed, and, of a few who did, some never even knew it was an actual magazine, made of paper, ink and trace elements of sweat, blood and tears. We put them right, of course, and thanks to our high-tech E-ON lounge area, we managed to get some feedback as to what people liked about the magazine and what they didn't, in order that we can make things better and lovelier.

There were people who liked having player guides in the magazine, as it allowed them to not have to alt-tab between websites. Others had been enjoying the Chronicles (look out for an E-ON Chronicle Special in the future). Some even, for some inexplicable reason, liked reading the profiles and interviews with the various CCPers we've featured over the…

Fanfest is now over, and it was awesome experience. Being able to sit down face to face and focus on many issues and future aspirations we both have for Eve was much more productive than feedback on the forums. Today, I have been shuffling through over seven pages of notes from a single round table, notes that will be turned into planned fixes, balancing, improvements and new features for future patches. I truly hope Fanfest was as enjoyable for you as it was for us!

There is a lot of stuff to be excited about in Trinity, the chaos of change and anticipation of Eve that entering another chapter brings with it. Here I want to introduce some more of the improvements happening with invention in Trinity coming at the same time as those we announced in my previous Dev Blog.

Ship Invention boosted in Trinity

The chance of inventing Tech II frigate, destroyer and cruiser class ships has been increased. The reason for this is we feel inventing the smaller class ships should be easier than the larger ships which are inherently more complex in design. This also impacts other decisions such as which decryptor to use, which…

What we wish to do is to take this to a new level and let you the players elect representatives to the CSM. The CSM will then act as an official conduit for your comments and requests, as a community, enhancing greatly your ability to express your concerns and prioritize the matters you believe are most important at the time. The white paper presented here is by no means a finished paper, changes and updates will be made to it when more feedback gets in. We have already changed our ideas on some key fronts based on the feedback we got at Fanfest this year, the biggest change being that this is no longer considered an implementation of ?Democracy?, as that word has so many and different meanings to different people that it would be the cause of a lot of misunderstandings.

You can download the…

There is a lot of information in the new QEN so in order for us to communicate well through the forums I would greatly appreciate if you could state clearly in your message which information from the QEN you are referring too. I'm looking forward to seeing your comments and participating in the discussion that will follow.

Dr. EyjoG

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…

Back up here a bit! UI in EVE?

We did fix both the voice quality (it really is crystal clear) and activation delays (near instant) in the Revelations 2.2 release mid-summer. We didn?t however have time to work on the user interface as much as we had wanted and what we have been doing now is therefore a continuation of efforts started months…

My secret objective for the Trinity expansion has been to add as many new features as possible, including some nifty Exploration-related mechanics, then write one huge dev blog about all of it and take credit for everyone else's work. So far, so good... (cue evil laugh track)

New Complexes

Here's a nice easy place to start us off ? some of the Content guys have found the huge gaps in the list of DED complexes are disturbing their Feng Shui. Our goal with the Trinity release is to have all five pirate factions own a 6/10 complex, most will have a 9/10 complex. Some of these will also use the Escalating Paths mechanic to spread the action out across two or more systems. The distribution is through exploration, so into my blog it goes and with almost no work on my part ? it's a win-win situation!

Drone Hacking Sites

One of the unresolved problems with the Drone Regions is the lack of miniprofession sites, driven in no small part by the fact that most of the miniprofession content is tied to one of the four Empires, none of which have any business in the Drone Regions. Given this, there…

Most of you have probably read Zulupark's blog about the Carrier and Mothership changes we've been discussing here at the office, the feedback and next steps.

We expected such a drastic change to result in a lot of feedback. We did not expect the requests to prematurely end dear Zulupark's existence in this universe, some of which were *very* imaginative and in more ways than we thought possible. We'd like to point out all design matters are ratified in groups, so in the future, please include at least Hammerhead, Oveur and our janitor in any ill thoughts you may have as a result of EVE's direction.

Let's take a look at what Carriers and Motherships are currently capable of:

• Fighting off any kind of foe, small or big. Most have a set of fighters and a lot of normal drones in their drone bay. This means they can choose drones / fighters based on their enemy's size, choose their damage type and even be quite effective jammers using ewar drones.
• Great logistics ships - They've got plenty of capacitor to be very effective logistics ships using capital sized logistic modules. Triage mode can be very effective in small scale…

Electronic Attack Ships

Sentinel

• Hull: Crucifier / Viziam
• Slots: 3/4/3, 2 turrets
• Fitting: 195tf, 40mw
• Drones: 20Mbit/s bandwidth, 60m3 drone bay
• Sensors: 572mm scan res, 36.5km targeting range, 21pt radar
• Propulsion: 374m/s, 1,525,000kg

I?m posting here now because the last few days we?ve been looking at the way capital and supercapital ships are functioning on Tranquility, and to be honest we?re a little concerned with the direction it?s taking.

What we want is pretty basic: We want to make fighter wielding capital ships more reliant on their support fleet and less of a direct über deathbringer.

How are we going to do it?

Well, we have an idea, and before you go ballistic remember that this is an idea and we?re still working on it:

We plan on changing the way fighters work, and have it so that you can still launch all the fighters you want (within limits of your ship/skills) but you can only directly control 5 of them at a time. That means that a carrier/mothership can launch 5 fighters, assign them to a gang mate, launch 5 more, assign them to another gang mate…