Is coming on Tues, 6 November. Set a long skill on monday night :-).
Tranquility will undergo an extended downtime on Tuesday, 6 November. The start time is 1100 GMT and the length of the downtime is expected to be 3 hours. During this time, a patch will be applied to Revelations consisting of fixes and improvements.
There is a new blogpost up on eve-o abuot the upcoming new client and the various upgrade paths for the Eve-Online client ! The new info is that they’ll be using a Windows service to download the client in the background.
The bigger content upgrades are going to be downloaded with via HTTP as well, but using a different download mechanism called BITS (Background Intelligent Transfer Service). BITS is a part of the Windows operating system and allows us to ask Windows to download the files in the background for us. BITS supports intelligent bandwidth throttling and allows for downloads to be paused and resumed at your will. The intelligent part of BITS is that you can configure it to yield for other network traffic, which will ensure that you will not lag and be able to browse the web while downloading. If you need the download right away, you can set the download priority to high, which will make BITS use up all the available bandwidth.
I would very much prefer a regular download or a torrent setup, instead of some vague Microsoft meganism, but we’ll see how it all works out.
Some modules like the cap recharger II and Invulnerability field II, had not passed my mind lately. I remember the times when these costs like 15 – 20 mil., which I refused to pay even though I could afford them. But the past few weeks I purchased a few of these. It seems Invention is finally doing what it was supposed to do (I assume this was ccp’s intention) and the price of these modules have dropped considerably to 2-3 mil or there abouts. So my mission Raven got a little better lately ;).
Also the T2 ships like the Cerb have dropped a lot. It’s actually affordable now (though I lack the skill for now to fly one, my alt flies Amarr HACs) at 80mil instead of 200+. Most notably is the price drop on the Hulk. I am currently learning the skills (about a week to go) for the exhumers and checked the price again. A drop from 450mil to 130 or even lower. Probably everyone that can / want to use one already purchased one, so demand is getting lower as well.
All in all a good thing, if you werent in the T2 business :).
As you might have noticed I replace the Google Adsense (that was dominated by Isk Farmers) by a new service called IskSense. The advertisement money solely deals in ISK :). So if you click on one of the ads, you give morph a few more isk to get that new shiny ship ! It’s amazing how creative some players are in Eve !
Check out the isk sense website if you have a blog or other related Eve website, and dont forget to visit the eve-o forum thread.
In case you missed it, there is a very interesting blog post on the official eve site on the state of the economy, this one focuses on the production of spaceships.
http://myeve.eve-online.com/devblog.asp?a=blog&bid=505Â
All the numbers and graphics are very intriguing, also the price of the minerals is discusses. Check it out if you like this sort of thing !