Have you heard of the news lately? Or perhaps you have something to share on the topic? Here are some links to the news and speculation around EVE lately!

• Capital ships in high security space

I personally don’t see why there is a big fuss over this. I know Chribba is a very important person to the EVE community, but once again, it looks like if you whine about it enough and have a 30 page forum thread, you’ll get what you want. I still see a way that this gives those people an advantage over us; they can not be suicide ganked, while the rest of us still can?

• Ambulation is coming

Now this is a topic I don’t mind to talk about! Personally, I can’t wait until ambulation arrives so we all can walk around and actually see how big our ships are. I remember seeing a picture back when I started to first play that a Minmatar Rifter is as big as a 747 jumbo jet. So imagine that, but against a Rokh or even if you see your carrier in the station. But a question I have is what about having a mothership or a titan around? Then it would be really awesome if you get to see a shuttle animation. Though some people complain that then it would take a bit of time for the animations to work and therefore take more time to switch between ships. And I agree to that, to a certain extent. Other people are saying that people will now just sit inside stations during war-declarations and its going to slow down their business. But I guess we will have to just wait and see…

• Customizable ship exteriors

These would be really nice to see. I mean I don’t mind seeing a fleet of regular ravens flying around, but I would really love to see decked out ships with various colors. Just changing the color scheme of a ship would be good in my opinion.

• More changes to speed and it’s outrage

Currently, another hot topic of discussion.  And if you have read my blog posts just a little bit back, I bought a nice little Crow interceptor.  This speed change thing isn’t really working in my favor.  I would like to see how this will all work out; either “CCP caves and does not change anything on the topic of the speed adjustments” or “CCP steps up and strongly feels that this is a necessary change”. I am not saying that I like being nerfed, but I am curious as to what the developers will say.

• The new and improved EVE store is here
  
• Ship models on sale

These models look pretty cool, but are way too expensive for my budget. If someone reading this does buy one, please tell me how it is. I would love to see some bigger pictures too!

A thank you to CrazyKinux for some of the links and info, he is the one I look for to catch up on EVE news.

On 23:13:00 EVE time, a fleet of about 60 State Protectorate pilots engaged an enemy fleet of about 50 pilots, or so we had thought. Once we got there, about another 30 to 50 ships jumped in through and lagged us up.

This is what the fleet started out like, about 90 people.

Our plan was to go around back door from the Caldari high security space into Tama. There was hostiles in the only Tama station and we wanted to trap them inside and snipe/kill them off. 10 minutes later and we arrive. Things didn’t go so well because there was a neutral spy following us and another spy in our fleet. Most of the people inside that station escaped. We started to chased them down and was able to pick off one or two.

Later, we reach Heydieles and our recon says a fleet is parked on the Old Man Star to Villore. We decide to go after these guys and got the fleet ready. By that time when we got to the destination, we only had a little above half of the people remaining.

The battle was not the best I have ever had. It lagged like hell! I did not appreciate it because you would always target the wrong thing or shoot at something that wasn’t there anymore. Everyone zoomed out to try to reduce the lag, but more reinforcement ships just keep jumping in from the Gallente side. Now we were just trying to get those that we could.

Our fleet commander was still calling the primary targets, and we were able to successfully take some ships down. In the end, I helped to kill these guys:

• Victim: Kadean
• Location: Old Man Star
• Corp: Elite Underworld Special Forces
• Alliance: None
• Ship: Dominix [Fitting]

• Victim:Parmenides Elea
• Location: Old Man Star
• Corp: Wrath of Fenris
• Alliance: None
• Ship: Dominix [Fitting]

• Victim:Lucas Avignon
• Location: Old Man Star
• Corp: Avignon Associates Inc.
• Alliance: None
• Ship: Dominix [Fitting]

If you want to see my full kill board, please visit here.

Here is to the cool people that stuck it to the end, I salute you!

Corewin, CRUSH BOSS, Cuthbert Drake, Ecky Ptang, Kazabet, Lord Erebos, Marcuz Griffin, Ray Rosny, sakura okami, Splunk jamma, Tzu Wu, and Xanath Fireheart

Gallery, enjoy!