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EVE's call to arms: Thursday fleet battles on test server to help combat lag

by James Egan Nov 19th 2008 at 4:00PM

Filed under: Sci-fi, EVE Online, Bugs, Events, in-game, Expansions, Game mechanics, PvP, News items


EVE Online's latest expansion Quantum Rise brought some new features for the industry crowd, and a few enhancements aimed at PvP pilots as well. But some of the broad changes they've made to the game mechanics have triggered lag, and lots of it, which CCP Games is hoping to combat with the help of the players themselves. CCP Tanis says, "We take this issue very seriously and as a result, our engineering team has been in high-gear working on fixing the problem and we think we are close, but we need your help."

The help CCP Games is looking for requires relatively little from players, aside from logging into the Singularity test server and entering the fray, blasting each other apart in battleships. The Wednesday tests were already underway when we got word of this, but they're looking to get a large group of pilots (200 or more) for the Thursday fleet engagements on Singularity. The test will take place on Thursday at 11:00 GMT, and another is tentatively slated for 15:00, dependent upon what CCP learns from the previous fights. CCP Tanis lays out how players can get involved:

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Tags: battleship, breaking, bugs, ccp, ccp-games, ccp-tanis, drones, eve, eve-online, expansions, forums, game-mechanics, lag, patch, patches, pvp, quantum-rise, sci-fi, singularity, test-server, tranquility, weapon-grouping

EVE Evolved: The cost of failure

by Brendan Drain Oct 12th 2008 at 6:00PM

Filed under: Sci-fi, EVE Online, Economy, Game mechanics, Guides, PvP, Tips and tricks, EVE Evolved

The harsh death penalty in EVE Online is something that's talked about a lot. I even touched on the issue myself when I compared EVE Online's style of PvP to Age of Conan and when I investigated the phenomenon of suicide ganking. In EVE, your ship being destroyed means millions of your hard-earned isk is flushed down the drain. If you're unlucky enough not to get away in your escape pod, you'll be killed and recloned, costing yet more isk and destroying any expensive implants in your head. The brutal death penalty associated with PvP in EVE is responsible for putting a lot of players off playing the game but is the taste of death really as bitter as people make it out to be?

In this article, I examine the cost of defeat in PvP and how to minimise these costs without ruining your PvP performance.

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Tags: battleship, ccp, cheap, cost, cruiser, death penalty, DeathPenalty, eve, eve-online, featured, frigate, insurance, isk, joystiqfeatures, money, tech 2, Tech2

Empyrean Age factional warfare exploit identified

by James Egan Jul 4th 2008 at 1:30PM

Filed under: Sci-fi, EVE Online, Exploits, Game mechanics, PvP, News items


Factional warfare in EVE Online, by design, ensures that ships of a much greater ship class cannot engage smaller ships in certain deadspace mission pockets. If you and your fellow militia pilots are in a zone designated for nothing larger than frigates, for instance, you shouldn't find yourself getting locked by battleships fighting for your rival militia. Apparently this has started to occur; some players have found that the jump gates to these zones don't actually prevent them from warping in ships of a magnitude not allowed in such areas.

GM Grimmi had this to say at the EVE Online site: "Flying bigger class ships than allowed by the jump gates to Factional Warfare complexes has been classed as an exploit. If you are found doing this we will be forced to take in-game actions as abusing game mechanics is not allowed." So there you go. You might still be able to get in there with something obscenely overpowered and pop frigates like balloons, but you'll say goodbye to your account over it.

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Tags: battleship, ccp, ccp-games, deadspace, dev, dev-blog, eve, eve-online, exploit, faction, factional-warfare, frigate, game-mechanics, gm, gm-grimmi, jump-gate, jumpgate, machariel, mission, pvp, sci-fi

First Impressions: Albatross 18

by Akela Talamasca Apr 30th 2008 at 9:30AM

Filed under: At a glance, Sports, Galleries, Opinion, Free-to-play, Hands-on, Casual, Humor, First Impressions, Albatross 18


Have you been pining away for a great golf MMO? We have, too! Look, even if you haven't, let's just go along with this, okay? Albatross 18 is an engaging, colorful, whimsical game that doesn't disappoint. When one considers golf, there really isn't too much to it -- hit the ball into the hole, rinse, repeat. The beauty of its simplicity is that a developer can go crazy with that concept and add all sorts of madness to it, and it can only improve the game.

And that's exactly what's going on with Albatross 18: beautiful environments, useful power-ups, crazy caddies, mascots, costumes -- this game is hilarious. Will you like it? Let's find out. As always, we remind you that this is not meant to be a full review of everything in the game; these are the first impressions we got after spending an hour or so playing. Excelsior!

Gallery: First Impressions: Albatross 18

The server selection screenCinco de MayoPassword warningThe main screenExcited caddy

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