Waddaya know !
CRITICAL
* Duration timers on modules can now be enabled and disabled. This will allow players who experience discomfort with duration timers the option of disabling the effect completely.
There are more fixes on there of course. The complete (?) list can be found at
http://myeve.eve-online.com/updates/patchnotes.asp
Quantum Rise has to be one of the most lackluster ‘expansions’ ever released for an MMO. It even touts serverside enhancements and ‘gamebalancing’ (ie. a whole bunch of nerfes) as features. I think it would have been a lot better to let the PR machine rest for a moment, and just say ‘sorry but this year we’re only doing one expansion’. The promise to do two expansions a year bit them in the rearend this time. At first the news was that this would be industrial focused, but that idea was ditched soon enough. Besides the orca there is hardly anything industrial related in this one.
Some ACTUAL features :
– the Orca, for now a very expensive ship that might be of some use in a bigger corp mining op.
– ui improvements / enhancements like the movable hud, weapon grouping. A rotating circle around my mods that is extremely annoying.
The load of problems it brought are a lot bigger though. Not even mentioned the patching process itself which was bugged once again and I had to download the complete client.
The client has a memory leak, lag is worse than ever. Battleships are even slower now (was that really necessary ? I can’t remember seeing a nano-raven) making mission with gates very annoying. Missiles have been changed to have very low explosion radius etc..
All in all a disappointment to be honest.
Probably the most exciting thing we get in this expansion :).
http://www.enn-blog.com/2008/11/quantum-rise-trailer-oooh-snap/
Lately I have been thinking of going into the T2 ship invention business. I have a bunch of points stacked up for datacores. Also have all the skills needed, up to cruisers to build them. So I am all set to go.
Only thing that is holding me back is the entry price, the esoteric ship data interface, which costs about 120mil. It is sort of an investment though. Like a POS you can assume, unless CCP changes the drop rate of the bpc, that you can sell it again for about the same price.
Regardless of that I was wondering if there is actual any ISK to be made. Here are some calculations for a Kitsune, a t2 electronic warfare frig.
| Part | Aantal | Price | Total |
| Contruction blocks | 23 | 480 | 11,040 |
| Gravimetric Sensor Cluster | 75 | 23,200 | 1,740,000 |
| Graviton Reactor Unit | 30 | 68,000 | 2,040,000 |
| Griffin | 1 | 200,000 | 200,000 |
| Magpulse Thruster | 53 | 29,180 | 1,546,540 |
| Morphite | 15 | 10,000 | 150,000 |
| Quantum Microprocessor | 45 | 11,400 | 513,000 |
| RAM Starship Tech | 4 | 40,000 | 160,000 |
| Scalar Capacitor Unit | 38 | 17,900 | 680,200 |
| Sustained Shield Emitter | 30 | 26,500 | 795,000 |
| Titanitium Diborite Armor Plate | 38 | 7,322 | 278,236 |
| TOTAL | 8,114,016 |
The materials are from a -4 ME bpc which is typical I think for an invented BPC. The Kitsunes go for about 14mil in and around Jita. So on face value that would be 7mil prophit a unit. BUT, the success rate of frig invention is 40%, so let’s say you need about 1mil worth of datacores. For T2 cruisers like Recons and Hacs, this drops down to about 30%, and you need more datacores to invent at all (8 even instead of 2 for frigs).
And ofcourse you need BPCs to invent, running a POS costs money as well, but thats a bit hard to calculate, if you’re lucky you also can make some money by copying your BPOs, and use some for invention on the side
So what am I going to do ? Well for now, I am just going to think about it for a while. It’s also a lot of hassle, once you have a few blueprints to get all the parts together, plus it doesnt seem to be really worth it, for just a few mil profit per unit sold. I haven’t looked / calculated the costs of other T2 ships yet, but I doubt they’re much more profitable than the above example.
Let me know what you think in the comments, and if I overlooked anything :).
The profiles of each blogger in the Famous Eve Blog Pack are being posted on a few blogs in the pack. And my profile happens to be on the Ancient Gaming Noob’s blog !
Now I should really post something captivating, interesting post to capture my audience…
Finally the mysteries around this long rumored ship come to an end, a devblog on this new mining vessel, the mini rorqual has been posted !
Orca Blog Post (Great Screenshot btw!)
Forum Feedback Thread
Orca Blueprint
Test Server Feedback Forum Thread
[Insert Free Willy Joke here]
At 1st the ship will be very expensive I assume. But I’ll keep a keen eye out.
A blog that I have been reading regularly lately is Roc Wieler’s Roc’s Ramblings. It’s the mix of stories / remarks / thoughts that makes it a very interesting read.
I met Roc and flew with him quite a few times in Factional Warfare, and he is a very nice guy. So please check out his blog at http://everamblings.wordpress.com/.
UPDATE : Very weird coincidence that Roc has been picked as the first person for the Eve Blog Pack Profile !
Check it out the Ancient Gaming Noob’s Blog:
http://tagn.wordpress.com/2008/10/18/eve-blog-pack-profile-colonel-roc-wieler/
Just received this in the mail. Pretty fast I must say, as it used to take a lot longer. Two of my screenshots were used for the Postcard section ! The bottom two ones, Uedama and Kourmonen are mine ;). The little story that goes along with it was made by the editor though…
There is yet another new Eve blog and it’s called badass in space ! It looks very nice and it’s a fun read, so make sure to check it out at http://rubukaz.com/.
The past few months I have been setting up shop in Hentogari. Still do my invention and selling those inventions in Sivala and Irjunen where the lvl 4 agents are (oops did I just give away a trade secret), usually on sunday where I fly the 14 odd jumps back and forth. Hento was just temporary I thought. There is a nice Ishukone agent there and I wanted to up my standings for them in order to use their R&D agents.
One drawback of said agent, and I assume the reason it’s not too crowded there is that she sometimes sends you to lowsec :(. Call me chicken but I am not interested in loosing my raven in a gatecamp and have some odd pirate seek me out while doing Guristas Extravaganza, so I usually decline those missions.
When I am on a 4hr mission break, and sometimes this is at night, so I have to wait for the next day, I started to spend my time mining again ! It had been a while since I mined, except for a few times when we were in 0.0 and I must say, I really like it again. It’s not very stressful, you can browse the web, read or just chat while doing it. And the isk ain’t half bad. I been using the trit and pyer to build a few ravens and they fly off the shelf in that region like hotcakes. Do so many people loose their mission ship ? I never lost mine to be honest.
And what do I listen to lately while mining ? I just found out that classical music really goes well with the sound of mining lasers. What lead me to classical music was this rendition of Steve Vai doing For the love of God. I have been ordering cds mentioned at http://www.classicalcdguide.com/. I am especially enjoying Bach and Schubert at the moment.
So what do you listen to while mining ? Besides the Eve podcasts out there ;). I refuse to believe all Eve players only enjoy the loud music (yes i am getting old) that comes with every Eve video (and most other MMO videos). Any good suggestions will be appreciated :).
