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New EvE Online novel

admin — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 10:30:25 +0000

Welcome on EvE Online ISK. According to official website, CCP Games main Creative Writer Hjalti Danielsson to pen a novel set in the EVE Online.

“CCP is pleased to announce a grand space opera set in the universe of EVE Online, the largest and most successful science fiction Massively Multiplayer Online Game (MMOG) today with over 300,000 subscribers worldwide. EVE: The Burning Life will be published in November 2009 via partnerships with Tor Books and Orion Books.” – we can read. Well, after last year’s EVE: The Empyrean Age novel by Tony Gonzales (which has well-written, deep story and answers a lot of questions surrounding the events of “EvE Online: The Empyrean Age” – if you can, check it out), I’, really looking forward for another book in great EvE setting.
Well’ I read tons of books set in Star Wars setting or World of Warcraft and I was scared “another Sith Lord”? Another “Burning Legion” invasion?! D’OH! No way!
EvE Online: The Empyrean Age is high quality science-fiction novel, NOT like Star Wars/WoW mistakes.

Anyway ”The Burning Life” is the first work of Hjalti Daníelsson who has worked in different capacities on EVE Online since its 2003 release and currently serves as CCP’s main creative writer for the EVE Online setting.

(EvE Online: The Empyrean Age teaser)

So if you like books and EvE Online, you should run to your bookstore and buy “The Empyrean Age”. Don’t know about you, but I’m waiting for “EvE: The Burning Life”

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Buddy Program Summer Promotion 2009

admin — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 08:38:54 +0000

Welcome on EvE Online ISK. According to oficial website, CCP is introducing new “Buddy Program Summer Promotion 2009”. What is that? Well, if you want to go to Fanfest 2009 for free and take your best friend along with you, you can do it! “This summer you may get a chance to achieve both of these goals.” Everything is starting July, 01 2009 and running until Sept, 01, 2009, every buddy invite you send out that signs up for an EVE Online subscription will get you one ticket to a special prize draw. “One lucky winner and their best friend will then be taken to Fanfest on us!”

What do you think about this idea? Are you up for some prizes? Well, in my opinion only one price is kinda joke, but if you are lucky enough…

You want to know more about “Buddy Program Summer Promotion 2009”? Check out EVElopedia contest page for more information and contest rules.

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EvE Online and billions ISK stolen

admin — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:18:45 +0000

Welcome on EvE Online ISK. Today about another scam in EvE Online, because one of the game’s biggest financial institutions lost a significant blow of its deposits as a theft started a run on the bank. How much this time well, around 200 billion of EvE Online ISK (£3,115) was stolen by one of the bank’s controllers. I was in early June but only now have details emerged about the amount of money stolen and why it was taken. What about bank? Well, the run on the bank has come to about 600 billion ISK, which has been withdrawn. However, they had a very big group of supporters, who have deposited about 105 billion ISK to keep us liquid. The theft was carried out by EBank’s chief executive, a player known as Ricdic, now known to be a 27-year-old Australian who works in the technology industry. His full identity has not been revealed save that his name is Richard.
We now know, that Ricdic used these money to put down a deposit on a house and to paysome medical bills.
“I’m not proud of it at all, that’s why I didn’t brag about it,” Ricdic told Reuters. “But you know, if I had to do it again, I probably would’ve chosen the same path based on the same situation.”

Well, another scam or scandal and almost 0 reaction from CCP company…

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EVE Online: Apocrypha 1.5 announced for August release

admin — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 08:06:38 +0000

Welcome on EvE Online ISK! According to official website, EVE Producer CCP t0rfifrans has announced the upcoming release of Apocrypha 1.5 in August 2009. We can read “This release will bridge the gap between our Spring and Winter expansions and will feature some exciting new content.”

What’s new?

- Rigs in small, medium or large versions ( this way we equip cost-scaled improvements to our favorite starship).

- New challenging level 4 Epic Mission Arcs for all 4 Empire factions (yeah more Players vs Environment and cool rewards)

(EVE Online: Apocrypha Expansion Intro)

- New cargo holds and fuel bays on Black Ops Battleships – a new dimension to how items and fuel are transported in New Eden.

- Factional Warfare will see loyalty points awarded for each kill and captures as well as new loyalty point stores.

“This expansion will also focus heavily on addressing current features and balancing and fixing bugs.”

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Eve Online Economic Reports 2009

admin — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 09:02:41 +0000

Welcome on EvE Online ISK. Today I would like to introduce, another Eve Online Economic Reports are out, for the first quarter of 2009. Most interesting thing is that the subscription base is still increasing which is very nice. Game is little bit old, but World of Warcraft is another “old” MMORPG and player base is still growing up! 5 years after premiere official premiere! But it is not blog about WoW, lets back to EvE Online. Well, active subscribers in Eve Online players “grew from 245,000 to 285,000” and still going up. It’s maybe not much in comparision to World of Warcraft which has 12 millions, but other MMORPG like Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning has around 300 k and Lord of the Rings Online: Shadow of Angmar around 200 k, so EvE Online has quite solid player base.

What is also interesting in this report…Well, the average wallet size has gone from 300 millions to 500 millions EvE Online isk the last 2007. Players have more and more expensive starship, which is not a surprise. The number of players having over a billion eve ISK is up to about 30 k, about 15 % of the total accounts in Eve Online.

Another quite interesting thing is that 67 % of all sleeper tech traded is done in Jita. Its kinda surprising that trades doesn’t spread in other parts of universe. Report is really huge, so if you like statistic data, check it out. I don’t have much patience to read all ;-)

You can check out all the report right here.

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EvE Online and 300,000 global users

admin — Wed, 06 May 2009 06:06:32 +0000

Welcome on EvE Online Isk. Well, according to official news, CCP Games announced that Eve Online has now surpassed 300,000 players worldwide and is celebrating 6 year anniversary. In a genre dominated by World of Warcraft, created by Blizzard Entertainment, Eve Online is the poster child of hanging on in the massively multiplayer online game genre (MMOG).

CCP also announced that Eve Online’s subscriber base has grown by 22 % in 2009! According to official data, EvE Online has begun the year with 244,000 subscribed gamers. CCP is also proud, that it has broken its peak concurrent user record 3 times this year, with the current high mark sitting at 53,850 players online at the same time (there is one server in EvE Online isk).

(EvE Online II Revelation)

Some time ago, CCP and Atari teamed to offer Eve Online with all of its expansion packs and 60 days of play at retail. As part of an online games research study released few months ago, Screen Digest announced that, Eve Online was the 4 top popular subscription game in terms of spending, ranked behind World of Warcraft, Club Penguin (never heard of it), and RuneScape. Anyway check it out down below! Well, you won’t find Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning, because, it was released too late in the year to impact the accounting.

10 Most Popular Subscription Games in Terms of Spending

1) World of Warcraft
2) Club Penguin
3) RuneScape
4) Eve Online
5) Final Fantasy XI
6) The Lord of the Rings Online
7) Dofus
8) Age of Conan
9) City of Heroes
10) EverQuest II

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EVE Online Apocrypha 1.1

admin — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 06:25:34 +0000

Welcome on EvE Online Isk. You probably already know that yesterday had been released patch for EvE Online, called Apocrypha 1.1. Downtime was scheduled to start at 11.00 GMT – 16.15 GMT.

What’s new? Well, New Tech 3 subsystems are available for the Loki, Legion, Proteus and Tengu to provide pilots with more awesome variation along with other very cool improvements to ECM ships such as the Rook, Falcon, Widow and Scorpion.
This patch fixed several issues that have been reported following the release of Apocrypha 1.0.2 like all kind of fixes related to the skill queue, agents and missions, localized clients and UI (user interface).

Well friends, another patch and another cool thingies are available! EvE is day after day, bigger and better! Anyway I’m starting to get worried about my spine, I play to much :/

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Cally and biggest scam in EvE Online

admin — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 18:14:10 +0000

Welcome on EvE Online Isk – Blog. I want something about scams in EvE Online, just like in my previous post. As i mentioned before, now community of EvE gamers is quite, and barely had time to calm down and here is another scam, that very easily surpasses scam from my previous post…
Today I’m bringing, fascinating story of a guy named “cally”. This dude ran a his own corporation- more specific- he was head and rules of a bank called “Eve Intergalactic Bank”. You probably know what happened next, heh. Well this dude, run bank in normal way so hundreds of players deposited ISK in his bank.. Cally, one day, decided to take all EvE Online Isk from bank and run off to space with an alleged total sum of 790 billion Isk ( it’s around $170,000!!!!). It’s biggest MMO scam ever conducted. Well that good he dont run away with my money heh..

This guy, Cally also took the time to record a video in which he confesses his crimes and just make fun from all EvE Online community…
This is going to far, in my opinion, honest players who just want to have fun are punched in face without reason. Massive bans should help this anarchic online world, or all EVE one day collapse in Chaos!

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Interview with Dr Eyjo Gudmundsson

admin — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 16:50:26 +0000

Welcome on EvE Online ISK. I’ve found very interesting interview with Dr Eyjo Gudmundsson is economist involved in EvE Online world (in article they call him “virtual Alan Greenspan” – well, NOW when world is in crisis is kinda silly comparison…;-)). As you probably already know, every quarter Dr Gudmundsson and his team produce an economic newsletter analyzing trends inside the game. He is collaborating with real world academic institution like Helsinki Institute of Research and Technology, where they are looking into how to evaluate virtual economies and compare “that to other virtual worlds and moving that experience over to the real world.”
Anyway he comment scams and freud in EvE “Eve is a very competitive game and is happening in a super-capitalistic environment – corporate espionage is a very big part of the game.” He also added ”We are discussing this with players. To what extent should we provide protection for players.”

Well, Dr Gudmundsson also added that “It’s the challenge of being able to be the best at planning ahead, the one who controls a large territory, showing your skills in running a corporation that has up to 1,000 members.” True, true, true – it’s hard to imagine how to live normal life and run large corporation…
“Eve is a great place to learn business skills, or to sharpen business skills. Players have written to us to say that they have gone on to establish successful businesses after playing Eve.”

If you would like to check whole article, check out this link. Enjoy!

Well, in the future I will add post about that, so check out my weblog again!

Source BBC NEWS

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GHSC infiltration incident

admin — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 15:12:57 +0000

Welcome on EvE Online Isk website. Did you ever heard about the GHSC infiltration incident? Some time ago, a group of agents worked for most successful corporations in the game, spending over 1 year undercover to gain enough trust of the members, who granted them special access to the corp hangars. What happened next? Well in the opinion of all experts in online industry, one of the most unbelievable heists in MMORPG ever. This group, stole something like 30 billion ISK from the corporation + destroyed leader’s starship and escape pods.

After this, online community of EVE gamers just boiled. Well as i mentioned before, EVE economy and politics is all driven by gamers and this developer politics has two sides. Bad sides are such crimes and scams. Some dudes are very angry because of that and they would like large intervention from developers when such things happen. This is large problem in EvE since release. Case is controversial because, these kind of criminals, are destroying all the efforts of many players who spent thousands of hours in EVE Online trying to create wealth and technology.
Well after this incident, developers don’t want to get involved in such things and are staying with their old politics, so we must be ready for another this kind of incident in the future….

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