Over 6 years of EVE Online Screenshots for your pleasure!

I recently asked some of you how long you had been playing EVE and if you ever saw yourselves playing in another five. The answers I got confirmed that most of us would still be capsuleers in that time frame. All this brought back memories of the last 6 years or so that I've been flying through New Eden, and of all the screenshots I took during those years.

Below you'll find links to 3 Flickr sets of screenshots taken between October 5th 2004 and up to last night. In all, that's over 2400 screenshots taken from various parts of the EVE universe, as I traveled, mined, did PvE and God knows what. It's fascinating to see the evolution of the UI, and how the back-drop & the ship have all evolved over that time!



Trinity I


Trinity II


Trinity II (2010)
So, how about yourself? Do you do a lot of screen capture, or is this just a weird hobby of mine?

Less than 2 months to EVE Online Fanfest 2008

In less than two months I'll be boarding a plane to start my journey to Reykjavik, the equivalent of Mecca for EVE Online players, hometown of CCP Games. I just checked the EVE Online Fanfest 2008 page to see that there were 52 days left until the beginning of the 3-day conference (at the time of this writing), which means less than 50 days before I leave Montreal.

In effort to control my urge to explode with enthusiasm I've decided to focus my energies in putting together this post on last year's Fanfest.

Here below are links to photos taken during Fanfest 2007 and the personal account of someone who was lucky enough to attend.

Photo Albums of EVE Online Fanfest 2007:

• Hakel Daima's Picasa Album
• Winterblink's Flickr Photo Set
• GamasutraPodcast's Flickr Photo Set
• EVE Online Forum Photo Thread
  

I also highly recommend that you read Winterblink's blog entries of his Fanfest 2007 experience (make sure to start at the bottom of the page) and the article he wrote in EON #010. Both will give you a hint of what I am about to embark on. Me, and a few hundred other EVE fanboys that is!

Oooh, the wait is unbearable!

A login advert for last year's fanfest.

First EVE Facebook, now EVE Flickr. What next?

A month ago, CCP Taera, who left us much too soon for the netherworld, announced on the EVE Forums that CCP had created a Facebook page for its fans.

Since then over, over 3,600 fans have joined the group, and more and more are joining everyday. Additional pages were created, some for the various races, some for the fanfest or even the recent Empyrean Age novel. You can find the whole list here.

So last evening, just before heading to bed, I dropped by to check the latest on EVE Facebook. I had just received a message that they had surpassed the humble goal of 2,000 fans. After looking around, I came upon their new EVE Online Flickr set!



OK, so it's only got 4 screenshots, all of Ambulation by the way. But still it's a start! The images, of decent size, were uploaded between July 27th and August 2nd. None have been uploaded since then, but one can hope there will be more!



Now unless I'm mistaken, this wasn't officially announced yet. If it has, it simply didn't register on my radar. Anyways, it's here and I can't wait to see more.

So head over the EVE Facebook page and join, then make sure to monitor the EVE Online Flickr activity. I know I will.

EVE Online Login Adverts

For over a year now (maybe more), I've been taking screenshots every time there's an advert on the EVE Online login screen. Since these can only be seen once, I wanted to keep track of each and be able to look at them some time in the future.

So far I've captured 17 of these and I've put them in a separate set on my Flickr account. There are some really great ads in there.

What do you think?

Destroying platforms, all part of the job

2005.11.25.02.21.05
Originally uploaded by crazykinux.

Thursday nights are usually EVE evenings, where I can spend a few hours immersed in EVE. But tonight I had other distractions, which I'll get to mention in a few posts; once I gather all my info and am allowed to discuss. Let's just say it involves an amazing new anime, TELETOON, and a great story line.

So instead, I did a simple level 2 agent mission, just to remind me of how fun they were. This one involved an agent in Stacmon, a thief in Dastryns, a document to bring back and a platform to destroy. Makes for some nice screenies.

Check out my latest flickr pics in my EVE Online set!

My EVE Online screenshots

Using flickr, I've been uploading all my EVE screenshots. I'm using the 2Gb monthly upload capacity of my flickr pro account to take a few shots when ever I play, and upload them. Gives me a chance to show EVE to friends and for all of you to see the beautiful environment in which I immerse myself on a daily basis.

Now you'll get to see one of the pleasures of EVE. Follow this link and feast your eyes.

Oh, and if you've noticed, the little applet on the right, shows my latest EVE Online set on flickr. So you always have an easy access to them.

Enjoy!

EVE Online Upgrade: Red Moon Rising

Well this is not Kali (the next EVE expansion), but it's something that should keep us EVE players happy until it comes out. If you purchased E:ON, then you know what's coming to EVE soon: humongous ships that will redefine fleet battles. They should make things very interesting, though it may take a while before we actually see any of them flying through soon.

In it's press release , CCP hinted on some of the cool things RMR will bring forth:

• Titans: The largest, most fearsome space faring battle vessels ever created
• Carriers: Front line capital ships providing fighter coverage and support for fleets
• Bloodlines: The addition of Asian bloodlines available to each of the races
• COSMOS Constellation Expansion: Addition of constellation missions to Gallente and Amarr territories
• Fighters: The main offensive and defensive weapon of the Carrier
• Starbases and sovereignty: Additions of roles to improve control access of services and improved calculations of player-determined Sovereignty

And this is all free! All thanx to CCP's amazing customer offer for EVE Online. And so will Kali. I'm really amazed that they're able to do so. I'm sure it has a lot to do with CCP's superb management skills and the constant and steady success of EVE popularity. Which says a lot about the quality of this galaxy spanning virtual world. When I joined EVE, over a year ago, there were about 40,000 subscribers and about 5,000 concurrent players. Now it's somewhere about 80,000 and 17,000 players (on one server).

I can't wait until the holidays!

P.S.: click here to get a zipped file of all Red Moon Rising screenshots.

Back online! I'm whole again...

It's kind of stupid to say that since I had access from work. But the internet has been part of my daily life for over 10 years now, and it's something that I take for granted. So when I simply can't get to it, it's painful. Add to that the fact that I couldn't play the MMORPG Eve-Online, and you start to understand the extent of my devastation. I'm kind of pushing it am I? But you get my point!

Having said that, I took the better of this evening uploading our pictures from our trip to Italy this past June on my new flickr pro account. It's an amazing site/web application and once you've started using it, it's addictive. A prime example of the web 2.0 and what's in store over the next few years. So far I have about 550 pics up and I still have a few days left to add. You can see the latest pics added on the right in the "my flickr pics" applet.

I also spent the morning adding all my bookmarks to my BlinkList. I had started doing so last week with del.icio.us but found BlinkList had better features and a more practicle interface. It's still in beta but works fairly well. I strongly suggest you give it a try!

Off to bed now, have a good night!

P.S.: Oh, in case you were wondering, it was my mobo! The Prescott P4 I had installed fried my P4C800 Deluxe and it had to be replaced. A bummer, but a cheaper fix then replacing the processor. Oh, well!


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