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chrisvenusLast night I spent playing Eve. There was a big planned mission with a bunch of us from the same Corp (corporation for those wondering about the abbreviation) all flying out to one of our bases and running some missions from there. At times there were more than 15 of us flying around blastin stuff. Some people complained about lag but I didn't see any during the fighting really. Nor crippilingly so anyway though there was a bit.
There's not a huge amount to say on it really. There was some good co-ordination though it could have been better. I suspect we needed to split up more into squads so that we had a bit more focus on what we were doing. Basically the smaller ships were there as a fighter screen in essence and I think we'd have done better to concentrate fire better than we did so that rather than having five mostly dead ships we could have had one healthy ship and four totally dead ones.
We had a teamspeak server which was cool. Basically its a voice server that you log into and can chat to people in that way that is so trendy nowadays. I have no mic so I couldn't talk but it was still useful to be able to hear what other people were saying. And to put some voices to people too. :)
It was a really good night all in all. My ship went pop at one point but I think myself and one other were the only people to lose ships. And the guy organising it had made sure there were plenty more ships available so I was only out of it for the time taken to head back to base, get into a new ship and then head off again. Still annoying because my first ship was called Azrael's Flame which is a cool name. And yes, I can rename my new ship (whose name elludes me right now) but I feel once a ship has been named it shouldn't be renamed.
It was a good learning experience and a lot of fun. And I played around with taking screenshots. Oh yes. I can't be bothered to do the whole nice album thing (I really need to get round to sorting this out at some point) but I have done some resizing so you have a choice of sizes to go for...
"photos" of the op can be found by going to http://the.earth.li/~chris/eve/ and if you want smaller then go look in the med or thumbs directory for smaller versions to decide if you want to look at larger ones. The big ones are 1680x1050 for the most part which is my full screen res. Its lovely. :) Some of the shots are a bit messy because they are not as well posed as they might be. I need to practice more. :)
My favourites are:
http://the.earth.li/~chris/eve/2006.01.30.21.22.11.png - me rendezvousing with an ally.
http://the.earth.li/~chris/eve/2006.01.30.22.22.26.png - the "tank" heads into the mission through the acceleration gate
http://the.earth.li/~chris/eve/2006.01.30.21.32.07.png and
http://the.earth.li/~chris/eve/2006.01.30.21.27.29.png - part of the fleet drifts outside a station waiting for orders.
There's not a huge amount to say on it really. There was some good co-ordination though it could have been better. I suspect we needed to split up more into squads so that we had a bit more focus on what we were doing. Basically the smaller ships were there as a fighter screen in essence and I think we'd have done better to concentrate fire better than we did so that rather than having five mostly dead ships we could have had one healthy ship and four totally dead ones.
We had a teamspeak server which was cool. Basically its a voice server that you log into and can chat to people in that way that is so trendy nowadays. I have no mic so I couldn't talk but it was still useful to be able to hear what other people were saying. And to put some voices to people too. :)
It was a really good night all in all. My ship went pop at one point but I think myself and one other were the only people to lose ships. And the guy organising it had made sure there were plenty more ships available so I was only out of it for the time taken to head back to base, get into a new ship and then head off again. Still annoying because my first ship was called Azrael's Flame which is a cool name. And yes, I can rename my new ship (whose name elludes me right now) but I feel once a ship has been named it shouldn't be renamed.
It was a good learning experience and a lot of fun. And I played around with taking screenshots. Oh yes. I can't be bothered to do the whole nice album thing (I really need to get round to sorting this out at some point) but I have done some resizing so you have a choice of sizes to go for...
"photos" of the op can be found by going to http://the.earth.li/~chris/eve/ and if you want smaller then go look in the med or thumbs directory for smaller versions to decide if you want to look at larger ones. The big ones are 1680x1050 for the most part which is my full screen res. Its lovely. :) Some of the shots are a bit messy because they are not as well posed as they might be. I need to practice more. :)
My favourites are:
http://the.earth.li/~chris/eve/2006.01.30.21.22.11.png - me rendezvousing with an ally.
http://the.earth.li/~chris/eve/2006.01.30.22.22.26.png - the "tank" heads into the mission through the acceleration gate
http://the.earth.li/~chris/eve/2006.01.30.21.32.07.png and
http://the.earth.li/~chris/eve/2006.01.30.21.27.29.png - part of the fleet drifts outside a station waiting for orders.
