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General Discussion => General Non-RP EVE Discussion => Topic started by: Demion Samenel on 30 Nov 2014, 10:40
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So anyone heading to the Island this year? I pretty sure Morwen is but I for one would not say no to a beer or similar to talk lore or what not.
//Demion
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Still need to sort hotel and airplane shit, actually, but my actual FF+events tickets are purchased.
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Still need to sort hotel and airplane shit, actually, but my actual FF+events tickets are purchased.
Yeah same here, FF tickets are set, not airplane tickets yet. We got our 10man apartment prel-booked, but a few will not join this year.
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I shall be there again.
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:Totallyjealous:
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Hmmm. I can spend the money I have on either a new computer or FF.......which to choose :O
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I chose Fanfest instead of the new computer two years in a row.
It paid off.
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No Kor! We need you in a PC not a laptop that DC's all the time.
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Doing FF. I've got my FF ticket, but haven't secured plane tickets or hotel yet.
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shiny 8)
Yea a PC might be first hand to get, pretty important, Im happy to have a decent isk flow atm so last FF I bought my computer while be on FF.
Well if its totally frakkes up for you Makoto, we might have a bed over in the apartment. Not 100% sure of the price but last times around 180$ for a week.
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Sounds pretty reasonable. I'd be down. Do you have specific dates? If so, then I can see about plane tickets to match. Otherwise, I'm debating an extended Iceland stay so that I can hike about a bit, enjoy hot springs, etc, or else run off to Britain for a while to check out museums, etc.
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Sounds pretty reasonable. I'd be down. Do you have specific dates? If so, then I can see about plane tickets to match. Otherwise, I'm debating an extended Iceland stay so that I can hike about a bit, enjoy hot springs, etc, or else run off to Britain for a while to check out museums, etc.
Ive told the rest 16-23/3 so Monday to Monday.
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Sounds good, Demion. I'm in for a bed or a room, depending on what's available, and will schedule for that period.
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I'm. Gotta shake CCP's collective hands. Plus that building looks hella cool.
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Sounds good, Demion. I'm in for a bed or a room, depending on what's available, and will schedule for that period.
Awesome, Ive put you up on my little list, will mail out in December the final price and information.
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Tempted
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Looking increasingly likely that I'll be there but I have some things to work out, like moving. Good news is that where I'm moving to has cheap-ish direct flights.
Bought the event ticket long ago.
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Ticket is booked. Hotel & flights are also sorted.
I'm going out on Monday the 16th so I can explore Reykjavik a bit first. I'm also bringing a partner with me on one of the SoE tickets.
Do people want to meet up? If so where & when?
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Looking increasingly likely that I'll be there but I have some things to work out, like moving. Good news is that where I'm moving to has cheap-ish direct flights.
Bought the event ticket long ago.
I have 2 beds still to fill in our house if needed to
Do people want to meet up? If so where & when?
Love to 8) I han most of use arrives at 16/3 so there are plenty of time before and during FF to grab a cold one somewhere., many big gatherings tends to be very noisy but somewhere should not be impossible to fix
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I'll be there as usual, even though I have hardly been active in eve this year. To much else to do.
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Well, its 11 or so days to fanfest and in Iceland we have Snow... well mostly it might rain later, based past two weeks... but that'd be predictable and Iceland's weather doesn't do that.
But yeah atm it snow.
This has been you're near fanfest weather report from a bored of waiting Icelander.
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I will probably be watching those of you there from my office, much to the chagrin of the boss.
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Weather permitting (and assuming the island doesn't blow up) I'll be flying out on the afternoon of the 16th. I'm staying at the Leifur Eiriksson hotel with a (non EVE playing) friend who is booked up on a SoE ticket.
See some of you there, hopefully.
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I arrive at balls o'clock Monday morning.
In theory I'm meeting some people at Café Paris for breakfast that morning - that's up the street a bit from where the Laundromat Cafe is.
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And today its more snow
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Today looked mostly clear until around 18:00 ish... Then fluffy puffy snow, 4 hours later rain cold wet.
oh look fanfest schedule is here (http://fanfest.eveonline.com/schedule?_ga=1.41334058.965274568.1426112656)
if you are flying this weekend, dress warmly, there has been peasky storm warning floating about this week... I'm hoping it's just weather people beginning mad, but never think the weather isnt.
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I'd link an "it's happening" gif but I'm too lazy to go steal it from Kala or someone else.
But it's happening. Looking forward to seeing people who're here. :cube:
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(https://archive.4plebs.org/boards/pol/image/1396/67/1396675493319.gif)
(you're welcome)
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So, that Valkyrie trailer.
Did anyone else feel that the ships actually felt a little... small? Jumbo jet-sized frigates seemed only slightly larger than or cramped little one-man fighter, and everything else seemed wierdly off-scale from there.
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So, that Valkyrie trailer.
Did anyone else feel that the ships actually felt a little... small? Jumbo jet-sized frigates seemed only slightly larger than or cramped little one-man fighter, and everything else seemed wierdly off-scale from there.
I think the scale was fine.
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And so PYRE had a fight on comms about the size of fighters. Turns out a Firbolg is about 1/3rd the size of an Atron.
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So that keynote......
Not trying to be a negative nancy here, but where's the big ideas? Where's that trailer that makes you go OMG CANT WAIT?
This seemed more like a 'status update' and checking in on progress than laying out a grand future aspirational vision to me?
Dust?
Legion?
Edit: kudos to morwen and co.'s 'lore roundtable' twitch getting audio in that trailer :P
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All my structure based erections.
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All my structure based erections.
That stuff all looked great to me, should be a welcome change.
I think keynotes should be for the big sell though, the daring to dream kind of stuff that gets you pumped for potential expansions and gameplay down the line.
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The audible sploosh though when Quant took the stage... and the data presentation was well done, too.
Seems like the big players are getting the TLC this year, probably long overdue.
Very cool that the player lore speculation made it into the drifter trailer!
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The audible sploosh though when Quant took the stage... and the data presentation was well done, too.
Seems like the big players are getting the TLC this year, probably long overdue.
Very cool that the player lore speculation made it into the drifter trailer!
It seemed like a weird blurring of ooc with IC cgi trailer to me, I kind of like them separate? But yes cool for players to be in a trailer for sure!
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....woops.
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So that trailer...
Drifters being badass murdering machines..
And I played a hand in their creation by giving them the blood...Welp I win! I hope you are all ready to welcome your new sleeper overlords
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And this is why you don't touch strange body parts and give them to shady people in dark space alleys.
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And this is why you don't touch strange body parts and give them to shady people in dark space alleys.
No regrets.....
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Friday 20th March
12:00 Make Eve Real – Creating Planetary Civilizations
this sounds like something with a large amount of tomfoolery potential.
amarr planets in highsec minmatar space tomfoolery
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Confirming the audio from the trailer is taken from our Rhea lore panel; the cameos in the Scope video from last month are from the Tiamat lore panel a few months after that one.
I am not entirely sure that I had any audio in the trailer; there's been mixed reports of it. It's possible some people are confusing my voice with someone else's, probably Mark's.
Still :smug: as fuck though. :3
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Posting for posterity (posteriority?)
(https://i.imgur.com/vDtiKYz.jpg)
Ran is fiiiine.
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Yes.
Yes she is.
Think you used the wrong word though, there's no ass showing there.
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So that keynote......
Not trying to be a negative nancy here, but where's the big ideas? Where's that trailer that makes you go OMG CANT WAIT?
This seemed more like a 'status update' and checking in on progress than laying out a grand future aspirational vision to me?
Dust?
Legion?
Edit: kudos to morwen and co.'s 'lore roundtable' twitch getting audio in that trailer :P
It helps if you watched Hilmar's opening to Fanfest, where apparently the current company mottos are all about "No more 'vision' and talking about the future. Less talk, less promises. Only progress."
I thought it was interesting that he admitted during this that Fanfest on the whole is really good at promising things that never come true. One of his slides was a pic from the 'a future vision' trailer and he seemed to refer to it as a failure.
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Jackdaw mad OP.
MCF1B got featured as an example of why Garmur's are not OP
(http://i.imgur.com/DRP71j6.png)
(He DC'd)
Hecate has hull resist bonuses. lol.
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(http://i.imgur.com/Y28pCIL.png)
(http://i.imgur.com/VPZ68IB.png)
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Dev panel already mentioned big nerf coming to T3 Dessys, so live that shit up.
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Well, what Rise and Fozzie said was "probably looking at them again", I haven't heard anything about "a big nerf".
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Note the many devs nodding and smiling at that moment. ;)
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Welp, i think its time i got t2 light missiles and get that dessi skill ready for the Caldari T3 \o/
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Didn't see them elsewhere.
Art Panel shots of the Hecate:
[spoiler](http://i.imgur.com/qCD9Twn.jpg)[/spoiler]
...and Jackdaw:
[spoiler](http://i.imgur.com/AR49paH.jpg)[/spoiler]
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was anyone at the lore panel ?
what's this talk about a revolution in amarr ? and other factions having schisms ?
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was anyone at the lore panel ?
what's this talk about a revolution in amarr ? and other factions having schisms ?
Tuesday will be the "Big reveal" FW will be 4 ways so and demilitarize zones. But exactly what will happen is not clear yet....but after Tuesday I think there will be changes.
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Wait wait wait. Hold on. This isn't something you can just cover in a single sentence. Details are needed.
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Wait, what. That's a bombshell if I ever read one.
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was anyone at the lore panel ?
what's this talk about a revolution in amarr ? and other factions having schisms ?
Yes, yes, yes ... YES! \o/
My royal house is better than yours, pew pew pew. ;P
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Seriously people. Seriously. Details!
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We don't have any yet beyond what little has been discussed here. Though Makoto reports that Delegate Zero has stated: "Comparing the Takmahl to the Sani Sabik is like saying the Roman Empire still exists because the Roman Catholic Church does." Again cryptic, but it puts some distance between the Takmahl and what the Sani are today.
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So when people say "revolution in Amarr" it isn't anything to do with the internal politics of the Amarr Empire (as far as we can tell at present), i.e. between the royal families, etc.? And more to do with the ongoing struggle between the Amarr Empire and the Sani Sabik?
As a side note this is just another time I curse my living about as far from Iceland as you can physically get >.>
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No that Sani point is completely unrelated, just another example of one line commentary we may see built upon in the near future. As Seagull made clear in the closing ceremony, storyline is taking centre stage again and they are very pleased with the Scope reports and feedback to date.
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Ah okay! :D
Well that is good to see the story coming back into focus.
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Wait wait wait. Hold on. This isn't something you can just cover in a single sentence. Details are needed.
Not much to go on, I like though that CCP have the more cryptic thing going on, I myself dont want the full story fleshed out. But yeah there is talk about a returned "live event" player group that might help out a very underfunded CCP for events. But there approch and it seems that they are getting better with the tools which makes it possible for new stuff to be out, new AI and such. But information wise its hinted but you all seen the scope news so next big thing is on Tuesday. Personally I have not had any interest in WH or been able to exploration some juicy details I leave to Makoto.
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So when people say "revolution in Amarr" it isn't anything to do with the internal politics of the Amarr Empire (as far as we can tell at present), i.e. between the royal families, etc.? And more to do with the ongoing struggle between the Amarr Empire and the Sani Sabik?
As a side note this is just another time I curse my living about as far from Iceland as you can physically get >.>
Well if that is so it would be very disappointing. There is already tons of lore and stuff around the relationship between Amarr and Sani Sabik... :/
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The relationship between Sani and the Amarr remains as is afaik, unless the upcoming events push them closer apart or further together. I should have edited my post better to make it clear that Delegate Zero's comment to Makoto is an entirely separate point.
To reiterate my earlier, sleep-hazed post more clearly:
1. Demion states that FW might become a fatal four way and we get to see the start of 'something' going in in the Empire as of Tuesday (possibly)
2. Makoto bumps into Delegate Zero at the party - Zero makes that independently standing comment about the relationship between the Takmahl and the Sabik
Sorry for the confusion.
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Delegate Zero has stated: "Comparing the Takmahl to the Sani Sabik is like saying the Roman Empire still exists because the Roman Catholic Church does."
What have the Romans ever done for us ?
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Ael: I think either you misunderstood Demion or he misunderstood Affinity/etc. - pretty sure that the implication is that we would see ~things~ start to happen after Tuesday but not any specific storyline (such as FW/Empire/State stuff, which should start to appear over the next couple of months and culminate in FW changes in the second half of the year).
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Confirming DelegateZero's comment was unrelated to the long-term 'more instability in the State and Empire' thing mentioned by Affinity and Falcon. That said, Tuesday will be Drifter shenanigans.
Ael, Demion, Morlag: should we plot a statement...? >.>
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I'm up for it, regarding the plotting.
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Ael: I think either you misunderstood Demion or he misunderstood Affinity/etc. - pretty sure that the implication is that we would see ~things~ start to happen after Tuesday but not any specific storyline (such as FW/Empire/State stuff, which should start to appear over the next couple of months and culminate in FW changes in the second half of the year).
Ah gotcha. Still, looking forwards to Tuesday.
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Tuesday can't come fast enough.
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Confirming DelegateZero's comment was unrelated to the long-term 'more instability in the State and Empire' thing mentioned by Affinity and Falcon. That said, Tuesday will be Drifter shenanigans.
Ael, Demion, Morlag: should we plot a statement...? >.>
Yeah what Makoto said, the FW 4 ways might be a long term result for unknown break up between the FW alliances, I just jump ahead, sorry :oops:
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FW 4 ways won't change much imo, except IC wise. Both FW areas are too far away for it to really matter. The only times it did that I can think of were when one faction was so badly losing and annihilated that the other overwhelming one came to the help of his ally.
Which was a good way to prevent full stuck up situations gameplay wise, by the way...
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No that Sani point is completely unrelated, just another example of one line commentary we may see built upon in the near future. As Seagull made clear in the closing ceremony, storyline is taking centre stage again and they are very pleased with the Scope reports and feedback to date.
I'm pleased with the Scope stuff too, although I wish they'd make a slightly more journalism-realistic news ticker and FUI. But that's just my constructive criticism.
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I don't suppose anyone has a good cure for the Fanfest Plague cause this shit is killing me ;-;
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Lots of vitamins and water and shit before and during Fanfest helps. :P
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Is 'fanfest plague' a code word for a raging hangover or something?
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http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=con%20flu
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It's one EVE-flavored term for concrud or whatever equivalent plague you get from being around a lot of random people.
"Icelandic Death-flu" is another.
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"The Punishment for Socializing"
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Generally speaking the cure is a proactive and pre-emptive one.
Vitamins, electrolytes, eating well, and washing your hands regularly. Sleeping properly helps too, but that one's a bit harder than the rest during Fanfest at least.
I appear to have dodged it entirely this year which is awesome. I could use not having to deal with that shit on top of everything else on my plate at home that I didn't get a chance to process or deal with before I had to leave for Iceland.
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So it's Tuesday.
Where's our juicy announcement?!
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So it's Tuesday.
Where's our juicy announcement?!
I know right :/
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Did they specify ~which~ Tuesday?
:psyccp:
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I think people expecting an announcement or actual event today were reading just a bit too much into the fact that it was patch day and missed that it was patch day. ;)
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I think people expecting an announcement or actual event today were reading just a bit too much into the fact that it was patch day and missed that it was patch day. ;)
I certainly did :oops:well I guess I heard wrong that "this Tuesday" is not really this Tuesday, or its hidden and we havent found it yet :P
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I'm mostly teasing, to be fair - but the first couple of days after a release are always full of people rushing around trying to fix any issues that took a deployment to TQ to uncover, so I tend not to expect events in the first few days after a major patch by default. :)
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Folks on IGS have noted that the Seekers seem to be hacking pieces off of the Jovian Observatories (what used to be the Unidentified Structures), and that they're showing signs of damage.
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My guess is that the elements that the Seekers are now dropping are going to play into the new structures.