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General Discussion => General Non-RP EVE Discussion => Topic started by: Dex_Kivuli on 02 Jul 2010, 23:47
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Topic says it all. If you use it, let me know so that I can add you to my contacts. That way, when I press refresh on my phone during the day, I might even see something new!
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I'm embarrassed to say that I've never even visited it. Linkie?
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Off and on.
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I'm embarrassed to say that I've never even visited it. Linkie?
https://gate.eveonline.com/Home
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Do you expect that the EveGate thing is IC or OOC?
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I've used it for the EVE Mail function, but not for status updates or much else.
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Do you expect that the EveGate thing is IC or OOC?
Me too. Mostly an out of game mail service. Be great if it had a skill queue.
OOC or IC? no one much uses is, so you can set the trend.
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Be great if it had a skill queue.
I'd pay $5/mo more per account for that function.
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i've generally used it for OOC blurbs.
me and a couple friends of mine all use it.
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I use it fairly extensively for mail (ICly and OOCly). Not so much for the status blurbs.
I also wish it had the ability to let you update your skill queue.
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As others have said, mostly for the eve-mail functionality. It's kinda creepy sometimes when you send someone a mail message and they reply a few minutes later, and they aren't on.
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I use mail, and I do use status updates as well.
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Mail. Yeah, mostly mail.
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I use it for mail as well. It's nice as work blocks the eveonline.com domain, but the gate.eveonline.com domain is allowed through. :bear: Firewall 72, Usagi 1.
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Mail, status, commenting on yours and Stitcher's status, organizational lookups on occasion.
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OOC or IC? no one much uses is, so you can set the trend.
The reason I ask is that if it's IC, you're not going to see anything posted from me anyway because mine is restricted to corpmates and close friends.
And I don't really do OOC status updates.
If there are other people out there thinking the same way, you might not be seeing stuff for reasons other than nobody using it
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the mail is useful, i will do calendar items once in a while.
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I played around with the updates features when it first came out, mostly nonserious joking stuff (like publicly bemoaning the collossal headache that POS refueling day is). At the moment, I'm resigned to using it as an out-of-game contact system - i.e., for if my CEO ever goes away and forgets to tell us the new POS password again...
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OOC or IC? no one much uses is, so you can set the trend.
In our corp, several people use it, and it is assumed to be IC. I have no way of knowing which feeds are public and which restricted, though.
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OOC or IC? no one much uses is, so you can set the trend.
In our corp, several people use it, and it is assumed to be IC. I have no way of knowing which feeds are public and which restricted, though.
This is one reason I'm hesitent to use it. With my blog (and yes, I know my blog has been largely untouched for a couple of months now) I can clearly mark things OOC knowledge only.
Keeping in mind, certain things might be better not to announce at all (some people are probably OCD enough to look through all your feeds in search of that one kernel of intel).
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People who discuss serious intel on their blogs or status updates really don't get EVE, IMO. Then again, I'm not the sort of person to get upset about some RPer "using" any IC bits from my blog against me, either -- I don't put stuff out there I really don't want others to know.
FWIW, I generally treat my EVE Gate updates like I treat Twitter and my blog: primarily OOC, with IC flavor once in a great whlie.
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One thing I feel is good to keep in mind about public stuff is that while people from RP communities might respect the OOC / IC divide and try to firewall information their character should not know, non-roleplayers most likely won't. The divide does not exist for them.
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Start tagging status updates with [IC] or [OOC] or something? I dunno.
I've never really used the thing for explicitly IC status updates for Morwen, but I might start. Who knows.
Mostly using it for mail, myself, but checking the calendar every now and then is nice, just in case someone posted something I'd want to see that I might have missed ingame.
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I use Evegate a lot while in the office for sending mails. Occasionally I do a status update, which is mainly OOC with an IC flavour.
The only thing really unique about it is the status updates, which should be accessible/viewable in game without logging into Evegate in my opinion. It would make the feature more likely to be used. Not everyone sits in an office all day like me.
On the IC/OOC information question, I always assume anything I write under the name “Graanvlokkie” is IC information unless expressly stated otherwise, but that’s a whole new debate. I did notice a thread on the IGS where a I-RED members status update was used against them in an argument about their policies though.
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Like a lot of others, I use it for the mail, but not for status updates. I can't even be bothered to update my Facebook status half the time.