Another Friday with some items in my notes that I can’t be bothered to make a full post out of. And they are all about EVE Online this week.
Shadow of the Serpent Event
CCP has announced a new in-game event will go live with the June update on the 28th of the month. Called Shadow of the Serpent, The Scope will be offering capsuleers challenges to help suppress the Serpentis menace.
Serpentis Menace
In order to make sure people know about the event… because people ignore the launcher, the release notes, the dev blogs, the forums, blog posts, news sites, and Reddit… CCP will be using some of the real estate on the character select page to highlight the event and what is available to do. My guess is that somebody will still complain that CCP did not promote the event widely enough.
CCP calls for Videos
CCP has a call out for videos for the next O7 Show, which is coming up on June 26.
CCP is also looking for videos to beef up their current Flight Academy series on YouTube.
Learn to fly, learn to fight
So if you are interested in making videos that are entertaining for the O7 Show or that might be helpful for new player, CCP has a Dev Blog for you.
Eight Overview Tabs
In one of those “little features cause big excitement” turns, CCP slipped a line item into the upcoming changes list for the June release that has people cheering.
Increased max overview tab count from 5 to 8
This is a boon. The overview is this often mis-understood, overly complicated window that can mean victory if used right or defeat if you are looking at the wrong settings. The overview is destiny. I have such a long list of overview tab pre-sets that the list scrolls off the window… so long that finding the right pre-set while in combat is not a winning plan. I like to have tabs setup before the fight, but sometimes… well, almost all the time… I want more than five.
And soon we will have eight. I am sure that still won’t feel like enough, but I still welcome tabs 6, 7, and 8.
Death of DX9
CCP to players: Stop checking the DirectX 9 checkbox.
Due to the pain that is backward compatibility support… and I know the feeling as, I swear, some of our corporate customers would still be running IE6 on Windows XP if we didn’t stop supporting it… CCP is yanking DX9 from EVE Online. You have until June 26 to figure out what you need to do.
May Monthly Economic Report
One of my favorite monthly posts from CCP, the economic report, came out for May. And there among the charts, I again rushed to find my favorite, the ISK sinks and faucets.
May 2016 – ISK Sinks and Faucets
We are starting to have enough of these to begin plotting trends and tracking behavior related to changes in the game.
For the second month running, more ISK was drained out of the economy than went into it. Last month there was a big boom in blue print purchasing with the release of the Citadel expansion that contributed to an 8 trillion ISK reduction in ISK in the economy.
This month almost 13 trillion ISK was removed from overall player holdings, and the big jump this time around was in broker’s fees, which were raised with the Citadel expansion, expanding that particular sink from under 5 trillion ISK in March to 7 trillion ISK in April to 18 trillion ISK in May. Will this drive people to trade in citadels?
Anyway, that is what I had for today.
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