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Want your guide on eve-guides.com?

Send me a mail with a link to your guide (if it's on EVE-O) or hosted elsewhere and I will happily give credit where credit is due. There are a lot of really good guides on EVE-O forums which I have tried to contact the original authors and received no response, this may be due to them no longer playing EVE.

Game Time Codes and EVE-Online Trial Accounts, both these can be purchased using the graphics to the right, they will generate income for myself and will not cost you anymore than normal. These will help me keep the site afloat and running, so please when you buy either use the links to the right.

Character Generator Competition - WIN 4 BILLION ISK

Eve-guides.com presents the character generator competition.

What it's about

Eve-Guides needs a character generator writing to go on the website. So your task is to develop an EVE-Online character generator.

This needs to be a fully interactive Char Gen using screens from the actual game as steps to generating the character.

What it must include

Everything the current character generator does now BUT the actual avatar creation needs NOT to be included. Instead where the avatar generator is just replace with a screen that says "Here you create the avatar".

It must include all races, the part where you add in 5 extra attribute points and all the race pathways. It must be accurate to the current character generator in skills and attribute points.

Rules

Eve-guides.com will be paying you 4 billion ISK for the character generator when it is complete. This means that eve-guides will be purchasing sole rights for the character generator and you must not use it or release it to any other party or websites or use it yourself on your own website without prior consent from myself.

The completed character generator must be scripted/developed so it will run in a web based environment. The server has php functionality along with SQL (can't see the need but it's there just in case).

What I am looking for is something like a flash based character generator not a webpage where you click in boxes etc. I know that there is a LOT of work involved in doing this hence the 4 Bill ISK prize.

Submitted entries need to be with me by 17th May 2008, email your completed entry to braaage@eve-guides.com.

There will be a 2nd prize of 1 billion ISK and a third prize of 500M ISK for entries matching the above specification.

If you any questions you can grab me in game or email me.

Trinity 1.1 Patch -Tip of the day

The Trinity 1.1 patch brought us welcome pages, whilst these are good for the novice player they are EXTREMELY annoying to the veteran/experienced player. These welcome pages can be turned off completely in one go, press esc - click general settings tab and untick show welcome pages.

Reversal of changes

Well I managed to figure out how to get videos out in the same format as the older video making program, so I made the template back to what it was. I've added in the Improved booster POS reaction video into the POS - Booster section. I still have 5 more videos to make before the booster section is complete, but this should be easier now I've figured out the settings to make the videos the same as the old program.

Changes a foot...

I decided to upgrade the program I use to make the videos as the new version has some neat things you can do (like zoom in). Problem is it doesn't seem to want to output the video in a decent quality size like the old version did. So I've had to make a few changes, the whole template has had to be widened as to fit in the new videos. I've also had to drop the graphics up top as a temporary measure.

I'm going to upload part 1 of 4 in the booster manufacturing guide to see what you think. Post in the shoutbox what you think of the new videos, particularly the new zoom in feature - you'll find them off the POS section (Booster Production in Part 1 - Standard Boosters).

Booster Production Guide.... stuck

Edit - not stuck anymore thanks to CCP - guide from start to finish will be here soon™..... watch this space

It's been a while.....

It's been a while since I updated anything, this is because I've been busy with work and unable to do much. Since becoming unbusy :) I've been concentrating in one area that numerous people have been asking for.... Booster production guide.

Whilst making the actual boosters is easy enough, trying to find out where the bits come from that you need is proving more troublesome. If anyone can help me out here, please send me a screenshot and information (to the email adress link above) on where to get booster BPCs, the gas mining skill and mining beam. I will reward you well, but please enclose a screenshot, you may blank out any sensitive stuff.

Update: I know you get the items from Radar sites but where in the sites, do rats drop them, are they hacked from structures or....

Beginners Guide to Tanking

Has been added to "other" section with permission of it's author Friedrick Psitalon

Upcoming Jump Freighter changes

Just in case you missed the post on EVE-O forums the new Jump Freighters are up for some DEV loving, subject to change (because they haven't been officially announced yet), here are the changes:

all jump freighters are getting a 25% base cargo capacity increase.
all jump freighters are getting a 10% bonus to shield, armor and hull hitpoints per Jump Freighter skill level.
the speed bonus has been changed to a 5% agility bonus per racial freighter skill level.
the fuel needs reduction has been increased from 5% to 10% per Jump Freighter skill level.
The max production runs on jump freighter blueprints will be increased from 1 to 10.

Good news for the most expensive industrial ship in EVE.

Research Alt Guide

Added a guide for making a research alt to milk datacore ISK, a good use for those 2nd and 3rd account slots, check it out in the Other section.

New Section - Corporation + in-game requests

I've been inundated with requests to add in a Corporation section, this will take some time to complete as managing a Corp is a long and in depth process. What I have done so far is how to create a corp and includes a FAQ and hangar and wallet renaming in the video.

I am getting a fair few requests in game on different subjects, I will answer and have replied where I can. I am sorry to those of you asking how to set up a death star POS, these people I have not replied to and the answer as to why is simple, when I did give guidelines on setting up a POS to a corp and then that corp lost their POS they blamed me for it. I cannot give you a death star POS set up or an unbeatable set up because there simply isn't one. If an attacking force comes for your POS set up to tackle it correctly then YOU must defend it, the POS cannot alone.

Trinity Item Database

What was released by CCP is up and in place in the item database .... enjoy!!

Labs - Invention & POSs

I've populated the Invention section with an introduction, it will be expanded over the next few days. I've also replaced how to use POS labs, this includes ME research, Copying and Invention. This video now has subtitles :) so it's much better explanation of the process.

Update

Updates, I've started adding small updates to the site and since they are small updates I won't be including these on the list to the right (under the EVE logo), so check back regularly to see if anything is new.