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Planetary Interaction inside W-space.
Posted by Merinid Dormer in News on March 5th, 2010
by Merinid Dormer
What Tyrannis is going to be bringing into the equation…
News have come to our ears about the new expansion that will introduce planetary interaction to the world of New Eden, and of course for us wormhole colonists one question came to mind. “Will we be able to use that feature, or will we be forgotten like we were in Dominion?”
The answer was given by Torfi Frans Ólafsson a Senior Producer at CCP through an interview he gave on Tentonhammer.com and we found out through Ninveah.com by Kirith Kodachi. As he stated “..there are over 65,000 planets in the game. And you can interact with each and every one of them. Including those that are in wormhole space, which can actually be quite challenging”…
Planetary interaction is out to set deeper foundation for the future as it seems. What is going to be built on plants for the months to come is actually the board on which Dust 514 is set to be played. Structures, buildings and upgrades that EVE corporations will be setting up are what the mercenaries of Dust 514 will be seeing when landing on a planet.
Although things are still a little vague on how this is going to happen, what skills are going to be needed and so on, we are hoping that this is going to be massive and will add new features inside w-space. After all that “quite challenging” phrasing was promising. All that remains is to see it in action on SiSi.
Stay tuned for more.
A Day to be remembered as Valentine’s Day Massacre
Posted by Merinid Dormer in Captain's Log, News on February 23rd, 2010
A sort non-fictional story by Merinid Dormer
February 14th, Sunday. 19:00 New Eden Time.
Vessper was sitting in his Thanatos. “I am aligning and waiting for instructions” he said.
“10 more minutes to go” said Nictutu.
Quivering Palm with a steady voice continued, “ Guys, this is it. It’s now or never”.
SI Radio PVP Tournament #2
Posted by Quivering Palm in News, Upcoming Shows on January 22nd, 2010
Alright friends and foes of Split Infinity Radio!
I’ve come up with quite a crazy idea last night… But before I can start planning, I want to share a glimpse of what I’ve thought about with you…
How about we organized a special PVP Tournament, open to everyone, with some really cool prizes and a chance to fight against everyone?… well not only the drunken duo of the Planet Risk show, but also against other folks… fellow listeners of SI Radio… Split Infinity Radio DJs… and their friends… and their friends’ friends’… and their enemies… hehehe
A test of player dog-fight skills and ability to fight under stress – with lots of other pilots around you, watching.. and waiting.. for their turn…
Here is what I’ve come up with so far:
- We (Split Infinity Radio) organize and sponsor a PVP Tournament.
- There is some sort of entry fee and your ship would have to meet specific requirements (see below)
- Everyone who signs up, at the date of the tournaments has to be at a specific system / specific time where the tournament will take place!
- The PVPes who signed up will be placed on single-elimination 1vs1 rounds, randomly and would get to fight against our special guests as well as SI Radio members!
- Winner takes some cool prizes away with the trophy!
Rules:
You will have to fit and come with a Tech 1 Ship, using only! Tech 1 Meta – 0 modules!
No Named, No faction / deadspace / officer / Tech 2 or anything other – down to the bare minimum! Rigs are allowed.
Ships I am thinking of are Frigates or Cruisers – what do you think?!?!
Check out the poll section on the right – vote!
What do Hulks and Titans have in common?
Posted by Quivering Palm in News on January 12th, 2010
… lovely killboard pages like this one and this one
As you can also read in the latest Tribune article, the above fight for Y-2ANO recorded as one of the most expensive losses in a single battlefield ever yet in terms of ISK.
Reports say that in fact 7 Titans met their doom but somehow the killmails went lost.
As rumored there are about 250 of those ships (the size of Long Island) in the game.. well about 246 :-p Now, for newbs like me a single Titan loss seems unthinkable.. but 7… or even 4 ?
With the number of players online on the server reaching a new peak record of over 56.000 ((!!)) last weekend, I expect that killmails like that will be coming again sooner or later.
Bundled with player-driven actions like Hulkageddon II, started by Helicity Boson, I say 2010 started with quite a bang!
Exhumers (especially Hulks) are sky-rocketing in market already – almost double price compared to a month ago – as well as Destroyers and other ships used in the suicide runs.
The coverage of Hulkageddon II in media like MMOCrunch and Massively.com is huge, as well as the whole EVE blogosphere.
So what do Hulks and Titans have in common?
They both require massive amounts of minerals to make, especially Tritanium. I am curious to see how the market will be affected…
In the meantime, I am training a mining alt to help mine all those lovely roids inside Planet Risk to help the corp in building more capitals 
QP
Welcoming 2010…
Posted by Quivering Palm in Captain's Log, News, Wspace Operations on January 7th, 2010
…with clearing of some sites inside Planet Risk
After the long hiatus, we are back and eager to clear some sites and make some extra ISK
So after the holidays when everyone was away and not clearing sites we had quite a few spawned inside our new home. In total we had 6 PVE Sites (2 Citadels, 2 Bastions, 1 Strange Energy Readings and 1 Mirror), 9 LADAR sites (Yes 9!!) and 8 Grav Sites (Yes 8!!!) and also a RADAR Site.
So far we’ve cleared most of the PVE and LADARs – but damn! scanning all those signatures every day after server restart just to refresh their sigs so you can scan for any new wormholes is a royal pain! The mining crew has almost cleared a Rarified Core Deposit and we are planning to have a massive mining op soon to clear all the smaller sites in one go.
On the PVE front, we are now using carriers to augment our sleeper encounters and net extra ISK from each site. The first carrier you bring into the mix spawns an additional 6 Sleepless Guardians (the best Sleeper BS kind) while the second carrier you bring spawns an additional 8! Nothing to worry about though… the encounters are easy enough when you have 2x Carriers on grid and the DPS is quite good to clear the sites fast enough. The extra ISK from the Guardians is also most welcome!
Here are some nice looking pics from our recent encounters. Look ma! Lights!
PVP action has been quite low these days – following last month’s massacre where I got podded – I’d say this is not bad. A few days ago we had some folks hauling stuff through our wormhole but we lacked the manpower to setup an effective camp using bubbles etc so we didn’t net any kills. Too bad 
On another note, we are still debating whether to build a Rorqual right away or build some Dreadnoughts first. We will talk about that on our next show, as well as give you detailed info on how to use carriers in wspace encounters from our experiences these days.
Last, but not least, on a personal note, my main (Quivering Palm) just got over 20M SPs (huzzah!) roughly about the same time as I celebrated my first year in the game. One year ago I was looking to find level 1 agents with Quality 15+ and now I am debating whether to build a Moros or a Rorqual.. I’d say it has been a good first year and hope much more to come!
See you out there!
Happy Holidays
Posted by Luminus Aardokay in News on December 9th, 2009
‘Tis the season, or well.. almost. And as it so happens every such period, Quiv and I decided to jump on our T3 sled and venture forth into Jovian space and bring back delicacies and festive decorations for our brand new C6 Planet Risk system. Considering that our T3 sled is being pulled by bionic space reindeers that have barely any warp capabilities, the journey is going to take a while.
Fortunately as we were loading our sled, a wormhole to a C5 space opened, and right through came an industrial ship carrying exotic dancers for relevant festivities in Dodixie. Needless to say, we intercepted the freight and kept the dancers for our own, which will keep us good company during the trip.
As such, we are going to put the Planet Risk (and Oh My Pod) show on hold for holidays and we will be back with you in 2010. (We don’t promise we’ll bring the Exotic Dancers back though)
Till then, have a very merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
A bittersweet victory
Posted by Luminus Aardokay in News on December 2nd, 2009
Elections are over, and the results are in. The 9 new candidates delegates have been announced and we’re really happy to see that all of the candidates that have strong ties with the Planet Risk Show made it to the board.
We’d like to congratulate Alekseyev Karrde, TeaDaze and Song Li for their victories, and wish them a prosperous and productive reign. Along with them, we here at the Planet Risk Show feel victorious as well as it is more than apparent how the CSM specials helped boost the profiles of the candidates (3 out of the 7 candidates that debated made it to the board, and Helen Highwater almost made it by ranking 10th).
However, this “victory” we feel that has been achieved comes with a certain amount of bitterness. The voter turnout was disappointing, as this time around, there were less voters than even the first elections. Furthermore almost 3% of the voters chose to push the “abstain” button in the ballot (which by design is something we find utterly stupid… declaring your abstinence by participating…).
Nevertheless, we do believe that this CSM board is capable of pushing great and useful things to CCP, especially during this troubled post Dominion time, something that will “force” more people to learn about the CSM and why it is so important.
Once again congratulations guys. We have high hopes for you!
Selling Planet Risk
Posted by Quivering Palm in Captain's Log, News, Wspace Operations on November 1st, 2009
What?! What do you mean by “Selling Planet Risk” ?!?
1. We are in fact selling our home system in w-space which we affectionately call Planet Risk.
2. We are also selling our Planet Risk related wormhole-fu and settling services. i.e. we will provide all the information we have gathered the hard way regarding all relevant aspects we have encountered, plus we will help the newcomers to settle down, setup their POSes etc and after they are comfortable with the arrangement we shall be gone from the system with no claims to come back to.
3. We used to be carebears, doing missions and mining in empire space before we got here. We like to think we evolved into newbs and had a great time and fun while doing so! We are now extending this opportunity to come and establish your own base in our very own system, with all the good stuff and our lessons learned, to the highest bidder!
Planet Risk Show returns tonight
Posted by Luminus Aardokay in News on October 28th, 2009
With Quivering Palm back in base, we can finally put a halt to the streak of Oh My Pod shows and actually broadcast some content and do something constructive for a change.
In tonight’s episode we plan to talk about:
- Celebrity Deathmatch #16, the Hellcats Party, what went behind the scenes, the aftermath and all that Jazz
- Upcoming CSM elections and their impact on w-space
- Main Dish: Is w-space suffering a slow and horrible death?
- Our first POS siege on the role of the attacker, or “How NOT to set your POS up in a C5″
- Ransoming mechanics in w-space while being on the giving and the receiving end
- With or without you, a run-down analysis of the usage of ECM against the sleepers.
…and of course all the things we haven’t planned =)
My big fat Greek blog post
Posted by Luminus Aardokay in Captain's Log, News on October 26th, 2009
…DARY!
It kind of feels like needing to take a leak for so long, and keeping your legs crossed because you just can’t.. not just yet at least, and then that moment comes where you finally make it to the loo and the release is just orgasmic. And this is pretty much how it felt during the Hellcats Party on Saturday the 24th… Orgasmic.
The preparation for all the little bits took almost 2 months. Setting up the details of the Celebrity Deathmatch with Nashh, arranging with Mynxee to tag along with Nashh, getting TeaDaze to film it and commentate, organizing the Hellcats party radio and blog side, performing the CDM, recording and editing the after-match interview, promoting the Party, working on the video editing and effects with TeaDaze, bastardizing Lonely Island’s Jizz in my Pants, into Jizz in my Pod, Having the Party, releasing everything.. Damn.. Climax!
But let’s pick up things from where we left them… Read the rest of this entry »
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