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2011-12-15 17:37:06 NYE Quiz - 2011.12.31 @ 1900 GMT
Hello Everyone It is that time of year again. I will be hosting the 5th annual Azia's Pub Quiz on New Years Eve from 1900 GMT. This is a mammoth quiz with 200 questions. There is a small entrance fee of 1,000,000 ISK which is payable to me, please include the reason "entrance fee". All the entrance fees are redirected straight into the prize pot. The more players, the bigger the prize value. To take part please join channel eve-cem and send your entrance fee to me. Prizes In addition to the prize pot of 1,000,000,000 ISK the top 3 highest scoring pilots will win:

A damnation each

The prizes will be distributed via contracts when I have sobered up. Please note that this list is also likely to change as the event gets closer. Rules

There are 200 questions

Each question is worth a minimum of 5,000,000 ISK

The first correct answer on my screen is the winner of that question

All prizes will be distributed via the contracts system after the event

The answer on my sheet is correct regardless of what Wikipedia says

Arguments will result is disqualification

Logs of the event will be provided upon request

You may join in at any point during the evening, providing you have paid your entrance fee, however the later you join the harder it will be for you to aim for the top prizes. Hope you can make it! There is also a forum thread about this event here.

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2011-10-24 22:08:23 A Periodic Update
We all know that EVE isn't perfect. The cute little foibles is what a lot of us actually enjoy in a weird masochistic way.

Recently CCP announced that they were cutting the workforce and that most of the cuts were happening to the staff who work "front-of-house", community liaisons basically. This is a worrying trend, CCP's recent track record of communicating with the playerbase is not great. I am not sure how they expect to keep up a decent level of customer service with a reduction in this area.

I was thinking recently about the elements in EVE and how many there actually were. I was quite surprised to find as many as I did, mainly transitional metals. I made this little periodic table to help you see them. I might improve it by making the missing elements a little clearer.

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2011-09-07 14:59:27 A Quick How To: Autolinking In EVE
Recently a lot of newbies have been asking the following question. So I thought I might blog the answer here.

How do you link in messages or chats to corporations, items or other stuff?

The function to link objects within EVE makes sharing information and helping other people a lot simpler. There are two ways to autolink, these are:

Simply drag and drop the item you wish to link from your hanger or cargohold to the chat or evemail.

If you do not have the item you want to autolink, you can type the name of the object into the chat window, highlight it, rightclick and then go to autolink

I hope that helps!

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2011-06-13 20:29:59 EVE Cemetery Video
It has been a long time coming but AlleyKat has finally made me a little video for the cemetery. It is truly awesome!

It has actually been aired during this year's alliance tournament. I've seen it about 3 times so far. Sadly CCP seem to be crowding out the community videos this year with over the top corporate sponsorship. Please check out the Youtube link below if you haven't already seen the video!

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2011-05-27 11:20:43 A Closed Gate
I have been using EVE Gate a lot since starting this new job. Apparently there was a big web outage on all EVE websites yesterday.

They have supposed to have fixed EVE Gate today but it isn't working properly. The behaviour of it is inconsistent with random users broadcasts appearing as my own and various posts going missing.

To combat this I'll be monitoring the comments on this news post all day.

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2011-05-26 21:51:06 Alliance Tournament
I know, I know! I need to update more often.

The cemetery is doing something big for this year's tourny. I can't go into details yet but just keep your eyes glued to the live streams!

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2011-04-07 23:54:33 The New Me
I am very impressed at the new character creator in EVE, especially with the recent update to the textures. I have uploaded two galleries of the new look me for you to look at.

Gallery 1

Gallery 2

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2011-02-26 02:24:18 Nerf Real Life!
So much for my promise of weekly blog posts.

I have managed to secure myself a job IRL which has sucked up a lot of my Eve time. That is my excuse for not posting and I'm sticking with it ;)

I've been playing with EVE Gate while at work, it needs more users. Hopefully the upcoming forum changes will make it a little more relevant.

I still haven't got round to recovering the cans left over from last year's treasure hunt. The interest in it suggests to me that I should do another treasure hunt soon. Also I finally removed the poll from the right side bar, I kept getting emails when people voted. I've left it in the original post for archive reasons.

The new PI mechanics are a LOT better than they used to be, I've been making a lot of fuel for the cemetery tower. The only thing lacking currently are Helium Isotopes. I might arrange another massive cemetery ice mining op after hulkageddon has finished.

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2011-01-10 15:34:12 Cemetery Re-opened
I have finally got round to re-opening the cemetery. I did this quietly without much of a fanfare purely because I didn't need the additional stress in my life. Things are quite bad at home, a new year and a fresh start will hopefully go some way to smoothing things over.

I have got about 400 graves up at the cemetery now which is about halfway through. The backlog is still huge with close to 11,000 corpses to process. I might need to expand the cemetery corporation to cope. COME BACK JINKEI WE NEED YOU!

I know I have said it before but this year I am going to try to blog weekly at the bare minimum. I have a few little EVE based projects I want to work on, chiefly my COSMOS item analysis. No promises on time scale.

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2010-11-13 02:42:48 And The Winner Is...
Thanks everyone for voting. Over 150 people voted, which is way more than I was expecting. The popular choice at the start of the week was the PVP tournament but there was a late change of heart and the treasure hunt won.

I will organise the event to occur before the end of November. Please keep your eyes peeled for more details!

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2011-12-15 17:37:06	NYE Quiz - 2011.12.31 @ 1900 GMT
Hello Everyone It is that time of year again. I will be hosting the 5th annual Azia's Pub Quiz on New Years Eve from 1900 GMT. This is a mammoth quiz with 200 questions. There is a small entrance fee of 1,000,000 ISK which is payable to me, please include the reason "entrance fee". All the entrance fees are redirected straight into the prize pot. The more players, the bigger the prize value. To take part please join channel eve-cem and send your entrance fee to me. Prizes In addition to the prize pot of 1,000,000,000 ISK the top 3 highest scoring pilots will win: A damnation each The prizes will be distributed via contracts when I have sobered up. Please note that this list is also likely to change as the event gets closer. Rules There are 200 questions Each question is worth a minimum of 5,000,000 ISK The first correct answer on my screen is the winner of that question All prizes will be distributed via the contracts system after the event The answer on my sheet is correct regardless of what Wikipedia says Arguments will result is disqualification Logs of the event will be provided upon request You may join in at any point during the evening, providing you have paid your entrance fee, however the later you join the harder it will be for you to aim for the top prizes. Hope you can make it! There is also a forum thread about this event here.

3 Comments \| Add Comment

2011-10-24 22:08:23	A Periodic Update
We all know that EVE isn't perfect. The cute little foibles is what a lot of us actually enjoy in a weird masochistic way. Recently CCP announced that they were cutting the workforce and that most of the cuts were happening to the staff who work "front-of-house", community liaisons basically. This is a worrying trend, CCP's recent track record of communicating with the playerbase is not great. I am not sure how they expect to keep up a decent level of customer service with a reduction in this area. I was thinking recently about the elements in EVE and how many there actually were. I was quite surprised to find as many as I did, mainly transitional metals. I made this little periodic table to help you see them. I might improve it by making the missing elements a little clearer.

1 Comments \| Add Comment

2011-09-07 14:59:27	A Quick How To: Autolinking In EVE
Recently a lot of newbies have been asking the following question. So I thought I might blog the answer here. How do you link in messages or chats to corporations, items or other stuff? The function to link objects within EVE makes sharing information and helping other people a lot simpler. There are two ways to autolink, these are: Simply drag and drop the item you wish to link from your hanger or cargohold to the chat or evemail. If you do not have the item you want to autolink, you can type the name of the object into the chat window, highlight it, rightclick and then go to autolink I hope that helps!

2 Comments \| Add Comment

2011-06-13 20:29:59	EVE Cemetery Video
It has been a long time coming but AlleyKat has finally made me a little video for the cemetery. It is truly awesome! It has actually been aired during this year's alliance tournament. I've seen it about 3 times so far. Sadly CCP seem to be crowding out the community videos this year with over the top corporate sponsorship. Please check out the Youtube link below if you haven't already seen the video!

1 Comments \| Add Comment

2011-05-27 11:20:43	A Closed Gate
I have been using EVE Gate a lot since starting this new job. Apparently there was a big web outage on all EVE websites yesterday. They have supposed to have fixed EVE Gate today but it isn't working properly. The behaviour of it is inconsistent with random users broadcasts appearing as my own and various posts going missing. To combat this I'll be monitoring the comments on this news post all day.

1 Comments \| Add Comment

2011-05-26 21:51:06	Alliance Tournament
I know, I know! I need to update more often. The cemetery is doing something big for this year's tourny. I can't go into details yet but just keep your eyes glued to the live streams!

1 Comments \| Add Comment

2011-04-07 23:54:33	The New Me
I am very impressed at the new character creator in EVE, especially with the recent update to the textures. I have uploaded two galleries of the new look me for you to look at. Gallery 1 Gallery 2

1 Comments \| Add Comment

2011-02-26 02:24:18	Nerf Real Life!
So much for my promise of weekly blog posts. I have managed to secure myself a job IRL which has sucked up a lot of my Eve time. That is my excuse for not posting and I'm sticking with it ;) I've been playing with EVE Gate while at work, it needs more users. Hopefully the upcoming forum changes will make it a little more relevant. I still haven't got round to recovering the cans left over from last year's treasure hunt. The interest in it suggests to me that I should do another treasure hunt soon. Also I finally removed the poll from the right side bar, I kept getting emails when people voted. I've left it in the original post for archive reasons. The new PI mechanics are a LOT better than they used to be, I've been making a lot of fuel for the cemetery tower. The only thing lacking currently are Helium Isotopes. I might arrange another massive cemetery ice mining op after hulkageddon has finished.

5 Comments \| Add Comment

2011-01-10 15:34:12	Cemetery Re-opened
I have finally got round to re-opening the cemetery. I did this quietly without much of a fanfare purely because I didn't need the additional stress in my life. Things are quite bad at home, a new year and a fresh start will hopefully go some way to smoothing things over. I have got about 400 graves up at the cemetery now which is about halfway through. The backlog is still huge with close to 11,000 corpses to process. I might need to expand the cemetery corporation to cope. COME BACK JINKEI WE NEED YOU! I know I have said it before but this year I am going to try to blog weekly at the bare minimum. I have a few little EVE based projects I want to work on, chiefly my COSMOS item analysis. No promises on time scale.

1 Comments \| Add Comment

2010-11-13 02:42:48	And The Winner Is...
Thanks everyone for voting. Over 150 people voted, which is way more than I was expecting. The popular choice at the start of the week was the PVP tournament but there was a late change of heart and the treasure hunt won. I will organise the event to occur before the end of November. Please keep your eyes peeled for more details!

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