[EvE] EVE Online

[Drunkmunky]

That looks like a large amount of blueprints to me, a question arises:

Is it worth it to buy blueprints, spend months researching them (or months waiting in queue anyway) to manufacture them yourself? What is the usual going price for a BPC based on market price of the item it builds?

[WarpSpider74]

Niiiiiice. I want one

Why are you running the classic graphics?

I've spent months trying to make EVE look as sweet as possible. I run a Q6600 with 2x 8800GTS in SLI under Vista. I've never been able to get AA working, or SLI to provide any benefit to EVE whatsoever (in fact, it reduced FPS to about 19). On Wednesday night, however, I was tinkering and changed the shadow setting from "Extreme" to "High", and when I restarted EVE, all of a sudden both Fullscreen AA and SLI were in effect. I'm now comfortably running EVE at 1920x1200 with 16xFSAA and 16xAF at about 120-130fps

EVE's never looked this good, I ran Angel Extravaganza IV last night with my corp mates, and spent a good chunk of the waiting time between pockets taking screenies of our ships. Even the Basilisk looks good Will post a couple of good ones when I get home.

[gumble85]

Originally Posted by Drunkmunky

That looks like a large amount of blueprints to me, a question arises:

Is it worth it to buy blueprints, spend months researching them (or months waiting in queue anyway) to manufacture them yourself? What is the usual going price for a BPC based on market price of the item it builds?

Hehe. All the t2 ones are bpc's that i have invented. All the frigate t1 bpo's are mine and the bellicose, rupture and stabber bpo's are mine. Most of them are bpc's tho. The BSes ones especially. It depends mate. BPO's are good, but it will take a while to research them tho with the queue system. I did not research all of them. If the bpo is too expensive then i buy the bpc's. The tempest bpc's cost me 1.5 mil each and they had 80ME & 10PE for my invention and manufacturing. If your going to pump out massive amounts of items then i would say go for the bpo, but if your just going to manufacture them every now and then. Then i would stick to bpc's. If you mine/do missions you can make a lot more iskies by building them yourself. But like i said. You have to be pumping out the items quite regularly to make the cost of the bpo worth it.

Originally Posted by WarpSpider74

Niiiiiice. I want one

Why are you running the classic graphics?

I've spent months trying to make EVE look as sweet as possible. I run a Q6600 with 2x 8800GTS in SLI under Vista. I've never been able to get AA working, or SLI to provide any benefit to EVE whatsoever (in fact, it reduced FPS to about 19). On Wednesday night, however, I was tinkering and changed the shadow setting from "Extreme" to "High", and when I restarted EVE, all of a sudden both Fullscreen AA and SLI were in effect. I'm now comfortably running EVE at 1920x1200 with 16xFSAA and 16xAF at about 120-130fps

Well with my setup. Core 2 Duo E6750, 256MB 7800GT and 2GB of DDR2-800 ram it tends to choke up a lot. I am living on the bread line mate and can not afford everything. Think of it this way. I have two resumes out with companies (another words awaiting a reply when positions are avaiable) living on $622 per fortnight off my DSP (Disability Support Pension), i pay $320 in rent each fortnight, i pay between $25-$50 on the phone bill each month, i pay between $100-$175 in electricity every 3 months, i pay between $30-$60 in eve accounts every month. I can not exactly buy the latest and the greatest pc components. I currently have $275 bucks saved up for a ATI Radeon HD4870X2 and i need to have $600-$700 saved up for that and also being on the bread line it makes harder to have a decent internet connection. You still want to know why i can not run premium eve client gfx content? I did not think so.

Originally Posted by WarpSpider74

EVE's never looked this good, I ran Angel Extravaganza IV last night with my corp mates, and spent a good chunk of the waiting time between pockets taking screenies of our ships. Even the Basilisk looks good Will post a couple of good ones when I get home.

I do agree that the premium gfx content looks nice, but i take too much of an fps hit when i use that client. So until i get a job and/or a decent new gfx card i will stick with the standard client.

[B5lurker]

Gumble how many accounts are you running atm? in relation to "i pay between $30-$60 in eve accounts every month"

[WarpSpider74]

Gumble mate, I wasn't hanging shit on you. I actually meant to ask whether there was any benefit to using the classic install rather than the premium. Even on my old PC, I didn't notice much in the way of a performance hit with EVE. But then, I only run one instance at a time, and I guess if you're running several accounts all at once then the classic interface would be beneficial.

Anyways, after my couple of nice screenies I captured, I've ventured off on a bit of a photography mission. While I'm out travelling I'm going to try and get nice shots of as many different ships as I can, in Full HD of course. Here's the first couple, a Basilisk and the mighty Raven, ugly Caldari piles of junk


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[godkilla]

The premium graphics runs like crap if you're running two clients at the same time.

[gumble85]

Originally Posted by B5lurker

Gumble how many accounts are you running atm? in relation to "i pay between $30-$60 in eve accounts every month"

I have 3 accounts and with the way i am enjoying eve online atm. I highly doubt i will cut one down anytime soon. I have thought that i can transfer an alt across to another account, but the benefits are out weighed by the cons of that choice. I just have to limit my RL spending that is all. Swear off take-away altogether and stick to eating more healthy or i will run out of money like i nearly did this fortnight and i still have 1 week and 2 days left of this fortnight. I just have to get into a rythim of not spending so much atm.

Nps warp. I went from 150 fps to about no more than 50 fps with the premium gfx content. So until i get a few things upgraded i will stick with the classic content.

[Hohne]

Originally Posted by Drunkmunky

Is it worth it to buy blueprints, spend months researching them (or months waiting in queue anyway) to manufacture them yourself? What is the usual going price for a BPC based on market price of the item it builds?

It depends on the BPO really, they tend to hold their value. Some expensive ones have very short copy times and so the BPCs are usually worth buying instead of the BPOs (Bombs / some capital modules).


Some have fairly long copy times and aren't too expensive really (alot of the ship ones).

[Paul.R1]

With Classic graphics, on my games PC, I can run 3x eve clients or 2x eve clients with no FPS hit with premium graphics with eye candy (windowed mode at 1680*1050 res). Normally I run 1 eve client on each PC (i have 2 pc's, gaming and a jack of all trades setup).

I have even run level 4 missions with all 3 accounts at once, but when alot of stuff happens, things can get bad if you are not paying attention closely (nearly lost a Raven coz i was not paying attention). 1 issue I do have is when running 2 premium gfx is that eve.exe will crash sometimes (both in vista/xp), both have enough ram, one has 9800gx2 and other has 4850.

[Drunkmunky]

Originally Posted by Paul.R1

1 issue I do have is when running 2 premium gfx is that eve.exe will crash sometimes (both in vista/xp), both have enough ram, one has 9800gx2 and other has 4850.

Have you tried the optional memory patch that they released to fix multiple client crashes?

[Paul.R1]

Originally Posted by Drunkmunky

Have you tried the optional memory patch that they released to fix multiple client crashes?

yup, done the patch, lower memory cache etc.. although lower memory cache to low or none, but still a bit random on the crashs.

[thetron]

I've just cancelled my eve subcription again

Bloody corp I was involved in were abit silly with there rules and how I get access to the forums

I posted a message saying "I was going AFK. Would brb" due moving to Brisbane.

3 months later. I decide to resume playing only to find
- Forum accounts deleted because they don't want spys and keep the play tidy
- Removed from Corp

Nobody read my dam message and took me two weeks to get back into the corp. After then tried getting back my forum access which involves getting your account approved/added to the private clan area. They wouldn't do it cause I didn't type my full in game name in and claimed "I can't find you in game", Even thou I'm the only "Arnold" enrolled the corp.
FYI the name Arnold Swarzenger

Anyway, Anyone got a good local clan that give me a role and good people.
I might re-sub and download the client

[shaaeseer]

Originally Posted by thetron

Anyway, Anyone got a good local clan that give me a role and good people. I might re-sub and download the client

What can you do? As in what are you looking for? There are a few of us here who are involved in different aspects of the game.

[Drunkmunky]

I'm also interested in a corp that operates on our timezone, current corp does lots of stuff but it's always when I'm in bed :S

[thetron]

Originally Posted by shaaeseer

What can you do? As in what are you looking for? There are a few of us here who are involved in different aspects of the game.

Fly around. I've never gotten into fights with other corps
However I've been ganked once

Cause I've never been able to get into the game due to some training or lack of funds