A new week.....end.....

A bank holiday weekend with some extra day's off makes a gamer very happy. Not that I did a whole lot of meaningful gaming but fun was had. And a 2 day working week, who wouldn't like that! Yesterday was busy so only getting to finish this post today.... and it's teh weekend again....viva la weekend!


I spent a lot of time dual boxing level 4 missions, isk, LP and sec status.
One lucky drop was nice to see and sell.

 
That got me into doing a spring clean of the hangers....
This stuff has survived a lot of other clear-outs but I'm really not going to use them in the ships I have so I decided to get the isk and have/use that instead.

With modules sorted out I went on to ships, those sold off slower than the modules but for way more income.

With all the fanfest info on the web I've only been visiting two sites/blogger's that were in attendance. Jester and Drackarn. 

One of Jesters entries lead me to this interesting video I'd not seen before, worth a look even if the owners/channel is a poker one (gambling like that is not my thing and I dont' promote it):

 

CCP have been putting up their fanfest vids on their youtube channel. All the keynote speech's seem to be up, the Eve keynote, the Dust 415, Legion hi-jacking keynote & of course the Eve: Valkyrie keynote.

 

 

I am really liking the new way shown for ship painting.... proper custom ship paint implementation.

The new ship changes all seem to be very good, the new model for the Typhoon and Moa are long overdue.

And the new Mordu's Legion ships are very interesting, I'll be looking to get the frig and cruiser for the collection ;-p

I hope the jukebox gets back as part of the sound options. The Star Trek-esque warp in and warp out sounds and visuals are looking good.

I'm glad that there will be a while ( year plus? ) before the Eve universe is thrown into the building of stargates, by that time the idea should have grown and matured and the eve game will have been updated and iterated a lot. I'm sure there will be a lot more of the "special events" coming as part of it. I doubt I'll be any where near those, they are usually a CCP disaster that only benefit the killmail whoring pvpers.

Of all the idea's being spouted what concerns me the most is the single logon for all games. 

How will they do it? If my character(s) for Eve can be used in Dust/legion and Valkyrie why should I pay for Eve if other players are getting things free. Will Eve be back to it's microtransactions past. 

I also dont' fancy training up a whole bunch of new infantry skills on my pilot(s). One login and select your game, then your character would be way better in my current slanted view. 

Either way they will need to increase the character numbers per "logon".

As for Dust 514, I was disappointment by this interview which I read before CCP made any comments about the Dust/Legion keynote reactions. For a game company to be 110% all for a game then all of a sudden say those things in an interview, no wonder people were double gobsmacked.  

With the Dust 514 / Legion cat out of the bag there are lots of comment's about what will happen to Dust, this link & this video are of interest on that score.

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Wow was also had and a few things were of interest.

Running Ulduar with our Paladins for the fragments continued ... sadly for both only two for each of us in the last runs/boosts.

Boss's like balloon's!!!

We also did a Black temple run for fun, some nice transmog's were collected.

While also on a bit of a buzz to go do old dungeons and achi's/transmog's with other char's my hunter was came across this rare. I always wanted one as a pet but never got to go get one before, now I have one :)

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Otherwise general gaming was had, lil bit of minecraft, a few matches of BF4.
Not sure if I mentioned this before but a while ago I got back to finish off the last mission of UFO Enemy Within, I cleared it in a surprising time with the mission save I had. The ending has minor tweaks from the original games ending but I have to say that it seemed more satisfying overall. A great reworking of the original.