Trinity is coming....

[WhiteKnight]

http://www.eve-online.com/trinity/index.html

:awesome::awesome::awesome::awesome:

[Semajal]

Looks shiney, i dislike jump freighters with a PASSION though. Estimated cost is 8-9billion when they eventually get invented. IMO should be a TI ship, lower cargo but slots. Be alot more useful and it wouldnt fudge alliance supply chains as they change over.

[WhiteKnight]

still a bit of a newb with regards to some of the more complicated game mechanics... can you explain why is that a bad thing ?

[Anim]

From what i can see they could skip gate camps? I would have thought stealth-cyno's would be more of a worry for alliances.

[Aardvark]

Jump freighter issue is that currently people run alliance logistics with carriers, whose logistic capability is being nerfed at the same time jump freighters come in. This means that alliances will need jump freighters to fuel POS networks, but as they're new, it will take a month to research freighter BPCs for T2 freighter invention. So there is a month or so where alliance logistics is utterly ****shoed.

[ccxo]

Eve will adapt quick enough- not going to be much of a hassle for the big alliances.
Looking gd just need a relase date, the file size and how long tranquility will be down for.

[Aardvark]

Oh they'll adapt, the trouble is that game mechanics mean you CAN'T adapt for a month, which is a bit crap.

[SilentMike]

/me creams :)

[Anim]

Hmmm i must have missed what was going on with carriers, can they no longer jump or something?

[I R Crazy Hippo]

Hmmm i must have missed what was going on with carriers, can they no longer jump or something?

they will still have the jump capability but they are having their cargo capacity reduced.
the changes that are being made are not necassarily removing the current functionality of the carriers but rather making it so that you cant do all of the things you can at the moment with just one fitting. i think there are intending on making it so that you can do what you can currently but you need to alter the modules on the ship to do a particular function. i.e if you want the corporate hangar then you will need to fit it which will take up slots.

basicly the carrier will be just as good at a particualr role, it just needs to be setup for that role specifically.

at least thats the way i understand the changes

[Semajal]

Thus far from being on sisi carriers are exactly the same as they were EXCEPT ships in the ship maintenence bay cant have anything but fitted modules/ammo/charges in them. Ship maint bay has been buffed to 1mil m3 and carriers still can drop 10 fighters as a basic if you have carrier 5.

ATM alliances will be moving ALL their stuff around the place so they wont have to haul after Trinity. Though the rorqual can cover a fair bit of hauling too.

I still feel jump freighters need something more for their defence, they are one of the most vulnerable ships ingame and will be the 3rd highest priced (excluding faction)

I just cant wait for the graphics, moved all my empire ships and TII stuff into one system so i can go nuts with fraps :D

[Towneh]

I took these after I remembered I could enable AA in EVE by forcing it via the nvidia control panel:

http://www.towneh.net/albums/eve/trinity16aa_brutix.jpg
http://www.towneh.net/albums/eve/trinity16aa_vexor.jpg
http://www.towneh.net/albums/eve/trinity16aa_tristan.jpg
http://www.towneh.net/albums/eve/trinity16aa_myrdown.jpg

Two additional pics of me trying out the lovely new drone control shortcut keys =)

http://www.towneh.net/albums/eve/trinity_hammerhead.jpg
http://www.towneh.net/albums/eve/trinity_pirate.jpg

[TomM]

I am cumming because trinity is coming

[I R Crazy Hippo]

argh one of my alts has just finished training his skill :(

[Lusc]

oh noes :(

Silly Hippo

got my main and alt on 8 days training. Expecting the worse lol.

Joe

[Ryvita]

Was tempted to switch to Advanced Weapons Upgrades 5 - which would keep me training 'till well into the New Year. Left it on a week's worth of Evasive Maneuvering instead. :)

Ryv

[Aardvark]

Yay interceptors for Ryv :D:

Also I may have bought a new graphics card just so I can get Trinity shinies. Welp.

[WiZZyWiGG]

argh one of my alts has just finished training his skill :(


ahahahahahah. You fail Hippo :p

[Ryvita]

Yay interceptors for Ryv :D:

Also I may have bought a new graphics card just so I can get Trinity shinies. Welp.

I'm hoping it will run on what I already have (8800 GTS)? The requirements aren't that crazy are they?

[Aardvark]

I'm hoping it will run on what I already have (8800 GTS)? The requirements aren't that crazy are they?

Naw, its just me and my archaic hardware. Haven't upgraded ANYTHING since 2005 :p

[WiZZyWiGG]

I'm hoping it will run on what I already have (8800 GTS)? The requirements aren't that crazy are they?

The 8800 GTS runs it very nicely indeed :cooler:

[WhiteKnight]

Hopefully my 7800 should be able to cope. According to the test tool you can download it does.

[Silk75]

Drones V training atm, and yeah switch every setting on and it will start to stretch an 8800 GTS 320MB apparently

[WhiteKnight]

I`m running Cruise Missiles V for 22days worth of training. So i`m good if they cock up and take ages over it.

[Ryvita]

Drones V training atm, and yeah switch every setting on and it will start to stretch an 8800 GTS 320MB apparently

Mine's the 512MB overclocked "not quite a GTX" one. :) So I should be fine.

Ryv

[SarGara]

Hmmm what todo this evening....


<insert generic RTS> :emo:

[Ryvita]

http://www.eve-offline.net/

When I checked it it was showing - ONLINE, 27 players :confused:

[Semajal]

It only really rapes new graphics cards when you set shadows to SILLY level.

I think i set long skills on all not sure, doing energy grid upgrades 5 (HOW did i not do this on my main sooner?!) as marauders are wanted (golem golem golem).

Stupid advanced weapon upgrades 5 next though :(

[SarGara]

I just noticed the "EvE extended downtime site" has been updated with:

12/5/2007
Trinity on schedule

We're about half way through deploying the Trinity expansion to Tranquility and we're on schedule. After a long night our crew has taken a short lunch break and they're now back at their desks, working hard to make the rest of the deployment go as well as the first half did. Tranquility is expected to be back and open for business at 02.00 GMT, 6 December.

On time, o rly?

[Afty]

I am very curious to see what exactly they're doing that could possibly take so long, were it planned and tested correctly?

I am also considering reactivating my Eve subscription once my interest in TF2 dies down :)

[Aardvark]

I am very curious to see what exactly they're doing that could possibly take so long, were it planned and tested correctly?
Probably not opening the server to the great unwashed before they've let it pootle along on its own for a bit to see if it breaks.

Normally patchdays are marked by a nasty case of the crashings at about 11pm GMT when the db decides a bad thing just happened to it and it would like to go for a lie down now thank you very much.

[Silk75]

Yes Russ, you should reactivate, its good fun

[Thrud]

These big yearly updates always take 24 hours....As for testing, it's hard to test as they don't exactly have a second Tranquility to test it on fully...

Have you seen the patch notes, it is huge!

[WhiteKnight]

Eve isnt hosted on ONE server. Its a MASSIVE server cluster. They have to upgrade all the machines, ensure they are all playing nice with each other, and as Aard said, give it a few hours of bedding in time to ensure no stupid problems happen.

They can test as much as they want on the test server, but if you have the option you should always give yourself plenty of breathing room on a live server update.

[ccxo]

On time is gd to hear, just going to be the mass rush to join tranquility when it goes back up at 2 am.

[Afty]

Trinity came alright... all over my boot.ini!

[Aardvark]

:masterstroke:

[TomM]

pfft massive graphics overhaul and the moons still look **** and flicker on my pc :p

[Semajal]

well they arnt doing planets yet :) That is coming next year :D

And be glad, i currently dont even HAVE a pc so cant play :(

Oh and "WTB Golem"

:)

[Thrud]

Oh and "WTB Golem"



Do you have the skills? BS 5, AWU 5, Energy Grid Upgrades 5?

[Aardvark]

He's only been playing about a million years, so I'm thinking yes. Hell he's been playing about twice as long as me and *I* have the skills :p

[Thrud]

How many SP does your main have?

BUT AWU is a must have for you Minnie types, right?

Ah...but he said Golem....

[WhiteKnight]

104 days for me to fly a golem :(

[Aardvark]

How many SP does your main have?

BUT AWU is a must have for you Minnie types, right?

Ah...but he said Golem....

I think Semajal has around 50m sp on his main, I've got a couple of 30m 'semi-mains'.

Though thats pretty irrelevant, you only need around 10m sp for a Golem (BS5 is around 1.5m with prereqs, AWU5 is 2.5m or so, EGU is 1.5m, few support skills and you're there).

It will, however, be **** and a waste of your time so don't do this anybody :p

[Thrud]

Hmm... I'm interested in seeing what a Torp Golem will do tbh

[Thrud]

Actually, as this is about Trinity...

The Premium GFX...

Obviously, for reasons known only to CCP, there is no AA. I was thinking of forcing this using the NVidia control panel... what do the Q's mean after some of the entries?

[Towneh]

Quincunx

http://www.nvnews.net/previews/geforce3/quincunx.shtml