EVE General Discussion

Dear space tribe,

I'm curious to hear from those of you who have gone above and beyond and contributed something to the community outside of just playing EVE. It could be that you run a blog, make songs, report on events, host player gatherings, make tutorials, create videos, run a fan site or create programs and apps to help your fellow pilots enjoy EVE. This is by no means a definitive list of community contributions, only some examples.

What I'm interested to know is how making those contributions has affected you as an EVE player and/or how it's affected your life beyond the game and the community. What have you learned, what skills have you discovered that you didn't know you had, what doors have been opened etc etc.

Reply here and don't be shy (but in case you are, feel free to send me a private message instead)

I made a simple website to track your wallet and trading assets over time (see my sig). It's used by myself and a few trader friends. How did it affect me? It made trading a little easier for a few of us!

If you want to see more 3rd party tools then give us more API functions, such as trade order updating ... CREST please!.

well outside of eve nothing really. But...

i have help out count less new players in game if that matters at all.

For EVE? I don't know if I've done that much. Back when we had the Sansha Live events I would be up all hours of the day leading fleets consisting of the general public against Sansha where ever they popped up.

But my biggest achievement? Easily everything I've done for DUST 514. As an EVE player, it hasn't really done anything. But as a DUST player, I guess there are a fairly decent number of people that know me and my work, through the podcast CAST 514 and either DUST514base or DUST514.org. In the past, I was possibly considered the best source of information on DUST 514 available to the public. I even managed to get the name "Mr. Extrapolation" from CCP Praetorian (creative director on DUST 514) after taking bits and pieces and extrapolating gameplay, features and everything else to do with the game from single frames (yes, I seriously stayed up late at night going frame by frame to try and get everything I could). I must admit, I quite like the name.

But was it worth it? Absolutely. Even if I have managed to completely destroy any semblance of a sleeping habit I may have once possessed (which I partly blame on living on the other side of the world). The moment I actually met the DUST developers at Fanfest this year, I knew I had made an impact of some kind. I guess it's shown that I can actually write (in some weird convoluted fashion I admit, but it works).

As for the opportunities? Well, where do I start...

Can you please add to your little post "entertainment provided to the community keeping this forum an incredible living place surrounded by awesome/funny trolls"

Thx, now you post should look really better

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This thread really shouldn't be stickied. Oh no sirree bob.
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Haven't done much, occasionally give away isk, ships, other items to newbies.

About 3 years ago i was in college going for what would be equivalent to Bachelors in US. I had all this experience in my field yet could not find any work as a programmer as every company i applied to said we are looking for someone with at least 100 projects behind them.

I knew more than few programming languages and had a lot experience on the field web, mobile and desktop applications yet no portfolio == no job. I always need ISK so it was at that time that i started offering services for ISK ( not sexual ) but programming for ISK and i landed quite a few projects and few months later i was able to fill my portfolio.

I scored a job in one of the bigger software developer firms in my country and worked there for a year until i graduated. I then quit my job as i wanted to go for my Masters and this is where i am now my second year of my second college going for my masters.

However my portfolio that came mostly from eve sourced projects landed me a job that would pay for my living expanses for over a year, buy me a new PC and allowed me to completely renovate my apartment from ground ( pipes ) up.

I still offer programing for ISK and my last contribution to eve community is this:

http://gotttogankemall.netau.net/ A application that will take a COPY-PASTE of your
ingame ship cargo or fitting scan and give you a total price for everything. Tool mainly meant for highsec suicide gankers. The prices are pulled via API so you know exactly how much your target is worth.

However as of tomorrow you will also be able to paste in D-SCAN results ( 'sort of FC to Scout tool' ) you will be able to
COPY-PASTE in content of your D-SCAN and it will filter out and organize the result for easy and readable display for your FC
so he will know what he is up to.

Along side that feature tomorrow i will also add ability to paste in Contract contents and Inventory items.




RIP solostrom you were a legend o7
"You can't climb the ladder of succsses with your hands in your pocket" - arnold schwarzenegger

Not much, beyond learning that the character limit and the lack of embedding options make these forums really inefficient.

Outside of EVE, the only effect is that I have to update my CMS software every now and then… oh, and coming to the odd realisation that I have fans at fanfest.

Gives a nice little kick of "smug" when people like what you make :)
I personly frapsed and uploaded fleets of ganks and such, with my favorite dubstep along

http://www.youtube.com/user/NicklasRahbek/videos

:3 this is some of my gaming videos