EVE New Citizens Q&A

Hey! So i wont be able to be online from monday to friday, and i want to be able to change my skill queues! Is there a way? I have an Iphone and acces to Internet? :)

They're working on it, as far as I know (stated in some recent interview on massively.com). Not sure when it's ready, though.

Jarnis: Not a practical solution when you plan on finish any short time skills first. The level V skills take a bit, but most often you need the prerequisites first and the level V is more or less optional.

AKA "Set a long skill training". A very useful thing to do when new patches are rolled out as well. Newbies may not know but there was a time when a new expansion/patch could mean days of downtime/unstability and if your skill queue ran out, you could lose training time.

Heck, back in the old days there was no skill queue.

We old geezers still do it every time CCP takes down the servers for an update; set a long skill. At least 5-7d, preferrably 20d+. If patch goes wrong and servers have extended (or WAY extended) downtime, you won't lose skill training time / skillpoints.

Believe it or not, CCP's opinion is that getting people to log in to the game means that they are more likely to stay logged in for some time, even if they only wanted to quickly change skills or update market orders. In order to get this suggestion further than just words on a page,new need to convince CCP that relying on people to become distracted from their own schedules in order to play the game is morally reprehensible.

It would be nice if we only had to log in to undock, with all ther forms of interaction available through out of simulator means, Why load an extremely graphics intensive game when all you want to do is shoot the breeze in corp/alliance chat? How many alliances already have their own IRC and voice servers specifically to allow out-of-game communication?

My thinking is that making the in-game community more accessible to the people who can't or won't launch the graphics intensive application just to see what is happening in-game, will lead to more involvement in the community and thus, in the long run, more people logging in more frequently and longer to actively participate in the community according to their own responsible scheduling.

Relying on players to get distracted from real life in order to play your game is morally reprehensible, CCP. We need more socially responsible attitudes to gaming. Encourage people to choose to participate in the game in what manner they have time for.

Allow IRC access to inI game channels, allow IMAP access to in game mail. Provide iCal/vCal access to the in game calendar. Enhance the stand-alone Vivox client to allow more channels than simply Corp chat to be accepted. Use existing proven mature technologies. Do not try to reinvent the wheel. CCP is only a few hundred employees, these technologies have been developed by thousands of people with millions of hours of real use in a hostile environment. :Awesome: is no match for secure, reliable, mature, and RFC documented.

Even better, with CCP acting as an API provider rather than a direct out-of-game services provider, there is plenty of scope for licensed commercial products to be developed by third parties. It is a win-win-win situation.

But will it blend?

Also I was under the impression Eve won't run on cell phones or tablets