Stranger Tales
Stories of a Small Corporation in New Eden
Time Is Not On My Side
Sep 1st
Like so many things in life, to be able to actually play EVE requires time. I realized that, due to an overwhelming lack of it, I have been doing nothing more that paying to train accounts. While this isn’t necessarily a bad thing, since it keeps my characters ready for my inevitable return, it does mean that I am doing nothing but sinking money into a game that I just do not have the time to put into it.
To that end, I am not saying good bye, so much as Sjáumst.
239 Days 4 hours 26 minutes
Jul 20th
That is the amount of time between my last two ship losses. You could say that it has been a matter of risk management, basically because I have avoided any serious risk for a considerable length of time (except for a dicey run through null-sec with ruskies all over the place, but I was in a Hound, so it wasn’t that risky), but that has had its downsides.
Like the ship loss I experienced 2 days ago.
WordPress Blogs with YC years, the Function! (OOC)
Jul 16th
Referring back to this post:
Convert Year to YC for EVE (OOC)
I made this into a nice little function to be used on your self hosted WordPress blogs.
Multiple EVE Clients From One Install, on a Mac
Jun 30th
For me, this has been the Holy Grail of how I can make my EVE experience on a Mac be the best it possibly can. I have had multiple installs, taking up around 35gb of total hard drive space since I started my fourth account, and I had wondered for a long time if there were a way to run my clients from a single install like using the junction method on Windows.
As mentioned in that Evelopedia article, they suggest two ways of running multiple clients. One is to have multiple installs, like I mentioned I had, and the other is to force OSX to open your single client multiple times through a terminal command.
Option one uses up a lot of hard drive space. Option two can cause potential problems with read/write errors in your preferences.
To that end, I now present you with option three. This is going to be a little long, and maybe a little involved, but overall it is fairly simple.
I Cannot Believe it Was That Easy
Jun 29th
I know, cryptic title or something.
Basically I just cleaned up about 30gb worth of EVE Online installs from the HDD of my MacBook, while still retaining the ability to play multiple accounts, having different preferences for each, and not causing the usual read write errors you get when you do a normal open -n to force an additional client to open.
Also, come patch day, there is only ONE client to update.
Full details will come later tonight, when I am not at work, so I can get screenshots and fully detail everything that I did.
I am a little on the giddy side, because this is something I have been wanting to do since I opened a second account.
Paying a Visit to the Neighborhood, Stalled
Jun 13th
Yesterday evening, I had decided I wanted to take a spin through the neighborhood and see if I could find some trouble to get into in the lower security systems. I consulted my EVE Strategic Maps, plotted my path, grabbed my Hound, forgoing the Jaguar I purchased yesterday afternoon, set some waypoints and undocked.
The Scammers are Getting Restless
Jun 12th
[22:40:03] Peter Packet > Do you want to earn billions of ISK through scamming? The Complete Guide to Eve Scamming™ will teach you how to. 30+ pages of techniques, methods, mentality and history. Send me 5 mil, and you’ll receive access to the guide through mail (file in pdf)
[22:40:18] Peter Packet > <=== to me
[22:40:24] Peter Packet > Do you want to earn billions of ISK through scamming? The Complete Guide to Eve Scamming™ will teach you how to. 30+ pages of techniques, methods, mentality and history. Send me 5 mil, and you’ll receive access to the guide through mail (file in pdf)
At least he was being mildly inventive, although twice in 21 seconds? A little much.
It’s Time to Move on…
May 29th
It’s time to get going
What lies ahead I have
No way of knowing
But under my feet baby
The grass is growing
Yeah it’s time to move on
It’s time to get going…
Accessing Fittings and Saved Overview from Multiple EVE Clients on the Mac (OOC)
Apr 30th
If you run multiple EVE Clients on Windows, you know that you saved overview and fittings will be in your Documents/EVE folder and accessible from all of the clients easily. Unfortunately, this is not the case on the Mac because of Cedega. There is an easy way to unify them, though, through the use of symbolic links.
EVE in Full Window Mode on a Mac (sort of) OOC
Apr 8th
If you play EVE on Windows, you know that running in window mode is as easy as selecting Window Mode from the drop down in your graphics settings (Or pressing Alt+Enter). Through the use of EVEHQ, EVEMon, or EVE Mover, you can easily have your client appear in “Full Window Mode” where the title bar is hidden off the top of the screen and the client appears to be running in full screen, but since it is windowed you can easily switch between multiple clients without your computers graphics being reset.
Unfortunately, this is not the case with the Mac client.
