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Esprit de Corps
31 year ago
Welcome to the twenty-second installment of the EVE Blog Banter, the monthly EVE Online blogging extravaganza created by CrazyKinux. The EVE Blog Banter involves an enthusiastic group of gaming bloggers, a common topic within the realm of EVE Online, and a week or so to post articles pertaining to the said topic. The resulting articles can either be short or quite extensive, either funny or dead serious, but are always a great fun to read! Any questions about the EVE Blog Banter should be directed to crazykinux@gmail.com. Check for other EVE Blog Banter articles at the bottom of this post!
This month topic is brought to us by L’Dene Bean of Nitpickin’s who asks: Why, and how did you pick your corporation? Is your loyalty solid or just until a better placed organization “recruits” you. The shorter version: Who holds your Unshakable Fealty and why?
Yes, I know, esprit de corps means morale and not loyalty, but bear with me here, and everything should become clear.
Winebottler and EveHQ, Working, Sort of…
01 year ago
EDIT: This no longer works for me since the last update to Winebottler, and since Winetricks are screwed up with that update as well, I have no possibility of even attempting to reinstall it to try again. Such is life. Post retained for historical archives and what not. (EVEMon doesn’t work, either, because it needs .net 4 now, and that doesn’t work with Wine. EFT is still ok, but why not just use pyfa?)
I love my Mac. I also love EveHQ for tracking my skills, making queues, and creating new fits for ships. As far as running these on Wine on the Mac, the best way, nay the only way (since the more or less demise of GTK-EVEMon) has been to use EVEMon and EFT. They are both wonderful apps in their own right, but I like the all in one approach of EveHQ.
Earlier this week, I saw on the EVE-O forums that someone had managed to get EveHQ running through Winebottler on a Mac. I was elated. I downloaded the install, played with some winetricks, and got it up and running. Everything appeared to be working great:
I could create queues, make fittings, the API information updated properly, I was happy as a bug in a rug. Until today.
Time Is Not On My Side
01 year ago
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.
WordPress Blogs with YC years, the Function! (OOC)
11 year ago
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
61 year ago
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
01 year ago
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.
Accessing Fittings and Saved Overview from Multiple EVE Clients on the Mac (OOC)
02 years ago
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
22 years ago
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.
Convert Year to YC for EVE (OOC)
332 years ago
I cannot believe that this was as easy as it turned out to be. I had discussed this with Xeross a short while ago, but a tweet by Rettic reminded me about it this afternoon. I had wanted a way to show the year on my posts as the EVE year, and a simple little PHP script has done it for me.
