FoH guide to EVE Online

[Kazgrim]

Lets get some betting action going on? Bold is my pick for winner of that bracket, if I know enough about the groups competing to even make a guess, which for the most part, I don't.

Group A:
Aftermath Alliance
Aunni Ti Tsuun Consortium
FREGE Alliance
IAC
Morsus Mihi

Group B:
EternalRising
Exa Nation
Goonswarm
Pandemic Legion
The R0NIN

Group C:
Aegis Militia
Band of Brothers
Bionic Dawn
KIA Alliance
United Legion

Group D:
Cruel Intentions
Empire Research
Intrepid Crossing
The Red Skull
The Star Fraction

Group E:
Derek Knows Us
FATAL Alliance
MASS
The Five
The OSS

Group F:
Hedonistic Imperative
ISS
MC
Nebula Rasa
The Imperial Order

Group G:
Atlas Alliance
Enelais
Ivy League
Namtz'aar K'in
R0ADKILL

Group H:
Agony Empire
Chaos Incarnate
Cult of War
HUN Reloaded
Terra Incognita

[Wodin]

Originally Posted by Kazgrim

Lets get some betting action going on? Bold is my pick for winner of that bracket, if I know enough about the groups competing to even make a guess, which for the most part, I don't.

I can't afford to actually bet these days(screw freighter purchases), but here are my guesses: (bold winner, italics second place).

Group A:
Aftermath Alliance
Aunni Ti Tsuun Consortium
FREGE Alliance
IAC
Morsus Mihi

Group B:
EternalRising
Exa Nation
Goonswarm
Pandemic Legion
The R0NIN

Group C:
Aegis Militia
Band of Brothers (pains me to do that)
Bionic Dawn
KIA Alliance
United Legion

Group D:
Cruel Intentions
Empire Research
Intrepid Crossing
The Red Skull
The Star Fraction

Group E:
Derek Knows Us (will probably end up DQ'd as nobody shows :V)
FATAL Alliance
MASS
The Five (pains me to do that as well)
The OSS

Group F:
Hedonistic Imperative
ISS
MC (too fond of gimmicky setups and it gets them in trouble at times)
Nebula Rasa
[b]The Imperial Order[/i]

Group G:
Atlas Alliance
Enelais
Ivy League (Weakest bracket by far, I've got no clue)
Namtz'aar K'in
R0ADKILL

Group H:
Agony Empire
Chaos Incarnate
Cult of War
HUN Reloaded
Terra Incognita (I love Shin Ra and Rickdick but they fall prone to gimmicky stuff too).

[Carino]

Group A:
Aftermath Alliance
Aunni Ti Tsuun Consortium
FREGE Alliance
IAC
Morsus Mihi

Group B:
EternalRising
Exa Nation
Goonswarm - :colbert:
Pandemic Legion
The R0NIN

Group C:
Aegis Militia
Band of Brothers
Bionic Dawn
KIA Alliance
United Legion

Group D:
Cruel Intentions
Empire Research
Intrepid Crossing
The Red Skull
The Star Fraction

Group E:
Derek Knows Us
FATAL Alliance
MASS
The Five
The OSS

Group F:
Hedonistic Imperative
ISS
MC
Nebula Rasa
The Imperial Order

Group G:
Atlas Alliance
Enelais
Ivy League
Namtz'aar K'in
R0ADKILL

Group H:
Agony Empire
Chaos Incarnate
Cult of War
HUN Reloaded
Terra Incognita

[Tirinal]

Someone should probably throw up an alliance tournament thread rather than cluttering up this one. The last one we had was pretty popular and the commentary was good times.

Also, I agree with Corino's picks above.

[Itzena]

EVE Online | EVE Insider | Dev Blog

The Interstellar Services Department (ISD) team is a volunteer organization with a long history with EVE Online. Started back in the early beta days, the ISD teams have been providing vital assistance to the EVE Development team with duties including forum moderation, live events, quality assurance, new player greeting with help channel moderation and most recently, reporting of in-game events. I can honestly say I feel that a large portion of EVE Online’s success has been a result of the efforts of this fine group of players.

There have been a number of changes to ISD in the past five years. The program has grown from a core of 8 people to a height of nearly 300. Some of the staff have moved on from the volunteer team to positions within the gaming industry, a number of whom are now advancing within the ranks of CCP Games and holding positions such as our present Community Manager, Game Masters, Quality Assurance, Game Developers, Operations and IT, and Programmers. I myself started out as a volunteer with the Aurora Project before eventually being employed by CCP.

While there are good times to be had within the volunteer program, it is not all fun and games. Volunteers have often had to endure criticism and were sometimes wrongly accused of issues they had no part in, but took it in stride and came back for more.

Times change. EVE has grown from a small player base to the current community of over 200,000 players and to the record of nearly 35k concurrent users on 24 June. CCP has expanded from around 35 staff at launch to today’s 230, from one studio in Reykjavik to three studios in Iceland, the US and China. As these things have changed, so has our need to periodically evaluate the tasks performed by the volunteers. It was such an evaluation that prompted the creation of the Interstellar Correspondents team out of the Aurora Project, and another that has brought us to this dev blog.

A number of changes are being made to the volunteer teams. The Interstellar Correspondents will be working more closely with the staff of EVE TV, continuing and expanding their role as New Eden’s news reporters. STAR will strengthen the focus of their efforts on greeting new players and assisting them in their early days as rookie pod pilots. The Bug Hunter team will continue to assist the QA team and most likely have a role in efforts to localize the EVE client into the native languages spoken by the EVE community. The Forum Moderation and the Events teams will be placed on hiatus as we take time to evaluate processes and procedures for the betterment of the EVE Community’s play experience. Members of the Forum Moderation and Event teams will be given the opportunity to transition to the other three teams while new tools and roles are investigated, implemented and we evaluate other alternatives for forum and event support.

As EVE has grown, so does the need to support the EVE community. As part of an internal structure change, the Community team has expanded into its own group affiliated with the Publishing division of CCP and their responsibilities will increase as the team eventually triples in size.

We hope that the EVE community will understand and support us through these changes, recognizing the overall goal is to support our players in the best manner possible. We hope you’ll join us in thanking our volunteers for all they’ve contributed over the years and continue to share your thoughts with us about things you’d like to see in the game and on our website.

Sincerely,
kieron
Director of Community Relations - EVE Online

Protip: When a press release specifically states something along the lines of "These changes have nothing to do with the unfounded allegations of corruptions", read that part as "Shit. We've been rumbled. Quick, fire those dodgy motherfuckers before they drag us all under" and things will make more sense.

Buh-bye, Admiral Chamiwhatsit. Hope cheering BoB on in local and getting that reporter 'fired' was worth getting all the volunteers shitcanned.

[Bottle]

Cult of War is going to turn some heads in this tourney methinks.

Derek Knows Us could do well if they're serious about it.

Group B is a fairly strong bracket but I think Pandemic takes that.

[Kais[]]

CoW did really well in the last tournament and i expect more of the same here. As for group B Goons could have a very strong chance if we get right people show up, but i'm gonna have to say Pandemic takes it. Either way, second round is going to be very interesting.

[merkur]

Heh, they put RK and Ivy in the same group, that's $$$

[Bottle]

Originally Posted by merkur

Heh, they put RK and Ivy in the same group, that's $$$

heh yeah I see what they did there. Go Ivy League!

[Darvain]

I realize this could be a long shot, but might any of you in a decent corp allow a total Eve noob to join?

-Darvain

[merkur]

ya, check out ivy league. Eve-Uni, they train new players very well, if you attend the classes.

[OneofOne]

Anyone have a link to an R&D agent RP calculator? I saw a link to one a while ago but can't find it for nothing now. Curious what factors affect RP/day and by what extent.

[...]

I have one burried in my gmail. Or rather i put the numbers into gmail's spreadsheet so i could math it up.

EVE Online | EVE Insider | Forums has a research agent guide.

[Kadmoran]

This really should be on every page of this thread but join the FOH channel ingame first thing you do. It's more than just joking and faggotry. Theres an absolutely huge range of players in there and many of whom are willing to help newbies out.

All you need to do to join is as follow:
Open the Channels and Mailing Lists tab from your sidebar.
Click Join/Create
Type FOH
Hit OK

The channel has no password and usually has between 10 and 35 people in it. People in the channel can offer advice on just about any subject you may have a question about in game and we just bullshit around alot too.

[Malakriss]

Is Kadm really advertising for more victims?

Nah, the people that actually speak in the FOH channel do give decent advice, among other things. They will rightfully encourage you to forget your carebearing ways and find where the fun is at.