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New Director of Operations of Eve University

Seems Kelduum is it … lets hope he lasts a long time  and doesnt burn out fast

As many of you will know, Dee Carson, a director since April 2007 and Director of Operations for Eve University for the last 6 months, recently stepped down to have some fun again and pursue other interests.

The post of Director of Operations is a massively important one – it involves a great deal of work, not the least of which is ensuring the stability and safety of the Uni itself, and as such there are very few other roles in New Eden which have the potential to directly impact the sheer volume of capsuleers, simply due to the amount of pilots which pass through the corporation.

So, after a week of careful consideration, it is my great honour to accept the role of Director of Operations – one that I hope I will be able to fill with the same level of dedication which Dee did before me.

I am not planning any immediate changes in the Uni, however I am considering some fairly big behind the scenes changes regarding things like roles, which I hope to allow streamlined access to things like hangars and the resources they contain, and an updated policy on inactive members, which should allow us to reduce the membership to only those active, while keeping Ivy League’s profile down on the alliance rankings, which is likely one of the core reasons of the wars recently.

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Kelduum Revaan

Director of Operations

Eve University

Seems Kelduum is it … lets hope he lasts a long time  and doesnt burn out fast

Deep Frying my server

this morning i woke up with a awfull smell in the room ….. i reconized it at once i smell electricity.

It was my server that decided to go fiz boom now thank god it was only some hardware issue so it was fast fixed by replacing a few sticks of ram and the Powersupply.

There we go again … i come home after a few hrs of other RL stuff and the server is down…. im starting to think that there is more wrong in the machine …. so pretty soon im going to get myself some 19″ rack servers.

Ending Of A Era

Today Dee Carson the current Executive officer of the eve uni/ivy league announced that he dropped his rolls and was leaving corp when he can.

This came quite suddenly even to allot of the directors.

Good Luck in yer future ventures Dee. may the isk be plentyfull. and the kills be allot

Now incase your wondering who is going to take over Dee his position ….. all i can say is …NOT IT
all jokes aside there have been names tossed around. soon you will see the new exec officer.

Broken Mechanic

Its again a period of war for the uni …. a long ass period of useless pointless war. Its getting tiresome getting decced by 1 or 2 man corps, Or the other variant the one that doesnt do its research and doesnt come out to play.
Lately the wars have been more often and often.  This is ofcourse due to the fact that we are a large alliance and people often think
“lets go gankage” eventough this is all nice and stuff it realy shows a broken mechanic in eve… the Wardec system is useless in eve
its main use is to just bribe concord so you can station camp and grief without concord interfearance.

I’m now wondering what can CCP change to make the wardec system more usefull and intresting to us players in empire.
i’ve heard stuff beeing tossed around on forums or other means of communication … and pretty much ALL of them seem better then the current wardec system. Becouse they all see that the current system is broken.

lets take a example of a wardec in eve : i pay 50 million isk to have ConCord look the other way. so i can shoot the opposing force. when i have decced i can Choose  not to undock for the entire week and here lies the problem. There is no Goal to wardeccing somebody in empire… if there was a goal it would be allot more intresting.
what i would love to see is a set of strategic goals that a agressive corp must set when they wardec somebody .. the goals ofcourse would stay hidden to the oposite party… if the goals are not acciefed in time X then the wardec automaticly gets declared invalid.

what would also help is the upping of the amount it actualy requires to wardec somebody and have it depend on the amounts of players in the corp or the ratio of players to enemy or in that direction… basicly ISK is to low if 1 character can grind enough isk to wardec somebody for a month the price is to low.

So basicly it boils down to this  :
Currenly a wardec is only used to grief/shoot the other party there is no way of deciding a victor exept with the meta game. what Allot of people want is a wardec system that does give you a true way of beeing the victor at the end of the battle and not just a killboard metagame victory.

Wordpress 2.7 and more

Wordpress 2.7 got released yesterday and it seems like a BIG inprovement over the old wordpress.
The update to 2.7 is happaning as soon as possible.

also i’ve been busy with the new design of the site and its comming allong nicely.
still allot of photoshopping to be done to make the background and the images look spiffy but that should be done before the end of the week.

Edit : Its here 2.7 you might not notice allot but i do with my admin panel

A busy week, or not.

well  its been somewhat of a busy week this week in RL allot happaning so much i cant dedicate any time to games or to learning various programming languages.

The only thing i did this week is order a Orca in eve online witch should take 30 days before delivery.
i also looked for some different designs for the site becouse eventough white looks white and tight it hurts the eyes so i most likely going to go for a darker theme on the site..for the rest of the week was work and nothing else.