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EVEnews Webmaster
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Posted - 2005.12.01 16:30:00 -
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Edited by: EVEnews Webmaster on 01/12/2005 16:33:24
BIRMINGHAM, UK - December 1st, 2005 - EVEnews.com, an independant fan site dedicated to EVE Online is launching today from 6pm GMT, promising to be a premier fan site for EVE Online, published and developed by CCP Games.
Packed with unique content from launch EVEnews promises to release new content at regular intervals (usually multiple times a week) offering unique interviews, reviews, and fan fiction all about the EVE Online universe.
Provided to players with absolutly no External advertising, the site is graciously hosted by Synex UK Ltd.
Some key launch features include:
New interview with Nathan "Oveur" Richardsson - Senior Producer for EVE Online
Tranquility User Count Server Monitor
Upto date Item Database
Comprehensive Universe Database
Forums
Guides and Tutorials on Commonly used areas of EVE Online
Site
http://www.evenews.com (EVEnews.com)
Contact EVEnews
Martin Ellis (Project Leader)
[email protected]
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Ralus
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Posted - 2005.12.01 16:36:00 -
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sounds cool, i'll check it out as soon as it up 
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Wrangler
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Posted - 2005.12.01 16:39:00 -
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*glued*
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Mallikanth
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Posted - 2005.12.01 16:42:00 -
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 Originally by: EVEnews Webmaster
published and developed by CCP Games.
Excellent - An Official replacement for Eve-I !!
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"Just drive down that road, until you get blown up"
- General George Patton, about reconnaissance troops
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Harisdrop
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Posted - 2005.12.01 16:43:00 -
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Edited by: Harisdrop on 01/12/2005 16:45:00
Time is
Iceland has 5 hours of daylight OMG
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HippoKing
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Posted - 2005.12.01 16:43:00 -
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EVEnews Webmaster
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Posted - 2005.12.01 16:45:00 -
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btw, EVEnews is not published or developed by CCP, EVE Online is, if you read the press release correctly :D
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Exioce
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Posted - 2005.12.01 16:45:00 -
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why hello there, fellow Birmingham pod pilot  |
Avon
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Posted - 2005.12.01 16:50:00 -
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Edited by: Avon on 01/12/2005 16:51:08
Originally by: EVEnews Webmaster
BIRMINGHAM, UK - December 1st, 2005 - EVEnews.com, an independant fan site dedicated to EVE Online is launching today from 6pm GMT, promising to be a premier fan site for EVE Online, published and developed by CCP Games.
Clarification?
The wording implies the site it developed and published by CCP, is this the case?
Added: Clarification got in before my question :)
You thought it misleading enough to clarify, and I did too - I hope the site is better worded :D
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The Battleships is not and should not be a solo pwnmobile - Oveur |
Sarmaul
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Posted - 2005.12.01 16:52:00 -
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Originally by: Mallikanth
Originally by: EVEnews Webmaster
published and developed by CCP Games.
Excellent - An Official replacement for Eve-I !!
plonker, he's on about EVE-Online
Originally by: Chowdown
We camp a lot
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EVEnews Webmaster
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Posted - 2005.12.01 16:55:00 -
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is what i put that confusing? i thought it made sence, i guess i will need to homerize it a bit more
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Avon
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Posted - 2005.12.01 17:00:00 -
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Originally by: EVEnews Webmaster
is what i put that confusing? i thought it made sence, i guess i will need to homerize it a bit more
Much better now.
The comma usage was incorrect, which lead to the CCP bit becomming attached to the wrong article.
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The Battleships is not and should not be a solo pwnmobile - Oveur |
Heritor
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Posted - 2005.12.01 17:25:00 -
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Cool..my home town 
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EVEnews Webmaster
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Posted - 2005.12.01 17:32:00 -
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oh before i forget:
irc.coldfront.net
#evenews
Thats our official IRC Channel, where several power hungry operators are standing by to make your life hell :D
j/k (just DigitalCommunist's)
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Aelius
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Posted - 2005.12.01 18:01:00 -
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Good luck on your endeveur
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HippoKing
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Posted - 2005.12.01 18:19:00 -
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its up!
FIRST!
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Ezri Firestorm
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Posted - 2005.12.01 18:21:00 -
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Edited by: Ezri Firestorm on 01/12/2005 18:22:41
Second!!!!!
Join Us!!
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Content Team
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Harisdrop
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Posted - 2005.12.01 18:23:00 -
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sorta.
Okay i guess if you are seeing this page, we did'nt finish in time for release. The forums will be up ASAP in the mean time, enjoy the rest of the site :D
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Seleene
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Posted - 2005.12.01 19:13:00 -
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If you guys can keep up this level of quality, it's going to be awesome. Good looking site and I'll be sure to visit it a lot.
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The REAL Eve Political Map! |
Hakera
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Posted - 2005.12.01 19:20:00 -
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looks nice, though your item db seems only partially parsed. Not all info is shown anyway. Not that i have any sort of developer knowledge as to point the finger at why etc anyway, gratz
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MickeyFinn
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Posted - 2005.12.01 19:22:00 -
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Originally by: Heritor
Cool..my home town
Heh, mine 2 :)
The Artist Formely Known As Wishdokkta
Website of certain doom! |
Sku1ly
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Posted - 2005.12.01 19:23:00 -
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<3 Birmingham.
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EVEnews Webmaster
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Posted - 2005.12.01 19:29:00 -
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yes, the itemDB has some known issues, it is only displaying TQ marketGroups at the moment, that will get changed when we next regenerate the content in a few hours.
Me and Cardassius are working on fixing minor issues that we have found since making the site live. Which we had long since forgotten about. I will be turning my attentions to getting the forums online within the next hour or so.
P.S thanks for all the positive support
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sonofollo
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Posted - 2005.12.01 19:35:00 -
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swwwweeeeetttttt
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Ryn0
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Posted - 2005.12.01 19:42:00 -
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I liek the site. Good job
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Stokerpoons
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Posted - 2005.12.01 20:11:00 -
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I looks great... Good Work!
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Bedrock
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Posted - 2005.12.01 20:55:00 -
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Edited by: Bedrock on 01/12/2005 20:56:41
nice.
edit: would be nice if the ORE showed yielding of minerals.
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Diatom
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Posted - 2005.12.01 21:24:00 -
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Thanx for a job well done. Certainly enjoyed the article about Complex Whoring. Hope u will set up an NPC data base like Eve-I had.
"If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there" |
Professor McFly
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Posted - 2005.12.01 21:51:00 -
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Good work. Though I feel sorry for eve-offline.net getting upstaged a little.
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Lanu
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Posted - 2005.12.01 23:03:00 -
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Bookmarked :) together with eve-offline.com
Millennium est qua meus patria est. Nos mos nunquam intereo.
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Doc Brown
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Posted - 2005.12.01 23:40:00 -
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The Item DB Looks to be missing faction and Cosmos stuff
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EVEnews Webmaster
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Posted - 2005.12.02 00:16:00 -
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Yup, we spotted that one too, the types are infact in the itemdb already, we just need to add them to the market groups so you can click on them :D This should be live tommorrow if all goes well.
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Lygos
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Posted - 2005.12.02 01:27:00 -
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Are you still taking suggestions for what sort of forum to adopt?
Targetting Sig Variance -- "Everything I love is combustible." |
Kylania
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Posted - 2005.12.02 01:51:00 -
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Edited by: Kylania on 02/12/2005 01:56:16
Nice work!
A few comments:
1. Client side font changing is broken. With IE, end users can't even change the font size. With Firefox the font size changes, but your tables don't scale with the text as they should. This is Very Bad ThingÖ. The cause is that you're using multiple DIVs with hardcoded widths and heights instead of normal HTML tables. It looks pretty if you're viewing it on the machine it was designed on, but it removes the end user's ability to adjust the site to view comfortably. Not all your users have large monitors with perfect eyes. 
2. With Firefox the radio buttons and poll text, plus the Alliance News and Server Monitor "buttons" take the user to the non-existant interview featured at the top of the site, not the intended poll functions. Something messed up with the rendering of the banner ad HREF? IE seems to work better, but the blank space between Alliance News and Server Montior responds as a link, even though there's no visual representation of it.
3. Any way to get rid of the animations of the server graphs? Seems a bit slow and doesn't really add to anything. The graph's "ad url" is a hard to read shade of blue on the main page, but I assume that'll go away once it's registered? I'd also suggest showing the type of numerical data that eve-i had, namely high, low, current and record users in numerical form, easy to see. One shouldn't have to mouse over to see exactly how many people are on.
4. "Alliance News" individual links forward to the eve-online.com domain. Perhaps mark external links in some way?
5. Just personal preference, but I'd mark stories as "Date - Time", rather than "Time - Date". What day something was posted is often more important than what time.
6. Why is a random feature a story about some moron in Homeworld?
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EVEnews Webmaster
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Posted - 2005.12.02 06:46:00 -
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hi, thanks for your input, tables are an archaic layout format, using css and div's is the more modern approach to web design. We will not use tables on the site layout except for on the forums which are already designed in this way. I can understand that some areas are a little buggy, it is the first time i have adopted a completly tableless site design and such a complex one. I will be spending some more time on that code to have the ability to set different 'blindness ratings'  which will expand the width of the site to compensate for larger text sizes.
The animations are configurable to remove and will be available as option to turn off once user registration is enabled.
The graph 'advert' is not configurable and as such i could not modify it, thanks to rapid and very generous donations by the eve community i have now been able to order the full versions of the graphs which do not have the advertising.
The Alliance news system is not intended to pull links from www.eve-online.com unfortunatly as parts of the user system slipped past the launch date, i had to code in a temporary solution for this box. It's functionality will change, for now it just links directly to the player news articles.
as for the stories, it should'nt display a time :) i will remove that when i get a chance
The random feature code is a little bugged at present, but basically it will randomly pick a feature from all of the fiction, guides, previews, reviews and interviews (once they exist) to give you something different to read each time you visit if you are bored :) - and if you have never read GAN, shame on you!
But thankyou for your comments :D
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Chribba
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Posted - 2005.12.02 07:17:00 -
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Originally by: Professor McFly
Good work. Though I feel sorry for eve-offline.net getting upstaged a little.
I'm not :) We are in need of a really good fansite, and EVEnews will take that role perfectly, and I have no doubt that they will be able to maintain it much better than me since I have a lot of other things going as well.
I most likely can turn EVE-Offline into something else that is of benefit to you all, imo EVEnews is very welcomed and I have no hard feelings.
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Kilosher Silgen
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Posted - 2005.12.02 07:17:00 -
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Any chance of recovering the forums from the old site?
Used to be my favourite part. |
Stephan Scarsdale
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Posted - 2005.12.02 08:40:00 -
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Is there a chance to see the server monitor show charts from the past months, 6 months and full year as the data is gathered?
Or it will remain stuck with the 24h and the monthly daily peaks?
-HRose / Abalieno
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EVEnews Webmaster
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Posted - 2005.12.02 11:22:00 -
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Yes, there are lots of graphs planned, however as we only have 25 days of data it is hard to fully develop a test those graphs and right now they would'nt look to good anyway.
Unfortunatly we have no access to EVE-i's data and even if we did the EVE-i forums use a different system than ours.
Martin
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MegaJ
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Posted - 2005.12.02 12:06:00 -
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Originally by: Diatom
Thanx for a job well done. Certainly enjoyed the article about Complex Whoring. Hope u will set up an NPC data base like Eve-I had.
Uhm I must be blind, but where do I find this article then?
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EVEnews Webmaster
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Posted - 2005.12.02 12:28:00 -
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The author decided he wished to leave EVEnews and take it with him.
Internal politics 4tl :(
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Stephan Scarsdale
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Posted - 2005.12.02 14:06:00 -
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Edited by: Stephan Scarsdale on 02/12/2005 14:06:04
Well, you could start with a weekly chart :)
-HRose / Abalieno
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hawk demone
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Posted - 2005.12.02 14:09:00 -
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looks great.
the text box for item description seems to be a bit small, doesn't fit all text in it in some cases, a bit of additional space there would be really nice.
ex:
'Nemesis
Name: Nemesis Hull: Tristan Class Role: Stealth Bomber Specifically engineered to fire cruise missiles, stealth bombers represent the next generation in covert ops craft. Advanced techniques in spatial distortion technology enable them to potentially'
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Cardassius
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Posted - 2005.12.02 14:27:00 -
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I will be updating the item texts soon ;) (no not CCP soon hihi)
ASCI Recruiting!
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hawk demone
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Posted - 2005.12.02 16:54:00 -
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Edited by: hawk demone on 02/12/2005 16:54:07
I suspect that I will be a frequent visitor of that site
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Tas Devil
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Posted - 2005.12.02 19:24:00 -
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\o/ congrats on a great initiative.... 
Looks great its now my homepage :)
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Alastorr Frost
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Posted - 2005.12.03 13:34:00 -
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Great to see such a good Community site.
I made a donation and would urge my fellow EvE Citizens to do the same. Let's make EVENEWS.COM even better than the Old EVE-I.
Once again, GOOD WORK to the evenews.com crew
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Latta
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Posted - 2005.12.03 13:34:00 -
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Edited by: Latta on 03/12/2005 13:36:47
BTW - Our forums are online now http://forums.evenews.com/
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Doc Brown
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Posted - 2005.12.03 16:12:00 -
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pssst... the item DB is still missing Faction and Cosmos items (guns, smartbombs, etc)
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EVEnews Webmaster
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Posted - 2005.12.03 18:18:00 -
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Thankyou for the donation! i will be updating the donation page to thank all of the donators, no matter how small. Not only that we will have some special rewards for donators on the site SoonÖ :)
As for the itemDB, we updated it today addressing most of the issues people have raised. We have something special planned for comparing items. But we think that rather than spending time expanding the itemdb with an almost limitless number of possible improvements. It would be better spent initally adding more cool features to the site to give you something to keep you occupied for the entire 1 hour downtime each day !
:D
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Tyrrax Thorrk
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Posted - 2005.12.04 11:06:00 -
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¼_¼
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Trevedian
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Posted - 2005.12.05 03:59:00 -
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I'm There...
Sex0r > you're bounty turns me on.. you seem like the kind of amarrian to dominate me
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GFLTorque
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Posted - 2005.12.05 19:27:00 -
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Already added it to my favorites.
3 thumbs up for the site.
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Gunstar Zero
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Posted - 2005.12.06 16:35:00 -
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Really nice interview with Oveur - good questions, very interesting.
Did you ask him for those pictures specially?
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Ferrer
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Posted - 2005.12.06 17:37:00 -
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Wow! The site is just great. Quality is top notch. Well done and good luck.
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MysticNZ
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Posted - 2005.12.06 19:42:00 -
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I must say, nice site. I was half way through planning an eve fan site but this takes the cake. EVE-I replacement.
Originally by: Nyphur
I'm hungry and naked. That answer your question?
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Calderio
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Posted - 2005.12.07 02:05:00 -
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this site is top shelf,
i endorse this product/service
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Nyphur
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Posted - 2005.12.07 09:30:00 -
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I asked a question in a previous thread but I didn't get an answer or didn't find it again to read it. Not sure which ^^;.
What kind of mechanisms are in place to allow me to update the tools I would be co-hosting on your site? I have something useful but am currently going to host it on my own site because it needs to be updated whenever I need to, along with update notes.
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Ezri Firestorm
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Posted - 2005.12.07 12:36:00 -
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http://oldforums.eveonline.com/?a=topic&threadID=253289
And i did reply to it :)
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Yoll
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Posted - 2005.12.07 13:11:00 -
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Whoever writes the articles, can't spell "you're" correctly. Please note- "your" and "you're" ARE different words and have different meanings. Petty I know, but if you're (note the correct use) publishing something on the net, you need to get things right.
Good luck with the site. It looks good so far.
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