As many people have observed, recently, Anatole and I haven’t really had time to commit to playing Eve, much less blog about it.  I’ve got a fledgling publishing company, Schrodinger’s Library, to look after, and Anatole has just hit a ‘feast’ in terms of work, so neither of us are playing much other than the very rare casual games online with freinds, and an in person roleplaying game at our house.

So here’s what I propose.  BlackMondayEve can’t be sold, its got personal ties to another couple of projects including my own roleplaying game (loosely based in space) and my books, but we can bring on other bloggers - and share the revenue that it generates.

And we do generate a small revenue every day.  Its not MUCH, but in part, that’s cause we’re not updating - so we can review the shares based on contribution ‘etc’.  I’ll also, personally, offer bonuses, depending on how things go.

Blogging for us is reasonably easy - all we’re looking for is tips and tricks on Eve.  So if you’ve wanted to help out here, and you’re willing to put in at least two posts a month, gimmie a shout.  You can either contact us by commenting, or email me at donnakaiwilson at gmail.com and tell me that you’re contacting me about BlackMondayEve.

If you have your own blog, we’ll also accept reprints/linkbacks with original material, for cross promotion - I’ll explain more if you’re interested in doing this when you email

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Sorry guys - we’re still not back to playing Eve.

We might be back soon, but for the moment we’re contending with floods, nearly breaking my neck (completely unrelated but kinda cool that I didn’t) and the summer holidays for the kids.
We are STILL planning on updating our information and reviewing it accordingly, so if you spot anything that we’ve written that has changed in an update, then, of course, let us know!

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I know I said in January that we were back, but life definatly got in the way.
Hopefully we’re back again now though - I’m going to go update all of the basics of our Eve listings and make sure its up to date with the new updates.
If you’ve got any requests, make em here!

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First up, I’d like to apologise - we haven’t been around much to post to our blog lately, and its been obvious from the feedback we’re getting that its something people have missed.

Anatole and I are a young, professional family, and our ‘other’ work, and other games gets in the way of playing sometimes, so we’ve been on a month long hiatus from Eve - I only got back last night.

But hopefully, over the next few weeks we’ll pick up here again, though, possibly not with quite the same amount of content, and provide aid, tips and tricks wherever we can!  Thanks again, for your positive comments.

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Want to fly a rich pilots toy? Can you afford to lose it (cause the insurance won’t cover it)? THen these ships are for you, specifically designed for certain tasks these ships can make or break a fleet action. They come in 3 flavours; Interceptors, Assault Frigates and Covert Ops Frigates.

Interceptor - Regardless of Race, these ships are the fastest and in some cases, the scariest vessels to ever orbit a battleship… Lets ignore the fact that whilst warping somewhere they move at 8.0AU/Sec (faster than any other class of ship) and look at the fact that with an afterburner (tech 1) you would be considered a poor pilot indeed if you could not achieve a MINIMUM of 1500m/s in one of these. To be able to fly an Interceptor, you require a race frigate skill of 5, an evasive maneuvering skill of 5, a navigation skill of 2, a spaceship command of 3 and an interceptor skill of at least 1. I would like to add that if you have an afterburner on and are orbitting a Battleship or ust about any other ship, the chances of you being hit are close to zero unless they have you webbed…..

Assault Frigate - Need a tough frigate to fight Battleships in 0.0? Want a ship that can handle level 3 agent missions? Look no further. These tough ships are just plain scary. The lesser version of the Heavy Assault Ship, this vessel can not only take the sort of beating I’d expect a battlecruiser to take but will also deal one out too. To fly this class of ship you require a race frigate rating of 5, a Mechanics of 5, an Engineering of 5, a Spaceship Command of 3 and an Assault Frigate skill of at least 1.

Covert Ops Frigate - Want to sneak around, decloak, hum a klingon tune and then fire off a load? Well then you want a Covert Ops frigate, specifically the ‘Stealth Bomber’ variant, or if thats not your cup of tea then you want the ‘recon’ class which is designed to jump into a system, engage the ‘cloak’, sneak around, then decloak and jam enemy sensors for fleet actions. The main strength of this class of vessel is the cloaking device that can be fitted, whilst not cheap and it certainly has its drawbacks - like being within 2500m of another object will decloak you and that you move very, very slowly (unless you have the most expensive class of cloak, which only covert ops/recon ships can fit). To fly a Covert Ops ship you need a race frigate skill of 5, a spaceship command of 3, an electronics of 2, an engineering of 2, an Electronics Upgrade of 5 and a covert ops skill of at least 1.

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White Elephants are traditionally something that you don’t want - the term has been applied to gift exchanges - and I’m proposing we try something similar, for fun, this Holiday season.

How it works - comment or Evemail me (Meridian Harper) with something you don’t want to keep.  The only rule I’ll place on this is that you CANNOT give us something that is illegal to transport.  I’ll tell you where my Corp Office is, and then your name will go in a random draw for any prizes that are listed.  We’ll list ALL prizes in public, and on the 22nd December I’ll post the random list and name of the person that has won that item.  I’m going to put a couple of ‘extras’ in myself - some not so ‘white elephant’ so any left overs will be left in the Corp Hangar or auctioned off.

All in the spirit of fun, we ask that your donated item isn’t ammo or the newbie equiptment that you get - in other words, don’t donate something TRULY lame (and we withhold the right to combine lots of one thing, and add prizes in to even up numbers), but if you want to donate someting like an old, unused ship, or some cool stuff, we won’t stop you.  The person that donates the ‘best’ item (based on comments on the blog and personal vote by myself and Anatole) also wins 500k ISK (cause no one claimed the forum prize this month).

You can also choose not to have your character name published in public - I’ll put ‘anon’ and evemail you when we’ve done the draw.  You then collect, or scrap, your prize.  Happy Holidays!

So tell your freinds, tell your neighbors and of course, tell your colleages and running mates on Eve and let me know what you think!

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As many of you may have noticed, its been a slow week at BlackmondayeEve - for which I owe everyone an apology.  Dave, whom many of you know as Anatole, and the font of all knowlede when it comes to Eve, has been away this week - he’s back now, but his brain has melted, I believe.

Normal services will resume next week

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Learning doesn’t just decrease your training time - it also adds an attribute to your base bonus - of 2%. It’ll round down, of course, but it does mean that your attributes will go up. Software like Evemon and other external API’s lets you keep track and in the case of at least Evemon, calculate it.
Learning on the Eve Database

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We (Dave and I) are looking to share the wealth a bit - we get a lot of traffic, most of which are hanging around for around five or six posts worth of reading (go us! - actually, no, go YOU guys, thank you for being so interested in what we’re sharing.

And part of giving back is giving people other places to link to - so here’s your chance.  We’re willing to echange links with anyone with an Eve Blog or resource.  Just comment, and give us your main page link, and I’ll add you to our blogroll.  In return, we’d appreciate similar.

Our only request is that you talk about Eve at least occassionally.  It doesn’t need to be a dedicated blog to Eve - and we’ll exchange links.
Let me know!

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Its been a couple of weeks since the big patch - which has added some amazing features and a richer tapestry of storylines and skills - BUT…

I’m curious.
How many of you are enjoying the patch, and what’s niggling? A couple of days ago, I posted the ‘where’s my loot‘ post - I’m thinking (I know) I’m not the only person that’s found it a bit wierd - there’s the looting AND Salvage, something they are addressing today I think.

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