Dominion patch 1.1 has been deployed in EVE Online and you can find the full release notes here.
But two things caught my eye in the notes.
EVE Voice, Mail & Chat
Voice fonts have now been added to EVE Voice. This new feature will allow you to alter your voice during chat to increase or lower pitch or to change from male to female voices. This is certainly not going to be abused in any way.
Too true indeed.
Drones
Drones can now be used to attack Zephyrs in wormhole space.
I would have loved to have heard a live feed from the first pilot unsuccessfully trying to get his drones to kill a Zephyr in wormhole space.
Now to wait for the EVEMon update so I can see how long it will take me to fly a super carrier and deploy fighter bombers. (New with Dominion 1.1, and things I am unlikely to ever even see, much less fly!)
And why does “fighter bomber” always bring up the image of a P-47 in my mind?
I’ve known Xyd for something like 18 years now. We used to work together here in Silicon Valley. He is the one that got me playing Sojourn MUD ages ago.
He opted to return to the place of his birth, back in the mid-west, a number of years ago, muttering something about home prices.
He now has a much nicer house than I do, but I don’t worry about snow during the winter or humidity during the summer.
So his comment was mildly ironic in that not only is it warmer in Silicon Valley, but that I haven’t even been in Silicon Valley for the last week.
I’ve been in Hawaii.
Which is why posts here have been rather sporadic. I wrapped up a few posts that I had in my queue, set them to automatically publish every day or so, and flew off to the tropics.
We went to visit my mom, who lives on Maui and to bask in the warm weather on the beach in Kaanapali.
On the beach in Kaanapali in January
We stayed at the Kaanapali Beach Hotel. While it is about the same age as me (and we’re both starting to show our age) it is still nice, reasonably priced (relative to other places in Kaanapali), and is walking distance from most everything we want to do.
We hung out at the beach, went whale watching (February is better for this, but it was still good), saw the magic show at the hotel, consumed many a tropical themed drink, and ate too much.
But all this laying about on the beach in the warm Hawaiian weather means that I did not spend much time with video games. I did moderate comments on the blog via my wife’s iPhone, but otherwise was limited to playing DS games on the plane and in our hotel room. We don’t bring laptops on vacation. (Though I wasn’t above bumming some time on my mom’s laptop.)
So I am completely behind on whatever has been going on in the world of MMOs. I’m patching Star Trek Online even now. I will have to see how much has changed there. There isn’t much time between now and launch.
I will have to find some time to catch up this weekend. As for the last week when I was in a tropical paradise, it is hard to beat that.
The Ancient Gaming Noob 