Torfi and Craig Scott (CCP Flying Scotsman) talk about Incarna and the upcoming Captain's Quarters feature. This video is a snippet from the full interview due to air on EVE TV during Alliance Tournament 9 on June 19th. Watch it live on EVE TV or afterward on the CCP YouTube channel.

My apologies for the length of this piece, as it is an art blog, which are usually long as we don't do many of them, and there's quite a bit I'd like to cover. Forewarned is fore-armed. ;)

With this blog, I am proud to present our new turret system.

Hi all,

I’m CCP Punkturis, (self-proclaimed) Duchess of Team BFF.

Haven’t you all experienced the problem of being in the mood for running missions but not knowing where to find the next agent that hands out missions to your liking? Well I have! So instead of having to ask people in local to explain the agent system for you (some of the people there are not very helpful) or trying to figure this out yourself, wouldn’t it be great to have a simple agent finder? Well I think so!

Most folks familiar with EVE know that it's built on Python, Stackless Python to be specific. Stackless is a micro-threading framework built on top of Python allowing for millions of threads to be live, without a lot of additional cost from just being Python. It is still Python and that means dealing with the Global Interpreter Lock (hereafter known as the damn stinkin' GIL, or just GIL for short).

Hello again! How have you been?

I for one have had an eventful year and a half, to say the least, but let's not get into that here. I'll see if I can hack the whole story into a slideshow next Fanfest. Worst case, you buy me a beer and I spill my guts.

Team Gridlock continues to work hard against the demons of fleet lag and could-do-better code. At the end of April we activated a couple of optimizations on Tranquility, and now we've had a few weeks of operation, we can see some measurable results. After sharing these results with the CSM during their recent summit visit, we decided to release them to an even wider audience. So, stand by for some more graph-and-pseudo-code porn.

In response to my devblog two weeks ago, Incarna, welcome to your future, there were some concerns raised on what kind of performance was to be expected, especially since the minimum hardware requirements for EVE are still pretty accomodating when it comes to old hardware.

It's time for an update on what's new in the Incarna front and what's included in the next public test build on Captain's Quarters. The build is up and available to all EVE players on the Duality test servers. You can find the instructions on how to get there right here.

It’s time for more little things!

Actually, that’s not entirely true; they aren’t all little this time around. We ended up doing some larger changes we felt would have a greater impact on a higher number of people. Some of these changes just made too much sense to pass over and should positively impact the EVE Online experience considerably for a lot of people. Anyway, enough of me rambling, here are the changes:

CCP's Soundwave, Tallest and Greyscale are part of Team Best Friends Forever (Team BFF), a dev team dedicated to actively targeting the 'little things' - tasks that need to be addressed but invariably end up on the backburner in large-scale or long-term projects. In this video, they share how 'Little Things' came about and what their plans are for this release.