пятница, 17 декабря 2010 г.

FrontierVille Quilting Bee Timed Mission: Everything you need to know


If amassing enough Toys to overload the Salvation Army wasn't enough for you in FrontierVille, how does a new Timed Mission sound? In "Quilting Bee," players will have four days to get all the necessary materials to make the perfect quilt. And you can probably already guess what that means:

Harvest 25 Cotton
Have 25 Cloth
Get 10 Sewing Needles (request from friends)

Harvesting the Cotton, a crop that costs 600 coins and is ready for harvest in three days, will be somewhat of a set-it-and-forget-it ordeal. That is, unless you forget to harvest it in time. If you're low on Cloth, visit as many friends as possible in the next four days to make sure you have enough to complete the mission. All the while keep pinging your friends for Sewing Needles, though they might be a tad too busy gathering those Toys.

Thankfully, you have until Jan. 11 2011 to accept this Timed Mission, so put it off if you feel a bit overwhelmed already. Completing this mission will reward you the fruit of your labor, a Display Quilt, in addition to 250 XP and a Lunch. And if you notice the small roman numeral next to this mission's icon, this could be just the beginning of your quilting adventures.

Have you started the Quilting Bee mission yet? If so, what tips do you have for success and, if not, why put it off? Speak up in the comments.

воскресенье, 5 декабря 2010 г.

EVE Online: Around the World in a few hours (part 2)


Attractions: Caldari Prime Titan and Luminaire Ship Graveyard
System: Lumenaire (region Essence)
System security level: 1.0
Growing danger: If your SS below -2.0, or standings to Caldari lower than -5, you will have problems with the local police.

If you have recently started playing EVE Online, and have not yet seen alive Titans - make sure you fly into the system Lumenaire, to my eyes to look at this edifice. Titan surrounded by support fleet patrolling the orbit of Caldari Prime - the same planet, around which raged events <a href="http://oeg-home.ru/blog/2009/04/day-of-darkness-2/">this roller</a> An interesting detail - when he first appeared on the planet's orbit, adventurers from all over the universe going to try to kill him. Several times they managed to knock him to the structure, but titanium and is still alive, though after more than 1.5 years since he went out on patrol. Slightly to one side you can see the graveyard of ships, mostly mutilated Megatron - further evidence of the battles raged here.

Attractions: Jita Memorial
System: Jita (Region The Forge)
System security level: 0.9
Growing danger: If your SS below -2.5, or standings to Caldari lower than -5, you will have problems with the local police. Due to the large number of people possible in the system logs, also fear suitsidnikov and scams.Jita system is in itself an attraction, which each capsuleers visits more than once in his life. Money money money ... "I want to buy," "selling very cheap!", "Just today, just now!" The largest trade hub of the game clock is full of wanting something to sell, buy, and also scammers who just dream of robbing you to the bone. Of course, in this pandemonium did not immediately notice the small monument is located just opposite the main commercial station playing (Jita IV-4 Caldari Navy Assembly Plant) - is a memorial dedicated to Heinky and Shin Ra of the corporation Burn Eden, who won the competition on the next anniversary game in 2006 year. At the competition the participants competed in the knowledge of the history and people EVE Online. They are asked to solve 11 puzzles, the answer to each drive them to some place where you can find the object, confirming the conjecture. If you look closely, you'll see that statue on a monument stretched his hand in the direction of andoka station, as if to say: "As you all I got his trade, please go out."

Attractions: Devil's Dig Site
System: Otitoh (Region The Forge)
System security level: 0.5
Growing danger: If your SS below -4.5, or standings to Caldari lower than -5, you will have problems with the local police.

This place is exclusively responsible for the influx of pilgrims in the constellation, which happened a few years ago when researchers discovered here the remains of buildings of ancient civilization. The objects date from the time when the gates of the gate in New Eden has not been closed - this is what is of primary interest, because a large part of the culture and structures of those ages have been irretrievably lost.

Attractions: Ishukone Corporation Factory
System: Malkalen (region Lonetrek)
System security level: 0.9
Growing danger: If your SS below -2.5, or standings to Caldari lower than -5, you will have problems with the local police.

The unprecedented tragedy broke out in this system, when superkarrier Nyx Admiral Alexander Noir crashed into the station Ishukone during the economic summit - the death toll has exceeded 400 thousand people. "Fate smiled at me on this day, I am finally able to avenge all those who gave their lives for the Federation." - Were the last words of Admiral. (Video from the blast site). Despite the fact that he was a member of the Gallente-Caldari War, Alexander Noir was a famous advocate of peace, and spent many years trying to strengthen relations of peace between the Gallente and Caldari. Sudden changes in attitudes, and such devastating effects of this shocked everyone. Since the tragedy took a long time, but the station is still badly damaged. On its ruins fires burn, fed by fuel and oxygen lines, and although on the one hand it is strange that the Caldari have not extinguished it, on the other hand - the destruction plant is more than a reminder and a symbol of the horrors of war. At this time the inner workings of a partially completed, and the docks stations operate flawlessly.

Attractions: City of God
System: Shastal (region Devoid)
System security level: 0.5
Growing danger: If your SS below -4.5, or to Amarr standings are lower than -5, you will have problems with the local police.

Megalomaniac emperor Amarrian Zaragram II began the construction of this city over two thousand years ago. The dream to build an eternal city that will outshine all created earlier, and forever glorify his name and has not been realized, because after the emperor was killed, the clergy and subsequent emperors made great efforts to put his name to oblivion. Buildings of the city are designed in Amarrian style, which remained virtually unchanged over the centuries, and despite their age, the city is very well preserved.

Attractions: Steve Memorial
System: C9N-CC (Region Esoteria)
System security level: 0.0
Growing danger: System C9N-CC is in deep zeros, and on the way to it you have to cross the territory of many alliances. Be careful.

Memorial dedicated to the first deceased titan in the game. During the war, BoB vs. ASCN both sides were Titans, and used them in battle. December 11, 2006, Cyvok on avatars out of the game in aggression after the use of Doomsday. It was found by tests, and privarpavshy fleet BoB'ov destroyed titan before the pilot returned to the game. This was the last straw for Cyvok'a, and he soon resigned as leader of the Alliance of ASCN and EVE Online, and not the survivor of this alliance left zeroes and disintegrated into separate corporations. The name "Steve Memorial" comes from the titanium, in turn, named in honor of Steve Irwin, the popular Australian naturalist and author of films about wildlife (mostly about the crocodiles). Memorial looks like wrecks avatar in full size, and is it in fact.

Attractions: Blood Raider Ship Graveyard
System: T-IPZB (region Delve)
System security level: 0.0
Growing danger: System T-IPZB located at the zeros, and although the empire fly here much easier and faster than before Steve Memorial, be careful.

It is said that the souls of the dead are still here, in these mutilated lumps of metal, and if you listen, you will surely hear their cries. It is unknown what happened here - a lot of debris Amarrian Dreadnaught Carrier and dumped in a heap, and only markings prompt you that it was once the capital of the fleet Blud riders. What we know for sure is that Jamil Sarum is directly concerned. Perhaps it was the first test of a super-weapon, then defeated the Minmatar fleet. The system can also see and fragments of planets and moons, too, is clearly not dead of natural causes.

Ships EVE Online. Gallente frigates. Atron class.

Technology interruption warp (warp disrupting technology) was developed by scientists Gallente, who tried to find a way to prevent the exit from the battle ships Caldari and pirates (using the tactics of hit-and-run against ships melee), before the ships with blaster weapons could reach the effective for them to hit a target distance.

Initially, the study opted for a pilotless drone that can disrupt the warp engines of goals, but requirements for power plants and limit the volume of the hold is not allowed to set the drones on the court less than a frigate. Thus was developed the frigate class «Atron» and its variations....
 Class: FF-C

Length: 62 meters

Weight: 1164000 kg

Crew: 11 people

Defense systems: 10 x Federate "C" Class Shield Emitters

Standard equipment: 2 x Federate Light Electron Hyper-Accelerator Blaster pairings, a 303 x CreoDron Hobgoblin Drone

Navigation control: Federate NavCon-10 AI System

Sensors: CreoDron Mag-Sensor Detector

Housing: Federate 65 mm Tungsten-Carbide Armour Plating

Control drones: CreoDron Basic Overseer-5 DCU

Powerplant: Federate "Compact" Hydrogen Plasma Fusion Reactor

The propulsion section: 2 x Federate 200KN Ion Drive Thrusters accompanied by Federate 990KN Micro Warp Drive

Auxiliary systems: Roden Shipyards Warp Core Disruptor 2040-A


«Atron» acts in the Navy as an interceptor of enemy targets, using high-speed characteristics mikrovarp engine, low orbit to the target (up to 20 kilometers - the range of the module interrupts the warp). Damages enemy is not the main purpose frigate - to keep the enemy from the warp to the approach of fire support of its fleet, and avoid exposure to fire, using high speed.

It is worth noting that the firepower of the ship is not so much small (blaster weapons and drone), many ships have been a victim «Atron» underestimated, small and fast ship.

Small patrol unit, usually accompanied by a «Atron», isolated from the squadron sector. To a large naval operations involved up to three squadrons of interceptors allocated directly to the objectives of the center of the control command ship of the fleet.



Atron FF-A


The project «Atron» was launched a consolidated team of scientists and engineers Gallente videoconferencing, as well as secondment of experts from corporations, Roden Shipyards and CreoDron, have their own research divisions. Roden Shipyards engineers were responsible for the development and installation of new technology interrupts the warp and specialists Navy and CreoDron for the development of housing and related technologies.

FF-A class used the afterburner Federate Hydro-Ionization, providing the necessary speed to catch and two 125 mm. mated to the artillery gun, capable of hitting targets at a distance of 25 km.


Atron FF-B


After several years of using a ship in the Navy Command of SCD found it necessary to replace the interceptor weapon because of the apparent low firepower. In the small clashes with pirates Serpentis and Guristas, fire superiority was clearly more on the side of the latter.

The artillery has been withdrawn from the case, instead of installed light ion blaster cannon. Vacated space was used to enhance the hold drones, which made it possible to use another easy CreoDron Hobgoblin 303 drone.

As a result, project B was much more successful than its predecessor and is able to apply more powerful damage targets in orbit less than 1 km from the target, which also increased the effectiveness of the frigate to intercept large vessels of the enemy. All vessels modification FF-A have been upgraded to B class.


Atron FF-C


With advances in technology, ability to «Atron» fly at speeds up to 1300 meters per second has become not havatat to intercept new frigates and cruisers enemy equipped with new micro-warp engines. Ships became faster and faster, and the interceptor could not be effective as previously.

Project was launched second-generation interceptor, but still were the development of class B was upgraded to a new modification of the FF-C. Afterburner has been replaced by the latest micro-warp drive, which consumes more resources but the power plant. Had to replace the Ion weapons on less powerful Electron blasters. This reduced the firing rates of the vessel at 5% and 10% effective range of lesions, but increased the speed of the interceptor to 300%. Now only the fastest enemy frigates could compete with the ship.

Currently 65% of the park «Atron» in the aerospace Gallente replaced by a modification of FF-C.


Atron FF-S


Development of a new powerful tool for interrupting warp, also known as the warp scrambler, gave new opportunities interceptors. Now, the huge rate of micro-warp engines were not given the benefits the ship got to the action scrambler disables the accelerator. FF-S Class was designed for use scrambler chopper instead of the usual warp.

However, this change was, it seems to be negative than might be considered an advantage. Most of the goals «Atron», such as cruisers, Battlecruisers and Battleships, often had the opportunity to withdraw from the battlefield, having a few precious seconds from the fact that the frigate took time to reach the distance of activation scrambler, which is only 8 km.

Only 60 FF-S were put into service, mainly as a antiperehvatchikov.


Atron FF-N


Recently been adopted again attempt to increase the firepower of the frigate without a significant increase in production cost. Request to create a «Navy Atron» was directed Admiralty Corporation CreoDron.

The project uses a nuclear generator CreoDron 30MW providing enough energy for ship installation of the third blaster Sparky, as well as by reducing the space of the cabin crew had been increased volume of the hold for drones at 10 cubic meters. Only five prototypes are in operation at the moment and are being tested in an unknown system somewhere in the region Vendor.


Atron FI-A "Ares"

The first draft of the second-generation interceptor was assigned to the corporation Roden Shipyards, to the surprise of many market participants, industry, shipbuilding. Developers of the project «Ares» focusing their efforts on developing a secure housing with advanced warp generator interrupt able to operate on a more long range (5-6 + miles) and requires less energy to operate (80%).




Using advanced nano-materials based on tungsten carbide, engineers were able to increase the strength of the body. To increase protection were installed a few extra shield emitters. The power plant is replaced by Roden Hydro-Fuse 110.1 reactor, which provided enough energy to run the system nanobots-reenactors Corporation Duvolle Labs, but because of the cumbersome design had to completely remove the hold for the drones.

The extra space freed from the use of new materials in construction has been used to install modules deceleration target (Stasis Webifier), which further increased the efficiency of the vessel as an interceptor.

Finally section was mounted for easy installation of the rocket launcher as compensation for loss of drone hold.

Lighter materials given speedup compared to the FF-C by almost 20%. The frigate was well received in the FSI Gallente, while in command of a few confused production cost for a ship of this class, that does not allow the Navy to make large orders for production. Currently, about 250 units of new interceptor are on active duty in Gallente space.


Atron FI-B "Taranis"

Many pilots were satisfied with videoconferencing protective characteristics «Ares», but the majority expressed negative due to the loss of firepower. The tender for a new project, which was won by Duvolle Labs.
hansı səmərəliliyinin və blasters düzgün artmışdır hibrid silah, izleme sistemi artırmaq üçün bir neçə alternativ seçin: Not Duvolle Labs mühəndis standart yol üzərində getdi texnologiya interrupts təcrübəsi olan əyir. Roketatar halda silindi və üçüncü Blaster silah ilə əvəz. Bundan əlavə on kub metr, lakin «Ares» müqayisədə təhlükəsizlik xüsusiyyətləri ödün, işin yeniden daxil edilib mühəndisləri önleme uçağı, düşmən yanğın ən yaxşı müdafiə onun sürət və çeviklik ki, fikir rəhbər idi saxlayın.

Nəticədə, yeni Fırkateyni'ne eyni sürət və manevrlik ilə «Atron» və «Ares» 250%, üstün, performans mübarizə idi. UML Gallente öz sinfi üçün belə bahalı həllər əldə etmək qərarı ilə lingers olsa da, bir yeni gəmi capsuleers tərəfindən yüksək qiymətləndirilmişdir.