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…Okay, okay, I’ll say something…

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something…there, I said something. Yeah, not much there, right?

I have a problem. A lot of people both in and out of game have been asking me about a particular CSM candidate. People have been commenting on his EVE Forum thread in the CSM section. Some of these comments have been very ‘rough’ and calling out various truths about this individual.

I am aware of what has been said and I honestly did not want to contribute to the discussion. A friend and I were discussing the thread Friday evening and I have been quoted on why I’ve not contributed to the discussion. I am not very happy that I was quoted on the thread, but as her post states, I did not say that I was speaking “off the record”. Needless to say, I am not pleased but it’s my own fault for not ensuring that I was speaking off the record.

I honestly don’t care if this individual runs for the CSM. I could care less. His publicly documented lack of integrity, honor and blatant illegal activities in the real world are more than enough to put any chances of this individual actually winning a seat on the CSM on par with a snowball surviving in the depths of hell for an extended period of time.

I have the faith that EVE Online community is smart enough to understand that this individual has no place representing the EVE player’s collective interests. I have faith in the community that they know he can not be trusted regardless of which corporation and/or alliance he currently enjoys membership. It is a bit shocking that his current alliance did not do the research on this individual to know what they brought into the midst, but I am sure they will learn how much of a problem they have brought into the fold. Perhaps they have plans to hang him out to dry and he’s not aware of how he is being played in game as he has done to so many people who trusted him. That would be some fitting justice.

For everyone who has urged me to stand up and actively speak out against this individual, I do thank you all for your support, however, I will not allow this person to continue to impact my game time nor my real life. This post will be all I will be willing to day as he’s simply not worth any other effort.

Enough said, now, go vote for the other candidates who are worthy of your attention.

Tags: CSM, EVE Online, Harassment, Out of Game

GameScribe closes down, rebrands itself, say hello to Tweveit

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Gamescribe sums it all up in a letter sent to it’s members. A copy of that email is quoted below:

GameScribe Service Update

GameScribe recently was shaken to the core when its hosting provider upped and closed without so much as a few days notice. You may have notice the site not up do to this unforeseen break in service. But this has given us the chance to do something that we feel was a long time coming. When we first started GameScribe several month ago we intended on spreading out to their games and supporting a bustling blogging community. But setback after setback has prevented us from catching on in any of our target communities. Only our baby, the EVE Community ever really got going. So we have decided to scale back, and focus on the community that has given us a meaning, and given us a reason to be here. As of now GameScribe is being re branded and will focus solely on the EVE Community and bringing the best in EVE Online Networking.

Say Hello to Tweveit Connect

We are happy to announce that GameScribe is being rebranded into Tweveit Connect. For those of you unfamiliar to the tweveit name, it is a new project that we have undertaken to bring a slew of EVE video Tutorials and learning materials to EVE Online. The main site is located at www.tweveit.com. While we were considering our options with GameScribe and working on Tweveit the idea screamed in our face, why not connect the two services and give the EVE community a goliath of a site. While Tweveit is still in its infancy, we have only 2 tutorials completed, GameScribe is developed and has a great user base. So we are now ready to unveil Tweveit Connect, you can visit the site at connect.tweveit.com. We invite you to check out the site and to please sign up to enjoy its vast features and unlock its networking potential.

I already have a Gamescribe account, why must I sign up at Tweveit Connect?
Well, that is more complicated than we really have space to explain. But here it goes. Due to the vast amount of problem GameScribe had in the past, and the number of inactive accounts, we have no real way to discern who wants to continue using the service. This give us an opportunity to scale back, free up resources and let those who would assume be done with us move on and NEVER hear from us again. Also due to url changes and other web scripting differences between Tweveit Connect and GameScribe it is not possible to transfer user accounts directly.

What about all my content that was on GameScribe?
Well, to put it plainly. Due to the nature of why GameScribe was closed down(hosting provider going belly up) we have no way to recover some of the files that were there. We did manage to recover a butt load of data, but we also missed out on some of it. So once you create a new account here at Tweveit Connect you will have the opportunity to recover some if not all of your old content.

Also, If you created a backup like we requested you can recover all content from that.

Thanks,
The GameScribe/Tweavit Connect Team

PS- This is the last time you will receive anything from GameScribe. All new signups at Tweveit Connect will be added to a new mailing list and this one will be destroyed. We hope to see you at Tweveit, but if not, May the force be with you !

So there you have it, GameScribe is now closed as it was in it’s old form. I have visited Tweveit and I must say, it’s a professional looking website. There is a lot of potential for this new venture. The current content is solid and useful. I look forward to seeing how this evolves.

For those of you who had blogs on GameScribe, I do feel bad for you with this sudden shutdown of you sites. I would suggest that you head over to Podlogs (http://www.podlogs.com) to setup your hosting. That way, you will still be able to use the same EVE related themes for our blogs.

I have updated the OPML to reflect the absence of the Gamescribe hosted blogs, we are now at 330 blogs in the OPML now. For those that lost their blogs and are able to create a new blog, email me at galen@eve-druid.com and I will get your new site added into the OPML download.

See you out there!!!

Tags: Blogging, Blogging Tools, GameScribe, Out of Game

Web techie time…

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OMG. I have been working a lot lately on websites for our corporation/alliance. What have I been working on? Well, let me see…

Sorted out our forums, add the alliance section and another section for our first member corp, the Neo Catamites.
Changing our killboard to an alliance killboard was removing some stats from some of our veteran pilots, so, I had to go and setup a separate alliance killboard (http://www.nspta.net/lacon) so that we could keep stats straight.
Sort out the API keys for the API killmail pulls for the two killboards (thank goodness we have more than one director for that issue)
Setup the feed syndication pulls for each killboard to update from all our sources (eve-kill, SHC Gank Night killboard, allies).
Update our allies of the new alliance killboard from which to pull kills.
Setup and sort out the various crontab jobs for the new killboard: API Killmail pull, pricing data, feed syndication pulls, cache clearing and updating.
Setup an ‘alliance landing page’ so that people have a single website to go to in order to access the forums and the killboards. (http://www.nspta.net/ls).
Add links to the blogs for our pilots who do blog to the alliance landing page.
submitted an article for approval on the EVE Online wiki for the new alliance. Hopefully by the time you read this, it will be approved and available for your viewing pleasure (http://wiki.eveonline.com/wiki/Laconian_Syndicate).
Updated and optimized the databases for the two killboards for the corp/alliance as well as my own personal killboard.
Get all the plugins on my blog and Larkonis Trassler (http://www.larkonisforcsm.com) updated. Clean up those databases as well.

With all that, I still went to work each day, found time to take care of stuff at home (not as much as I wanted to take care of), sleep and of course, play EVE.

From the founding of the alliance to getting everything done was four days. It was a lot of work, but it’s well worth the effort. Please feel free to visit the sites and if you see anything that I could be doing better, please let me know.

Tags: Forums, killboard, Laconian Syndicate, Neo Spartans, Out of Game, Player Blogs, WordPress