is available for viewing. Dealing mainly with patch v1.1, here's a teaser:

The EVE Universe quaked with the release of EVE Online: Trinity. Now, behold the might of Trinity Patch 1.1. The Amarr Empire has long boasted about its powerful ships and a fervent willingness to destroy all that opposes them. Finally, the Omen, Zealot and Apocalypse class ships are getting a boost to reflect that devastating potential. However, the ship improvements don't end here. In order to satisfy your lust for carnage, modifications have also come for the Eagle, Moa, Raptor and Ferox class vessels. Head to our download page and get the client of your choice.

EVE Voice gets a few vital improvements including Channel Prioritization, which allows fleet commanders priority when speaking to their fleet. The days of muffled voices drowning out each other while vital disseminated information is missed are over. When your commander speaks, all other voices are muted as to not miss anything important.

Waging war in deep space is dangerous enough without logistical hurdles getting in the way. Trinity Patch 1.1 will remove the need for direct fleet invites by offering an "open fleet" option. Pilots will be able to join open fleets within their alliance or corporation at the push of a button.

It's no secret that capital gain is king in EVE. While the market is second to none, it can understandably be a bit daunting to navigate at times. That's why a number of fixes to help with functionality and layout have been included in the Trinity 1.1 patch. Some of the new market settings address filtering for system security, filtering items that you have the prerequisite skills for and filtering items that you can currently fit to your active ship. These settings are sure to assist every pilot's learning curve when it comes to EVE economics and finding the right gear.

Also included is news about a tournament, EVE TV and a Capsuleer's Diary. Check it out.

Source: eve.warcry.com

WHO'S JAMMING ME!!!
Hi its Tuxford. This is my first blog in a long time, so please go easy on me as I'm a bit rusty. We've been tinkering a bit with the overview settings and personally I think it's all cool stuff, but you can judge for yourself.

Better EWAR notification

Our current EWAR notification is not good enough in my opinion. You can see that someone is jamming you but you can't get that information easily. You can't differentiate between RSD, TD and TP. I don't think I need to list the shortcomings here; I guess you're all familiar with them.

We wanted to improve combat awareness for players and this change is the first step in that direction. We decided to use the existing overview to display EW states. When someone uses either an EWAR module or propulsion jamming module on you, an icon is displayed in the corresponding overview entry. The types are aggregated so if "Joe" is using 4 sensor dampeners on you you only get one icon. Also lacking is a gauge of how much effect the EW is having on you.

Currently the default settings is to have all this turned "Off". Although people have varying opinion about default settings, I think most will agree that the default should be "On". To turn them on, you need to go to you overview settings, open the appearance tab and change the settings in the EWAR sub-tab.

Anyways here's eyecandy. Everybody likes eyecandy!

Overview tabs

Now I know we're adding information and I'm of the opinion that too much information is the same as not enough. That's why we wanted some way to switch quickly between modes overview settings so you could have relatively simple filters and switch between them. This brings us to the overview tabs. You can load up to 6 overview tabs. One is always labeled default and has the "Not saved" overview settings which is basically what you have when you have modified your overview settings and not saved it yet. They are also lacking bracket filters. Now you might be wondering what are bracket filters.

What are bracket filters?

All the icons you can see in space I call brackets. Currently you can't filter any of them out which means after a particularly long round of NPC spawns space gets kind of cluttered with icons which you aren't really particularly interested in. Now you can use the overview filters to filter out the brackets in space. Seems simple but it also makes the overview tabs slightly more confusing because now the tab contains information not only about what overview settings you want to have and what bracket settings you want to have, but a name for that new combo.

The future

We wanted to make some additional filters, such as ships not using EWAR, not targeting or not aggressing me, as well as something like only show wrecks I or my corp owns but there wasn't enough time. We've also wanted for some time to make the settings exportable and thats some of the things we'll be looking into later on.

Well this is it for me.
Tux
Source: myeve.eve-online.com

EVE Online Free for 21 Days on Steam

EVE Online will be free for twenty one days on Steam for people to try out:

Not since the launch of Sputnik 1 (Спутник-1 for our Russian players) has an event excited so many would-be astronauts. It's an extremely rare victory to snatch a "first" in the MMORPG marketplace in 2008. However, CCP and Steam have managed to do just that. We want to remind you that EVE is the first MMO available on STEAM; they're even offering a 21-day trial as a special incentive to new users. See you in space capsuleers.

Have your friends check out the link above and sign up.

Source: eve.warcry.com