It's been an eventful week both ingame and out of game.
First Snigg was contracted to aid AIC. It was pretty uneventful and we came out with more isk than we put into the fight so it was a good deal for both parties.
Secondly, I've been training for a long time and it seems Im nearing completation on some LVL-5 major skills I've put off way too long. They're required in PVP but essential to my capital-ship venture. I've already bought the thanatos and the setup so I'm looking forward to putting it to use sometimes in 2007.
EVE-Pirate is still looking for a professionally made fullsize magazine ad to publish in EON. Keep sending in those suggestions, winner will be given 100mill out of my personal pockets! (I'll have the final word on which ad we'll use)
Also, the competition to the post which has the most reads during a given month is still on. At the moment the leader of this month is one of the staff so there doesnt seem to be any payout that'll be given. I'll be adding another 5mill to the pot every month that passes without a winner!
Now to the "out of game" news. The server footprint is starting to get a bit small for the different projects I'm running. Don't worry, I'm already planning to invest in expanding my serverfarm (and perhaps dedicated) for eve-pirate. Running a business is expensive, and the bandwidth I have over is donated freely to eve-pirate by myself, around 400-500gb monthly. We get quite a lot of hits every day, and many visitors are browsing the pages continously which puts a huge strain on the server. (500 concurrent users times(PHP_memory usage + apache_memory usage + CPU_usage for apache)). A new server is estimated to cost roughly $1000 adding to my current server-arsenal (Web-server: Dual Xeon Backup&Storage: Dual P3 server).
I'm also going to have to get a new car since my old one broke down. I've had to sell it off to already to cover part of the expenses for a new car, but I'm going to try invest in a $9000 car that'll last this time. *sigh* I hate downpayments =)
October is generally a busy month (studies and work) for me, so I expect many usersubmitted stories to fill the gaps on days I dont have time to write..
Enough of this real life bickering, look forward to a long continued existance of eve-pirate and many nice breaking stories!
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aquontium·
the problem is that we need a background which is 2480x3508 pixels or bigger! They're not easy to come by unless you're a CCP employee. Point us in the direction of these, and we'll do them!