The last day of Fanfest – Some last presentations – CCP Presents and EVR ….

CCP Presents – Keynote:

 

Party at the top of the World – Metal Bands, Electro, and DJ Z-Trip:

 

With this amazing party and chill out and blogging on Sunday this absolutely incredible journey ended. We will fly home to Vienna on Monday early in the morning.

 

Fact: EVE Fanfest 2013 was really at the top of the world, at the top of CCP’s history – and will be on top in our minds 🙂 – So we definitely will think about coming back here next year.

 

Thanks to all readers, commenter’s, DEV’s, GM’s, CCP, Twitch.tv, AutEvE, all capsuleers we met, Iceland and Reykjavik for this outstanding experience and event !

 

P.S.: We will change the order of the blog entries after some weeks back to “normal” – but now it is easier to read from “the beginning” to “the end” 🙂 – If you have any questions, feel free to contact us.

P.P.S.: Mistypes, wrong English, dump sentences and all other text-based anomalies are here for your amusement – Feel free to laugh at them (or report them) 😀

We were about, to reach the zenith of Fanfest 2013 – Friday.

Weather was perfect, Harpa was well decorated with flags:

 

Live Agents (For example: Caldari Police with a Guristas Pirate (GM Stinger)) of every EVE faction, offered missions, which finally escalated into a beer-winning-drawing.

 

Capsuleer doing some live agent mission:

 

More interesting presentations:

 

Server for the EVE & Dust 514 PvP Tournament:

 

Arcade games for the time between presentations:

 

EVE Online Keynote – Many very interesting and impressive informations:

 

EVE Online Keynote:

 

We found some Austrian pilots – Greetings to RWRP 🙂

 

10 Year continuous subscription gift (EVE Artwork + Nvidia TITAN):

 

And finally – The PUB CRAWL – about 1000 EVE pilots roaming the city and downtown of Reykjavik (Hilmar, CEO of CCP, said at the keynote: “Please do not destroy my little toy town Reykjavik”):

 

Anyone can expect, how this ended ……. Maybe we should have trained this skill ….

To shorten things a bit: First day of Fanfest started – We attended many interesting presentations. Starting with a “Retribution” Roundup. Most impressive was the Dust 514 Keynote in the EVEning.

 

Here some impressions:

 

Harpa is a really good location for doing this event. Good organized and very interesting first day. Here the link to the Dust 514 Keynote:

On Wednesday CCP organized a bus trip  for the Golden Circle (If you would like to go visit iceland we absolutely recommend to do this tour). Eleven Busses, full of EVE players, started from Harpa to the first target: The Þingvellir Valley (where the American and European tectonic plates are drifting apart):

 

Second target was Gullfoss:

 

GM Stinger and us @ Gulfo 🙂

 

Final destination at the golden circle tour was the Geysir area at Haukadalur:

 

Here a short movie of Strokkur erupting:

 

In the EVEning we were absolutely impressed by the EVE Online Symphony – Icelands Symphony Orchestra performing EVE favorite tracks (Composed by Jón Hallur Haraldsson – CCP RealX)

New Day, new things to see.

Our first walk an Tuesday brought us to the Landakotskirkja:

 

Around the Corner, we than took a walk at the old Hólavallagarður cemetery:

(This tulps represent a “view” at our condition during our whole Iceland trip – Sometimes heads up – often “hang-over” 🙂 )

 

As we left the cemetery, we saw GM Stinger on the overview with a fleet, and reacted on the advert, to join their roam 🙂 So we escorted one capsuleer to the City Hotel and then went back, to get to the CCP Office:

 

After lunch at a fish-restaurant in the harbor (all you can eat buffet – and a very good fish-soup 🙂 ) we had a short look at the harbor, to see a (rusty) Minmatar-Ship there:

 

Restocking at the supermarket and drinking some coffee at Polaris (shared flat of some CCP employees – these nerds had so much nice EVE related posters and so on there 🙂 ) we started again to go downtown, ready to get drunk again in the islenski bar.

Back in the hostel, many capsuleers sat around in the lobby – And we started to engange with Captain-Coke, Coke-Captain and Brennivin (And finally many of that capsuleers got owned by the captain 🙂 )