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New Eden – A group of capsuleers, led by Krissada, are attempting to disrupt the “ISK farming” currently occurring at Sansha Incursion sites. They are planning to destroy Sansha motherships as soon as they arrive through their wormholes and in doing so hope to cut back the amount of ISK earned by capsuleers who attend the incursions simply to collect bounties on the lesser Sansha forces in the area.

Krissada is apparently aggrieved that “bears” are able to “farm” for ISK in high-sec Incursions with little risk as long as they do not destroy the Sansha mothership. This, to her, is a blatant misuse of CONCORD’s reward system and she is focused on stopping what she believes is an “ISK faucet”. Disgruntled with how Incursions are fought she revealed her belief that “Sansha forces appear to be infinite, as is the depth of CONCORD’s wallet”.

Krissada’s plan is to destroy the Sansha motherships as soon as possible which will hopefully cause the immediate withdrawal of Sansha forces and prevent further bounties being collected by “Incursion Bears”. She hopes to force those wanting to make ISK from Incursions into low-sec and thus ensuring when Sansha forces arrive in high-sec they are dealt with quickly More >

The next mass test on our test-server Singularity will be on Thursday, January 12 at 20:00 UTC. This time we will be testing the general performance and reliability of the Crucible 1.5 patch. The SisiLauncher tool is available for the Windows client, otherwise please follow the instructions on the Singularity page in Evelopedia.

Testing should last between 60 and 90 minutes. All participants will receive two million skillpoints on Singularity.

Please refer to this thread for more information about how you participate in the test, and this EVElopedia article for more information on mass testing.

It’s time to start planning how you’re going to get to EVE Fanfest at the end of March and we’ve got some tips for you!

There’s basically one way to get a Fanfest ticket, and two recommended options when it comes to booking your flight and accomodation.

Fanfest tickets:

Fanfest tickets can be purchased on the EVE Account Management page. Early bird tickets are available until the end of January, and group tickets are available for groups of 5-10 at a discount price. Note that for the first time in Fanfest history, you can now book various Fanfest activities, on the account management page, at the same time you purchase your ticket, which will save you precious time in Iceland.

Plane tickets and accomodation:

1. Conveniently book your flight and hotel room in one go with the package deal provided by our partner, Icelandair.

2. Book your own flight through a travel search engine such as Dohop.com, and then book your hotel through our hotel partner, Center Hotels.

We look forward to seeing you at Fanfest 2012 in the new amazing venue.

Vlillirier, Placid – On the 17th of December, Marlona Sky undocked in a Moros dreadnought named Intigo with the intention of having it blown up.

Marlona, inspired by the event “Bring me the head of Kirith Kodachi”, decided to throw an event with billions worth of prizes to be won by participants. The First Tier prizes, including a Vindicator battleship worth in excess of 1.1 billion ISK and a Proteus with five subsystems, were limited to capsuleers flying frigates or destroyers.

When interviewed after the conclusion of the event, Marlona had the following to say: “I really had no idea what kind of ships were waiting for me… I thought for sure it would be a tonne of battleships ready to melt my Moros fast, but instead I was greeted by a wonderful sight. A giant cloud of frigates and destroyers.”

A final total of 153 capsuleers took part in the killing of the Moros, with five managing to get blows in on Marlona’s capsule. Prizes were awarded using a complicated points system, with the top prize, the Vindicator battleship, going to Galactica789.

Galactica789 thought it had been a nice surprise to come in first and take the Vindicator, as he had initially thought More >