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Flight of a Thousand Rifters – news from EvE
Jan 1st
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 >
EVE Online: Winter Has Come
Dec 27th
War has broken out in EVE Online, and this week's One Jump Home recounts the events that led to its arrival and the possibilities of what such an upheaval may lead to. Read on!
Earlier in the year I, and many other news media outlets, reported that the former Northern Coalition, mainstay power-bloc in EVE Online had collapsed outright under the immense pressure of the powerful Alliances known as WhiteNoise, NorthernCoalitionDOT and RaidenDOT. These 3 entities backed with the seemingly endless ISK of the Drone Russian Federation and helped by the formidable itinerant entity known as Pandemic Legion had successfully vanquished the now dead Northern Coalition and happily took their prize: The vast technetium wealth of the North.
Read the rest of One Jump Home: Winter Has Come.
EVE Online: Arnar ’CCP Zulu’ Gylfason Steps Down
Dec 22nd
EVE Online's senior producer, Arnar "CCP Zulu" Gylfason has officially relinquished the reins after eighteen tumultuous months at the forefront of development for EVE. Jon "CCP Unifex" Lander will be taking over the helm . Gylfason has penned a short farewell and Lander posted an introduction and vision for the future of EVE Online.
The task ahead of us in 2012 is not to be taken lightly. We are changing EVE’s internal project structure to bring it in line with a product that has nearly 200 people working on it and making sure that everyone is concentrating on delivering a game which has real value for our players. As well as changing the project organization, we will also be spending time on improving our internal tools, pipelines and processes to improve our efficiency and effectiveness for the future.
Read both letters on the EVE Online blog.
Time Dilation mass test on Singularity – Dec. 22nd, 15:00 UTC – news from EvE
Dec 21st
The next mass test will take place on our test-server Singularity on Thursday, December 22 at 15:00 UTC and will focus on testing Time Dilation again. 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.
New style, new content, all EVE – news from EvE
Dec 21st
Along with the launch of the new EVElopedia design, we are proud to reveal the completely revamped and revitalized Fiction Portal. The Fiction Portal is a collection of over a thousand new EVElopedia articles all focused on EVE backstory and lore. Their content has been drawn from the myriad of EVE-related published material, completely rewritten for the wiki, and expanded on considerably with brand new background material never before seen. The Fiction Portal will be an ongoing project for CCP, and we encourage our players to head over and dive in at the deep end of EVE lore.
For more information please read this dev blog by CCP Abraxas, Senior Writer for EVE Online.
New Year’s Celebration Promises Fireworks – news from EvE
Dec 21st
Umokka, Lonetrek – At precisely 23:59 Eve Time on December 31, the annual New Year’s Fireworks show hosted by Daggaroth, will begin in Umokka, outside the Caldari Navy Testing Facilities at Planet X, Moon 4.
This is the third year of the event’s existence. Last year’s event clocked in at around 500 people attending, with a further 116 following the Eve Radio live stream. EVE Radio will once again be streaming the event.
There will be a raffle event where winners could receive a Chimera or PLEX, and a participation prize of a Tier 3 battlecruiser – winner’s choice between the Oracle, Naga and Tornado.
Anyone interested in helping with the event should contact Daggaroth via EVE Mail.
GalNet ReferencesVideo taken of last year’s event
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Temporary POS fuel bay size change in Crucible 1.0.2 – news from EvE
Dec 13th
As the date of POS switchover has been moved to January 24 (please refer to this announcement by CCP Soundwave for more information), we will be temporarily doubling the size of POS fuel bays to reduce the impact of the delay to fuel block switch-over.
Please note that these changes will be reverted when fuel block consumption is enabled on January 24. Towers left with their fuel bays in an “overloaded” state as a result of this change should continue to function as normal.
Time Dilation mass test on Singularity – Dec. 15th, 20:00 UTC – news from EvE
Dec 13th
The next mass test will take place on our test-server Singularity on Thursday, December 15 at 20:00 UTC. This time we are testing Time Dilation again to make sure that all bugs are really fixed. 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.
EVE Online: Blood on the Snow
Dec 12th
EVE Online is a very complex place to call one's home. In our latest One Jump Home column, we explore the depths of the Drone Regions, the heart of the Russian empire in EVE: UAxDeath, and how one man turned the space into an industrial behemoth.
When CCP added the Drone Regions to EVE Online, the scuttle to acquire them can be said to have taken its time. With hundreds of systems full of mediocre moon minerals and NPCs that did not reward the player with flat ISK, but rather a large handful of mineral compounds – The community was perplexed at best. How were players supposed to survive in these regions? Who would fight to defend them? Who would care? Few bothered to answer that question, but one Russian man saw what the purpose of the space truly was: Industrialist nullsec heaven. That man is arguably one of the most famous men in EVE, that man is arguably one of the best Russian politicians in EVE. That man is UAxDeath.
Read more of Ross McDermott's One Jump Home: Blood Red Storm.
EVE Online: CCP Fleet Mobilizing Christmas Caravan
Dec 9th
Don't hesitate! The CCP fleet is mobilizing to escort valuable goods and CCP devs to the annual holiday party. EVE Online players might want to check the valuable intel that's being disseminated on the official forums and then ATTACK!
CCP Tenitigo, CCP Paradox and I will be spying for more information around the office, see what else we can find out.
Edit1: This is happening today, time to start fitting your ships!
Edit2: Reports are coming in that the CCP Christmas caravan is mobilizing within the next hour and their destination seems to be somewhere in the Great Wildlands ! We strongly suggest you start gathering up your fleets and start heading in that direction!