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Deep space surveillance networks picked up unusual high band electromagnetic activity during the last few days from the general direction of the 9RW5-Z constellation. Scientists believe the Polaris system to be the center of these emissions after incorporating baseline interferometry across several regions. These emissions might indicate increased activity in the mysterious system during the upcoming weekend, or they might be just be bursts of random energy. Deep space intelligence experts are said to have picked up fragments of a secret code hidden within these emissions which could be deciphered as “cc.sup.lye.avan.”.

Several respectable research institutions discarded these conclusions as probably nothing more than artifacts from pink noise emissions or simply a clever scheme to fish for attention and research grants. Deep space explorers and adventures remain intrigued by the phenomena and monitoring continues on many fronts.

We are happy to announce the Crucible PLEX sale to celebrate the release of EVE Online: Crucible.  Starting today, we have slashed off prices of the most popular PLEX packages! This special offer will be valid only until Tuesday, December 6, 2011. Hurry up and log in to your Account Management page to see the details!

PLEX is an in-game item that can be used to extend your subscription, acquire Aurum or sell on the ingame market for ISK. To purchase PLEX, please visit the Account Management page.

Blueprint Originals for the new Starbase Fuel Blocks (learn more about them in CCP Greyscale’s blog) are now available after being seeded on New Eden’s market yesterday. Please be aware that the starbases are still not consuming the new fuel blocks yet; as we want you to have enough time preparing the fuel transition, starbases are currently using the traditional fuel.  

Also notice that it is currently not possible to place the new fuel blocks into the fuel bays of control towers; this is a bug and will be fixed in the next few days. Please refer to this thread for further information and discussions.

The next mass test will take place on Friday, December 2 at 20:00 UTC. This time we will use again our event test-server Duality. We are testing new performance improvements to the overview window and we will also test time dilation again before enabling it for fleet-fights on Tranquility. The SisiLauncher tool is available for the Windows client (switch to the Duality tab). Otherwise please follow the instructions on the Duality page in Evelopedia.

Testing should last between 60 and 90 minutes. All participants will receive two million skillpoints on our regular test-server 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: Crucible has been deployed. The latest expansion to the game turns up the heat on the space combat experience in EVE Online, bringing greater balance and diversity to large and small scale conflicts and evolving the graphics, interface and game mechanics with over three dozen updated and improved features based on feedback and challenges put forth by its players. This is EVE re-forged.

For more information about the latest EVE Online expansion, please visit the Crucible feature page. Full patch notes are available here. An Issues thread is available here and you can give general feedback on Crucible by clicking this link.

Please note that you will be offered a client update once you patch which fixes several issues discovered during deployment.