Well the Empyrean Age trailer came out, to much fanfare. It was pretty epic overall, especially the last 20 seconds of totally computer-generated imagery where an Amarr Abaddon wtfpwns a whole Minmatar fleet with a spectacular superweapon which will never exist in the game outside of the story.
Let me tell you, the whole thing looks incredible on my home theater. :)
So, we now live in times of war, I had made mild preparation for Factional Warfare I activated a third account (I’m a sucker for Eve, its official), and got about two weeks training on my out of the box cruiser and interceptor (almost) pilot. His name is Benedict Dauphine, a Gallente, kind of French sounding I think. As I was a new character and I had lots still to do on my main; I wanted to bypass any standings grind so I went looking for a corp. that had aligned itself with the federation. It wasn’t long before I found a corp. letting pilots of all skill levels and standings join FW alongside them, Anatolian Diligentia.
But perhaps I’m getting ahead of myself there was some interesting events just before I joined the fight, everyone read the countless news stories during downtime Minmatar attacking Yulai and Amarr space, the treacherous Caldari (got to get in character after all) landing on their old capital planet in Luminaire. In fact I watched the titan sitting over Caldari Prime and the hundreds of Gallente ships trying to destroy it sadly in vain as it was a collidable structure, indeed the server was more likely to become a wreck from the lag.
But back to the Militia, the best thing about it was the amount of time it took for me to get into a fleet to take it to the Caldari scum (like I said, in character). As soon as I was in the militia, via my new corp., I dropped an X in the chat channel within 3 seconds (yes, I counted) I was in a fleet and had my orders. So off I went towards the border, in my incursus, ready to get fighting.
The fleet itself was like an N.A.T.O. task force, not necessarily due to it’s organisation but for it’s international feel. Of course in most alliances you get players from all over the world; however it also had that feeling of many corps and players that once I may have fought in 0.0 were coming together for a greater purpose. The organisation was pretty normal for fleet ops and we quickly began to clear out command posts and bunkers, sadly our operations were halted by opportunistic Pirates and boy were they. After running with their tails between their legs when we busted a camp; they returned when we were clearing a compound. After losing a few ships we pulled back, but not without putting up a decent fight. And at that point I decided to go jogging, not sure why, perhaps to clear the adrenaline out of my blood stream.
So after 24 hours at war here are the stats:
Statistics, Caldari, Minmatar, Amarr, Gallente,
Pilots, 2321, 1403, 913, 1722
Kills yesterday, 175, 27, 29, 40
Kills last week, 0, 0, 0, 0
Kills total, 175, 27, 29, 40
Victory points yesterday, 4174, 2086, 1796, 541
Victory points last week, 0, 0, 0, 0
Victory points total, 4174, 2086, 1796, 541
Systems Controlled, 54, 42, 28, 47
So the Gallenteans, although being the second largest militia, are trailing behind the other three factions on points. However we have more kills than the Minmatar and Amarr but they each have fewer ships to face and are picking up more victory points. Until tomorrow fly safe out there, oh and, death to Caldari!
Episode 39: download | eve-files mirror
The Empyrean Age Special
Chatter
Lead out tune by John Tams. (Urban’s pick. Who? I dunno.)
Part of the VirginWorlds Podcast Collective
Anyone who hasn’t already seen Clear Skies should do so immediately. It’s definitely one of the most unique EVE videos ever done. :)
It can get lonely in space, filming machinima. The real question here is: who’s taking the pictures? Dun-dun-DUNNNNN…
A special thanks to Ian Chisholm for not only taking the time to pose his best buddies for the pictures. Nice touch leaving yourself out of this one. :)
It’s once again time for a new episode of Warp Drive Active Industry. We have now reached episode 6. Amazing huh?
This time around there was no newsto talk about. So we brought on Athre and Shar Tegral for a small panel, about the future of the industry of eve, especially in regards to the CSM.
You can download your copy off eve-files right here. It will be on iTunes and virginworlds soon™.
Thanks!
//LVV
Executive summary: BOB take back Period Basis, MC disbands. Still catching up with changes in my own corp, so apologies if this reads like the history channel, not a current news report. One more posting and the backlog should be cleared.
Hello there.
I’m Charlie “LaVista” Eriksen, the 8th member of the council of stellar management. This will be the first post in a series, which will talk about the council and the progress its making.
I’m not quite going to cover the election result as most people already know about it at this point. But you can find a comprehensive devblog about it here.
At this point, CSM have been in office for about 2 weeks. We have had 2 meetings thus far. The column will give you the details about these meetings and outlines the important things which were discussed. If you don’t have time to read the chatlogs, CCP will release the minutes done by the secretaries, which will sum up all the discussions.
So just because you didn’t run for CSM, it doesn’t mean you won’t get comprehensive information! Chat logs from the meeting are released shortly afterwards the meeting being officially closed by the chairman.
So the first meeting took place on the 24th, 3 days after the election result was in. The chatlogs are to be found here. The meeting was characterized by a lack of structure of the meetings. The agenda was had to be decided just prior to the meeting, which ment people weren’t able to prepare in advance. This was one of the things which we learned from the first meeting.
The first order of business was to elect a Vice-chairman, as per the CSM document. It came to a vote between Serenity Steele and Bane Glorious. It was an extremely close outcome, but Serenity Steele became the vice-chair with a 5/4 outcome.
Next order of business was the secretary position. Due to Serenity winning the Vice-chair position, Ankhesentapemkah was unopposed and elected unanimously after a vote.
The last position to be filled was the vice-secretary. Due to the people who signed up for vice-secretary already having a role, nobody was up for election. Dierdra Vaal volunteered for the position and was unanimously elected for the position.
This lead to the discussion topics of the night, which was a concern, was raised about the amount of tools which CSM had for communication. A CSM-Only forum was thus requested.
Next thing that was requested was that an indicator/icon was provided for CSM members, so people could see which topics had CSM interaction. CCP Xhagen agreed and suggested that it would be implemented during the week after.
The second weeks meeting was a vast improvement from the first one(Chatlog here). The agenda was completed on time, and 10 issues were brought forward for the Iceland agenda. There were:
Some trivial matters were addressed at the start of the meeting, like confirmation of template documents and the agreement to releasing chatlogs. Some good things came out of this meeting indeed, which made it very trivial.
This was a short outline of the meetings. A more in depth document will be released by CCP soon™, once the minutes provided by the secretaries are released.
Thanks for reading.
Episode 38: download | eve-files mirror
Alliance Warfare News
Failmails
Discussion and Homework
Community News
Lead out tune, ‘Space Game’ by MC Lars.
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Every once in a while I’m rolling around through Empire space and run across a ridiculous pile of CONCORD at gates. I can only assume there’s some kind of hunger-related reasons they’re so willing to dispatch a giant fleet of ships to rescue someone’s freighter.
The Empyrean Age expansion’s been announced to be coming out in 9 days, so for those of you who plan on joining up with a militia, enjoy the protection of CONCORD while you still can. :)