Military Experts are calling this Alliance Tournament VI
December 16th, 2008in the tournament forum.
Sign here…
Signups are not open just yet as we want to give everyone a fair go and avoid any mixups. We will, however, confirm the signup dates and procedure well in advance. Our initial idea is to reserve a few slots for alliances that have performed well in the last two tournaments. These slots will be filled in order of finishing position and how recent their participation was. The remaining slots will be filled on a “first come, first served” basis. We will outline the exact signup process in the coming days.
Would you like to watch?
The final weekend will be covered live, with commentary from experts and devs alike. Expect mayhem! If you fancy yourself as some kind of internet spaceship expert and would like to kick off your budding e-lebrity career, then head on over to CCP Charlie’s Expert applications thread and apply!
That’s all from me for now! Please do keep an eye on the Tournament Forum, where we will be posting updates and information as it comes to hand.
Let’s kick the tires and light the fires!
Mindstar
Please bear in mind that it may take an hour or two from when this blog is posted for the Tournament Forum to appear – so don’t despair if the links from this blog don’t immediately work.
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EVE Online: Quantum Rise 1.0.3 has been deployed – 11 December, 2008
EVE Online: Quantum Rise 1.0.3 has been deployed on Tranquility today. This patch significantly improves performance and playability by focusing on improvements to our Need for Speed initiative. Our team will continue to monitor Tranquility until we’re fully satisfied that it is working as intended. Patch Notes are available for review and we would encourage anyone who is still experiencing any game play issues to submit a bug report and we will investigate the matter as soon as possible.
A thread is available here for feedback and issues.
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Update regarding the Starbase exploit
On December 7th 2008, a date which will live in infamy, a petition from a concerned player alerted us to a serious problem with Starbase reactors. The petition had been filed five days earlier, a far longer waiting time than we can accept with our current queue status and we have now taken measures to fix that. We immediately started investigating the issue and found that there was indeed a problem and that it was being exploited to gain unfair advantages.
We discovered seven corporations with multiple Starbases set up for the express purpose of exploiting the issue. Three of those corporations were members of two alliances. We took immediate action against the offenders and banned over 70 accounts and destroyed all the Starbases run by the corporations in question. All the offending corporations are now effectively inactive as a result of our actions.
The corporations were producing high end materials for T2 production. Working with the Research & Statistics team we have established that the effects on the markets have been considerable and far reaching. The effects of our actions against the exploiters will also be felt on the market as the production of the materials has been cut substantially. However, supply should increase again once players have mastered the alchemy process.
We are still conducting operations to deal with this matter and we will keep you posted on the progress and results as things develop.
Update: This matter will be brought up at a CSM and CCP meeting this upcoming weekend.
Please discuss this news in this forum thread.
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