Alliance Tournament VI Signups Open Tomorrow!
December 19th, 2008.
This year’s tournament is not just limited to Alliances; Faction Militias has been invited to participate as well. You can learn more about the signup process for Alliances and Faction Militias here.
We also recently announced our new team of Expert commentators who will join us in Iceland for the tournament in early February. For more information, see CCP Charlie’s thread here.
CCP Claw and the team have been hard at work finalizing the rules, and we are pleased to announce that the final set of match rules are now available in the Official Rules Thread. These changes include a small re-balance in the points cost of Heavy Assault Cruisers and Battlecruisers.
Finally, we have laid out the prizes that will be going to the winning teams. See CCP Mindstar’s post for details.
The dates of the tournament are as follows:
- Tournament Signups – Dec 19th – Jan 9th
- Qualifying Round 1 – Jan 24th, Jan 25th
- Qualifying Round 2 – Jan 31st, Feb 1st
- Finals – Feb 7th, Feb 8th
Merry Christmas from the Alliance Tournament team!
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EVE On Steam
Whoa smokes. Steam s getting bigger, faster.
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Merry Christmas! A CPP from CCP!
Every year the players ask “CCP, what are you giving us for Christmas?”
This year we are giving you the gift of the Christmas Performance Patch which contains a massive boost to both large fleet and small gang engagements as well as much improved game play for every player in New Eden. Focusing on improvements to the Need for Speed initiative, this very special patch streamlines performance to significantly increase frames per second (fps) and makes improvements to the patching process to allow for a smoother patching performance in general.
Players who participated in the testing on Singularity have noticed much improved playability and performance. In one case, during a fleet fight test, 600 additional drones and fighters were added to the grid. In the vast majority of cases the players were not aware they had been added until they were told.
The deployment date for Quantum Rise 1.0.3 will be 10th December 2008 and Tranquility will be offline between 11.00 to 15.40 GMT. Patch Notes can be found Here.
A forum thread for discussion is available Here
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