Factional warfare - empyrean age and all that – an overview

[lac]

new devblog

"I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers."
~ Mahatma Gandhi.

We have a new concept with the coming of factional warfare: Embedded Reporting.

For Factional Warfare, we want our news feeds to capture the raw, tense feeling of an ongoing war. This is hard to do at present, as our reporters have remained distant from their subjects in order to retain their objectivity.

Enter Embedded Reporting. Each faction will have its own news corporation, employing a pool of embedded reporters. These intrepid journalists will fly alongside people in their factional militia and report back from the very heart of the action, guns firing all around and missiles roaring past their vessels. Those vessels will be small, modified "Media Shuttles" with higher agility than regular ones, no cargo holds and no way whatsoever of affecting the action around them.

The news feeds will be available from the battlefield intelligence window, but we will also copy certain news reports to the global news so all players can read up the comings and goings in factional warfare from the view points of these embedded reporters.

This is a departure from our usual reporting, and we hope to make it a fun and informative one for all involved. If you would like to join the Interstellar Correspondents in this grand venture then, please submit an application.

[Kitsune]

So you have to submit an application to become a burning pyre in space when your defenseless deathtrap shuttle gets picked off for laughs in every fight?

Hmm.  I must admit to being intrigued.

[lac]

I don't think you can target/kill them.

[IainC]

I don't think you can target/kill them.

You can target them but you won't kill one

[Comstar]

Sounds like a great way to get a close in warp in point.

[Jayce]

Sounds like a great way to get a close in warp in point.

Or intel.  Or a bump at the wrong moment.

[Phildo]

Bumping is definitely an issue, but I think that CCP is going to absolve themselves of this by making the militias responsible for their own news.  No more of "your reporter bumped our dread while it was in siege mode."   

[Endie]

Bumping is definitely an issue, but I think that CCP is going to absolve themselves of this by making the militias responsible for their own news.  No more of "your reporter bumped our dread while it was in siege mode."   

That reporter was, I seem to remember, an Aegis Militia alt.

[Jayce]

no way whatsoever of affecting the action around them.

I'm just amazed and amused at the way hope springs eternal among developers of full-PvP games.  "No way whatsoever" should fire alerts in any designer's brain, given the ingenuity of the hardcore PvP crowd at corrupting innocent game systems to their advantage.

[Simond]

Obvious reminder is obvious: SET A LONG SKILL TRAINING TONIGHT
24 hours scheduled downtime, and God only knows how much actual downtime.

[Meester]

Hmm wonder if it possible to trick people into a fw corp and pick off their mission running ships?

Or join a faction but don't let your corpmates know :D

[lac]

Downtime News. Apparently CCP is doing some RP stuff on the empyrean age expansion page while they do the dirty work on the servers.

It seems that CONCORD's cluster-wide data network is suffering a severe and unprecedented outage. In the last few minutes multiple core services have degraded or dropped offline across the EVE cluster.

panicked pilots turn on local law enforcement vessels. It appears that at this time CONCORD is not deploying additional vessels

No more empire!



Untill after the downtime, at least :)

[Faust]

patch notes: http://www.eve-online.com/news/Patch%20Notes%20for%20Empyrean%20Age.pdf

[Gets]

Latest builds:

http://ccp.vo.llnwd.net/o2/EVE_Classic_Setup_56866.exe

http://ccp.vo.llnwd.net/o2/EVE_Premium_Setup_56866.exe

Edit for Ajax: Found the Classic to Premium patch as well, if it helps http://ccp.vo.llnwd.net/o2/eveclassictopremiumpatch56866.exe

[Fordel]

The Caldari have just retaken their home planet. 

[ajax34i]

They have multiple multiple in-character news being published every minute, almost, on the placeholder website.  Pretty damn cool.  Can read the war, basically.

The Minmatar have a cure for Vitoc and are bombarding Amarrian planets with it then lifting up the slaves.  Caldari have re-taken Luminaire.  Concord infrastructure disabled, Jita being looted by pirates and traders being shot... 

[Fordel]

The Space French, surrender? 

[ajax34i]

Gets, are those latest builds you linked full versions / install from scratch?  1.2 GB (premium version) is a huge file.

[Nevermore]

They have multiple multiple in-character news being published every minute, almost, on the placeholder website.  Pretty damn cool.  Can read the war, basically.

The Minmatar have a cure for Vitoc and are bombarding Amarrian planets with it then lifting up the slaves.  Caldari have re-taken Luminaire.  Concord infrastructure disabled, Jita being looted by pirates and traders being shot... 

Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling!
Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes!
The dead rising from the grave!
Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together! Mass hysteria!

[bhodi]

Premium patch.

http://ccp.vo.llnwd.net/o2/evepremiumpatch53162-56866.exe

Word of warning, as before, as early as this is in the cycle, they may release another one after this.

[Predator Irl]

Seems they have the patch already but the server isnt accepting connections yet... come on, come on, come on, come on.... 

[Gets]

I'm logged in and already checking for TS spawns.

[lac]

WTF? Come to sarum prime, I'm looting shitloads of t2 matari wrecks here.

[bhodi]

There's a caldari navy leviathan rebuilding the station at caldari prime (luminaire)

It can be damaged. It's worth 500 million bounty.

Goons are trying to rustle up a big enough fleet to take it down before the rebuild completes

[Phildo]

Man, and I just logged in to rat for an hour!  I need to get in on this!

[Gets]

[bhodi]

The NPC titan just doomsdayed.

[bhodi]

[Phildo]

What is the bounty on that?

[bhodi]

500 million.

[Kitsune]

Holy crap, doomsdaying a hi-sec system?  Did they just wipe out a few dozen innocent bystanders and tourists in the process?

[Goumindong]

Holy crap, doomsdaying a hi-sec system?  Did they just wipe out a few dozen innocent bystanders and tourists in the process?

No. Apparently there was no DD. Some people went into the fray and lit off some smartbombs.

[Sparky]

Oh crap wrong thread

[bhodi]

Oh crap wrong thread

It's been split. The thread you are looking for is here

[Amarr HM]

There is a new killmail format, alliance and corp are switched around and they have added a faction category so if you try posting the new killmails you will have to adjust them.