[EVE] EVE Online: Empyrean Age

[Nanor]

The Empyrean Age

New expansion coming this summer!

Looks sweet!

 

[Traxata]

Re: The Empyrean Age

Factional Militias

Governments on every side of the war are eager to recruit pod pilots, and have set up factional militias as a means of bolstering their standing navies. Each faction has a corporation open to all pilots with the appropriate factional standing minimums. CEOs and directors are also encouraged to bring their entire corporations under the aegis of the militias, to better fund and coordinate the war effort. Regardless of corporation membership, all militia members will share a chat channel and read-only mailing list.

This could be something that we can use for our own PVP notion? that way we don't have to enter a war and have our arses raped. We can use the new expansion to provide us with adequate experience.

 

[VibroAxe]

Re: The Empyrean Age

Yeah, empyrean age looks like being good fun, but i can't work out how multi national corps such as ourselves fit into this scheme?

Can a non-caldari fight for the caldari malitia for example

 

[Traxata]

Re: The Empyrean Age

Talented pilots dedicated to the cause can rise through the newly-created ranks, 10 for each faction, by increasing their standing with their chosen militia's corporation.

There.

 

[Ronin Storm]

Re: The Empyrean Age

It sounds as if it's focusing much more on corporations and less on nationalities.

 

[Traxata]

EVE Online: Empyrean Age is slated for a June 10th release. The cold war that has existed between our four races for a hundred years is becoming very hot. It is now time for you to pick a side; some will fight for glory, others for personal gain. All will fight to win!
To find out more about the Empyrean Age expansion, please visit the features page and read all about the new content: the introduction of a faction ranking system, new militias being mustered, fresh agents pertaining to the massive conflicts, a dynamic new structure of system occupancy, details on hidden deadspace complexes and a whole new region in space, "Black Rise."
EVE Online: Empyrean Age incorporates elements of fiction that will be introduced in a novel by the same name, slated for a June 19th release, by Tony Gonzales.
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June 10th, Shiny

 

[Nanor]

Too late, Trax.

 

[Ronin Storm]

[mod]Right, no more "see, I posted it first". It's bugging me and that's not a good thing; it just seems unpleasant (yes, I'm guilty too). Instead, feel free to request a thread merge. That said, threads merged.[/mod]

 

[Kerane]

Will you guys join a millita?

if yes, wich one?

If minmatar or gallente, lets fight side by side?

If Amarr or caldari, you are going down!!

 

[Ronin Storm]

It's a good question and not one that's been seriously addressed as a Corp, yet. High time it was, I realise; exam season has been making serious discussions hard to have.

In all likelihood, we'll initially pick up as freelance militia and sit on the fence as a Corp. Going forward? Well, we have a lot of Caldari in our midst...

 

[pHatBambi]

Well, we have a lot of Caldari in our midst...

Yes but I'm Gallente.

 

[Piacular]

And I'm Minmatar! Down with the, er, Caldari scum!!!

 

[Ronin Storm]

Re: The Empyrean Age

The patch notes for this update are now available.

Some highlights, focusing on faction war (largely):

You can sign up for Factional Warfare on behalf of the four main Empires - Amarr, Caldari, Gallente and Minmatar. This has to be done by docking in the respective station of your Faction and pressing the new Militia Office station services button.

Players enlisted into Factional Warfare will be aggressed by Navy NPC’s when entering High-security space belonging to both enemy factions (example: a pilot enlisted to the Federal Defense Union, the Gallente Federation Militia will be shot in both Amarr and Caldari space).

10 new Ranks have been introduced for each faction. Enlisted players will earn Ranks according to their standings with their Militia. Standing modifications will result in rank promotion or demotion (social skills are not counted). If retired from a Militia, player ranks will not be publicly displayed even if still viewable in the character sheet.

New exclusive Factional Warfare missions have been added for each of the four Militias. These missions will be offered by new Militia Agents and only available to enlisted players. No Storyline missions will be offered in Factional Warfare.

CEOs and directors of player Corporations can sign-up their entire corporation for Factional Warfare by using the “Enlist my Corp” option in the Navy Office. The corporation joining process will be completed after the next daily Downtime. Corporations who are part of an Alliance or have an active Alliance application will be unable to use this service.

New Factional Warfare map modes have been added to the Star Map Control Panel. This map mode will show Militia faction occupancy, enemy factions, the pilots faction and locations where enemy factions have scored Victory Points recently.

Customs Officers have seen their jurisdiction revised and will not interfere in Faction or security matters.

The maximum Fleet size for mission running gangs has been increased from 5 to 10. This means that up to 10 pilots can receive standing gains and Loyalty Points for participating in a mission.

Expiration times for many missions have been tweaked. No longer will all missions have a 7 day expiration timer. Please ensure you read your journal closely when a mission has been offered.

EVE Voice technology updated to a new and improved version.

Ships immune to Electronic Warfare are no longer affected by NPC Electronic Warfare.

The Fleet, Broadcast and Drone windows will no longer reset themselves to the default position if they are separated manually on the Overview.

 

[Kilette Dark]

HI,

Hexstoof has voted 100% (We run as a co-op) to join FW as part of the minmatar millita(within 24 hours of dt probably)

If you want to see what is like, then you are all welcome to get yourselves to pator and join our corp. (Sept I can only have 20 members atm)

 

[Ronin Storm]

Thanks Kilette. Appreciate that heads-up.

HNW is not joining the Faction War, at least not as a Corp, from the outset - later on, we'll see how it's going. However, individual members will probably be joining militias and HNW is encouraging support for the Caldari. I guess that means some of us will be seeing you at 100KM down the trail of a cruise missile, yes?

 

[Ronin Storm]

Re: The Empyrean Age

Just a reminder to everyone that downtime for this patch starts at 02:00 GMT tonight and lasts for 24 hours. That's 03:00 UK time (BST). If you've got skills to change, get 'em changed and put something long on to cook.

 

[Traxata]

I'm already training both Drones V, and Siege Warfare V on my characters.

 

[Ronin Storm]

I've started on Caldari Cruiser 4... that'll take a few.

 

[waterproofbob]

It's a good thing I'm getting drunk tomorrow otherwise that downtime would suck ass

 

[Kerane]

I've started on Caldari Cruiser 4... that'll take a few.

hehehe, Im training Caldari Cruiser lvl5. Im not as optimistic, DT might take several weeks