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2009.08.21 17:40:01
New Caldari - The Caldari Providence Directorate has today announced the winning bids for their recent auction of Gallente space.
2009.08.20 16:30:23
New Caldari - The SCOPE has learned that the Ishukone Corporation has bid for and won the rights to develop the Intaki System.
2009.08.17 20:35:14
Algogille - Jacus Roden, the founder of Roden Shipyards, has officially filed his candidacy for the Federation presidency.
2009.08.17 00:42:18
CONCORD has recently released it's fourth declassified CONCORD Outer Region Political Summary (CORPS) briefing previously limited to distribution among Member Nations, the Assembly itself, and DED watch commanders.
The CORPS briefing is a periodic summary of alliance politics in regions considered to be outside of CONCORD's direct control.
2009.08.15 08:23:25
Ladistier - SCOPE News has learned that Souro Foiritan, president of the Gallente Federation for the past six years, has tendered his resignation to the Senate.
2009.08.13 16:06:57
Villore - Following the defiant example of Roden Shipyards, Federation arms manufacturers have collectively refuted President Foiritan's nationalization mandate.
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reported by CCP Fallout | 2009.11.02 17:50:32
They say one's eyes are the window to your soul, but what of the face? What do the lines, the smiles, the furrowed brow tell people? Would you change your face if you could, and if you did, what would your face say then?
"A Beautiful Face, Part I" is a new EVE Chronicle written by CCP Abraxas.
reported by CCP Chronotis | 2009.11.06 21:18:00 | NEW
This blog will provide an overview and details on two parts of the new sovereignty system in Dominion. The upgrade system which unlocks resources or the ability to anchor strategic structures and the upkeep system which is the fortnightly bill your corporation will need to pay for each solar system you are managing on behalf of your alliance.
The Upkeep System
The Upkeep system is the fortnightly (14 days) sovereignty bill each corporation will receive for every solar system they are managing and replaces the role of starbase fuel costs in our new sovereignty system. The base cost is currently 20 million ISK a day and mirrors the approximate current daily operational fuel cost of five starbases fuel cost. On top of this base fee is an additional fee for the infrastructure hub and any strategic upgrade (the upgrades which allow you to anchor the current or future sovereignty limited structures).
This boils down to the table below when projecting your future bills:
Current Summary Upkeep Costs per Solar System
These values including the names are very much open to further changes!
When is upkeep paid?
You must pay your first bill whilst the Territorial Claim Unit structure is being brought online. If the first bill is not paid during this period, the Territorial Claim Unit will not come online. You will then need to pay for each solar system every 14 days after that which will be listed as the 'sovereignty bill' for each solar system in your corporation wallet.
What happens if we do not pay our sovereignty bills on time?
Your Territorial Claim Unit structure and Infrastructure Hub will go offline and therefore all your upgrades as you will effectively have lost sovereignty. It should be noted that assembly array jobs will pause, not cancel, if the starbase or capital ship assembly array goes offline now and any sovereignty dependant structures will similarly go offline like cynosural jammers and the like.
A note on the automatic payment of bills improvement!
Many of you are aware of this addition on Singularity but to draw attention to this enhancement to the rest of you since it is appropriate we mention it whilst talking about bills. It will be possible with Dominion to have your regular rental bills of various sorts (office rental, alliance maintenance, sovereignty bills, war bills etc) automatically paid if you choose. This is setup in your corporation wallet > Bills tab. There you will see two new tabs: Automatically Paid and Automatic Pay Settings. In the latter tab, you can select which bills you would like to be automatically paid and for all bills which wallet division you would like it paid from.
Any current or future bills which you have setup to be automatically paid will then appear in the Automatically Paid tab as opposed to the regular Payable tab you are used to. In there you can see which are queued for payment and opt to manually pay them anyway if you desire.
The new system will try to pay the bill two days before the due date and then every four hours after this point. A notification mail will be sent to the accountants in the corp that you do not have the funds available to make payment with each failed payment attempt so that you have a chance to transfer money between divisions for example in time.
Figure 1: Screenshot of the new corporation wallet tabs for autopayment
Upgrading your space!
If you have an infrastructure hub online in your solar system, you have the potential to install new infrastructure upgrades for that system. The upgrade interface is accessed through the context menu of the infrastructure hub when in range. There you will see a window detailing all the possible upgrades there are - the ones you have unlocked and can install if you so choose, the upgrades you have already installed and the upgrades you have not unlocked yet.
Installing the upgrades is easy, if it is unlocked, you can install it by being a station manager and dropping the upgrade from your cargo onto the upgrade in the menu as directed. You will get a classic "are you sure" confirmation and then it will be installed. If the upgrade is online, then it is providing the appropriate effects. If the installed upgrade is offline for whatever reason then it will have a red offline indicator.
Figure 2: Screenshot of the Infrastructure Hub Management window showing where you can monitor and install upgrades to your solar system
Three flavours of upgrades!
There are three types of upgrade linked to the index which forms the biggest part of their pre-requisites to unlock them:
- Strategic - allow the anchoring and onlining of the current and any future sovereignty dependant structures like jump bridges and cyno jammers
- Military - allow your systems to have additional anomalies and other exploration dungeons within your space such as encounters and complexes and wormholes
- Industry - allow your systems to have additional hidden asteroid belts and mini-profession sites
The three development indices!
You can see in the sovereignty dashboard and infrastructure hub that the three indices all have five levels. The pre-requisites to installing any upgrade require that you have some level in one of these indices much like how the skill system works.
Sovereignty Index
The sovereignty index is one you should all be familiar with which is identical to the current sovereignty level system you have now and is based on days you have held sovereignty for according to the following scheme
Lvl 1 = sov held for 7 days
Lvl 2 = sov held for 21 days
Lvl 3 = sov held for 35 days
Lvl 4 = sov held for 65 days
Lvl 5 = sov held for 100 days
The levels at which each strategic upgrade is unlocked is the same as the current sovereignty level limited structures.
Activity Indexes
The industry and military indices are activity based, where the level you reach and the rate you reach it at are based upon maintaining a certain activity level within your solar system. It does not matter who performs the activities in your space though we do show in the sovereignty dashboard who the top contributors are. These index levels are required for the Military and Industrial upgrades so if you are looking to increase the resource levels within your solar system then you need to be performing the related activity to begin with.
If your activity rate decreases or stops then the activity indices may decay to the point where some of your upgrades may go offline as you no longer meet the prerequisite activity level.
reported by CCP Xhagen | 2009.10.30 17:49:00
The election of the fourth CSM in EVE has drawn to a close, and the application period has now been concluded.
Following are the results from the candidacy application period.
The statistics.
- We received 60 applications.
reported by CCP Atlas | 2009.10.19 20:25:00
Now, where did I put that fleet?
One of the features that I am personally most excited about for the upcoming Dominion expansion (well, not counting the new browser, the sovereignty changes, the awesome new graphics...).
Let me try that again: A thing that I'm reasonably excited about is a cute little feature that we call the Fleet Finder.
What's even cooler is that we took the opportunity and worked on the overall fleet UI and some of the basic fleet functionality like the broadcasts.
This is something we've been iterating on for a while and it‘s running on Singularity as we speak.
reported by ISD Katerina Markova | 2009.11.06 14:00:55 | NEW
Hulm - Relenting to pressure from both conservative members of the Republic Parliament and a group of vocal faculty, Republic University's Board of Trustees held hearings on the controversial grant given to Velys Gorra, whose research on the role of the Amarr in shaping Minmatar society has come under fire.
reported by ISD Sheliak Mesarthim | 2009.10.30 19:00:55
Lirsautton - Celes Aguard, Governor of the Mies system and candidate in the upcoming Gallente Federation presidential election, attracted a crowd numbering in the thousands for a political rally at the planet Chakaux in the Lirsautton system yesterday.
reported by ISD Kohm Akino | 2009.11.03 16:29:44
Khanid Prime - Attakaila Tatimon, Chief Sales Executive for the Hyasyoda Corporation in the Khanid Region, has disappeared following the publication of poor quarterly figures.
Against a backdrop of good growth figures for the Caldari megacorporation, the Khanid Division has displayed a markedly underwhelming performance. While every other regional division's profits have grown by an average of five percent, including a remarkable sixteen percent growth in The Citadel division, Hyasyoda's share of the Khanid market has contracted by almost eighteen percent against the same period last year.
The Khanid market itself has flourished in the last six months. Market analysts point to the thawing relationship between the Kingdom and the Amarr Empire, as well as some sizable contracts that have recently been awarded to other Caldari corporations.
Tatimon was last seen the day before the figures were due to be published.
reported by ISD Deacon York | 2009.11.03 16:20:15
BIG has extended the drawing date for their "Triple Titan" lottery an additional thirty days in order to give time for additional capsuleers to get in on the chance to own up to three of New Eden’s most powerful ships. Each of these ships is worth an estimated "seventy to ninety billion isk".
According to TornSoul, CEO of BIG [BIG], "each ticket is valid for all three draws, so ten million isk could win you three titans." The titans, an Avatar-class and two Erebus-class, will be fitted and ready to be boarded by the winner(s). TornSoul states that "if the winner can't fly the titan, we will hold, on the winner’s behalf, a quick 'firesale' auction starting at fifty billion isk."
Thirty thousand tickets are set to be sold for this event. Should there be less than thirty thousand tickets sold by the drawing date, TornSoul states that "all ticket holders will be refunded."
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