The EVE Online: Empyrean Age 1.1 patch will be deployed this Tuesday, 2nd September. Tranquility will be down from 11.00 to 17.00 GMT. The downtime is unlikely to affect the forums.

Empyrean Age 1.1 consists of hundreds of fixes and changes to all aspects of the game and it also includes the previous optional patches as well as new content in the form of more rookie and Level 1-5 Empire Faction missions.
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Yet again you will have the opportunity to blow stuff up in front of a big crowd at the Fanfest, as you read in a dev blog earlier, there is a new element to the tournament - mining! We have now put up the full set of rules for this year's tournament which you can see here.
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This Friday, August 29th, the EVE Store will be disabled, but don’t worry, within 48 hours after that we will roll out a brand new store* to satisfy all your needs for EVE paraphernalia. The new store will be based in North America and our new carrier will be FedEx, allowing us to offer a reliable shipping service with the ability to track your packages.

The new store will herald in the arrival of the long-awaited Collectible Battleship Models!

The EVE Online Battleship Models are constructed from a solid resin foundation and are mounted, ready for display, on a base emblazoned with the associated faction logo.
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Traveling the expo circuit, camera in hand, MMORPG.com gets CCP on the record about the latest expansion, future updates, and the Council of Stellar Management. They plan to release the videos over the next few days, but they're not ones to leave their readers in the dark until then! They've published a pair of 'teaser' articles that give a peek at what's to come.
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The practice of insta-joining/leaving warring corporations for the purpose of surprising war targets, or getting them in trouble with CONCORD, is considered an exploit from here on. Reports of this will be investigated on a case by case basis and warnings will be issued at the discretion of the GM.
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The ties that bind lore and content grow tighter, and Split Infinity Radio nabbed Lead Content Creator Scott Holden at a recent expo to find out how strong a grasp those two aspects have on each other. Download or stream their 10-minute audio interview to hear how the ongoing story and the game we play come together in the World of EVE Online.

In an interview with the folks at TenTonHammer, Dr. E talks about his views on MMOs, EVE, and the marketplace in general. Beyond discussion of the virtual world's economics, the interview goes into how EVE and its community has evolved over the years, with information and hints as to some of the ways in which CCP is looking to expand EVE in the future.

The final ballots have been counted in the Minmatar Republic elections, with lone candidate Maleatu Shakor winning by default.

At his inaugural speech this afternoon, Prime Minister Shakor said:

"Sons and daughters of Matar, make no mistake about it.
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Election booths opened today across the Republic as citizens began to vote for their new parliament and prime minister. With all the tribal parties rallying behind Maleatu Shakor's bid for premiership, the outcome seems foretold. This has not dimmed the resolve of the populace to go out and vote, with vast numbers already queueing up at public voting booths to show their support.

No opponents have stepped forward to run against Shakor, making this the first uncontested election in the history of the Minmatar Republic.
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Pator - Brutor Party Leader and Tribe Chief Wkumi Pol today announced that he would step aside as party leader to allow Maleatu Shakor to enter his bid for the premiership in the upcoming elections. In an address to the Republic Parliament, Wkumi Pol stated that "the Minmatar people need a leader who can lead us away from the wreckage of democracy and guide us through dangerous times".
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Reykjavik, Iceland – June 11, 2008 – CCP, one of the world’s leading independent game developers, today announced the launch of the eighth free expansion for EVE Online, its popular massively multi-player online game (MMOG). EVE Online: Empyrean Age destroys the peace of New Eden as long suppressed political tensions between the four major Empires of EVE boil over into direct conflict.
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Reykjavik, Iceland – May 28, 2008 – CCP, one of the world’s leading independent game developers, has announced the features for the upcoming free expansion, EVE Online: Empyrean Age. Slated for a June 10th release, Empyrean Age brings an explosive end to the fragile peace that has existed for one hundred years between the four central races of New Eden and entices players to pledge fealty to their faction of choice to gain fame, wealth and power. The features page at http://www.eveonline.com/empyreanage/index.html highlights the expansion’s contents: 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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Reykjavik, Iceland – May 22, 2008 – CCP, one of the world’s leading independent game developers, has announced the results for the election of nine delegates to the Council of Stellar Management (CSM), a democratically-elected representative council of players chosen by fellow EVE Online players after an exciting two-week voting period that ended May 16. “Since the earliest days of EVE’s development, we have relied heavily on collaboration with our playerbase regarding world issues.
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