Empyrean Age Deployment, News Awesomeness

9.6.2008
EVE Online: Empyrean Age extended downtime
Deployment of the free summer expansion, EVE Online: Empyrean Age, will begin at 02:00 GMT on 10 June. We anticipate the extended downtime for the deployment may take up to 24 hours. We recommend starship pilots prepare for the impending war by setting a long-training skill. During this time Tranquility will be offline as well as the two test servers, Singularity and Multiplicity, and sections of the EVE website: EVE API, EVE Insider (MyEVE), Player News and the forums.

EVE’s down for 24 hours while things are being deployed for the new EA expansion. Meanwhile on the downtime news page, there’s some seriously awesome stuff happening.

Stuff like this:

BREAKING NEWS: CONCORD BUREAU STATION DESTROYED – CONCORD DISABLED

Yulai – *** This is a breaking news story *** Scope News has confirmed that CONCORD Bureau Station in Yulai has been destroyed, and that all rapid-reaction defense capabilities of the police agency have been disabled. A general warning has been broadcast throughout Empire space that CONCORD will be unable to assist in the defense of any unprovoked attacks. This is a breaking news story that we will continue to update as more information becomes available.

Posted 11:18 GMT

Should be a very interesting landscape when we log in, methinks. 🙂

A Good Start

I’ve been so busy getting the Warp Drive Active site going that I haven’t had much time to get to my own personal blog here. Rest assured, I’m still alive. 🙂

The new site is coming along extremely well, and the reaction from folks has been nothing short of amazing. Part of what I’ve wanted to accomplish with the site is underway right now — getting other authors in with unique content, giving them a place to put that content up where it can be seen by other EVE players. With the informative Weekly Tinfoil series keeping people up to date on the goings-on of the Alliance world of EVE, and the new CSM Insider summarizing what the newly elected Council of Stellar Management is doing, things are going quite well.

Of course I’ve been doing the requisite comics and podcasts as usual, trying to balance working on those with my real activities in-game. MC’s no more, but the constituent corps are still very active in EVE, each one choosing their own way, and in some cases picking the same one as others.

Body Count is now in Diasho Syndicate, and these guys have been a very pleasant surprise for me. It’s always a weird thing trying to get used to playing with large group of people in EVE, but Daisho really reminded me a lot of my former MC compatriots.

So far so good, all around. 🙂