PCGZine's Ian Morris pilots his way into Empyrean Age - and has a blast! Highlighting the tough, hardcore aspects of the new factional warfare PVP system, Morris discusses the pros of optional PVP, the rewards of working with the militia, and the zen of big explosions.
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Fanfest Access Passes are now available in the EVE Store. Join us in Reykjavik, Iceland, for the fifth annual EVE Fanfest. There'll be roundtables, presentations, tournaments, beer and a lot more! The Fanfest will also include a special hands-on demo of Walking in Stations using our new Ambulation Technology; you don't want to miss this one.

Fanfest flight and hotel packages are still available, and you are welcome to discuss the Fanfest in this forum thread.

Greyscale has written an overview of the four main Empires and their political positions the day after they went to war - June 11^th, for those who don't remember when we released Empyrean Age.
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We have had a number of cases recently with hacked accounts and similar issues and we have found that a lot of them are directly connected to a certain website. This website sells ISK and supposedly EVE Time Codes (ETCs), though the ETCs always turn out to be faulty or already used.
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Matthew Kirdahy, reporter at Forbes, speaks with the CEOs of EVE - both in and out of game. Hilmar Veigar Petursson, CEO of CCP, discusses EVE's way of fostering the skills that Kirdahy describes as "crucial to the future of business." Darius Johnson, in-game CEO of Goonfleet, shows Kirdahy the leadership abilities he has developed in EVE.

Kirdahy writes, "The leadership experience has challenged Conover the same way the modern CEO is challenged.
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We have now published the last in our special weekly series detailing the future of the Empires and the minds of their leaders. This time we look to Jamyl Sarum, Empress of the Amarr Empire, a feared and loved ruler of billions.

But this is not the end: Be sure to check back for the regular EVE chronicles, which are published every other Monday.
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Using neutral characters to tank Faction Navy NPCs to stop them from attacking players involved in Factional Warfare with that faction is considered an exploit. Action will be taken against users found engaging in this activity.

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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