• 2D EVE Maps - released version 3.34 of the 2d Eve Maps last week
• EVE Online TrueType Fonts - has been created by Dmian of the Starline Engineering Corporation
• News: RISE and BoB Allies - our EVE General Board has links to some good threads on the topic and great input/details by Gurad. MissFumble, and others.
• E-ON #6 available - this issue comes with a free booster pack of 15 CCG cards!
• DevBlog: Oveur Gives a Look Ahead - Revelations 1.3 at the end of the month, warfare focus, and anti-blobness... read all about it!
• The Misadventures of Gurristas Arrogator Part 3 is now up at EVE-Pirate.com

"I was sitting right next to a station in the middle of Jita in a cloud of over fifty ships. There were over 500 pilots in this system alone and every one of them was panicking over the hulking menacing ship that had appeared in their presence . The numbers swelled even more as the ships that had been chasing me in Kisogo flew through the Jita gate. Then the comm unit started blaring out "Attention pirate Titan! This is Concord control of Jita. Heave to or be hulled!"

"We want to improve the goalsetting in warfare, by improving and adding options to player buildable infrastructure. This means improving Starbases, Outposts, Stations and Sovereignty. However, Warfare also needs something to fight with, so we want more tactical and strategic components there."

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"Just a reminder that the sixth issue of E-ON magazine will be sent out to buyers next week, very probably on the 10th. We're aware that there have been a couple of recent issues with the ordering system, but we're assured that it's all been fixed.

It may also interest you to know (though perhaps not) that after 18 months of gammy legs and sudden headaches, I've run out of excuses to get out of joining the other MMM regulars on envelope-stuffing duty. So, not only will you get your mag a couple of days early, along with a free booster pack of 15 CCG cards, but your magazine could be handled by yours truly. Yes, I might even wash my hands in celebration. You lucky, lucky people :) "

• showing station services in each system
• no. of asteroid belts in each system
• black and white printout friendly improvements
• showing constellation jumps
• highlighting high sec to low sec jump lines- both to warn players who don't want to venture into low sec, and to warn players who's sec status is -5.0 or below that they are entering high sec
• de-tangle the maps where possible (eg. get rid of crossed lines)
• small cosmetic improvements to make the maps clearer

"The network infrastructure changes have been completed and Tranquility has returned to full service. A list of yesterday's tasks included:

• The addition of more multihoming capability for Tranquility
• Replacment of older routers, switches and load balancers with new equipment
• Upgrade to Cisco Bladecenter architecture, thus providing a roughly 700 Gb backbone in the data center
• Installion of a new service pack for the Tranquility database, and
• The addition of 6 new servers for present and future improvements of the Billing system."

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"It has come to our attention that a number of Minmatar terrorist organisations have banded together to attack our loyal friends in Praetoria Imperialis Excubitoris (PIE).

While the CVA is primarily focused on developing and expanding the Empire into 'Amarrian' Providence, PIE has always focused on defending Amarrian interests within the Empire's existing borders. However, these differing roles have not prevented the CVA and PIE from working with each other in the interests of Amarr.

Due to the size of the current terrorist assault on our brothers in PIE, the CVA will be declaring war on the Electus Matari alliance and will join PIE in teaching these terrorist Minmatars the error of their ways.

Once again we shall demonstrate the superiority of Amarrian martial skills. Our ships are being readied, our pilots are being prepared. Soon these new terrorists shall be bathed in the holy cleansing light of Amarrian lasers. Soon they will learn the price of terrorism."

"Praetoria Imperialis Excubitoris and the Curatores Veritatis Alliance both continue to make their false claims of the Electus Matari being a terrorist organisation under the pretenses of mis-information that the Imperial Human Resources corporation had given.

Praetoria Imperialis Excubitoris were the initial aggressors towards this unjust cause, which caused our Allies, without our request, to jump to our aid and to keep Republic space clear of their slaver orientated organisation.

Seeing as they became heavily out-numbered and out-gunned, instead of backing down like the dogs they are, they have instead ran crying to the Curatores Veritatis Alliance for help, for like most greedy Amarrians, they bit off more then they could chew.

Now, Hardin, on behalf of Electus Matari, you are now also classed as PIE Inc. have been as terrorists towards the Republic for aiding and abetting known illegal slave running corporations and as such you will be given the same treatment as those who needed your help.

We shall soon bath under the wreckage of your ships Amarr and it will be you who will learn the price of terrorism."

"On Thursday, 4 January, Tranquility will undergo an extended 24 hour downtime for external network infrastructure changes and database server software updates. We do not expect the changes and upgrade to exceed 12 hours and hope to allow connections to Tranquility sooner; however we cannot guarantee network stability or connectivity until after the end of the scheduled downtime.

Users that log in before the end of the scheduled downtime will be playing 'at risk' and will not be reimbursed for losses incurred by upgrade related issues.

We apologize for the inconvenience the extended downtime will cause for some members of the community and encourage training a long duration skill. "