"I have just sent the fifteen players chosen at random for participation in the survey an e-mail asking for their mailing addresses so the prizes may be sent to them.

If you received an e-mail from me, please respond within the next two weeks. If you do not respond within that time frame, alternates will be contacted."

"FFB: How do you plan to make the walking in stations feature a significant part of the game, instead of just a gimmick?

CCP: The vision we have for the in-station atmosphere is to initially create a purely social hub where players can engage in non-combat activities. While we have some ideas that we�re working toward, we�re also very interested to know what the players themselves feel would be points of interest or venues they would like to see there, so we�re keeping an eye out for that sort of feedback as we move toward introducing this feature. One aspect of walking in stations that could really add immersion is the Corporate War Room where corporation members can all gather and view a shared 3D map and discuss strategy."

• G15/LCD support has been improved
• Plans can now be accessed quickly from the plan button drop-down
• You will now see total training time when you select multiple skills in the skill browser
• Hovering over a skill now shows SP/Hour
• The IGB Browser now contains showinfo links
• EVEMon will let you know if the current skill will finish during downtime
• You can now maximize the EVEMon main window, if you want
• IGB Port is now selectable
• The Items, Ships, and Skills files are now outside the EVEMon executable, so they can be updated as needed, and not just with major releases
• Skill groups are implemented - when you merge multiple plans, they will retain information about their original group. Try it!
• Revelations is now fully implemented, including faction ships and mods
• The skill browser now shows your percent complete
• You can now filter ships and items by which you have the skills to use
• You can now filter skills by "not planned" and "not planned but trainable", for you skill collectors out there
• inEve.net integration is implemented. You will need to register with inEve.net and set "require authentication" to NO
• The new ship/item comparison tool allows you to see ships and modules side by side
• Untrainable skills will now be greyed out in your plan queue
• Some new columns have been added to the plan queue - no implants and SP/Hour
• You can now filter items by slot
• The ship browser has been vastly improved and clarified
• The manual implant manager has been completely redone; it now pre-loads existing implants AND understand what jump clones are
• EVEMon can be configured to warn you before your skill is finished - useful when tranquility and myeve are desynced

"Fancy stretching your legs between lengthy trade runs? Ever wondered what the air smells like in all those stations in the depths of lowsec? Need to go to the loo before you undock? Fear not, CCP is already working on the answers to your prayers."

"One of our key objectives for walking about in stations is to not take away any of the functionality that we currently enjoy. In short, you won't be forced to get out of your pods in order to speak to your agents or refine ore - all that can still be taken care of from your own cocoon of life-enriching goo."

• PVP-BASIC: January 20th, 2007 - 1900 Eve Time
• PVP-WOLFPACKS: Jan 21, 0200 Eve Time(Saturday Evening in America, Sunday very early in Europe)
• PVP-BASIC: January 22nd, 2007 - 0200 Eve Time (Sunday Evening in the USA)
• PVP-BASIC: January 27th, 2007 - 1800 Eve Time

"For the last two weeks my corp has been constantly harrased by ISS pilots. We have consistently been targeted by ISS pilots who we have not aggressed. We have no war with them, and until now had no reason to shoot them. This is now changing. The Praxis Initiative have been roaming around in curse and killing my corp members...

We have made contact with ISS reps who have done nothing. From now on all members of my corp shall agress ISS pilots on sight. We can not and will not continue to suffer losses to a supposedly neutral to all alliance.

We are more than willing to fight with any other corp or alliance who have also been stung by the injustice dished out by ISS in the south."

"Tranquility will undergo an extended downtime for database maintenance on Tuesday, 16 January. The extended downtime will occur from 1100 through 1500 GMT.

While the extended downtime is underway, we are asking for the community's assistance. As part of the ongoing effort to improve EVE's performance, we will be holding a stress test on Singularity and would like for as many members of the EVE community as possible to log into the test server. Once logged in, just play EVE as normal.

The test server will be running on the same version as Tranquility, so it will not be necessary to install a second client. We hope the server load during the stress test will help us troubleshoot some of the recent node issues.

It will not be necessary to set a long skill training for the extended downtime, but please ensure your skill training does not complete during the downtime."

• 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 :) "