CCP announced today that the latest free mega patch / content addon / expansion to EVE Online, "Empyrean Age", is confirmed for release on June 10. Empyrean Age concentrates mostly on adding features to support the most unique aspect of EVE Online - the ongoing war for territory across the known EVE space.
Until now, all the wars have been fought only over resources and access to different 0.0 (completely unregulated PvP) areas. Empyrean Age brings the major NPC factions into the conflict, and the stated goal is to allow less experienced pilots to participate in large scale warfare through the new Faction Warfare system.
The features page at http://www.eveonline.com/empyreanage/ 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."
Personally I have some serious reservations about the whole system. The new Factional Warfare takes place mostly in low security (
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