With the 12th free EVE Online expansion less than a week away, CCP has finally unveiled the Dominion feature page and published a superb trailer setting the stage for the expansion. The biggest feature of Dominion is the complete re-working of 0.0 sovereignty infrastructure which is bound to shake up warfare between huge alliances, leading into some epic fights. While EVE fleet battles are not quite as cool looking (or organized) as implied here, the trailer is close enough and succeeds in portraying the incredible feeling of massive EVE fleet battles.
(Available in full HD on YouTube or downloadable as 720p and 1080p)
In addition to the massive changes to sovereignty infrastructure, Dominion includes pirate faction epic arcs for PvE players who dare to dip into 0.0 space, new Fleet Finder tool for forming those epic fleets, upgraded planetary graphics (they now really do look as cool as in the trailer above), faction ship and capital ship rebalancing (with Titan doomsdays changed from area effect fleet killer to a single target superweapon of doom), new in-game browser based on Chrome and a new in-game mail system. The actual ratio of "fixing crappy old stuff" vs. "developing new shiny features" is heavily biased towards fixing old shortcomings and mistakes - some as old as EVE Online itself. New player experience also receives some additional content, including a new tutorial section that teaches the basics of PvP combat.
EVE Online: Dominion is scheduled to go live on 1st December 2009.
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