As ISD Clarity Brown reported Goonswarm is disbanding and leaving a power vaccum in Delve and Querious. A look on the alliance data confirmed that - only 22 members and the holding corporation left. For sure, IT alliance will have a run for their once (under BoB alliance) owned  space. And thier sucess is pretty sure. Goonswarm leadership said, they plan to relocate in Syndicate were they once started and plan their future. So, the next months will propably very interesting concerning sovereignity space in New Eden.

References:

http://www.eveonline.com/news.asp?a=single&nid=3684&tid=7

http://www.eveonline.com/news.asp?a=single&nid=3683&tid=7

http://www.eve-tribune.com/index.php?no=5_5&page=1

CoS leadership wishes all pilots out there a good start into the new year. We hope you reach your goals for the next year and dont get podded too much.

With 45 kills during November CoS pilot LomaxSE made it on top of the killboard ranking. He has to share the price money of 50m ISK with Yorlin Serlinsdottir who leads the score board with an amazing score of 5156 points. Followed by LomaxSE and Cbra on the third place. Now it's on the other pilots to try to beat this two guys in the december rankings.

CCP just made the following announcement about the upcaoming patch.

"EVE Online: Dominion will be deployed on Tuesday, December 01, 2009. The deployment process will begin at 02:00 GMT/UTC and is expected to be completed at 21:00 GMT/UTC. The EVE API will be unavailable during this time and the EVE website, Account Management and forums, which will be disabled temporarily, will be restored later in the day. Patch notes are in the final stages of preparation and will be published on Saturday, November 28."

So set a long skilltraining and dock up your ships, that will chang during the patch (e.g. typhoon).

In two new dev blogs CCP made some announcements for the upcoming expansion.

In the first one with title " capital ships in dominion" CCP Nozh states:

"This means NO CHANGES WILL BE MADE TO MOTHERSHIPS IN DOMINION. Since they are part of the original rebalancing effort, the DEPLOYMENT OF FIGHTER BOMBERS WILL ALSO BE POSTPONED."

So,CCP will make no changes to the motherships with this patch, so they have some more time to give them a special role, so they are not only bigger carriers. Further the devblog gives deteiled infomration about the changes to XL guns. It provides a lot of dps-to-range graphs, depicting the dps on different ranges with different guns.

Source: http://www.eveonline.com/devblog.asp?a=blog&bid=717

In a second Blog CCP Abathur provides more informaation about the sov keeping system and how it works. He tries to answer the most common question with the ideas CCP had in mind with the made changes.

Link: http://www.eveonline.com/devblog.asp?a=blog&bid=714

CCP Abathur just published a detailed dev blog concerning the new sovereignity system. Question like "what happens to the actual sov claiming alliances?" and "How does sovereignity change work?" are addressed. A very nice grafic feature is that the new territory claim beacons will display the alliance logo. So everyone entering the system will see it and recognioze who owns the system.

Link: http://www.eveonline.com/devblog.asp?a=blog&bid=709

Through another new devblog, CCP Dr.EyjoG announced the publishing of the 3rd Quarterly Economic Newsletter.

"This issue has the standard economic indicator of population, ships flown in space, price level reports and market snapshots.  The specific topic this time around is the latest news on "Unholy Rage," the Anti-RMT operation that has been ongoing for several months now. ..."

As stated above this newsletter has a special section which is providing information about the so called "operation unholy rage" against real money trades (RMT). As usual it is a must for industrialists in New Eden.

A very interesting point is, that the Raven fell from the first place and the Hulk took over as the most popular ship in New Eden. Probably this also explains the decreasing tritanium price over the last weeks. Concerning the numbers of flowen ships, it is interesting to see that the use of stealth bombers  increased and in the capital ship section Dreadnought dropped down significantly from about 1100 to under 800, which made the jump freighter more popular than dreadnoughts. CCP Dr.EnjoG's opinion is that the reason is the upcoming patch, which makes alliances shift from warfare to production in preparation of Dominion.

Further a look on the minerals prices shows that Tritanium price is decreasing more and more. One reason mentioned in the newsletter is the increase of the respawn and resseding rates of veldspar in high security space ("[...]as empty belts had beed to common[...]"). As an implication that means that it can be expected that the new equilibrium of Tritanium price will be less then before.

REIGN alliance was closed yesterday, in order to perform a merge with the corps of two other smaller alliances. Alliance leadership said, that this was a good step forward  and strongthened the alliance. The new alliance is called EPOCH alliance and will consist of the main corps of REIGN and the others alliances.