With Slem Industries a further corporation joins Black Swan Alliance. Black Swan's main focuses - besides having fun - on wormhole activities, both PvE and PvP.

We wish Slem Industries a good start in alliance and hope they enjoy the new company.

In the lastes Dev Blog CCP announced that they gonna make changes to mining, especially the asteroids. Ides is to enrich the actual roids with higher values of low-end ore like Tritanium. Thhis should make mining in low-sec more interesting and make people not stick to ABC ore.

Further the insurance system is rethinked. Insureance wil be tied to the avarage mineral price, but also to your rayouts you received in the past. But read more here

http://www.eveonline.com/devblog.asp?a=blog&bid=746

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