Features in Empyrean Age
June 19th, 2008 |
We will go through some of the new features of the expansion Empyrean Age which was released a week ago.
Factional Warfare is introduced. This means you can join the minmatar og caldari government and work as an soldier. Full corporations may also join. To join you need to have enough standing with the faction, and remember that fighting for a faction will probably hurt your standing with other factions. Keep this in mind, but by all means join the fun. When fighting for a faction you can earn ranks, and there is 10 ranks for each faction. Both if these features are completely new in Eve Online, and might make the high security space more interesting for all parties. As a military privateer you have access to military agents, and there is more than 320 new agents introduced in the game to give you missions.
With this new warfare, new statistics has been introduced to track warfare performance. The map has also been improved with new statistics. Other features that might interest you is system occupancy, combat zones, factional warfare complexes and world shaping. We will cover this in the future but for an introduction you can check out the official site.