The second feature is that more agents are being relocated out of Jita. You probably know that Jita is the biggest hub of Eve Online, and to prevent people from staying in Jita to do missions, these agents are now moving out.

CONCORD Upgrade
The CONCORD changes we have review earlier is now live, and life for high-security PvPers will be harder. Response times for attacking other players in high security without a reason like war, is lowered. And no, phat loot is not listed as a good reason to attack someone. Neither is faction ships.

Standing changes
The general rule is that the higher the security status of the system you shoot at someone, destroy a ship or pod kill someone, the higher security hit you will get. It is also said that the standing loss is related to both the standing of the victim and the aggressor. This means killing peaceful players will give you a bigger standing loss than a part-time pirate. Exact figures are not given.

Misc changes

• Another 170 new missions is added, including Agent Level 1, factions and other ranges.
• Factional Warfare missions have had their toughness lowered, so if you’ve had problems with these, it might be worth another try

For a full review of the patch notes, read them here.

One of the biggest problems is that CONCORD has been too slow to actually save people in high sec, but this will now improve. CONCORD will arrive quicker if you are attacked, with a basic fleet of two frigates and one battleship. The frigs will lock the aggressor down quickly, while the battleships starts up it’s guns and you can wave goodbye.

The other improvement CCP is planning is the security hit gankers get. So far the security penalty for podding a fellow player has been flat across all space except 0.0, but this will change to encourage fighting PvP in low security space where it belongs. If you pod someone in 1.0 it will take give you a lot larger hit on your security rating than if you do it in 0.1. So far it is not known when these changes will be implemented and go live.

A team will be composed of five players, one in a cruiser and four in frigates (T1). Everyone will have characters with maxed out skills. The winner is team with most ore, where Arkonor is worth 500 points, Gneiss is worth 100 points and Veldspar is 1 point. For a basic sketch of the battleground, check out the post here.

The first thing is a more balanced MWD (Microwarpdrive) speed cross the different types of ships. Today it is possible to boost a ship with so much speedbonus that it outruns smaller ships. CCP wants to balance this out to make it impossible (hey, nothing is impossible in Eve ) to “misuse” a generic ship, like a cruiser, to make it better than specialized ships.

MWD has been the way to go for PvP since I can remember, and CCP wants to make the AB (afterburner) a viable alternative to MWD in PvP. As you see from the name, MWD uses warp technology to increase the speed, and it seems like warp scrambling now will make the MWD deactivate. So far it seems like only the “Warp Scrambler” (7.5+ km range) will have this effect and not the “Warp Disruptor” (20ish km). I think this is important for not making the MWD totally useless.

A third change to MWDs is that the tech 1 named Microwarpdrives will give the same speedboost as the tech 1 generic MWD, and the difference will be only the capacitor usage.

The changes are not finalized, so it will be interesting to read the patch notes when this goes live. Stay tuned for more information about this.

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One of the problems is that many other professions gives more money and a lot of resources directly, like reprocessing loot from doing missions, doing complexes or just reprocessing items from the market. The prices of minerals is completely upside down, with veldspar being the most profitable ore in high-end, and jaspet being the least profitable ore. The days where the size of ore chucks could tell you what ore is the most profitable are gone a long time ago.

While PvP-pilots and mission runners can look forward to large improvements in allmost all patches, miners are left with a new implant or module every other year. Skills for miners haven’t changed in a long while. A miner with a year worth of skill points are earning less than an mission runner with a battleship and half a year of training. Mining should be the backbone of the economy in Eve Online, but has been forgotten. I hope CCP realises this soon, and maybe CSM could start discussing things that could improve the experience for Eve Online Miners.

There are a lot of issues discussed, and some of the most interesting topics are the new alliance and factional warfare, black ops improvements and boosting bombs.

CCP says that factional warfare is not and end-game feature, but more of an introduction to PvP without having to venture out to 0.0-space. Alliances are currently not allowed to join factions in this was, and that is primarly to prevent alliances to dominate the high-security PvP.

To read the full report, check the forums.

EVE Voice, Mail & Chat

• Fixed race condition when two users call each other at the same instant.
• Fixed multichannel failures with text disconnect and media disconnect.
• Resolved a number of memory leaks.
• Fixed crash upon REGISTRATION.
• Better performance of EVE Voice with crowded channels.

Miscellaneous

• Previous optional updates are rolled into this package. The optional updates are as follows:
• An optional client hotfix has been applied which fixes an issue with the reprocessing window not closing automatically after finishing a job. Released 19 June 2008.
• The Cache Size option in the ESC menu would always be set to High, no matter what value was selected/displayed, this has now been fixed. Note: Changing the Cache Size in the ESC menu to Low should reduce memory usage at the cost of possible longer loading times. Released 25 June 2008.
• A new instance of the warp sound was being loaded into memory each time a player warps a ship within the same solar system, these instances would pile up until he changed session. Released 25 June 2008.