Here comes Kali!!

On November 28th, CCP will be deploying the first of three parts of Revelations (formerly known as Kali). The expected downtime is a full 24 hours -- but I'd expect more with a update this big.

So as usual in these cases, set yourself a long long skill to prevent loss of training time in case a skills finishes while the update is still being released.

EVE Online in the news

The last two weeks have been kind of quiet gaming wise. I took another summer gaming break last week while on vacation and so far I haven't had a chance to login this week. I should be able to get back into the game most likely tonight and with the wife being out tomorrow evening, that should give me a few good hours of play.

I recently came across 2 great news article on EVE, one's a re-review at MMORPG.com, and the second is an interview with none other than Nathan Richardsson, aka Oveur, at EuroGamer. The re-review is a wonderful idea and only shows the great editorial skills of the MMORPG.com staff. As they stated, MMOs are evolving beasts, and a one-time launch-time review just doesn't cut it for these types of games.

As for the interview with Oveur, it's a great short and to the point article. If you want to know what's happening in the near future with EVE Online, then you should head over and read it. In short, the interviews boils down to:

EVE Online's success is due to:

• Small Group of Devs
• Modular Development

What's coming-up in Kali and beyond:

• Player Contracts
• Combat Organization
• Mini-Professions
• Vista Client
• Terraforming
• and let's not forget, World Domination!

The future looks promising!

EVE Online Upgrade: Red Moon Rising

Well this is not Kali (the next EVE expansion), but it's something that should keep us EVE players happy until it comes out. If you purchased E:ON, then you know what's coming to EVE soon: humongous ships that will redefine fleet battles. They should make things very interesting, though it may take a while before we actually see any of them flying through soon.

In it's press release , CCP hinted on some of the cool things RMR will bring forth:

• Titans: The largest, most fearsome space faring battle vessels ever created
• Carriers: Front line capital ships providing fighter coverage and support for fleets
• Bloodlines: The addition of Asian bloodlines available to each of the races
• COSMOS Constellation Expansion: Addition of constellation missions to Gallente and Amarr territories
• Fighters: The main offensive and defensive weapon of the Carrier
• Starbases and sovereignty: Additions of roles to improve control access of services and improved calculations of player-determined Sovereignty

And this is all free! All thanx to CCP's amazing customer offer for EVE Online. And so will Kali. I'm really amazed that they're able to do so. I'm sure it has a lot to do with CCP's superb management skills and the constant and steady success of EVE popularity. Which says a lot about the quality of this galaxy spanning virtual world. When I joined EVE, over a year ago, there were about 40,000 subscribers and about 5,000 concurrent players. Now it's somewhere about 80,000 and 17,000 players (on one server).

I can't wait until the holidays!

P.S.: click here to get a zipped file of all Red Moon Rising screenshots.