Well, here we are. Dominion has been deployed and ahead of schedule. Well done CCP.
I am at a loss as to what to write about Dominion. Many of my fellow bloggers have pretty much hit on most of the awesomeness and I am continuing to add blog posts to this Google collection, so, please do take the time to read everything. There is a lot and it’s worth it for the screenies. Planets look awesome!
After looking at all the new sovereignty structures, I can see that freighters will be used a lot and I mean A LOT. If you want to deploy a Territorial Claim Unit to claim sovereignty, you can do that with a transport ship.
If you want to deploy an Infrastructure Hub, you need 750,000 m3 of cargo space to carry it. That means a freighter. You want to install an upgrade? You need 500,000 m3 of cargo space to carry one upgrade.
So, if you build freighters for a living in game, get busy, they demand for them just soared. Build away my little industrialists, your time to make lots of isk is at hand.
Now, with any patch or expansion, there will be issues and people will go nuts trying to sort them out. Head over to http://www.eveonline.com/updates/knownissues.asp and get up to speed with the issues that currently exist with the new patch. Just a note, as of this blog post, most of these issues are being addressed with the patch being released on Thursday between 0930 and 1200 game time. Set those long skills again.
See you out there!
December 2nd, 2009 at 9:08 pm
I wish…that i hadn't just sold my freighter for 650 a few days ago…
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December 2nd, 2009 at 9:19 pm
w00t – maybe the one I'm building might actually fetch more than the 650 I'm aiming for then! o/
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December 2nd, 2009 at 11:28 pm
Well, my alt still has his, so, yeah, I will be busy with that damned thing!!
:p
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December 3rd, 2009 at 12:23 am
I just sold my freighter and my alt…I guess I should have checked on the size of those things…lol, might have got a little more
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December 3rd, 2009 at 2:14 am
Ouch!!!
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December 3rd, 2009 at 2:16 am
Thanx. It really make is easy to add content to your blog. I read stuff on my iPod Touch with the Feeds app, add a tag and the page updates when it syncs with Google.
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Galen Reply:
December 3rd, 2009 at 12:07 pm
Yup, it seems that CK forgot to put you into the shared items tag in Google Reader. Hopefully traffic to your site will pick up now that you are correctly listed correctly.
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December 3rd, 2009 at 2:40 am
I'm happy about this. Definitely I was disappointed when I started playing EVE that big scary convoy operations weren't generally a part of the "hardcore" life in 0.0 due to jump bridges and jump drives. Should provide plenty of lol's and emorage.
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December 3rd, 2009 at 3:04 am
Agreed. It will bring another level to the "emergent" experience. Supply operations will have to become an operation as common as the combat patrol roam.
It will lead to a whole new kind of gang, the true escort fleet.
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December 3rd, 2009 at 12:50 am
650m for a freighter? Where were YOU buying?! …heh.
Anyway, I love what you've done lately with the Google Reader pages. Gives me something to mull over.
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December 3rd, 2009 at 1:52 pm
Being a freighter ship seller right now = Great thing
Being a 0.0 freighter pilot right now = NOT a good thing
Seems a few of the nullsec alliances are taking advantage of the necessary shipments to maintain sov…
http://www.atlas-alliance.com/killboard/?a=kill_r...
http://triumvirate-alliance.com/?a=kill_related&a...
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December 3rd, 2009 at 2:22 pm
Indeed. It's a bit of a mess right now. I would be willing to guess that you will see more and more freighter operations going on and many more freighter kills in the next few weeks.
Given what I am seeing with this sort of logistical work that existing alliances with sov are going through, I am willing to say that this change for sov in game has the potential to backfire.
Look at challenges the existing alliances are having to face with both moving these structures and the cost of these items.
How the heck can a 150 man alliance afford the cost to deploy these things? Wasn't this change to sovereignty meant to allow smaller alliances to be able to take hold in 0.0? I simply don't see it being feasible.
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