We’re as soon as once more at the place to begin that can lead us to the annual Alliance Event in EVE On-line, this one set to be the twenty first within the sequence.
Alliance Event XXI
As has been the case in recent times, issues kick off with a timeline on how we get from immediately (or yesterday, actually) to the ultimate occasion, which is slated to land in late October:
- 11 July – Event announcement and signups for Thunderdome begin, expertise functions open
- 17 July – Principal Event guidelines introduced, crew registrations open, Thunderdome opens for current accounts, and the primary invite wave goes out.
- 21 July – Expertise utility deadline
- 25 July – Crew registration closes
- 28 July – Expertise interview begins
- 29 July – Event Groups introduced
- 30 July – Roster submission 1 opens & Merc Registration begins
- 1 August – Feeder format announcement & Reside Draw
- 8 August – Expertise Crew introduced
- 21 August – Roster (and mercenary) submission 1 closes, and advert submission deadline for the Feeders
- 26 August – Crew Rosters introduced
- 30 August & 31 August – Feeder event broadcast weekend 1
- 6 September & 7 September – Feeder event broadcast weekend 2
- 11 September – Roster submission 2 opens
- 25 September – Roster submission 2 concludes & flagship submissions start
- 29 September – Revised Crew Rosters introduced
- 2 October – Flagship lock deadline (advert submission deadline for the principle event)
- 3 October – Flagships Introduced
- 24, 25 & 26 October – Alliance Event XXI Principal Broadcast
Of notice is the change up within the precise event itself, which can now be run on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, wrapping up in a single weekend versus being cut up between two consecutive weekends.
Then there are the adjustments being deliberate for this yr’s Alliance Event:
- In Alliance Event XX, a crew’s whole factors have been elevated from 100 to 200, and plenty of ship values have been adjusted. The variety of ships with distinctive level values has been elevated once more.
- Throughout the course of of accelerating the utmost level worth, a number of ships noticed an total improve in level worth in comparison with earlier than. This has been additional adjusted, and the purpose price of many extra ships has been decreased.
- The Babaroga, Tholos and Cenotaph will probably be allowed on this event.
- Because the Caldari are this yr’s sponsor, a collection of Caldari ships will obtain a further level low cost.
- Duplicate hulls being fielded, which resulted in what’s was generally known as “level inflation,” will probably be suppressed this event. The Caldari don’t like inflation.
- The utmost variety of ships of a given hull dimension within the enviornment has been adjusted from 4 to three.
- A brand new alternating ban system will probably be used.
- Further adjustments have been made to the Flagship system. Final yr, a few of the earlier Alliance Event prize ships have been allowed. Level prices and some of the constraints round these ships have been adjusted once more. The Caldari have additionally opted to re-allow their flagship Black Ops battleship, the Widow, to the listing of accessible flagships.
As famous within the adjustments, after final yr’s Guristas sponsorship issues have returned to a extra regular flip because the Caldari State would be the sponsoring entity, that means Caldari ships will get reductions on factors and the prize ships will possible be variations on previous Caldari hulls used.
So there it’s, the march to the AT has formally begun. Updates are being posted to the official EVE On-line Discord server for individuals who need their information in probably the most well timed style.
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