Deployment of EVE Online: Ascension Postponed Until 2016/11/15 (http://community.eveonline.com/news/news-channels/eve-online-news/deployment-of-eve-online-ascension-postponed-until-2016-11-15/)
27 October 2016, 10:59 pm
Following a review of the testing status of EVE Online: Ascension, we have reached the decision to postpone the deployment of the expansion by one week, which shifts the release date from the previously announced date of 2016/11/08 (https://community.eveonline.com/news/news-channels/eve-online-news/eve-online-ascension-coming-november-8th-2016/), to the following Tuesday, 2016/11/15.
This extra week before release is required in order to allow us to perform further quality assurance testing and ensure that we launch into a new era for EVE Online as smoothly as possible.
EVE Online: Ascension will bring some of the most deep and fundamental changes in the history of New Eden, including a new access paradigm that will allow pilots to play EVE Online for free, in the form of Clone States.
The arrival of Engineering Complexes, a new set of colossal structures that will form a key part of the industrial backbone of corporations and alliances across the cluster is also set to shake up the economy, alongside a full rework of command boosts, new effects generators for Titans, a rebalance of the Rorqual, the fitting simulator and brand new explosion effects, as well as more activity in the asteroid belts of New Eden in the form of non-capsuleer resource gathering operations.
You can find out more about all these features that are coming to EVE Online on November 15th by heading on over to EVE Updates (http://updates.eveonline.com/date/2016-11-15/), which has now been updated to reflect the new launch date for EVE Online: Ascension.
If you’d like the latest information on EVE Online: Ascension, be sure to tune in to the EVE Vegas Live Stream (https://www.twitch.tv/ccp) this Friday, Saturday and Sunday (October 28-30) for presentations on upcoming features by our development team at EVE Vegas.
For full details of the schedule of EVE Vegas, please see this Dev Blog (https://community.eveonline.com/news/dev-blogs/eve-vegas-2016-kickoff/).
Please note: The postponement of the Ascension deployment does not affect the already announced changes to the EULA (https://community.eveonline.com/news/dev-blogs/end-user-license-agreement-changes-coming-with-eve-online-ascension/). These will still come into effect on Tuesday, November 8th, 2016.
Source: EVE Online News