KORSIKI, THE FORGE – A number of prospective new students have been frequenting the School of Applied Knowledge station over the last few days, waiting in anticipation of a possible cease fire between Eve University (E-UNI) and the NyX Incoming corporation (N1X). Hostilities between E-UNI and N1X began at 16:31 hrs on 30-July-2008 and the anticipated one-week mark will arrive at the same time of day on 6-August-2008.After some early maneuvering and a pair of heated battles, the E-UNI/N1X War has been relatively quiet during the second half of the week. Many believe that the lowered level of activity may mean the end of fighting after only seven days, but members remain cautious.”They may renew just to annoy us,” reasoned Kody Apollo, E-UNI Student and Events Manager.Eve University recently enlisted a number of new Recruitment Officers (R.O.’s) following a forum call from Recruiting Manager Aphrodite Whiterose. This bolstering of ranks was performed in part to prepare for the anticipated deluge of new recruits. Particular focus was given for new R.O.’s whom are able to cover time zones where current staff were not often present.New sign-ups eagerly await the official word within the E-UNI Public Channel. The channel’s Message of the Day (MOTD) will indicate to the public, and to aspiring applicants, the current status of the war. Hopes remain high that a cease fire is soon in coming.– Turhan Bey, EUNN

After the Privateers dropped the war, we had very nearly 2 full months of peace, which was somewhat unheard of before Faction Warfare.It was good to get back to being the peacetime E-UNI, which as many of you know is significantly different to the wartime E-UNI – lessons were run often, events held, new members joined and old members left for new horizons, and the Uni went back to how it was long ago, before the last year of near-solid war.Then, unfortunately we had the wardec from NyX Incoming, who appear not to have done as much research as they should, however they are certainly due significant respect for the combat and entertainment they brought to us in Korsiki.All in all its been pretty uneventful, barring a few relatively short battles, but this now brings us up to speed with the news, so I can now start posting some of the ‘Embedded Reporter’ stories.

The Privateers situation was quite a shame, really. Before the incident, we had quite a bit of respect for them – the amount of work required to band together and maintain so many disparate corps and pilots was clearly sizable, and its disappointing that it had to end with them temporarily dissolving.It seems that Faction Warfare resulted in the greatest blow to them in the end – when corps can get PvP at any time for free, and effectively always have a force to fight when they want, the maintenance fees to pay for the wars seem rather steep.However, as mentioned the Privateers have re-joined their alliance, and here’s hoping that they can once again rebuild their forces to the level they were previously – they were quite effective and fun to fight once, and I hope they will be again in the future, as long as they don’t overdo it again!

After the war dropped, for three weeks, we had peace.Operations returned to normal, and we started up our Faction Warfare program.However, once the DecShield was dropped, the Privateer Alliance acted true to form, and re-declared war on IVY.The conflict was relatively short, with Faction Warfare and apparent internal tensions taking a toll on the Privateers, resulting in them solidly losing member corporations, until there were only a few left, which unfortunately hit their effectiveness rather hard.Finally, the war was not renewed, and the Privateers left their alliance temporarily, moving to FW for a time and rebuilding their resources.

When it became clear that the war was not going to end any time soon through the application of military force, then it was time to think out of the box.After a few weeks, my testing had been completed, my secret (even from the other directors) plans were readied, and it was put into place.The result was that the war that the Privateer Alliance had been paying for went from around 150 million ISK, to 1 billion ISK to maintain it for a further week, making it economically nonviable to continue.Much CAOD complaining and explanation of basic math later, and the war was quietly dropped, however the conflict did not end there.As before, more to come soon.

There’s actually a lot of stuff gone on recently that should have been posted here, but wasn’t.Hopefully we should be able to keep this updated a little better soon, with goings-on in the Uni, for those of you who have moved on, or are looking to join.The most major event recently was the drawn out conflict with the Privateer Alliance.Initially, It started as a conflict with TRAPS, however the Privateers decided to get involved, and proceeded to continue their war against the Uni for one of the longest periods we had experienced.Unfortunately we were unable to get a solid reason from them for this, and theory’s ranged from some kind of perceived slight involving their leadership, to it being a merc contract.Eventually though, after 2 months it ended…More to come on that in a bit.

Patch Notes are up!http://myeve.eve-online.com/updates/patchnotes.asp?patchlogID=165Remember to set a long skill, as in multiple days, or even weeks if possible!The downtime is scheduled for 24 hours, but experience has shown this may either be an overestimate, or a massive massive underestimate!Shamelessly copied from Kelduum’s post in the forums