CCP Games the makers of Eve-Online have released yet another expansion to their three part Relevations series.

Revelations II sets the stage for the third chapter of Revelations to be released later this year and will feature enhancements for the most experienced players to the newest. It will introduce major challenges and complexities to the game, enabling players to engage in even more strategic warfare, providing significantly expanded content for exploration and offering more possibilities for sophisticated corporation and alliance management. In addition, it will include enhancements to EVE Online’s core technology to improve the player experience as part of CCP’s ‘Need for Speed’ initiative that addresses server and client performance issues through optimization of existing features and content. As with all previous expansions, CCP offers Revelations II as a free download to subscribers.

In particular, Revelations II enables greater opportunities for strategic operations between fixed structures in space by encouraging siege-type gameplay, enabling attrition warfare, opening up new tactical opportunities for smaller attack groups, improving the economic vitality of outposts and allowing individual outpost services to be attacked with precision strikes. New starbase tactics, for example, will be introduced that allow players to perform localized scanning for ships, jump between starbases owned by the same corporation and quickly bring capital ships into a battlefield – or prevent them from coming in. Players will also have direct command of starbase weapons, allowing them to control individual assets such as turrets and missile batteries.

Personally I’ve always been impressed by the open ended nature of the game which IMO is the pinnacle of MMO’s to aspire to, giving the players the tools to shape the world and create their own ‘content’ and drama. The latest expansions in Eve have further enabled player Corporations to stake their claim in the game and intensify 0.0 space conflicts for territory and profits.

Needless to say I have re-subbed after trying Eve out nearly 2 years ago and will be reporting on my thoughts over the course of my journey in Eve.

Source: CCP Press Release