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Pious Capsuleers,

Today the holy Amarr people come together to honor the sanctity of Amarr Foundation Day, celebrating the construction of the first Amarr church by Prophet Dano Gheinok. Said to be built over this original church, the Grand Basilica of St. Gheinok sits in the Imperial City of Dam-Torsad and is considered the "mother church" of the Amarr Imperial Rite. Festivities celebrating this important date will be running through to 12 August and there’s plenty for Capsuleers to get involved in!

Make sure you log into EVE throughout this event as daily gifts will be provided for both Alpha and Omega Capsuleers. There are Amarr-themed SKINs up for grabs as well as up to 25,000 Skill Points for Omega clones and more! There’s even an Amarr Expert System giving you everything you need to join in with other Amarr followers during the celebrations. Upgrading to Omega at any point during the campaign will gift you any of the previous Omega rewards that haven’t yet been claimed.

Watch the address below from Her Royal Highness, Empress Catiz I and rejoice in the light of the faithful!

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[h2]Daily Challenges and New Monuments[/h2]
Daily challenges will be available throughout the Foundation Day festivities, rewarding you with Skill Points if you visit the glorious Amarr titans on parade to honor them with fireworks. Titan parades can be found in the following systems: Amarr, Ardishapur Prime, Kador Prime, Khanid Prime, Kor-Azor Prime, Sarum Prime, and Tash-Murkon Prime.

For the Amarr faithful, you can also visit new holy monuments commemorating key events and locations in Amarr history. Visit the Order of Tetrimon Fortress Monastery in Thebeka, the Rebuilt Traumark Installation in Saminer, and the Ndoria Mining Hub in Uplingur.

As with previous events, there is warp speed boost across Amarr space so you can zip around and see the wondrous sights!



[h2]Imperial War Reserves Mining Blitz[/h2]
For Capsuleers who want to support the Amarr in their industrial activities, Mining Blitz sites are opening up in the constellations of Anidaza (Tash-Murkon), San Matar (Derelik), and Sosarir (Domain). Jump in and help the Imperial War Reserves to earn Loyalty Points and unlock new SKINs, to display your faith, for the Crucifier, Dragoon, and Prophecy!



[h2]Community Activities and CCPTV[/h2]
The Foundation Day celebration will extend out of EVE, too! Brush up on your Amarr scriptures and take part in the upcoming stream where you can win exclusive Amarr Commander apparel, in-game medals, and even several months of Omega. You can catch the stream at 17:00 UTC today on CCPTV.

Following today’s stream, why not get involved with Khimi Harar and the Excubitoris Chapter of the Sacred Throne Order as they host an evening of festivities? Amarr community events will be running over the next few days so be sure to read their forum thread and fleet up!

There will also be an Amarr propaganda contest starting soon so if you wield a paintbrush better than a pulse laser, make sure you take part! Keep an eye out for the news item with details coming tomorrow.

[h2]4-Player Omen FFA Proving Grounds[/h2]
It's time to become the bearer of bad omens in the Proving Grounds once more with a specially themed four-player free-for-all Omen brawl. Modules will be limited to meta 4 and below meaning no Tech 2 modules. The big twist this time is that you will not be able to use any specific resistance hardeners on your ships! This includes anti-EM and anti-thermal rigs as well as their equivalent modules.

The 4-player Omen FFA runs from 6 August to 10 August, so get your Omen ready and head into battle! If your skills need a boost, then plug in the Amarr Foundation Day Expert System to give this golden Amarr cruiser a try and bathe your opponents in holy laser fire.



[h2]Amarr Foundation Day Limited Time Offers[/h2]
Rejoice in your Amarr faith and get yourself a pack of SKINs representing four of the founding Amarr royal families. A new deal is available for a limited time in the EVE Store. Grab a pack of 1100 PLEX and receive a complementary set of SKINs for the Arbitrator (Ardishapur), Oracle (Sarum), Apocalypse (Khanid), and Armageddon (Tash-Murkon).

Better still, spend some of that PLEX in the New Eden Store in-game on one month of Omega to receive another set of SKINs for the Omen (Tash-Murkon), Coercer (Sarum), Harbinger (Khanid), and Apocalypse (Ardishapur).

Act fast, though, this glorious deal is only around until 11:00 UTC on 12 August!



Your destiny is written in these stars, Capsuleer. To reclaim the wayward and deliver them from evil is your calling. Join the chosen and rejoice in the light of the one true God on Amarr Foundation Day.

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Unstoppable Capsuleers,

Return to a classic Proving Grounds format in a special one-day throwback event on 31 July! Heavy assault, recon, and pirate faction cruisers are all eligible to enter the fray, where combat range cannot be reduced and meta levels are completely unrestricted - giving Capsuleers a chance to clash in their strongest ships, fitted with every advantage you can bring!

The ruleset for this event is as follows:

• Only heavy assault, recon, and pirate faction cruisers may enter
• Unlike usual, this also includes Triglavian, EDENCOM, and AT cruisers!
• Sensor dampeners and range scripts for weapon disruptor modules are banned
• No restrictions on meta levels, including modules and implants

Prepare your ships and your Proving Ground filaments, found in Abyssal Deadspace caches or on the in-game market, and demonstrate your full potential as you climb the Proving Ground leaderboard, gaining notoriety and earning special rewards!

IMPORTANT NOTE: Unlike most Proving Grounds, this event will be open for only 24 hours, from 11:00 UTC on 31 July until 11:00 UTC on 1 August.

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Academic Capsuleers,

A new tutorial has been added to EVE Academy! This video focuses on hacking data and relic sites as a part of the Explorer path. You can find the video below or over on the EVE Academy site itself.

EVE Academy is your guide to New Eden - a website aimed at giving new EVE Online players the best start by providing a tailored learning experience. It provides a wealth of information designed to help you decide who you want to be. Pick from Explorer, Industrialist, Enforcer (PvE) or Soldier of Fortune (PvP) to get skill plans, beginner ship fittings, and curated links to resources created by the EVE Online community.

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Some of the Cosmic Signatures you come across may be Data or Relic Sites. By fitting a Data or Relic Analyzer to your ship, you can enter the site and hack the containers for a chance at loot! Using the correct Analyzer module will bring up the hacking minigame where your goal is to guide your computer system's virus through the maze in search of the System Core. Break this core to unlock the container and receive your loot. - EVE Academy, Explorer

New content is always being added to the Academy so be sure to check back regularly to get the latest new videos to help you excel in EVE Online!

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Commercial capsuleers,

We'd like to invite you to submit advertisements for use during CCP TV livestreams on Twitch, Facebook and Steam. Your advertisement can be about your corporation, alliance, community, in-game service, public event, CSM campaign, blog, third party tool, Youtube or Twitch channel, player gathering - pretty much anything you like as long as it conforms to the guidelines set out at the bottom of this news item.

CCP TV features several regular gameplay and slow TV streams as well as special broadcasts such as our Foundation Day quizzes, in-game live event coverage and conversations with development teams, so head there now and smash that follow button™ to get notified whenever we go live! And watching CCP TV streams is the only way to pick up some of the awesome GalNet StreamCast Unit SKINs which are given away as raffles on certain streams:



There are plenty of eyeballs on CCP TV so it's a great way to promote your EVE related endeavor. (And while you're here check out the schedule of upcoming streams!)

Be aware that unlike previous calls for submissions where player advertisements were used to fill frequent and lengthy breaks in the broadcast (eg. between alliance tournament matches), for this purpose approved advertisements will be added to a pool which streamers on CCP TV may choose to pull from and incorporate into their streams. They might be used during the countdown prior to the stream starting, or during a break or not at all depending on what the needs of the person streaming are. To that end we make no assurances about the frequency your ad might be displayed, however the intent is to build up a stockpile of ads to use over the long term so all ads will get some airtime and the effort you put into making them will not go to waste.

Note that there will be a separate call for Alliance Tournament specific ads at a later date - this request is not for AT purposes.

[h3]Content Rules[/h3]

• All video material must be EVE related.
  
• The item/service being advertised must be EVE related.
  
• Any service being advertised must be free to players or accessed using in-game currency.
  
• Videos cannot include copyrighted audio or visuals.
  
• The video must be suitable for all ages.
  
• The video must contain sound.
  
• Content must be respectable (no attack ads) and suitable for broadcast to a dystopian space family audience.
  
• Adverts with non-English voiceover must be accompanied by hardcoded English subtitles.
  
• The quality of the advert must reflect positively on EVE itself.
  
• There is no deadline for submissions, we will be accepting submissions on an ongoing basis as we grow our library of player-created videos.

[h3]Technical Rules[/h3]

• Videos should have a resolution of 1920x1080 with a 1:1-pixel aspect ratio; adverts will not be accepted in any other resolutions. Videos should not contain vertical black bars.
  
• Videos should be between 15 to 30 seconds in duration.
  
• If you are using royalty free / Creative Commons audio, then credit the author somewhere in the end plate of your video. An end plate is where you typically put your logo, URL and such.
  
• Video should be MP4 or MKV file format using the H.264 codec.
  
• Label your video file appropriately. Example: AllianceName_AdTitle.mp4
  
• You must include the source of your audio with your submission, even if you are not required to credit the author.
  
• We don't want to take any chances of getting into trouble for using copyrighted material, so we suggest you consider using royalty free. There is a vast amount of royalty free audio online so it should be easy finding a suitable track to back up those pretty visuals.

Upload your video to a shared Google Drive, Dropbox or similar service and submit it using this form.

Please be aware that CCP reserves the right to reject videos that don’t follow guidelines or at its discretion. We try not to, but if your video is super weird, obscene or otherwise inappropriate for teen audiences, then we'll have to decline to air it. Should you later decide that your ad is no longer relevant or you no longer wish it to be played the submitter may also request to have it removed from the pool.

Skilled Capsuleers,

A new bundle is now available in the EVE Store, bringing shockingly good value directly into your skill queue! The Starter Training Boost Bundle is available for just 14.99 USD / 14.99 EUR, granting aspirational Capsuleers half a million Skill Points and a Prototype Cerebral Accelerator.

The 500,000 Skill Points can be injected into whichever skills you need right now, saving over two weeks of training time! You’ll also be getting a Prototype Cerebral Accelerator which provides a massive +9 bonus to all attributes, making your training time much faster even after you’ve injected the Skill Points. Note that Prototype Cerebral Accelerators will only provide benefits to characters under 14 days old.

What are you waiting for? Check out the Starter Training Boost Bundle today and make your impression on the cluster!


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