EVE Online - Dominion Expansion Interview

In an interview with Nathan "Oveur" Richardsson, Executive Producer of EVE Online more information about the Dominion expansion and future changes was given.

We've been hearing a bit about EVE's winter expansion called Dominion through dev blogs and PAX breadcrumbs over the past few days. Can you tell us a bit about the focus of this expansion?

Nathan Richardsson: It's basically two main focuses we have with this expansion. One is sovereignty -- there's more and more coming out about this -- and we're also really breaking down the barriers of EVE so you can access it anywhere through our COSMOS social networking site. This is also the platform that we're going to use to get into mobile and other platforms actually, so that's probably the most interesting thing. We're building a strong foundation for both.

And what exactly is going to make COSMOS better than using IM or Facebook?

We're exposing in-game features over time so you can manage a lot of the more asynchronous stuff that you're doing in game. Secondly, we're providing organizational and productivity tools, and we're providing a public front for the players, corporations, and alliances. Now players don't need to put these things up themselves, it's in their close environment and everything. All access rights are taken care of because you're in the corporation. It really is both a public and a private place for you to interact. The main thing there is that so many people don't have access to the various statuses of their groups so this ties into the other features in game.