But on to the statistics.

• We received 97 applications.
• We accepted 64.
• We rejected 33.

  Rejection reasons:

  • A scan of the passport was not supplied and either a personal photo was supplied instead, an expired passport or another type of identification that was not a passport.
  • EULA violation by the applicants.
  • Two applicants requested to be withdrawn and thus they count as being rejected.
  • Two applications were sent in by CCP for testing purposes when the service was reported as being down and they are included in these counts.
  • One applicant managed to apply twice due to some technical glitch we were unable to reproduce, one of those applications was rejected.

  This brings down the actually rejected applications to 28.
  

• 3 females applied and 61 males, making the female applicants 4,687% of the total pool.

This is not going to be a "here are your new features, go forth and pontificate" blog, so if you're just after hard details, you may be disappointed, sorry. Instead, I'm going to take the opportunity to just talk about some things that may or may not be interesting to some of you.

The first and most important thing I wanted to talk about is the weather (can you tell that I'm British?).

No NPC sell orders for shuttles and trit prices

While the title of this blog may have some of you crying in dismay, rest assured that everything is fine. I got quite lucky this time as I asked the head of the next team I'm going to talk about to write a bit, and he wrote a lot, enough so that I don’t really have to say much in fact! So, without further ado, here is Hutch, Vice Admiral of the YARR team:

The Yulai Archives & Record Repository Team (YARR) is the most recent addition to ISD.

Here at CCP we care very strongly about our product, and we're constantly evaluating new paradigms and thoughtspaces in order to better realize our Total Market Potential. Our goal is to enhance the customer experience by offering new product channels and opportunities, allowing our customers to participate through selective transactional channels and fully realize their potential as Valued Income Partners – VIPs!

Today we're announcing an exciting new service family, which we're calling "Subscription 2.0".

Hello everyone, I am Ginger and you may remember me from such blogs as "Immersionalism, it rocks" or "WAR, it’s beautiful". Well now I am the new volunteer manager and I’m here to talk to you about our volunteers and what they do to make EVE a better place to be.

The plan is to devote a blog to each of our volunteer teams to give you a general overview of their purpose, day to day running, an idea what it’s like to be in them, and what sort of applicants they look for.

So, I would imagine a fair few of you have no idea what the volunteer team is.

Speakers
Zulupark
Greyscale
Fendahl
Chronotis
LeMousse

You can either listen to the recording in the flash player just below, or download it from here and listen to it in your own mp3 player.

The Fifth Alliance Tournament is just about ready to go, with team captains readying their teams to start the fighting next Friday. Rumors of teams practicing on the Test Server are rife, as well as talk of attempted bribes and offers to buy valuable slots in the event.

EVE TV will be there for every single match, broadcasting everything live from our studio buried deep in CCP's basement.