EVE Online players will know this by now, but “Blackout” was chaotic and fun. The forced removal of instantly updated chat channels in the most populous regions of the game sewed plenty of PvP and market chaos, leading to a lot of fallout, some of it wasn’t so good though. Despite a reduction in botting
If you’re an avid EVE Online player, you have no doubt taken notice of how beautiful this game can be as you’re zipping around the hundreds of star systems in New Eden. A big part of that beauty comes from the various stars, planets, stations and background sky boxes that make up the actual space
Ask on Reddit or other social media about EVE Online and the consensus around developer CCP is likely to be pretty mixed. Gamers and fans of the epic space opera have felt some kind of way about the changes CCP have introduced to the game over the last few years, with many feeling like EVE
Another new dev announcement for EVE Online has a lot of players worried about the future, while some are really excited about making ISK, This week has been a huge rollercoaster for New Eden residents. CCP nerfed Alpha clones and the venerable VNI cruiser. Then they removed PLEX rewards from the recruitment program, completely shutting
So there’s some pretty bad news today for EVE Online players. Developer CCP just dropped some major news concerning the referral program, announcing that it will no longer reward PLEX at all to those who recruit new players. We won’t mince words here, you can find the new reward structure down below. Also, this is
When asking EVE Online players about “Ratting” and how to do it, or the practice of killing NPC ships for ISK, you’ll often get inundated with responses that amount to, “Use a VNI, and tank your resists to the rats you’re fighting.” This is great advice for an era of EVE that’s long overdue for
I see you reading that headline and furiously typing away, “Why would EVE players be angry about new content?” Well, that’s because a pretty major change has been buried into the patch that a lot of EVE Online veterans are concerned about, especially based on past behavior by developer CCP. The big focus with Invasion
Anyone who has played EVE Online for any length of time knows the struggle of getting acclimated to this game of internet spaceships. The game has a very steep learning curve, and it’s very rewarding to finally reach a point of self-sufficiency in EVE Online, but it’s a long road nonetheless. Luckily for new players,
Politics is already an incredibly complicated topic in EVE Online. The psychology of the EVE players is a very complex beast, and understanding it is key to designing the game that they will want to keep playing. And one key element of that process is understanding when and why players wage war. After all, EVE
In a newly released development blog, CCP has revealed an impending plan to streamline training skills in EVE Online. And it’s a really great change that should help players both new and old save time. Throughout the years, skill training in EVE has gone through a ton of changes that have been either loved or
Earlier this year, Andy Nordgren AKA CCP Seagull, left the company after nearly a decade to focus on her family. At the time, a lot of EVE Online players were left saddened by the loss of yet another friendly face at the Icelandic company behind the game we all love, especially since the company went
Performance Improvement CCP is working hard on improving performance in EVE Online with the July 2018 that was deployed this week. You can read the full dev blog for the July 2018 performance patch right here. CCP made a bunch of adjustments to rendering of missile effects so that LoD settings now apply across missiles
CCP is about to shakeup New Eden in a big way. EVE players seem pretty excited about these changes, and they should be, they’re very helpful for increasing player engagement in crucial game mechanics. Currently in EVE Online, the movement of jump-capable ships (ships with a jump drive that can move between systems without Stargates),
EVE Online has been free-to-play for a few months now, Since the major revamp of Alpha accounts in the Lifeblood and Ascension expansions. Since then though, a new enemy has emerged into the forefront of discussion in the EVE community. Mining and ratting are huge sources of ISK, and the majority of bots as well.
On February 6, CCP released a new episode of In Development, where Senior QA Analyst CCP Antiquarian walked players through several of the planned changes in the upcoming February 13th patch for EVE Online. Changes include major changes to functionality and behaviors for Upwell structures, changes to all assault frigate ships. There’s also some new
A new update from CCP Falcon and Team Five-O to development plans for structures in EVE Online has been released, and players are excited as it shows that CCP is committed to improving performance in the large-scale fights that make EVE famous. The devblog discusses the realities and difficulties in trying to manage an unpredictable
Play EVE Online for free The month of November is coming to a close, and the holiday hellscape looms on the horizon; but in EVE Online, players are getting ready for another kind of hell. And their particular brand of chaotic space-based hellhole is a lot more enjoyable. In preparation for the next phase of
Play EVE Online for free This next month is going to be hectic for CCP and EVE Online, yes, even more so than the last month with the mass layoffs at CCP. This December, EVE Online is launching a massive addition to the current offering of Free-to-Play content. This major addition to the “Lifeblood” series
Hello again industrious capsuleers. It’s time for another Refinery and moon mining dev blog from your friendly neighborhood Team Five 0. Today’s blog will discuss the way moon composition, moon material distribution and moon surveying will be changing this year as part of the Upwell Refinery introduction. Read on for all the juicy details, or
With the arrival of EVE Online’s 11 July release, pilots will be called upon by the CONCORD Assembly to assist with stellar mapping of the cluster beyond the reaches of known space. Here on Earth, you’ll be taking part in the next phase of Project Discovery, which brings citizen science to space in both EVE
With a new pair of Dev Blogs, EVE Online studio CCP has revealed it’s initial plans for replacing the last of the functions accomplished by the current iteration of Starbase Structures. It’s been nearly one year since the release of Citadels into New Eden, and the Refineries are finally on the way. Originally, CCP referred
CCP announced this morning that it’s overhauling PLEX in EVE Online. As the currency works now, players buy the 30-day sub token known as PLEX with cash and then either use it or sell it to other players in exchange for in-game currency, ISK. “We really like PLEX because it lets you players in the in-game
CCP has finally launched the much-anticipated Ascension expansion for EVE Online. The update brings a variety of changes to the long-running space opera, the most important change being the transition to a “freemium” model that allows new users to have effectively infinite trial accounts within the new Clone States system. Characters now exist in one
Now don’t freak out EVE players, this doesn’t mean the game is circling the drain quite yet. For those that are wondering what I’m talking about, CCP has announced plans to move EVE to a Free-to-Play model with the release of a new DevBlog entitled Introducing Clone States and the Future of Access to EVE Online. In
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