Eve Online
The Capsuleer Chronicles – Hardcover in stores now
Following its previous release in comic stores, the hardcover edition of EVE: The Capsuleer Chronicles is now available through retailers both physical and online, including Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and bookstores of all kinds near you!
Experience the intersection of the lives of four independent capsuleers during the Triglavian Collective’s invasion of Raravoss, the first of twenty-seven systems that would eventually fall to the Collective and their ardent supporters and be woven into the liminal domain of Pochven, as the Triglavians alter the very stars of New Eden in pursuit of their ambitions – inspiring both conflict and cooperation alike between these immortal empyreans.
Order your copy and add a new tale from New Eden to your bookshelf today!
New Release To Start The Year
It’s time to kick off yet another action filled year, as EVE gets closer to its 20th anniversary and the start of the third thrilling decade in New Eden. This year promises to be filled with intrigue, action, and events. In last week’s Producer’s Letter the roadmap for this year was revealed, followed by an in-depth look at the bright future of EVE in a CCPTV live stream.
The future is now, and it’s time to unveil some great updates in the brand-new January release, which is out today.
A rebuilt Rifter
The iconic Minmatar frigate, the Rifter, has gotten a significant visual update. This beloved model has been rebuilt from the ground up, complete with updated textures, warp animation, high polygon count, and new and improved visual effects, for added impact and a more immersive experience. Its Tech II variants, the Jaguar and Wolf, also got a facelift.
New Intro SKINs for all!
In a recent update to the new player experience, fresh capsuleers are now introduced to the basics of ship personalization and PLEX when guided to purchase fresh new SKINs for 1 PLEX in the New Eden Store. These SKINs are new and unique, and they look amazing. Of course, no one should be left out, so to ensure all capsuleers can look their best in the new year, these SKINs are now available for all players to purchase in the New Eden Store for 1 PLEX. These are only for you to enjoy, as they cannot be sold, transferred, or traded and can only be bought once per account.
New skill training offers
If you have ambitious plans for New Eden in 2023, now is the time to re-train, skill-up, and get yourself set for a triumphant year of success. And both the EVE Store and the NES currently have some unmissable training deals. In the EVE Store, the brand new Capsuleer Re-training Bundle brings you 1,000,000 Skill Points, a Specialist ‘Boost’ Cerebral Accelerator, an 8-plus boost to all attributes for eight days, and two Skill Extractors thrown in for free.
In addition, the EVE Store is offering packs of five and 10 Skill Extractors with 20% off their full price. Both offers are valid until 19 January.
As if that wasn’t enough, you can also head to the New Eden Store, and can get 30% off five Skill Extractors, and a massive 50% off 10 Skill Extractors.
Chinese Simplified upcoming
Simplified Chinese is launching on Tranquility as a part of the Lunar New Year celebrations kicking off on 19 January. The existing Chinese servers will not be affected by these changes. We will continue to work with NetEase on building the future of Serenity and Infinity while we hope Chinese on Tranquility will be of benefit to the many Chinese speaking players outside of mainland China.
For Chinese speaking capsuleers that want the opportunity to dive in, experience it and provide invaluable feedback, they can test the upcoming localization on the Singularity test server very soon.
We’re excited to bring Chinese to Tranquility to honor the contribution of Chinese speaking capsuleers to New Eden and its history over the past two decades.
This promises to be a thrilling year for EVE Online, and it’s starting out with a bang. We hope you are as excited as we are for today’s release, and the future of New Eden.
Warp into New Eden
Producer’s Letter - From Uprising to New Conquests
It’s an incredibly thrilling time to be a capsuleer in New Eden as we embark on a new year in EVE Online. The frontlines have been buzzing with activity and some big shifts are happening in the political landscape. Since the launch of the Uprising expansion in November 2022, the activity in New Eden has exceeded our wildest expectations with active player counts swelling since release and - more importantly - pilots being more active in space. Particularly notable has been the sharp 75% increase in PvP kills in lowsec as well as the 11% PvP kill increase in highsec despite the additional restrictions on ganking and changes to Abyssal Deadspace following the release. This has pushed industry and mining significantly, with navy ship production rising 14,709% and capital manufacturing seeing a 34% bump!
Now that we have entered a new year and are marching toward EVE’s 20th anniversary, we wanted to take a moment to reflect on last year, the latest expansion, and look ahead at what is happening next in New Eden.
UPRISING - THE FUTURE OF WAR BEGINS
Making Factional Warfare (FW) an exciting area of space filled with action and intrigue was one of the big things we aimed to address in Uprising. Territory control is a foundational aspect of EVE Online and we wanted to make it easier to find and participate in the action. Introducing Frontlines was the first big step in evolving this fundamental system and making it more dynamic.
Along with Frontlines, new ships entered the warzone, existing ships got rebalanced, complexes were reworked to make them fairer and more fun, and all new Battlefield sites were introduced. Together, this has created even more ways for players to get involved in - and be rewarded for – diving into the action.
As mentioned in the Factional Warfare Dev Blog that was released in December, the next big part of the FW equation is already underway. This next update, coming in Q1, will introduce a feature we’re calling Direct Enlistment, which will allow players to join FW without leaving their corp and alliance mates.
Not only did the Uprising expansion overhaul Factional Warfare but it also opened the door to personalization. As a capsuleer, flying your colors allows you to celebrate your allegiance while sending a message to others about who you are. The new Paragon corporation introduced a new currency (EverMarks), along with new agents, stations, and missions that enable you to acquire corporation and alliance emblems. The real beauty, however, is that you cannot simply buy your way into these accolades; you actually need to undock and play. This results in more pilots in space, more opportunities for conflict, and more budding industrialists and traders filling the need created by Paragon. As we move forward, we will add more ways for you to earn EverMarks through your in-game actions. The most recent example of this being the daily login rewards from the Winter Nexus event.
The launch of Uprising saw emblems become available on over 100 ships, with a further 186 new ships added on 15 December. We will continue to roll out emblems for more ships with the next batch planned for later this quarter. You can also expect even more radical customization options in the future - from peacocking your killmarks to marking your space and citadels!
BRINGING MORE PLAYERS INTO THE FOLD
Our ambition has been to ease the pathway for new recruits to become battle-hardened veterans and contribute to the battles raging across New Eden.
Having redeveloped the entry into the game while empowering new players with opportunities to develop the core skills for their spacefaring adventures, we can now shift our focus onto giving them more meaningful roles in the interstellar war effort.
The main design question that we continue to ask ourselves is, “how can we make new players become even more capable and ready to engage with empires, corporations, and alliances?” Much of the Uprising expansion’s focus was geared toward PvP, but we also want to enable different methods of contribution to the war effort that accommodate more playstyles. If lowsec is the warzone, then highsec is the homefront, where bullets are made and boots are stitched for the frontlines.
As we start to look beyond Uprising, we’ll be taking the learnings from Factional Warfare and applying them to other areas of space with one of our focuses being on guiding players into more parts of the sandbox, while smoothing the learning curve for novice pilots so they can become valuable recruits for experienced capsuleers. The war machine requires scores of cogs to run effectively - every capsuleer has a role and purpose, whether it’s fighting for territory on the frontlines or supporting the war effort from the homefront. Every item destroyed requires replacement, driving industry and mining - the backbone of New Eden.
An issue many leaders face is the funding of their organizations. We hear this time and again, where player corporation and alliance leaders of all sizes and areas of space need to lean on taxes from bounties or the goodwill of a few, through donations, to run their organizations. This is simply not sufficient for the myriad of different activities that groups rely on for income such as Abyss running, Loyalty Point (LP) generation, market trading, wormhole blue loot, and more. Allowing more avenues of taxable income will ensure that important programs, like SRPs (ship replacement programs) will continue to allow novice pilots to take the step into more challenging content or encourage more experienced capsuleers to risk larger ships. We have already started experimenting with this through the one-to-one EverMark corporation contributions into the corporation wallet. This was just our first experimentation with a corporation LP wallet and is something we're looking to expand on this year.
On funding, we have prioritized Contested Income (formerly known as passive income) - a source valuable enough to take, hold, and defend. In Uprising, we created several new gameplay systems introduced to Factional Warfare that could also be applied elsewhere. The Frontlines system has shown we can create high conflict zones, which are ideal candidates for these contested income sources since they create areas of vulnerability. We much prefer these high-value sites in areas of substantial risk, rather than having highly defensible systems.
We believe that creating more ways for players to get involved in the war effort will set us on the path to creating the ultimate interstellar war machine, which in turn will make New Eden an even more vibrant place filled with excitement, intrigue, and infinite possibilities.
FRIENDSHIP MACHINE -> WAR MACHINE
You’ve heard us talk about the friendship machine. We believe that the social connections made in New Eden are one of the most important aspects of EVE Online. People create meaningful friendships through fleets, corporations, and alliances. Running and operating these social entities can be very daunting, as well as taking the leap to join them. But getting more players involved is incredibly important, especially in fleets, as EVE is best played with friends. Watching the emerging social organizations form in the warzones has been truly inspiring, where old and new capsuleers join forces in taking on the objectives at hand. This is something we’ve seen in public fleets, such as NPSI fleets, over the years and is something on which we want to put more focus in this next phase of development.
As we enter the next era of EVE Online, we plan to establish a strong social network to foster powerful bonds as we build toward delivering the future of war in New Eden.
THE FUTURE OF EVE EVOLVED
With the Uprising expansion, immersion in EVE has been elevated to even greater heights through visual and audio enhancements backed by significant performance and UI improvements.
The new epic Upwell hangars allow you to marvel at your achievements and really convey a sense of scale for the stations and ships from the safety of the dock. Uprising also saw the release of several audio updates to enhance the sensory experience, and all of this is supported by performance improvements and a modern UI.
Photon UI has been in testing for the past six months and now has an adoption rate of over 91%. Thanks to player feedback there have been several improvements, new features, and fixes made in the process. Expect to see more improvements and a full launch later this quarter bringing with it a full release of multiple overviews and more features.
You can look forward to further visual enhancements on this scale and other powerful improvements to audio and performance coming to the star cluster as we continue to evolve EVE Online into the next decade and beyond.
UPRISING AND BEYOND!
Over the last couple of years, we have carried out important, foundational work that enabled us to build Uprising, our first expansion since 2018. We aim to continue releasing expansions of this caliber going forward, with additional updates, more shiny toys, and riveting world events like the stellar transmuter incident in-between to keep New Eden vibrant, active, and well-balanced.
With the Uprising expansion, we took a big step toward realizing the future of war in New Eden... and yet, there is still so much more to come. We are thrilled to reveal our high-level roadmap for EVE Online for the year ahead:
KICKING OFF 2023
We are kicking off the year with a celebration! EVE’s Lunar New Year will begin on 19 January and alongside this celebration, we will be bringing Simplified Chinese to Tranquility. NetEase has been pioneering the frontiers of EVE Online in mainland China and building the future of our two servers, Serenity and Infinity, for that region. We want to recognize our Chinese-speaking players outside of Mainland China that have built strong alliances and made their mark on New Eden over the past two decades.
Furthermore, toward the end of January the Microsoft Excel plug-in, developed in collaboration with Microsoft, will be soft launching in a closed beta trial. Announced at Fanfest last year, this integration will enable Omega capsuleers to log in and directly pull in-game data into Microsoft Excel. We believe this will level the playing field by providing easy and simple access to in-game data, without requiring coding knowledge. The official launch is planned around EVE’s 20th anniversary in May.
For more on New Eden post-Uprising and the future of EVE, please tune into CCPTV today at 16:00 UTC as CCP Convict, CCP Burger and I will be conducting a deeper dive into the topics from this blog.
As we enter the third decade, we are one step close to our mission of having EVE live on forever. We are incredibly excited as we accelerate toward EVE Online’s 20th anniversary and look forward to sharing more details on new gameplay features and live events throughout this year.
The future is bright, and we look forward to seeing you in space!
o7
CCP Rattati, Game Director
Tune in to the live stream!
Winter Warzone in the Proving Grounds!
Embark into the storm in the next exciting Abyssal Proving Ground event, braving a blizzard of freezing free-for-all combat aboard deadly tech I destroyers!
This event begins at 11:00 UTC on 30 December, and runs until 11:00 UTC on 2 January.
The ruleset is as follows:
- Only the Coercer, Dragoon, Cormorant, Corax, Catalyst, Algos, Thrasher, and Talwar may enter this event.
- 100% boost to afterburner speed.
- 50% reduction to heat damage taken by modules.
- Sensor dampeners, weapon disruptors, and shield boost amplifiers, rechargers, power relays, and flux coils cannot be fitted.
- Maximum of one local repair module per ship (shield or armor).
- Modules and implants are restricted to meta level 0 (basic tech I).
Grab your guns, afterburners, and Proving Ground Filaments (found in Abyssal Deadspace, Pochven, or on the in-game market), and extract glorification from the last storm of the year as you climb the leaderboard and earn special rewards!
WINTER NEXUS OFFERS
Save big and boost your career
For a very limited time you can get 50% off the Bronze, Silver, Gold and Platinum Starter Packs. This is our biggest discount ever off the Platinum Pack, that’s $49.99 in savings!
Bronze Starter Pack – Save $4.99 🎉
Silver Starter Pack – Save $9.99 ⚔️
Gold Starter Pack – Save $24.99 ⭐
Platinum Starter Pack – Save $49.99 ✨
These packs include a fantastic array of SKINs, Omega time, PLEX, Skill Points, and more. But act now, because this offer is only available for a very limited time.
If you want to turbo charge your career in New Eden, Starter Packs can help you reach warp speed. They will help you boost your learning skills, accelerate your career path, unlock bigger and better ships, and add to your wealth.
PLEX Sale
You will be able to get 20% off PLEX packages of 500 and up:
- 500 PLEX – Save $5
- 1000 PLEX – Save $9
- 1500 PLEX – Save $13
- 3000 PLEX – Save $25
- 6000 PLEX – Save $48
- 12000 PLEX – Save $84
- 20000 PLEX – Save $130
NES Sale
The in-game New Eden Store (NES) will also be providing irresistible Winter Nexus offers, Yoiul Star SKINs will return at 20% off from 15 December to 3 January. Make sure you stock up and show off those SKINs, especially as the charge will build up incrementally and then project a star from 25 December onwards.
Pulse – Winter in EVE, End of Year
00:00 - Intro
00:26 - Winter Nexus - Volatile Ice Storms
01:16 - Winter Nexus - Chilling Spree & Abyssal Proving Grounds
01:52 - Winter Nexus - Offers
02:40 - Emblems on more ships
02:59 - Resources realigned
03:34 - Frontlines page
03:52 - Multi-overview & Photon UI
04:26 - New player updates
04:58 - Hangar backgrounds
05:15 - Fanfest player presenters & tickets
05:43 - End of year video
06:01 - Outro
Winter Nexus
Resources Realigned
Frontlines page
Fanfest
End of year video
Patch notes
Let’s celebrate this year in EVE!
Festive capsuleers,
It’s that time of year again, when we feast, exchange gifts, and reminisce about the past. And what a year it’s been! This year has seen exciting developments for EVE Online, including the release of the Uprising expansion, bringing new ships, updates to Factional Warfare, and more space goodies; the welcoming of Spanish speaking players into Nuevo Edén; the return of EVE Fanfest to Iceland; improvements to the new player experience; EVE Evolved setting the course for the future, with features designed to enhance the sensory experience of New Eden like never before; and so much more. New Eden is vibrant and full of life as EVE enters its 20th year, giving us even more cause for celebration.
This year was all about coming together. The EVE community is the lifeblood of New Eden, and this year was an amazing one, full of achievements, accomplishments, and incredible experiences. Together you’ve had fun blowing each other up, exploring the far reaches of New Eden, mining and manufacturing and creating memorable experiences.
There are plenty of reasons to be proud of the year in EVE. Here are just a few:
New Eden was chock full of activity this year, with action, drama, life and death, and most importantly, plenty of conflict and competition.
Now let’s go and smash this year’s numbers in 2023!
Enjoy the holidays and have a very happy new year!
Fanfest 2023 – Calling All Player Presenters
Knowledgeable capsuleers,
With the holiday season upon us and EVE Online’s 20th anniversary just over the horizon, the time has come to put out the call for player presenters at EVE Fanfest 2023!
While there are many exciting things in store for Fanfest, the lifeblood of any EVE gathering has always been the sharing of experiences, memories, connections, and knowledge between capsuleers from around the world. Whether in venue halls, on the Pub Crawl, around Reykjavik, or onstage at Fanfest, we want to provide ample opportunity to share your stories with space friends both old and new alike.
If you are a passionate and articulate capsuleer with a special area of interest in EVE, and are interested in giving a presentation at Fanfest 2023, be it on a playstyle, community, activity, mechanic, lore topic, leadership philosophy, or anything else, send an email by 1 February to communityteam@ccpgames.com with a detailed outline of what you’d like to present.
Presentations should be a maximum of 30 minutes long, with an allotted 15 minutes for Q&A afterward, and any accepted applicant’s PowerPoint presentation must be submitted for review no later than 20 August.
On top of the excitement that comes with presenting your passions to your fellow capsuleers, all accepted presenters will also enjoy a free ticket to Fanfest 2023 (or a refund if you’ve already purchased one), as well as access to special facilities at the venue to relax and prepare for their appearances.
There are still Early Bird tickets available – and whether or not you’re looking to present, there’s always room for more space friends at Fanfest ❤️
Happy holidays; we’ll see you in space, and in Reykjavik next September!
o7
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Winter Nexus
The ever-popular Winter Nexus series of events and rewards from 15 December 2022 until 3 January 2023! There is also a stuffed calendar of in-game updates and improvements to further spread the holiday cheer.
WINTER NEXUS – VOLATILE ICE STORMS
The roaming Volatile Ice Storms will once again provide exciting and unique Wightstorm combat, mining, and hacking sites with awesome rewards across highsec, lowsec, and nullsec. Be sure to use your variety of Ice Storm Filaments from the daily login rewards or loot drops to transport yourself directly to (and from!) the action.
The Wightstorm combat sites will be most challenging – and rewarding – in lowsec space, followed by the nullsec and highsec varieties. The same goes for the hacking and mining sites, and you can expect last year’s Yoiul Festival and 13 Days of Nexus reward SKINs - plus the unique Yoiul Clone trinkets - to drop as loot at these sites for the 2022 event!
Keep in mind that you’ll be able to take advantage of special bonuses inside the Volatile Ice Storms, allowing you to overheat your modules for longer. That should keep the fire burning throughout your enemies’ hulls this winter!
WINTER NEXUS – 13 DAYS OF NEXUS
Getting into the holiday spirit of gifting, the 13 Days of Nexus daily login rewards will once again provide free Skill Points, new Aurora Universalis SKINs, Expert Systems, Ice Storm Filaments, and more from 15 December until 3 January 2023. This year the 13 Days of Nexus login rewards for Omega pilots also include up to 20,000 EverMarks, which you can exchange for corporation and alliance emblems on ships. Omegas will also receive up to 510,000 Skill Points! Log in on 13 of the 19 days of the Winter Nexus celebrations to grab all the rewards!
WINTER NEXUS – YOIUL FESTIVAL & CHILLING SPREE
In addition to the above, the Winter Nexus also includes the daily and seasonal challenges that provide even more rewards for taking part. The Yoiul Festival seasonal challenges and rewards will allow you to unlock more boosters and new Aurora Universalis SKINs for completing activities within Volatile Ice Storms, and the Chilling Spree will offer up Skill Points for hitting fellow capsuleers with snowballs daily!
WINTER NEXUS – ABYSSAL PROVING GROUNDS
If slinging snowballs at each other isn’t enough, you’ll also be able to go nose to nose with your fellow capsuleers in dedicated Abyssal Proving Grounds events, themed around the special Ice Storm environment! You’ll have new opportunities to overheat your modules for longer and get a bigger speed boost from afterburner modules too!
Here are the different formats you’ll be able to tackle throughout the festive season:
- Yoiul T1 destroyer 4-player free-for-all - 30 December - 2 January
UPDATES FOR NEW PLAYERS
As part of the ongoing improvements made to help fresh capsuleers enter the universe of New Eden more seamlessly and find their path, career agent mission updates have arrived just in time for the holiday season. This includes UI guidance improvements throughout the Industrialist paths, tweaks to mission objectives, reward rebalancing, more clarity in mission text, and more. One of the main outcomes has been an observed rise in the new player completion rate for these missions. With today’s release, you will continue seeing improvements such as these made to career agent missions.
In addition, an introductory short mission has also been added to guide players through the ship personalization process. The journey incudes being introduced to IRIS, receiving a Paragon gift crate, assembling and boarding a destroyer, learning about the PLEX Vault and wallet, then purchasing, redeeming, and activating a SKIN through the ‘Personalization’ tab. Be sure to check out the patch notes for full details.
Furthermore, the AIR Career Program will see an update later this week with better visuals and usability changes that will improve the experience of new capsuleers.
WINTER NEXUS OFFERS
The in-game New Eden Store (NES) will also be providing irresistible Winter Nexus offers, Yoiul Star SKINs will return at 20% off from 15 December to 3 January. Make sure you stock up and show off those SKINs, especially as the charge will build up incrementally and then project a star from 25 December onwards.
If all of that is not enough to sate you this season, for a limited time, any purchase you make in the EVE Merch Store will come with a free SKIN bundle for the character of your choice.
The SKIN bundle includes:
- Rokh Aurora Universalis SKIN
- Gila Aurora Universalis SKIN
- Jackdaw Yoiul Star SKIN
- Oracle Yoiul Star SKIN
Check out the main EVE Merch Store or EU Merch Store and treat yourself or a friend. The offer expires at 23:59 UTC on 24 December, so don’t miss out!
This time of year is synonymous with reflection, so it’s the perfect opportunity to mention that the 2022 end of year EVE Online video will be coming next week and will highlight collective capsuleer achievements in New Eden. In addition, if you subscribe to our mailing list, you will receive an email containing some of your own personalized 2022 EVE Online statistics!
The Future of War Correspondence
Following the new Uprising expansion, New Eden is buzzing with activity. Factional Warfare affects everyone, no matter who you side with or fight for. It can therefore be imperative to stay on top of the latest developments on the Frontlines, and it is now easier than ever to get an overview of the skirmishes and conflicts brewing.
There is now a brand new and exciting Frontlines page up and running, delivering live updates on the state of Factional Warfare in New Eden. The page features maps of conflict hotspots, information on the warzones, and a new video outlining how Factional Warfare works. Even more data will be added to the page throughout 2023.
Don’t miss the latest conflict developments, capsuleers! Visit the Frontlines page now and get in the loop!