EVE Online: Gateway - Revamped early parts of the game!
EVE has launched a massive overhaul to the New Player Experience, an upgrade to the skill system, and updates to EVE’s new player resource, EVE Academy. You can also dive right in and get involved in the in-game celebrations, even as a brand-new player. Better still, join free now to receive generous daily gifts as you experience space like never before alongside thousands of other new players. Play free now!
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EVE Online is the largest space MMO there is, meshing elements of PvE, industry and exploration together with real political intrigue the gaming’s biggest PvP battles. New players can jump right in and get involved in countless activities as a free to play Alpha Clone, flying over 350 fully customizable ships.
Play EVE for free on Steam today and join the legendary community responsible for continually smashing gaming records over the past two decades.
2v2 Interceptor Clash
Maverick Capsuleers,
Rush into intense two-on-two combat in the Proving Grounds, flying in tandem alongside a partner in intense Interceptor combat against an opposing pair of victory-driven pilots in this new Abyssal Proving Ground event!
This event begins at 11:00 UTC on 1 October, and runs until 11:00 on 5 October.
The ruleset for the event is as follows:
Malediction, Crusader, Crow, Raptor, Ares, Taranis, Stiletto and Claw may enter
Modules and drones are limited to meta level 5
No pirate implants allowed
Fit your ship, find a partner, and grab your filaments – available in Abyssal bioadaptive caches, in NPC wrecks in Pochven, and on the in-game market. Prepare for a battle for high-speed superiority as you and your teammate climb the Proving Ground leaderboards, striving for glory and earning special rewards!
10% off Foreman, Destroyer & Black Ops Packs
Thrifty Capsuleers,
You can now get 10% off the specialist Foreman, Destroyer, and Black Ops Packs in the EVE store packs page], but only until 11:00 UTC on 10 October! In addition, you have until 14 October to get your hands on the new Glass Semiotique monocle to customize your character, available now in EVE Online’s New Eden Store.
The Black Ops Pack includes 6 months of Omega, 2860 PLEX, half a million Skill Points, 6 months of Multiple character training, awesome Fireblade Guerilla SKINs, Expert Cerebral Accelerator and Blood Raider apparel.
The Foreman Pack brings great value to industry-minded Capsuleers. This awesome pack contains a wealth of PLEX, Omega time, Skill Points, 3 months of Multiple Character Training, Expert Cerebral Accelerator, magnificent Capsuleer Day XVIII SKINs for the Rorqual, Orca, and Porpoise, plus character apparel.
The Destroyer Pack offers PLEX, half a million Skill Points, boosters, a character implant and four stunning SKINs for destroyer class ships.
Last but by no means least, the spectacular Glass Semiotique monocle is available in EVE Online’s New Eden Store for two weeks until 11:00 UTC on 14 October, so this is your only chance before it's gone forever! Wear this coveted cosmetic today and join the exclusive monocle owners club while you still can.
EVE Academy – Fitting your ship
Academic Capsuleers,
A new tutorial has been added to EVE Academy! This video will help you get started with ship fitting as a part of the Enforcer 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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Picking and fitting your ship for purpose is the most important way to ensure your success in an upcoming Security mission. Generally, progression from level 1 to level 4 missions will involve stepping from a Tech 1 (T1) frigate to a T1 destroyer for level 2 missions. Level 3 missions can be completed in a cruiser or battlecruiser depending on skills and fit, and level 4 typically requires a well-prepared battleship. The progression path of any faction's ships can be seen in the in-game ship tree.
You can increase your chances of success by ensuring that you fit armor or shield tank modules which improve your resists against the damage types of the specific enemy you are fighting. This information can be found in the Show Info tab of most hostile NPCs. Additionally, PvE in EVE commonly requires that you stay and fight for an extended period of time. This means that fits for missions are better suited to fitting active shield or armor repair modules - Shield Boosters and Armor Repairers. -EVE Academy, Enforcer
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! Visit EVE Academy
Summon the Swarm
Brave Capsuleers,
Brace yourselves to open the portal to a new form of capital gameplay coming to New Eden! The CONCORD Rogue Analysis Beacon is a deployable that has been developed for use by Capsuleers to aid in the research of the increasing number of aggressive Rogue Drones appearing around the cluster.
Taking this device into Lowsec or Nullsec will allow you to anchor it where it will attempt to scan for data on nearby Rogue Drone threats. If the scan completes you will be handsomely rewarded! However, beware of local rogue drones who may try to destroy your beacon before it gathers any intel.
A CONCORD Rogue Analysis Beacon can be anchored by any ship, but must be linked to by a ship capable of supporting its operation - a dreadnought, carrier, supercarrier, or titan. During the powering up phase, the beacon will utilise power from the supporting capital, rendering it stationary for a time. After this powering-up phase, the supporting capital is freed from immobilisation. The beacon will now activate and broadcast a signal calculated to be attractive to the Rogue Drone hordes hunting for technology to salvage.
There will be more information about this deployable soon, but you can discover the feature yourself today on Singularity. So make sure you head over to the test server to try out this exciting new content and leave any feedback you have in the forum thread!
Get ready Capsuleers. Fit your capitals and prepare yourself to summon the swarm!
A new tutorial has been added to EVE Academy! This video will teach you the basics of EVE’s markets as a part of the Industrialist 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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Accessing the market to buy or sell items is very simple. The regional market can be opened straight from your Neocom where sell orders are displayed above buy orders alongside graphs of price history, quantity, and trading volume per day. Sell orders are other Capsuleers offering to sell their items for ISK and buy orders serve as the opposite - pilots putting down ISK in advance if you have the right item to sell to them.
Most trading activity takes place in and around the market hub known as Jita 4-4, though other, smaller trade hubs do exist in popular PvE or PvP locations. If you're savvy enough to spot a deal then it's very possible to turn a profit by hauling goods or simply buying low and selling high. -EVE Academy, Industrialist
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!
In celebration of the sixth anniversary of Empress Catiz I’s coronation as Empress of the Amarr Empire, the Crown and Sword SKINs are returning to EVE Online’s New Eden Store!
The colors and patterns of this SKIN series symbolize the Pax e Kilizhi Do, the theological foundation of the Empress’s vision for Empire’s future and her invocation of the ancient doctrine that the ruler of the Amarr Empire wields the sword of spiritual authority alongside a sword of temporal power – a doctrine known as the Peace of Two Swords.
These SKINs will be available for the Imperial Navy Slicer, Vengeance, Malediction, Anathema, Purifier, Confessor, Zealot, Sacrilege, Curse, Devoter, Oracle, Prophecy, Damnation, Apocalypse, Apocalypse Navy Issue, Armageddon, Armageddon Navy Issue, Abaddon, Redeemer, Revelation, Providence, Ark, Apostle, Archon, Aeon, and Avatar.
Show your support as we enter the next year of Empress Catiz’s rule, and fly clad in this bold representation of her holy will - get them while you can!
Save 50% on 3 months of Omega and 3 months of Multiple Character Training (MCT) until 30 September!
For a limited time only, you can train skills on an additional character at the same time as your primary character with Multiple Character Training (MCT) for 3 months! This limited time additional training slot is activated as soon as you purchase this combined offer of a 3 month Omega package and the MCT for a total of 48.85 USD / 48.85 EUR / 38.99 GBP by 11:00 UTC on 30 September, so start adding skills to your additional character's training queue immediately!
MCT will allow you to train skills on multiple characters on the same account simultaneously. Along with Omega giving you double training speed and access to all skills in EVE, you can use this offer to significantly advance skill training potential across your characters and get closer to your goals in New Eden!
As part of the Gateway Quadrant, the brand-new Researching the Rogues event is now live in EVE Online! This is a great time to dive into New Eden with Researching the Rogues, which offers daily challenges and rewards, daily login gifts, plus combat and hacking sites until 11:00 UTC on 4 October.
Also, as EVE Online has just launched on the Epic Games store, there are exciting new packs in the EVE Store, so there’s plenty to celebrate and get involved in right now!
Researching the Rogues
Rogue Drones have been a regular nuisance and threat in recent years across the cluster, but now Capsuleers are urgently being called upon by the Association for Interdisciplinary Research (AIR) to defend their research sites from attack by these drone assailants.
There are all-new combat and exploration sites across all space, with the greatest rewards available in Lowsec from Advanced Drone Outgrowth Colony and AIR Rogue Drone Researchers sites. The combat sites are designed to be run only by tech 1 frigates, faction frigates, and tech 1 destroyers. Rewards include new AIR SKINs, returning Cryptic Mimesis SKINs, cerebral accelerators, new time-limited AIR scanning boosters, returning blueprint copies for the 'Subverted' JVN-UC49 drone, plus overseer’s personal effects that can be sold in-game for ISK.
Adding to the allure of these sites, a series of combat and exploration challenges will unlock further rewards such as more AIR boosters and new AIR Laboratories SKINs for Sisters of EVE ships when successfully completed.
On top of all that, there will be free daily rewards for logging in to EVE during Researching the Rogues, with Omega Capsuleers getting even better rewards than Alphas. The daily login rewards include AIR boosters, new Semiotique Sports SKINs, and thousands of Skill Points. Remember, if you upgrade to Omega after the event has started, you can claim any Omega rewards missed.
All of the above will run until 11:00 UTC on 4 October, so there’s no time to lose!
Epic Games Store Launch & New Packs
EVE Online is now available via the Epic Games store, providing a fresh gateway into New Eden for eager Capsuleers taking their first steps in this universe of opportunity and adventure. To celebrate their arrival and this occasion, brand-new Bronze, Silver, and Gold Starter Packs, plus a Cyber Suit Pack have been launched in the EVE Store! These packs contain Omega, PLEX, thousands of Skill Points, as well as stunning Semiotique Superluminal SKINs and apparel.
Each pack is available for purchase once per account, paving the way for Capsuleers to warp straight into the action in style, with boosted skill training and PLEX to spend!
New Eden Store
To further celebrate the launch of EVE in the Epic Games store, you can now buy the fantastic new Semiotique Superluminal SKIN on the popular Astero and Stratios Sisters of EVE ships for 110 PLEX each in EVE Online’s New Eden Store.
Used by elite corporate executives and celebrity brand ambassadors of one of New Eden's largest FTL communications corporations - Semiotique Superluminal - this glamorous SKIN is the ultimate way to stand out from the Capsuleer crowd.
There’s no better time than today to start playing EVE, or to dive back into the buzzing spacelanes of New Eden: as we enter the Gateway Quadrant, we’d like to share our plans to bring you a wide variety of streams in coming weeks.
Tune in to the CCP TV channel for classes, developer interviews, hangouts, EVE partner streams, and more – providing all kinds of content for both veterans and new players alike!
Here is a glimpse of what lies ahead with additional content added on a regular basis:
And alongside this fun and informative content, be sure to check out the currently discounted Starter Training Boost bundle, alongside other available offers, for a useful head-start boost to your skill points and training speed!
We’re looking forward to bringing you a content-filled and fulfilling Quadrant with Gateway, and can’t wait to show you all the streams ahead: keep an eye out for upcoming broadcasts, and see you in space!
