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• Patch Notes - Version 22.02

  9. April 2025 11:00

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  Greetings,

  The following page will list patch notes for all updates within this release (Version 22.02). We invite you to join the player discussion about the content of this release on EVE Online forums:

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  Initial Release Date: 2024-11-12 Last update: 2025-04-09

  🤝 - Indicates a change inspired by the player's feedback or suggestions.

  Patch Notes for 2025-04-09.1

  Features & Changes:

  Zarzakh

  • Construction complex around the Deathless Shipcaster in Zarzakh has been removed.

  • Infomorph Decryption Trader and Atavum Research Trader, at Warden site in Zarzakh, have had their graphics updated, to better reflect its Deathless origin.

  Defect Fixes:

  Graphics:

  • Fixed an issue with flickering decals on the Enforcer while fitted with the Empyrean Outlaw SKIN.

  • Fixed spotlights on various Shattered Paradigm SKINs so that their brightness is increased correctly with ship speed.

  • Fixed flickering smoke trail visual effects on Triglavian Generator wreck.

  • Various issues with the Aegis, Federal Police, Imperial Police, Republic Police, and State Police SKINs have been fixed: all non-Gallente hulls now have the latest Police VFX and geometry, lights now blink correctly in idle vs. warp state, lights floating off the ship hulls are now attached correctly to the ship.

  Technical:

  • MacOS systems with an AMD GPU and certain graphic settings will no longer crash.

  • General stability improvements.

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  Patch Notes for 2025-04-02.1

  Defect Fixes:

  Technical:

  • Fixed failing client start by providing proper VC library version.

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  Patch Notes for 2025-03-31.1

  Defect Fixes:

  Graphics:

  • Fixed an issue on Mac where the tactical overlay was broken with FSR1 enabled.

  • Fixed an issue where killmarks wouldn’t show on Tech 3 Strategic Cruisers.

  • Fixed a transparency issue with certain hair styles.

  • Fixed a rare situation where the client may become unresponsive.

  Localization:

  • Removed trailing whitespaces, and extra whitespaces from several eve types.

  User Interface:

  • Fixed issue that caused expert systems rewarded from the Air Career Program to be non-consumable. Expert systems should now be consumable from the inventory.

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  Patch Notes for 2025-03-27.1

  Defect Fixes:

  Gameplay:

  • Fixed an issue that allowed boosters and expert systems claimed through the ACP to be tradeable on the market and contracts.

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  Patch Notes for 2025-03-26.1

  Features & Changes:

  Air Career Program:

  • Migrating rewards from the redeem queue to being character bound. Item rewards will be delivered to ship cargo, home station or to the current station the character is currently in. Skill Point and ISK Rewards will be automatically redeemed to the Characters account.

  Defect Fixes:

  Graphics:

  • When using the star map on macOS, with low shader settings, the image will now render correctly on all GPUs.

  User Interface:

  • Thousand separators are now properly showing on Win11 computers using French settings.

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  Patch Notes for 2025-03-25.1

  Features & Changes:

  Graphics:

  • Updated several event booster icons so the numerals are now on the left side rather than the right side.

  Defect Fixes:

  Gameplay:

  • When changing the reinforcement time of an upwell structure or flex structure, the mail sent will now correctly state that it takes 30 days instead of 7 days.

  • Added a warning for someone attempting to open a filament while a fleet member is coming out of warp or in warp invulnerability, which would prevent them from becoming linked to the trace.

  Graphics:

  • Updated the icons for scripts which can be loaded into sensor boosters and remote sensor boosters so that they now use the updated icons.

  • Energy and Workforce Skyhook graphics now display correctly according to type of Skyhook.

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  Patch Notes for 2025-03-24.1

  Defect Fixes:

  Graphics:

  • FSR 1.0 now works correctly on macOS

  • Due to a cloning accident, some capsuleers received an unintended beard shave, resulting in an outbreak of "capsuleer babyface." Clone bay engineers have identified and fixed the cause of the missing beards. They extend their thanks to ‘Redbeard XIII’ for reporting the issue—who now has their handsome looks restored.

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  Patch Notes for 2025-03-21.1

  Features & Changes:

  Miscellaneous:

  • 7 new billboard ads have been added to the rotation.

  Defect Fixes:

  Technical:

  • Some Intel integrated graphics cards with outdated drivers had stability issues or would not launch after a recent update. A workaround has been implemented that forces these cards to use DirectX 11, regardless of the setting in the EVE Launcher. If you experience a problem with the client not opening, please update your graphics card drivers. This has resolved the issue in almost all cases. You can usually find the latest drivers on the graphics card manufacturer's website (NVIDIA, AMD, Intel). If you have an older system, you should also check the computer manufacturer's website (Dell, Lenovo, HP, etc.)

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  Patch Notes for 2025-03-19.1

  Features & Changes:

  Drifter Crisis:

  • Fleets larger than 2x a site’s optimal size will no longer receive payouts or complete challenges.

    • Optimal fleet sizes are shown within a site's Opportunities page.

    • For example, if a Lancer Counter Offensive fleet is larger than 10 people, no rewards will be given.

  • Increased the rift closing timer within Deepflow Rift sites to 18 minutes (from 15).

  • Added a bonus payout when players retrieve all possible canisters within a Deepflow Rift site.

  • Increased the amount of points awarded when completing a Vigilant Dreamer challenge.

  Sov Anomalies:

  • Sites will now appear when a Sov Hub upgrade is activated, and you will no longer need to wait until the next downtime for them to spawn - but they will only start to appear after their usual respawn timer.

    • For example, if you install a Major Threat III Upgrade, then the sites will start appearing 12 minutes after you have installed and onlined the upgrade.

    • An Isogen Prospecting Array II upgrade would take just over 4 hours for the Griemeer deposit to spawn, and 10 hours for the guaranteed Large Mercoxit Deposit to spawn.

  • Turning off a Sov Hub upgrade before its site spawns will cancel the pending spawn.

  • Sites will now be removed if their Sov Hub upgrade is turned off, regardless of whether it's in space or pending spawn.

  Defect Fixes:

  Drifter Crisis:

  • Deepflow Rift challenges will now progress when a site is completed.

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  Patch Notes for 2025-03-18.1

  Features & Changes:

  Graphics:

  In this release we are bringing a GPU Driven Pipeline to EVE, allowing for better performance in busy scenes. Read more in the devblog here: EVE Evolved: More FPS for less CPU | EVE Online

  To accomplish this, we have made several major low level changes to our graphics engine, Trinity. We have tested this in 3 separate masstests with hundreds of people, along with internal testing across many different configurations, but if you notice anything that looks wrong please press F12 in the client and file a bug report.

  We strongly recommend that you update your graphics card drivers to the latest available version.

  Balancing:

  • 🤝 The Medium Mercoxit Mining Crystal Optimization I has been renamed to Medium Deep Core Mining Optimization I and now provides a bonus to all Deep Core Miners rather than just Mercoxit Mining Crystals specifically. This will still mean that Deep Core Miners will mine less than standard strip miners for regular ore, but now the bonus will be applied to the new ORE Deep Core Strip Miner which can’t load mining crystals.

  Localization:

  • Paragon Hub - Targeted only at me is now Exclusive Listings.

  User Interface:

  • It’s now possible to set a hotkey for broadcast - Repair Target.

  • It's now possible to see pinned stations in the asset search window, and hidden stations are now ignored and not shown. (Note: Pinned stations will not always be shown if they don’t meet the criteria of the search, i.e. you have a caldari navy station pinned but search for federation navy).

  Defect Fixes:

  Graphics:

  • Image stability when using anti-aliasing has been significantly improved. This reduces the flickering effect that can be seen on thin geometry in the game.

  • Some small weapons like the Light Neutron Blaster no longer have shadows that occasionally flicker.

  • When using an IntelARC graphics card and DirectX11, an issue that caused the scene to flicker will no longer happen. Please ensure you’re on the latest graphics drivers for this issue to be resolved completely.

  • Various client stability improvements.

  Gameplay:

  • Fixed an issue which could cause sites to have a longer respawn time than intended the first time they respawn after being installed.

  • It’s now possible to store a fleet as a fleet member (It was only working for the boss before).

  • Travel Filaments can no longer be activated on a deadspace grid.

  User Interface:

  • Fixed issue in which saving an existing SKIN design with a new hull did not update the icon in SKINR.

  • Fixed an issue that caused excessive brightness on windows when transparency was reduced.

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  Patch Notes for 2025-03-13.1

  Features & Changes:

  Drifter Crisis:

  The challenges for the Race for the Hives event did not complement the group-focused nature of the content. Some roles were underserved, and some challenges acted as roadblocks. As such, we have decided on an overhaul.

  • New Race for the Hives challenges have been added:

    • These replace the existing challenges.

    • Each of the 5 Crisis sites and the Deepflow Rift site have been given a ‘Complete Site’ challenge:

      • Only characters eligible for a site’s payout will be counted as completing the challenge.

      • The points value of each challenge varies, but the overall points per challenge have increased significantly.

    • All 6 challenges will be active simultaneously, allowing players to pick the content that suits them.

    • Note: existing faction and event track progress will not be affected by these changes.

  • Contribution earned when salvaging Battle Wreckage within Field Rescue sites has been greatly increased.

    • Note: the top contributing fleet will earn the site’s payout.

  User Interface:

  • 🤝 It’s now possible to use Broadcast Repair Target from the right click menu in the watchlist.

  Defect Fixes:

  Drifter Crisis:

  • Fixed an issue that could cause Obliviating NPCs to not attack within Deathless Research Outpost sites.

  Gameplay:

  • Fixed not being able to swap to Invention jobs in the Industry window.

  User Interface:

  • The Navy Scan Rangefinding Array module now correctly has a variations tab.

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  Patch Notes for 2025-03-12.1

  Features & Changes:

  Ansiblex Gates & Force Projection:

  • Ansiblex Jump Gates

    • It’s no longer possible to use an Ansiblex while warp disrupted or inside a bubble.

      • Ansiblex Jump Gates have been renamed to Ansiblex Jump Bridges for more clarity on not being able to use them while warp disrupted anymore.

    • Reduced the Radius attribute on the Ansiblex Jump Bridge from 13,000m to 7,000m.

      • This will mean that it now takes up much less volume/area in space and will be easier to camp with warp disruptors and bubbles.

    • Ansiblex Bridges no longer auto-repair, no longer have a damage cap and now use the same reinforcement flow as Metenox Moon Drills.

      • Ansiblex HP values and resistances have been rebalanced following this change, to provide an increase to their total EHP while giving them higher resistances and lower flat HP to make them easier to remote repair for logistics pilots.

        • Shield HP and Armor reduced from 750,000 HP to 500,000 HP.

          • (Note: These are increased by 4x when it is high power).

        • Shield and Armor Resistances increased from 20% to 75%.

        • Structure Hitpoints increased from 3,000,000 HP to 12,000,000 HP.

    • Ansiblex Bridges can no longer be placed closer than 100,000km to stargates.

      • Existing Ansiblex Bridges will be grandfathered into their current locations, but once destroyed, they will need to be placed at least 100,000km away from the nearest stargate to be replaced.

  We’re making a number of changes to Ansiblex Bridges to limit their force projection power. We’re doing that primarily through giving players more agency by making them more difficult or dangerous to use in contested space, removing the damage cap and requiring them to be manually repaired just like Metenox Moon drills, and requiring new Ansiblex bridges to be placed off grid from stargates to make scouting from the gate harder, rather than introducing new systems or mechanics which limits their use such as jump fatigue.

  Our goal with these changes is to make sure nullsec line members and sov holders are still able to use Ansiblex bridges to access the core space that their alliance controls, so that they can still efficiently do daily activities such as mining, ratting, PI, Mercenary Dens, refueling and logistics work without impeding them with a system like fatigue. While opening up more gameplay options to counter force projection, such as delaying responses and fleets with defensive Interdictor and bubble usage, making them more dangerous through increasing the ability for players to setup traps like bombing runs and pipebombs, and to give more options to raiders and roaming gangs by making them easier to camp, and increasing the burden of maintaining distant Ansiblex gates outside of the alliances core space.

  Ship Warp Speed Changes:

  • The warp speeds of all ships have been adjusted to bring them all together for similar sizes of ships.

  Overtime, we’ve adjusted and rebalanced different ship class warp speeds, most recently in 2019 and they are now fairly inconsistent with some ships like Heavy Assault Cruisers having the same warp speed as Stealth Bomber Frigates and Tech 1 Destroyers, while industrial ships such as haulers and mining barges which are also the same size (M) are slower than some battleships.

  This can make it difficult for new players to understand the relationship of warp speeds between different size classes of ships and Tech II ships currently have faster warp speeds than Tech I ships, even when it doesn’t always make sense for their specialized role, like the above-mentioned heavy assault cruisers warping faster than regular cruisers. Tech II ships from the size above are also competing with the tech I and navy size below for warp speeds, which makes it is harder to justify bringing smaller classes of ships. This also contributes to unhealthy ‘force projection’ since stronger, more powerful ships, are also able to cross the universe faster.

  We have made the following changes to address these issues.

  • Grouped up all ships based on their size, such as Small, Medium, Large and Capital. Removing the 10% or +0.5AU/s bonus from Tech II ships.

  • Ships that are slightly bigger than this size category, such as Destroyers for small, Battlecruisers and Haulers for Medium etc. are placed in a plus sized group.

    • This leaves us with just 7 base warp speed tiers rather than the current 13!

  • Tech II ships which need the increased warp speed for performing their specialization, such as Interceptors and Interdictors, have been given role bonuses to warp speed to keep their current warp speeds about the same while making these ships easier to identify for new players.

  • The Net result from these changes are that Titans, Freighters, Mining Barges, Exhumers, Haulers will now warp 10-15% faster, The Porpoise and the Orca get improvements of 25-30% and most Tech II ships which are not specialized will warp slightly slower.

  Below is a table with the new warp speeds for every class and size of ships:

  Size	Ship Class	Warp Speed	Notes
  S	All Frigates and shuttles	5.0 AU/s	Covert Ops & Interceptors gain 60% warp speed role bonus
  S+	All Destroyers	4.5 AU/s	Interdictors gain 25% warp speed role bonus
  M	All Cruisers	4.0 AU/s
  M+	All Haulers, Mining Barges, Exhumers, Battlecruisers, Porpoise	3.5 AU/s	Agility focused Haulers get 30% warp speed role bonus Blockade Runners gain 75% warp speed role bonus
  L	All Battleships	3.0 AU/s
  L+	Orca	2.5 AU/s
  Cap	All Caps	1.5 AU/s

  Included below are the old warp speed tiers for reference:

  Ship Sizes	Ship Groups	Warp Speed
  S	Interceptor, Covert Ops	8.0 AU/s
  M	Blockade Runner	6.0 AU/s
  S / S+	Assault Frigate, Electronic Attack Frigate, Expedition Frigate, Logistics Frigate, Interdictor, Command Destroyer	5.5 AU/s
  S	Frigate, Mining Frigate, Shuttle	5.0 AU/s
  S / S+ / M	Stealth Bomber, Destroyer, Tactical Destroyer, Heavy Assault Cruiser, Heavy Interdictor, Recon Ship, Logistics Cruiser, Agility focused haulers	4.5 AU/s
  M / M+	Cruiser, Command Ship, Stategic Cruiser	4.0 AU/s
  M+ / L	Battlecruiser, Black Ops	3.5 AU/s
  M	Deep Space Transport, Exhumer	3.3 AU/s
  M / L	Mining Barge, Capacity and specialized bay Hauler, Battleship, Marauder	3.0 AU/s
  M+	Porpoise	2.7 AU/s
  L+, Cap	Orca, Lancer Dread	2.0 AU/s
  Cap	Dreadnought, Carrier, FAX, Supercarrier, Jump Freighter, Rorqual	1.5 AU/s
  Cap+	Freighter, Titan	1.37 AU/s

  • Additionally, Capsules will now warp at 4.0 AU/s to match cruisers, which is what they did before the 2019 warp speed increase for Cruisers.

    • We are not buffing the warp speed of corvettes at this time, which still warp at 3.0 AU/s, to make sure we do not obsolete shuttles and tech I frigates as travel options.

  Filaments:

  • A spool-up timer has been added to all travel filaments (Triglavian Space, Needlejack, and Ice Storm).

  • A Filament Trace will appear next to the travel filament’s owner on activation:

    • Nearby fleet members without capsuleer log-off timers will become linked to the trace as it appears.

    • Characters will unlink from a trace if they cloak, change ship, or go beyond 30km of the trace.

      • A link cannot be reestablished once broken.

    • If the filament’s owner unlinks from the trace, it immediately closes.

    • Traces can be scanned with combat probes or d-scan.

  • After the spool-up completes, the filament’s owner can jump all characters which remain linked to it:

    • Warp disrupted players will not be jumped.

      • Filament owners will be given a confirmation prompt if characters will be left behind.

    • Traces will close after 15 minutes have passed since it first appeared.

  • Travel filaments can no longer be used on a deadspace grid.

  Filaments have long been a powerful tool for both fast travel and escaping dangerous situations. The addition of a spool-up timer and scannable traces aims to add risk and enable counterplay.

  Below is a table with the new filament spool-up timers:

  Filament	Spool-up Timer
  Standard 1-character filaments	15 seconds
  Standard 5-character filaments	30 seconds
  Standard 15-character filaments	60 seconds
  Standard 25-character filaments	90 seconds
  Pochven ‘Extraction’ 5-character filaments	120 seconds
  Pochven ‘Extraction’ 15-character filaments	180 seconds
  Pochven ‘Devana' 1-character filaments	60 seconds
  Pochven ‘Devana' 5-character filaments	90 seconds
  Pochven ‘Devana' 15-character filaments	150 seconds

  Balancing:

  • Eos

    • 10% bonus to drone damage and hitpoints per level of Gallente battlecruiser has now been split into 2 separate bonuses.

      • 10% bonus to heavy drone, medium drone, and light drone hitpoints and damage.

      • 5% bonus to sentry drone damage and hitpoints.

    • 7.5% bonus to drone tracking per level of command ships has now been split into 2 separate bonuses.

      • 7.5% bonus to heavy drone, medium drone and light drone tracking.

      • 5% bonus to sentry drone tracking.

  We’re making some adjustments to the Eos to specifically target the amount of damage and tracking that it has with sentry drones, while avoiding nerfing regular drone fits. This makes it more similar to the Ishtar which also has lower bonuses for sentry drones.

  • Orca

    • Agility multiplier improved from 2.6x to 2.0x

  The Orca had a higher align time than the Rorqual, so we are correcting this by giving it a significant buff to agility which should have it now be more comparable to the Rorqual and a reinforced bulkhead fitted Bowhead. We need to be careful not to obsolete Freighters, Deep Space Transports as hauling platforms but we feel like we can make this change now since both of those classes are also receiving warp speed boosts at the same time.

  Taking into the account the 25% warp speed buff that it is getting, it should feel significantly more mobile when travelling between systems and mining locations.

  • Heavy Interdiction Cruisers

    • All HICs can now fit the regular Cynosural Field Generator.

  • Interdictors

    • Reduced the web strength of the Stasis Webification Probes launched by Interdictors from 40% to 20%, to reduce how effective they are against brawlers and sig tanking fleet compositions.

  • Burst Jammers (ECM Burst)

    • Can now only be fitted to Battleship Hulls, Hauler Hulls and Command Ships.

  • A009 C13 Wormholes reduced lifetime from 16h to 4.5h.

  Factional Warfare & Pirate Insurgencies:

  • The Pirate FOB will now drop 1.5 billion ISK in average in loot.

  • Regular pirate insurgency roaming NPCs now have a small chance to drop scorched navigation log items which can be turned in at FW LP stores in conjunction with some ISK and LP for a crate containing blueprints for new navy scanning upgrade modules.

  • Rebalanced the number of pilots that get paid when completing multiplayer reward complexes. The new Schema is as follows:

    • Scouts and Smalls are now NVY-2 / PIR-2

    • Mediums are now NVY-3 / PIR-3

    • Larges are now NVY-4 / PIR-4

    • And Opens remain at paying up to 5 players before splitting the rewards.

  • Players will now need to be inside a FW Battlefield site, and within 200km of the entrance beacon to the site for at least 3 minutes to get paid LP.

  • Moved structures which were very close to the Amarr FW warp in for the Minmatar Battlefield so they will no longer bump off from it if trying to approach the central capture point.

  Fleet Improvements:

  • 🤝 Added an option for the boss to disband the fleet.

  • 🤝 It’s now possible to flag yourself as exempt from conduit jumps and the regroup command.

  • 🤝 It’s now possible to set a max fleet size, and save max fleet size and default squad settings to saved fleet setups

  • 🤝 Added a new broadcast command - Repair Target, which can be used in situations when you want your fleet members to remote repair a deployable structure or a player/npc not in your fleet etc.

  Graphics:

  • 🤝 The 4 racial Isotopes from ice products used in fuel and capital ships, such as Oxygen Isotopes, now all have distinct colored icons so you can easily tell what empire they are associated with at a glance.

  • Added new unique icons for the remaining combat boosters which did not have them.

  • New unique icons have been added for Sensor Boosters, Remote Sensor Boosters, Signal Amplifiers, Auto-Targeting systems, Passive Targeting Systems and the Networked Sensor Array.

  • Added new unique icons for the sovereignty hub combat and mining upgrades.

  Mining:

  • New Tier 3 sovereignty mining upgrades have been added! The tier 3 mining locations are designed with Rorquals and large mining fleets in mind, with smaller numbers of asteroids but all of them are very high in volume. Each site contains just under 4x the total ore overall compared to the tier 2 mining sites.

  • Tier 3 sites have a 10 hour respawn timer.

    • Power Cost: 1800

    • Workforce Cost: 18100

    • Blueprints are available for purchase for 1 billion ISK.

  • Large Veldspar Deposit

    • Total site ore volume = 17,000,000 m3

  • Large Mordunium Deposit

    • Total site ore volume = 25,000,000 m3

  • Large Kylixium Deposit

    • Total site ore volume = 13,000,000 m3

  • Large Griemeer Deposit

    • Total site ore volume = 13,000,000 m3

  • Large Nocxite Deposit

    • Total site ore volume = 13,000,000 m3

  • Large Hezorime Deposit

    • Total site ore volume = 23,000,000 m3

  • Large Ueganite Deposit:

    • Total site ore volume = 16,000,000 m3

  • The Power cost of Tier 1 and Tier 2 upgrades have been reduced by approximately 10% each.

    • Tier 2 Power Cost reduced from 1350 to 1220

    • Tier 1 Power Cost reduced from 500 to 450

  • The Tier 2 nullsec sovereignty hub mining upgrade sites, such as the Grimeer Deposit, have been refactored so that approximately 40% of the asteroids in each site have been removed and their ore contents added to existing asteroids in the site, we have prioritized removing the lower quantity asteroids and tried to make sure there is at least one very large asteroid in each site, we’ve also compacted the asteroid belts to move more asteroids closer together.

  • Additionally, after this refactor, the amount of ore in the Tier 2 sites has then also been increased by approximately 10-15%.

    • This means that now, the average asteroid size in all of the sites has been significantly increased.

  • The Tier 1 mining upgrade sites have also had their ore contents increased by approximately 10%.

  • Increased the chance of getting the mining escalation from Tier 2 mining sites by 1.5x

  • The new Tier 3 sites have approximately 2.5x chance over the improved Tier 2 mining sites to get the mining escalation.

  • We have a created a new ‘Enormous Mercoxit Deposit’ site which has 4x the amount of Mercoxit in it than the Large Mercoxit Deposit, and much larger asteroids.

    • Total site ore volume = 960,000 m3

  • Tier 3 mining upgrades will give a guaranteed Enormous Mercoxit Deposit into the system with a 12 hour respawn time.

  • Tier 2 mining upgrades now will also give a guaranteed Large Mercoxit Deposit into the system rather than it being a chance-based spawn, which has an 8 hour respawn time.

  • Tier 3 mining upgrades now also give a chance to spawn the ‘Large Mercoxit Deposit’ in addition to the guaranteed Enormous Mercoxit Deposit site.

  • Tier 2 mining upgrades now also give a chance to spawn the ‘Average Mercoxit Deposit’ in addition to the guaranteed Large Mercoxit Deposit site.

  • Added a new faction ORE Deep Core Strip Miner module which has 0% waste as an option for mining Mercoxit with mining barges and exhumers. It can be obtained from ORE corporation LP stores.

    • Cost/Materials to Purchase:

    • 37,500,000 ISK

    • 56,250 LP

    • 1x Modulated Deep Core Strip Miner II

  • Increased the amount of Pyerite that Mordunium gives when reprocessed.

    • Mordunium: 80 → 84

    • Plum Mordunium: 84 → 88

    • Prize Mordunium: 88 → 92

    • Plunder Mordinium: 92 → 96

  • To help allieviate pressure on R4s and increase the value of Athanors - The magmatic gas fuel cost per hour for a Metenox Moon Drill has been increased from 110 units to 150 units.

  • Most Mining sites spawned by upgrades will now persist their respawn time across downtimes (i.e. they won’t always respawn at downtime even if they were mined out at 10:59).

  Missions & NPCs:

  • The bounties for NPCs which were increased in the update following Revenant before the NPC warp ins were fixed have now been returned to slightly higher than their original numbers, with the exception for the buffs we made to the NPCs that are exclusive to the Forsaken Sanctum and Teeming Horde sites, which are retaining their approximate total site 36% bounty increase.

  • the Objectives Infopanel has been added to abyssal deadspace encounters, so you can now track what room you are in and how many NPCs are remaining.

  Planetary Interaction:

  • 🤝 It’s now possible to restart extractors for a planet from the Planetary Industry window.

    • To do this, the extractors need to have finished their cycle already, it cannot be done to refresh an ongoing extraction which hasn’t completed yet.

  • PI Templates are no longer an opt-in feature preview and have been added as a feature for everyone.

  • Several improvements have been made to the filters for PI Templates.

  • Improved the search function for PI Templates.

  • It’s now possible to rename PI Templates.

  • Using a PI Template with a higher command center level than your character has, will now just upgrade it to your max skill level and try to add as much as it can from the template before running out of resources.

  • 🤝 We now store the height of the window for each tab, so we are not constantly shrinking the windows when you switch tabs and back to them. This applies only to those tabs that do not have max height.

  • 🤝 The sort order of templates is now alphabetical.

  • 🤝 It’s now possible to select multiple pins by holding shift and then swap multiple schematics at once.

  • The routes tab shows the short names for the pins.

  • The text for the transiting routes in the 'Routes' tab is now using a secondary color.

  • Added origin/destination to the 'Routes' tab.

  Science & Industry:

  • Sales Tax has been increased from 4% to 7.5%.

  • Mercenary Dens base Infomorph generation has been lowered from 80-115 (avg 100) to 65-100 (avg 82.5).

  • MTOs now only give 350 bonus infomorphs instead of 500 when completing a MTO for a max development mercenary den.

    • Existing MTOs which have already been generated will still give 500 bonus Infomorphs.

  • The Development levels of Mercenary Dens have been decreased to the following: Development 1, 5%.

    Development 2, 10%.

    Development 4, 15%.

    Development 5, 20%.

  • We are reducing the cost of all capital ships and tech 1 battleships and reducing the costs of T1 Dreadnoughts even further.

  • The Manufacturing cost of All Tech 1 Dreads has been decreased as follows:

    • Revelation:

      • Capital Propulsion Engines required have been reduced from 5 to 4.

      • Capital Armor Plates required have been reduced from 5 to 4.

      • Capital Ship Maintenance Bays required have been reduced from 5 to 4.

      • Capital Turret Hardpoints required have been reduced from 20 to 15.

      • Capital Siege Array required have been reduced from 20 to 15.

    • Phoenix:

      • Capital Propulsion Engines required have been reduced from 5 to 4.

      • Capital Shield Emitters required have been reduced from 5 to 4.

      • Capital Ship Maintenance Bays required have been reduced from 5 to 4.

      • Capital Turret Hardpoints required have been reduced from 20 to 15.

      • Capital Siege Array required have been reduced from 20 to 15.

    • Moros:

      • Capital Sensor Clustes required have been reduced from 4 to 3.

      • Capital Armor Plates required have been reduced from 4 to 3.

      • Capital Propulsion Engines required have been reduced from 5 to 4.

      • Capital Ship Maintenance Bays required have been reduced from 5 to 4.

      • Capital Turret Hardpoints required have been reduced from 20 to 15.

      • Capital Siege Array required have been reduced from 20 to 15.

    • Naglfar:

      • Capital Shield Emitters required have been reduced from 4 to 3.

      • Capital Computer Systems required have been reduced from 4 to 3.

      • Capital Propulsion Engines required have been reduced from 5 to 4.

      • Capital Ship Maintenance Bays required have been reduced from 5 to 4.

      • Capital Turret Hardpoints required have been reduced from 20 to 15.

      • Capital Siege Array required have been reduced from 20 to 15.

  • The Input Materials of all Tech 1 Battleships have been decreased by approximately 25%.

    • Tritanium required has been reduced from 8,000,000 to 5,200,000.

    • Pyerite required has been reduced from 4,000,000 to 2,600,000.

    • Mexallon required has been reduced from 600,000 to 390,000.

    • Isogen required has been reduced from 200,000 to 130,000.

    • Nocxium required has been reduced from 24,000 to 15,600.

    • Zydrine required has been reduced from 6,000 to 3,900.

    • Megacyte required has been reduced from 3,000 to 1,950.

    • Auto-Integrity Presevation Seals required has been reduced from 200 to 150.

    • Life Support Backup Unit required has been reduced from 100 to 75.

  • The Input Materials of the Scorpion has been decreased by approximately 25%.

    • Tritanium required has been reduced from 6,000,000 to 3,900,000.

    • Pyerite required has been reduced from 3,000,000 to 1,950,000.

    • Mexallon required has been reduced from 450,000 to 292,500.

    • Isogen required has been reduced from 150,000 to 97,500.

    • Nocxium required has been reduced from 18,000 to 11,700.

    • Zydrine required has been reduced from 4,500 to 2,925.

    • Megacyte required has been reduced from 2,250 to 1,463.

    • Auto-Integrity Presevation Seals required has been reduced from 150 to 112.

    • Life Support Backup Unit required has been reduced from 75 to 56.

  • The Input Materials of Capital Components have been decreased by approximately 25%.

  Below is a table with the Capital Components changes:

  Component	Material	Old Requirement	New Requirement
  Capital Core Temperature Regulator TypeID: 57487 BlueprintID: 57524	Integrity Response Drones	25	20
  	Self-Harmonizing Power Core	25	20
  	Core Temperature Regulator	50	35
  Neurolink Protection Cell TypeID: 57488 BlueprintID: 57525	Meta-Operant Neurolink Enhancer	20	10
  	Miniature Electronics	100	75
  	Synthetic Synapses	400	300
  Enhanced Neurolink Protection Cell TypeID: 57489 BlueprintID: 57526	Nano Regulation Gate	25	20
  	Genetic Safeguard Filter	100	75
  	Meta-Operant Neurolink Enhancer	200	150
  	Synthetic Synapses	4000	3000
  	Miniature Electronics	20000	15000
  Capital Capacitor Battery TypeID: 21019 BlueprintID: 21020	Megacyte	370	278
  	Zydrine	730	548
  	Nocxium	1500	1125
  	Isogen	15000	11250
  	Tritanium	52000	39000
  	Mexallon	52000	39000
  	Pyerite	190000	142500
  Capital Shield Emitter TypeID: 21023 BlueprintID: 21024	Megacyte	410	308
  	Zydrine	820	615
  	Nocxium	1600	1200
  	Isogen	16000	12000
  	Tritanium	60000	45000
  	Mexallon	60000	45000
  	Pyerite	210000	157500
  Capital Jump Drive TypeID: 21025 BlueprintID: 21026	Megacyte	560	420
  	Zydrine	1200	900
  	Nocxium	2250	1688
  	Isogen	22500	16875
  	Tritanium	80000	60000
  	Mexallon	80000	60000
  	Pyerite	288000	216000
  Capital Computer System TypeID: 21035 BlueprintID: 21036	Megacyte	380	285
  	Zydrine	760	570
  	Nocxium	1500	1125
  	Isogen	15000	11250
  	Tritanium	54000	40500
  	Mexallon	54000	40500
  	Pyerite	195000	146250
  Capital Construction Parts TypeID: 21037 BlueprintID: 21038	Megacyte	280	210
  	Zydrine	550	413
  	Nocxium	1000	750
  	Isogen	12000	9000
  	Tritanium	40000	30000
  	Mexallon	40000	30000
  	Pyerite	140000	105000
  Capital Corporate Hangar Bay TypeID: 24560 BlueprintID: 24561	Megacyte	530	398
  	Zydrine	1050	788
  	Nocxium	2200	1650
  	Isogen	22000	16500
  	Tritanium	75000	56250
  	Mexallon	75000	56250
  	Pyerite	270000	202500
  Capital Sensor Cluster TypeID: 21013 BlueprintID: 21014	Megacyte	380	285
  	Zydrine	760	570
  	Nocxium	1500	1125
  	Isogen	15000	11250
  	Tritanium	54000	40500
  	Mexallon	54000	40500
  	Pyerite	195000	146250
  Capital Propulsion Engine TypeID: 21010 BlueprintID: 21009	Megacyte	380	285
  	Zydrine	760	570
  	Nocxium	1500	1125
  	Isogen	15000	11250
  	Tritanium	54000	40500
  	Mexallon	54000	40500
  	Pyerite	195000	146250
  Capital Armor Plates TypeID: 21017 BlueprintID: 21008	Megacyte	410	308
  	Zydrine	820	615
  	Nocxium	1600	1200
  	Isogen	16000	12000
  	Tritanium	60000	45000
  	Mexallon	60000	45000
  	Pyerite	210000	157500
  Capital Ship Maintenance Bay TypeID: 24558 BlueprintID: 24559	Megacyte	500	375
  	Zydrine	1000	750
  	Nocxium	2000	1500
  	Isogen	20000	15000
  	Tritanium	72000	54000
  	Mexallon	72000	54000
  	Pyerite	256000	192000
  Capital Turret Hardpoint TypeID: 21011 BlueprintID: 21012	Megacyte	250	188
  	Zydrine	520	390
  	Nocxium	1000	750
  	Isogen	10000	7500
  	Tritanium	37000	27750
  	Mexallon	38000	28500
  	Pyerite	135000	101250
  Capital Siege Array TypeID: 21011 BlueprintID: 21012	Megacyte	250	188
  	Zydrine	520	390
  	Nocxium	1000	750
  	Isogen	10000	7500
  	Tritanium	37000	27750
  	Mexallon	38000	28500
  	Pyerite	135000	101250
  Capital Launcher Hardpoint TypeID: 21041 BlueprintID: 21042	Megacyte	250	188
  	Zydrine	520	390
  	Nocxium	1000	750
  	Isogen	10000	7500
  	Tritanium	37000	27750
  	Mexallon	38000	28500
  	Pyerite	135000	101250
  Capital Drone Bay TypeID: 21030 BlueprintID: 21029	Megacyte	230	173
  	Zydrine	450	338
  	Nocxium	900	675
  	Isogen	9000	6750
  	Tritanium	32500	24375
  	Mexallon	32500	24375
  	Pyerite	120000	90000
  Capital Absorption Thruster Array TypeID: 53037 BlueprintID: 53034	Megacyte	302	227
  	Zydrine	604	453
  	Nocxium	2110	1583
  	Isogen	6938	5204
  	Pyerite	41994	31496
  	Mexallon	110416	82812
  	Tritanium	457050	342788
  Capital Radiation Conversion Unit TypeID: 53036 BlueprintID: 53033	Megacyte	334	251
  	Zydrine	728	546
  	Nocxium	2191	1643
  	Isogen	7491	5618
  	Tritanium	45621	34216
  	Mexallon	110413	82810
  	Pyerite	510149	382612
  Capital Ultratidal Entropic Mounting TypeID: 53035 BlueprintID: 53032	Megacyte	386	290
  	Zydrine	876	657
  	Nocxium	2358	1769
  	Isogen	7760	5820
  	Mexallon	45010	33758
  	Pyerite	113826	85370
  	Tritanium	546912	410184
  Capital Clone Vat Bay TypeID: 24547 BlueprintID: 24548	Megacyte	650	488
  	Zydrine	1275	956
  	Nocxium	2500	1875
  	Isogen	22500	16875
  	Mexallon	81000	60750
  	Pyerite	90000	67500
  	Tritanium	325000	243750
  Capital Jump Bridge Array TypeID: 24545 BlueprintID: 24546	Megacyte	1500	1125
  	Zydrine	3000	2250
  	Nocxium	6000	4500
  	Isogen	49500	37125
  	Mexallon	180000	135000
  	Tritanium	200000	150000
  	Pyerite	660000	495000
  Capital Doomsday Weapon Mount TypeID: 24556 BlueprintID: 24557	Megacyte	1000	750
  	Zydrine	2000	1500
  	Nocxium	4000	3000
  	Isogen	36000	27000
  	Mexallon	121500	91125
  	Tritanium	135000	101250
  	Pyerite	500000	375000
  Radar-FTL Interlink Communicator TypeID: 57474 BlueprintID: 57511	Fermionic Condensates	50	40
  	Scandium Metallofullerene	175	130
  	PPD Fullerene Fibers	250	190
  	Methanofullerene	250	190
  	Lanthanum Metallofullerene	250	190
  	C3-FTM Acid	350	260
  	Carbon-86 Epoxy Resin	500	380
  	Fullerene Intercalated Graphite	525	390
  	Graphene Nanoribbons	750	560
  	Terahertz Metamaterials	750	560
  	Fulleroferrocene	875	660
  Gravimetric-FTL Interlink Communicator TypeID: 57475 BlueprintID: 57512	Fermionic Condensates	50	40
  	Scandium Metallofullerene	175	130
  	PPD Fullerene Fibers	250	190
  	Methanofullerene	250	190
  	Lanthanum Metallofullerene	250	190
  	C3-FTM Acid	350	260
  	Carbon-86 Epoxy Resin	500	380
  	Fullerene Intercalated Graphite	525	390
  	Graphene Nanoribbons	750	560
  	Nonlinear Metamaterials	750	560
  	Fulleroferrocene	875	660
  Magnetometric-FTL Interlink Communicator TypeID: 57476 BlueprintID: 57513	Fermionic Condensates	50	40
  	Scandium Metallofullerene	175	130
  	PPD Fullerene Fibers	250	190
  	Methanofullerene	250	190
  	Lanthanum Metallofullerene	250	190
  	C3-FTM Acid	350	260
  	Carbon-86 Epoxy Resin	500	380
  	Fullerene Intercalated Graphite	525	390
  	Graphene Nanoribbons	750	560
  	Photonic Metamaterials	750	560
  	Fulleroferrocene	875	660
  Ladar-FTL Interlink Communicator TypeID: 57477 BlueprintID: 57514	Fermionic Condensates	50	40
  	Scandium Metallofullerene	175	130
  	PPD Fullerene Fibers	250	190
  	Methanofullerene	250	190
  	Lanthanum Metallofullerene	250	190
  	C3-FTM Acid	350	260
  	Carbon-86 Epoxy Resin	500	380
  	Fullerene Intercalated Graphite	525	390
  	Graphene Nanoribbons	750	560
  	Plasmonic Metamaterials	750	560
  	Fulleroferrocene	875	660

  • Combat Battlecruisers and Attack Battlecruisers have had their reprocessed materials updated to the same inputs as the blueprint, so they will now have more accurate (higher) insurance payouts.

  • The Estimated Item Value for multiple items in the game in the manufacturing cost breakdown should now more accurately reflect the value of the finished product.

  Little Things:

  • 🤝 Show number of skill points in queue​.

    • Showcases how many skill injectors may be needed​.

  • 🤝 Added state icons to drones in drone window​.

    • Increased the readability of drone states in the drone window​.

  • 🤝 Market orders in the Market window are default ordered by:

    • Sell orders are lowest to highest.

    • Buy order are highest to lowest.

  • 🤝 Make double-clicking in Orders History bring up market details.

  • 🤝 You can now pin stations to the top of your personal assets window. It is also possible to hide assets.

  • 🤝 You can now jump through Ansiblex’s via the radial menu.

  • 🤝 Added the ability to open multiple fixed item crates.

    • These are crates that always contain the same items and don’t have random loot.

  • 🤝 Buy Orders will now always buy items from the market at the lowest possible value sale orders first at those prices, instead of always buying everything at the buy order price even when there are already existing valid sell orders at a lower price.

    • For example, there might be 3 sell orders for a unit of Tritanium in a station, 1 for 6 isk, 1 for 8 isk, and 1 for 10 isk.

    • You setup a buy order in that station for several units at 10 ISK.

    • Previously, you would have bought all 3 units of tritanium from the 3 sell orders for the buy order price of 10 ISK after setting up the order.

    • You will now, pay 6 ISK for the 1st, 8 ISK for the 2nd, and then 10 ISK only for the last unit and any units after that, that players sell to you.

  Defect Fixes:

  Gameplay:

  • Fixed extra columns in inventory window.

    • Allowing players to show extra columns in the inventory window, which previously wasn’t functional.

  • Missing Slot Categories in Inventory Window.

    • Slot category in the inventory was not functional, we’ve fixed it so that players can now see what slot the item occupies on your ship (if applicable).

  • Fixed the ability to simulate the fit of ships in the corp hanger.

  Graphics:

  • The Rorqual is now able to get upright again while using the industrial siege modules.

  User Interface:

  • 🤝 The order of input materials across different blueprints that have similar should now be more consistent.

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  Patch Notes for 2025-03-11.1

  Features & Changes:

  Drifter Crisis:

  The Race for the Hives has begun!

  • 10 factions are vying for Drifter Wormhole control.

  • Pick your favorite and complete challenges on the reward track.

    • Gain points by completing challenges relating to Drifter Crisis sites.

    • Claim volatile boosters, Drifter SKINR components, and the Drifter Plugsuit.

  • The Top 5 will occupy a Drifter Wormhole system at the event’s end (11:00 UTC, April 3rd, 2025).

    • Note: Points gained after the reward track is completed will continue to be tallied for your chosen faction.

    • Stayed tuned to the New Eden News to learn how well, or how badly, your faction is doing.

  • Warden Connection Harmonics can now be turned in to LP stores as an alternative to NPC buy orders:

    • Search for 'Gratuity for Warden Connection Harmonics' within LP stores of the relevant corporations.

    • These gratuity items can then be sold to NPC order for the standard price.

  • Drifter Crisis Field Rescue sites and Salvage Research Homefront Operation sites have been rebalanced:

    • Wrecks are now significantly easier to salvage.

      • Note: This should be most noticeable for players with lower salvaging skill levels.

    • The number of wrecks within a site has been increased to 30 (from 18).

  • Drifter Crisis Lancer Counter Offensive sites and Dread Assault Homefront Operation sites have been rebalanced:

    • Focused neutralizer NPCs will no longer respawn after being destroyed.

    • Focused neutralizer fleets are now weighted towards Cruisers.

    • Additional focused neutralizer fleets will spawn during the first and second Dreadnought siege cycles.

    • Target structure EHP values and allied Dreadnought damage values have been increased to make directly damaging the structure less viable.

  • NPCs equipped with ECM have been added to Drifter Crisis Lancer Counter Offensive sites.

  Defect Fixes:

  Drifter Crisis:

  • Battle Wreckage within Fleet Rescue sites will now use the empty wreck icon.

  • Triglavian invasion notifications should no longer appear when entering Tabbetzur.

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  Patch Notes for 2025-02-27.1

  Features & Changes:

  Science & Industry:

  • Reduced the amount of minerals gained from reprocessing all abyssal smartbombs.

  Defect Fixes:

  Gameplay:

  • NPCs can no longer spawn at expired desolate asteroid belt locations.

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  Patch Notes for 2025-02-20.1

  Defect Fixes:

  Gameplay:

  • We’re fairly confident that we’ve fixed the root cause for a rare timing defect which could cause some ships to teleport to random locations in space instead of the undock, when undocking from a citadel in a system with heavy load.

    • We would like to give a huge thanks to the ISD ECAID volunteer bug hunter team who were instrumental in being able to reproduce this on our test environment.

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  Patch Notes for 2025-02-19.1

  Defect Fixes:

  Gameplay:

  • It’s no longer possible to activate a disruptive lance from lancer dreadnoughts while inside a POS shield.

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  Patch Notes for 2025-02-18.1

  Defect Fixes:

  Localization:

  • Fixed the name of the “Modified Sleeper Corpse” item.

  User Interface:

  • Info Panel objectives for sites will no longer persist when leaving a site unless it has been tracked manually.

  • Tracked opportunities now show 'Undock' instead of 'Warp to Site' button when docked in a structure.

  • Fixed objectives panel closing prematurely when a dungeon was completed.

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  Patch Notes for 2025-02-13.1

  Features & Changes:

  User Interface:

  • Winter nexus boosters have expired.

  Defect Fixes:

  User Interface:

  SKINR

  • Fixed an issue that caused lines to sequencers to not update when purchasing unlimited design elements in sequencing page.

  • Fixed an issue that did not permit to open the right click menu with limited design elements in the sequencing page.

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  Patch Notes for 2025-02-12.1

  Features & Changes:

  Drifter Crisis:

  • Hacking attempts will now automatically fail after 90 seconds within 'Crisis Resolution: Vigilant Dreamer' sites.

  Defect Fixes:

  Gameplay:

  • Increased the radius of the mercenary den so that players can no longer have issues accessing or ending up inside the model when warping to a mercenary den bookmark if they land on the side facing away from the Skyhook.

  • Fixed an issue with the rogue drone MTO sometimes spawning a 2nd wave on top of the wave of NPCs normally present with the boss.

  Drifter Crisis:

  • Correcting the warp-in location within 'Crisis: Observatory Infiltration' sites.

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  Patch Notes for 2025-02-11.1

  Features & Changes:

  Drifter Crisis:

  • Remove the failure timer from ‘Crisis Resolution: Vigilant Dreamer’ sites.

  • Decreasing the rate of Influence decay over time within high-security Crisis systems.

  • Influence can now be gained incrementally within certain Crisis sites.

    • For example, successfully hacking a Drifter Collection will now give a share of that site’s influence rather than all on completion.

  • Only players within 100km of a Crisis site’s focal point will be considered eligible for payouts. The focal points are as follows:

    • Crisis: Field Rescue — The celestial beacon.

    • Crisis: Observatory Infiltration — The Unmoored Jovian Observatory.

    • Crisis: Deathless Research Outpost — The Wormhole Research Outpost.

    • Crisis: Lancer Counter Offensive — The Destructive Scrutinizer.

    • Crisis Resolution: Vigilant Dreamer — The Vigilant Dreamer.

  • Increasing the maximum number of sites available within each Crisis system.

  PvE:

  • NPCs within Drifter Crisis and Homefront Operation sites can no longer be kited beyond a specific range of their spawn points.

  Defect Fixes:

  User Interface:

  • 🤝Fixed an issue where chat text from EVE System was white instead of red.

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  Patch Notes for 2025-02-10.1

  Defect Fixes:

  Technical:

  • Fixed an issue where certain sounds were not heard, even though they were in range of the camera.

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  Patch Notes for 2025-02-06.1

  Features & Changes:

  Gameplay:

  Drifter Crisis:

  • Added a Patient Beacon which will spawn within a 'Crisis: Observatory Infiltration' site when the lockdown defense fleet modifier is active.

    • This object can be hacked to disable the defense fleet from appearing during a lockdown.

  • Added a minimum amount of contribution capsuleers will need to meet to be considered for a 'Crisis: Observatory Infiltration' site's payout.

  • Added an Info Panel objective which states if the site is in lockdown within the acceleration gate area of a 'Crisis: Observatory Infiltration' site.

  Observatory Flashpoints:

  • Added an Info Panel objective that tracks the current progress of an Observatory Flashpoint site within the acceleration gate area.

    • For example: an alert will appear in the info panel after the EDENCOM dreadnought is destroyed.

  Wormholes:

  • Moved the warp-in location (and capital escalation area) within The Mirror sites significantly closer to the NPC spawn points.

  Technical:

  Local Chat Migration:

  • We are migrating the Local Chat system to Quasar (external services) to address ongoing performance issues and improve the overall reliability of the system.

  User Interface:

  SKINR:

  • Added reroll filter for the randomize in SKINR that will allow selection of specific slots.

  • New banner in Paragon Hub Corp Listing section for players in NPC corporations that offers a direct link to Player Corporations search.

  • Added a new color slot highlight when entering SKINR.

  Defect Fixes:

  Gameplay:

  Drifter Crisis:

  • 'Focused' NPCs will now correctly use their energy neutralizers on the lancer dreadnought within 'Crisis: Lancer Counter Offensive' sites.

  Observatory Flashpoints:

  • The Assault Vector gate will now correctly unlock 60 seconds after the site has been completed.

  Wormhole Capital Escalations:

  • Drifters within C5/C6 combat sites will no longer occasionally warp off immediately after spawning.

  • Drifters spawned within C5/C6 combat sites will no longer disappear when their originating site is despawned.

  Graphics:

  • Added planetary traffic visual effects which were missing from Barren, Oceanic, and Temperate planets.

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  Patch Notes for 2025-02-05.1

  Features & Changes:

  Balancing: Drifter Crisis

  • Influence has been adjusted:

    • Removed Influence loss when failing certain Crisis sites

    • Increased Influence gained when completing Crisis sites

    • 'Crisis Resolution: Vigilant Dreamer' sites will only appear if at least 2 days have passed within a Crisis system

  • Greatly increased the number of Observatory Spectrography items found within 'Crisis: Observatory Infiltration' sites

  • Added a 30-minute failure timer which will start during a lockdown if the short lockdown timer modifier is not active within a 'Crisis: Observatory Infiltration' site

  • Roaming NPCs within Drifter Crisis systems will no longer attack capsules

  PVE:

  • The maximum number of canisters available within a Deepflow Rift site will now scale based on the system's security:

    • High-sec: 21 canisters maximum

    • Null-sec and Wormholes: 27 canisters maximum

    • Low-sec and Pochven: 33 canisters maximum

  Defect Fixes:

  Gameplay: Drifter Crisis

  • Shield resistance penalties will be correctly applied within Drifter Crisis systems

  • Fixed an issue causing Influence values to not display correctly

  • Fixed an incorrect name being shown in the Hack objective shown within 'Crisis: Observatory Infiltration' sites

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  Patch Notes for 2025-01-31.1

  Defect Fixes:

  Structure SKINR:

  • Fixed and issue that prevented the application of colors on structures.

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  Patch Notes for 2025-01-30.1

  Features & Changes:

  Drifter Crisis: Drifter Crisis Systems

  Drifter-controlled forces have begun launching attacks on all four empires throughout high and low-security space! The first systems will become available between 19:00 and 21:00 tonight, with more following as the crisis continues.

  • Systems under attack can be found in the new ‘Interstellar Events’ section of the AIR Opportunities window.

  • Complete ‘Crisis’ sites to weaken the grip the Drifters have on these systems.

  • There are 4 varieties of Crisis site, with a 5th Crisis Resolution site available once the Drifter forces have been sufficiently weakened.

  • Each site requires teamwork and strategy, with specific roles needing to be fulfilled for success:

    • Crisis: Field Rescue — Salvage the wreckage left behind following an empire assault on a Drifter facility to locate any survivors. It is recommended that at least 3 capsuleers tackle this rescue mission. T1 frigates and standard T1 destroyers are permitted.

    • Crisis: Observatory Infiltration — Scan down this site to retrieve valuable relics from the remains of an emergent Jovian Observatory. Bring up to 2 other capsules to maximize rewards, but be wary of any traps the Drifters may have left behind! T1 frigates, destroyers, and standard T1 cruisers are permitted to enter.

    • Crisis: Deathless Research Outpost — A Deathless research base is under attack by Drifter forces. Use remote repair modules to keep the structure alive until it can be secured. Alternatively, destroy it yourself and sell the accrued Hyperspace Telemetry data to the highest bidder. 5 capsuleers are recommended to aid the site; less may be required to destroy it. T1 frigates, destroyers, and standard T1 cruisers are permitted to enter.

    • Crisis: Lancer Counter Offensive — An empire-owned Lancer dreadnought has been deployed to aid a civilian structure. Help it destroy the Drifter presence before its nefarious task can be completed. T1 frigates, destroyers, and standard T1 cruisers are permitted to enter.

    • Crisis Resolution: Vigilant Dreamer — To resolve the crisis within the system, 10 capsuleers are required to bring an end to the Vigilant Dreamer. Using data analyzers, the defensive array protecting this Drifter facility can be disabled allowing it to be destroyed. T1 frigates, destroyers, cruisers, and standard T1 battlecruisers are permitted to enter.

  • Payouts from these sites are awarded to the top contributing fleet alone.

  Deepflow Rifts

  Deepflow Rifts have reemerged across the cluster and wormhole space! Intrepid capsuleers should tread carefully; both the rewards and difficulty of the site have been increased.

  Homefront Operations:

  • Remote capacitor transmission is now less effective on allied Dreadnought NPCs within Dread Assault sites.

  • The effectiveness of enemy NPCs which energy neutralize allied Dreadnought NPCs within Dread Assault sites has been greatly increased.

  • Added a delay to the initial enemy hauler spawn within Raid sites.

  • Increased the variance and average spawn time of enemy haulers within Raid sites.

  • Decreased the access difficulty of salvaging wrecks in Salvage Research sites.

  • Increased the number of enemy NPCs within Salvage Research sites.

  Little Things:

  • 🤝 It’s now possible to open multiple crates at once.

    • Once you’ve opened your first crate, there will be an option to open up to 30 additional crates in the crate window.

  Defect Fixes:

  SKINR:

  • Fixed an issue that affected certain SKINR patterns to appear incorrectly.

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  Patch Notes for 2025-01-21.1

  Defect Fixes:

  Technical:

  • Resolved a crash on macOS when using certain graphical settings.

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  Patch Notes for 2025-01-20.1

  Defect Fixes:

  User Interface:

  • Fixed an issue where SKINR designs were not saving correctly when using the 'Save As' option.

  • Fixed an issue where tag text in NES offers appeared blurry when hovering over banners.

  • Fixed an issue where the "Complete Now" button remained clickable despite insufficient PLEX.

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  Patch Notes for 2025-01-16.1

  Features & Changes:

  Pochven & Triglavian Invasions:

  Observatory Flashpoints:

  The following changes aim to counteract the efficiency of over-filling a site by adding a net loss when more than 15 characters are present. The payouts for the site have been adjusted to offset the additional setup time and risk.

  • Assault Vector gates now require the use of Observatory Resonance Keys:

    • Each character will need their own key to unlock the gate.

    • A key is consumed on use.

    • Keys can be bought via NPC sell orders within Pochven stations for 30m ISK each.

    • 15x Keys will drop as loot from CONCORD Stellar Observatories.

      • Note: Spare keys cannot be sold to NPCs, but can be sold or traded to other characters.

    • Gates will become unlocked for all characters 60 seconds after a site is complete.

  • Payouts have been adjusted:

    • The total optimal payout of the site has been increased to 3.3b ISK (from 3b ISK).

    • Stellar Surveillance Data will now make up 30% of the optimal reward (from 40%).

    • Stellar Surveillance Data now belongs to the new EDENCOM data item group.

    • Greatly increased the number of NPC buy orders for Stellar Surveillance Data.

  • Threshold Werposts will now have a significantly longer cooldown between target switches.

  • Threshold Werposts will now always attack the same target as each other.

  Standings:

  To help make Pochven more accessible, the minimum standings requirements for certain actions have been reduced.

  • Fitting and Repair requirements have been reduced to -0.05 (from 1.00 and 2.00, respectively).

  • Manufacturing and Corporation Office requirements have been reduced to 3.00 (from 4.00).

  • Home system stargate requirements have been reduced to 6.00 (from 7.00).

  • Standings will no longer be gained or lost when destroying either type of EDENCOM GunStar.

  • Standings will no longer be gained or lost when destroying a Stellar Observation Post site’s Stellar Observatory structure.

  System-Wide Effects:

  Last month's change to the Dazh Liminality Locus negatively impacted some playstyles in unintended ways, and as such has been softened significantly. The change also incentivized removing system effects which help make Pochven feel unique, so these have now been split off from the structure.

  • The Dazh Liminality Locus structure has been reworked:

    • Increased the decloaking pulse cooldown timer to 60 minutes (from 6 minutes).

    • Increased the decloaking pulse chance to 60% (from 30%).

    • Removed the system-wide buffs and penalties.

  • Added the removed buffs and penalties as permanent system-wide effects within Pochven:

    • Increased the remote repair bonuses to 30% (from 25%).

  • Added a lesser version of the Pochven system-wide effects to Triglavian Minor Victory systems:

    • Reduced the remote repair bonuses to 15%.

    • Removed the warp speed penalty.

  PVE:

  All Acceleration Gates which consume a key per character activating it have been improved:

  • When a key is consumed, the gate will remain unlocked for that character for the duration of the site.

    • Note: This persists when a character leaves the location or logs out, but resets after a downtime.

  • No keys will be consumed when activating a gate already unlocked for that character.

  Wormhole Capital Escalations:

  The following changes hope to refine last November's changes to capital escalation rules.

  • A combat site can now escalate at any time before the second wave spawns.

  • A combat site will only de-escalate if there is no capital within range after the second wave spawns.

  In summary, a combat site will escalate if a capital ship enters within a 100km range of the warp-in point before the second wave spawns. After that spawn, the site will deescalate if no capital is within range. The Drifter Response Battleship will spawn if the site is escalated when the Decloaked Transmission Relay is attacked. Otherwise, the Drifter Recon Battleship will spawn. A beacon appears while the site is escalated to help players keep track of that state.

  Defect Fixes:

  Wormhole Capital Escalations:

  • Fixed an issue that could cause the incorrect Drifter battleship to spawn following a downtime.

  Localization:

  • Removed text from some DED combat sites that mention keys needed to get into the next room when you actually just need to kill all the NPCs in the room.

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  Patch Notes for 2025-01-15.1

  Features & Changes:

  Graphics:

  • New unique icons have been added for the Power Diagnostic System and the Reactor Control Unit modules.

  • Numerical icons have been added for the Blue Pill, Frentix and Mind Flood boosters.

  Implants & Boosters:

  • Blueprint copies for the Rapture Implant Set have now been added to the Sansha LP Store.

  SKINR & Paragon Hub:

  • Added a PLEX purchase pop-up window for the marketplace or NES. It can be accessed through tooltips across SKINR sequencing page, sequencing jobs or complete now, and buy buttons for SKINS/elements in the Paragon Hub.

  Defect Fixes:

  User Interface:

  • Fixed an issue in the Paragon Hub that caused rows to have empty spaces instead of empty slot cards once an entry was created.

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  Patch Notes for 2025-01-14.1

  Features & Changes:

  Gameplay:

  • Fixed an issue where some items such as Skillbooks were not being sold by NPCs in Caldari Space.

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  Patch Notes for 2025-01-07.1

  Events:

  Winter Nexus has now ended. Thanks for participating.

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  Patch Notes for 2024-12-23.1

  Features & Changes:

  Events:

  A special offer from Paragon:

  • 25% off SKIN sequencing in the Paragon Hub until January 3rd.

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  Patch Notes for 2024-12-17.1

  Features & Changes:

  Triglavian Invasions:

  • Removed the standings loss when destroying Dazh Liminality Locus and Entropic Disintegrator Werpost structures.

  • Increased the signature radius of Dazh Liminality Locus structures.

  Defect Fixes:

  Ship Information Window:

  • Added localization fix of the quote, attribution and designer information for the Bifrost.

  • Added localization fix of the quote attribution and designer information for the Mammoth.

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  Patch Notes for 2024-12-16.1

  Features & Changes:

  Ships:

  Emblem slots have now been enabled on the most recent Alliance Tournament ships.

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  Patch Notes for 2024-12-13.1

  Features & Changes:

  Triglavian Invasions:

  • The Triglavian Invasion section of the Opportunities window will now refresh more frequently.

  Defect Fixes:

  PI Templates:

  • Fixed an issue which would prevent pins from being able to be decomissioned after saving a template.

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  Patch Notes for 2024-12-12.1

  Features & Changes:

  Triglavian Invasions:

  The following changes aim to equalize the amount of information capsuleers have access to within Pochven while offering more counterplay to intelligence-gathering methods.

  • A new Triglavian Invasion section has been added to the Opportunities window

    • This page can only be viewed while within Pochven

    • This page will show all instances of select sites within the region, regardless of range

    • The selected sites are Observatory Flashpoints, World Ark Assault Flashpoints, and Stellar Fleet Deployment Sites

      • Note: Observatory Flashpoint sites will no longer appear within the Combat Anomalies sections of the Agency or Opportunities window

  • Dazh Liminality Locus structures will now periodically emit pulses that can disrupt the cloaking devices of players within their solar system

  • Increased the EHP of Dazh Liminality Locus structures

  User Interface:

  • Added link to SKINR in show info window for design elements.

  • Added a ‘Skill Points Required’ section to the skill training panel in relevant information windows and tooltips.

  Defect Fixes:

  Audio:

  • Warping animation SFX on the Kikimora hasbeen restored.

  • Decloaking SFX on the Zarzakh jumpgates has been restored.

  • Breacher audio (From Breacher Pods) can now be heard on capitals and supercapitals.

  Gameplay:

  • The Caldari Freighter Skillbook is now being sold by NPCs in Caldari School stations again.

  Observatory Flashpoints:

  • Roaming NPCs should once again be able to warp to the Acceleration Vector area of these sites.

  • Subpylon proximity counters should now correctly update when multiple capsuleers enter or leave at the same time.

  Wormhole Capital Escalations:

  • The beacon that spawns during a Capital Escalation can no longer be collided with.

    • Note: The new ‘Local Beacon’ group used by this beacon may need to be added to your Overview if using non-default settings

  Graphics:

  • Front spotlights on Vedmak no longer detached from ship when in attack mode

  • Concord Victory SKINs rotating sirens move smoother

  • Floating gas jet VFX on several hulls have been fixed

  • Bustard standard VFX now correctly affected by armor, shield, hull values of the ship and colored by faction

  • Floating particles on Rorqual during siege mode have been fixed

  • Unique Loggerhead registry decals have been added (previously using Minokawa decals)

  • Removed extra hidden decals within the Crane model

  • The stripe decal on Whiptail is projected on all intended geometry of the model

  • Fixed a texture seam on the Rifter, Wolf, Jaguar, Freki, and Geri engine boosters

  • The tech I versions of the Templar, Equite and Cenotaph should no longer have the Tech II pip on their icon.

  • Addressed an issue where black decals on multiple SKINs were displaying as red

  • The Cenotaph is now properly centered in the fitting window preview

  • Lighting has been reduced during the cinematic ship boarding sequence in FOBs

  • It is no longer possible to play the cinematic ship reveal while undocking

  • Minor fixes and adjustments to various ships during the cinematic boarding sequence

  Ship Information Window:

  • Fixed the quote, attribution and designer information for the Bifrost.

  • Fixed the quote attribution and designer information for the Mammoth.

  • Fixed an issue in the Skills tab where taking any skill action in a Mastery subtab would automatically open the Requirements subtab directly afterwards.

  User Interface:

  • Players who use a non-standard unicode character in the filepath of the PI template folder can now load and save PI templates.

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  Patch Notes for 2024-12-10.1

  Features & Changes:

  PI Templates:

  • You are now able to save your current PI setups as a template as a work-in-progress feature. You can opt-in to test out these templates using the feature previews tab in the settings menu (by pressing 'Esc'). This allows you to share them with other players and your other characters and then import them, allowing you to set up multiple new planetary colonies with much less hassle! Please provide your feedback in this forum thread and suggest additional improvements you'd like to see for this new feature.

  Balancing:

  • We have made adjustments to the base payout ratio and to the components included in Dreadnought reprocessing to increase the insurance payouts for Dreadnoughts closer to their real value. Our current aim is for a Dreadnought to pay about 70-75% of the ship hull value with platinum insurance on death rather than around 15%, which it currently does.

    • NOTE: These changes will not take effect until after the game recalculates insurance payouts, which may take up to 90 days. The Zirnitra has not been included in these changes for now.

  Implants / Boosters:

  • Updated the icons used for the agency boosters to include the level of the booster.

  Miscellaneous:

  • Activity Tracker has been disabled.

  Missions & NPCs:

  • We have lowered the loyalty point cost for Serpentis and Blood NET Resonators from 1000LP to 750LP.

  • Several LP stores which had some faction ammo offers removed earlier in the year have had them restored.

  • Video Fragments from previous events, such as EVE Operation: Epiphany (Finding the Zarzakh gates), will no longer drop from Angel and Guristas NPCs.

  Ship Information Window:

  • When the compact mode is enabled, the sidebar no longer expands on hover.

  • When the compact mode is disabled, the sidebar now collapses immediately when clicking an entry in the sidebar.

  • Removed the super-small-width version of the show-info window.

  • The completion UI has been added to the subtab navigation buttons in the Skills tab, which are in the compact layout of the window.

  • The character’s skill status for the ship has been added to the top of the Skills tab in the compact layout of the window.

  • The Skills tab now always opens on the Requirements subtab.

  • Removed the empty skill squares from the skill entries in the Skills tab.

  • The Variations tab’s ‘Compare All’ button is now anchored and always visible at the bottom of the window.

  User Interface:

  • Skill tooltips now always display their training time.

  • The Opportunities window’s sidebar now collapses immediately when clicking an entry in the sidebar, unless the sidebar is locked expanded.

  • The Corporation window’s sidebar now collapses immediately when clicking an entry in the sidebar, unless the sidebar is locked expanded.

  Defect Fixes:

  Gameplay:

  • Fixed a bug which would have a Skyhook turn back on straight away after you decided to turn it off.

  • Destroying a mercenary den will now update the available workforce on the skyhook for the client UI. It was functioning correctly before, but the updated value wouldn’t show until a new merc den was put down, or the player left the system and came back in, or relogged.

  • Improved the handling of timeouts for mercenary dens.

  Ship Information Window:

  • Double-clicking a skill entry in the Skills tab will now open its info window.

  • Fixed an issue where the window background could update incorrectly when enabling compact mode.

  User Interface:

  • Fixed an issue in the Paragon Hub Collection which caused the preview information of design elements to not get cleared.

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  Patch Notes for 2024-12-06.1

  Defect Fixes:

  Localization:

  • Fixed issue with missing localization on Winter Nexus.

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  Patch Notes for 2024-12-05.1

  Features & Changes:

  Cinematic Ship Introduction:

  We are thrilled to announce the Cinematic Ship Introduction to make your experience of boarding a ship for the first time more immersive, exciting, and memorable. Acquiring a new ship is a significant achievement and this feature transforms this milestone into a visual cinematic moment, highlighting the ship’s design, scale and importance within the game.

  Key Updates:

  Players have full control over how they interact with this feature.

  • Skip Options: Skip the cinematic or turn off the auto-play completely in the settings.

  • Replay Feature: Replay the cinematic while docked by clicking on in the ship context menu, especially useful for showcasing new SKINs or upgrades.

  Events:

  Winter Nexus Event!

  • The Winter Nexus event has returned to New Eden! This ingame event will run until downtime on January 7th 2025.

  • Volatile Ice Storms have begun to appear across highsec, lowsec, and nullsec space. These ice storms spread out across the stargate network two jumps from a central system, and occasionally move from system to system just like metaliminal storms. These storms provide bonuses to ship thermal resistances and module overheating for all capsuleers flying within them. Sansha's Nation and Outer Ring Excavations have both mobilized to take advantage of the novel forms of stellar ice found within these storms.

    • Wightstorm combat anomalies have begun appearing within the Volatile Ice Storms. These sites are full of hostile Sansha's nation vessels, and CONCORD advises capsuleers bring a battlecruiser ship or better when attempting to engage with these forces. The Wightstorm Forward Base site found within storms that originate in highsec space appears to be guarded by the weakest Sansha fleets, with the nullsec Wightstorm Transit Site posing an intermediate challenge and the lowsec-based Wightstorm Muster Point offering the greatest challenge for the greatest rewards.

    • Wightstorm data signatures can also be found within Volatile Ice Storms. These Sansha's Nation data sites can be hacked by enterprising capsuleers equipped with scan probes and data analyzer modules.

    • Volatile Ice Field anomalies can also be discovered within Volatile Ice Storms. These fields of newly discovered stellar ice have recently been captured by ORE and Mordu's Legion forces who have driven away the Sansha harvesting fleets. These ice fields can be accessed through a special ORE-commandeered acceleration gate that only allows medium and small mining and hauling ships to enter (Expedition Frigates, Mining Barges, Exhumers, Industrial Ships, Blockade Runners, Deep Space Transports, and the Porpoise). The volatile ice found within these fields cannot be reprocessed by standard facilities, however Outer Ring Excavations has set up mobile ice collection operations within each of these ice fields, and is willing to trade with capsuleers who contribute to their mining operation. Capsuleers can trade seven units of volatile ice with the ORE representatives in the ice fields to receive a package of valuable salvage and items that ORE forces collected from the wrecks of Sansha ships. Rumors suggest that other valuable Sansha salvage has frozen directly into some of the ice chunks and can be occasionally picked up along with the ice by normal mining activities.

    • Rewards that can be found by capsuleers within all of these sites include valuable Overseers' Effects, hundreds of festive ship SKINs, limited-time Cerebral Accelerators, character apparel, special Sansha's nation combat boosters, Sansha's Nation pirate implant blueprints, and rare faction modules. 

  • Limited-time Ice Storm filaments are now available that will instantly transport capsuleers into one of these volatile ice storms. Each filament clearly states in its description how many capsuleers it can transport and whether it will take them to a highsec, lowsec, or nullsec storm.

  • A new Yoiul Festival seasonal challenge track can be found within the Agency. These challenges can be completed over the course of the event by engaging with the combat, hacking, and ice mining sites within the Volatile Ice Storms. Completing these challenges will provide players with points that will progress them along a reward track consisting of new exclusive Aurora Universalis skins, SKINR nanocoatings and patterns, PLEX, Sansha combat boosters, ice storm jump filaments, skill points, and a Cerebral Accelerator.

  • A new set of daily login gifts are available over the course of the Winter Nexus event including snowballs, ice storm jump filaments, new Aurora Universalis skins, SKINR nanocoatings and patterns, Sansha combat boosters, EverMarks and up to 650.000 skill points. Players can receive all of these rewards by logging in everyday between now and January 7th.

  • A new and exclusive SKINR pattern available on the Paragon Hub for the duration of the event.

  • In addition to the above fantastic gifts, an expert system has been included which will allow all players, including alpha accounts, the ability to fly an Endurance and fit an Ice Mining Laser to mine ice for 4 days.

  • Winter Nexus Themed Character Select.

  Mercenary Dens:

  • Mercenary Tactical Operation sites now show players progress through Objectives in the Info Panel.

  Observatory Flashpoints:

  • Increased the radius of Stellar Observatories to reduce the likelihood of colliding with it while orbiting.

  User Interface:

  • Added the option to UNDO and REDO in studio SKINR.

  • Improved highlight animation for new design elements in your SKINR collection.

  Defect Fixes:

  User Interface:

  • Fixed an issue that caused black rendered icons in SKINR.

  Wormhole Capital Escalations:

  • Increased the number of Upgraded Avengers in Unsecured Core Backup Array sites from 3 to 4.

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  Patch Notes for 2024-12-04.1

  Features & Changes:

  Winter Nexus:

  • Winter Nexus Themed Wreck Icons:

    • In preparation for Winter Nexus, the present icons tag wrecks of your helpless victims as you claim your bounties!

  Defect Fixes:

  Graphics:

  • CONCORD Victory SKIN now has the correct description.

  Corporation Projects:

  • Ship Insurance Contribution Method:

    • Fixed an issue when setting the value at 100% on the Corp Project for Ship Insurance which auto adjusted from 100% to 10% once it was created.

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  Patch Notes for 2024-12-03.1

  Features & Changes:

  Factional Warfare:

  • It’s no longer possible to retire from direct enlistment while in space in a ship. You now must either be in a capsule, if in space, or docked up in an NPC station or a Structure.

  Ship Information Window:

  • ‘Simulate’ button has been added to the sidebar.

  • The Fitting tab now displays fitted subsystems for your assembled strategic cruisers.

  • The Fitting tab now displays the available subsystems for all strategic cruisers.

  • The 3D ship preview is now always displayed in the SKINs tab, even with compact mode enabled.

  • The SKINs tab content can now become more compact depending on the window’s width and compact mode status.

  • Skills tab’s subtab navigation section is now anchored at the top of the tab in the compact window layout.

  • Skills tab’s skill options section is now anchored at the bottom of the tab in the compact window layout.

  • Ship quotes have been added for:

    • Capsule

    • Genolution ‘Auroral’ 197-variant Capsule

    • Boobook

    • InterBus Shuttle

    • Victorieux Luxury Yacht

    • Zephyr

  Air Daily Goals

  Paying EM to complete Air Daily Goals:

  We are continuing to refine the Air Daily Goals system and with this update, player now have the option to complete Air Daily Goals with EverMarks. This added flexibility makes earning the Daily Bonus SP and progressing through the Monthly Reward Track faster and easier - perfect for players with limited playtime.

  Key Updates:

  • Streamlined Daily Goals: The total number of goals per day has been reduce from 8 to 4, with one goal from each career path.

  • Unique Goals Every Day: No duplicate goals are distributed on a given day, making sure that each of the 4 goals offered each day is different.

  • Career Pool Adjustments:

    • The “Manufacture an Item” goal has been removed from the Explorer Career pool.

    • The “Scan 5 Signatures” goal has been removed from the Industrialist Career pool.

  Corporation Projects

  Ship Insurance Contribution Method:

  We’re excited to introduce the new Ship Insurance Contribution Method, a powerful new tool designed to improve how corporations manage Ship Replacement Program (SRP). Improving on the functionality of the previous Ship Loss project type, this feature offers greater flexibility and customization to enable corporations to effectively reimburse members of their losses for all or only specific ships as well as implants.

  Key Features:

  • Automatic evaluation of ISK lost: Compensation is automatically calculated using the ISK Total Worth from the Kill Report which includes the sum of the average market price of all items lost.

  • Fitting and cargo coverage: The ISK loss value used for compensation includes the ship hull, fittings, and cargo, all based on the Kill Report.

  • Implants coverage: Corporations can choose whether to compensate members for implant losses tied to Capsule destruction.

    • If enabled, all Capsule losses are covered, regardless of which ship loss they follow.

    • Implants compensation is calculated using the Kill Report’s Total Worth, similar to ships.

  • One Project for All Ship Types: Manage coverage for multiple ship types or ship groups within a single project, reducing complexity and improving efficiency.

  • Compensation for PVP or PVE losses: Decide whether to cover the losses from only PvP engagements or including the PvE activities as well.

  • Filtering by Attacker: Cover losses caused by specific characters, corporations, alliances, factions, or even by anyone.

  • Filtering by Location: Cover losses that happened in specific solar systems, constellations, regions, or provide coverage for losses across all locations.

  • Coverage Percentage: Set the coverage rate between 10% and 200% of the Kill Report value, allowing for partial compensation or even overcompensation to incentivize participation.

  • Limit the coverage per member: Define a maximum ISK limit that each individual corporation member can receive from the project, ensuring fair distribution of resources.

  • Limit the coverage per loss: Set a limit for the maximum ISK amount reimbursed for a single loss, helping manage the corporation´s SRP budget.

  While the Ship Insurance is an improvement over the Ship Loss contribution method, the latter will remain available in the game for now but may be removed in a future update.

  Wormholes:

  • Repositioned warp-in and NPC spawn locations in all C4 sites.

    • These locations should always be within 40km of the site’s central structure.

  • Sleepless Defender NPCs will now only spawn when a ship is near the Deserted Talocan Cruiser container in C4 Data and Relic sites.

  Defect Fixes:

  Gameplay:

  • MTOs will now show the correct time they activate for players in timezones that are ahead of the eve server.

  • Example: An MTO mission will spawn at 12:00, but a person is in Tokyo, Japan, and their PC is set up to that timezone (UTC+9). From their perspective, they would see the mission would spawn at 03:00 (9 hours earlier than from when it should spawn), and it will then look like it just disappeared from the UI at 03:00, until when it actually spawns, at 12:00.

  Wormhole Capital Escalations:

  • Drifter Recon Battleships will now correctly use their energy neutralizers.

  • Drifter battleships can now spawn in Core Stronghold sites.

  • Capital Escalations can now correctly occur in Strange Energy Readings and The Mirror sites.

  • Rorquals can no longer cause capital escalations to occur.

  Corporation Project

  • Fixed formatting error for the Japanese language related to the Daily Goals duration section.

  • The duration icon is now visible in the list view of the Air Opportunities page.

  • Only Corporations where clients can earn loyalty points can be added for the "Earn Loyalty Points" contribution method.

  • Harvesting gas no longer counts towards the Mine Materials contribution method in Corp Projects.

  Graphics:

  • Duplicates of Shattered Paradigm SKINs are removed from the game.

  Ship Information Window:

  • Added missing tooltips when hovering over skills in the Skills tab.

  • Inventory ship cards and Ship Info window background now correctly display the Intaki Syndicate logo for:

    • Victorieux Luxury Yacht

    • Zephyr

  • Fixed some typos.

  • Fixed an issue where the Ship Insurance banner animation could glitch when UI Scaling was not 100%.

  • Fixed an issue where the Ship Insurance banner text could overflow the banner in some languages.

  • Fixed an issue where the Ship Info icon in the Neocom could become unresponsive when closing one of multiple open Ship Info windows.

  • Fixed an issue where applying/previewing SKINs on active strategic cruisers could remove the fitted subsystems from the 3D ship preview in the window.

  • Fixed an issue where 3rd party SKINs could not be deselected in the SKINs tab.

  • Fixed an issue where the Fitting tab could fail to load correctly in the Ship Info window of an assembled ship in Asset Safety or Fleet Hangar.

  • Fixed an issue where the maximum number of subsystem slots could be displayed as zero in the Fitting tab of strategic cruisers.

  • Fixed an issue where the maximum number of Hi, Med, and Low slots could be displayed as zero in the Fitting tab of strategic cruisers.

  • Fixed an issue where the Show Info option was missing for type entries in the Attributes tab.

  User Interface:

  • Fixed an issue where the ship type name would not update correctly in the SKINs subtab in the Personalization tab of the Fitting window when boarding another ship.

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  Patch Notes for 2024-12-02.1

  Features & Changes:

  PvE:

  • The Deathless Circle has ceased its deployment of Trustbreaker Arrays.

    • Deathless Trustbreaker Under Attack sites are no longer available.

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  Patch Notes for 2024-11-28.1

  Features & Changes:

  Until December 1st, To celebrate the Vanguard Groundbreak Operation, a special set of daily login rewards will be available. Rewards include Vanguard themed nanocoatings and patterns, EverMarks and skill points.

  Balance:

  • Reverted the ‘Excavator’ Ice Harvester drone max velocity increase made in 2024-11-26.1 based on player feedback.

    • ‘Excavator’ Ice Harvesting drones returned to 90m/s Max Velocity from 125m/s.

  PvE:

  • Rebalanced the maximum velocity of all NPCs that appear in Homefront Operations and Deathless Trustbreaker sites.

    • Notably, DPS destroyer NPCs have been made significantly slower.

  • Equalized the collision radius of structures that appear in Emergency Aid and Deathless Trustbreaker sites.

  • Reduced the volume of Contraband Data commodities found in Traffic Stop sites.

  Wormhole Capital Escalations:

  A series of changes have been made to C5 and C6 sites. These have been made with the goal of promoting the use of capital ships while still keeping the space rewarding for all players. We will be monitoring the impact of these changes and iterating where necessary.

  • The rules which cause a Drifter Response Battleship spawn have been changed:

    • A beacon (visible only on-grid) appears at the warp-in location as the initial NPC fleet is destroyed.

    • The beacon will despawn if there is no capital ship within 100km of it.

    • If the beacon is not present when the structure is attacked, the Drifter Response Battleship is ineligible to spawn.

  • A new Drifter Recon Battleship will spawn in the place of the Drifter Response Battleship if it is not eligible.

    • This variant of the battleship has less EHP, lower damage, less neutralizer pressure, and drops a reduced number of commodities on destruction.

  • The loot value of Upgraded Avenger NPCs has been increased.

  • In Data or Relic sites with Upgraded Avenger NPCs, a beacon (visible only on-grid) will appear the first time a capital ship is within 100km of the warp-in location.

    • The beacon will despawn if there is no capital ship within 100km of it.

  • A beacon can only be spawned once per site.

  • Upgraded Avenger NPCs will appear and remain on-grid only while a beacon is present.

  • Upgraded Avenger NPCs will only spawn once per site rather than for each capital ship group.

  Defect Fixes:

  Gameplay:

  • It’s now possible to compress multiple groups of resources while having multiple compression modules activated. Previously it would only be successful on one type if a player was trying to compress multiple groups at once, such as attempting to compress ice and gas at the same time.

  Observatory Flashpoints:

  • The Zirnitra dreadnought will once again attack the Stellar Observatory.

  Wormhole Capital Escalations:

  • Drifter Battleships will no longer immediately despawn when there are no capital ships within their original site.

  • Fixed various issues that could allow Upgraded Avenger NPCs to be avoided or have Drifter Battleships warp off prematurely.

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  Patch Notes for 2024-11-27.1

  Features & Changes:

  User Interface:

  Vanguard themed Character Select Screen.

  • In celebration of the upcoming Vanguard Groundbreak Operation - taking place 28 Nov- 9 Dec the Character Select Screen is now in EVE Vanguard theme.

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  Patch Notes for 2024-11-26.1

  Features & Changes:

  Mercenary Dens

  • Mercenary Dens now have 2 new attributes, Anarchy and Development. Both Anarchy and Development values will slowly increase over time, approximately 5 levels per day (24 hours). Eventually, when the level hits a certain threshold, the Anarchy or Development for that mercenary den will level up, which can have certain affects.

  • While a Mercenary Den is reinforced, passive Anarchy and Development are paused.

  • Added a dedicated window for viewing all your mercenary dens which can be found via the neocom under Industry, or from the mercenary den agency page.

  Anarchy

  • Anarchy Amount: 0-19 - Level 0 - 0% reduction to Skyhook Workforce

  • Anarchy Amount: 20-39 - Level 1 - 0% reduction to Skyhook Workforce

  • Anarchy Amount: 40-69 - Level 2 - 10% reduction to Skyhook Workforce

  • Anarchy Amount: 70-99 - Level 3 - 20% reduction to Skyhook Workforce

  • Anarchy Amount: 100 - Level 4 - 40% reduction to Skyhook Workforce

  This means that if left alone, it will take 8 days for a mercenary den to start to negatively impact a Skyhook.

  Development Amount

  • Development Amount: 0-19 - Level 0 - Regular Informorph Production rate

  • Development Amount: 20-39 - Level 1 - 15% bonus to Infomorph Production Rate

  • Development Amount: 40-69 - Level 2 - 25% bonus to Infomorph Production Rate

  • Development Amount: 70-99 - Level 3 - 35% bonus to Infomorph Production Rate

  • Development Amount: 100 - Level 4 - 50% bonus to Infomorph Production Rate

  Mercenary Tactical Operations (MTOs)

  Approximately every 3 days, a mercenary den tactical operation (MTO) will become available. MTOs are new PVE content designed for a single player in a cruiser. These sites are behind an acceleration gate that only lets in T1 and faction cruisers, or any destroyer/frigate. Once an MTO has been warped to, a beacon will appear in space which anyone can warp to, even hostile players. MTOs are very rewarding and will drop on average around 80-100 million ISK in loot, and if they are successfully completed, they will decrease anarchy by 20 points, and increase development by 10 points. Since it takes 4 days for anarchy to increase by 20 points, this means that running a MTO once every 3-4 days (when it becomes avaliable) will be enough for Mercenary Den owners to maintain their dens to prevent any adverse affect on the Skyhook if they so wish.

  To Start an MTO, you will need to be undocked in the solarsystem where the mercenary den is located, and then start it from the Opportunities window, or from the Mercenary Den window. MTO sites always spawn in the same solarsystem as where the Mercenary Den is located. A Mercenary Den can have a maximum of up to 3 MTOs at once, and MTOs last for 4 days after being offered.

  If a Mercenary Den is already maxed out at level 4 Development, completing a MTO will create 500 bonus infomorphs directly into the mercenary den on completion in place of the development reward.

  Ship and Module Balance

  • Ferox Navy Issue

    • Signature Radius increased from 300m to 325m

    • Agility nerfed from 0.66x to 0.69x

    • Max Targeting Range reduced from 67500m to 60000m

  The Ferox Navy Issue is overperforming, so we’re increasing the signature radius back up to the regular T1 Ferox amount and then nerfing the agility and targeting range slightly. We’re hoping the combination of sig and agility reduction will make them a bit more vulnerable to battleships and stealth bombers in fleet encounters. The Ferox Navy Issue loses the optimal bonus the regular T1 Ferox has so we are shaving a bit of max targeting range off as well.

  • Eos

    • Drone Optimal range per level reduced from 10% to 5%

  Toning down the Eos somewhat. It has 11 mid-slots and low-slots combined, unlike all other Command Ships which have 10, which is even more powerful when you consider it is a drone ship. Seeing it start to become a little unhealthy in some places so we’re reducing the power of sentry drone fits slightly.

  • Heavy Assault Cruisers

    • 50% reduction in Microwarpdrive signature radius penalty Role Bonus added back

  In the Uprising expansion, we made significant changes to HACs by removing or reducing long range bonuses and completely reworking the Muninn which was the most dominant ship in the game at the time. We feel like the meta has shifted now with more Battleships and Navy Battlecruisers being viable so that we can now add back the 50% MWD signature radius role bonus to HACs which we removed in early 2021.

  • Ashimmu

    • Drone Bay and Drone Bandwidth increased from 40 Mbit/sec to 50 Mbit/sec

    • Max Velocity increased from 208 to 215m/s

    • Agility improved from 0.58x to 0.55x

  The Ashimmu has lower usage than the other pirate cruisers, so giving it the ability to field 5 medium drones, or 2 flights of light drones. And giving it some small speed improvements.

  • Scythe

    • CPU increased from 285tf to 300tf

    • Powergrid increased from 345MW to 375MW

    • Max Velocity increased from 250m/s to 260m/s

    • Agility improved from 0.6x to 0.57x

  The Scythe has fitting issues, especially since it’s an entry level support cruiser so giving it a small amount of love there. Also boosting the mobility of the Scythe a bit to try and help it stand out from the Osprey more by improving its strengths.

  • Vengeance

    • Rocket Damage Per Level of Amarr Frigate increased from 5% to 7.5%

    • Powergrid increased from 43MW to 46MW

  The Vengeance has low usage, so we’re giving it a small facelift with some extra damage (But still keeping the Hawk on top with kinetic damage missiles) and a bit more powergrid to help give it some more options.

  • Cruor

    • Drone Bay and Bandwidth increased from 5m3 to 10m3 and 5 Mbit/sec to 10 Mbit/sec, respectively.

    • Max Velocity increased from 330m/s to 340m/s

    • Agility improved from 3.6x to 3.4x

  The Cruor is underperforming relative to its peers. We’re giving it an extra drone to bump up its damage potential a bit, but have that DPS be destructible. We are then improving the Cruor’s mobility so it can better use the long-range web for catching kiting ships.

  • Maulus Navy Issue

    • Highslots increased from 2 to 3

    • Powergrid increased from 35MW to 38MW

    • Max Velocity incrased from 315m/s to 325m/s

  The Maulus Navy Issue currently has 1 less total slot than the other Navy EWAR Frigates, so we’re correcting that by giving it an extra high slot. The hope here is that this will improve its versatility and open up options like triple neut setups that its brother in spirit Tristan is capable of. Small PG boost to help fill that high slot, and then a small mobility improvement since it currently is the slowest navy frigate.

  • Rorqual

    • 'Excavator' Mining Drone base velocity increased from 175m/s to 250m/s

    • ‘Excavator’ Ice Harvesting Drone base velocity increased from 90m/s to 125m/s

  • All Exhumers

    • Max Locked Targets improved from 6 to 8

  • Skiff

    • Agility improved from 0.8x to 0.64x

    • Midslots increased from 4 to 5

  • All Mining Barges

    • Max Locked Targets improved from 5 to 6

  • Procurer

    • Agility improved from 0.8x to 0.64x

    • Midslots increased from 2 to 3

  We’re giving all mining barges and exhumers an extra few locked targets to improve quality of life when mining. Specifically, the Procurer and Skiff are getting a significant agility buff, which will bring down their align times by several seconds each, and an extra midslot. During the 2022 rebalance, the Procurer and Skiff both lost a slot each total, while the Covetor and Hulk gained one, when we rebalanced them around all having the same total number of slots. The Procurer and Skiff also had their agility nerfed a bit too much and so we are now correcting this and giving them back the slot they lost. Finally, we are improving the speed of Excavators to increase their effectiveness when mining, especially when mining further away asteroids, since the Rorqual is now a more supporting role and excavators are balanced around high wastage.

  • Navy Faction Light Fighters

    • Heavy Rocket ability charge count increased from 12 to 15.

  Small buff to navy fighters doing longer PVE encounters like the Forsaken Sanctums and Teeming Hordes. Without obsoleting T2 Fighters which still have slightly higher DPS.

  • Standard Cerebral Accelerator

    • Removed 20% turret damage boost and 20% missile rate of fire boost.

    • Increased attributes from +3 to +5.

  Was being abused by new freshly injected characters to take advantage of the 20% damage boost in ships like Marauders and Dreadnoughts, or PVP smurf accounts rather than being used by new players. Removing the damage bonuses and increasing the attributes on it from +3 to +5, to compensate it, which should make it actually more useful for new players and remove the abuse cases.

  Factional Warfare and Insurgency Balance

  • Respawn time for NPCs has been significantly increased

  In Equinox we fixed battlefields being cheesed by holding a single battlecruiser NPC alive, however with that fix, players feel like Battlefields are now too tedious and not rewarding enough and this has caused a reduction in fighting and PVP in and around battlefields. To address this, we are approximately doubling the time between NPC waves.

  • Drop rates of Encoder Splice and Decoded Packages from FW Operation Centers (Rearguard Data Sites) has been approximately doubled.

  • Doubled the effectiveness on advantage of the Propaganda Broadcast Structure and the Listening Post objective deployables.

  Propaganda Broadcast Structures and Listening Outposts advantage deployables are not being used outside of key system sieges. We’re trying to improve this by increasing their availability and effectiveness.

  • Tether Radius on the Pirate FOBs has been dropped from 100km to 50km

  A key complaint from anti-pirate players in insurgencies is that the Pirate FOBs have such huge tether ranges that it makes it incredibly difficult to siege as pirate aligned players can remain tethered and invulnerable until they want to engage while close to their ships even in long range setups, so we’re bringing it down to a value that should still feel very comfortable for players coming in from the shipcaster, but less powerful as a tool used against players trying to siege the FOB.

  • Reduced the number of Factional Warfare Small NVY-5 and Small ADV-5 sites. A slightly increased amount of Small NVY-1s and Small ADV-1s will appear in their place to keep the potential number of victory points generated per day the same.

  • Reduced the total number of the insurgency Small ADV-5 sites, their chance to spawn has been rolled into increasing the number of Medium and Large ADV-5 sites which spawn instead.

  • The Respawn time of all insurgency ADV-5 sites has been increased (slowed down) to keep LP and Corruption generation rates similar with an increased number of Medium and large ADV-5 sites spawning.

  Another common complaint with FW and Insurgencies is the amount of multiboxing destroyers in the warzone. We’re trying to address this by shifting the FW sites back towards 1-man sites and the insurgency 5-person sites away from Smalls and into Mediums and Larges. We’re doing this because it’s fairly difficult to contest 5 Destroyers inside smalls with less than 5 pilots, but much easier in Mediums and Larges where 2-3 Navy Cruisers/HACs or 1-2 BCs can engage them. Having slower responding but larger, more rewarding 5-person sites will hopefully also increase the number of them that are contested.

  • Added appropriate salvage to the Angel and Guristas FOB wreck.

  Exploration:

  • Drone Relic Sites can now appear in class 1-3 Wormhole space at a similar rate to the existing pirate faction relic sites.

  • Drone Relic Sites can now drop Atavums.

  • Lowered the overall drop rate of Atavums from Relic Sites.

  Homefront Operations:

  • Structure-bashing NPCs in Emergency Aid sites will now orbit their targets at a closer range.

  • Repair effects are now less effective on structures within Emergency Aid sites.

  🤝 🤝 Little Things:

  We continue our work on the Little Things, the small quality of life improvements requested by you, the players, through various channels. To post your own improvement suggestion please visit: Little things / Small QoL suggestions

  • 🤝 It’s now possible to cancel all repairs in the right click menu when you are repairing multiple modules with nanite repair paste.

  • 🤝 Capsule killmails with implants now have a ‘Buy All’ button if you want to multibuy the implants.

  • 🤝 The names of player corpse items will now be shown in contracts and show info windows, rather than just the generic corpse type.

  • 🤝 You can now compress resources such as ore, gas and ice directly from the right click option, instead of opening the compression window.

  • 🤝 While undocked, assets in your current system will now be highlighted in the assets window.

  • 🤝 Double clicking on a transaction in the “market transactions” tab of the wallet, now opens up the regional market window for that item.

  • 🤝 You can now drag buy or sell orders from the “Your Market Orders” window straight to the market quickbar.

  • 🤝 Added a new Output Location column for the industry window, so that you can now see what container and which office hangar (If it’s a corp job) your jobs will be outputted to.

  • 🤝 Added a “mark as Read” option to mails and notifications.

  • 🤝 The yield, range and cycle time for gas cloud scoops and gas cloud harvesters has been added to the tooltip of the modules.

  • 🤝 Corporations that you have 0 LP within your personal wallet or corp wallet are now hidden.

  • 🤝 Added a dedicated neocom icon for the overview, so you can now more easily see it in the neocom and the ctrl+tab window when you have it minimized.

  • 🤝 The input fields for courier contracts have been made bigger, and the left panel can now be expanded, so you can see larger values more easily.

  • 🤝 Added checkboxes to courier contract filters so you can now more easily search for unfiltered results, without having to delete the info from the filter fields.

  • 🤝 You can now copy names of item types in info windows and the market window.

  • 🤝 You can now edit bookmarks through the radial menu while using the solarsystem map.

  • 🤝 Added the number of jumps a system which is a point in your current autopilot route is if you mouse over it.

  • 🤝 You can now drag and drop items onto the neocom item hangar icon to move them.

  • 🤝 You are now able to buy from more than one sell order at a time from the ‘buy this type’ window.

  • 🤝 You can now deliver corp items to yourself in the ‘deliver to’ right click menu.

  • 🤝 Multiple skills can now be moved around in the skill queue.

  • 🤝 Multibuy can now interpret ‘1x item name’.

  PvE:

  The Deathless Circle has deployed Planetary Trustbreaker Arrays to steal passkeys for planetary defense networks ahead of Vanguard assaults. These sites have fallen under attack by Drifter forces!

  • Deathless Trustbreaker Under Attack sites are appearing in pirate Insurgency FOB systems.

  • Capsuleer fleets can choose to protect the Trustbreaker Array for the duration to receive a reward from the Deathless. 5 capsuleers are recommended for this challenge.

  • Alternatively, those who do not wish to support the Deathless can wait for the structure to generate PDN passkeys before destroying it. Many groups would pay handsomely for any such commodities seized from the wreckage!

  • Regardless of their motivations, capsuleers are limited to bringing standard T1 cruisers or below within the site.

  SKINR - Sequencing

  • Sequencing is returning to its original time duration.

  User Interface:

  • Added an indicator for new SKINs in your Paragon Hub collection.

  • Added indicators for new design elements in your collection in SKINR.

  • Adjusted the placement of the randomize button in studio SKINR.

  • Improved communication for insufficient design elements in studio SKINR.

  Defect Fixes:

  Observatory Flashpoint:

  • Fixed an issue which could cause sites to fail to progress within the Stellar Observatory area.

  • Any lingering NPCs or subpylons will now be despawned following a downtime.

  • Acceleration Vectors will now always re-lock following a downtime.

  Graphics:

  • Fixed an issue with the SKINR pattern gizmo not fully reaching -90 degrees on Vertical Orbit when using the pattern manipulation shortcuts.

  User Interface:

  • Fixed an issue where the SKINR button in the Ship Info window always opened the SKINR for the currently boarded ship.

  • Fixed an issue where own branded listings incorrectly displayed a warning about insufficient EverMarks.

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  Patch Notes for 2024-11-22.1

  Features & Changes:

  Missions & NPCs:

  • We have adjusted and refactored NPC warp in behavior and spawners in some nullsec anomalies to make their warp ins much more compact, which will make these anomalies much better for AOE farming (Stormbringer, Thunderchild and Smartbombing).

    • All Havens (Both the Stargate ‘Rock’ Haven and the Chemical Factory ‘Gas’ Haven variation).

    • All Drone Hordes and Patrol sites.

    • The Regular base version of the Rally Points.

  Last week, we increased NPC bounties to counteract the income reduction caused by NPC's warping in instead of spawning in place.

  • We are maintaining the 30-40% NPC bounty increase we made last week, which has already increased total nullsec bounties to higher than what they were before Revenant, however, with the addition of this set of changes we will be monitoring the economy and we will potentially make adjustments to bounties or anomalies if needed in the future.

  Observatory Flashpoint:

  • The site’s beacon has been moved back to the Acceleration Vector area.

  Defect Fixes:

  Observatory Flashpoint:

  • Subpylon models will once again appear correctly.

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  Patch Notes for 2024-11-20.1

  Features & Changes:

  Homefront Operations:

  • Structure targeting NPCs within Emergency Aid sites have been reworked:

    • Increased the DPS of Structure targeting NPCs.

    • Structure targeting NPCs no longer respawn when destroyed.

    • Additional waves of Structure targeting NPCs will now arrive at set intervals.

    • The size of Structure targeting NPC waves has been reduced.

  Defect Fixes:

  Gameplay:

  • Fixed a client lock-up if a player boarded a FLEX structure from a capsule.

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  Patch Notes for 2024-11-19.1

  Features & Changes:

  Observatory Flashpoint:

  • Subpylons are once again destructible, with the following additions:

    • Subpylons can now be repaired.

    • Subpylon armor, structure, and signature radius values have been increased.

    • The info panel objective for entering subpylon range will be removed if both subpylons are destroyed.

    • When destroyed, subpylons will now have an explosion effect.

  • EDENCOM dreadnoughts will now only wait 30 seconds before first entering siege mode.

  • The site’s beacon will now remain until the site has been despawned.

  • NPCs will no longer combat warp.

  • NPCs within the Acceleration Vector area will now return to the center of that area if pulled too far away from it.

  • Removed the minimum contribution requirement for payout eligibility.

  • Reduced the explosion radius of missiles fired by Phoenix dreadnoughts.

  • The number of commodities dropped by the Stellar Observatory will now always be 400.

  Missions & NPCs:

  • NPC Dreadnoughts

    • Reduced the Warp Disrupt range of all NPC Dreadnoughts by approximately 20%, except the Serpentis ones which were used as the starting point, so they all now have lower than 100km point ranges.

    • Lowered the Scan Resolution on the common variation of the NPC Dreadnoughts so they will now take a longer time to lock.

  Ship Information Window:

  • Added an option to enable/disable ‘compact mode’ in the Ship Info window settings.

    • When enabled:

      • The 3D ship model preview is not displayed.

      • The window icon in the header is not displayed.

      • The option to enable/disable ‘Light Background’ functions properly.

  • Increased the opacity of the background overlay (behind the content, in front of the ship model preview) in the small-width layouts.

  User Interface:

  • Added number field manipulation at the end of sliders in SKINR studio.

  • SKINR share option can now be clicked and saved to clipboard.

  • Pattern Projection in SKINR has been renamed to Projection Presets.

  • Updated pattern area toggles in the SKINR for improved usability.

  • Improved Help Pointers:

    • Added the following Help Pointers:

      • Opportunity rewards

      • Active opportunities

      • Opportunities browser

      • Opportunities filter

      • Find new corp

      • Corp Projects

      • Fleet Chat

      • Fleet Chat Settings

      • Reload Fleet motd

      • Corporation Chat

      • Corporation Chat Settings

      • Reload Corporation Chat motd

      • My Wallet Tab

      • Wallet Transactions

      • Wallet Market Transactions

      • SKINR Studio

      • Paragon Hub

      • SNINR Collection

      • Fitting Hardware

    • We have added the Locations/Bookmarks pointer again, it points to the tab in the Locations window.

    • Various help pointer icons have been added and updated.

  Defect Fixes:

  Gameplay:

  • Fixed an issue where ISK deposit refunds for private contracts in citadels could occur incorrectly when a citadel was destroyed.

  • Fixed an issue where the Apply button for an activated SKIN in the Collection would disappear when boarding a newly packaged ship for which the SKIN applies.

  Observatory Flashpoint:

  • Phoenix dreadnoughts will now gain the same bonus damage as other dreadnought variants during their “super siege” phase.

  • Roaming NPCs will more commonly visit the site.

  Combat Scanning:

  • Warping to a 100% probe result that you already had of a ship that is now cloaked/docked/left the system somehow, from the probe scanner window will now work and no longer fail.

  Mercenary Dens:

  • It’s no longer possible to take infomorphs from Mercenary Dens which have been reinforced before a downtime, after the downtime which it was reinforced.

  • Fixed a rounding error when trying to take infomorphs - You can now always take the maximum amount of infomorphs and it won’t fail if you have spare cargo which is a multiplier of 0.1m3 but not enough to hold them all.

  Ship Information Window:

  • Fixed an issue where killmarks could be displayed for off-grid ships through d-scan.

  • Fixed an issue where ship rotation sound effects (switching between tabs) could play when selecting the current tab.

  • Fixed an issue where ship rotation sound effects (switching between tabs) could play when switching between tabs in the compact-width layout of the window.

  • Fixed an issue where the Ctrl+Tab shortcut (also Ctrl+Shift+Tab) could fail to work if a Ship Info window was open.

  • Fixed an issue where the Neocom Ship Info icon could become incorrect if a Ship Info window was minimized while in the smallest-width layout.

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  Patch Notes for 2024-11-15.1

  Features & Changes:

  Miscellaneous:

  • Revenant DLI rewards for Day 10 and Day 14 have been swapped so players don’t have to login for all 14 days to get the biggest reward.

  Missions & NPCs:

  With the renovation update to Nullsec anomalies, and bug fixes for the NPC dreadnoughts released in Revenant, we did not intend to significantly impact Nullsec income with the changes to the NPCs warping in instead of spawning in place. We also have not made any intentional changes to the AI used by the NPCs which would cause them to attack drones more frequently.

  To address these concerns, we are increasing several Battleship and Battlecruiser NPC bounties found primarily in Nullsec by between 30-40% to compensate for the reductions in efficiency for AoE farming (Smartbomb, Stormbringer and Thunderchild ratting) due to the NPCs warping in and potentially requiring higher level of activity for increased drone management for drone setups. We are also happy for this to be a significant boost for more active forms of ratting that were not as directly impacted, such as Marauder ratting.

  • Increased the bounties on several NPCs found primarily in Nullsec Anomalies by 30-40%.

  • This results in the following total average bounty increases for these popular Nullsec anomalies:

    • Hubs: 28.40%

    • Rally Points: 28.50%

    • Patrols: 30.20%

    • Havens: 31.70%

    • Forsaken Hubs: 34.50%

    • Hordes: 34.70%

    • Sanctums: 35.70%

    • Forsaken Sanctums & Teeming Hordes: 36.00%

  Zarzakh:

  • Increased the Radius of the Zarzakh Raitaru item traders to be the same as a regular Raitaru (So players don’t have to be so close to it/inside the 3D Asset).

  • Increased the minimum interaction range needed to trade with the item traders from 2.5km to 10km.

  Defect Fixes:

  Gameplay:

  • It’s now possible to black ops bridge and take conduit jumps with the Tholos and Cenotaph.

  Localization:

  • Added missing German translation for some ship quotes and attributions in the Ship Information Window.

  • Added missing German translation for a couple of words and tooltips in the Ship Information Window.

  User Interface:

  • Fixed an issue where the SKINR shortcut and the ship name could be missing from the SKINs subtab of the Personalization section in the Fitting window.

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  Patch Notes for 2024-11-14.1

  Features & Changes:

  Pochven - Observatory Flashpoint

  • Increased the site timeout timer to 45 minutes (from 30).

  • Monitors are no longer permitted to activate the acceleration gate.

  • Increased the DPS of the State Navy Phoenix which appears in the Caldari variant of the site.

  • Tractor beams can no longer move Stellar Observatory and dreadnought wrecks.

  • Threshold Werposts will now occasionally switch targets.

  • Drone-targeting NPCs will now activate their EWAR on their fleet's primary target while attacking drones.

  • Drone-targeting NPCs will now attack drones regardless of their standings toward a drone's owner.

  • Zirnitra Blueprint Data Vault crates now use the hacking display when opened.

  • Updated the title that appears when opening a Zirnitra Blueprint Data Vault crate.

  • Subpylons are now indestructible and will despawn when the site ends.

  • Improved performance when loading transmission conversations.

  User Interface:

  • It’s now possible to show info on an Item Trader and view what recipes it has and what it requires for each.

  • Elements of Heat Sink, Gyrostabilizer, Entropic Radiation Sink, Magnetic Field Stabilizer, and Biochemical Material icons have been enlarged and repositioned for better readability.

  Defect Fixes:

  Gameplay:

  • It’s no longer possible to take encrypted infomorphs from a Mercenary Den that passively regenerated enough shields to go over 50% while reinforced.

  Pochven - Observatory Flashpoint:

  • Standard combat NPCs will no longer occasionally select drones as primary targets.

  • EDENCOM dreadnought NPCs will now always warp in within 40km of the Stellar Observatory.

  • Triglavian NPCs will now attack EDENCOM NPCs unprovoked within the Assault Vector area.

  • Raptor NPCs will now use railguns rather than pulse lasers.

  • The primary material slot is now correctly applied to the Bane and Revelation Navy Issue within the SKINR.

  Graphics:

  • The primary material slot is now correctly applied to the Bane and Revelation Navy Issue within the SKINR.

  Localization:

  • Fixed the name of the item trader site name in Zarzakh.

  Ship Information Window:

  • Added a missing tooltip for the Ship Insurance icon.

  • Fixed an issue where the Ship Insurance icon was missing from the Overview tab for the character’s assembled ships.

  • Fixed an issue where the character info was missing from the sidebar and the Overview tab for the character’s assembled ships

  User Interface:

  • It’s now possible to view the Planets section of the Agency in Wormhole space, so that you can view the Planetary Industry card.

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  Patch Notes for 2024-11-13.1

  Features & Changes:

  Balancing:

  • Increased the signature radius of mercenary dens from 500m to 10000m to improve how much damage capital sized missiles and fighters can apply to them.

  Ship Information Window:

  • Added the option to filter out acquired skills in the Mastery subtabs.

  • Added the option to collapse all skill groups in a Mastery subtab.

  • The Mastery skill groups will now remember their collapsed state during the session.

  • Slightly increased the minimum width of the window.

  • Clicking ship icons that previously opened the Preview window will now open the Ship Information window on the SKINs tab.

  • Clicking SKIN icons that previously opened the Preview window will now open the Ship Information window on the SKINs tab with the SKIN applied.

  • Added quotes, attributions and designers for the remaining ships.

  Defect Fixes:

  Audio:

  • Breacher SFX is now behaving correctly when shields are active.

  Gameplay:

  • Fixed an issue where time remaining on the secure column for My Orbital Skyhooks in the Structure Browser was sorting alphabetically and not sorting numerically.

  • Supercarrier close range fighter missile abilities will now apply full damage to mercenary dens.

  • The Cenotaph now correctly warps at 3.5AU/s instead of 2.7AU/s.

  • The Shield boost bonus per level of Caldari Battlecruiser is now correctly applying instead of always being at level 1 level of 7.5%.

  • The projectile and missile optimal and falloff role bonus is now being correctly applied at 25% instead of 7.5%.

  Graphics:

  • SKINR live rendered icon caching has been refactored, and now correctly caches previously viewed icons to improve loading times within the SKINR Studio, Paragon Hub, and Collection.

  • Fixed an issue where a non-interactable rock formation was a selectable item.

  • Fixed an issue where some asteroids within dungeons had low resolution textures and UV stretching.

  • Fixed an issue where some decorative ship wrecks had misplaced or missing fire particles.

  • Gallente dreads and certain rogue dungeon NPCs no longer flicker from a distance.

  Localization:

  • Removed a whitespace which was at the start of a sentence in the ‘confirm bid’ window for auction contracts.

  • Added a traits to the Metenox Moon Drill so that it’s easy to access the service module and include information about the Metenox getting a reinforcement cycle and 4x more hitpoints while in full power mode.

  • Added the fact that the Rorqual PANIC module gives 10x bonus to shield regeneration time to the module description.

  • Fixed text being cut off in several places and the take items field being too small to display more than 5 figures in the Korean language.

  • Fixed the Mercenary Den Management skill not having a description.

  Ship Information Window:

  • Fixed an issue in the Skills tab, where rapidly switching between Mastery subtabs before all skill groups finish rendering could result in the unrendered ones being displayed in the wrong Mastery subtab.

  • Fixed an issue where the ship preview was not displaying fitted subsystems on Strategic Cruisers (fixed for your active ship and ships on grid).

  • Fixed an issue where skill-training buttons in the Skills tab could be fully hidden when the window’s width was very small.

  • Fixed an issue where some translations were causing UI issues and text overlaps, especially when the Ship Information Window’s width was very small.

  • Added missing translations for a couple of words.

  • Fixed typos and punctuation in some quotes and attributions.

  • Fixed an issue where the ‘Show in Ship Tree’ button was displayed for a few ships that are not present in the Ship Tree.

  • Corrected the background faction logo for a few ships.

  • Fixed an issue where, when UI Scaling was not 100%, the contents in the window’s large view were scaling incorrectly with the window’s width.

  • Fixed an issue where the Fitting tab of the Primae would fail to render.

  • Fixed an issue where the contents of the window would fail to render if it was opened by clicking the Info icon of a ship in a contract.

  User Interface:

  • Fixed an issue where players who had a market group opened which was removed would no longer be able to open the market without resetting their settings.

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  Patch Notes for 2024-11-12.1

  The Revenant expansion is out!

  Full overview of the contents of the expansion can be found here: Revenant Expansion Notes!

  Features & Changes:

  NES:

  • Omega capsuleers can claim a gift of 10 PLEX.

  • Added an offer of 7 days Omega for 10 PLEX.

  • Returning pilots (who have not logged in for 30 days) can claim 7 days free Omega.

  Defect Fixes:

  Gameplay:

  • The Capital Jump Portal Generation skill now only applies to Carrier Conduit Jumps, and no longer incorrectly increases the passenger limit for Black Ops and Rorqual conduits.

  • Fixed a very rare race condition which could result in a Skyhook skipping the armor reinforcement timer.

  PVE:

  • Fixed a bug which prevented some NPC dreadnoughts and titans from using their warp disruptor abilities.

• Monthly Economic Report - March 2025

  7. April 2025 14:50

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  Economic Capsuleers!

  The Monthly Economic Report for March 2025 is now available!

  Economic Summary

  • Production has stabilized and we’ve seen a marked increase in Mining, especially in Null Sec.

  • The Bounty Faucet also saw a dip in March, while Market Tax Sinks have increased.

  You can download all of the raw data used in this report here. Each image can be enlarged by clicking on it.

  To join the player discussion, please visit the official thread on EVE Online forums.

• Capsuleer Day XXII is Coming on 15 April

  4. April 2025 13:30

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  Intrepid capsuleers,

  The Drifter Crisis is about to reach its breaking point, and you might be the deciding factor. Capsuleer Day XXII, codenamed Nexus Reckoning, begins on 15 April. It’s a full-scale seasonal event with daily login rewards, exciting and lucrative challenges, as well as a faction-driven war that spans wormholes, Pochven, and empire space. The turning point is almost here. It’s time to act.

  The War for the Hives Rages On

  The Race for the Hives event is over, and the five top-scoring factions are establishing a presence inside Drifter wormhole systems. Here are the results for the highest scoring factions, top contributors, and contributions over time:

  

  These intrepid factions will not stand alone; they will rely on capsuleer support to hold ground, defend against retaliation, push deeper, and ultimately secure control of the Drifter systems.

  At the start of Capsuleer Day, Drifter wormhole space will see massive overhauls, with two new combat sites revealed: the Labyrinth Complex, which will be gated to Tech II battlecruisers and below, and the Nexus Point, where an even greater threat lurks. The deeper you go, the higher the stakes and the greater the rewards!

  Keep in mind that this is not a one-sided conflict. The Drifters are expected to retaliate, and as a last stand is mounted, pilots in all areas of New Eden will be able to do their part to influence the escalating struggle. No region will be untouched by the war, and all capsuleers can find ways to contribute.

  All Playstyles Needed

  Every kind of capsuleer is needed in the Nexus Reckoning. Whether your strengths lie in combat, exploration, hacking, manufacturing, or market manipulation, there are ways to contribute – and profit. Industrialists and manufacturers will find new roles in supporting the conflict. Constructing and distributing key items will shape how the war unfolds and who comes out ahead.

  The event’s seasonal reward track offers exclusive SKINs, ships, and rare items to those who complete challenges across these different activities. Content in Drifter wormholes will grant the most progress on the track, but opportunities to earn great rewards will exist in all areas of New Eden.

  The Spoils of War

  Among the rewards on offer this Capsuleer Day are new Drifter-themed SKINs, SKINR design components, boosters, mutaplasmids, and previously issued Capsuleer Day SoCT ships. The new combat sites may lead to experimental officer modules, and traders in the Labyrinth Complex may offer rare Drifter faction modules and volatile boosters.

  SKINs earned through the event reward track will be bound to your account, a permanent mark of your achievement. However, loot recovered from challenge sites, including SKINs, filaments, crates, and consumables, will be fully tradable, opening opportunities for economic profit and market speculation.

  In parallel, a full set of daily login rewards will be up for grabs! Log in each day to earn prizes that increase in value the longer you stay engaged. The big reward for Omega clones unlocks on 6 May, just as the conflict reaches its peak. Omegas can claim both reward tracks, and upgrading mid-event unlocks all missed rewards retroactively.

  Make Your Mark on Any Front

  Event content will surface through the Agency and AIR Opportunities, guiding capsuleers toward combat encounters, hacking sites, mining opportunities, and more. Some Drifter Crisis content will remain active, but will now be available outside Crisis systems. In addition, the Horizon Siege Point site will return, with some modifications, inside Pochven and wormhole space.

  Capsuleers from all walks of New Eden can get involved, interfere, profit, or prey on the unprepared. PvPers looking to disrupt fleets or pick apart explorers will find rich hunting grounds, especially in wormhole space.

  This is a shared battlefield. No matter where you live, you will find action in your space.

  Prepare for the Final Stand

  This is the culmination of a long and escalating war, and your actions will define how it ends. The factions leading the charge into Drifter space may emerge victorious, or they may be driven out. If the Drifters win, the consequences could reach far beyond wormholes. If capsuleers succeed, they may help pave the way for factions to discover opportunities to begin research into some of the most dangerous and powerful technology in New Eden.

  The last days of Nexus Reckoning will see even more dramatic events take place, playing out across empire space and inviting all capsuleers to participate. Capsuleer Day XXII ends on 15 May, and until then, every login, every combat encounter, every choice matters. This is the final phase of the Drifter Crisis, and you will make a difference.

• 2 for 1 Sale Live Now!

  4. April 2025 11:00

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  Ambitious capsuleers,

  From 4-9 April, you can take advantage of a 2 for 1 offer on both Skill Extractors and Alpha Injectors!

  Save Big Now

  With a Skill Extractor applied to your account, you can take existing Skill Points from a character, and then re-assign them elsewhere. If you’ve traveled down a training path that no longer serves your goals, you can use these Extractors to quickly catch up elsewhere.

  Alpha Injectors, on the other hand, make it easy to quickly apply 50,000 Skill Points to your Alpha pilot of choice. It’s the perfect way to speed up your training goals, and get your new career off to a faster start!

  Both Skill Extractors and Alpha Injectors are available to buy from the EVE Store.

  Make sure you stock up on twice as much for the same price before the offer ends on 9 April!

• Dr. Becky Smethurst at EVE Fanfest 2025

  2. April 2025 11:00

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  Visionary capsuleers, 

  EVE Fanfest 2025 is bringing science to the stars, real and virtual. Dr. Becky Smethurst, award-winning astrophysicist, author, and science communicator, will be one of the guest keynote speakers on the main stage at Harpa, as well as Dr. Ronald Turner, NASA scientist and EVE Online player. 

  Dr. Becky Brings Science to the Masses

  Dr. Smethurst, a researcher at the University of Oxford, has made it her mission to unravel the secrets of black holes and the formation of galaxies. With a PhD in astrophysics and a career dedicated to understanding the universe’s most extreme phenomena, she’s become one of the most recognizable voices in modern science. Her YouTube channel, Dr. Becky, has over half a million subscribers who tune in regularly to watch her break down complex astrophysical concepts with clarity and enthusiasm.

  She is the author of A Brief History of Black Holes: and why nearly everything you know about them is wrong, and Space: 10 Things You Should Know – The secrets of 14 billion years for people short on time, as well as writing the foreword to Cosmos: Explore the Wonders of the Universe by DK Publishing.  

  Capsuleer Scientist 

  

  Dr. Turner, a senior science advisor at NASA, is a leading expert in space radiation risk, analyzing the dangers that cosmic rays and solar storms pose to deep-space explorers. His work directly contributes to the safety of future astronauts venturing beyond Earth’s orbit. Outside the lab, he’s also a capsuleer, navigating the perils of New Eden as an EVE player. His perspective bridges the gap between real-world spaceflight and the grand-scale conflicts of EVE Online. 

  This is your chance to hear from two experts who live and breathe space, whether through telescope or starship hulls. Tune in to the Fanfest livestream on CCP TV to witness the collision between the science of the real and virtual worlds. 

• Community Beat for 28 March

  28. March 2025 17:00

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  Welcome back, capsuleers!

  We’re diving into another round-up of the amazing things happening across the EVE Online community—from high-stakes PvP and creative fits to real-life builds, in-game events & tournaments, awesome videos, and more. Let’s get into it.

  Fit Happens

  Fitting a ship in EVE can be one of the biggest hurdles when getting into new activities—but fear not! Renowned PvPer and content creator iBeast has assembled a brand-new collection of Community Fits covering a wide range of ships and roles.

  

  Whether you’re just getting started with PvP, looking to run missions, go out exploring, dip your toe into FW, or need a solid foundation to customize from, these fits are designed to be accessible. Give them a try—and don’t forget to send your thanks (or your killmails) to iBeast!

  Brick'd Out

  We love it when capsuleer passion extends beyond the screen, and this one caught our eye: Kaiser Indrasil over on the EVE subreddit has designed an awesome LEGO Stratios. 4,500 bricks, hundreds of hours of design, and it shows! The proportions, detail, and clever touches bring one of EVE’s most iconic exploration ships to life.

  We weren't the only ones floored. When Kaiser shared this everyone (us included!) wanted to bring this to life.

  I will gather the parts and build it in 2 months tops, and - if there will be no major issues with the assembled set - the instructions themselves will take me another 2 months.

  Once I've heard an opinion that instructions take even more time than design and at first I didn't believe it... and then I designed my first set (this one is second) AND IT'S ALL TRUE

  We’ll be watching this project closely and can’t wait to see the final result!

  NERDS Assemble!

  If you haven’t tuned in yet, the first episode of our brand-new dev show—the New Eden Review Dev Show (NERDS)—is now live on YouTube, Podbean, and Spotify. Our second episode was streamed over on CCPTV this weekend with CCP Wanderer, CCP Lumi, and CCP Swift.

  NERDS dives into the latest happenings in New Eden, complete with insights, conversations with devs, and the updates on all things EVE. Give it a listen, leave a comment, and let us know what you’d like to see in future episodes.

  Speaking of podcasts, EVE's longest running community podcast - Declarations of War - hosted CCP Okami and CCP Kestrel this past weekend to chat about all things Revenant Major Update. If you're a podcast enjoyer, be sure to give it a listen as they discuss mining, projection, industry, ship balance, and more. Thanks for having us!

  Video Corner

  For those who enjoy elite-level gameplay, "Hiraeth" by Aquila is a must-watch. This beautifully edited video explores the return to high-end PvP, complete with small-gang tactics and the introspective reflections of a veteran player rediscovering the thrill of the hunt. It's astounding to see the planning and skill that goes into these kills!

  Looking for something a little more spontaneous? EVE Partner and streamer CrashNaps took a Drake into an ESS and walked away with an improbable victory. Facing down a Marshal, he made the right read, took the fight—and won. It's a great reminder that in New Eden, anything can happen.

  Competitive Play

  The Charity Cup is back this weekend, bringing explosions, expert commentary, and top-tier competitive play!

  With smaller team sizes and designated roles—1 battleship, 1 battlecruiser, 1 cruiser, a logistics ship, a destroyer, and a frigate—each comp might look structurally similar, but the execution is anything but. From kiting and rush tactics to gunspam and control comps (yes, even a railgun Hyperion), restrictions are fueling some serious creativity.

  There’s no shortage of teams to root for, including Alliance Tournament XX winners The Tuskers (competing as Lazy Piglets) and newer contenders like the Blahajideen Freedom Fighters (BFFs). Catch the action live on CCPTV starting at 17:00 UTC this weekend!

  Frigate Free For All

  Glorious chaos returns—Frigate Free For All is back on Saturday, March 29, in Amamake!

  

  Undock, die, re-ship, repeat. With 10,000 ships available for anyone, it’s one of the biggest and most explosive brawls of the year. Whether you’re padding your killboard, losing ships left and right, picking up loot, or just soaking in the action, it’s the perfect way to embrace the spirit of New Eden.

  Several EVE Partners will be streaming the event, and you might even snag a corpse from your favorite CCP dev. Join the fray from 16:00 to 22:00 UTC!

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  That’s it for this edition of the Community Beat. There’s always more happening across New Eden than we can fit in one post, so keep sharing your stories, videos, events, and creations—we’ll see you next time!

  o7

• More FPS for you! New rendering tech now live

  18. March 2025 12:30

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  Rapid capsuleers,

  Revenant just got a , and the evolution continues. New Eden now moves faster, flows smoother, and feels more vibrant than ever. The new is now live, boosting performance and unlocking a more responsive, immersive experience for DirectX 12 and macOS. Battles unfold with greater fluidity, your ship reacts with razor-sharp precision, and the vastness of space stretches before you with even greater clarity.

  This is not just an upgrade – it’s evolution in motion. With an average of 10-30% higher FPS in busy scenes, every decision, every dogfight, and every daring escape is now sharper, faster, and more thrilling than ever. And this is only the beginning, paving the way for even more graphical enhancements in the future.

  EXPERIENCE THE EVOLUTION

• Community Beat for 14 March

  14. March 2025 21:00

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  That Friday feeling has arrived, which also occasionally means it's Community Beat Day!

  We wanted to celebrate the educators in New Eden for this edition of the Community Beat as the people who help us understand the universe can sometimes go urecognised for their efforts, so we wanted to give a small thank you to those who have helped players across the universe. Learning takes many forms in New Eden, for example, videos to help educate players who have been away for an extended period of time, and you want to help them get caught up. Say no more, this video from BushidoMaru caught our attention to help with exactly that!

  Or, more infographic visual examples for our visual learners from Qymm Phyton explaining which ships can activate what Cynos particular ships can use and jump to following this weeks major update:

  

  Or Minmatar Fleet goes back to basics of reminding us about different types of (projectile) ammo. Most things in the universe have particular strengths and weaknesses to varying types of damage, and understanding what type of damage to apply can make the difference in your target getting destroyed or surviving:

  

  However, the EVE University Wiki is one of the most commonly used resources. EVE University is celebrating a whopping 21 years of existence, and as part of that celebration, they're running a Jobs Fair on Saturday and Sunday, March 22 and 23, from 1800 UTC to 1930 UTC. They've got over 2,400 members in their Discord who are students they'd really like to graduate and find new homes for. So, if you want to come along and pitch why one of their students might be interested in joining your corp or alliance in under 10 minutes, you should check them out!

  

  EVE University is also launching "Project Firebird" - an effort to update some of the outdated wiki pages and improve navigation around their wiki. They're also adding new Community Guides (more on that later) and upgrading the tech and tools everyone uses on the site. EVE Uni fully embraces the "Better Together" concepts for their wiki, and they're looking for people to help with the project and join their Discord. So, if you're an experienced player, FC, industrialist, lore nerd, or someone who wants to help make a wiki for people in the universe to help them understand things more, check out their #wiki channel!

  What's in your toolbox?

  Talking about Community guides earlier, another fantastic third-party website project that just launched is the "CapsuleerKit"

  

  It serves as a hub for some of the community's day-to-day tools and external websites and is a great recommendation to anyone starting out who wants to get up to speed with some of the tricks of the trade. I used to keep a bookmark for each of these pages separately when I needed them, but now I have the CapsuleerKit! Not only that, but Alia Collins is also open to adding more third-party apps to the list, so if there's something you think is essential and should be added, drop them a mail in the game and let them know. I'm looking forward to learning about new and upcoming apps being used in the community here as they emerge!

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  Up and Coming

  

  On the topic of up-and-coming, the next few weeks are busy with player events both in and out of the game! This coming weekend, we have the feeder rounds of The Charity Cup 6v6 PvP Tournament, battling to see who will advance to the group stages later this month. You can catch that on Twitch this Saturday and Sunday from 1700 UTC.

  

  Following that, going from in-game to out-of-game, we have EVE New Orleans (NOLA) on March 21 - 23. Last year, the biggest buzz in town was joined by CCP Bee, who highly recommended the gathering for its rich cultural background and some cool EVE nerds (honestly, the first meeting with the Community team when he came back, he spoke non-stop for at least 20 minutes about it). This time, joining the Crawfish Boil will be CCP Convict, so drop by and say hello! They have Discord with all the information too!

  

  March 29 is also another day of many events! First up, back in the United Kingdom, up in Scotland on March 29, Glasgow Dunlop is hosting another EVE Glasgow meet, a favourite meet for the locals to gather up and share some epic stories around a few pints.

  

  Meanwhile, on the same day, from 1600 UTC, the A Band Aparts Annual Frigate Free For All will be kicking off in Amamake, where members of A Band Apart will be handing out frigates in local to encourage people to grab a ship and just go out and BLAST until 2200 UTC. In addition, the group stages of the aforementioned Charity Cup Tournament will be live on the CCPTV Twitch channel from 1700 UTC, but we'll cover these both a little more in the next edition of the community beat.

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  We wrap up today as well about another big event coming up - EVE Fanfest! Only 48 days away, starting on May 1.

  One of the sponsored projects for Fanfest recently launched over on Justabout where we challenge the playerbase to make a video to be shown at the event, between four and eight minutes long, showing off some of the Beauty of EVE Online. It also comes with a Cash prize! The top entry gets $500, Second place gets $125, 3rd gets $75, and finally, 15 runners up will win $10! Rixx Javix recently posted his entry for the event featured above as a source of inspiration to get your creative juices flowing! Do you have what it takes to show off New Eden in all its glory? Do you see beauty where others fear to go? Then head over to JustAbout, pop in, check out the rules and enter!

  That's it for this edition of the Community Beat. Fly it like you stole it!

  o7