EVE Online News

Eve Online is bringing the drama of evolving war to PvE systems

If you're not an Eve Online player, the odds are pretty good that when you hear something about the long-running space game, it's about a massive battle - thousands of players smashing each other's ships in a catastrophic engagement that's part of a large inter-factional war. Historically, those wars have taken place in Eve's unregulated wild west, known as null-sec (for Security Status 0). But with the coming changes to factional warfare, some of the drama of Eve's wars will be making its way to low-sec space, which has historically been much more predictable.

Developer CCP Games' vision for Eve Online going forward is one that's unified around a new narrative arc system. While each arc will have a story to tell, they'll also be vehicles for rolling out new features, and the new factional warfare system will play a major role in how this works.

"I'm incredibly excited to be finally able to talk about factional warfare, and that we're diving into factional warfare," Eve Online creative director Bergur Finnbogason tells us. "It's an area of the game that is fundamental to the idea of a sci-fi universe."

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Eve Online's Excel partnership began in a CCP women's group

'Spreadsheets in space' has been the running gag about Eve Online almost as long as the notoriously information-dense MMORPG has been around, which at this point is going on 20 years. But it was only recently that developer CCP Games and Microsoft made it official, announcing the forthcoming Eve Online-Microsoft Excel integration at this year's Eve Fanfest in Reykjavik. And like so many lasting friendships, this one began at the pub.

"A few of the CCP women went out for drinks, and one was our bizdev person," explains Emily Akland, an Eve Online brand manager. "They were starting to joke around that spreadsheets in space is such a fun concept - and they were like, 'Wouldn't it be crazy if we just reached out [to Microsoft] and see what happens?'"

As the three women - VP of publishing Eyrún Jónsdóttir, business development manager Anna Katrín Ólafsdóttir, and Eve Online director of growth Anna Kozko - continued to discuss the idea, the less crazy it seemed. They brought the idea up to the rest of Eve Online's management, and Ólafsdóttir said she knew someone at Microsoft who they could call.

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Siege Green – Live Now!

Spirited Capsuleers,

Siege Green is live now on Tranquility! This incredible update brings sweeping changes to faction ship, battleship, and capital production with a major focus on dreadnoughts. Starting today, you can look forward to vastly reduced material costs when building these machines of war.

All the details are up to date on the EVE Forums so be sure to start your blueprints and get ready for battle!

Speaking of the destructive might of dreadnoughts, further changes have arrived for Upwell structures across New Eden. All structures have now had their shield damage cap removed, letting you bash through the shield more quickly than ever before and leading to bigger fights over more meaningful timers

Medium structures have seen an update, too, with the Astrahus, Athanor, and Raitaru now having their hull reinforcement timer removed. This means you only need to come back once to destroy these low-value structures in one big do-or-die battle.

25% OFF SELECT SKINS

There will also be 25% off select battleship and dreadnought SKINs from 10-17 May in the New Eden Store. So, if you have some PLEX on hand, why not give your shiny new dread a shiny new coat of paint?

The details of all these changes can be found in the latest Tranquility patch notes.

Now is the time to get a head start on the destruction with your own capital fleet. Just don’t forget your stront!

SIEGE GREEN

The new Eve Online heraldry system will be a big deal

From the outside looking in, adding new custom ship skins to the massively multiplayer space game Eve Online might not seem like a particularly noteworthy change - sure, it's nice to be able to personalise your avatar and spaceship, but certainly not essential, right? But in Eve Online, identity drives everything - who you are, what you've done, and the groups you belong to are critically important to the experience and fantasy. The upcoming heraldry system that CCP Games announced at Fanfest 2022 will finally make it official and allow players to establish distinct visual identities for themselves and their corporations and alliances.

It's obvious how important heraldry is to Eve players the moment you walk into an event like Fanfest: the throng of players is peppered with custom-printed alliance T-shirts, jackets, and flags. Those icons are common sights on Eve streams and in forums, but the new heraldry system will make them usable within Eve, too.

The heraldry system isn't just about showing allegiance to a group, however. The new system includes visual modules and add-ons for ships, killmarks, and holograms that will change and grow along with your achievements.

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Eve Online will tee up its third decade with advanced faction warfare and ambitious story arcs

Eve Online, the space MMO that’s so laden with consequence it’s frightening, is introducing multi-year story arcs to pull its NPC factions into the heart of the game. The finale of developer CCP’s first planned arc will launch before the end of 2022. The idea is to let capsuleers build meaningful bonds with their home empires by fighting for them in New Eden’s living universe - which has always been shaped by players, not NPCs.