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Catch up with Fanfest’s glorious return!

Fanfest-loving Capsuleers,

Fanfest 2022 has reached its conclusion, and we couldn’t have dreamed of a better event to reunite our community after too many years apart.

Bringing together so many of the EVE community in-person provided a very special opportunity to catch-up, share memories of the stories we’ve made and played together in New Eden, and get enthused about what is becoming a very exciting future for EVE Online. Fanfest may have ended, but there’s a lot to look forward to in New Eden!



And aside from the parties, pub-crawls and off-site adventures around Iceland, Fanfest saw all kinds of news stories, announcements, and insights about coming changes that will make EVE even better, as we power towards the third decade.

Through a series of presentations, developer interviews, roundtables and panels – many of which were watched live on CCP TV by pilots around the world – we got to share our vision of an ever more vibrant New Eden that thrives as a living universe driven by grand new narrative arcs, even more dynamic player-shaped stories, and a fresh generation of expansions.

You can catch up on all the key news from Fanfest in our stories rounding up Day One and Day Two of the event. In those stories you’ll find all kinds of detail on the new factional warfare system, changes to structures, the return of expansions in an evolved form, ship and structure customization with the all-new heraldry system, the role of the new InterBus credits, significant visual enhancements such as high-definition nebulas in addition to numerous other quality of life improvements, the experiences that greet new players, ambitious plans for multi-year narrative arcs, and plenty more.



You can still watch the full deep dive from Day Two including the EVE - A Living Universe Presentation and the keynote from Day One as well as catch up on all the presentations and announcements from Fanfest here. It’s far from too late to get a taste of the EVE Fanfest experience.

If you have any photos, videos or other memories from Fanfest 2022, get them on social media using the hashtag #tweetfleet. We’d love to see what you have to share!

For now, we’ll see you back in New Eden – and maybe at the next Fanfest in September 2023! More news on Fanfest 2023 is set to come, so keep your eyes locked to EVE News.

Photon UI – Iterating and Improving

Space-conscious Capsuleers,

Following on from the crazy adventure that was Fanfest 2022, the team is eager to get the latest Photon UI updates released for you to try. The May release has dozens of bug fixes and improvements based on your feedback. Here are just a few of those changes:
  • Chat update notifications return.
  • A new tabbed window header in select windows, utilizing header space better.
  • Inactive windows are more serene.
  • Animated grain texture removed.
  • Tab highlights are more balanced.
  • Lots and lots of bug fixes!

That’s not all, though. The June release is starting to take shape, too, with the headline feature being a compact UI mode for select windows in Photon UI. Make sure you check it out as it’s shaping up to be the modern UI EVE needs as it marches towards the third decade!



These changes wouldn’t be possible without the vibrant EVE Online community. Please continue giving your feedback and making New Eden the best place it can be!

Haven’t tried Photon UI yet? Launch EVE, head to the settings menu (Esc), and enable it under the Feature Previews tab to opt in. Later in the summer we will see the Neocom in Photon, animated elements, and Photon UI will transition to become an opt-out feature.
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So keep testing, Capsuleers, and look forward to the bright future that is Photon UI!

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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'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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