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The Economic Report for the month of August 2021 is now available for your viewing pleasure!

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Ambitious Capsuleers,

EVE Online’s third Quadrant of 2021 – Gateway – launches today! The Gateway Quadrant kicks off with an updated and improved new player experience to train freshly cloned Capsuleers, great opportunities for established corporations and alliances to recruit and train those Capsuleers, the introduction of brand-new Skill Plans to streamline Capsuleer advancement, and much more. There’s never been a better time to start, continue, or return to playing EVE!

Since 2020, EVE Online releases have been divided into four Quadrants each year, packed with exciting events, game features, login campaigns, balance updates, visual updates, technological advancements, competitions, Abyssal Proving Grounds, and more. Each Quadrant has a unique theme focused on a specific aspect of EVE Online, which guides the type of content you can expect to see. Quadrants are not limited to delivering content within a set theme only, but most will be connected to it to provide a holistic experience for Capsuleers in New Eden. The content itself is delivered in smaller increments throughout the Quadrant’s duration instead of a single big patch, giving you something interesting to do on every space adventure! Be sure to check out this Foundation Quadrant wrap-up for the highlights from Q2.

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[h2]Gateway[/h2]
The Gateway Quadrant will open the door to the EVE universe for many new Capsuleers and provide new pathways for them to connect with their dreams and ambitions in New Eden. It will also provide established player corporations and alliances new avenues in which to direct the training and advancement of fresh recruits, of which there will be many!

Gateway will be a shorter Quadrant than normal, and will also act as a stepping stone to EVE Online’s fourth Quadrant of 2021 – which starts in November - where a new era will dawn across New Eden, signaling updates for resource scarcity. Corporations and alliances would do well to use Gateway as an opportunity to recruit new Capsuleers wisely and begin training them up for the next Quadrant, where they will be able to ready their ships and materials for the new beginning!

[h2]Welcoming New Pilots[/h2]
A brand-new, story-driven Capsuleer training experience for rookie pilots is now live in EVE Online, after having received a very warm welcome and valuable feedback from the veteran community during its time on the Singularity test server! Incoming players can now arrive in New Eden and get their initial Capsuleer training from the Association for Interdisciplinary Research (AIR) in this major update to EVE’s new player experience. It is the first step towards an improved introduction to New Eden for all Capsuleers, and one that will engage players to keep them in the game longer.



Crafting this narrative-driven content called for quite a bit of innovation when it came to tooling, resulting in more immersive experiences and faster iteration capabilities, more dynamic visuals and improved UI highlighting. This will benefit both current and future content capabilities so that players can continue to experience cinematic, immersive, and engaging gameplay in EVE Online. This is the first step in improving the gateway to New Eden for fresh pilots, and will continue to be updated.

To give new pilots a further boost, the Starter Training Boost Bundle is now available in the EVE Store at 15% off, giving rookie Capsuleers 500,000 Skill Points and a Prototype Cerebral Accelerator to advance their skill training options! It’s worth noting that more established Capsuleers in corporations looking to train fresh pilots can contract their Prototype Cerebral Accelerator to new recruits.

[h2]Skill Plans - Focus Your Advancement[/h2]
The new Skill Plans feature is also now live in EVE Online, streamlining and simplifying your progression through EVE’s many skills and advancement avenues! This feature allows you to build a list of skills, without needing to buy and inject them first. A Skill Plan is an ordered list of skill levels with specific goals which you can create to follow and keep track of your training as you aim for your desired experiences and challenges in EVE.

Skill Plans also allow you to share lists of skills with each other via chat, EVE Mail, corp bulletin, etc, and interact with them, all inside the EVE Online client. You can set up to five milestones in a Skill Plan, indicating specific sub-goals within it, and a milestone will be completed as soon you train all the skills required for the item or skill in question. With the aim of developing and expanding the Skill Plans feature in the near future, work is already underway on Corporation Skill Plans.



With the feature having already been tested on the Singularity test server, it has been fantastic to see the EVE community discussing Skill Plans and embracing them, especially considering how central the skills system is to anyone’s gameplay in EVE. The benefits of streamlining this process and having experienced EVE players embrace it will have a great effect on all new Capsuleers that enter the game.

[h2]EVE in the Epic Store[/h2]
Speaking of gateways, a new path into New Eden is opening on 23 September as EVE Online will be coming to the Epic Games Store! The Epic Store platform’s arrival will open up the gates of New Eden to players who will previously not have had any experience of EVE Online.

This platform will bring in waves of new Capsuleers, expanding the EVE community. These fresh pilots will play through the updated AIR new player experience, leaving them ripe for recruitment, training, and integration by established player corporations and alliances. There will be an in-game celebration with an event and rewards to mark the arrival of these new Capsuleers, so keep your eyes peeled for that!



[h2]On the Horizon[/h2]
Going live with the Gateway Quadrant are a couple of changes to resource distribution. More ice has been brought back into New Eden with its availability having doubled, and the availability of Mercoxit has also increased. These changes signal the start of greater updates to the scarcity of resources in the universe, and you can expect them in the fourth Quadrant which kicks off in November 2021, running until the beginning of February 2022. That's not all! There are exciting additional gameplay updates being cooked up for launch during Gateway that will be geared towards veteran players. More details will follow on these updates soon.

Providing fresh access to EVE Online through new gateways will help grow the global Capsuleer community, and the new AIR Capsuleer training program will prepare them better than ever before for life in New Eden. The eventual resource distribution conclusion that Gateway will set EVE on course for, in addition to the waves of new pilots coming in with AIR’s new training, mean that established players will have plenty to sink their teeth into. All of this continues to set EVE Online up strongly for its third decade and beyond!

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Glorious Capsuleers,

EVE Online’s Foundation Quadrant has been eventful and full of excitement! As this second Quadrant of 2021 draws to a close, it’s the perfect opportunity to look back at the highlights and major updates introduced. Detailed below is a summary of this Quadrant’s in-game events, activities, community achievements, as well as gameplay & tech updates that are building the foundation of a thriving third decade for EVE.

[h2]In-Game Events and Celebrations[/h2]
The Foundation Quadrant saw EVE Online celebrate its 18th birthday in style with Capsuleer Day commemorating 18 years since the dawn of the Capsuleer Age. Celebrating the incredible togetherness and strength of EVE’s Capsuleer community, there were in-game activities and free gifts as pilots faced off against the Equilibrium of Mankind (EoM) terrorist group.

The great Empires of New Eden also hosted their own days of celebration, with Gallente Federation Day, Minmatar Liberation Day, Amarr Foundation Day and Caldari Union Day all featuring awesome in-game events and free gifts. Well done to all players that made awesome contributions to the propaganda contests and trivia quizzes that dovetailed with the Empire celebration days.

The Stargate Trailblazers event saw the Empires working to gather resources for the construction of new stargate routes around New Eden. Capsuleers picked sides and supported their faction at combat sites and resource harvesting sites. The event resulted in a new stargate being added to New Eden!

[h2]EVE Community Achievements & Activities[/h2]
The year-long player war in Nullsec which has featured some of the largest battles ever recorded in New Eden – and gaming history – ended during the Foundation Quadrant! Be sure to check out the latest episode of The Scope for all the details.

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Speaking of hard-fought battles, an astounding 51 teams duked it out for 16 spots in this November’s Alliance Tournament XVII, which was announced in the Foundation Quadrant. Those teams are now training hard in anticipation of the main event in November.

It wasn’t all bloodshed, though, as members of the EVE community submitted numerous videos of their defining Capsuleer moments for EVE’s 18th birthday. Don’t miss the player celebration video commemorating those moments!

[h2]Major Updates - A Foundation for the Future![/h2]
The Foundation Quadrant saw a number of big updates made to gameplay in EVE, as well as a number of balance changes and new features introduced.

The Hunter’s Boon update, inspired by player feedback, featured changes such as the introduction of mobile covert cyno beacons, buffs to the Pacifier and Enforcer, and Tech 3 cruiser skill loss removal. Mobile observatories granted pilots a long-awaited defense against cloaking-based incursions into Lowsec and Nullsec, and the Enter the Portal update brought powerful buffs to the Black Ops class of Tech II battleships, plus the slick new Conduit Jump feature.

Long-anticipated ESS keys arrived as part of the Grand Heist update, allowing Capsuleers to raid and liberate riches from Nullsec reserve banks using keys obtained from Lowsec signatures, with almost a trillion ISK already stolen by the wiliest Capsuleers! Furthermore, the Great Escape update brought gameplay depth and subtlety to the use of nullification and warp core stabilizers, ensuring they serve a more meaningful role across EVE and its community.

The Foundation Quadrant didn’t just feature gameplay and balance updates, though, as continued investment in technology keeps EVE Online on track to successfully navigate its third decade and thrive. A huge visual update – Bring Out EVE’s Colors – affected every activity in space and every visual interaction, as well as all ships, citadels, planetary bodies, and more. A new 3D version of your ship’s AI “Aura” and vast visual improvements to the interior of the Jita 4-4 trade hub were also significant updates to iconic elements of New Eden. New landmarks were introduced around the cluster to commemorate significant historical events and provided more places of interest to visit for explorers, including a monument to the enormous and record-shattering titan fight in the system of M2-XFE.

Another public playtest of the native Mac version of EVE Online also took place in the Foundation Quadrant, delivering further progress on the path to welcoming even more new players to New Eden.

The EVE Academy website launched in Q2, as well, with the aim of enhancing the new player experience. EVE Academy provides a wealth of information designed to help new players decide who they want to be in New Eden. There are links to four career paths - Explorer, Industrialist, Enforcer or Soldier of Fortune – where you get skill plans, beginner ship fitting examples, and curated links to resources created by the EVE Online community, videos and much more.

[h2]Quadrant 3 Incoming[/h2]
The third Quadrant of 2021 is not far away, and it will act as a gateway for EVE Online and its Capsuleers towards more major updates, events, and a new era in New Eden! Keep your eyes peeled and stay tuned for more announcements coming very soon.

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To our cherished players,

Today, 10 September, is World Suicide Prevention Day - and we at CCP would like to raise awareness of this vitally important and very delicate subject.

Anyone can find themselves in difficult times. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), more than 700,000 people die due to suicide each year – and it is the second leading cause of death among individuals between the ages of 15 and 34.

In light of the still very strange and constantly changing state of the world and our lives in the past couple of years, and the difficulties we all face in uncertainty, loneliness, and grief, it is more important than ever for you to be able to know that you are not alone.

If you are ever struggling with suicidal thoughts, feel overwhelmed by life, or even just need someone to talk to, you can be connected with a professional and share what’s on your mind in a single call: specialized suicide hotlines operate 24/7 worldwide, and are always prepared and ready to help.

On our end here at CCP, reports of intentions of self-harm are treated with the highest urgency, and we have procedures in place to ensure as immediate a response as possible, including contact with any available local assistance.

And on the side of the EVE community, the Broadcast 4 Reps movement maintains a safe and sympathetic space where anyone can reach out to speak to other space friends in times of need, operating a dedicated public discord server, and providing links to various other valuable resources on their website.

This year, we would like to recognize and thank the core team of B4R for their efforts and invaluable assistance to those in need, including Tovanis, Jezaja, Erika Mizune, Diana Valenti, Fyt 284, Daark (Nyx Palaiologos), and Thoroughbreed, and would like to give an honorable mention to Laura Karpinski. CCP will be issuing special in-game medals in gratitude to active B4R members in the near future.

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We would also like to give thanks to Sixth Empire, founded by Max Singularity and Feiryred, for developing a community of friendship and care for their fellow EVE Online players. Sixth Empire’s core motto is “Answer All Calls”, and the group emphatically supports the B4R movement - raising awareness and spreading motivational posts across EVE groups on various social networks.

Fly safe, and fly together: through any difficulties you may face, there are always those who want to and can provide help. No matter what happens, we want you to know that you are never alone!

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Tireless Capsuleers,

No Downtime starts today!

As you may have seen in the recent development blog, No Downtime starts today after 11:00 UTC. That means, if everything goes to plan, that on 9 September EVE Online will be entering uncharted territory yet again past the 24 hour mark.

The ultimate goal is for EVE to have no downtimes at all. The first step has been to shorten downtime, which is quickly approaching its asymptotic value of around 3 minutes. Then, the goal is to have fewer and fewer downtimes, eventually eliminating it altogether. This is a long-term goal and all of EVE’s technological advances are aimed towards that.

Just like last time, your help is required to flag everything that seems suspect or weird, letting us know how the game performs for you when you do the things you normally do.

There are a number of reasons why running another one of these experiments is beneficial:

• Improvements which have been made since the last experiment can be validated
• Things that may have regressed will be flagged
• Memory usage will be observed
• Verification that anything new is not making any downtime assumptions

Ultimately, an experiment such as this is dedicated to the Capsuleers of New Eden who hail from countries such as New Zealand, Japan, Korea, and Australia. As EVE Online has entered and launched in Korea and Japan over the past year, the activity in this timezone has increased, and not disturbing players during their peak hours is important.

For those that remember the video from 2019’s No Downtime, a whole lotta effort and power is needed for such a heroic stunt. Find out more about how that is possible in the No Downtime Vol 2 video.

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