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Entrepreneurial Capsuleers,

Back in July, we introduced a temporary Brokers Fee and Sales Tax reduction across New Eden with the Grand Heist release, which was stated to last for three months. This period has now reached its end - but instead of merely returning to the market’s previous taxes, a modified tax structure will be coming your way soon.

In the Grand Heist release, the base Sales Tax and Brokers Fee in NPC stations were each cut in half, going from 5.0% to 2.5%. In place of the previous numbers, taxes will be changing to the following structure:

Base Unmodified Taxes:

• Sales Tax: 2.5% -> 8.0% (Previously 5.0%)
  
• Brokers Fee: 2.5% -> 3.0% (Previously 5.0%)
  
• Total Taxes: 5.0% -> 11.0% (Previously 10.0%)

Minimum Taxes (Modified by Skills, Standings, etc):

• Sales Tax: 1.125% -> 3.6% (Previously 2.25%)
  
• Brokers Fee: 0.5% -> 1.0% (Previously 3.0%)
  
• Total Taxes: 1.625% -> 4.6% (Previously 5.25%)

This change shifts a higher percentage of the tax division toward the sales tax instead of on the order placement, permanently reducing the cost-pressure associated with listing orders by moving the cost into the sales tax taken out upon purchase by another player.

In effect, trading at base tax values under the new structure will increase total taxes by 1% compared to pre-relief values – but if you operate with taxes reduced to their minimum, your total taxes will be decreased by 0.625% compared to pre-relief, on top of requiring less ISK to list your orders in the first place!

See you in space (or in station, for all you market moguls), and fly safe!

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Attention Capsuleers,

The Summon the Swarm update is now live in EVE Online, providing daring pilots with a new opportunity to earn exciting rewards!

This update introduces a new deployable structure, the CONCORD Rogue Analysis Beacon - or CRAB. This new deployable is authorized for use in Low and Null security space to research local Rogue Drone activities.

To begin its broadcast and analysis cycles, it must be powered up through the use of a capital or supercapital class vessel. Once initialized, it will attract hostile Rogue Drone threats that must be destroyed in order to complete the analysis cycle.

Successful completion will reward pilots with new mutaplasmid technology for mutating drones, as well as both bounties and research data to be handed in for additional ISK.

Thanks to extensive player testing on the Singularity test server, a number of improvements have been made that significantly enhance the experience of the new update:

• Fighter targeting AI has been refined, allowing more ship types to complete the sites.
  
• Deployables have been further restricted, to prevent interference with nearby Player Owned Structures or Citadels.
  
• Bounty rewards have been more than doubled in the live release!
  
• Infested Ogres have been modified to no longer pause the site.
  

Ready for a new challenge? Form your fleet, acquire a Rogue Analysis Beacon, and prepare to summon the swarm!

[h2]CONCORD Preliminary Field Research Report[/h2]

Over the course of many repeated deployments of the CRAB, it was observed that active scanning for Rogue Drone activities failed. Analysis of test data indicates signal interference rapidly reaches a saturation point within the local system rendering further operation ineffective. Restrictions and information systems have been integrated into CRAB deployable structures, providing researchers with the current state of local system signal interference levels. This information will also be updated into Neocom firmware used by capsuleers going forward.

CRAB deployment and activation requires the involvement of capsuleers, due to a specific design requirement for using the secure FTL communications equipment available within hydrostatic capsules. However, capsules only have a limited reserve of Complex Encryption Qubits (CEQs) available for use to securely establish the link with the CRAB, and bridge to CONCORD FTL networks, during the broadcast cycle. This will impose limitations on use, as repeated linking to a CRAB by the same capsuleer will eventually deplete their reserve of CEQs. The CEQ reserves available for secure linking will regenerate over time as the capsule systems generate new encryption keys.

During the course of our CRAB testing and analysis, DED fleets engaged a number of extremely dangerous modified Rogue Drones. It has been found that these newly-detected Rogue Drones have been mutated by the use of new Rogue Drone technology. Our fleets have made note of several new mutaplasmids retrieved by the CRAB from the remains of the Rogue Drone threats encountered, all with radically different characteristics from the mutaplasmids retrieved from Triglavian technology caches. This finding urgently demands further study. Due to the extreme threat from these entities, we have assigned bounties on every discovered new Rogue Drone variation so far.

On completion of the broadcast and analysis cycle, the CRAB will relay its findings. The operating capsuleer may retrieve any resources recovered by the CRAB. CONCORD has now set up purchase orders for Rogue Drone Infestation Data collected during the operation of the CRAB, incentivizing capsuleers to sell their observation data for our research team to study further.

Unflinching Capsuleers,
A new, one-day event is coming to the Abyssal Proving Grounds, inviting you to pilot the mightiest frontline ships of the core nations of New Eden in one-on-one combat, unleashing punishing force on your opponent as you battle for victory!

This event begins at 11:00 UTC on 16 October, and runs for exactly 24 hours.

The ruleset is as follows:

• Only the Apocalypse, Armageddon, Abaddon, Raven, Rokh, Scorpion, Dominix, Megathron, Hyperion, Tempest, Typhoon, Maelstorm, and Praxis may enter
  
• Pilots receive 100m ISK payout per match
  
• Only one local repair module allowed per ship
  
• No Sensor Dampeners or Shield Boost Amplifiers allowed
  
• No passive shield tank modules (power relays, flux coild, purger rigs) allowed
  
• Modules and drones are restricted to meta level 5
  
• Pirate implants are restricted
  

Board your battleships, ready your weapons, and snag your Proving Ground filaments – available in Abyssal Deadspace caches, in Triglavian wrecks in Pochven, or on the ingame market – and launch into a momentous battle , hitting your foes with everything you’ve got as you plow your way to the top of the Proving Ground Leaderboard, demonstrating immovable strength & spirit and earning rewards!

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Fashionable Capsuleers,
After an intense round of judging, following a great number of fantastic submissions from across the world for the GM Week Cosplay Contest, we’re proud to announce the winners of this stylish competition!

[h2]1st Place: Carol Hernandez[/h2]
In truest EVE Online fashion, Carol Hernandez shows off a phenomenal spacefaring getup, evocative of one of New Eden’s most sustaining profession – complete with ship spinning!




[h2]2nd Place: Araknos BloodFeather[/h2]


As the Domain of Pochven reaches its first anniversary, Araknos BloodFeather has outfitted himself in a beautiful custom Trigalvian survival suit - the prideful garb of Kybernauts everywhere!





[h2]3rd Place: Sven Saltzburg[/h2]

The Amarr maintain the oldest and most well-established of New Eden’s spacefaring navies – and Sven Saltzburg shows his loyalty to the Empire with a snazzy officers’ uniform!





[h2]4th Place: Lucas Amarlio[/h2]
The Sisters of EVE are best known as a humanitarian organization, but their interests extend to far deeper and more dangerous fronts – Lucas Amarlio shows off his custom-made combat armor in the classic red-and-white colors of the SoE!



Congratulations to all entrants, and thanks to all for their fantastic submissions! In addition to these winners, look forward to the winners of the community vote as well, which you can find and participate in here on the EVE Forums.
Thanks to all who entered, and congratulations to the winners! We look forward to seeing all of your fantastic cosplays in person at future EVE meetups someday soon(tm).

See you in space, and fly safe!

If you’re missing some of this year’s best SKINs, a new bundle of the very best is now available to buy from the EVE Store! As well as the brand-new Thanatos Green Demons SKIN, the Best SKINs of 2021 bundle is packed with this year’s cosmetic highlights.

Bundle contents

• Green Demons Thanatos
• Rockbreaker Pioneers Orca
• Vampire’s Hex Gila
• Vampire’s Hex Rattlesnake
• Ghost’s Hex Orthrus
• Ghost’s Hex Barghest
• Hazard Control Loki
• Ultraviolence Vortex Nyx

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