EVE Online News

Welcome to back, Capsuleers, to the Community Beat! In our last Beat we heard from Director of Product CCP Ratatti on the Declarations of War Podcast, learned all about the exciting EVE Pandora project, saw some very impressive arts & crafts, and gave you a great excuse to expand your EVE Discord servers!

There’s a lot to look forward to and so much happening in the game – so let’s get to it! Sit back, grab some Quafe and have fun!


NPSI fleets earn their namesake from the default overview color for fleet-mates in EVE: purple. The concept is simple: public fleets, open to everyone, where everyone not in the fleet is a target. You may find yourself flying around strangers, allies, or even enemies – but in these fleets everyone is on the same side.

They are a great way to explore new areas of the game, meet new people, hone your skills, or just have some fun blowing things up. New Eden has a rich history of groups supporting this playstyle, and in recent times communities such as these have really taken off. The best resource we’ve found is the NPSI Community Calendar maintained by Fun Inc. With several fleets going out every day, the next fleet is just around the corner. What’s stopping you?


What do you really know about the Angel Cartel? Most Capsuleers dismiss them as a small pirate outfit whose only duties are to pester the Republic across Minmatar space. It’s true that the Angel Cartel all but run the Minmatar underworld, but their reach extends into many of the major factions as well. The Secure Commerce Commission uncovered evidence of significant financial backings of prominent Caldari corporations tied to the Angel Cartel, corrupting the heart of Caldari industry. The Amarr Empire identified the Cartel as major players in the illicit slave trade. The Gallente Federation are hapless to control the flow of narcotics on the black market - all supplied by the Angel Cartel. They even have an entire offshoot, the Guardian Angels, tasked with supporting the operations of their close allies: the Serpentis Corporation.

If you’d like to learn more about the Cartel, their structure, history, and where their sneaky tendrils reach – head on over to the EVE Universe. Maybe some of this information will prove fruitful in the coming weeks…



A lot of us have taken up additional hobbies over the last few years, and bread making tops the charts. Last month on Twitter, Frozen Sky on-upped us all with their amazing Minmatar Loaf! It even has a bit of a rusty crust going on. Glorious!

What EVE themed culinary creations have you come up with? Tweet us your best – or just post in the forum thread below – and the best selections will get some fancy SKINs!



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We always talk about how amazing the EVE community is when it comes to in-game events & accomplishments, but you’re just as amazing out of game. Comprised of EVE players and community members, the Broadcast 4 Reps initiative aims to raise awareness of mental health issues. Regardless of in-game standings or stature, Broadcast 4 Reps is there, no questions asked. Space may be vast, but you’re never alone. Learn more about B4R on their Facebook page and Discord community.






With the return of the Alliance Tournament last year, the competitive EVE scene is abuzz with upcoming competitions and contests. Next up on the list is the Anger Games 5 – a 7v7, 32 team, double elimination PvP tournament. Signups being tomorrow, 5 February, and run until 19 February.

While this is organized team-play, there are established teams looking for new members and budding teams looking to make their mark. With an inventive ruleset – anything can happen! This is an amazing way to get involved in EVE tournaments, meet some new people, and advance your PvP skills. Check out the ruleset or hop onto the Official Anger Games Discord to find a team.

The main event will be taking place in the last week of May and into June – we hope to see you there!

That’s all for this edition of the Beat. We’ll be back in two weeks with all new information and insights into the wonderful EVE community. Share some stories, let us know what you want to know more about, and of course let us see those culinary masterpieces on the EVE Online Forums.

Festive Capsuleers!

A new Lunar Year brings a new collection of celebratory packs to EVE Online! These are available to buy for a limited period of time from 1-8 February in the EVE Store.

The Lunar Pack includes the exquisitely embroidered Empyrean Dragons jackets for male and female pilots, stunning Stargazer Lantern Fireworks, and the Vexor Navy Issue Empyrean Dragons SKIN.

For New Eden’s industrial pilots, the Lunar Mining Pack is packed with Omega, Plex, Skill Points, Rockbreaker Pioneers SKINs, and the Mining Barge Operation Expert System. Use this to gain an immediate injection of crucial mining skills, providing a temporary taste of a rock harvester’s life.

A number of popular SKINs will also return to the New Eden Store for a limited period of time!

Serene SKINs for the Magnate, Hyperion, Naga, Cynabal and Augoror Navy Issue will once again be available to buy separately, or as a bundle. Absent Heroes SKINs for the Rifter and Typhoon will also return!

These special SKINs will only be available in the New Eden Store between 1-8 February, so make sure you grab them while you can.

Bargain-loving Capsuleers!

You can now save 25% on Multiple Character Training (MCT) certificates from the New Eden Store! This offer will only be available from 11:00 UTC on 29 Jan to 11:00 UTC on 31 Jan.

MCT certificates allow you to train multiple characters at the same time, on the same account! It’s the perfect way to explore more of EVE Online, without pausing progress on your most important pilot.

If you’d like to take advantage of this discount, make sure you grab your certificates from the New Eden Store before the offer expires!

Collaborative Capsuleers,

Bringing the EVE Online x Doctor Who crossover to a dramatic end, the coming Abyssal Proving Grounds event focusses on 2v2 combat with some Whovian flair. It’s time to find an ally and ready yourself for clashes that promise to test both your dogfighting ability and the precision of your piloting skills.

Why will you need a steadier hand than ever to emerge victorious? Because throughout this special cruiser-focussed Abyssal Proving Grounds clash, the arena will be packed with high numbers of nexuses from The Interstellar Convergence event, with Convergent Accelerant and Decelerant objects littering the arena. Get too near one of those objects and they will explode, applying buffs or debuffs respectively. It’s a set-up that will ensure dramatic and tantalizing battles!

The permitted hulls for this event are the Omen, Caracal, Thorax, Stabber, Maller, Moa, Vexor, Rupture, Arbitrator, Blackbird, Celestis, and Bellicose.

There are some conditions of entry, of course, just to be sure that the combat is both balanced, and as action-packed as one of the Doctors’ own adventures..

The following arena effects will be in place throughout the event:
- Only pilots equipped with modules or implants with a meta level of 0 - meaning basic Tech 1 modules - will be allowed to enter
- Sensor dampeners, shield rechargers, shield power relays, shield flux coils, and core defence field purgers are banned
- Ships entering this round of Abyssal Proving Grounds combat must have a maximum of one local repair module fitted, either as shield or armor

Want to join in? Find a friend or Whovian companion, get your cruisers battle-ready, grab your Proving Filaments and head to the Proving Grounds between 11:00 UTC 28 January to 11:00 UTC 1 February. And as ever, the Proving Grounds leaderboards will allow you to keep up with Capsuleer performance... and how you and your ally fare compared to the rest of the pack.

On 9 March 2019, Katia Sae completed the monumental goal of being the first person to explore each and every reachable system in EVE Online: 5,201 systems across New Eden and another 2,604 in the mysterious expanse of Anoikis, for a combined 7,805 systems visited and documented - without losing a single ship in combat throughout the journey.

This goliath undertaking established Katia Sae as the first Capsuleer to achieve this venture across the stars, having begun the journey nearly a decade prior in December 2009.

The Achura Stargazers Society’s Monument to Katia Sae’s achievement, in Saisio

However, the world of EVE is a ripe with opportunity for every Capsuleer roaming its vast universe – and while Katia has been set in stone (or steel, rather) as the first to visit every accessible star in the heavens, the first record for being the fastest to do so has now been set:

Capsuleer Henrique Arnolles now stands as the Guinness World Record holder for the fastest time taken to reach each of the 7,805 accessible star systems in EVE, accomplishing his goal in a blistering 224 days! Henrique set out on this adventure on 1 February 2021, touring every Empire system (High and Lowsec) by 6 February, visiting every Nullsec system by the 15th, and reaching his final target system in Anoikis (wormhole space) on 13 September – completing his race across the stars without losing a single ship!

You can listen to Henrique as he goes over his journey on Talking in Stations, joined by Katia Sae, CCP Paragon, CCP Goat, and CCP Swift:

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While usurping such a record would certainly be a daunting aspiration, there's no shortage of opportunity for the Capsuleers of New Eden to achieve their goals, no matter the challenge. On our end, a new process has been established through which any future claims to this Guiness World Record can be rapidly verified, and we’ll be happy & ready to assist in claiming the new record, should another intrepid adventurer someday break it!



On your wings, the largest living world of science fiction flies onward; even after nearly two decades of a game history unlike any other, Capsuleers continue to reach new heights again and again. We at CCP are grateful to be able to provide & develop the vast world in which the incomparable EVE community thrives, and we enthusiastically look forward to seeing what feats and wonders you will accomplish as EVE approaches its 19th anniversary & beyond.

We can’t wait to see what you all do next – and we’ll see you in space!