First off, you will have three open chat channels when you first create your character. Whenever one of the channels is highlighted, it means you have unread messages there.
If you ever lose one of these channels, don't worry. You can click the little chat bubble and find them there, most notably the help channels under the Help category. Otherwise they will be at the top of your menu, on the left side of your screen.
The EVE Online Community Team have been running New Player Training Sessions (NPTS) specifically targeted at players that would like to know as much about specific features as possible. If you wish to know more, they are available on the EVElopedia. The EVElopedia is also an excellent source of information for other matters. If you want, you can also join the New Player Training Sessions chat channel in-game, by clicking the chat bubble and typing in the name of the channel.
Check out the official EVE Online New Pilot FAQ for a boiled down explanation of many basic points, what to expect, and how to attain it.
Lastly, there is no better source of experience and help than the existing players. Remember that this is a single-shard server, which means everyone plays on the same server. Notable places to check are the EVE subreddit, the New Citizens Q&A forum on the EVE Online forums, and the EVE University Wiki. If you have a Twitter account, you can see what clever things the other players are saying by watching #eveonline and #tweetfleet.
EVE Online is a terrific game full of wonderful people. Go join them; but most importantly of all, have fun doing so.
]]>If you would like to participate and help us test this change, head on over to this thread for all the information you may need.
]]>This Thursday at 19:00 UTC, CCP will be hosting an EVE Online: Rubicon 1.1 live stream in association with Twitch.
CCP Guard (aka Mr G) and CCP Mimic will be speaking with CCP Rise and CCP Fozzie, regarding the recently released changes that came with EVE Online: Rubicon 1.1.
CCP Dolan will also be on hand to talk about the most recent CSM Summit, as well as CCP Falcon and CCP Bro to cover the New Eden Open and upcoming Community gatherings in the months ahead!
Tune in to our official Twitch channel at 19:00 UTC tomorrow, January 30th to watch!
]]>CCP are happy to announce the EVE Online: Rubicon 1.1 PLEX sale!
Head on over to your account management page to take advantage of some great savings on PLEX in celebration of the launch of Rubicon 1.1! This sale will run until February 3rd, and includes discounts on 6x, 13x and 28x PLEX packages.
]]>Rubicon 1.1 brings a whole host of new deployable structures, as well as the new Sisters of EVE battleship, along with new capital ship wrecks, station graphical updates, a number of UI changes and optimizations, ship balancing, overheat balancing and a number of other changes!
Take a look at the Dev Blogs page on the EVE Online Community portal for recently published and upcoming blogs regarding the changes coming with EVE Online: Rubicon 1.1.
Please remember to set a long skill in training for the duration of the deployment, and please also be sure to check your overview settings in game to make sure they include the new deployable structures, in order to avoid any confusion during combat.
You can check out the full patch notes here for an in depth look at what's coming with EVE Online: Rubicon.
The patch size from EVE Online: Rubicon to EVE Online: Rubicon 1.1 will be approximately 1.1GB.
]]>Rubicon 1.1 introduces exciting new gameplay, expanding guerilla warfare options and building on the mobile structure foundations laid with the expansion's release.
Join the recently clone activated CCP Guard on his quest of revenge that coincidently also brings you a sneak peek at what Rubicon 1.1 has in store for the players of EVE Online.
Check out In Development - Rubicon 1.1 now! You can also keep up with more in depth details regarding the upcoming features in Rubicon 1.1 on the Dev Blogs section of the EVE Online Community Portal.
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As stated in the dev blogs announcing and detailing the tournament, the silent auction closes at 23:59:59 UTC on the 23rd of January and bids submitted after that will not be accepted.
Captains of teams that are signed up can send their bid to the character 'CCP Alliance Tournament' to try and secure a spot in the tournament. Once you have submitted your bid via EVEmail to CCP Alliance Tournament, you put up a contract assigned to the character with the amount of PLEX you bid. Only then will your entry into the silent auction be accepted. The 5 PLEX used to sign up will then be added to your bid, to make the final amount of PLEX you bid towards a spot.
If your bid secures you a spot in the tournament at the end of the silent auction, the contract will be accepted and you will be notified via EVEmail. After the silent auction ends, there will be a random draw for the last 3 spots in the tournament where those teams that didn't secure a spot have a chance to get in.
Teams that still have pending invites and/or have more than 12 members in their team after the silent auction ends, will be contacted to finalize the roster. Any characters that did not have an invite before downtime on the 20th of January are not eligible to participate.
If you have any questions, come over to the EVE Alliance Tournament Discussion forum! The tournament team hangs around there to answer as many questions as possible.
]]>This means that players have 9 days remaining to claim their holiday gifts, before the page is closed on January 31 at 23:59 UTC.
Be sure to head over to the page and claim any outstanding gifts you have before the end of the month!
]]>If you’re interested in attending please join us on Singularity, Tuesday, January 21st, at 17:00 UTC. All participants will receive a small reward of two million skill points on Singularity.
Please refer to this forum thread for more information about how you participate in the test, and this EVElopedia article for more information on mass testing.
]]>We are happy to announce that the feature site for EVE Online: Rubicon has been updated to reflect the upcoming changes that will be deployed with Rubicon 1.1 on Tuesday, January 28th, 2014.
As always, be sure to keep up with the latest information on upcoming changes in the Dev Blogs section of the EVE Online Community Portal.
You can also now take a look at new content coming with Rubicon 1.1 on the Rubicon feature site, here!
]]>At present, while existing API keys are working fine, any attempts to change them, or create new API keys is resulting in issues that we are currently working on resolving. We hope to have a fix in place for this issue that will be deployed at downtime tomorrow.
We apologize for any inconvenience these issues may cause, and hope to have them resolved soon.
]]>CCP t0rfifrans, CCP BADCOP, GM Nythanos, and GM Ukulele will be on hand, so stop by the New Frontier exhibit space to get a chance to play EVE: Valkyrie and say “howdy."
More information about the New Frontier exhibit at Sundance Film Festival can be found here.
]]>Head on over to http://community.eveonline.com/community/new-eden-open/signup/ to get the process started.
Signups will remain open until the 20th of January, after which the silent auction starts where signed up teams bid for a spot in the tournament. The details of the auction process will be revealed as we draw closer. For questions or discussions, we will be using the Alliance Tournament discussion forum.
See you in the arena!
]]>As such, during normal downtime, from 11:00 UTC all our web services will be unavailable for approximately 10 minutes. This includes the EVE Online Forums, the EVElopedia, and our Account Management Services as well as all other associated websites.
Once downtime is over, these services should all resume operation as normal.
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