The damage overview is grouped by ship type and further refined by weapon type, you can see exactly which weapon types were used most by which ship groups. For comparision check out the damage profile chart 2014 (plus discussion).
We welcome you to join the discussion and analysis of this damage profile chart 2015!
]]>Just in time for the Holidays, we're happy to announce a new Chronicle, "Inheritance", this time by CCP Delegate Zero.
This Chronicle follows the Society of Conscious Thought’s Matshi Raish, who awakens from being forcibly cloned to find he has an unexpected visitor waiting for him. This visitor takes Matshi Raish on a journey that will change him, and the future of New Eden, forever.
You can read the full piece on the community portal here.
]]>We are happy to announce that for the second half of the Holiday Season, our offers on PLEX have been switched from containing supplemental ship SKINs, to providing a discount on all multiple PLEX packages.
This sale is active now and will run until January 1st 2016, so be sure to pick up your PLEX today!
You can check out the latest offers for this sale through account management, on our secure website here!
]]>If you are already using the new EVE Launcher, you don’t need to do anything extra and can simply continue using it at your leisure.
While you can continue using the classic EVE Launcher, we recommend that you switch over to the new Launcher (not available for WinXP) and would be delighted to receive your feedback in the EVE Launcher forum.
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Entry is free, there will be free fitted frigates in space for purist capsuleers arriving in capsules alone. Signing up is free and if you sign up you get your portrait up on the event website.
More information can be found HERE.
What better way to deal with the pre-holiday stress than blowing up a few fellow pilots <3
Have a great holidays!
]]>You can find out more about the new camera system's current iteration, the current features that are in testing, and can give feedback and suggestions on the system in this thread by CCP Optimal.
]]>The bad news is these plans have been delayed for a short while, as we were a little too optimistic about the amount of time it would take to arrange -- especially considering how busy the merchandising industry is with that little thing called Star Wars being released on Friday. So, please accept my sincere apologies if you planned to do any EVE related holiday shopping.
The good news is that this delay has allowed us to take another look at what you all really want out of a swag store, and we have decided we need to be more flexible and agile than originally estimated. With this in mind, we have authorized our merchandise partner to build and operate a dedicated online store for EVE merchandise. We hope that it will allow us to design more cool stuff, make it faster, and deliver it to you at shipping rates comparable to ThinkGeek and other retailers.
This does not mean that we won't be working with ThinkGeek in future, or pursue other opportunities. it just means that we will have more control over what we release and when; for instance being able to make cool tie-ins with in-game events and other fun projects. In all cases, CCP will be responsible for all design work, so that hopefully means no laser-firing Ravens!
The current plan is to open the new store in the first quarter of 2016. Again, we apologize for the delay and hope the wait will be worth it.
Fly safe!
]]>As of today, December 15th, EVE Online trial offers will change as follows:
The drop rate for a number of items has been increased significantly in order to provide more reward for pilots who are assisting the Upwell Consortium in dealing with the Serpentis Corporation menace.
In addition to this, blueprint copies for the four new Tech II Logistics frigates have been added to potential rewards for completely clearing Operation Frostline Targets.
We hope you'll continue to enjoy taking on the Serpentis Corporation over the course of the Holidays!
You can also check out the links below for Operation Frostline and Jump Field Generator Wallpapers:
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We're bringing back Celebrity Shootout and this time new player evangelists Kira Tsukimoto and Sindel Pellion will clash in space!
We'll get devs on set to talk about what's happening in EVE and we'll talk with players involved in exciting projects.
CCP Rise and CCP Bettik are going to cook up a deadly ship fit and head into space for a little holiday test drive that each of you has a chance to completely ruin for them.
See you in Twitch chat...and in space!
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]]>Recently we have made a change to the Features and Ideas Discussion forum on the EVE Online Forums. This forum has been renamed “Player Features and Ideas Discussion”, and we have added a new forum called “Upcoming Feature and Change Feedback Center”. Most feedback threads that were previously posted by CCP Developers in the Features and Ideas Discussion forum will now be posted in this new forum section.
For more details or to discuss this change, please see this forum thread.
]]>To celebrate the deployment of our December release, fantastic looking Designer SKINs are now availble for the brand new ships in New Eden (Command Destroyers, Logistics Frigates, and Electronic Warfare Navy Frigates).
Check out the New Eden Store and get the SKINs to match the new spaceships:
Raata Sunset for the Amarr Pontifex
Blue Tiger for the Caldari Stork
Valimor Legacy for the Gallente Magus
Valklear Glory for the Minmatar Bifrost
Raata Sunset for the Amarr Deacon
Blue Tiger for the Caldari Kirin
Valimor Legacy for the Gallente Thalia
Valklear Glory for the Minmatar Scalpel
EoM for the Amarr Crucifier Navy Issue
Wiyrkomi for the Caldari Griffin Navy Issue
Intaki Syndicate for the Gallente Maulus Navy Issue
Justice for the Minmatar Vigil Fleet Issue
Have a look at the following SKIN previews!
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This release brings a whole host of new gameplay and visual improvements. We see thirteen completely new ships together with the revolutionary Micro Jump Field Generator, amazing new visual (damage) effects, new falloff range mechanics for remote repair modules and energy neutralizers and energy vampires, a massive increase in grid size from 250 km to 8000 km, a huge amount of module rebalances, PVP killmarks on ship hulls, bug fixes and a lot more.
Alongside all those exciting new features we see the emergence of Operation Frostline, the cluster wide storyline event with profitable loot and lots of crazy spaceship action.
Explore the full scope of this release on EVE Updates!
All details are available in the patch notes.
More info about "Operation Frostline" is waiting for you in this dev blog.
Have fun, enjoy this latest EVE Online realease, and check out the forum feedback and #frostline!
]]>This release brings a whole host of new visual and gameplay improvements to EVE Online including new shield, armor and hull damage effects, PVP kill marks, dust and dirt on ship hulls, the new 'Endurance' class ice mining frigate, new Navy electronic warfare frigates, Tech II logistics frigates, new Tech II Command Destroyers, new module effects and module tiericide, as well as changes to remote repair and energy vampire systems, and new propulsion system effects in game, as well as many more changes.
Downtime will begin at the usual time of 11:00 UTC, and will run for one hour, through until 12:00 Noon UTC, for a total of 60 minutes. We anticipate that Tranqulity will be back online and accepting connections at 12:00 Noon UTC!
For further information on what's coming in this release, you can read more about the changes coming on the EVE Updates website, and check out the full patch notes here.
You can also check out the first in a series of holiday blogs here, that details winter events and offers over the course of the holidays which begin at downtime today!
]]>Due to an oncoming storm closing the office early, we have had to cancel the planned session of CCP Streams tonight. Instead, we will be streaming a live camera from the top floor of CCP HQ in Reykjavik showing the storm for most of the night. You'll be able to watch all the boats in the harbor fly away at www.twitch.tv/ccp, starting at around 15:30 UTC today (Monday).
We'll see you in twitch chat!
]]>Due to the popularity of Solace, we are extending the test session to 09:00 UTC on Sunday, December 6. If you haven’t had a chance to put the new hardware for Tranquility through its paces, make sure you do. Solace is currently offering a fully seeded market including super capital ships and officer modules, as well as granting all characters maximum skills. Make sure you join in the fun before we pack it all up to ship to its new home in London.
]]>This release brings a whole host of new visual and gameplay improvements to EVE Online including new shield, armor and hull damage effects, PVP kill marks, dust and dirt on ship hulls, the new 'Endurance' class ice mining frigate, new Navy electronic warfare frigates, Tech II logistics frigates, new Tech II Command Destroyers, new module effects and module tiericide, as well as changes to remote repair and energy vampire systems, and new propulsion system effects in game, as well as many more changes.
Further information regarding the start time and duration of downtime will be made available on Monday December 7th. In the meantime, you can read more about the changes coming on the EVE Updates website, and check out the full patch notes here.
You can also check out the first in a series of holiday blogs here, that detail winter events and offers over the course of the holidays which begin at downtime today!
]]>With the latest build for the upcoming Operation Frostline, we invite you to check out the brilliant new visual damage effects and to sneak preview the many new things coming to EVE Online in just a few days. Join the mass test on our test server Singularity at 17:00 UTC and receive there a reward of two million free skill points!
To join the mass test you can easily use the new EVE Launcher (beta): Simply choose "Singularity" in the drop down menu and hop in - it is that simple!
More information about this mass test can be found in this forum thread.
In a second test today we are celebrating our brand new hardware. Of course you are most welcome to join that fun test as well!
]]>Ever dream of flying an Imperial Apocalypse? How about self-destructing 50 Gold magnates?
Well, now you can! Simply show up for the Ops Super Special Mega Shiny Solace Hardware Fun Time Event happening tomorrow, Dec 4th starting at 15:00 UTC! Don’t worry too much if you miss this one as we plan on having a second event once we move all the hardware to the new data center in London, sometime in January. To participate, grab the new beta launcher, click the checkbox in the launcher settings for Solace and change your server to Solace from the drop down menu.
While we were not able to get you into Dev Ships, we have been able to work it so everything else is on the table. Or in this case, IN the table, ha! Get it? A table, a DB table! Cause you know, databases! *sigh* Damn it Jim, I’m a DBA not a content writer! (Ed note: we do not endorse bad DBA jokes). Wait, where was I? Oh yea, Guardian Vexors? 100 ISK. Old alliance tournament ships such as the Mimir? 100 ISK. This is THE place to be!
Now just to be clear, the goal of this first ever OSSMSSHFTE isn’t necessarily a stress test of the hardware. But rather just a fun event where we can feel good about having a cluster up and running on the new hardware. While we ARE curious how it behaves, we’re more interested in just having virtual spaceships exploding in all their pixely glory to celebrate the coming of Tranquility Tech III.
So with that said, Ops is looking forward to not only flying with you, but also deleting your accounts (on the Solace server) if you do bad things like buying out the market of all items or really anything else that that strikes us as ‘wrong’ or 'unbecoming of a good test server citizen'. Additionally, we have not requested any support from QA or CS for this; so if things don’t work for you, we’re sorry but you’re basically out of luck. Please also do not file any tickets or bug reports based on anything you experience on Solace during this test.
One last thing: We have altered the deal and hacked the Gibson to re-activate every account that has subscribed at any point since 2014.01.01! So tell everyone! Just be aware that if you can’t remember your password from back then, we have no way to help you and again, you’ll be sadly out of luck.
We look forward to seeing you all there!
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CCP DeNormalized and all the Ops guys!
]]>Tonight on CCP Streams, CCP Falcon and CCP Logibro will take you on a tour to many of the interesting and mysterious landmarks around New Eden. Tune in to our twitch channel from 19:00 UTC to see some of the sights from the universe's backyard.
]]>With the next EVE Online release we will see completely new visual effects for shield, armor for hull damage and repair. You can preview and test these new effects, including DX9 and OSX versions, during a mass test this Thursday, December 3rdrd, at 17:00 UTC (EVE time). Additionally we are going to test the client performance during a fleet fight. More information about this mass test can be found in this forum thread.
To join the mass test you can easily use the new EVE Launcher (beta): simply choose "Singularity" in the drop down menu and hop in - it is that simple!
All participants will receive a small reward of two million skill points on Singularity.
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