GUARDIAN'S GALA

 

Gatecrashing Capsuleers,

As part of the new Reign Quadrant, the notorious Guardian's Gala event returns to New Eden, and you are once again invited to disrupt the annual Serpentis pirates and Angel Cartel celebrations! There are event sites in known space and wormhole space, daily login rewards, plus 90% PvP loot drops and an increase to warp speed in wormhole space until 11:00 UTC on 23 February.

Guardian's Gala sites in wormhole space offer greater challenges, and contain more lucrative rewards. Valuable loot up for grabs includes Serpentis and Domination faction items, ship SKINs, limited time Skill Point boosters, and Overseers' Effects which can be sold for ISK.

As well as the Guardian's Gala event sites, you can also claim free gifts through the daily login event until 11:00 UTC on 23 February, including Spirit SKINs available for Serpentis ships for the first time, and thousands of Skill Points to help boost your skill training.

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ABYSSAL PROVING GROUNDS RETURN

Get yourselves combat-ready, Capsuleers, as the Abyssal Proving Grounds return once more! Until 11:00 UTC on 2 March, you can engage in 4-player free-for-all Combat and Attack Frigate competitive battles.
Permitted hulls for this round consist of the Atron, Breacher, Condor, Executioner, Incursus, Kestrel, Merlin, Punisher, Rifter, Slasher, Tormentor, and Tristan.

• Limitations for this round are:
• Modules limited to meta level 5 and below
• No pirate implants

Make sure you have your Proving Filaments ready, either from Abyssal Deadspace loot drops or from the in-game market. You can also track Capsuleer performance in the Proving Grounds using the leaderboards!

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ABYSSAL PROVING GROUNDS RETURN

Get yourselves combat-ready, Capsuleers, as the Abyssal Proving Grounds return once more! Until 11:00 UTC on 2 March, you can engage in 4-player free-for-all Combat and Attack Frigate competitive battles.

Permitted hulls for this round consist of the Atron, Breacher, Condor, Executioner, Incursus, Kestrel, Merlin, Punisher, Rifter, Slasher, Tormentor, and Tristan.

Limitations for this round are:

• Modules limited to meta level 5 and below
• No pirate implants

Make sure you have your Proving Filaments ready, either from Abyssal Deadspace loot drops or from the in-game market. You can also track Capsuleer performance in the Proving Grounds using the leaderboards!

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GUARDIAN'S GALA

Gatecrashing Capsuleers,

As part of the new Reign Quadrant, the notorious Guardian's Gala event returns to New Eden, and you are once again invited to disrupt the annual Serpentis pirates and Angel Cartel celebrations! There are event sites in known space and wormhole space, daily login rewards, plus 90% PvP loot drops and an increase to warp speed in wormhole space until 11:00 UTC on 23 February.

Guardian's Gala sites in wormhole space offer greater challenges, and contain more lucrative rewards. Valuable loot up for grabs includes Serpentis and Domination faction items, ship SKINs, limited time Skill Point boosters, and Overseers' Effects which can be sold for ISK.

As well as the Guardian's Gala event sites, you can also claim free gifts through the daily login event until 11:00 UTC on 23 February, including Spirit SKINs available for Serpentis ships for the first time, and thousands of Skill Points to help boost your skill training.

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REIGN - NEW QUADRANT BEGINS TODAY

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Achieve tactical supremacy and victory in New Eden with EVE Online's new Quadrant "Reign", the first in 2021! Launching a new year of Quadrants after 2020's successful introduction of themed content for EVE, Reign brings with it exciting new updates to fleets and travel, continuous balance and meta changes, plus returning events such as the Guardian's Gala and The Hunt.

Fleet options in EVE will improve during the Reign Quadrant thanks to the Fleet Discovery update.

Many more upcoming changes will soon see the light as the Quadrant progresses, as has been the case for all of EVE's Quadrants so far. One upcoming change will give Capsuleers more control over fleet formations and presence on the battlefield. For the curious, the Quadrant trailer is a solid starting point for theory crafters.

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MASS TEST ON SINGULARITY - 26 JANUARY 2021

We will be conducting the first Mass Test of 2021 on the Singularity Test Server on Tuesday, 26 January at 17:00 UTC.

Remember that what you see on Singularity is not final and is subject to change before it lands on Tranquility based on player feedback and final polish from the EVE development team.

WHAT ARE WE TESTING?

Our teams have been hard at work improving the Travel System effects and Jump Tunnel animation and are eager to test its performance with larger number of participants.

Please check the official thread on EVE Online forums for more information about the upcoming test.

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Eve Online is getting crushed by its own success

Alex “The Mittani” Gianturco is usually energetic when I chat with him, but today he sounds downright manic. Eve Online’s most famous warlord has been pressed up against the edge of the in-game map for nearly seven months now, his Imperium faction the target of a massive and well-funded coalition of his enemies, called PAPI. A little more than a week ago, the Imperium won a controversial victory in the spacefaring MMO, one that broke the back of the largest in-game fleet ever assembled. So you can excuse him for still being a little jazzed about that.

There’s just one problem. Turns out that the enemy fleet wasn’t actually destroyed. The reason that Gianturco won the Battle of M2 (as it’s being called) is that so many people showed up for the climax that Eve Online literally broke down.

Had the Battle of M2 gone off without a hitch, it would have been more than twice the size of the largest conflict that has ever been fought in the game’s nearly 18-year history. But there were hitches aplenty, and that’s how Gianturco won.

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EVE Online’s ‘massacre at M2-XFE’ gets an official breakdown from CCP Games, officially tallies losses

The latest great battle in EVE Online appears to have wrapped up, leaving in its wake an absolutely astonishing number of destroyed ships. For those who haven’t been following along, the conflict first began on December 30th with a large number of extremely large ships arriving to M2-XF3, resulting in what was initially reported to be some large losses of hardware on both sides. Now thanks to reporting from the New Eden Post, we have some final tallies.

The full numbers of the losses in terms of ships and ISK for the so-called Massacre at M2-XFE already immediately eclipse the 2014 Bloodbath of B-R5RB: Approximately 5,600 players were in-system at the time, with 251 Titans lost out of a total 1,200 committed to the fight. 23 trillion ISK was lost in the battle, equating to a real-world value of $347,000. For context, the B-R5RB battle saw 11 trillion ISK lost.

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Both Sides Claim Victory In Massive EVE Online Battle

Ragnarök, the death of the Norse gods, played out in EVE Online in the wee hours of New Year’s eve. Hundreds of the game’s mightiest vessels gathered together in the M2-XFE system, and Titans from the game’s two largest factions spent over 12 hours exchanging fire and unleashing their incredibly devastating doomsday weapon systems. In the end, around 250 of these god-like war machines were nothing more than smoldering wreckage, including my own.

The fight was ostensibly over a Keepstar space station, one of the many Death Star equivalent installations that have been besieged during the war of extermination between The Imperium and the PAPI Coalition, with PAPI seeking to permanently remove The Imperium from their seat of power in the game. The station wasn’t of any particular strategic import, but, like many of the biggest Titan clashes in EVE’s history, the objective wasn’t the important part. Over the course of the 12-hour brawl, both sides continually escalated, bringing in more and more Titans, as well as other ships in small windows when measures to prevent large ships from using their jump drives to enter the system faltered. Part of the siege of M2 included a “cynosural jamming field” being erected in the system, removing the ability for jump drives to find a navigation beacon. Over the course of the night, this jamming field was either taken down voluntarily, or sabotaged several times. Though The Imperium came out the victor by number of Titans destroyed, both sides are claiming victory.

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13 DAYS OF NEXUS

The Winter Nexus holiday season is well underway, and there's still time for you to claim all available free gifts that come with the 13 Days of Nexus login event! Make sure to log into EVE daily between now and 11:00 UTC on 5 January to secure all goodies.

Rewards for Alpha pilots include the gorgeous Aurora Universalis ship SKIN for the Caracal, Omen, Stabber, and Thorax, plus Ice Storm Filaments, Quafe Zero, 80,000 Skill Points, fireworks and snowball crates, and Stormchaser character apparel.

You can get even more rewards as an Omega, including all of the Alpha rewards plus more Aurora Universalis SKINs for the Naga, Oracle, Talos, and Tornado, as well as a whopping 250,000 extra Skill Points, a Cerebral Accelerator, more Filaments, and more Stormchaser apparel!

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LUMINAIRE SNOWBALL FIGHT YC122

It's that time again - the annual Luminaire Snowball Fight is upon us!

Organized by Commander A9, it's a fun, social event where capsuleers gather to hurl snowballs and fireworks at each other to celebrate the conclusion of another year in New Eden.

This year the event will be held on Sunday, December 20 from 21:00 UTC outside Luminaire VII (Caldari Prime) - Moon 6 - Federation Navy Assembly Plant.

So bring your festival launchers, your snowballs, your fireworks and whatever else you have that will put on a great display for your fellow capsuleers. There's a lot more to the event and you can read all about it in this forum thread.

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[GUIDE] How to Complete the Winter Nexus Challenges to Earn Skill Points, SKINs, and More

The Winter Nexus event is in game and some have been having problems getting to grips with it so here are some notes and guidelines to get you going. There are a number of different challenges and ways to earn event points: snowball challenges, exploration sites, combat sites and mining sites. Don’t forget the Chilling Spree for extra skill points and items as well!

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WINTER NEXUS - EVE'S HOLIDAY SEASON

Festive Capsuleers,

The holiday season is coming to EVE Online, so it's time to get together, and keep your weapons warm in the coming storm. Introducing the Winter Nexus, this year's furious fusion of festivities include the travelling winter-themed Volatile Ice Storms which feature Wightstorm sites, plus the 13 Days of Nexus login event, Chilling Spree, Yoiul Festival-themed Abyssal Proving Grounds, and - if you can believe it - even more, until 5 January!

VOLATILE ICE STORMS

Exclusive to the Winter Nexus holiday season, Volatile Ice Storms will appear and travel between systems in High, Low, and Null Security space, bringing specific environmental effects and content. With this seasonal weather come the Wightstorm combat sites, hacking sites, and ice mining sites.

Rewards include valuable Overseers' Effects, hundreds of festive ship SKINs, limited-time Cerebral Accelerators, rare faction modules, and blueprints for the new Rapture pirate implant set.

The Wightstorm Fleet has been drawn from the vast reserves of Sansha's Nation to take advantage of the opportunity presented by the appearance of Metaliminal Volatile Ice Storms across New Eden, and the strength of these fleets will depend on which part of space they are encountered in.

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PATCH NOTES - VERSION 18.12

Balance:

• Increased Activity Defense Multiplier (ADM) Industry modifier to make it easier to increase and sustain high industry ADM.
• Increased ADM Military modifier to increase the delta between where the ADM drops to level 4 and the value where the Dynamic Bounty System reduces the output of the system.

Science & Industry:

Added blueprints for the new salvage drone variations:

• The Salvage Drone II Blueprint can be invented from the Salvage Drone I Blueprint.
• 'The Dunk' Salvage Drone Blueprint can be purchased from the ORE LP store.

Ships:

Added two new Salvage Drone Variations:

Salvage Drone II

• Required skills: Salvage Drone Operation 5
• Salvaging 4
• Drones: 1
• Salvage Drone Specialization 1
• Access Difficulty Bonus: 4%

'Dunk' Salvage Drone

• Required skills: Salvage Drone Operation 4
• Salvaging 4
• Drones: 1
• Access Difficulty Bonus: 4.5%

Skills:

Added Salvage Drone Specialization skill:

Advanced proficiency at controlling salvage drones. 2% bonus to the max velocity and salvage chance of drones requiring Salvage Drone Specialization per level. Can be acquired directly from the character sheet for 13,000,000 ISK. Required prerequisite skills:

• Salvage Drone Operation 5
• Salvaging 4
• Available only to Omega accounts

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