Eve Online News

Following the other day's news that EVE Online would be adding a free-to-play option in November, the game's existing playerbase immediately became concerned about several issues that might occur in an environment where the game can be played for free. CCP has addressed some players' concerns in a blog post that was published earlier today. Players have request a limit on [...]

Beginning this November, Eve Online will offer a free-to-play tier to entice new players and bring back fallen veterans. "Tier" is what's important. Not every feature will be available to the free-to-player, and developer CCP has written the new service into the lore, thanks to the game's liberal use of clones (why can't we have clones in our universe?): When we [...]

CCP announced yesterday that EVE Online's in-game browser will be removed in early October—the exact target date as of this time is October 11th. The reason for the removal is thus: "Browsers advance at an incredible speed and maintaining them and keeping whatever browser is in the client up to date takes a lot of effort." The gap between the [...]

Citadel, what is perhaps EVE Online's largest and most anticipated expansion in quite some time, has finally arrived. Players can now make their own "gargantuan" space cities, complete with super-capital ship docking and defensive platforms. They can be placed nearly anywhere, allowing placement the chance to truly matter. Citadels vary in cost wildly, from cheap to expensive to the "special [...]

EVE Online's long-awaited Citadel expansion is launching on April 27th. The expansion will introduce player-created cities called Citadels that "make excellent trade hubs, hangar/residential quarters, and defensive stations." Various tiers of Citadel will be available, each allowing a modular form of building, tethering, and unlimited hangar space. A number of other features will be introduced alongside Citadels, including new "structure [...]

Project Discovery is a new mini-game within EVE Online that will have real world applications. Players will be tasked with looking at images and finding patterns and differences within them. When players submit their results, they are given in-game rewards. The overall goal is to use EVE's significant subscriber base to "improve and expand" the Human Protein Atlas database. The [...]

EVE Online's Skill Trading feature has been out for less than a week and there is already drama surrounding it. A post on Reddit showed up yesterday to explain that a character named IronBank had used the new feature to earn 473,334,000 Skill Points in less than an hour, skyrocketing his SP/hour to 6,414,527.22 right after the incident occurred. It was [...]

CCP Games announced today that EVE Online's much-debated Skill Trading feature has now hit live servers. Players can now purchase Skill Extractors with Aurum—they can be traded on the market for ISK—and begin trading skill points. Each Extractor requires a 500,000 skill point investment. However, when injecting these skill points in another character, they "may provide diminishing returns." Characters with [...]

Eve Online’s developers, CCP Games, recently discovered an issue when they updated their Singularity test server’s login server to Single Sign-On, or SSO. The bug caused the system to inadvertently give users valid authentication tokens even if the account wasn’t theirs and perform any in-game action as if they were the owner of the said account. While the Singularity SSO [...]