EVE ONLINE: CRUCIBLE

Lead game designer CCP Soundwave talks about the content of EVE Online Crucible 1.1

Hi!

Here‘s a few more little things from Team BFF to make your life easier. We didn‘t have much time for doing this so we mostly just harvested good ideas from the forums and prioritized by how much work it would be to implement them (and things that I personally find annoying when playing EVE - heh).

The focus on enhancements and updates to existing gameplay continues with Crucible 1.1, arriving at a client near you on January 24^th, 2011. Some highlights include:

• Customizable Neocom
• Tech 2 Module tweaks
• Blaster ammo balancing
• Enhanced chat and fleet features
• Simplified module naming conventions
• New shield modules and adjustments to capital ship module requirements

*** NOTE: Player Owned Structures (POS) will stop using legacy fuel and will operate solely on the new fuel blocks starting January 24^th, 2012. Be sure to adjust your fuel supplies accordingly prior to the update. ***

Visit the feature page for an overview of the features and fixes headed your way in Update 1.1.

Greetings again Capsuleers,

Greetings again Capsuleers,

the genolution ca-2 implant is yours to redeem

It's time for more delicious brain implants. After downtime on Dec 12^th and running through Dec 21^st , you will find  the Genolution CA-2 available via the redemption system. Be sure to log in and redeem yours, the set bonus is pretty darn nice overall.

As an added bonus, we will also be unveiling the 2011 Holiday Gift during the same period. This will work just a bit differently than prior holiday gifts. There will be a list of items in your Account Management queue. You can choose one, and only one, gift from the list. That gift will then be made available in the redemption system on Dec 22^nd.

REMINDER: GIFTS MUST BE SELECTED BY DECEMBER 21ST, 2011

Greetings Fashionistas,

A simply divine feature is making its way to you this winter, and we just can't wait to tell you all about it!

The Avatar Viewer does exactly as the name suggests: it allows you to view an animated, full body render of the character or agent you are inspecting, complete with camera controls and their latest clothing choices.

Click to enlarge

Greetings again Capsuleers,

Crucible is here. It has new nebulae, new ships, scalable UI, lots of balancing lots of cool features and a plethora of tweaks and fixes. It’s been a long few months of getting back to the roots of EVE, and we hope this shows you, the players, our direction for the foreseeable future. We’re going to be evaluating new approaches over the next year to get new people to EVE, and we’re launching the first one right now this holiday season.

Later today, you’ll find something new in Account Management: a transferable 60 day trial game code. This is a new special form of trial, one of many we’re going to play with. We’ll talk about the 'why’s' in a second, but first here are the rules:

EVE Online: Crucible forges community feedback into a release filled with player-requested features and fixes. New battlecruisers, a massive graphics update, time dilation and an improved UI are just some of the 100 additions and improvements that have arrived November 2011 in EVE Online’s 15^th free expansion.

Greetings Capsuleers,

You might have seen the recent news item about the free implants coming to EVE this winter with Crucible. The first of these implants, the Genolution CA-1 is inbound very shortly. Everyone with an active paid account on November 29th through Dec 2^nd December 5^th will get one to redeem for their character. Pilots on trial accounts will not receive an implant, but are of course welcome to join the party before the giveaway ends.

I remember trails in EVE. A long time ago we really had them. In my memory they were cool. And beautiful. So I installed Empyrean Age again and played a little bit on one of our reference servers, “Classic client” of course. And it was then I realized that the old trails were actually really cool, but not exactly what I would call beautiful. Take a look, does this bring back memories?

Figure 1: Trails in Empyrean Age (click to enlarge)

As some of you might know we've been working on something called Corp Locations (formerly called corp bookmarks). The concept is quite simple really. Once Crucible is released, you will be able to share your bookmarks with your corp so anyone in the corp can see them and use them. Well, you're not exactly sharing them, what you are really doing is copying them and giving them to the corp. There is a little bit more to it than that though.