We hinted that we’re up to something big. Following Hilmars letter to the community it’s time to unveil the first step of actions we’re taking.

I am proud to announce that this winter, we are going to release some long-anticipated ship balancing. Specifically, capital ship balancing.

You might or might not have noticed a thread a couple of weeks back where some rather tech-savvy EVE players managed to fiddle with a couple of files in the client, effectively enabling them to put their own video content onto the Captain’s Quarters main screen. Although we worship the sandbox and love it when you use our game to do things we could never have foreseen, we really don’t like it when people start fiddling with the EVE client files, mostly because it may get you into trouble the next time we send out a patch. We would much rather have you get into trouble within New Eden than outside of it.

The three remaining Captain’s Quarters have just arrived on Singularity and are almost ready for their final deployment to Tranquility in the upcoming October release. We released Captain’s Quarters in the EVE Online: Incarna expansion earlier this year. In its first incarnation, all stations throughout the EVE universe used the same Captain’s Quarters, namely the rusty and damp Minmatar ones. Some devout Amarrian role players were considerably angered, many chic Gallentean holoreel financiers felt those moldy and dark dwellings were beneath them, and Caldari outlaws were often astonished that their Minmatar brothers seemed to have forgotten to invent stainless steel despite being capable of manned space flight.

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I'm CCP Punkturis of Team BFF and I'm here to talk about font changes. Yup you heard me F O N T changes!

EVE Players regularly use their character API keys to access information for a range of planner, alert and update pages or applications. One major concern has always been accessibility of certain character information. With the new Customizable API Keys, you are in full control of the type of data that can be relayed and when/if the API Key expires.  Visit https://support.eveonline.com/api and create your new custom key today!

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CCP Ginger serves up great new info and pile of links in his latest blog about the changes heading to EVElopedia in the near and distant future.  

DevBlog: Something Wiki This Way Comes >>

Developers interested in adding contract data to their web page or application now have three new pages of just such information, courtesy of the recent Incarna 1.1 feature update.  Those that follow the Council of Stellar Management know this was one of the improvements requested by the playerbase that was championed by the CSM in the recent past.

Interested in making use of the API?  Visit EVElopedia for extensive info on using the API or check out the fan-created project Yapeal, which offers the source code and information to build your own PHP/MySQL-based pages and applications using the EVE API.

Related links:

• EVE Third party Development Resources
• YAPEAL (Yet Another PHP EVE API Library)

The new forums have returned with tighter security, more features and new improved options such as thread tagging, advanced search filters and one-click EVE Gate profile access.  Discuss tactics, lore or the latest updates with your fellow pilots at http://forums.eveonline.com. Bring the noise!

Without going into too much detail about how much fun we had doing the Sansha Reborn live events last year or how pleased we are with the overwhelmingly positive reaction to them (you can watch/listen to CCP Dropbear and me whining about all that here, here, here, here, here, here and here), we’d just like to say thank you to the EVE community for once again amazing us with your input and helping us define one of the game’s most iconic expansions. Seriously, without the dynamic storyline that evolved largely due to player activity, live events and Incursion wouldn’t have been nearly as exciting. Nobody wants to sit around chatting about the good old days for hours on end, though, so on with the new stuff!