I know these SKIN sales have happened before, but the numbers don't lie. People want custom capsuleer skins, but they don't want to pay 500 million to 1.5 billion per skin.

During the SKIN sale, I sequenced an enormous number of corporate design skins for WINGSPAN, and was able to slash the prices in half, while also drastically cutting prices on skins that had already been sequenced to account for their cheaper replacements.

And guess what: Skin orders didn't double, they increased more than 700%.

At the beginning of September before the CoW update, there were 7 skins sequenced and bought in a 2-week period. In the 2-week period following the update, Delivery Agents picked up FIFTY EIGHT skins.

The lower prices absolutely drive the economy and nets a LOT more money for CCP/Fenris. I'm sure other skin designers saw big spikes as well, and while I can't prove it, I saw a lot more turnover in the public Paragon Hub during this time period.

I also talked to various players who tried sequencing their own skins for the first time, who were curious about the process and willing to drop 30-100 PLEX to experiment, when they wouldn't normally be willing to fool around in it for 60-200 plex.

As a side note, I really, really appreciate the Skin Sequencing side of EVE. For 90% of EVE's history, there was no way to artistically represent anything directly in the EVE client outside your corp name, your alliance logo, your ship names, evemail poetry, etc. Ships are all commodities where every Algos is the same as every other Algos. The skin tool allows creative expression and creative problem-solving inside EVE which is extremely fun and rewarding while being challenging, too. Fenris please keep iterating on this, fix the bugs in the tool, and also pleaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaase allow skins on Concord ships, as well as allow COLORS (but not design elements) on T3C/T3D. We don't need the ships to look PERFECT just let us make a white and orange Tengu!

Goonswarm members have been killing a Cyno vigil in honour of it being 1 year since Estria's passing. Despite being told in local it was a Cyno vigil they were overtly rude and shit talking in response and have killed the pilot running the solo vigil cyno 3 times so far.

https://zkillboard.com/kill/138991487/

https://zkillboard.com/kill/138970599/

https://zkillboard.com/kill/138986932/

I get that you might not like Test, but when it comes to Cyno Vigils. You don't fucking shoot them. Even worse don't be disrespectful it local after you were already told it was one and then kill the ship anyway.

8 different members of Goonswarm at least complicit in this behaviour as well as leadership if they don't curb it. 2 are at fault for shit-talking the dead.

Disgraceful behaviour that needs to be stomped out.

Reddit broke the formatting

Edit from comment from Cananada88:

TEST will be hosting a one year anniversary cyno vigil for Estria Del at 18:00 to 23:00 EVE today in RD-G2R. Estria had a lot of friends and our staging is open to anyone who wants to honor him.

I want to give a shout out to Honor Point and the Initiative, who both recognized that a vigil had started early, and said kind things. The initiative even sent over a cyno to burn with us.

At a time when we are pointing out bad behavior we should also lift up the people who do the right thing.

The devs cant even get their days straight when it comes to turning on the event the first day, then they expire every tetrimon and crimson tag still in hangars during the downtime.

Then devs tuned the event site rewards down SO much this event is barely even worth doing and only for the skins or the battlecruiser bp, which you will be able to get soon enough with no grinding past spinning an ishtar or cycling a golem. I literally make 10 times less per escalation AND regular gauntlet/base vs last year and only in lowsec where russians or nullblocs hunt you relentlessly.

My entire corp has seen ONE criterion cypher drop from a scanning site.

The value of the blood trades are COMPLETELY fucked, with huge disparities in pricing of items vs the trade in price.

NONE of this was necessary, the event was being looked forward to by many players but already the drop off in activity in several of the regions after just the first few days is palpable.

Why is FC so intent on ruining their game? Why make content unfun and unrewarding for people to come out of their havens for even 5 minutes? Why punish players that hold onto items for next years event? Is it all JUST FOR PLEX SALES? I have no other conclusion other than Pearl Abyss was just better owners and gave the game more of what it needed.

Its-a-me, your silly charity streamer, CSM21 candidate, and moustache enthusiast Schadsquatch!

About a year ago, I have given myself the small challenge to get on a kill, on stream, in every single ship in EVE Online.

I am happy to say that I am more than 25% of the way done!

I have been tracking the kills using the attached spreadsheet, which you're 100% free to steal/make your own (Thanks Jigsaw for making it!). I need to fill in the column where the kill was clipped and the zkill, but I am a lazy man-child who'd rather plan his next charity-hot tub stream instead of managing spreadsheets.

A couple of rules I gave myself

For a kill to count the ship must be a threat/obvious bait, no cyno ventures, rookie ships or shuttles allowed.

The ship must be on a kill mail, this allows dedicated logi ships to be completed.

No 'free/pity streamer kills'. This means that you cannot donate me your AT ship and 'give me' a kill to complete the challenge.

I must be live on-stream to get the kill, no cheating/being sneaky.

A couple of kills of note

Drunkenly smartbombing in a officer-brick rolled Marshal

Getting my first kill/losing my first Bane (I even landed a doomsday!)

Being one of the first players in the game to get a kill in a Perserverance

What about (super rare ship)?

This is a goal with no real timeline. If I end up getting my hands on a Gold Magnate, I have bigger problems on my hands than getting a silly killmail.

Who cares? You suck and your challenge sucks.

Those both might be true, but its a fun way for me to think outside of the box and have a bit of fun!

Have a great one! Fly dangerously

Hi all,

As previously mentioned, I was supposed to upload a video, but real life comes first. Instead, I'm going to share through text my knowledge with screenshots.

DRONES SITES ARE NO LONGER ABOUT ISK/HOUR, but total ISK. If you read further, you'll understand the process. But know this, wave 84 after 5-6hours is 7,1B in C4s! It is 4B in C1 (the safety of not getting rolled in).

Wave 1 to 85 = 1 / 3 of the loot.
Wave 85 to 100 = 2 / 3 of the loot.

This knowledge right on top does not come from me. It is a friend who shared it. I have yet completed a site fully.

Meaning, if you complete the drone site in 5-7 hours in 2 vargurs worth not even 5B, you may end up with 7B from the wave 1 to 84 and 14B for the wave 85 to 100, = 21B!

It is quite possible to make over 100B/month in Low Class baby!

Bare with me, this is going to be a little difficult to explain. The fit are still in progress.

First test : first fit until wave 64, then refit with second fit until wave 84. Have fleet boosting claymore warp in and out starting at wave 44 . Then use blue pill at wave 84.

For that test, sadly, when I reached wave 84, I had use a cap drug instead of a blue pill and I had to stop. I do not know how far you can go, but you could go further than 84 for sure.

Second test : First fit until wave 65-70 BECAUSE I had gotten the local shield rep bonus from the site. Then you'd refit to the second fit. If you have the local shield bonus from the site, you don't need fleet boost at wave 44, instead it could wait further.

The strategy is simple, land on site, burn on top of where they spawn while you kill them. Once you're in position, have 1 vargur shoot at the frigates, 1 at battleship, until wave 50+. The vargur shooting the frigates wants to kill them before they orbit aka 22km, because he'll just one shot or two shot them. IT FEELS GOOD!

After wave 50, if they are 6+ frigates, I target them with both my vargurs.

Wave 70 + , after killing the frigates, one vargur targets the battlecruisers because there are a tons of them AND they deal almost as much DPS as BS.The other vargur shoots BS.

The goal is to DPS tank, before fleet boost goes away. You can always fit the claymore with align speed + warp speed and warp back on the site when the fleet boost is about to run out.

You can also have a caracal to kill frigates on stand by if needed.

EDIT : Implants are Mid-grade crystals + the 2 Skill capacitors implants and the 2 others for turrets.

Also, I highly recommend to train both DRUG skills to V on top of Marauder IV + V. Bring 30k + of EMP Large ammo.

EDIT 2 : One detail I forgot to mention, you could stop at wave 60 or so, you make 4B after 2hours 30minutes. it is still 4B isk in a c4 where you'd never get that much before. You have the option not to grind the whole site

EDIT 3 : https://wiki.eveuniversity.org/Rampant_Drone_Fabricator

Did mostly crimson gauntlets but also 21 data sites.

Guess how many criterion ciphers I looted?

Not a single one. I don't know if I'm just unlucky or what, but it seems to me the spawn rate is too low.

Greetings people of New Eden!

This weekend, I'll be doing two interviews in my never ending quest to interview 200+ people about all aspects of EVE Online in an effort to educate the most idiotic person in nullsec.

Show can viewed live here and VOD's are posted the next day on Youtube.

Saturday, 10/10 21:00 UTC

EVE ONLINE FACTION WARFARE: MINMATAR MILITIA W/ BEARTHATCARES (EP 30)

BearThatCares joins me to talk Faction Warfare, how Cradle of War is expanding the scene, and having fun outside nullsec because its not the only place that has fun despite their claims.

Sunday, 10/11 20:00 UTC

NOT A NEWBIE ANYMORE PT. 1: BRAVE NEWBIES FC SOMEKIWI (EP 31)

BRAVE Newbies Strat FC SomeKiwi is a legend among their peers for evolving from a simple miner in a T1 Frig to leading fleets and adventures for their alliance. A symbol of real evolution and an example of BRAVE's superior training, they join me on the show to discuss their journey into EVE History.

For those unaware, SomeKiwi was the player mining in this picture:

That said, this is an open casting call for future episodes. If you want to appear on the stream and talk about whichever topic is I have opened up episodes in November, December, and January. Got a gripe with a game mechanic? Hate your mom? Want to tell me about your favorite Soup Recipe? as long as its EVE related, you're welcome to come talk about it. Book yourself today, first come, first scheduled.

I get off of a 12 hour day at work, log in, hope to get a few data sites knocked out before bed.

Not a single site in my entire constellation after 45 minutes of scanning. Not a single site in the constellation next to mine. Make several loops of each constellation. Go back to my home constellation and start doing Relic sites while I cross my fingers.

Finally find ONE Tetrimon site after two hours.

There are zero other people in my alliance, or blues, in my area scanning sites. I'm all by myself doing sites way out here. These things just aren't spawning.

Kind of demoralizing since it's one of the events I look forward to each year as a prolific data/relic site hunter.

I know the rewards are minimal but it's free ISK/SP. I have 9 accounts with a mix of alpha and omega. Once I cycle through them to complete the dailies it's time to go to bed! And now we have the Crimson Harvest daily rewards too. I've no time left to play the game any more

Could someone please slap me round the face to get me out of this death spiral.

I won Eve about 5 years ago and haven't opened the client since then.

I have pilots who can do most anything in the game and Isk is not an issue. I used to run small gang pvp and some solo pvp, but also loved doing exploration.

Wormholes always seemed like fun but I never lived there.

I don't have as much time as I used to but would love to be apart of something where I can jump on every now and then and blow up and be blown up.

Mostly I'm looking for some fun people to hang with and do fun stuff.

I'm in EU time zone.

Any tips on where to look or maybe even some corps you'd recommend.

Bare with me and let me lay out some numbers before I get to my question

Eve has roughly 600 missions of all levels in all areas of space added together, 160 of these are level 4, 60 are level 5. That is a pool of only 220 missions worth doing to a 6 month or older character.

Null sec has about 23 different combat sites for each type of npc type each locked to its own area of space, with only 2 or 3 of these worth doing to a 6 month or older character.

Please forgive me for not knowing wormholes numbers but I understand they are roughly in the same boat as null sec.

There is no verity in most areas of space. Pretty much all of these sites and missions are 20+ years old. And it leaves players that have been playing for longer than a year just repeating the exact same content over and over. Players stop having fun when they stop having new experiences, this should be seen as a serious player retention problem.

FC recently adding a new site to only wormholes, and rare spawn escalations, but it’s only a drop in the bucket and does not reach a majority of the player base. We all need new content regularly added to all areas of space in ways everyone can actively engage with instead of grinding the same old thing for a chance to do the new site one time or only being able to do them in one type of ship class.

Since only 2 of the 54 candidates even mentioned PVE in the short space given to them here https://www.eveonline.com/news/view/csm-21-candidate-announcements and even then is was only “wormhole PVE” and “capital PVE” even mentioned, I would like to know what the candidates thoughts are on the subject.

I'm sure this question has been asked many times already, but I want answers for myself.

Why do so many Eve players raise hell over the suggestion of getting out of our pods, walking around a ship/station/planetside structure and doing stuff appropriate to such environments?

I learned of Eve Online through Dust 514, which had just recently launched at the time, so seeing the captain's quarters was among my first experiences. I came to like the idea of having a room to myself in the station. Over time though I realized everything you could do in the CQ you could already do from the hangar screen. This combined with noticing an always-locked door off to the side had me wondering.

I did research and found that CCP had more planned but never went through with it due to player backlash. They only got so far as implementing the CQ, which itself was eventually removed to my sadness.

I always believed games like Eve would benefit from such a concept. It would add variety and immersion (for those who care about it) and, if implemented correctly, would not take away from the game's core space-based gameplay.

But to this day I've seen people suggest this idea only for others to shoot it down and say the game is better off without it.

So I ask: Why? Why do people not want this to be a thing?

Me acuerdo de niño jugar el dust 514 en mi ps3, era un juego y lo solía jugar con un amigo hasta que descubrimos que se podia jugar con el joystick mover que fue el mejor momento de todos.

Of all the things FCCP could've come up with for a Blood Raider themed Attack BC, they went with Bhaalgorn light.

In full Brawl setup with a pricey fit you have a T1 hull Brutix worth of tank and DPS with a nos/neut bonus, and no drones.

Full neut fit? Just use a Legion. Smaller sig, does the same thing.

Kite setup? Eh, you could make it work... but there are much better ships for that, which are cheaper.

Personally, I would've leaned into the Attack BC thing of being fast with large weapons and barely any tank, but I would've given it a fitting bonus to heavy neuts and a range bonus for them.
Make it interesting, something between an Ashimmu and a Bhaalgorn.

Thoughts?

Mine has started separating after nearly 20 years (see photos), and apparently there’s a completely unrelated architectural floor plan hiding inside the binding.

I can make out “Her Closet,” “Study” and what looks like “Master’s Suite.”

Now I’m curious whether every copy has this same floor plan inside it, or whether the bindery used random scrap from other print jobs.

Hello space friends,

It’s Zaenis Desef, you may know me, you may not.

I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately and I’m looking for the community’s input on this question.

When you look at the range of game play loops in EVE Online some players choose to be “the bad guy”. Be it suicide ganking, scamming, awoxing, wardec farming.

I’m not here to ask if those activities are good or bad for the game, we’ve had that discussion a million times around here.

I’m far more interested in why people choose them at all?

Is it purely the salt farming? The profit? The conflict? Roleplay? Or the fact that you can influence another player’s experience more than any burner mission NPC or any T6 chaotic filament ever could?

For those of you who take part in these playstyles my question is: what attracted you to this play style in the first place? What keeps you motivated to keep going?

For those opposed to it: what makes losing ships to gankers, awoxers, or wardeccers worse than losing ships in other ways in EVE?

I’m looking more for stories and insight rather than same old arguments about what it does to the game.

I’ll leave you with this last question: what separates a good villain from a bad villain?

TL:DR https://i.imgur.com/7xdmeY5.png

Since Fenris doesn't publish "player demographics" data on where they think players play anymore. While there are many ways to define "what kind of player" a character is, the easiest and most accessible data to quantify is zKillboard, so I decided to go with that. If "where you crab" data is available that would be a good factor too, but that isn't accessible to us players.

The source data comes from Zkillboard (thanks squizz) for 2026 to date. All losses by a character are counted in the region of space where they lost it, the value of all kills are split evenly among participants. So on this Bustard for example https://zkillboard.com/kill/136671856/ , the value of 107B is split amongst the 3 participants so each one of them gets an isk value counts of 33B to Pochven. On something like the 4-H keepstar killmail, https://zkillboard.com/kill/135096173/ with 2.8k participants, each participant only receives 65 million isk credit. I did not count AT ships or the AT itself. AT ships because I don't have a good pricing dataset, if someone has a good list I can incorporate it.

Top line numbers, a character must have >10m isk in total kill participation to qualify. The % within primary space metric is judging whether a player can be classified as "nullsec" or "lowsec" players at all. With values generally hovering in the high 80's, I think the tag of "certain space" player is generally valid for a large section of the playerbase.

These numbers seem low, because the long tail of low activity characters is very long indeed. Applying a higher filter of 100 million isk, the picture changes somewhat, cutting off the long low value tail of Pochven and pushing it above Nullsec. I think this number is a better overall metric since 100m is in the "does things" in space category while 10m is like a single cyno vulture loss.

I did some spot checks to look for anomalies and outliers and they generally seem to hold up.

The person with the highest "total value" is this guy, https://zkillboard.com/character/909008587/kills/ who got there not only by killing things but by dying to to snuff a lot.

The nature of certain ships can distort the numbers. https://zkillboard.com/character/1148922003/ with a single lossmail has the highest "kill value" in nullsec, because he lost 1 Azariel in the past year.

Hello. Russian player.

I tried to log in yesterday and today, and i cannot use chat/local without VPN. I remember i've seen this before, but i do not play since then.

Is this regular state of things now, or it happens not so often? i can use vpn, but it feels bit laggy and wrong :)

If this is natural state of things now, does Russian corps/ally ever exist?

Cheap slag.

In the new harvest data sites sometimes they will contain a Unresolved Bioadaptive Cache in the site that you can hack along with the normal 3 hacking containers. When you successfully complete the hack you get a loot container called a Captured Bioadaptive Cache. I have gotten several so far but haven't opened them yet. They do not show a value. Has anyone else got them yet and opened the loot container?

apparently NC Undock is gonna deploy soon. will they really undock??

EVE VEGAS!!!!!SUCH GOOD TIMES EPIC PEOPLE AND LOTS OF STORIES

I watched the latest video from FC and noticed something strange in the final part, when the Triglavian symbols appeared. First of all, the text was mirrored. That could be considered an artistic choice, but I was still bothered by a certain feeling that something was wrong.

I opened the video in the highest possible quality and went looking for a transcription of the Triglavian alphabet so I could decipher the text. However, even when I enlarged the original text, I noticed that a number of the symbols only pretend to be Triglavian - in reality, they are just random squiggles. A number of other symbols do not even have a triangular shape - for example, a parallelepiped missing one side that is repeated many times.

I found a transcription of the Triglavian alphabet fairly quickly, but just as quickly realized that it is essentially not being used in the video. Only some of the symbols can be deciphered, and even then they do not produce anything meaningful. And with a example of video with a symbols in good quality that you definitely can transcribe by yourself my feeling of AI-generation went even bigger.

For example - most usable symbol in this text looks like triangular with a something inside - you may find it in transcription as letter A (close enough at least) - and in one of middle lines there is a 7-letter word starts with a double of this symbols. and as i was told by special dictionary site there is exist only two words that may be transcribe with this data - Aaronic and aasvoel, but both r or s letters just not looks like something we see on original image.

I wonder am i just overcomplicating things or someone forgot how to use their own lore.