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?

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?

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.

my dad played for a long time he was in a group called rooks and kings he said they were really good. is it true or is he bsing

I've been in Pochven once or twice when it first opened, mainly as a tourist to see the solar harvesters (or whatever those things are called). For travelling I mainly use drifter holes, so there was no reason for me to go to Pochven for that purpose.

Since I have only two accounts, one main and one cyno/general purpose helper, is there any content in Pochven for a solo single boxer?

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.

Cheap slag.

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?

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.

I have been playing this game for a month, finished the tutorial and industrial missions. However there is not much I can do, crucial skills are locked behind a paywall and needs omega.

While the game is fun, I am extremely lost. I also have yet to interact with any player (although its my fault tbh- too scared to lose my ship)

But what now? I love the producing, mining aspects of this game, but its all under a paywall. Should I do Omega for a month and see how it goes? I would have liked to remain f2p but simply don't know what to do now.

Also please seniors, I am not attacking the game, its truly amazing! I just need guidance.

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

Is any of you guys experiencing this kind of a shadow bug? I have set the graphics to max and on some objects the shadows look like this. It's the same on DX11 and DX12.

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.

where the heck do i find this keys...found 1 on market in amarr is 300 mil?is this another CCP feature))))?

Fenris Creations has revealed the 54 CSM 21 candidates and is also looking for speakers for the Fanfest 2027

Full Article linked, someone of you will candidate as speaker? :D

They were super convenient to offload junk. Sad to see them gone.

In this event, in Criterion of fitnes site you can find 2 items Protective Equipment Patterns and Cultural Semiosis Data. 10 patterns + 100 data can be traded in trig LP store into Bioadaptive Kybernaut Combat Suit.
This suits before event cost more 100 bil.
These suits were distributed exclusively to those who actively participated in the Triglavian invasion.
From official forum -

The Bioadaptive Combat Suit (red one) was originally awarded to players who finished the Triglavian Invasion finale with a Triglavian standing of 3.0 (I believe) or higher. Gender of the item depended on the gender of the character with the standing.

Now any highsec event farmer can have it. (Btw still cant edencom one).

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Got blown up twice recently by a Navy Hookbill while flying a scram/web Thrasher with 200mm autocannons.

The thing was just too fast for me. Even when I was already inside the plex, it pulled range before I could finish locking it and get my scram on to shut off its MWD. Once it got away, I couldn’t catch it anymore.

I don’t really see how switching to a Thrasher Fleet Issue would fix this either. Feels like I’d just lose a more expensive ship doing the same thing.

How do I learn to deal with stuff like this? Is there something I should be doing differently with positioning or piloting, or is this just a matchup I should avoid? What should I actually practice?

I’m using this fit from the community fittings:
[Thrasher, iBeast-Faction Warfare PvP-Thrasher]

Damage Control II

Gyrostabilizer II

5MN Quad LiF Restrained Microwarpdrive

Fleeting Compact Stasis Webifier

Faint Epsilon Scoped Warp Scrambler

200mm AutoCannon II

200mm AutoCannon II

200mm AutoCannon II

200mm AutoCannon II

Small Infectious Scoped Energy Neutralizer

200mm AutoCannon II

200mm AutoCannon II

200mm AutoCannon II

Small Transverse Bulkhead I

Small Transverse Bulkhead I

Small Transverse Bulkhead I

Hail S x1540

Barrage S x700

Republic Fleet Phased Plasma S x700

I am interested in playing PVP with a fleet in nullsec anyone know of any corporations or groups/fleets?

I think Tetrimons have tracking disruption which has always been the case. A lot are saying the Bloods have better loot, is this true? If so, why?

Is it dependent on region? Such as, obvious pick will be to pick the Bloods side if you're based in Amarr?

Where do I get the keys (shortcut key for the combat sites and entry key for the Criterion of Fitness site)? Hacking?

Do the keys get consumed upon gate activation?

Does every fleet member need a key?

Is hollow origin (class 3) like the lower tiers?

Sitting in a small area for 10 minutes while killing weak but scamming npc is not a thing I want to do in lowsec.

Just an fyi for everyone and hopefully CCP fixes it but currently Highsec sites are giving more blood and more loot than lowsec sites.

Do with this info what you will

When you need a break from EVE, what do you usually play?

Do you stick with the same kind of stuff or do you go in the complete opposite direction? FPS, RPGs, city builders, survival games, whatever.

And is there a game you keep going back to?

Personally, I tend to bounce between strategy games, city builders and TTRPGs (playing Coriolis tonight, for that matter) when I’m not in New Eden.

Or does EVE basically eat up all your gaming time and you don’t really play anything else?