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Why Another Megawar Might be Coming to EVE Online
In the last few weeks there’s been an explosion of propaganda, dank memes, and general shitposting rocking the community, and all of it has centered around one theme – war between the Imperium and Legacy. So, today, we’re going to…
Devblog
Battleships Get Frigate Escape Bays
CCP announced February 20th the introduction of Frigate Escape Bays for Battleships. CCP Dopamine posted a dev-blog announcing the change, due in March, which will allow all Battleships (T1, Navy and Faction) and potentially T2 variants such as Black Ops…
Analysis
EVE Online 2019 Recap | Final Thoughts
With the past two episodes, myself, Dirk Stetille and January Valentine worked through the major events of the past year in chronological order. There we discussed the impacts that those individual events had, and how they all bled into one…
Eve Online
EVE Online 2019 Recap | July to December
If you listened to the previous episode, you should know what to expect from this. Once again, this episode features Dirk Stetille January Valentine, and myself. We are, respectively an editor, a producer, and a content creator from different sites…
Eve Online
How Could CCP Regain The Community’s Trust in 2020?
I don’t believe it would be a controversial statement to say that 2019 was a tumultuous year for EVE Online. Late on January 2, CCP Convict seemed to reinforce this attitude by taking to the r/eve subreddit to openly probe…
Eve Online
EVE Online 2019 Recap | January to June
So, with the year drawing to a close, this is normally the time I’d sit down with my colleagues to chat about the goings on in the year and bandy about the normal topics: Who did the most to change…
Interview
Jin’terviews – Merkelchen on the CSM 14 Summer Summit
Earlier this week, before the release of the CSM minutes, I had the chance to sit down with Merkelchen in order to discuss his thoughts on the summit. Whilst the news cycle will undoubtedly be focusing on those minutes, it’s…
Eve Online
Jin’talks – What Has CCP Gotten Right in 2019?
It was pointed out to me in a few conversations recently that my articles have been predominantly negative, as I’ve looked at aspects of the game that I don’t think have been well handled, from Citadels through Supercapitals to the…
Eve Online
Jin’talks – Stop Reworking the NPE
During the past 3 years we’ve seen 3 consecutive different New Player Experience models. We entered 2016 with the traditional basis of the tutorial agents, which had been the core of EVE’s NPE for over 5 years at that point,…
Eve Online
Jin’talks – What’s Wrong With Citadels?
If you’d like to listen to this article rather than read it, you can do so by watching the video below! I expect that if you asked most of EVE’s population for a list of what’s wrong with the game,…
News
BREAKING: Market Tax Changes Announced
As predicted in a previous article by Rhivre, through another lore announcement, changes to EVE’s tax system have been revealed to the public – both transaction tax and brokerage fees are being hiked to 5%, from 2% and 3% respectively. …
Eve Online
Jin’talks—The Obsolescence of Subcapitals
So, as you may have noticed, I’m no longer a member of the CSM. And, after handover took place near the start of this month, leaving CSM 14 all on their own, I was able to mention a few final…
News
BREAKING: Drifters Attacking Player Structures
Q-O in Delve was under attack just minutes ago by a force of what appears to be roughly 100 Drifter battleship, attempting to reinforce the Keepstar in the system. This has been followed by reports from TEST space of similar…
Eve Online
Jin’talks—How Do Turrets Work?
I took a look in the opening of one of my other videos on some of the quirks of the missile system, and that sparked a lot of questions about what the oddities were with regards to turret mechanics, and…
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