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The following page will list patch notes for all updates within this release (Version 24.01). We invite you to join the player discussion about the content of this release on EVE Online forums:

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Initial Release Date: 2026-06-09 Last update: 2026-06-10

🤝 - Indicates a change inspired by the player's feedback or suggestions.

Patch Notes for 2026-06-10.1

Features & Changes:

Balancing:

• Increased the orbit velocity of web drones so they’re less likely to fall behind targets they are webbing when they shut down their MWDs.

Visions of Greatness:

A brand new Epic Arc, Visions of Greatness, is available to experience in Exordium!

• Experience simulated battles from some of the most pivotal moments in the four empires’ history.

  • Get a taste of each of these factions’ unique identity.

  • Be warned; each empire may have taken some “creative liberties” when constructing these simulations!

• Each simulation features bonus challenges where capsuleers can prove their mettle.

  • Completing these challenges will increase a simulation’s rewards and how those within the simulation react to you!

• Suitable for both new and returning players.

• Earn ships, modules, and faction standings that will help kickstart a journey in New Eden.

• To get started, head to the AIR Laboratories station in Manifest and speak to Cassandra Ahfrim.

Defect Fixes:

Gameplay:

• Added Open-5 as a highsec insurgency corruption/suppression spawn to replace the Mining Ambush which was prevented from spawning in highsec.

• Fixed a rare issue in the Ice Heist-30 dungeons which could cause only one of the two factions to be able to link to the tanker objects.

• The Algos Navy Issue now applies both HP bonuses per level to web drones.

• Fixed an issue where the achievement Epic Initiate was incorrectly granting progress for a single Epic Arc mission instead of completing an entire Epic Arc.

• Fixed an issue where the Subcapital Operations Expert System was not auto-redeemed from the Redeem Queue.

• Fixed an issue where Onnamon was missing from the Caldari Bulwark hacking objective.

• Fixed an issue where ISK rewards were not being taxed when an objective was completed.

Graphics:

• Removed most Gallente election propaganda advertisements around stations, hangars, and gates.

• Fixed a z-fighting issue on the Zephyr Frigate mesh where it would flicker on the sails, often visible in hangars.

• Fixed a floating antenna on the AIR Hub station.

• Added some improvements and polish to visual effects within the AIR Hub hangar such as hangar traffic, lighting, and cinematic reveal fixes.

• Fixed an issue with the Odysseus where some lights were on too early in cinematic reveal.

• Added new values to colors sets missing entries for various SKINs.

• Updated killmarks on Sabre Republic Police SKIN to be in the same location as the default Sabre.

• Fixed floating docking lights visible on the Moros.

Localization:

• Corrected the description of Crystalline Kangite.

User Interface:

• Fixed an issue where sorting by global progress in the Theaters of War window could get stuck on loading.

• Restored the missing info icons in the Factional Warfare tab of the Agency.

• Fixed an issue where campaign panels in the Theaters of War window could show content from other campaigns.

• Fixed an issue where campaign objectives in the Theaters of War window would not refresh until the Opportunities window was opened.

• Tweaked and polished various areas of Campaigns UI.

• Archon blueprints will now show their Invention information correctly in Information windows.

• Progress bars will no longer overlap with other information in the Epic Arc section of the Agency.

Patch Notes for 2026-06-09.1

The Cradle of War expansion is out!

Full overview of the contents of the expansion can be found here: Cradle of War Expansion Notes!

Defect Fixes:

Gameplay:

• Fixed an issue which prevented the Victorieux Luxury Yacht from being able to be manufactured.

• Fixed an issue causing all Special Edition Yachts to be 115,000m3 instead of 10,000m3 as previously.

• Special Edition Yachts can now be combat probed and will now correctly appear on the directional scanner.

• It’s now possible to probe down Mobile Observatory structures with combat probes and they can now be filtered in the deployables section.

• Improved Covert Research Facilities (AKA: Ghost Sites) are now classified as data sites rather than combat sites in the drone regions like all other regions.

• FW Wrecks in FW complexes can now be destroyed.

• Expired Volatile Boosters from the Drifter Crisis event have been removed from the market.

• Guristas Caiman Dreadnoughts which appeared from shipyard content can now be targeted by Titan Doomsday weapons.

• Updated the masteries of the Porpoise, Orca and Rorqual to now include compression modules and the industrial cores for the Porpoise and Orca.

• Fixed an issue preventing the Kronos Inner Zone Shipping SKIN from being able to be activated.

• Fixed the Sleeper Small Intermediate Wreck having it’s access difficulty in scientific notation rather than a human readable value.

• Mutated 'Excavator' Ice Harvesting Drone has been removed from the market as none could be sold as they cannot be repackaged.

• Updated the fitting advisory on the Vargur to no longer warn you about fitting active armor tanking modules to it, since it now has an armor repairing bonus as of Viridian.

• Strip Miner Is and Ice Harvester I modules now only require 5m3 like all the variations.

Graphics:

• Added a rendered icon for the Tetrimon Paladin NPC.

Localization:

• Several Typos and Grammar mistakes have been fixed.

• Clarified that the Porpoise cannot be moved by regular sized Micro Jump Field Generator modules in the description since it is an Industrial Command Ship, rather than just mentioning the Orca.

• Clarified that the Standup Reprocessing Facility service module does not allow compression of Gas and Moon Ores.

• Fixed the Sin traits linking to the drone skills instead of a warp scrambler for one of the warp scrambling bonuses.

• Updated the text of the Gravid and Unstable mining module mutaplasmids to be correct.

User Interface:

• The volume value for courier contracts shown in the header of the contract details window will now always show up to 2 decimal places.

Greetings expansion enjoyers!

The Cradle of War expansion is arriving next week on Tuesday, 9 June at 11:00 UTC! We are delivering the patch notes early so you can absorb everything that's coming. We invite you to join the player discussion about the content of this release on the EVE Online Discord and the EVE Online Forums.

Expansion Notes 24.01 - EVE Online: Cradle of War

Starter Space: Exordium

The previously introduced 53 new systems and their associated region, Exordium, is now fully operational as New Eden’s new starting region, and construction of the Manifest V - AIR Laboratories Trade Center has been completed.

All newly created capsuleers will now begin their journey in this starter region, where they will have access to introductory missions, career agents, exploration opportunities, and cooperative activities designed to introduce EVE's core gameplay systems.

Players can continue their progress within Exordium or opt to venture into the wider cluster through the stargate connecting the Exordium hub system of Manifest with Yulai.

As a reminder, systems within Exordium have a dedicated 1.0 security class designed to prevent all forms of PvP.

Within Exordium:

• Safety settings are permanently locked to green.

• War Declarations and Factional Warfare combat are disabled.

• Duels cannot be initiated.

• Killrights cannot be activated.

• Characters with combat flags such as suspect, criminal, and limited engagements cannot jump into Exordium or undock within the region until their timer expires.

• Players cannot freely attack other capsuleers.

• Upwell Structures cannot be deployed.

• Deployables and anchored containers cannot be placed.

Starter Space Economic Balancing

Exordium is intended as a starting environment for new capsuleers. Economic activities within the region have reduced payouts compared to standard highsec space.

• Mission ISK rewards, LP rewards, and NPC bounties reduced by 20%.

• Additional 5% market fees added to non-instant orders.

• Industry installation fees increased by 5% for manufacturing , material efficiency research, time efficiency research and invention.

• Ores found within Exordium are of a new “Grade 0” type with lower mineral yield than their standard variants.

• Exploration sites within Exordium contain distinct loot tables with lower value loot and items optimized for new players.

• Homefront Operations within Exordium have reduced difficulty, as well as reduced rewards.

Agents & Mission Content within Exordium

Exordium includes a broad range of empire-aligned agents designed to introduce new players to mission running, mining, security gameplay, and faction identity.

The following agents are now available for interactions:

• Level 1 and Level 2 Security agents.

• Level 1 and Level 2 Mining agents.

• Sisters of EVE agents.

• Paragon agents.

Shipcasters

The empire shipcaster network within Exordium is now active.

• After completing their initial onboarding experience, new capsuleers can use shipcasters located within the empire embassy constellations to travel directly to their chosen empire's high-security space. These shipcasters provide a faster path into New Eden and are intended to help players begin exploring the wider universe and connect with their preferred faction. The shipcasters provide a one-time use, one-way travel, from Exordium into empire space.

The four shipcasters are:

• State Rookie Shipcaster:

  • Tatrys to Onnamon

• Federation Rookie Shipcaster:

  • Mondaekus to Intaki

• Republic Rookie Shipcaster:

  • Dettisolin to Amo

• Imperial Rookie Shipcaster:

  • Ichorah to Mehatoor

Four new stargate pairs have been constructed in order to improve connectivity for new players travelling out of Exordium towards key locations in around highsec. The new stargate connections are:

• Kassigainen <-> Pakhshi

• Kemerk <-> Bania

• Rayeret <-> Jakri

• Mehatoor <-> Akes

Military Campaigns

Military Campaigns are a new type of time-limited content where capsuleers can come to the assistance of each of the four empires as they pursue their goals which will have a lasting impact on New Eden.

Each empire has its own campaign which will lead to different changes in the universe upon its success or failure - it’s up to the capsuleers to come together and help their chosen empire.

Each campaign will have a total of 44 objectives that capsuleers can contribute to, initially starting with only two objectives available and the other 42 becoming available over time. For a campaign to be successful, capsuleers must complete at least 30 objectives.

Your individual contribution to a given objective and its overall progress are tracked separately. As an individual, every valid contribution will yield rewards that can be claimed directly from the campaign's dashboard. These rewards include ISK, loyalty points (LP) and standings gains. The LP gained will either be with your empire’s faction militia if it's a PvP objective or the empire’s Navy if it's a PvE objective. Additionally, the standings gain is always with the Empire itself and does not include any derived standings loss.

As we designed and balanced this feature, our initial intention is that these objective rewards are not the main purpose or motivation to participate, but rather an added bonus to encourage capsuleers to join together in helping their empire achieve their goals.

Limited Time Campaign Content

With the introduction of the first military campaigns comes new campaign content which will persist through the duration of the Cradle of War expansion. This includes both new content in the existing Factional Warfare warzones, as well as new content which will spawn in newly designated highsec Bulwark systems.

Bulwark Systems are high-security systems that are not directly part of the warzone and cannot be captured or influenced. They represent strategically significant high security systems that are neighbouring or close to the warzone and include the faction's War HQ and shipcaster. Additional content that is relevant to each faction's ambitions and military campaigns will appear here.

Bulwark systems can be found on the world map factional warfare filter under warzone status and are visible on the factional warfare dashboard map.

Limited Time FW Complexes

• These complexes will partially or completely take the place of similar existing sized complexes for the duration of the Cradle of War expansion. They have slightly better rewards for their size and provide far more victory points (VP).

• In general, we are increasing the amount of VP that can be earned per hour, especially in specific systems, by increasing the amount of static complexes and reducing the number of roaming ones.

FW Complex site for Battlecruisers and smaller

• Moderate NVY-3

  • A new 3 person complex which spawns exclusively in frontlines. This site awards a very large amount of VP but has a slower respawn time.

  • Allows Navy Battlecruisers and below to enter. The first ‘Moderate’ sized complex.

  • Features a unique effect inside the capture point room which improves the skill bonuses per level of all Battlecruiser hulls by 20% - i.e. if you have the Battlecruiser skill trained to level V, it functionally gives you hull bonuses as if you had Battlecruiser trained to level VI!

  • Static complex.

  • 15 minute capture timer.

  • 40 minute respawn time.

  • 35,000 LP Base (52,500 LP in a Frontline before suppression bonuses).

  • 600 Victory Points.

• The Medium NVY-3 and Medium ADV-3 complexes will no longer be spawning in frontline systems for the duration that this complex is spawning.

FW Complex for T3 Destroyers and smaller with wild effects

• Contested Field Research Facility

  • A new 10 person complex which spawns exclusively in frontline systems. This site has a unique twist where there will be random effects applied to all players inside. There are 20 effects total, of which 3 will be applied.

  • Some examples include setting all players lock ranges to 30km no matter what, or polarized resistances: setting them all to zero! You can also find bonuses to specific turret types and increasing web range but reducing web strength.

  • Almost 400 unique combinations of random effects.

  • The first “Elite” tech restriction complex - All ships of the size including T3s can enter.

  • Allows T3 Destroyers and below to enter.

  • Roaming complex.

  • 10 minute capture timer.

  • 1 hour respawn time.

  • 30,000 LP Base (45,000 LP in a Frontline before suppression bonuses).

  • 300 Victory Points.

• The Small NVY-2 and Small ADV-2 complexes will no longer be spawning in frontline systems for the duration that this complex is spawning.

FW Complex for Interceptors

• Small Interceptor -1

  • A new complex which spawns exclusively in Command Operations systems. This site only allows Interceptors to enter. Despite being in a Command Ops, it pays out as well as similar sized plexes in Frontlines!

  • Static complex.

  • 10 minute capture timer.

  • 40 minute respawn time.

  • 25,000 LP Base.

  • 150 Victory Points.

• The Small ADV-1 complex will no longer be spawning in command ops systems for the duration that this complex is spawning.

FW Complex for Tech 1 Frigates

• Scout BSC-1

  • A new 1 person complex which spawns exclusively in frontlines.

  • Allows Tech 1 attack and combat frigates to enter.

  • 5 minute capture timer instead of 10 minutes, with a faster respawn time of 10 minutes.

  • NPCs guarding the complex spawn twice as frequently, and are far more likely to have warp disruptors, keeping the level of danger just as high despite the lower capture time.

  • 7,500 LP Base (11,250 LP in a Frontline before suppression bonuses).

  • 50 Victory Points.

• The regular Scout NVY-1 complex will no longer be static and now has a much lower chance to spawn while the Scout BSC-1 is spawning. No more than 1 Scout NVY-1 will be able to spawn in a single system to keep complex counts low.

Limited Time Mining Anomalies

• New mining anomalies can be found in each faction's highsec Bulwark systems:

  • Amarr Bulwark - Imperial Raspite Reserve.

  • Caldari Bulwark - State Polycrase Reserve.

  • Gallente Bulwark - Federal Moissanite Reserve.

  • Minmatar Bulwark - Republic Kangite Reserve.

• These anomalies can be seen on the world map anywhere in New Eden by going to the Bulwark Mining site filter.

• These new ores will give players similar minerals when reprocessed as if they had been mining regular Scordite ore, but additionally, will also provide a new resource in the form of crystalline faction minerals. These minerals can be turned in at item traders which can all be found outside each faction's Navy Anchorage Station which were added during the Shadow War event. These stations are all present in each faction's War HQ shipcaster system.

  • Amarr - Mehatoor - Amarr Navy Anchorage.

  • Caldari - Onnamon - Caldari Navy Anchorage.

  • Gallente - Intaki - Federation Navy Anchorage.

  • Minmatar - Amo - Republic Fleet Anchorage.

• These item traders will provide players with boosters, new faction modules, SKINs and SKINR components for the duration of the Cradle of War expansion.

Limited Time Hacking Sites

• New hacking sites will start appearing in Bulwark systems belonging to the enemy faction, based on the data sites from the Shadow War campaign.

  • Amarr Bulwark - Republic Intelligence Exfil.

  • Caldari Bulwark - Federal Intelligence Exfil.

  • Gallente Bulwark - State Intelligence Exfil.

  • Minmatar Bulwark - Imperial Intelligence Exfil.

• Hack exfiltration containers to shut them down and receive rewards such as boosters, Navy Scanning Upgrade blueprintes, new Penumbral Shadows SKINs, SKINR components and more.

• These hacking sites have Scout NVY restrictions, so only navy and T1 frigates can enter.

• Activating the acceleration gate to enter the site will give all capsuleers a suspect timer! So beware.

• There are hostile NPCs guarding the site, and it is recommended to bring a navy exploration frigate fit for combat and hacking.

Shipcaster HQ Anchorage Stations

• Level 1 through 4 security agents have been added to the following anchorage stations which were built during the Shadow War campaign. Level 1 Mining and Level 1 Distribution agents have also been added:

  • Amarr - Mehatoor III - Amarr Navy Anchorage.

  • Caldari - Onnamon VII - Caldari Navy Anchorage.

  • Gallente - Intaki V (Intaki Prime) - Federation Navy Anchorage.

  • Minmatar - Amo III - Republic Fleet Anchorage.

Changes to Existing Factional Warfare Content

• 🤝 Factional Warfare (FW) and Insurgency Complexes now have a subheader separating them from regular combat sites in the right click warp to menu in space.

• 🤝 Factional Warfare and Insurgency Complexes now have their own group in the probe scanner window, so sorting the group column makes it easier to see all the complexes in the system.

• Existing FW Plexes

  • 🤝 Spawns from the occupying faction will now undock from the capture point structures, rather than warping in.

  • Tightened the leash range on how far FW NPCs should venture off the capture point. They will now orbit the control points much more closely.

  • FW NPCs should now, in general, be more aggressive to player ships, targeting them more frequently.

• Supply Depots and Supply Caches

  • NPCs guarding these objectives now have omni resistance profiles similar to NPCs found in FW Complexes.

    • 60% resistances for primary tank.

    • 40% resistances for off-tank type.

    • 0% resistances for structure.

  • Adjusted the aggro range on the NPCs guarding the objectives so that they can no longer be safely shot at 100km+ by sniper ships without the NPCs responding.

  • Frigate NPCs have been adjusted to be faster so they are more threatening to glass cannon sniper ships attempting to complete the objectives while ignoring the NPCs. Signature radius of the frigates has also been adjusted so they aren’t made harder to track.

    • Maximum Velocity increased from 2500m/s to 4000m/s.

    • Signature Radius increased from 40m to 80m.

  • All supply depots/caches now use omni resistance profiles similar to NPCs found in FW complexes.

  • Minmatar Supply depot/cache HP values rebalanced to be similar to other factions now they have higher shield resistances.

    • Armor HP reduced from 20,000 to 10,000.

    • Shield HP increased from 20,000 to 30,000.

• Rendezvous Points

  • NPCs now use uniform resistance profiles similar to those found in other FW content.

  • NPCs now warp in faster when the previous wave of NPCs were killed.

• Listening Post and Propaganda Beacons

  • NPCs now use uniform resistance profiles similar to those found in other FW content.

  • Increased the time for NPCs to respawn between waves so that they will be a bit faster to complete.

• Small NVY-1 Complex

  • This is now is a static complex again (i.e. always respawns in the same system after being completed) rather than a roaming complex.

• Battlefields

  • The resistances of all NPCs in battlefields has been set to the typical omni-resist profiles found by FW NPCs in other complexes

  • Rebalanced the payout structure of battlefield sites to help combat seagulling.

    • LP Payout has been reduced from 150,000 LP to 50,000 LP

    • The removed LP value of rewards has been placed inside NPC freighters which will now spawn on the control points as each faction progresses the site. These freighters will contain FW ‘blue loot’ that can be sold at militia NPC stations for ISK, a new token which can be used in combination with LP and ISK to buy multiple run navy ship blueprint offers. Additionally, they will also now contain boosters, new faction modules, SKINs and SKINR components for the Cradle of War expansion.

    • Freighter wrecks have a 20km warp disruption radius around them which prevents warping. Making them dangerous for seagulls to ninja loot.

By shifting most of the rewards to lootable items, we hope that this will solve the majority of seagulling complaints, as now the group doing the work on the control points and killing the NPCs will be able to collect the majority of the rewards from the site. The fleet/players who do the most damage to the Hauler NPCs will get the usual rights to loot them. Any seagulls attempting to ninja loot these wrecks will face a suspect timer and the disruption radius around the wrecks means that they have a chance to be killed.

At the same time, the remaining 50,000 LP of rewards still feels good to new players and players not in a group who are just trying to help out their faction while not being part of the dominant force inside the complex. Seagulls relying on this payment will now only get 1/3rd of the rewards from before. We hope that this drastic loss in payment for seagulls will also cause many of them to find other more efficient activities instead.

FW Missions

• Reduced the hitpoints on FW mission haulers by 50%.

Changes to Existing Insurgency Content

• Insurgency Mining Ambush ADV-10

  • Increased the number of NPCs which need to be killed to complete the site by approximately 50%.

  • Sites will no longer spawn in high security space so they can no longer be completed by neutral characters un-enrolled in FW for either side.

• Insurgency Sites

  • All 1-man sites now provide double the amount of standings when captured for empire and pirate militia corporations. This is to help pirates gain promotions more easily as they do not have FW missions. The standing gains for multiple payout sites remains the same.

  • Tightened the leash range on how far Insurgency NPCs should venture off the capture point. They will now orbit the control points much more closely.

• Roaming Pirate / Enforcer NPCs

  • The regular roaming spawns that start at corruption and suppression levels 4 and 5 will no longer visit stargates. Only the Corruption 2 and Corruption & Suppression 3 spawns will now visit Stargates.

  • The Counter-Insurgency Sentry Guns from Suppression 5 will no longer get built around stargates. They will now be built in asteroid belts and at highsec ore anomalies instead.

  • Note: Existing sentry guns from pirate insurgencies before Cradle of War will remain around stargates until they naturally decay or are destroyed.

• Pirate FOBs

  • Reduced the tethering range on the pirate FOBs from 50km to 30km.

Changes to Corp Enlistment in Factional Warfare to combat Awoxing

• As we mentioned in the Standings & Awoxing Update Dev Blog from March, we’re making some adjustments to shut down loop holes that players are using to team kill (aka "Awox") their own faction in factional warfare.

• When a corporation applies to join Factional Warfare, all characters in that corporation now need to be above -5.0 standings to the faction they are attempting to enlist with.

  • If any member is below -5.0 at time of application, those members will be listed, and the corporation can choose to kick those characters from the corporation if they want to continue with enlistment, or apply again at a later date once those characters fix their standings.

    • This closes a loophole where players would constantly create brand new corporations to get around the existing corporation standing requirements, awox for a week, and then create another corporation.

• When a character tries to join an already enlisted player corporation, they will now need to be above -5.0 standings to the faction in order to be accepted into the corporation.

• If a character ever falls below -5.0 standings while being in a corporation or an alliance enlisted with FW, they will be issued with a warning at downtime, and then in 24 hours if their standings have not been fixed, they will be removed from the player corporation.

  • Note: If the player is the CEO of the corporation, or a CEO in a Corporation in an Alliance, then we kick the entire corporation or alliance from FW instead.

• The overall 0.00 standing requirements for corps and alliances still needs to be maintained.

Heraldry

To celebrate the launch of Cradle of War a special set of login rewards will be available each day that players log into the game for the first 17 days after the expansion launches.

Achievements

Achievements are coming to EVE Online! The new Achievements window can be found in the Neocom under Paragon Services.

The main overview page will show recently progressed Achievements along with any that have been recently completed. In the side navigation bar you can select between Achievement categories each with their own initial set of Achievements.

Achievements can have multiple milestones that can be progressed, with each of them able to provide their own rewards, including Skill Points, Titles, and SKINs, with more reward types coming in the future. Completing Achievements (non time-limited) will also provide the player with an Achievement Score.

Achievements can be Tracked, which will keep them in the HUD to keep an eye on progress, and can also be added to a Pinned section to keep an eye on any specific ones.

Titles

You can now equip titles that will appear by your capsuleer's name in various places throughout the UI and are visible to others. Titles are displayed in a character's Show Info window and can be seen by hovering your mouse cursor over a capsuleer's name in chat windows, station guest listings, and the overview if you select another capsuleer while out in space.

The title to be displayed for your character can be equipped from the new Titles tab in the Decorations section of the Character Sheet. Unearned titles are also shown there and if you see a title you like and want to know how to obtain it there will be a button that takes you to the specific Achievement that grants it.

New Ships

Navy Destroyers

The four new navy destroyers, Dragoon Navy issue, Corax Navy Issue, Algos Navy Issue, and Talwar Fleet Issue are now available in FW militia LP stores. These ships were available for a limited time before the Cradle of War expansion through the Capsuleer Day XXIII reward track and their stats can be found here: Patch Notes - Version 23.02 | EVE Online

Command Carriers

The Cradle of War expansion brings four new capital-scale command platforms, built to become the core around which major fleets operate. Command destroyers serve small engagements. Command ships anchor mid-sized fleets. Command carriers are the next step: flagships designed to project powerful fleet support into some of the most consequential fights in EVE Online.

Command carriers specialize in utility over raw damage. Each hull can fit up to three Command Burst modules and brings the strongest boosts available in the game, amplifying fleet performance through armor, shield, skirmish, and information effects. They also improve on the support fighter role of Tech I carriers, offering greater range and effectiveness, with up to four flights of support fighters for control, disruption, and battlefield command.

Caldari Command Carrier: Simurgh

• Simurgh: Skill Bonuses

  • Caldari Carrier bonuses (per skill level):

    • 4% bonus to all shield resistances

    • 20% bonus to Support Fighter Shield Hitpoints

    • 10% bonus to Scarab Support Fighter ECM strength and optimal range

    • 20% increase in Conduit Jump capacity

  • Command Carriers bonuses (per skill level)

    • 5% bonus to Shield Command and Information Command burst strength and duration

    • 5% reduction in Capital Micro Jump Drive and Capital Micro Jump Field Generator spool up

• Role Bonuses

  • Can fit Integrated Sensor Array

  • Can fit Capital Micro Jump Drive and Capital Micro Jump Field Generator

  • Can fit three command burst modules

  • 200% bonus to Command Burst area of effect range

  • 20% bonus to Capital Micro Jump Field Generator maximum ship jump cap

  • Can launch Light and Support Fighters

  • Can lock at Extended ranges

  • Conduit Jump Capable

  • 5x penalty to Entosis link duration

• Slot Layout

  • 6 High Power Slots

  • 8 Medium Power Slots

  • 4 Low power Slots

  • 2 X-Large Rig Slots

• Fighter Tubes

  • 4 Fighter Tubes

    • 4 Support Fighter Limit

    • 2 Light Fighter Limit

• Ship Hold Capacity

  • Cargo Bay - 3,310m3

  • Fleet Hanger - 10,000m3

  • Ship Maintenance Bay - 2,000,000m3

  • Fuel Bay - 7,500m3

• Maximum Jump Range

  • 3.75ly

Amarr Command Carrier: Salvation

• Salvation: Skill Bonuses

  • Amarr Carrier bonuses (per skill level):

    • 4% bonus to all armor resistances

    • 20% bonus to Support Fighter Shield Hitpoints

    • 10% bonus to Cenobite Support Fighter Neutralization strength and optimal range

    • 20% increase in Conduit Jump capacity

  • Command Carriers bonuses (per skill level)

    • 5% bonus to Armored Command and Information Command burst strength and duration

    • 5% reduction in Capital Micro Jump Drive and Capital Micro Jump Field Generator spool up

• Role Bonuses

  • Can fit Integrated Sensor Array

  • Can fit Capital Micro Jump Drive and Capital Micro Jump Field Generator

  • Can fit three command burst modules

  • 200% bonus to Command Burst area of effect range

  • 20% bonus to Capital Micro Jump Field Generator maximum ship jump cap

  • Can launch Light and Support Fighters

  • Can lock at Extended ranges

  • Conduit Jump Capable

  • 5x penalty to Entosis link duration

• Slot Layout

  • 6 High Power Slots

  • 4 Medium Power Slots

  • 8 Low power Slots

  • 2 X-Large Rig Slots

• Fighter Tubes

  • 4 Fighter Tubes

    • 4 Support Fighter Limit

    • 2 Light Fighter Limit

• Ship Hold Capacity

  • Cargo Bay - 2,925m3

  • Fleet Hanger - 10,000m3

  • Ship Maintenance Bay - 2,000,000m3

  • Fuel Bay - 7,500m3

• Maximum Jump Range

  • 3.75ly

Gallente Command Carrier: Gaia

• Gaia: Skill Bonuses

  • Gallente Carrier bonuses (per skill level):

    • 30% bonus to Support Fighter Shield Hitpoints

    • 10% bonus to Siren Support Fighter warp disruption range

    • 10% bonus to Siren Support Fighter Afterburner speed bonus

    • 20% increase in Conduit Jump capacity

  • Command Carriers bonuses (per skill level)

    • 5% bonus to Armored Command and Skirmish Command burst strength and duration

    • 5% reduction in Capital Micro Jump Drive and Capital Micro Jump Field Generator spool up

• Role Bonuses

  • Can fit Integrated Sensor Array

  • Can fit Capital Micro Jump Drive and Capital Micro Jump Field Generator

  • Can fit three command burst modules

  • 200% bonus to Command Burst area of effect range

  • 20% bonus to Capital Micro Jump Field Generator maximum ship jump cap

  • Can launch Light and Support Fighters

  • Can lock at Extended ranges

  • Conduit Jump Capable

  • 5x penalty to Entosis link duration

• Slot Layout

  • 6 High Power Slots

  • 5 Medium Power Slots

  • 7 Low power Slots

  • 2 X-Large Rig Slots

• Fighter Tubes

  • 4 Fighter Tubes

    • 4 Support Fighter Limit

    • 2 Light Fighter Limit

• Ship Hold Capacity

  • Cargo Bay - 3,625m3

  • Fleet Hanger - 10,000m3

  • Ship Maintenance Bay - 2,000,000m3

  • Fuel Bay - 7,500m3

• Maximum Jump Range

  • 3.75ly

Minmatar Command Carrier: Ymir

• Ymir: Skill Bonuses

  • Minmatar Carrier bonuses (per skill level):

    • 10% bonus to Support Fighter Velocity

    • 20% bonus to Support Fighter Shield Hitpoints

    • 10% bonus to Dromi Support Fighter stasis webification strength and range

    • 20% increase in Conduit Jump capacity

  • Command Carriers bonuses (per skill level)

    • 5% bonus to Shield Command and Skirmish Command burst strength and duration

    • 5% reduction in Capital Micro Jump Drive and Capital Micro Jump Field Generator spool up

• Role Bonuses

  • Can fit Integrated Sensor Array

  • Can fit Capital Micro Jump Drive and Capital Micro Jump Field Generator

  • Can fit three command burst modules

  • 200% bonus to Command Burst area of effect range

  • 20% bonus to Capital Micro Jump Field Generator maximum ship jump cap

  • Can launch Light and Support Fighters

  • Can lock at Extended ranges

  • Conduit Jump Capable

  • 5x penalty to Entosis link duration

• Slot Layout

  • 6 High Power Slots

  • 7 Medium Power Slots

  • 5 Low power Slots

  • 2 X-Large Rig Slots

• Fighter Tubes

  • 4 Fighter Tubes

    • 4 Support Fighter Limit

    • 2 Light Fighter Limit

• Ship Hold Capacity

  • Cargo Bay - 3,775m3

  • Fleet Hanger - 10,000m3

  • Ship Maintenance Bay - 2,000,000m3

  • Fuel Bay - 7,500m3

• Maximum Jump Range

  • 3.75ly

Carrier Changes

• Reduced the Jump Portal Generation level requirements for the Capital Jump Portal Generation skill to 3, down from 5.

Fighters

• Tech II Fighters will now require and benefit from Fighter Specialization skills.

New Rewards

MODULES

The following new modules will drop from battlefield hauler NPCs and can be traded for using resources gained from mining in Bulwark systems by handing those resources to item traders in each factions War HQ.

• Faction Guidance Enhancers and Computers for both Caldari Navy and Republic Fleet.

• New Heat Sinks and Magnetic Field Stabilizers which boost both turret and drone damage, based on the C3-A and C3-X Ballistic control systems from Amarr and Gallente.

• Large Remote Repair modules for all factions.

• New prototype ‘Pluto’ excavators which have reduced yield but lower waste and a new small faction web drone for Gallente.

• An upgraded mining survey chipset for Minmatar.

• Imperial Navy tracking enhancer which also reduces the activation cost for lasers for Amarr.

• Upgraded Signal Dispersion Amplifier for Caldari.

SKINS

• New Penumbral Shadows SKINs are available from achievements which can be earned by completing objectives in each factions military campaign.

• Additionally, more Penumbral Shadow SKINs are available from the bulwark hacking content as rare drops. These SKINs also have a rare chance to be dropped from Battlefield hauler NPCs.

• The previous Penumbral Shadow SKINs which were soulbound rewards from the Shadow War campaign have been added to FW LP stores as a luxury priced item.

  • Cruiser SKINs - 500k LP + 500 million ISK.

  • Battleship SKINs - 1000k LP + 1 billion ISK.

• One new Penumbral Shadows SKIN is exclusive to the FW LP store for the following ships; Imperial Navy Slicer, Caldari Navy Hookbill, Federation Navy Comet and Republic Fleet Firetail for 100k LP + 100 million ISK.

Ship Balance Changes

• All Angel Cartel Ships

  • Added new role bonus: 75% reduction to projectile weapon reload time.

• Dramiel

  • Warp Speed bonus improved from 25% to 50%

    • This improves it from 6.25 AU/s to 7.5 AU/s before additional modifiers.

• Mekubal

  • Warp Speed bonus improved from 25% to 50%

    • This improves it from 5.625 AU/s to 6.75 AU/s before additional modifiers.

• Cynabal

  • Warp Speed bonus improved from 25% to 50%

    • This improves it from 5 AU/s to 6 AU/s before additional modifiers.

• Chremoas

  • Warp Speed bonus improved from 60% to 140%

    • This improves it from 8 AU/s to 12 AU/s before additional modifiers.

• Moracha

  • Warp Speed bonus added at 50%

    • This improves it from 4 AU/s to 6 AU/s before additional modifiers.

Angel Cartel ships had the least unique bonus across all the pirate factions, since a 25% bonus to warp speed could be achieved on any ship by fitting a Tech II Hyperspatial Velocity Optimizer rig. To make Angel Cartel ships feel more special, we’re adding a new bonus which reduces the reload time of Projectile weapons by 75%. This will allow them to swap ammo types with much less opportunity cost, increasing their versatility when it comes to changing damage types and range, allowing knowledgeable players the ability to take advantage of such situations while skirmishing and promoting active gameplay.

Additionally, we’re boosting the warp speed bonus on the Dramiel, Mekubal and Cynabal back up to 50%. This was reduced in 2019 to go along with a large increase to warp speeds of battleships, battlecruisers and cruisers. Since the speed of frigates and destroyers didn’t change in this update, the Dramiel ended up catching a stray! Both the Mekubal and Cynabal could also use some help to make them feel more unique to their competition (i.e. the Thrasher Fleet Issue and the Vagabond respectively).

We’re avoiding boosting the Khizriel, Machariel and Angel Cartel capital warp speed at this time due to ongoing concerns around force projection, since these ships are more powerful and more suited to being doctrine ships and also because these hulls are doing much better overall (the Machariel is the most used pirate battleship in the game overall, and #3 for PVP just a hair behind the Nightmare and Barghest).

• Merlin

  • Max Velocity increased from 310m/s to 320m/s

The Merlin is quite slow for a brawling ship with no range bonus, this should help it get into range when brawling slightly more effectively.

• Maulus Navy Issue

  • Max Velocity increased from 325m/s to 335m/s

  • Turret Hardpoints increased from 2 to 3

  • Powergrid increased from 38 to 40

  • CPU increased from 150 to 155.

The Maulus Navy Issue is currently considered to be the weakest Navy frigate. Giving it a small speed boost, as well as an additional turret hardpoint. This will allow the Maulus Navy Issue to brawl more effectively. Additionally adding some small fitting improvements to account for the extra turret.

• Griffin Navy Isue

  • Max Velocity increased from 325m/s to 335m/s

  • Drone Damage penalty role bonus increased from -85% to -70%

Giving a small amount of love to the Griffin Navy Issue, giving it a small speed boost and reducing the damage penalty it has to drones. This means it will go from having 0.75 to 1.5 effective combat drones. Notably, this should make the new combat/ewar hybrid drones more effective options for the Griffin Navy Issue.

• Cormorant Navy Issue

  • Small Hybrid Damage per level of Caldari Destroyer increased from 5% to 7.5%

The Cormorant Navy issue has the lowest damage of the 4 turret navy destroyers and is the least used of the original 4. Bringing it up to 7.5% per level to match the Coercer Navy Issue.

• Augoror Navy Issue

  • Maximum Capacitor increased from 1500.0 GJ to 1625.0 GJ

  • Capacitor Recharge time improved from 7m 55s to 7m 45s.

  • Maximum Velocity Increased from 215 to 245

  • Agility Improved from 0.48x to 0.38x

  • Mass increased from 10,650,000 to 13,150,000

The Augoror Navy Issue is currently the least used navy cruiser so giving it some love. Improving the base capacitor and capacitor regeneration time, setting them to be the same as the Maller. Also increasing the mass of the Augoror Navy Issue to the same as the maller, and then improving the agility and maximum velocity to keep align times and prop on speeds the same as now or slightly better.

This speed adjustment will make the Augoror Navy Issue faster when scrammed, improving range control and tracking while brawling. It will also mean that 1600mm plated fits will be both faster and more agile than before as plates will slow it down less.

• Stabber Fleet Issue

  • CPU Output improved from 310 to 340

The Stabber Fleet could run into CPU issues when fitting artillery or shield fits. Setting it to 340 which is the same value that the regular Stabber has.

• Deimos

  • Max Velocity improved from 230 to 250

Adding the same bonus to maximum velocity that the Thorax got in the Legion Expansion to the Deimos.

• Cenotaph

  • Breacher Pod M Maximum HP Damage per second reduced from 0.8% to 0.6% (from 1% to 0.75% with max skills).

The Cenotaph still feels too oppressive in certain environments so we are setting the Medium Breacher Pod maximum HP damage per second value to now be the same as the Breacher Pod S. Breacher Pod Ms will still do up to 3x more damage than Breacher Pod Ss against bigger targets. This will mean that the Cenotaph is less effective at damaging most subcapital ships with the breacher pod weapon.

• All Command Ships

  • Improved Cargohold Capacity on all Command Ships so they can more easily carry spare command bursts/charges, or just more cap boosters for the active tanking focused ones, as many of them had lower capacity than T1 cruisers and HACs.

• Claymore

  • 5% bonus to Heavy Missile and Heavy Assault Missile Launcher rate of fire bonus improved to 7.5% bonus to Heavy Missile and Heavy Assault Missle Damage per level of Minmatar Battlecruiser.

This is a small DPS improvement (from 33.3% DPS to 37.5%) and means the Claymore will not go through missiles as quickly improving it in extended PVP engagements and PVE.

• Astarte

  • 7.5% bonus to Medium Hybrid Turret rate of fire bonus improved to 10% bonus to

    Medium Hybrid Turret damage per level of Command Ships.

  • 7.5% bonus to Medium Hybrid Turret damage bonus improved from 7.5% to 10%.

  • Agility improved from 0.7x to 0.69x (NICE!)

This is a small DPS improvement (from 11 effective turrets to 11.25), however, it will be a large improvement for the Astarte in PVP and PVE by consuming much less capacitor and ammo to fire.

The small agility tweak will also bring it below an 8s align time if it doesn’t have a plate or non-active tanking armor rigs fitted.

• Armageddon Navy Issue

  • Added 5% bonus to Nosferatu and Energy Neutralizer falloff bonus per level

Armageddon Navy Issue is the least used battleship (outside of the alliance tournament). It did not inherit the falloff bonus to neuts from the base Armageddon so adding that as a small bonus to throw it a space bone.

• Maelstrom

  • Max Velocity increased from 115m/s to 120m/s

  • Signature Radius reduced from 460m to 400m

  • Agility improved from 0.136x to 0.111x

  • Drone Capacity improved from 100m3 to 125m3

We made several tweaks to the Maelstrom to improve it’s fleet viability in the Legion Major Update which have been largely successful in increasing its usage. We wanted to give it some further tweaks to help it more in a solo/small gang environment (without improving it directly for fleets like improving the alpha strike), so we’re giving it some small mobility related changes and giving it a spare set of light drones, which should make it feel closer to the ‘Shield Hyperion’ vision.

Drone and Module Balance Changes

• Web Drones

  • Berserker SW-900

    • Maximum Velocity improved from 1500m/s to 2000m/s

  • Valkyrie SW-600

    • Maximum Velocity improved from 2000m/s to 2750m/s

    • Shield Hitpoints increased from 50 to 100

    • Signature Radius increased from 53 to 75

  • Warrior SW-300

    • Maximum Velocity improved from 2400m/s to 3200m/s

    • Shield Hitpoints increased from 25 to 75

    • Hull Hitpoints increased from 60 to 80

    • Signature Radius reduced from 26 to 25

Regular Web Drones had lower speed than all other EWAR drone types such as neut drones and TP drones, and also the smaller versions had lower hitpoints as well. Bringing the web drones up to other EWAR drone types to make more viable as an option.

Microwarpdrives

Enduring MWDs

• 5MN Cold-Gas Enduring Microwarpdrive activation cost reduced from 35 to 30

• 50MN Cold-Gas Enduring Microwarpdrive activation cost reduced from 160 to 130

• 500MN Cold-Gas Enduring Microwarpdrive activation cost reduced from 280 to 220

• 50000MN Cold-Gas Enduring Microwarpdrive activation cost reduced from 9000 to 7000

Tech II MWDS

• All Tech II MWDs signature radius penalty reduced from 500% to 475%

• 5MN Microwarpdrive II activation cost reduced from 50 to 40

• 50MN Microwarpdrive II activation cost reduced from 200 to 160

• 500MN Microwarpdrive II activation cost reduced from 350 to 290

• 50000MN Microwarpdrive II activation cost reduced from 11000 to 9000

Enduring MWDs were almost always a non-choice over the Restrained MWDs, because the lower capacitor penalty from the restrained MWDs usually provided close to the same capacitor benefit as the Enduring one did while also providing the reduced signature radius penalty, so we are lowering their activation costs so they are now the clear winner when choosing to specialize in lower capacitor costs.

Tech II MWDs were also in a bad spot, they currently offer a very minor speed boost for increased fittings and higher activation costs. So we are lowering their activation costs, and also the sig bloom penalty on them, to make them a more general upgrade if you are willing to pay the fitting cost for them (while not being better at any individual meta variation at their specialized attribute).

• All Caldari Navy Hybrid ammo LP store offers have been removed.

Currently there is an imbalance with LP stores, in that Caldari currently have two different navy ammo types, while all the other factions have just one. And Gallente shares theirs with Caldari, causing Federation Navy ammo to be saturated and not as valuable.

This will leave each faction with one type of navy ammo each (Amarr - Frequency Crystals, Caldari - Missiles, Gallente - Hybrid Ammo and Minmatar - Projectile Ammo.)

We will eventually convert existing Caldari Navy hybrid ammo to Federation Navy at a later point.

Needlejack Filament Blueprints

• Manufacturing time per run before any skills/bonuses reduced from 9000 seconds to 900 seconds for 15-person filaments, and 1500 seconds for 25-person filaments.

• Signal-15 Blueprint

  • Now uses 150 Fullerene Intercelated Graphite (from 1500) per run

  • Now uses 3x Signal-5 needjack filaments (from 1) per run

• Noise-15 Blueprint

  • Now uses 150 Fullerene Intercelated Graphite (from 1000) per run

  • Now uses 3x Noise-5 needlejack filaments (from 1) per run)

• Signal-25 Blueprint

  • Now uses 250 Fullerene Intercelated Graphite (from 2500) per run

  • Now uses 5x Signal-5 needjack filaments (instead of 1 Signal-15) per run

• Noise-25 Blueprint

  • Now uses 250 Fullerene Intercelated Graphite (from 2000) per run

  • Now uses 5x Noise-5 needjack filaments (Instead of 1 Noise-15) per run

• Signal-15 Blueprint LP Offer

  • Blueprint Runs increased to 10 runs from 5 runs

  • ISK Cost increased to 15 million ISK from 7.5 million ISK

  • LP Cost reduced to 1,500 LP from 35,000 LP

• Noise-15 Blueprint LP Offer

  • Blueprint Runs increased to 10 runs from 5 runs

  • ISK Cost increased to 15 million ISK from 5 million ISK

  • LP Cost reduced to 1,500 LP from 20,000 LP

• Signal-25 and Noise-25 Blueprint LP Offer (NEW)

  • 10 Run Blueprint Copy

  • 25 Million ISK

  • 2,500 LP

Adding evergreen sources of the 25 fleet member needlejack filaments, and then reducing the costs of the filaments down to more reasonable levels.

Wormholes

• The regular ore mining anomalies in wormhole space have had a small gameplay balance pass.

  • All asteroids in these wormhole space anomalies have been upgraded to the highest yield variation (IV-Grade)

  • A small visual pass has been done on these sites.

  • The asteroids in most sites have been placed closer together, and closer to the warp in point, to improve quality of life.

We're excited to see what you do with the updates coming in the Cradle of War expansion, and we'd love for you to get involved with the discussion on the EVE Online Discord and the EVE Online Forums.

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Greetings,

The following page will list patch notes for all updates within this release (Version 23.02). We invite you to join the player discussion about the content of this release on EVE Online forums:

• General Feedback

• Known Issues

Initial Release Date: 2025-11-18 Last update: 2026-06-05

🤝 - Indicates a change inspired by the player's feedback or suggestions.

Patch Notes for 2026-06-05.1

Defect Fixes:

Gameplay:

• Fixed an issue in starter space where NPCs would not retaliate against players.

  • This fixes an issue affecting missions such as "The Stand" in the Soldier of Fortune career agent arc.

Patch Notes for 2026-06-02.1

Capsuleer Day:

• Capsuleer Day XXIII: Warpath has concluded.

• Quartermaster Traders will remain in space for an additional week, until June 9.

Patch Notes for 2026-06-01.1

Features & Changes:

Exordium:

• Eight new sets of Career Agents have been added the Exordium starter region, providing new players with additional opportunities to explore EVE's career paths.

  • All existing Career Agents remain available and unchanged.

Misc:

• New character backgrounds have been added.

Defect Fixes:

Exordium:

• Added clearer feedback when actions against other capsuleers are blocked by Starter Space safety restrictions, including when using modules & drones.

• Fixed an issue on the starmap where the Ore Anomalies map filter could highlight systems with no ore anomalies.

Patch Notes for 2026-05-29.1

Features & Changes:

Miscellaneous:

• Svipul Stark Strategist SKIN has been added.

Patch Notes for 2026-05-27.1

Features & Changes:

Miscellaneous:

• Default SKINs behaviour has been extended to apply when entering a pod. If no default is set, the previously used SKIN will be applied.

Patch Notes for 2026-05-26.1

Features & Changes:

Capsuleer Day XXIII: Warpath:

Seasonal Track:

• The point cap has been increased, and new rewards have been added to the seasonal track.

• The capstone reward is a token that can be exchanged at Quartermaster Traders for new navy destroyer blueprint copies.

Challenges:

• Challenges have been added for Warpath: Capital Mayday sites.

Site distribution:

• Warpath: War Grid, Warpath: Strategic Infiltration, and Warpath: Capital Mayday sites can now be found in highsec.

Warpath: Defense Complex:

• A lobby with an acceleration gate has been added to site.

Ships:

• The Four new navy destroyers are now available for a limited time before the Cradle of War expansion launches on June 9th through capsuleer day item traders. Completing the reward track will reward players with a token that can be used for a single 1 run BPC copy of the navy destroyers.

• When Cradle of War launches, blueprint copies for the destroyers will be available from FW militia LP stores.

Amarr - Dragoon Navy Issue

• Dragoon Navy Issue: Skill Bonuses

  • Amarr Destroyer: (per skill level)

    • 10% bonus to drone hitpoints and damage

    • 10% bonus to Rocket, Light Missile and Energy Turret damage

    • 20% bonus to Energy Nosferatu and Energy Neutralizer optimal range

    • 10% bonus to Energy Nosferatu and Energy Neutralizer falloff range

  • Role Bonus:

    • 25% bonus to drone max velocity

• Slot Layout

  • Highslots: 5

    • 3 Turret and 3 Missile Hardpoints

  • Midslots: 3

  • Lowslots: 4

  • Drone Bandwidth and Bay (25m3/75m3)

Caldari - Corax Navy Issue

• Corax Navy Issue: Skill Bonuses

  • Caldari Destroyer: (per skill level)

    • 10% bonus to kinetic Light Missile and Rocket damage

    • 5% bonus to EM, Thermal and explosive light missile and rocket damage

    • 5% reduction to light missile and rocket explosion radius

  • Role Bonus:

    • 50% bonus to missile velocity

• Slot Layout

  • Highslots: 6

    • 6 Missile Hardpoints

  • Midslots: 5

  • Lowslots: 2

Gallente - Algos Navy Issue

• Algos Navy Issue: Skill Bonuses

  • Gallente Destroyer: (per skill level)

    • 10% bonus to drone hitpoints and damage

    • 10% bonus to small hybrid weapon damage and tracking

    • 10% bonus to Stasis Webifier Drone factor of velocity decrease and hitpoints

  • Role Bonus:

    • 25% bonus to drone max velocity

• Slot Layout

  • Highslots: 5

    • 4 Turret Hardpoints

  • Midslots: 3

  • Lowslots: 4

  • Drone Bandwidth and Bay (35m3/100m3)

Minmatar - Talwar Fleet Issue

• Talwar Fleet Issue: Skill Bonuses

  • Minmatar Destroyer: (per skill level)

    • 7.5% bonus to Light Missile and Rocket Launcher rate of fire

    • 7.5% bonus to shield booster amount

    • 7.5% bonus to Light Missile and Rocket Explosion Velocity

  • Role Bonus:

    • 50% bonus to missile velocity

• Slot Layout

  • Highslots: 6

    • 5 Missile Hardpoints

  • Midslots: 4

  • Lowslots: 3

Defect Fixes:

Capsuleer Day:

• Fixed an issue that allowed destroyers to complete Warpath: Defense Complex sites.

• Fixed an issue that excluded some battleships, namely marauders, from defending certain complexes in Warpath: War Grid sites.

• Titans within Capital Mayday sites will now slowly orbit within the site.

• Titans within Capital Mayday can no longer be remotely repaired.

• Freighters within Capital Mayday sites will now warp away if a site ends in failure.

Patch Notes for 2026-05-22.1

Gameplay:

• The safety setting no longer automatically resets to green state when a character logs in.

Patch Notes for 2026-05-21.1

Defect Fixes:

Gameplay:

• AIR Career Program’s Career Missions updates its progression correctly when completing AIR Career Missions.

• Selling orders when the limit is reached will no longer trigger the safety market tax in Exordium.

Patch Notes for 2026-05-19.1

Features & Changes:

Introducing Exordium:

With today’s deployment, the previously introduced 53 new systems and their associated region, Exordium, are now accessible through the Manifest gate in Yulai.

As discussed back in April, Exordium is a dedicated new-player region designed to provide a safer introduction to EVE Online while still introducing players to the game’s core systems, progression paths, and faction identities before they move into the wider cluster. We are opening up Exordium and its features in stages ahead of the Cradle of War expansion.

This deployment introduces the first iteration of the new starter space security class (1.0), along with several pieces of new content aimed at newer players.

At this time Exordium is still in a “work in progress” state, and the new AIR Trade Center station in Manifest can be seen in its partially-constructed form. New players will not be sent to Exordium until the Cradle of War expansion releases on June 9th.

Elevated Security

Systems within Exordium now use a dedicated 1.0 security class designed to prevent all forms of PvP.

As part of this update:

• All Exordium systems have been set to security class 1.0

• Existing 1.0 systems across New Eden have been adjusted to 0.9

  • This does not meaningfully impact CONCORD response times in those systems.

• Security tooltips and the starmap now support the new security tier classification.

Within Exordium:

• Safety settings are permanently locked to green

• War Declarations and Factional Warfare combat are disabled

• Duels cannot be initiated

• Killrights cannot be activated

• Characters with combat flags such as suspect, criminal, and limited engagements cannot jump into Exordium or undock within the region until their timer expires

• Players cannot freely attack other capsuleers

• Upwell Structures cannot be deployed

• Deployables and anchored containers cannot be placed

Starter Space Economic Balancing

Exordium is intended as a starting environment for new capsuleers. Economy activity within the region has been adjusted to have reduced payouts compared to standard highsec space.

• Mission ISK rewards, LP rewards, and NPC bounties reduced by 20%

• Additional 5% market fees added to non-instant orders.

• Industry installation fees increased by 5% for manufacturing , material efficiency research, time efficiency research and invention

Additional balancing changes now active within Exordium include:

• Ores found within Exordium are new “Grade 0” versions with lower mineral yield than their standard variants.

• Exploration sites within Exordium contain distinct loot tables with lower value loot and items optimized for new players.

• Homefront Operations within Exordium have reduced difficulty, as well as reduced rewards.

Agents & Mission Content within Exordium

Exordium now includes a broad range of empire-aligned agents designed to introduce new players to mission running, mining, security gameplay, and faction identity.

The following agents are now available for interactions:

• Level 1 and Level 2 Security agents

• Level 1 and Level 2 Mining agents

• Sisters of EVE agents

• Paragon agents

A few additional updates and NPC behavior improvements are also included in this deployment:

• Improved Homefront Operations NPC behaviors

• Improved NPC officer AI in Vigilance Point sites

• Added an overshield to Tyrannos Basileus in Abyssal Artifact Recovery sites

New content has been added throughout Exordium, including:

• Mining sites

• Combat anomalies

• Data & Relic sites

• Cooperative objective-based encounters

• Empire mining belts

• Pirate Hideaways

• Rogue Drone combat sites

• Metaliminal Meteoroid encounters

• Emergency Aid encounters

• Relic and data hacking sites

Additional Changes:

• Several exploration sites have also received updated visuals, objectives, and environment improvements, including updated hackable containers and site cleanup improvements after completion.

• Tier 0 Abyssal Filaments have been adjusted to be usable in 0.9 and 1.0 security systems.

UI & Map Updates

Additional UI support has been added for Exordium security classes:

• Security tooltips now link directly to additional safety information through the starmap

• The starmap now includes a security tier filter option

• A new security filter side panel has been added to the map UI

• Security tier information can now be viewed directly on the map

Miscellaneous:

Capsule Forever Creative SKIN now supports the Genolution 'Auroral' 197-variant capsule

Patch Notes for 2026-05-13.1

Features & Changes:

Miscellaneous:

• Players can set any SKIN as a default one. SKINs will be applied to all newly unpackaged ships (does not apply to already assembled ships).

Patch Notes for 2026-05-12.1

Features & Changes:

New Eden:

• The system of Jita has become independent from the Caldari.

  • The system will be administered by CONCORD, who will control sovereignty within the system, in collaboration with EverMore.

  • EverMore has stepped in as the acting police force, managing piracy and customs enforcement within the system.

  • As a result, capsuleers with poor standings or at war with the Caldari will no longer be attacked while in Jita.

• New Trade Embassies for the Amarr, Gallente, and Minmatar have been established around Jita III, Jita VIII, and Jita II, respectively.

  • These stations include Factional Warfare enlistment services!

• The Caldari Navy retains control over the station at Jita IV-4, and taxes in the station are unaffected.

• A Clone Bay service has been made available in the Jita IV-4 Caldari Navy Assembly Plant.

  • Other Assembly Plant stations have also been given access to this service.

Patch Notes for 2026-05-07.1

Features & Changes:

Capsuleer Day:

Warpath: Capital Mayday

The struggle between the empires continues as Titan clashes erupt across the cluster!

• Mayday signals will be received via the Interstellar Events section of the Opportunities window, alerting Capsuleers to these battles wherever they emerge.

• On-site, two titans slug it out. Both have extremely impaired systems, but neither will concede the field.

• Capsuleers must haul specialised capacitor boosters from allied freighters to the cargo bays of defending Titans.

• Empire forces are on-site to assist their Titan, so Haulers will require protection as they work.

• Once fueled, defending titans will unleash their Doomsday against the invader to chip away at its defences.

• Capsuleers will be rewarded each time the defending Doomsday fires, with up to 30 pilots eligible for the optimal reward.

• The invading Titan will periodically reply in kind; once either Titan is destroyed, the site will end.

• Only tech 2 battleships and smaller are permitted within the site.

Patch Notes for 2026-05-05.1

Features & Changes:

Capsuleer Day:

• Caldari claim Sovereignty throughout Syndicate region as they are no longer willing to suffer the dishonor of the Intaki Syndicate.

• Warpath: Intelligence Cache sites now spawn in low-sec.

• Scanning difficulty reduced for Warpath: Strategic Infiltration sites.

Miscellaneous:

• New Mandate of Faith, Presidential Agent and Stark Strategist SKIN lines have been added for the Ishkur, Wolf, Vagabond, Pontifex and Hyperion.

Defect Fixes:

Capsuleer Day:

• War Grid, Defense Grid, and Defense Complex sites no longer spawn in non-empire space in a broken state.

• Reward containers will now spawn correctly in Minmatar Defence Complex sites.

• The Loot Complex info panel objective will now appear correctly in Defence Complex sites.

• Reward containers in Defense Complex sites can now be looted from a longer range.

• Successfully hacking the bottom container in a Minmatar Strategic Infiltration site will no longer cause a lockdown.

• Fixed an issue that could cause overlapping faction variants in exploration sites.

• Corrected the wreck type of Yosuke’s Phantasm.

• Fixed various text issues.

User Interface:

• Fixed an issue with the map UI that would prevent the selecting of celestial objects and structures close to the star.

Patch Notes for 2026-05-01.1

Capsuleer Day XXIII - Warpath

Gameplay:

• Improved the Info Panel objectives that appear while in War Grid and Defense Grid sites.

• Sentries within Strategic Infiltration sites will no longer attack capsules.

Defect Fixes:

• Securing all three complexes in Defense Grid sites will now grant their full reward.

• Fixed an issue causing Intelligence Cache sites to not be despawned correctly.

• Added missing icons for new SKINs.

• Removed the acceleration gates from War Grid and Defense Grid Extraction areas.

• Fixed various incorrect names and descriptions.

SKINs:

• New SKIN lines for each empire are added

  • Mandate of Faith

  • State Regulator

  • Presidential Agent

  • Stark Strategist

• Lavacore Imperial SKIN extended to Omen and Revelation Navy Issue

Patch Notes for 2026-04-30.1

Capsuleer Day XXIII - Warpath

All-out war has erupted, reaching highsec, leading to danger and opportunity throughout the cluster. From today until 2 June, dive into the conflict for unique encounters and rewards including all-new officer and faction modules, SKINs, SP, PLEX, and more. 

Every day will see login rewards, including up to 665,000 SP, SKINs, SKINR components and more

Seasonal Challenges & Rewards:

The Capsuleer Day XXIII seasonal challenge track offers trader tokens, PLEX, SoCT ships, SP, and other excellent loot. Progress through the track by completing the following challenges:

• Complete Security Missions for empires.

• Mine Crokite or Plagioclase in empire space.

• Kill Elite Mercenaries in new combat sites

• Hack Strategic or Intelligence Databanks in new exploration sites

• Make a trade with Quartermaster Traders

• Capture or Defend FW Complexes

Challenges feature five tiers, ranging from Hireling to Warpath Master. Completing each tier awards tokens which can be exchanged with Quartermaster Traders. These Quartermaster Traders are the empires’ primary tool for winning Capsuleer loyalty. Earn war tokens by participating in event activities, then exchange them at empire-specific item traders found widely throughout each empire’s space for your choice of various rewards.

Items from the Quartermaster Traders include:

• Combat Boosters

• Glamorex Boosters

• Cerebral Accelerators

• Capsuleer Day SKINs

• SKINR Components

• New Officer Modules

  • Revelli’s Modified Integrated Analyzer

  • xer Qosh’s Modified Expanded Cargohold

  • Torigo’s Modified Capacitor Flux Coil

  • Filmir’s Modified Mining Laser Upgrade

• New Faction Modules

  • Caldari Navy Bastion Module

  • Federation Navy Bastion Module

  • Imperial Navy Bastion Module

  • Republic Fleet Bastion Module

Quartermaster Traders are located in the following systems:

• Amarr, Gergish, Tash-Murkon Prime, Nare, Mehatoor, Kor-Azor Prime

• New Caldari, Ikao, Onnamon, Malkalen

• Dodixie, Luminaire, Intaki, Faurent

• Rens, Hek, Pator, Amo

New Content

Combat Sites:

Enemy forces are attacking up to three complexes that control this system’s War Grid, a network of local combat installations.

Defend and secure as many complexes as you can before the operational window closes. Once a complex has been secured, an extraction point will become available to warp to containing compensation & rewards. The value of supply caches increases with the number of complexes secured. There are three different variants to these sites:

• Warpath: War Grid:

  • Found in low-security space.

  • Can be captured by Battleships and below

• Warpath: Defense Grid:

  • Found in low-security space and high-security space

  • Can be captured by T2, Navy, Pirate , and T1 cruisers and below

• Warpath: Defense Complex:

  • Found in high security space

  • Can be captured by T2, Navy, Pirate, and T1 frigates

Exploration Sites:

Explorers can seek out exploration sites, which can be found in highsec, lowsec, and wormhole space. The containers must be hacked, but any mistake that triggers lockdown will bring the sentry guns online, forcing you to hack the Master Security Node to disable the lockdown before operations can continue safely. Proximity mines add another layer of danger, so the utmost caution is advised.

A more methodical approach is also possible: by hacking all sentry guns before going for the containers, lockdown becomes far less threatening, as the guns will not activate even if an error is made. Our suggestion: just don't make a mistake!

• Warpath: Intelligence Cache

  • Found in high-security space, null-sec space, wormhole space, and Pochven. This offers exploration content with less risk and fewer rewards. Great for newer explorers and veterans alike.

• Warpath: Strategic Infiltration

  • Found in low-security space, null-sec space, wormhole space, and Pochven. This incredibly difficult hacking site requires Capsuleers to navigate through sentry guns and mines to gain rewards.

New System-wide Bonuses

The empires aren't just looking for your support, they're encouraging Capsuleers to fly their ships. When flying a ship in its own empires' space, you can benefit from unique bonuses.

• Imperial Warpath Zeal

  • Applies to Amarr ships in space controlled by the Amarr Empire

  • +7.5% Energy Turret Damage

  • +7.5% Armor Hit Points

  • +10% Warp Speed

• State Warpath Discipline

  • Applies to Caladri ships in space controlled by the Caldari State

  • +7.5% Missile Launcher Rate of Fire

  • +7.5% Shield HP

  • +10% Warp Speed

• Federal Warpath Fervor

  • Applies to Gallente ships in space controlled by the Gallente Federation

  • +7.5% Hybrid Turret Tracking

  • +7.5% Local Armor Repair

  • +10% Warp Speed

• Republic Warpath Pride

  • Applies to Minmatar ships in space controlled by the Minmatar Republic

  • 7.5% Projectile Turret Falloff

  • +7.5% Velocity

  • +10% Warp Speed

SKINs

• Various police SKINs are 30% off in the New Eden Store

  • Woop woop that's the sound of the space police!

Patch Notes for 2026-04-29.1

Defect Fixes:

Gameplay:

• Adjusted the calculation of Project Discovery submissions to improve fairness in scoring.

User Interface:

• Added better visibility of Aura Guidance for players in the test group.

Patch Notes for 2026-04-23.1

Gallente Elections:

• The Capsuleer Outreach Centers for candidates Moreau, Tenzin, and Rodin have been removed from Dodixie

• Filings have been updated and President Alix Moreau is officially listed as the new President of the Gallente Federation.

  • Presidential hairdresser, previously appointed by Celes Aguard, has been dismissed. 🤝

Patch Notes for 2026-04-21.1

Features & Changes:

Factional Warfare:

• A one time Amnesty has been applied to all characters that are currently enlisted in a corporation in Factional Warfare (including pirates). Any character that had below -4.5 standings to the faction they are enrolled for has had their standings set to -4.5.

  • This will mean that these characters will not be kicked with the planned standings changes for the summer expansion. Standings & Awoxing Update | EVE Online.

  • This value will still mean that these characters will once again meet the threshold for being kicked if they awox again in FW after this amnesty.

Defect Fixes:

Gameplay:

• Fixed a recent defect which caused the pirate tackle NPCs to not warp away when the Anti-Pirates killed enough pirate ransomer NPCs in the Insurgency Mining Op Ambush ADV-10 site.

Graphics:

• Adjusted godrays to look less compressed and noisy.

Patch Notes for 2026-04-16.1

Features & Changes:

Factional Warfare:

• All Level 2 and Level 3 FW Missions have been updated:

  • New NPCs have been added to replace the previous ones. Players will no longer lose faction standings for killing them and these NPCs now care about faction allegiance.

  • Mission objective structures that needed to be killed to complete some level FW missions have had standing penalties removed from them.

  • Structures, which were non-essential for completing the mission, have been replaced with non-interactable objects.

  • All Level 2 missions with acceleration gates have had their ship restrictions changed to FW Medium Navy restrictions. They will now spawn a FW Medium Navy beacon into space as well, rather than a defunct beacon that lied to players about the ship restrictions.

  • All Level 3 missions with acceleration gates have had their ship restrictions changed to FW Large Navy restrictions. They will now spawn a FW Large Navy beacon into space as well, rather than a defunct beacon that lied to players about the ship restrictions.

• Battleship NPCs found inside FW Level 4 missions have been adjusted:

  • Tracking Values reduced by 33%.

  • Damage Multipliers for most NPCs reduced by 20%.

Gallente Election:

• The Gallente Election Event has concluded.

  • Note: The Rampant Drone Fabricator will return to wormholes after some additional tweaks and improvements!

• Capsuleer Outreach Centers will remain active in Dodixie until April 23, giving capsuleers one final week to trade in their Political Favors and Presidential Candidate Favors.

User Interface:

• The Factional Warfare Agency section has been updated with a new Factional Warfare Guide. Accessible via Encounters > Factional Warfare > Factional Warfare Guide, this page presents key information on the conflicts, enlistment process, and core mechanics - such as Advantage, System Upgrades, and System Capture - in a clearer and more digestible format.

Defect Fixes:

User Interface:

• Fixed a graphical defect with the probe formation after using the “Center on Me” button.

Patch Notes for 2026-04-15.1

Defect Fixes:

User Interface:

• Fixed an issue that caused bounty information to not show for NPCs in their show info window.

• Fixed an issue in the show info window that caused character and corporation information/employment history to be cropped.

• Fixed an issue that caused the previous and next arrows to become greyed out when stacking show info windows with ship show info windows

• Fixed an issue with stacked info windows that could sometimes cause the top section of the window to disappear after resetting the window to its default position.

Patch Notes for 2026-04-14.1

Features & Changes:

User Interface:

• Introduction text now appears on the lower third of the screen when warping to stations, displaying the name of the station.

World:

• As part of today’s deployment, the previously introduced 53 new systems and their associated region are now visible on the star map. While you can now see them in the EVE client, they’re still not accessible and can’t be entered just yet. This phase continues the setup and iteration of the new player starter space, including station placement and ongoing adjustments to the overall layout of the region. These changes are part of our ongoing work to improve the New Player Experience (NPE), with this region planned to become the starting area for new characters in the future. We’ll be sharing more updates in the coming weeks and months as we get closer to Fanfest and the summer expansion.

  • CONCORD and AIR Announce New Space Region | EVE Universe

  • Introducing Exordium | EVE Online

Miscellaneous:

• New apparel 'Humanitarian' T-shirt YC 128 is added.

Defect Fixes:

Gameplay:

• Fixed an issue where the "Claim All" button remained highlighted after all rewards were collected in AIR NPE.

• Fixed an issue causing Vesper Calytrix’s VO audio to play twice in AIR NPE.

• Fixed client freeze when selecting the Manufacturing Cost Index filter in the classic star map.

• Fixed an issue that prevented the Gallente Election Daily Login Reward from being claimed. To compensate affected players, the subsequent reward has been upgraded and the login campaign has been extended by one day.

Patch Notes for 2026-04-09.1

Features & Changes:

Seasonal Tracks:

• The seasonal point cap has been increased to 1,500 for the final week of the election, giving players more opportunity to support their candidates.

• New rewards have been added to the seasonal reward track, with the capstone reward being Presidential Candidate Favors, which can be traded for officer modules at candidates’ Capsuleer Outreach Centers.

Rampant Drone Fabricator:

• Rampant Drone Fabricator sites have been upgraded with a Capital escalation!

  • The difficulty of the site will be ramped up significantly, but so too are the rewards!

  • This escalation is unlocked by having any Capital ship, excluding the Rorqual, present at the start of a wave.

  • All Capitals, excluding the Rorqual, are now considered valid by the site's perimeter.

  • NPCs will deal additional damage when attacking a Capital ship:

    • +50% damage to Carriers.

    • +100% damage to other Capitals.

  • NPCs will no longer attack Fighters.

  • Space Superiority Fighters will now deal their full damage to NPCs, Nanoswarms, and the Fabricator itself.

The Capital escalation provides extremely rewarding content that pushes even the most powerful ships in EVE to their limits! More ISK, more hybrid drones, and vastly more enemies await you within.

Several tweaks have also been made to ensure Carriers are a viable option, even giving Dreadnoughts a run for their money. Do not sleep on Space Superiority Fighters. This should hopefully give Carrier pilots a fun and lucrative content source within wormhole space.

• NPCs within Rampant Drone Fabricator sites will now scale their damage based on the system's reward tier:

  • NPCs will deal less damage in C1-C3 systems.

  • NPCs will deal additional damage in C5/C6 systems.

The rewards found within these sites varied by system type, though the difficulty did not. This was intended to reflect additional risk, but failed to provide an on-ramp for those wanting to try the content. Now, players running sites in lower-tier systems can practice mechanics with difficulty better matching the potential rewards.

• Improved the Info Panel UI for Rampant Drone Fabricator sites.

Defect Fixes:

Gameplay:

• Fixed an issue where a Serenity-Only SKIN could be looted from a Gallente Election YC128 SKINs Crate.

Patch Notes for 2026-04-08.1

Defect Fixes:

Technical:

• In an edge cases, claiming multiple Skillpoints Rewards at once was only accounted correctly after the next downtime. This should now be fixed.

Patch Notes for 2026-03-31.1

Features & Changes:

Balancing:

• The Panther’s Black Ops bonuses have been adjusted:

  • The 7.5% Large Projectile Turret tracking bonus has been returned.

  • The 15% Heavy Stasis Grappler Falloff bonus has been removed.

  • A 20% Heavy Stasis Grappler Optimal Range bonus has been added.

The loss of the tracking bonus hit the Panther much harder than intended, and as such it has been reverted. The Heavy Stasis Grappler falloff bonus was also not proving to be worth the mid slot, so this has been swapped with an optimal range bonus instead. This bonus should provide the Panther with a strong control option when the module is overheated.

• Accelerator Flashpoint sites have been updated as follows:

  • Sites will now spawn exclusively within low-sec EDENCOM Fortress systems.

  • Sites will now appear within the Combat Anomalies section of the Opportunities window.

  • The low-sec spawn rate of sites has been increased.

Accelerator Flashpoints are very lucrative sites, but their discoverability was extremely limited. Their level of risk to reward was also disproportionate when the site spawned in a high-sec system.

By adding the sites to the Opportunities window, they can be much more easily discovered. Limiting them to low-sec EDENCOM Fortresses (which are fairly evenly spread across these regions) also concentrates the sites more, and allows them to be properly contested.

• Significantly increased the drop rate of the Capital Disintegrator Specialization skillbook from the following locations:

  • Zirnitra Blueprint Data Vault crates found within Observatory Flashpoint sites.

  • Liminal Zirnitra wrecks found within Accelerator Flashpoint sites.

  • Triglavian Stellar Accelerator wrecks found within Accelerator Flashpoint sites.

This availability of this skillbook was too limited in its initial release. The increased drop chance coupled with more accessible Accelerator Flashpoint sites should provide more opportunities for players to acquire it. Note that Accelerator Flashpoint sites will now drop this skillbook more often than its Observatory Flashpoint counterpart.

Defect Fixes:

Gallente Election:

• Fixed inconsistent naming for some of the new hybrid drones.

• Added missing duration and EWAR resistance attributes to some of the new hybrid drones.

User Interface:

• Corrected the Market category for Mystic and Occult XL ammo.

Patch Notes for 2026-03-27.1

Features & Changes:

Localization:

• Added missing localization for new boosters and crate.

Patch Notes for 2026-03-26.1

Features & Changes:

Balancing:

• Ultratidal Entropic Disintegrator I Damage Modifier reduced from 0.8 to 0.667.

• Ultratidal Entropic Disintegrator II Damage Modifier reduced from 0.96 to 0.8.

• CONCORD Rogue Analysis Beacons can no longer be deployed within 10,000 km of an Asteroid.

CRABs will no longer be deployable within range of anything within the Asteroid category, including ice. This (hopefully) closes the loop on using a P.A.N.I.C module to run this content.

Gallente Election:

• Increased the quantity of Rampancy Data Dump commodities accrued within Rampant Drone Fabricator sites:

  • Low-tier: +50%

  • Medium-tier: +33%

  • High-tier: +25%

• Slightly decreased the drop chance for hybrid drones in Rampant Drone Fabricator sites.

• The frequency of Rampant Drone Fabricator sites has been increased within all wormhole systems.

This site’s value is currently very dependent on market rate of the hybrid drones that can be found within. The floor value of the site has been adjusted to decrease variance and to guard against market volatility. These changes also shrink the relative value differences between the tiers, ensuring even low-class wormhole systems are well rewarded for their efforts.

Miscellaneous:

• New Cryptic Ecdysis SKIN for Guristas ships have been added.

• New Historic Carrier SKINs crate has been released.

• New Guristas Damage Booster III has been released.

• New SKINR pattern - Rage of the 7, inspired by the Anger Games, has been added.

Defect Fixes:

Gallente Election:

• Fixed an issue where Gallente Election Campaign Buses were unable to activate stargates leading to Zarzakh.

Graphics:

• Fixed an issue where certain rocket explosions would flicker and flash on impact.

• Fixed an issue where the Docking lights on the Blackbird and Scimitar were visible before the lights were turned on in Cinematic Reveal.

Patch Notes for 2026-03-24.1

Features & Changes:

Balancing:

• Increased the maximum duration of Carrier CRABs.

• NPCs spawned by Carrier CRABs will now take noticeably longer to respawn.

The new CONCORD-Carrier Rogue Analysis Beacon was significantly overtuned, making completing it in a Carrier extremely difficult. Players will now have more time to run the beacon as well as a less stressful time doing so.

Gallente Election:

Gallente Election Campaign Buses:

• Mass reduced to 1,000,000 kg.

• Cargo capacity reduced to 30 m3.

Opux Dragoon Yacht and Opux Luxury Yacht:

• Can fit Covert Ops Cloaking Device.

• Can fit Interdiction Nullifier.

Defect Fixes:

Gallente Election:

• Rampant Drone Fabricator rewards within low-sec sites will now correctly give medium-tier rewards instead of low-tier.

• Remote repair bonuses within Rampant Drone Fabricator sites will now apply to Capital-sized repair modules.

• Stasis Drone Augmentor rigs will now apply their bonus to hybrid Stasis Webifier drones.

• Skill requirements for all new hybrid drones have been made consistent with their related DPS and EWAR types.

• Added the faction tag to the Moreau YC128 Campaign Bus.

• Changed the tag on the Presidential Skirmish Command Burst module from officer to faction.

• The correct bracket icon will now appear for Gallente Election Campaign Buses.

• Gallente Election Campaign Buses have been added to the default overview.

Pochven:

• The remote repair bonus from Triglavian system effects will once again be applied to Mutadaptive Remote Armor Repairers.

• Adjusted the warp-in location for the main combat area in Observatory Flashpoint sites to avoid bumping.

Graphics:

• Resolved an issue where mining scanner FX was not showing correctly.

Patch Notes for 2026-03-19.1

Features & Changes:

 Gallente Election:

The YC128 Gallente Election is underway! Capsuleers can participate until downtime on Thursday, April 16, 2026. Choose a presidential candidate and support them by completing event challenges.

Support your candidate:

Choose a candidate to support and complete challenges to influence the election outcome. The candidate whose supporters have earned the most combined seasonal points at the end of the event will be declared President of the Gallente Federation.

Your candidate selection choice will not limit the rewards you can receive. Throughout the event, regardless of your choice, you will receive Political Favor which can be exchanged at Capsuleer Outreach Centers in Dodixie for any of the rewards. Support the candidate you want to without worrying about the rewards.

* The campaign bus at the end of the Presidential race will be visually different for each of the 3 candidates, but the rest of the rewards are the same.

New Content:

Rampant Drone Fabricator:

Test both your fitting and combat prowess in this push-your-luck site!

• Players must defeat waves of increasingly difficult Rogue Drones.

• Each wave adds additional loot to the Fabricator structure in increasing quantities.

• After each wave, players can choose to destroy the Fabricator and claim their current rewards or press on to the next wave.

  • Current rewards can be checked at any time using a Cargo Scanner.

• Be warned: if you are unable to complete a wave, you will lose everything you’ve earned so far!

• If the standard variant proves too easy, try bringing a battleship. The dangers are increased, but so are the rewards!

• The sites rewards also scale based on where it is located, in three distinct tiers:

  • Low tier: C1-C3 wormhole systems.

  • Medium tier: C4, Pochven, and low-sec systems.

  • Highest tier: C5 and C6 wormhole systems.

• There are several hidden quirks and tricks for players to discover while they run the site.

  • It is highly recommended to keep the Info Panel section visible!

• Only permitted ships can keep the site stable. Leaving proximity can quickly cause the site to become forfeit.

  • Permitted ships include combat-capable ships from T1 Frigates all the way to Marauders.

• The site is a cosmic signature, requiring it to be scanned down.

• The grid is not deadspaced; do with this information as you see fit.

Drone Iteration Depot:

Former industrial depots that have been converted into data stockpiles by Rogue Drones.

• Hacking site.

• Can be found in highsec, lowsec, and nullsec.

• Highsec version contains Iteration Databanks. Lowsec and nullsec versions contain the more valuable Iteration Vaults.

Notable Rewards:

The event features a wide range of great rewards, including exciting new additions.

New Combined Damage and EWAR Drones:

These combined drones primarily use the base stats of tech-1 combat drones. However, they also gain the EWAR capabilities of EWAR drones.

• All 6 types of EWAR are available in all 3 sizes.

• Some drones can be bought from Capsuleer Outreach Centers, while others are exclusive to the Rampant Drone Fabricator site.

New Officer Modules:

Each candidate offers a unique officer module, available for acquisition at their respective Capsuleer Outreach Center. These modules are:

• Tenzin’s Modified Guidance Disruptor

• Moreau’s Modified Expanded Scan Probe Launcher

• Roden’s Modified Nanofiber Internal Structure

New Faction Modules:

Candidates also offer faction modules at their Capsuleer Outreach Centers:

• Presidential Skirmish Command Burst

• Presidential Information Command Burst

• Presidential Mining Foreman Burst

New Character Backgrounds:

The event features new Gallente character backgrounds, available at each candidate’s Capsuleer Outreach Center.

Capsuleer Outreach Centers:

Each candidate operates a Capsuleer Outreach Center in Dodixie. Earn Political Favors and Presidential Candidate Favors, then exchange them for a range of items, including:

• Boosters

• SKINR Components

• Character Portrait Backgrounds

• Combined Damage and EWAR Drones

• Faction Modules

• Officer Modules

Agency Challenges and Rewards

Support your candidate by completing a range of challenges:

• Complete Gallente security missions.

• Capture or defend Factional Warfare complexes for Gallente.

• Complete Homefront Operations in Gallente space.

• Mine Scordite or Gneiss in Gallente space.

• Hack Iteration Databanks and Vaults in Drone Iteration Depots found in highsec, lowsec, and nullsec.

• Kill Fabricator Rogue Drones in Rampant Drone Fabricator sites found in lowsec, wormholes, and Pochven.

• Make a trade at a candidate’s Capsuleer Outreach Center in Dodixie.

• Go on the Campaign Trail.

Tiered Challenge Rewards:

• Challenges feature five tiers, ranging from Supporter to Lobbyist.

• Completing each tier awards tokens that can be exchanged at Capsuleer Outreach Centers, with the fifth tier granting a Presidential Candidate Favor used to acquire powerful officer modules.

Complete challenges to earn points and unlock rewards in the seasonal track, including:

• 75 PLEX

• Skill Points

• Political Favors used to make a trade in Capsuleer Outreach Centers.

• Campaign Buses

Daily Login Rewards

Log in throughout the event for great rewards:

• Alpha and Omega pilots receive separate reward tracks

• Omegas claim both tracks daily, and upgrading to Omega unlocks all past Omega rewards retroactively

• Rewards include:

  • Boosters

  • SKINR Components

  • EverMarks

  • Generous Skill Points

  • And more!

Patch Notes for 2026-03-18.1

Catalyst Major Update

Features & Changes:

CONCORD Rogue Analysis Beacons:

• A new Carrier-specific CONCORD Rogue Analysis Beacon has been added:

  • Spawned Rogue Drones NPCs will not attack Drones or Fighters.

  • The scanning phase lasts 16 minutes (instead of 10), with rewards scaled to match.

  • Linking requires fewer Complex Encryption Qubits, allowing 4 links to be made per character per day.

  • Less Signal Interference is generated per use.

  • BPCs can be bought from CONCORD LP stores for the same cost as the standard variant.

• CONCORD Rogue Analysis Beacons can no longer be deployed within Asteroid Belts.

The Carrier CRAB gives players who are willing to accept greater difficulty in exchange for a significantly higher reward ceiling.

Blocking deployment within belts will prevent Rorquals from using PANIC modules while running a CRAB beacon.

Carriers:

• Networked Sensor Arrays can no longer be fit to Carriers.

• Carrier cargo bay capacity has been increased by the following stats:

Archon:

• Increased Cargo Bay capacity from 825m3 to 2175m3.

Chimera:

• Increased Cargo Bay capacity from 870m3 to 2600m3.

Thanatos:

• Increased Cargo Bay capacity from 875m3 to 2800m3.

Nidhoggur:

• Increased Cargo Bay capacity from 860m3 to 3000m3.

Carriers now have a significantly larger cargo bay capacity than battleships.

Fighters:

Einherji I:

• Squadron Size reduced from 9 to 6.

• Shield Capacity increased from 2190 HP to 3285 HP.

• Autocannon Explosive Damage increased from 62 HP to 93 HP.

• Heavy Rocket Salvo Explosive Damage increased from 113 HP to 169.5 HP.

Einherji II:

• Squadron Size reduced from 9 to 6.

• Shield Capacity increased from 2420 HP to 3630 HP.

• Autocannon Explosive Damage increased from 68 HP to 102 HP.

• Heavy Rocket Salvo Explosive Damage increased from 124 HP to 186 HP.

Republic Fleet Einherji:

• Squadron Size reduced from 9 to 6.

• Shield Capacity increased from 3630 HP to 5445 HP.

• Autocannon Explosive Damage increased from 65 HP to 97.5 HP.

• Heavy Rocket Salvo Explosive Damage increased from 118.5 HP to 178 HP.

Templar I:

• Squadron Size reduced from 9 to 6.

• Shield Capacity increased from 2190 HP to 3285 HP.

• Pulse Cannon EM Damage increased from 65 HP to 97.5 HP.

• Heavy Rocket Salvo EM Damage increased from 119 HP to 178.5 HP.

Templar II:

• Squadron Size reduced from 9 to 6.

• Shield Capacity increased from 2420 HP to 3630 HP.

• Pulse Cannon EM Damage increased from 72 HP to 108 HP.

• Heavy Rocket Salvo EM Damage increased from 131 HP to 196.5 HP.

Imperial Navy Templar:

• Squadron Size reduced from 9 to 6.

• Shield Capacity increased from 3630 HP to 5445 HP.

• Pulse Cannon EM Damage increased from 68.5 HP to 103 HP.

• Heavy Rocket Salvo EM Damage increased from 125 HP to 187.5 HP.

Dragonfly I:

• Squadron Size reduced from 9 to 6.

• Shield Capacity increased from 2190 HP to 3285 HP.

• Blaster Cannon Kinetic Damage increased from 72 HP to 108 HP.

• Heavy Rocket Salvo Kinetic Damage increased from 131 HP to 250 HP.

Dragonfly II:

• Squadron Size reduced from 9 to 6.

• Shield Capacity increased from 2420 HP to 3630 HP.

• Blaster Cannon Kinetic Damage increased from 79 HP to 158 HP.

• Heavy Rocket Salvo Kinetic Damage increased from 146 HP to 219 HP.

Caldari Navy Dragonfly:

• Squadron Size reduced from 9 to 6.

• Shield Capacity increased from 3630 HP to 5445 HP.

• Blaster Cannon Kinetic Damage increased from 75.5 HP to 113.5 HP.

• Heavy Rocket Salvo Kinetic Damage increased from 138 HP to 208 HP.

Firbolg I:

• Squadron Size reduced from 9 to 6.

• Shield Capacity increased from 2190 HP to 3285 HP.

• Blaster Cannon Thermal Damage increased from 75 HP to 112.5 HP.

• Heavy Rocket Salvo Thermal Damage increased from 138 HP to 207 HP.

Firbolg II:

• Squadron Size reduced from 9 to 6.

• Shield Capacity increased from 2420 HP to 3630 HP.

• Blaster Cannon Thermal Damage increased from 83 HP to 124.5 HP.

• Heavy Rocket Salvo Thermal Damage increased from 152 HP to 228 HP.

Federation Navy Firbolg:

• Squadron Size reduced from 9 to 6.

• Shield Capacity increased from 3630 HP to 5445 HP.

• Blaster Cannon Thermal Damage increased from 79 HP to 118.5 HP.

• Heavy Rocket Salvo Thermal Damage increased from 145 HP to 217.5 HP.

We’ve reduced the amount of fighters that can be deployed in a light fighter squad from 9 → 6. However we’ve increased the total health and damage of each fighter by 50% to compensate. This way a fighter squad has the same health and damage as before, however each individual fighter now has more health, which means that the sustainability of the individual fighter is now increased.

Force Auxiliaries:

Apostle:

• 20% bonus to Capacitor Booster amount per Amarr Carrier skill level added.

Minokawa:

• 20% bonus to Capacitor Booster amount per Caldari Carrier skill level added.

Ninazu:

• 7.5% bonus to Capacitor Booster amount per Gallente Carrier skill level improved to 30%.

Lif:

• 7.5% bonus to Capacitor Booster amount per Minmatar Carrier skill level improved to 30%.

Dagon:

• 20% bonus to Capacitor Booster amount per Amarr Carrier skill level added.

Loggerhead:

• 20% bonus to Capacitor Booster amount per Gallente Carrier skill level added.

Force auxiliaries had a heavy nerf in the surgical strike with the Cap booster limit. In order to bring some of that power back we’ve added a bonus to all FAX that increased the amount of capacitor the booster provides which should mean that FAX are less likely to be neuted out. The Lif and Ninazu have an increased bonus to keep their flavour and uniqueness.

SoCT:

Metamorphosis:

• 100% DPS Role Bonus reduced to 80% for all weapon types (not Drones).

Sunesis:

• 25% DPS Role Bonus reduced to 20% for all weapon types (not Drones).

• Reduce Cargo Bay from 600m3 to 450m3.

• Mass increased from 1,500,000 kg to 1,550,000 kg.

• Increased Inertia Modifier from 2x to 2.85x, increasing align time from 4.16s to 6.12s.

Gnosis:

• 25% DPS Role Bonus reduced to 20% for all weapon types (not Drones).

Praxis:

• 25% DPS Role Bonus reduced to 20% for all weapon types (not Drones).

We felt that SoCT were too dominant considering their cost and skill requirements. Bringing them down in dps output allows us more freedom to give them out for Capsuleer Day in future.

The Sunesis in particular had a very large cargo bay and small align time which we’ve adjusted.

Recon Ships

Curse:

• Maximum Targeting Range reduced from 130km to 110.5km.

Pilgrim:

• Maximum Targeting Range reduced from 104km to 88.4km.

Rook:

• Maximum Targeting Range reduced from 150km to 127.5km.

Falcon:

• Maximum Targeting Range reduced from 120km to 102km.

Lachesis:

• Maximum Targeting Range reduced from 140km to 119km.

Arazu:

• Maximum Targeting Range reduced from 112km to 95.2km.

Huginn:

• Maximum Targeting Range reduced from 125km to 112km.

Rapier:

• Maximum Targeting Range reduced from 100km to 90km.

In conversations during the CSM summit we identified that recon lock range was a bit too strong for it’s role and purpose. We’ve reduced it by 15% across the board.

Black Ops:

Redeemer:

• Removed 50% Armor Plate Bonus.

• Removed 100% Shield Extender Bonus.

• Removed 1 Turret Hard Point.

Panther:

• Removed 50% Armor Plate Bonus.

• Removed 100% Shield Extender Bonus.

• Removed 7.5% Tracking Bonus.

• Added 15% Heavy Stasis Grappler Falloff bonus per Black Ops skill level.

Widow:

• Removed 50% Armor Plate Bonus.

• Removed 100% Shield Extender Bonus.

• Increased rate of fire bonus from 7.5% to 10%.

Sin:

• Removed 50% Armor Plate Bonus.

• Removed 100% Shield Extender Bonus.

• Increased Hybrid damage bonus from 10% to 20%.

Black Ops were too tanky with the extender & plate bonuses, for the Blops gangs we were seeing operate all over New Eden. We didn't touch the Marshal or Python at this time, but we'll monitor if everyone swaps to Marshals now, which are considerably more expensive.

Modules:

Ultratidal Entropic Disintegrator I:

• Reduced Damage Modifier from 1.0 to 0.8.

New - Ultratidal Disintegrator II:

• Created new T2 variant of the Ultratidal Disintegrator I.

• Damage Modifier 0.96.

• Optimal Range 57km.

• Required Skills:

  • Gunnery V.

  • Capital Precursor Weapon V.

  • Capital Disintegration Specialization I.

Meson Exotic Plasma XL:

• Reduced Range bonus from 80% to 60%.

New - Mystic Exotic Plasma XL:

• Range bonus 50%.

• Tracking Speed 0.5.

• Thermal Damage 2590.

• Explosive Damage 1295.

New - Occult Exotic Plasma XL:

• Range bonus -40%.

• Tracking Speed 0.75.

• Thermal Damage 3150.

• Explosive Damage 2240.

Skills:

New - Capital Disintegrator Specialization Skill:

• New Skill created and added as a requirement for Ultratidal Disintegrator II.

• Adds 2% bonus per skill level to damage.

• Requirements:

  • Motion Prediction V.

  • Capital Precursor Weapon V.

• Skillbook added to the Dreadnought Skills loot table (Observatory Flashpoint).

New - Amarr Fighter Specialization:

• Specialization in the operation of advanced Amarr fighters. 2% bonus per skill level to the damage of fighters requiring Amarr Fighter Specialization.

New - Caldari Fighter Specialization:

• Specialization in the operation of advanced Caldari fighters. 2% bonus per skill level to the damage of fighters requiring Caldari Fighter Specialization.

New - Gallente Fighter Specialization:

• Specialization in the operation of advanced Gallente fighters. 2% bonus per skill level to the damage of fighters requiring Gallente Fighter Specialization.

New - Minmatar Fighter Specialization:

• Specialization in the operation of advanced Minmatar fighters. 2% bonus per skill level to the damage of fighters requiring Minmatar Fighter Specialization.

Fighters don’t currently follow the same convention as drones, so to start that roll out we’re introducing the racial specialization skill in a later update we’ll be locking T2 fighters behind the specialization skill.

Pochven:

• Ships will now drop 60% of their loot when destroyed within the region.

• Pochven and Triglavian Minor Victory system effect penalties no longer affect Triglavian ships.

Triglavian ships, both T1 and T2, will be immune to the warp speed and max target lock penalties. This should give players more reason to fly these ships within Triglavian occupied systems.

• Locator Agents are no longer able to give the location of Capsuleers within Pochven.

  • A new message appears stating they are within the region but cannot be pinned down.

• T2 Triglavian salvage can now be purchased within Triglavian LP stores.

  • Offers require either Hyper-Vigilance Cores or Stellar Surveillance Data and a set amount of ISK.

With the Hospodar NPC spawning bug closed, T2 Triglavian salvage needed a new faucet. Pochven players will now be able to provide these materials when running pro-Triglavian content. This gives another way for Triglavian aligned players to earn salvage without destroying Triglavian NPCs. Importantly, this change also gives an alternative use for red loot that is not an ISK faucet.

• C729 wormholes must now be scanned down within Pochven and will connect out to k-space.

  • EDENCOM NPCs will still spawn at the Pochven side, and Triglavian NPCs on the k-space side.

  • All 4 empire variants of EDENCOM NPCs can now spawn, weighted to the faction which owned the system prior to Pochven’s formation.

• The combat mechanics of all extra-Pochven wormholes have been reworked:

  • Payouts and NPC fleet difficulties have been rebalanced for 6 players.

  • Phases will now progress after 60 minutes from the previous phases' completion.

  • Sites within high-sec systems cannot progress past phase 2.

  • The final phase of a site will loop, offering the same payout each time.

  • Information on the site’s current state is shown within the Info Panel.

  • NPC AI has been improved.

  • Players must be within 100km of the wormhole to receive a payout.

  • Warp-in points have been moved closer to the wormhole.

• Roaming fleets spawned from Pochven wormholes have been reworked:

  • These fleets will only spawn after their corresponding phase has been completed.

  • EDENCOM fleets will no longer roam to Stargates or NPC stations.

  • Drifter and Rogue Drone fleets will roam to Stargates.

  • Triglavian fleets will only be hostile to those with negative standings or those who engage them.

  • EDENCOM and Triglavian fleets will remember if you’ve attacked any ally NPCs spawned from their wormhole.

Inverting the origin locations of C729s gives Pochven residents more control over access points to their space. These persistent exits allow the spool-times for outbound filaments to be increased, heightening the risk of using the Pochven highway.

The combat mechanics of these wormholes have been updated to make them both more consistent and easier to understand. The new roamer AI and spawning rules gives coordinated groups control over the NPC chaos in the region.

EDENCOM camps caused a strange environment where even Triglavian aligned felt the need to keep their standings positive. The roaming fleets will now ignore gates and stations to no longer punish true triangle purists. Rogue Drone and Drifter fleets have instead moved to take their place, making the space equally dangerous for all.

• The Reliable Lifetime of all extra-Pochven wormholes has been adjusted:

  • The timer has increased from 6 to 12 hours for C729 wormholes.

  • The timer has decreased from 16 to 12 hours for F216, R081, U372, and X450 wormholes.

• New inter-Pochven wormholes have been added:

  • These wormholes are limited to medium-sized ships.

  • Each wormhole connects to a system within a neighbouring Krai.

  • The Reliable Lifetime of these wormholes is 4.5 hours.

  • The new types are I078, L687, and O546.

These wormholes give smaller groups an alternate way around the triangle. Organized groups can also use these to sneak between constellations and get behind gate camps.

• A number of changes have been made to Observatory Flashpoint sites:

  • The maximum number of sites within the region is once again 3 (from 6).

  • The site respawn timer has been removed.

  • The quantity of Stellar Surveillance Data commodities dropped by CONCORD Stellar Observatories has increased to 250 (from 150).

  • NPCs no longer attack drones.

  • The Monitor and Odysseus are now permitted to enter the main combat area.

  • The playable area of the main combat area has increased to a 60km radius (from 50km).

    • A new visual effect marks the boundary.

  • Threshold Werposts have had a number of tweaks:

    • Their base damage and damage bonus per cycle have been significantly increased.

    • They will now only attack Interdictor and Interceptor ships if no other target is available.

    • They will no longer periodically swap targets.

    • They will deal 15x damage when targeting a Monitor.

  • MJFGs are no longer blocked within the lobby area.

  • The power of EDENCOM NPC fleets has been increased during the Dreadnought and CONCORD Stellar Observatory stages.

  • Empire Dreadnought and CONCORD Stellar Observatory wrecks have had their HP increased to 30k.

  • The warp disruption radius of Empire Dreadnoughts has decreased to 15km.

The attempt to increase site instances at the cost of lower payouts did not have the intended effect. As such, the site has been reverted to the previous values.

Many of this site’s changes aim to open up more viable fleet compositions. Drone aggression appears to no longer be needed with the changes to assignment. The 60km boundary radius is intended to increase the playable volume of the site without bringing back the kiting meta. The boundary itself has also been made more obvious with a dedicated perimeter light ring.

Thresold Werposts have been updated to be much more punishing. Tackle are also now able to freely push into any ships hiding out-of-bounds. FCs (who know who they are) are free to bring a Monitor, but should be very careful around the boundary.

• A number of changes have been made to Vigilance Point sites:

  • Each tier of payout has been increased.

  • The site respawn timer has been removed.

  • NPC AI has been improved.

  • NPCs have had a number of balance changes, notably:

    • The amount of alpha damage has been decreased.

    • The average DPS within the site has increased.

    • Strategos will take longer to lock with her doomsday weapon.

    • Strategos can no longer be warp-disrupted.

  • Hyper-Vigilance Cores have replaced the blue loot dropped by Officer NPCs and the Vigilance Spire:

    • This new commodity can be sold to CONCORD, DED, and Secure Commerce Commission stations.

    • The quantity of this commodity is now always a fixed value rather than being variable.

  • Vigilance Resonance Keys now have a unique icon.

  • The site will no longer begin until there are sufficient ships within proximity of the Vigilance Spire.

  • Electron Spin Resonance keys can no longer be found within Abyssal Artifact Recovery sites.

Vigilance Points are being rebalanced to make them a more viable alternative to Observatory Flashpoint sites.

The alpha damage was causing wild swings in difficulty for late waves. This has been reduced, with the overall DPS of the site increased to maintain the previous average level of difficulty.

The mechanics of the Strategos doomsday were very punishing, even for organized groups. They’ve been toned down to ensure some level of counterplay is available to coordinated fleets.

• The activation range of World Ark Flashpoint acceleration gates has been increased to 30km.

• The quantity of commodities within hackable containers in Convocation Watchpost, Incipient Drone Swarm, EDENCOM Scout Fleet, and Torpid Sleeper Hive sites has been doubled.

Sacrificing a slot for a data analyzer was not seen as worth the additional reward. These rewards have been increased to make it a more viable option.

• Reduced the difficulty of enemy fleets within Torpid Sleeper Hive sites.

• Improved NPC AI for low-tier Pochven sites.

• The quantity of Observatory Spectrography commodities within Observatory Infiltration Drifter Collection containers has been increased.

• Spectral Emission Slices can no longer be found within Observatory Infiltration Collection containers.

• Overmind Nursery sites will no longer appear as Data Sites within the scanning window.

• Destroying an Overmind Nursery structure now grants Triglavian and EDENCOM standings.

• Ship Insurance services are now available at all NPC stations within Pochven.

Forgetting to insure a ship before entering Pochven caused unnecessary friction, and added little to the region’s playstyle. No standings are required if the character is able to dock at the station.

• The bracket icon for Dazh Liminality Locus structures has been updated.

• Increased the number of NPC buy orders for Stellar Surveillance Data and Triglavian Survey Database commodities.

Travel Filaments:

• The spool-up timers for outbound Pochven filaments have been increased, while the timers for other filaments have been decreased:

The spool-up timers on Needlejack, Pochven Inbound, and Ice Storm filaments are being reduced as they were acting as a barrier to content.

The outbound Pochven filaments have had their timers increased to heighten the Pochven highway’s risk.

Wormholes:

• The EHP of Drifter Recon Battleship NPCs has been decreased significantly.

This change reduces the Recon Drifter’s effort to reward ratio to match that of the Drifter Response Battleship, making it much more worth destroying.

• Changing “Lifetime” to “Reliable Lifetime” within Wormhole Information windows.

• Added an “Expired” state to the Reliable Lifetimes entry of Wormhole Information windows.

  • This appears when the guaranteed lifespan of a wormhole has ended, and the wormhole could close at any moment.

The messaging around a wormhole’s remaining lifetime could be somewhat misleading as they have always referred to the earliest time a it could close. Adding “Reliable” implies there is variance involved with this mechanic, and the “Expired” message makes it clear when a wormhole is in that state.

• Sentry Towers within Ordinary Perimeter Reservoir sites have been replaced with Sizeable Perimeter Reservoir NPCs.

This site was abnormally difficult for its value. By making it more consistent with other similar sites, wormholes will have another valuable site to run.

• Wormholes that connect to Drifter wormhole systems no longer appear automatically and must be scanned down.

Requiring these wormholes to be scanned adds a level of effort for those wanting to map routes through Drifter wormhole systems.

PvE:

• Field Rescue sites within Tabbetzur have had their payouts increased.

The value of this site did not suitably reflect the increased risk it has over it’s high-sec equivalant.

Homefront Operations:

• Payouts for all sites have been adjusted:

  • 5-character sites (excluding Abyssal Artifact Recovery and Metaliminal Mining) now have an optimal payout of 15m ISK per character.

  • 3-character sites now have an optimal payout of 12m ISK per character.

  • Metaliminal Mining sites now have an optimal payout of 12m ISK per character.

  • Abyssal Artifact Recovery payouts have been increased as follows:

    • Minimal Threat: 5m ISK per character.

    • Moderate Threat: 7.5m ISK per character.

    • Severe Threat: 10m ISK per character.

  • Payout scaling has been adjusted to be less punishing for fleets not at the optimal size.

• The amount of ore within the Metalminal Mining asteroid has been increased to 5,000 units (from 3,500).

• The amount of ore within each Abyssal Artifact Recovery asteroid has been increased to 30 units (from 24).

With the arrival of the Pioneer and other changes in the Catalyst expansion, the mining focused Homefront Operations were made easier. The amount of ore required to be mined has been increased to compensate for this.

The Metaliminal Mining site specifically has long been the easiest Homefront Operation. The new payout structure means a greater portion of the site’s value is now in selling the ore to NPC buy orders. This both adds to the overall time the gameplay loop takes while better mimicking normal miner gameplay.

• The number of items that must be delivered within Raid sites has been increased to 4 (from 3).

• The EHP of structures within Suspicious Signal sites has increased to 350k (from 337.5k).

Raid and Suspicious Signal sites are two of the shorter Homefront Operations. These changes will bring them more inline with the other sites.

• Smuggler NPCs will now each drop 6 Contraband Data within Traffic Stop sites.

• The volume of Contraband Data has been reduced to 0.01 m3 (from 5).

Traffic Stop sites have a fixed timer, and as such the lowest reward to time spent of the 3-pilot Homefront Operation sites. Increasing the number of sellable commodities makes it more competitive with the other sites. The more Smugglers a group has to deal with, the better their reward.

Science & Industry:

• Unrefined Tritanium Formula:

  • Reduced reaction time from 3600s to 360s.

• Unrefined Pyerite Formula:

  • Reduced reaction time from 3600s to 360s.

• Unrefined Mexallon Formula:

  • Reduced reaction time from 3600s to 360s.

• Unrefined Isogen Formula:

  • Reduced reaction time from 3600s to 360s.

• Unrefined Nocxium Formula:

  • Reduced reaction time from 3600s to 360s.

• Unrefined Zydrine Formula:

  • Reduced reaction time from 3600s to 360s.

• Unrefined Megacyte Formula:

  • Reduced reaction time from 3600s to 360s.

• Unrefined Morphite Formula:

  • Reduced reaction time from 3600s to 360s.

We're reducing the reaction time for Prismaticite reactions from 60 minutes/run to 6 minutes/run. This will make it easier for players to utilize their reserves of Prismaticite more quickly when needing to convert the Prismaticite into minerals.

Converting Prismaticite into your desired mineral should not come at the cost of blocking reaction slots.

User Interface:

• Players will no longer be informed when they have attempted to invite an offline player to a fleet.

  • Such invites will be handled the same as if they were ignored.

Fleet invites were being used as a way to check if a character was logged in. Now, players will have to find out the old fashioned way.

Little Things:

🤝 Added a splitter between the capacity gauge and the Search field in the Inventory so the search bar can be made bigger. The search field will always try to be at least 120 pixels wide, but can become smaller if there is less area than that available.

🤝 Changed the global search field so the text is not cleared automatically when search is performed. Add “clear” button to the search field.

🤝 Added a right click menu option on a skill in the Skills window that allows you to put all level of a skill in the skill queue.

🤝 Changed the Inventory sorting in the inventory so the setting is stored per character rather than per user like it is now.

🤝 The cost of non-destructible implants will no longer be included in the warning you get when self-destructing. This applies to, for example, the golden pod (Genolution 'Auroral' AU-79) and Aurora implants(Aurora Alpha).

🤝 Added ALT+O as default shortcut for the market order window.

🤝 Added a shortcut (not bound) to approach and open wrecks/cargo containers in space. It should work like the Target shortcurt, if you have the wreck/container selected in the overview and have focus on the Overview, using the shortcut should approach and open it. If the focus is not in the Overview, holding down the shortcut and clicking on the item will activate the shorcut.

🤝 Added an “x” icon in the search fields history entry that allows you to remove that entry from the history.

🤝Add “clear” button to the Asset search field.

Miscellaneous:

• In preparation for the Gallente elections, the new Pride of the Federation SKINs and Select Freedom Combat Suits were added.

Defect Fixes:

Pochven:

• Hospodar NPCs within Pochven wormhole sites will no longer infinitely respawn.

• Fixed a typo in the Vigilance Point warp-in transmission.

• Wormhole NPCs (including roamers) will no longer remain inactive when a player enters the grid.

• Wormhole combat sites will now be correctly cleaned up after the wormhole collapses.

• NPCs in low-tier Pochven sites will no longer warp to players who are in warp.

• NPCs in low-tier Pochven sites will no longer approach cloaked players.

Patch Notes for 2026-03-12.1

Features & Changes:

User Interface:

• Improved UI for character Show Info windows.

Defect Fixes:

Graphics:

• In certain situations, the client would show incorrect icons. We believe the root cause for this has been found and fixed. If you see this problem going forward, please press F12 in the client and file a bug report with the word “icons” included. We would like to thank the community for all the bug reports that have been sent, they were invaluable in helping find the cause of this issue.

Localization:

• Chinese: Some ore names have been reverted to the previous translations that include their associated corporation names.

User Interface:

• The upcoming Exordium region is no longer visible in the classic map.

Patch Notes for 2026-03-10.1

Features & Changes:

Factional Warfare:

• All Level 4 FW Missions have been updated.

  • New NPCs have been added to replace the previous ones. Players will no longer lose faction standings for killing them and these NPCs now care about faction allegiance.

  • Mission objective structures that needed to be killed to complete some level 4 FW missions have had standing penalties removed from them.

  • Structures, which were non-essential for completing the mission, have been replaced with non-interactable objects.

  • All Level 4 missions with acceleration gates have had their ship restrictions changed to FW Large Advanced restrictions. They will now spawn a Large Advanced beacon into space instead of a defunct beacon type.

• We've introduced a new modular standings mechanic. Standing hits for friendly fire (Awoxing) are now double what they were inside factional warfare and insurgency sites, but halved for outside these locations.

  • You can read more about these changes in the latest FW Devblog.

Miscellaneous:

• 10th Anniversary Project Discovery SKIN rewards have been added.

• New Zydrine Burn SKINs have been added.

Defect Fixes:

User Interface:

• Fixed an issue where the Aura Guidance button would duplicate in the Neocom if "pin to Neocom" option was selected when the Aura Guidance chat window was open.

• Fixed an issue where the Aura Guidance fixed Neocom button would take the wrong colour.

Patch Notes for 2026-03-05.1

Features & Changes:

Balancing:

As part of today's deployment, 53 new systems have been added to the Tranquility database, although they have not yet been added to the game world of New Eden itself. These systems and the region they comprise are not yet accessible to players or visible on the star map and won't be for a while yet.

This new region of space will eventually form the area where newly created characters take their first steps in EVE Online as part of continued improvements to the New Player Experience (NPE).

While these systems aren't apparent from within the EVE client we know that inquisitive players would have unearthed their presence through other means and so to temper some speculation we wanted to provide you with this brief explanation.

Over the coming weeks and months as we approach Fanfest and the summer expansion, we will be providing detailed information about our plans for this new area of space.

- EVE Online Dev Team

Patch Notes for 2026-03-03.1

Defect Fixes:

User Interface:

• Fixed an issue that prevented switching between SKIN previews if the ship info window was open.

• Fixed an issue that caused inconsistent navigation between show info windows.

• Fixed wrong market group on the Augoror Navy Issue Ardishapur SKIN, which wasn't located in its correct group under Navy Faction for Amarr.

• Added missing “limited” in the name for “Twilight Treasure Gloss Limited” component.

Patch Notes for 2026-02-27.1

Features & Changes:

Localization:

• Added localization for the Unbridled Glory SKINs and Crate.

Defect Fixes:

Graphics:

• Added correct color to heat vent lighting on the Exequror and Oneiros.

• Fixed an issue where lighting elements on ships using the smartlight system would remain on while docked in Upwell hangars.

• Corrected some floating VFX docking lights and blinkies on the Babaroga.

• Fixed an issue that caused flashing/flickering effects when using certain missile types.

Patch Notes for 2026-02-26.1

Defect Fixes:

Gameplay:

• Large and extra large mouse cursor sizes now work for Project Discovery.

Technical:

• On Nvidia GeForce RTX 50 series graphics cards, icons in the UI would sometimes be incorrect. This would often happen on the ship fitting window. We have attempted to implement a work around for this issue. If you see it again after this patch, please file a bug report from within the client (F12) when it happens.

User Interface:

• Fixed an issue that caused the information window for wormholes to not update correctly.

• Fixed an issue where text could overlap in the Aura Guidance chat window.

• Fixed an issue where the nested help pointer generated from clicking a link in the Aura Guidance responses would disappear almost immediately.

Patch Notes for 2026-02-25.1

Features & Changes:

Career Agents:

• The final mission for each career agent, i.e. Making Mountains of Molehills (10 of 10) has had the faction standing bonus changed when completing the mission to no longer trigger derived standings, just like epic arcs. This will mean players will no longer lose standings to empire factions when completing the career agent missions.

  • It should be noted that players who have already started or previously talked to a specific career agent will still get the derived standing standings from their final mission.

We are primarily making this change to help new players to better enlist in Factional Warfare. For example, if you started out as Minmatar, played through the career agents, and then made friends who want to join Amarr FW or you want to enlist with Amarr for their military campaign, you aren’t locked out because you happened to complete the career agents for Minmatar.

Unlike other storyline missions, the career agent missions did not warn you that the mission would have an important impact on your standings.

Faction Warfare:

• All Level 1 Faction Warfare Missions have been updated:

  • New NPCs have been added to replace the previous ones. Players will no longer lose faction standings for killing them and these NPCs now care about faction allegiance.

  • Mission objective structures that needed to be killed to complete some Level 1 FW missions have had standing penalties removed from them.

  • Structures, which were non-essential for completing the mission, have been replaced with non-interactable objects.

  • All Level 1 missions with acceleration gates have had their ship restrictions changed to FW Small Navy restrictions. They will now spawn a FW Small Navy beacon into space as well, rather than a defunct beacon that lied to players about the ship restrictions.

In 2012 we removed all the standing penalties from the NPCs that spawned in the capture sites, and in the Uprising expansion, the new content such as Battlefields, Supply Depots and Rendezvous Points purposely did not include standing penalties. We are now starting to remove the standing penalties from FW missions. Our plan is to slowly roll this out for other FW Mission agent levels. This will eventually mean that FW missions will no longer cause any standing penalties and combined with the changes to promotions we have already made, there will no longer be any way to lose standings taking part in factional warfare gameplay outside of friendly fire against friendly militia members.

This should make the missions much more attractive as a source of generating tags needed for LP store offers and standings for players who are enlisted in FW, giving more purpose to the missions as well.

Patch Notes for 2026-02-24.1

Features & Changes:

Graphics:

Mineable Asteroid Renovation:

Mineable asteroids have undergone a visual-only update.

• Mineable asteroids have been fully rebuilt with new high-fidelity models and textures.

• Unique small, medium, and large asteroids variants have been added.

  • A dynamic size-based model selection system will be used for more natural asteroid fields.

• Greater visual variety across ore types.

  • With improved realism, surface detail, and ore / crystal definition.

VFX & Lighting Updates on ORE ships:

The Venture, Prospect, Endurance, Porpoise, Noctis and Primae have gotten VFX and lighting updates.

• Updated lighting systems across the above ORE ship hulls.

• Modernized visual effects to current graphical standards.

• Improved material readability and surface definition.

• Enhanced visual clarity and overall ship presence in space.

Miscellaneous:

• The following cosmic anomalies have gotten a visual update and Objectives added to them.

  • Angel Hideaway

  • Blood Hideaway

  • Guristas Hideaway

  • Sansha Hideaway

  • Serpentis Hideaway

Patch Notes for 2026-02-23.1

Defect Fixes:

User Interface:

• Fixed an issue that prevented ordering stats in the compare tool.

Patch Notes for 2026-02-20.1

Defect Fixes:

Localization:

• Fixed an issue with Japanese localization that caused timers to display incorrectly.

User Interface:

• Fixed an issue with PLEX logs not loading in the PLEX wallet.

Patch Notes for 2026-02-19.1

Defect Fixes:

Gameplay:

• In Factional Warfare: Players attempting to warp while inside a warp disruption bubble, while in a corruption level V system, will no longer cause the person who bubbled to lose standings with the NPC corporation or faction that the player belongs to. This means that players in FW will no longer get standing hits from allied members of their militia trying to warp in their bubbles.

• Larger mouse cursor sizes now works for Planetary Interaction and Project Discovery.

• Reduced the volatility of Mercoxit mining crystals to bring them back into line with the equivalent crystal types for mining other ores.

User Interface:

• Fixed an issue where Enter Moving Mode for Messages didn't work.

Patch Notes for 2026-02-18.1

Features & Changes:

Miscellaneous:

• New Lunar New Year SKINs line called Unbridled Glory.

• New Lunar New Year SKINR components added.

Defect Fixes:

Localization:

• Updated “Save x%” in the Omega Upgrade window for CN localisation.

Patch Notes for 2026-02-17.1

Features & Changes:

Factional Warfare:

• Being promoted in factional warfare will no longer trigger derived standing gains, meaning that FW rank promotions now work like epic arc standing rewards, where you will now only get positive standings to the FW faction you are promoted for, rather than postive and negative standings. This means that it is no longer possible to lose standings when getting promoted in FW.

Aura Guidance (Beta):

Aura Guidance is a new in-client assistant designed to help new players navigate their early experience in New Eden. It is currently available as a beta to a limited number of new players on English language clients.

• Aura Guidance answers common rookie questions using responses sourced from Rookie Help chat, ISD volunteers, and official game information.

• Answers are context-aware, taking into account your current location, ship, and recent activity.

• Responses include interactive links to ships and items, and can highlight relevant UI elements in the client.

• When Aura is not confident in an answer, it will redirect players to Rookie Help chat.

• Aura Guidance is optional and can be closed or removed from the Neocom at any time.

• This feature does not affect gameplay or client performance.

Rollout plan:

• This initial release targets a subset of new players on English language clients as a controlled test.

• If results are positive, availability will expand to all new players on English clients.

• Multilingual support is planned for a later phase.

• The knowledge base is being updated daily and will continue to expand based on real player questions.

Known limitations:

• Some questions will not receive an answer and will be redirected to Rookie Help.

• Responses may occasionally feel generic, miss the specific context of your situation or be factually incorrect.

Defect Fixes:

Graphics:

• An issue in Zarzakh that caused station interiors and ship models to appear invisible when docking or logging in has been addressed.

Technical:

• Audio in Zarzakh stations now plays correctly.

User Interface:

• Fixed an issue where bounty information was not displaying in NPC’s Show Info window.

• Courier contracts with less than one day remaining now show time left correctly.

• Phased Anchor’s User Manual tab now displays correctly in the item’s Show Info window.

• Fixed an issue where NPC Corporations info was getting cut off in the show info window.

Patch Notes for 2026-02-11.1

Features & Changes:

User Interface:

• Added a search bar at the top of the Neocom to quickly locate items, actions, and tools that are currently grouped within Neocom categories.

• Three different Mouse cursor sizes are now available on PC.

Neocom:

• Neocom Icons can now be customized with colors.

  • some icons can´t be customized: plex, omega subscription, quit, help etc.

Corp Palette:

• Corp palette is now visible in:

  • Station offices

  • Character info

  • Corporation info

  • Corporation panel

Defect Fixes:

Gameplay:

• Fixed homefront dungeon issue where players couldn't use stargate if dungeon was spawned to close to the stargate.

• The correct mining scanner button icon is shown when obtaining the upgraded scanner through mining foreman bursts.

• Removed the ability to experience critical successes when mining certain mission-specific ores, so that the amount of ore available in the site will once again match the ore required by the missions exactly.

• Adjusted the Expedition strength and Expedition Pinpointing charges so they will now apply their effects to ships more consistently.

Freelance Job:

• Project Managers receive a notification mail for jobs if an ACL has been deleted from the job.

• Coverage Ratio on a Ship Insurance Freelance jobs is shown as percentage instead of ISK.

Technical:

• Made corrections to the scoring algorithm used for sample submissions in Project Discovery.

User Interface:

• Fixed sound issue where gas cloud harvesting had the same sound as mining ore.

• the Probe Scanner window now shows bonuses to scan strength and scan deviation from boosters and other sources.

• The correct amount of tax is now calculated when batch reprocessing prismaticite.

Patch Notes for 2026-02-05.1

Features & Changes:

Miscellaneous:

• Historic Gallente SKINs crate added.

Defect Fixes:

Graphics:

• Previous disabled spotlight beam meshes are visible again on ships using Smartlight technology.

• Added code to only update hidden visual effects when they are visible for minor performance improvements.

• Updated Archon, Thanatos, Nidhoggur, and Chimera visual effects and lighting for minor performance improvements.

Patch Notes for 2026-02-04.1

Features & Changes:

User Interface:

• Typo change in Audio Engine Settings to “Use Combat music outside of combat sites”.

• Fixed misspelled typo in Agent conversation for mission “Cash Flow for Capsuleers (3 of 10)”, word changed to “receive”.

• URL links for killmails has been updated and no longer show “V1” or V2” in the links.

Defect Fixes:

Graphics:

• Unintended flickering that could happen on wormholes and some VFX has been fixed.

Patch Notes for 2026-01-29.1

Features & Changes:

Market:

• Multiple Pilot Training Certificate has been retired from the market. Players can still trade it directly or via contracts.

Patch Notes for 2026-01-26.1

Defect Fixes:

Graphics:

• Implemented a small performance improvement for all assets to lower update frequency when the camera is further away.

Patch Notes for 2026-01-21.1

Defect Fixes:

Gameplay:

• Fixed an issue which regressed with Ori-Okada Atavum item trader having offers which required Infomorph keys instead of Atavums.

Patch Notes for 2026-01-20.1

Features & Changes:

Project Discovery:

• Increased diversity of training tasks for Project Discovery.

• Increased impact of submitting multiple incorrect submissions in a row.

Defect Fixes:

Audio:

• Hacking containers in Drifter sites no longer spams audio events repeatedly when zooming the camera in and out.

• Structure module effects are now affected by ship effect/ship ambience audio settings.

• Adjusted the volume of the Serpentis pirate radio SFX.

• Fixed an issue with the Smartbomb SFX.

• Fixed an issue that caused the Race selector buttons during Character Creation to not have audio.

Graphics:

• Fixed texture issues on various drones and fighters.

• Added back missing pattern to Stabber Deathglow Remnant SKIN.

• Adjusted brightness of Odysseus visual effects at max ship speed.

• Fixed incorrect texture on a small mesh area of the Outrider and Perseverance.

• Fixed incorrect normals on the mesh surface of the Odysseus.

• Fixed issue with the docking lights on the Scythe that were floating off the hull.

• Fixed multiple issues with the Hrada-Oki Offender SKIN.

• Fixed VFX issues on the Perseverance.

• Fixed issues with the GalNEt StreamCast Unit SKIN for the Pioneer, Ishkur, Vargur, Stratios, Jackdaw, Stiletto, and Exequror.

• Fixed an issue with the warp animation on the Venture.

• On older GPUs, FSR usage could lead to a black screen, which has now been addressed.

Patch Notes for 2026-01-14.1

Defect Fixes:

Localization:

• 🤝 Adjusted and updated our Chinese language localization, including asteroid, ore, and module names among others. We want to thank those who reached out to share feedback for errant localization, and we continue to strive to improve localization across all languages.

Patch Notes for 2026-01-13.1

Market:

• The Special Edition Commodities market group has been redesigned for better navigation and search.

Miscellaneous:

• The Friendship League and Media Miasma SKINlines have been extended. The best ship, remains, friendship.

Defect Fixes:

Gameplay:

• The Praxis GalNet StreamCast Unit SKIN was moved into the correct market group.

Patch Notes for 2026-01-12.1

Events:

• Winter Nexus has ended, and the respective storms are gone. May your Perseverance's persevere!

Patch Notes for 2026-01-09.1

User Interface:

• Fixed an issue causing the ‘Safe Logoff’ window to close too quickly.

Patch Notes for 2026-01-08.1

Defect Fixes:

Gameplay:

• Fixed the Anhinga no longer getting the bonus to micro jump drive cooldown while in the tertiary mode.

• Fixed the Mutated Drone Specialization skill not applying the 2% bonus to mining amount bonus per level to all types of mutated mining drones.

• Fixed the Mining Destroyer Operations expert system having a link to the store page that failed to work because it is not sold in the NES.

• Resolved errors affecting cargo capacity calculations and distance displays in systems without valid travel paths.

Localization:

• A whole bunch of typos and formatting errors across multiple languages were fixed.

• When mining gas and getting residue, the residue message will no longer refer to gas clouds being ‘asteroids’.

• Fixed multiple Freelance Jobs issues, including duplicated jobs, incorrect escrow handling, missing tooltips, translation gaps, and errors when contributing or delivering jobs.

Technical:

• Fixed multiple stability issues and backend errors to improve logging and reliability.

User Interface:

• Fixed several SKINR and ship design UI issues, including incorrect centering, cut-off names, missing tooltips, and layout problems at high resolutions.

• Multiple UI fixes, including text, icons, tooltips, or layout elements that were missing, misaligned, overlapping, or incorrectly scaling.

• Fixed issues with the Colony Resources window, including a broken Warp button and missing reagent icons and statuses.

Patch Notes for 2026-01-06.1

Defect Fixes:

Gameplay:

• Made some adjustments to the Skua and Anhinga AT ship modes so that some of the mode bonuses are no longer stacking penalized with module bonuses.

Patch Notes for 2026-01-05.1

Features & Changes:

Miscellaneous:

Extension of the GalNet StreamCast Unit SKIN line, adding SKINs for the Gila, Malediction, Pioneer, Praxis and Vexor.

Balancing:

• Succubus

  • New role bonus, 50% reduction in Small Energy Turret activation cost.

  • Powergrid increased from 44 MW to 50 MW.

  • Capacitor Capacity increased from 450 GJ to 525 GJ.

  • Max Targeting Range increased from 32 km to 40 km.

Events:

• Winter Nexus:

  • New rewards have been added to the Seasonal Reward Track.

  • Yoiul LADs have a significantly higher chance of dropping Cryotech when destroyed.

Patch Notes for 2025-12-17.1

Features & Changes:

Balancing:

Winter Nexus Loot Drop Adjustments:

Communications Relay:

• Nation Stormhive Shard:

  • Drop chance changed from 50% to 75%

Shielded Signaling Relay:

• Nation Stormhive Shard

  • Drop chance changed from 50% to 100%

Shielded Cryptoanalytic Array:

• Nation Stormhive Shard

  • Quantity changed from 1-2 to 2-3

ORE Green Salvage Package:

• Nation Stormhive Shard

  • Drop change changed from 75% to 100%

Peculiar Icebound Salvage:

• Nation Stormhive Shard

  • Changed from weighted loot type to fixed loot type.

Sansha's Deathwight Stormlord:

• Adjusted drop rate of various items.

Defect Fixes:

Gameplay:

• Fixed an issue that caused the activation window to stop updating when activating multiple expert systems at a time.

• Fixed issue with winter nexus expert system not having the correct auto redeem icon and tooltip that now correctly states auto apply.

User Interface:

• Healthbars in a two-column watchlist will now behave when users activate MWDs/MJDs.

Patch Notes for 2025-12-16.1

Defect Fixes:

Audio:

• Resolved an issue where music would not play in some circumstances.

User Interface:

• The special edition commodities group in the market should be performing better.

Patch Notes for 2025-12-15.1

Features & Changes:

Balancing:

• Increased Cryo Tech drop rates from Yoiul LADs in lowsec and nullsec.

• Increased the spawn rate of Express Yoiul LADs.

Defect Fixes:

User Interface:

• Fixed an issue that caused the NES to not load from the Character Select Screen.

Patch Notes for 2025-12-12.1

Defect Fixes:

User Interface:

• Updated the expiry time order for bookmarks.

Patch Notes for 2025-12-11.1

Features & Changes:

Little Things:

🤝 Added formatting to the amount in the Storage section for the PI window.

🤝 Added known site names to the tooltip in the Probe scan window.

🤝 Added security status in front of the Location Station and the Destination Station (if there is one) in the contract window.

🤝 Added the reinforcement timer to the Selected Item window for Mercenary Dens.

🤝 Added “Simulate from Clipboard” to the Fitting window.

🤝 Players can now drag from the Compare Tool to the Fitting Window to simulate a fit.

🤝 Added the type name behind the “Divide Stack” text in the header of the dialog box when splitting stacks.

🤝 Added the closest dockable location to the “Closest Loyalty Point Store” column for the LP Corp Wallet.

🤝 Added Neocom icons for drones, probe, and directional scanner.

🤝 When multiple entries are selected in the watchlist, there will be a menu option to “Sort by Name”. That will sort the entries selected in place. Note: This will trigger a one time sort, not to set a sort order.

🤝 We are simplifying and removing the extra step from the “Import from Clipboard” button so that it does not have the Multibuy and Contract requests submenu, but rather just executes on this in one click, as it’s the only available option. We have updated the hint on the button to be a combination of the text and hint of the old submenu option.

🤝 Added 24h as an expiry option for bookmarks.

🤝 Changed the 3h bookmark option to 4h.

🤝 Added settings to allow a player to show or hide specific fleet broadcast icons.

The above settings will be next to the scope button, and the scope settings will also be moved into this setting, rather than having to click on the icon to toggle through the options. The scope icon will only be there to display the current scope. Currently most players will only be using a few of the available broadcast buttons, and allowing them to filter the others out will reduce the mental load when trying click the correct button while stressed. Currently, when all buttons are visible, they need to be made smaller as the window gets smaller, making it harder to click on the correct button. By allowing the player to reduce the number of buttons visible, the buttons can remain big even though the window is narrow.

🤝 When joining a fleet, the watch list will now automatically open.

This will help newer players to discover this powerful tool and be less annoying for older players to add members to it. Currently, you either need to open it with a shortcut, or add 1 member to it by right clicking > Add to watchlist and from there you can drag players into it. After this change, the player can just drag members into the window right away. Since the watchlist can be closed if no one is in it, we will also add an option under the “More” for the window that open the Watch List.

🤝 If you are rejoining a fleet, the last known watchlist will be restored.

This will be especially useful if you disconnect. This will be store in settings, so it will only work on that computer with that character, and if settings are wiped, it will be unable to restore it. It will only restore the fleet members that are in the fleet when you join, if someone has left the fleet but are still store in the settings, they will not be in the watch list and are not automatically added once they themselves rejoin. The watchlist should be restored even though you have joined another fleet between the time you left the original fleet and rejoined. The setting works on fleetID, so if a fleet is disbanded and another one is created, there will be no restoring of the watchlist.

🤝 Added another column to the fleet watch list.

This column can be added to the watchlist window from an option in the “More” options for the watchlist window. When there are 2 columns, the minimum width of the window is slightly bigger. When a column has been added, it appears on the left side and is empty. Once members have been added to the new column, and the setting is turned off, the watchlist column are moved to the first column, in the order they were in. If the settings is changed again, the extra column is added again, but now it should be empty. Players can either drag existing watchlist members in the extra column to move them there, or drop new fleet members there to add them to the watchlist.

The player is able to select mulitple characters in the watchlist by holding down the SHIFT. It is not an option to use CTRL, becuase that is the command for targeting. The player can then move multiple members around in the watchlist, either within the same column or to the new column. When dropping them in between other memebers in the list, they should be moved there, in the same order as before.

Players can drop characters from other places (such as chat) into the watchlist. However, when the characters are being dropped from outside the watchlist, it will NOT move the characters that are already in the watchlist to that position UNLESS only one character is dropped. The reason for this is that a player might have most of their watchlist set up, and then drop their whole fleet in there and we don’t want to mess up the setup they have already done.

🤝 Added an option when you have multiple characters that will show “Invite to fleet (numCharIDs).” This option will invite all the members as squad members, and work in the same as when right clicking multiple members and do “From Fleet with.”

🤝 Added a Help Pointer for the Guest tab in the Station Service/Lobby window.

🤝 Changed the header in Courier Contracts to only have 1 decimal.

🤝 If the cargo deposit for a structure fails, we have updated the window so that only the items that were successfully moved are cleared. This will make it easier for players to try again to deposit the items.

🤝 Added Total/Refund to the bottom of the Modify Order window.

Currently it’s difficult to see what the change you are making will cost you because the cost is not summed up, and there are differences between buy and sell orders:

• When modifying buy order: the total you pay is the difference between the new price and the previous price + broker’s fee and SCC surcharge. This means if you are lowering the price, you are getting refunded.

• When modifying sell orders: the total is only the sum of broker’s fee and SCC surcharge.

We will be adding a summary at the bottom. If you are getting refunded, the text will be green and the text on the left hand side will say “Refund“. If you need to pay money, the text is white and the label will say “Total“ (this is the same as when creating orders).

🤝 Added a shortcut for “Abort Undock.”

This will function as if clicking on the Undock button. Undocking triggers the banner that says undocking and when Aborting undock that banner will disappear. If Abort Undock shortcut is used when passed the point of no return in undocking, it will do nothing. Note that there exists a shortcut for Undocking, it’s called “Exit station.”

🤝 Added an option to the right click menu of a deployed mobile depot to allow the player in a ship with Mobile Depot hold to scoop it directly into the hold rather than the cargo (to scoop it in to the cargo you’d have to have space for it)

🤝 Contract managers for Corps can now multi delete contracts from the Corp.

🤝 Updated the visuals for the Skyhook Secured and Surplus Gauges to be more straightforward.

User Interface:

• Updated EVE Online Developer Credits.

• Visually updated the buttons in the PLEX Wallet Overview page.

• Updated fanfare graphics when becoming Omega.

• Added audio in the Omega Subscription window.

Alliance Tournament:

• Alliance tournament prizes (Skua, Anhinga & SKINS) have been added to the game.

• The Monument in Manarq has been updated.

Defect Fixes:

Gameplay:

• Fixed an issue that caused IRIS to not contact players when reaching 750 CP in the AIR Career Program.

• Fixed an issue that caused mutated combat sites in Winter Nexus to not complete after killing the boss.

• Fixed an issue that caused the Odysseus ship to not enter combat sites in Winter Nexus.

• Sorted an issue where drones were trying to mine depleted asteroids.

• Sorted an issue where the mining surveyor was trying to scan depleted asteroids.

Graphics:

• Fixed bumpy normals on mining destroyer meshes (Pioneer, Pioneer Consortium Issue, Outrider).

• Optimised how LODs are loaded, which results in VRAM savings when not using the highest setting.

• Added additional screen size loading for VFX on cruisers to hide small details when ships are viewed at a distance.

• Fixed texture compression artifacts on Vargur siege mode VFX.

Localization:

• Exchange LP window now opens again when French regional settings are on.

User Interface:

• Attributes tab is no longer busted when simulating a ship with a ship maintenance bay.

• Output location is now included when copying contents of the industry window.

• Sov hub map markers are no longer hidden by system labels.

• “Set Filter For Slot” will now automatically switch the tab to modules in the fitting window.

• The “selected system” panel is no longer blank after resizing the warzone control menu.

Patch Notes for 2025-12-10.1

Defect Fixes:

Gameplay

• Fixed issue on Seasonal challenge “ Snowball fight” that was awarding expired filaments.

• Added missing localization for all languages for Winter Nexus

Misc:

• Updated EVE Online Developer Credits

Patch Notes for 2025-12-09.1

Features & Changes:

Winter Nexus

Winter Nexus is live! The event runs until downtime on January 12, 2026, bringing the return of the Volatile Ice Storms and their signature mix of combat, hacking, and mining sites. This winter brings a twist: InterBus’ newly deployed Yoiul LAD drones roam the storms under the guise of traveler safety, yet whispers spread that their true purpose may be far more alarming.

Volatile Ice Storms

• Volatile Ice Storms have begun to appear across highsec, lowsec, and nullsec space. These ice storms spread out across the stargate network two jumps from a central system, and occasionally move from system to system just like metaliminal storms. These storms provide bonuses to ship thermal resistances and module overheating for all capsuleers flying within them. Sansha's Nation and Outer Ring Excavations have both mobilized to take advantage of the novel forms of stellar ice found within these storms.

• Limited-time Ice Storm filaments are now available that will instantly transport capsuleers into one of these volatile ice storms. Each filament clearly states in its description how many capsuleers it can transport and whether it will take them to a highsec, lowsec, or nullsec storm.

Event Sites

• Wightstorm combat anomalies are now appearing inside Volatile Ice Storms, filled with hostile Sansha vessels. CONCORD recommends bringing at least a battlecruiser. Difficulty scales by space:

  • Highsec: Wightstorm Forward Base (easiest)

  • Nullsec: Wightstorm Transit Site (medium)

  • Lowsec: Wightstorm Muster Point (hardest, best rewards)

• Wightstorm data sites also spawn in the storms and can be hacked using scan probes and a data analyzer.

• Volatile Ice Fields can be found within storms as well. ORE and Mordu’s Legion have secured these sites, accessible via an ORE-commandeered gate allowing only medium and small mining/hauling ships (Expedition Frigates, Barges, Exhumers, Industrials, Blockade Runners, DSTs, Porpoise). The volatile ice harvested here cannot be refined, but ORE will trade 7 units for a bundle of valuable Sansha salvage. Additional rare salvage may be mined directly from ice chunks.

• Across all storm sites, capsuleers can earn Nation Stormhive Shards, festive ship SKINs, Cerebral Accelerators, apparel, Sansha combat boosters, pirate implant BPCs, and rare faction modules.

Yoiul LADs

• Roam exclusively within Volatile Ice Storm systems.

• Locate them using combat probes—make sure InterBus Yoiul LADs are enabled in your overview.

• Destroying them yields Verity Cryo Tech, an item used to unlock enhanced versions of event content and increase rewards.

Using Verity Cryo Tech

• Combat Sites:

  • Deposit Verity Cryo Tech into a Sansha’s Transit Modulator to reroute the acceleration gate to a hidden high-difficulty pocket in space with greater rewards.

  • Normally, Marauders cannot enter highsec sites, but they can enter if the gate is rerouted.

• Data Sites:

  • Use Verity Cryo Tech in a Sansha’s Stormfield Projector to unlock an additional data relay, providing extra loot opportunities.

• Mining Sites:

  • Trade Verity Cryo Tech alongside volatile ice at the on-site item traders to receive an upgraded salvage package.

Agency Challenges & Rewards

• Complete the seasonal reward track to earn the Perseverance ice-mining destroyer BPC, new for this year’s Winter Nexus.

• Earn Agency points by engaging in combat, hacking, and ice-mining sites within the Volatile Ice Storms.

• Snowball challenges make their return for bonus points.

• New Yoiul LAD hunting challenges are available—track down all variants to earn the Odysseus Aurora Universalis SKIN.

• Additional rewards will be added to the track during the final week of the event, so stay tuned!

Daily Login Rewards

• A new set of daily login gifts are available over the course of the Winter Nexus event including snowballs, ice storm jump filaments, new Aurora Universalis skins, SKINR components, Sansha combat boosters, EverMarks and up to 650.000 skill points. Players can receive all of these rewards by logging in everyday between now and January 12th.

• ⚠️ Don’t miss out: the 26th login during the event grants a special Skill Point bonus for both Omega and Alpha capsuleers.

Defect Fixes:

Map:

• Fixed an issue where a few Class I and III ore filters were not highlighting their possible locations on the map.

Patch Notes for 2025-12-08.1

Features & Changes:

User Interface:

Updated EVE Online Developer Credits.

Defect Fixes:

Gameplay:

• We have changed the asset safety valuations for items with low trade volume, specifically targeting Titans and Supercarriers. This should make their asset safety recovery fee more consistent.

  • This primarily addresses the Avatar, which was ~200% higher than the rest of the titans, and the Ragnarok, which was ~100% higher.

  • The Leviathan and Erebus have had their asset safety fees increased, along with faction titans.

  • Extremely rare items, such as AT ships, may still display inconsistency in their recovery fees. The fees generally favor the player, by being considerably cheaper than the fees for items with more regular trade volume.

  • For more information, including for reimbursement information, please visit this thread: https://forums.eveonline.com/t/update-on-asset-safety-values-for-supers-titans/502331

Patch Notes for 2025-12-05.1

Defect Fixes:

User Interface:

• Added additional guidance to the AIR New Player Experience that will help users claim their reward and advance the tutorial after being pod-killed.

• The Omega icon has been removed from the root of the ORE ship tree.

Patch Notes for 2025-12-04.1

Features & Changes:

User Interface:

• The method of price estimation used by the mining surveyor UI has been updated to use an estimate of the value of the minerals obtained by reprocessing the ore when possible, rather than entirely relying on the market price history of the ore itself. This should allow the UI to present more accurate estimates in a large number of situations, especially with ores that are less commonly traded on the market directly.

Defect Fixes:

Freelance Jobs:

• Fixed an issue where the Freelancing skill was not available on the market.

User Interface:

• Fixed an issue where the ‘Establishing Warp Vector’ progress bar could overlap effect icons.

Patch Notes for 2025-12-03.1

Defect Fixes:

Graphics:

• Minor adjustments and improvements for the Refined Resourcer SKIN line.

• Minor adjustments and lighting changes for the Eros Blossom SKIN line.

• Fixed an issue where flame vent VFX were not cloaking properly on Cruor Sanguinary Savant SKIN.

• Fixed an issue where decals would flicker if attached to moving areas on ships.

• Fixed a UV texturing issue on the Kikimora.

• Fixed some floating blinkies on the Ishtar and Vexor.

• Fixed a hole in the mesh geometry of the Sovereignity Hub.

• Fixed an issue where the Rorqual would flicker when viewed from a distance.

Patch Notes for 2025-12-02.1

Features & Changes:

Freelance Job Access Lists (ACLs)

Freelance Jobs now support Access Lists (ACLs), giving corporations and job creators the ability to define exactly who can view and accept the job postings. This update provides better control and privacy and a more tailored collaboration for corporations.

• ACLs allow visibility restrictions at three identity levels:

  • Character – specific characters.

  • Corporation – all members of selected corporations.

  • Alliance – all members of corporations within selected alliances.

• Creating Jobs with ACL:

  • You can select which ACL to use during job creation, and once assigned, a job’s ACL cannot be swapped, but the contents of the ACL may be edited at any time.

  • Changes to ACL affect job visibility and participation but will not remove existing participants.

  • If an ACL that’s attached to a freelance job is deleted, only the active participants of the job are able to contribute. No other capsuleers can accept the job.

  • Blocked characters can’t see or access relevant job listings, even with a direct link.

  • The job creator and corporation project managers always retain full access regardless of restrictions.

New Skill: Freelancing

• A new Freelancing skill has been introduced.

  • Each level increases the number of concurrent Freelance Jobs a character can accept, up to maximum of 11.

Freelance Job Cost Adjusted

To make the job creation more sustainable, two cost reductions have been applied:

• Duration fee reduced by 25%.

• Broadcasting Fee reduced by 33%.

Freelance Job : Alliance Column in Participant view

A new Alliance column has been added to the Participant view for Freelance Jobs. Project managers will now be able to view and sort participants by alliance membership.

• Clicking the Alliance column header sorts the participants alphabetically by alliance name and clicking again reverses the order.

• If a participant does not belong to an alliance, a “-” symbol will be shown.

Map:

• Changed the ore price preview from ‘price per unit’ to ‘price per m3’ in the Ore Distribution filter’s overview.

Defect Fixes:

Gameplay:

• Slash commands via chat have been disabled.

Map:

• Added missing localization for the legends of a few Factional Warfare filters.

User Interface:

• Fixed an issue where the ‘Copy’ context menu option was not available in Info windows.

• Fixed an issue where the Mining Surveyor button was visible during some cutscenes in the New Player Experience.

Patch Notes for 2025-11-27.1

Features & Changes:

Miscellaneous:

• A new batch of Refined Resourcer SKINs enters New Eden.

Defect Fixes:

Map:

• Fixed an issue with the placement of some systems on the 2D map, where it was not fully clear which systems were actually connected to each other.

Patch Notes for 2025-11-26.1

Defect Fixes:

Audio:

• Fixed an issue where the beam sound of the phased fields linking effects sometimes weren’t playing.

Gameplay:

• Soulbound items can no longer be transferred using a structure’s “Deliver To” feature.

Graphics:

• Smoke and fire visual effects now follow Rorquals movement when using the Capital Industrial Core modules.

• Reduced overdraw on Rorqual visual effects for slight performance improvement.

• Added missing visual effects from the Odysseus Yoiul Festival YC121 SKIN.

• Adjusted Marshal Red Stargazer SKIN visual effects to create more symmetrical particle emission.

• Fixed banners clipping inside the Thanatos ship geometry on Dos Rouvenor’s Bequest SKIN.

• Added missing collision to Phased Prismaticite in the Fractured Legacy Epic Arc missions.

User Interface:

• Fixed an issue where volume was not correctly reported on Prismaticite and Compressed Prismaticite’s Show Info page.

• Generally reorganized how volume and reprocessing info is displayed on the Show Info tab for most mineables.

  • Types that can be reprocessed will show batch size (if > 1) and special reprocessing skill (if it exists).

  • Harvestable clouds and Prismaticite will show volume and, when viewed in space, harvested output type.

  • Materials will show volume.

  • All other mineables will show harvested output type.

Patch Notes for 2025-11-25.1

Features & Changes:

Balancing:

Citadel “stand-up” Fighters can no longer decloak ships.

Map:

• Added the option to Exclude Ineligible Systems from the Jump Range Visualization.

User Interface:

• Added pointers for various Map UI elements.

Defect Fixes:

Map:

• Fixed an issue where some map filters had their default upper range set below their maximum value.

• Fixed an issue where the tooltip was missing for the 2D Layout toggle button.

• Fixed an issue where the EverMore icon was missing on the 2D map.

• Fixed an issue where 2D map icons were too small.

• Fixed an issue where the 2D map’s ‘Persistent Data View’ was not the default setting.

• Fixed an issue where the ‘Average Pilots’ filters were displaying decimal numbers on the 2D map.

• Fixed an issue where systems were not being highlighted correctly with Jump Range Visualization in some situations.

Patch Notes for 2025-11-24.1

Features & Changes:

Miscellaneous:

• Odysseus receives a cosmetic uplift with SKIN extensions for the many historic SOE ships SKIN lines.

Defect Fixes:

Gameplay:

• Fixed Lowsec FOBs from being able to spawn in the system of Intaki, which is a high security system.

• Defending a complex in a Stable FW system no longer grants any LP.

• Corrected the reprocessing values on the new Expedition Command Burst Charges.

Patch Notes for 2025-11-21.1

Defect Fixes:

Map:

• The color bar in the Filter Visualization now produce changes in the colors of the Solar System dots for the filter folders “Services” and “Planets”.

• Ore type locations is now visible for Vitrium, Mordunium, Ducinium and Eifyrium.

• Insurgency map works again and shows the solar system dots.

• Alliance is now visible in the 2D map.

User Interface:

• An issue that was preventing you from rearranging your targets is now fixed.

Patch Notes for 2025-11-20.1

Features & Changes:

Factional Warfare:

• Defending a complex will reward the same amount of LP as capturing one offensively.

  • Both the base 25% penalty and system contested percentage scaling have been removed.

• Added NPCs of both attacking and defending factions to the 4 Open Complex sites.

  • These NPCs function the same as those added to standard Complex sites.

Fractured Legacy Epic Arc

• Decreased the amount of ore required in mission 2.

• Increase the amount of ore available to be mined in mission 2.

• Added a highlight on the Mining Surveyor UI button during the initial mission 2 transmission.

• Added the relevant hackable structure to the looting objectives in missions 1 and 3.

• Added an objective that lists any missing required modules in all three missions.

• Items retrieved from the end of mission 3 can now be sold to NPC buy orders.

• Improved handling for when to show the skill training conversation in mission 1.

• Improved handling for when to show fitting recommendation conversations in all three missions.

Pirate Strongholds:

• Decreased the volume of strong boxes dropped by the structure to 50,000 m3 from 400,000 m3.

Defect Fixes:

Audio:

• Cleaned up spamming audio messages in LogLite related to mining scan sound effects

• Adjusted audio of phase anchor and fixed clipping with fracture visual effects in the Fractured Legacy Epic Arc

Gameplay:

• Fixed an issue which caused the Paragon LP store to not have any emblems for sale.

Fractured Legacy

• Fixed an issue causing objective values to not update correctly in all three missions.

• Fixed Becker's Rorqual bracket and group in mission 1.

• Fixed Becker speaking an Elias line in mission 3.

• Fixed the Travel objective’s progress sometimes resetting.

• Fixed some in-site objectives failing to appear in rare cases.

• Fixed a graphic effect appearing on one of the hackable structures in mission 3.

Factional Warfare:

• NPCs will now spawn correctly in Gallente Small NVY-1 Complex sites.

• Thrasher NPCs will now use their correct model in Small Complex sites.

• NPCs will now immediately contest sites when entering the capture point range.

Graphics:

• Added another corporation emblem location on the Odysseus

• Fixed some bad UVs on the rear of the Odysseus

• Adjusted placement of faction decals on the Odysseus

• Increased time of highlight on asteroids scanned with mining scanner

• Adjusted placement of alliance emblems, killmarks, decals, and lights on various ships with the Refined Resourcer SKIN. SLYCE approves.

• Reinstated missing visual effects on Nidhoggur’s Hrada Oki SKIN

• Fixed an issue where lights and blinkies on mining destroyers were not turning off during the ship boarding cinematic. ORE electricians properly reprimanded.

• The Pulse Activated Nexus Invulnerability Core (PANIC) module now encompasses the entire Rorqual when using the Capital Industrial Core module.

User Interface:

• Updated the Phased Fields agency page to clarify that phased field sites last between 20-40 hours, not 2-3 days.

• Fixed a tpyo in the description of the Infomorph Decryption Key

• UI elements from the fighter bay hold in the ship inventory window no longer overflow out of the window if the player chooses to decrease the width.

• Added brackets to Mobile Phase Anchors

• Adjusted the image for Phased Asteroids in the User Manual info window.

AIR Rewards:

• Occasionally the ISK reward for completing an AIR Daily Goal was not properly sent. We have identified the issue and have retroactively awarded any missing rewards.

Patch Notes for 2025-11-19.1

Defect Fixes:

Gameplay:

• Fixed an Issue which prevented the Odysseus Blueprint from being able to be manufactured in stations and player structures.

• Players are now able to obtain the Mining Efficiency Charge from ORE NPC stations and the blueprint is now fixed.

• Fixed an issue which could cause Epic Arc missions to overlap with each other or celestials like stargates.

• Temporarily reverted the Mining Barge skill needing Mining Destroyer level 3, it now requires Mining Frigate level 3 again to fix issues with pausing players skill queues.

• Restored attribute implants, like +3 learning implants, to the Caldari Navy, Gallente Navy, and Republic Fleet LP stores.

User Interface:

• Fixed an issue where some custom UI settings didn't get saved and loaded correctly.

Patch Notes for 2025-11-18.1

The Catalyst expansion is out!

Full overview of the contents of the expansion can be found here: Catalyst Expansion Notes!

Features and Changes:

Miscellaneous:

• Brand new Refined Resourcer SKINs line has been released.

Defect Fixes:

Gameplay:

• Added Astrogeology level 1 skill requirements to Strip Miner I and Ore Strip Miner since they can effectively only be fitted on Mining Barges which also require Astrogeology to add the Omega Only icon to them so alpha clones better understand they cannot use them.

• Added missing traits and elements to the Boobook.

• Freighters now show they require Advanced Spaceship Command V in the ship tree.

• Fixed an issue which could cause the Serpentis Vigil site to not be able to be completed and the acceleration gate to get stuck in a state where no player could reach the final room of the site.

• Several set bonus implant blueprints are no longer incorrectly categorized as tech II and are now in the faction meta group instead.

• Fixed several issues with skillbooks being priced incorrectly in the Command Guri LP store.

• Sensor Warfare Resistance (AKA sensor damp resistance) is now shown in the show info window for all ships. Players could get this resistance from some sources, like the electronic hardening command burst effect or T3D sharpshooter mode and it wouldn’t be displayed in the ship info which made it unintentionally hidden.

• Several sleeper/drifter NPCs that spawned in Pochven or outside wormhole space have had the activity difficulty chance for salvaging updated to -5 instead of 1e-06.

• Made some adjustments to Forsaken Hub and Haven dungeons to try and fix a very rare defect in where NPCs could become stuck and not warp in and the anomaly not able to be finished.

Localization:

• All Afocal Meta named lasers which were named “Masers” in their name and description has been changed to “Laser” to stop confusing players.

• Fixed several mission text defects.

• Fixed the description of nocxium incorrectly mentioning ores found through sovereignty upgrades that do not provide nocxium.

• Clarified that only offensive module usage breaks your invulnerability when returning from an abyssal filament.

Greetings expansion enthusiasts!

The Catalyst expansion is arriving next week at 11:00 UTC 18 November! We are delivering the patch notes early so you can absorb everything that's coming next Tuesday. We invite you to join the player discussion about the content of this release on the EVE Online Discord and the EVE Online Forums.

Expansion Notes 23.02 - EVE Online: Catalyst

Map Improvements

New 2D Map

A brand-new 2D map is now available! You can access it through the 2D toggle button in the bottom-right corner of the map window.

The 2D map comes with two distinct visual modes depending on your zoom level:

• Heatmap view when zoomed out, for an overview of the universe data.

• Tube/Subway-style map when zoomed in, for a clearer look at systems and connections.

You can also decide how much data to display: use the eye-shaped toggle above the 2D button to switch between always-visible data or focusing only around your cursor area.

Improved Data Visualisation

We’ve improved how data is displayed on both the 2D and 3D maps. The new visualisation now aligns more closely with player expectations, drawing inspiration from the classic map’s behaviour. Filters now use logarithmic scaling, which makes it easier to distinguish increments in lower-end values, even when big outliers appear on the map.

A legend has been added to help interpret the data shown on the map. By interacting with the tuning icon on the legend, you can open the new filter editing panel, where you can:

• Adjust the data range displayed.

• Switch between logarithmic and linear scaling.

• Customise the colours used for visualisation.

Your changes will be saved per filter, allowing you to tailor how data appears and focus on what’s most relevant to your needs.

Jump Range Visualisation

Pilots flying ships equipped with jump drives can now toggle the jump range display on or off on both the 3D and 2D map via the jump icon in the bottom-right corner.

In the 2D view, reachable systems are highlighted, and in the tube/subway map mode, reachable nodes change their shape from circles to diamonds. Hovering over a system provides information about jump range, fuel consumption and fatigue incurred after the jump.

New Filters

We’ve expanded the range of filters available on both 2D and 3D maps! Under the new Mining category, you can now choose from:

• Ore Anomalies - displayed as pins, showing nearby anomalies within a 5-jump range.

• Ore Distribution - showing where ore belts are located across New Eden.

• Specific Ores - highlighting systems where particular ores can be found.

This is also where we’re introducing a new information sidebar that appears alongside the map. It provides extra context about the selected filter, helping you explore ore data and learn more about the resources you’re seeing.

Quality of Life Improvements

The following quality of life improvements have been added:

• Pilots can now search for landmarks directly in the map’s search field.

• Directional arrows have been added to the 2D map to make regional connections clearer and easier to identify.

Mining UI/UX Improvements

Integrated Mining Surveyor with Overlay Toggle

All ORE mining ships and all basic empire corvettes now come equipped with a built-in Mining Surveyor, providing immediate access to in-space resource data without requiring a separate module.

The Mining Surveyor introduces a dynamic overlay, displaying colour-coded visual indicators of asteroid value directly in space. The overlay can be toggled ON or OFF via the scanner button on the HUD.

• Turning Overlay ON: By clicking the Scan button, your ship performs a mining scan and displays colour-coded visual overlays on nearby asteroids. These overlays highlight relative value tiers and estimated ISK to give players an immediate, at-a-glance view of the most profitable targets in range.

  • Clicking the scan button again will re-scan your surroundings.

• Turn Overlay OFF: Player can also right-click the scan button to disable the overlay. All the current scan data will be retained within the survey scan result window until player re-scan.

Mining Survey Chipset Module

The Mining Survey Chipset is a passive mid-slot module that enhances the mining surveyor with detailed information on the number of units of ore available in nearby asteroids. It also provides bonuses to mining critical success chance and mining critical success bonus yield, as well as a reduction in mining residue chance.

• Only one mining survey chipset module can be fit at a time.

• The mining survey chipset is available in Basic, Tech 1, Compact, and Tech 2 versions.

• Existing survey scanner modules have been converted into mining survey chipset modules.

Mining Surveyors can be upgraded with a Mining Survey Chipset to reveal additional information, such as a total value and remaining quantity.

ORE Industrial Command ships can provide upgraded Mining Surveyor functionality fleet-wide through any Mining Foreman Burst, granting members access to the same enhanced survey data provided by the Mining Survey Chipset module.

Cargo Hold Capacity Indicator

While the mining surveyor overlay is active, a new icon will display the current capacity of your mining hold in the space scene behind your ship to make this information accessible at a glance.

Faster Mining Cycles

Mining lasers and strip miners now will have 4x faster cycles, and gas cloud harvesters will have 2x faster cycles, making mining operations more responsive. The yield per cycle, capacitor usage, and mining crystal volatility damage has been adjusted proportionally to maintain the same overall mining yield over time.

Mining Crits

Mining lasers, strip miners, and ice harvesters can now experience critical successes, granting bonus yield without reducing the remaining ore in the asteroids. The chance of a critical success starts at 1% and the bonus yield from a critical success starts at 200% of the standard yield of that cycle, with both values able to be increased through skills, modules, and mining foreman bursts. Critical success notification will appear on-screen with added audio and visual cues to inform players when a crit occurs.

New Mining Critical Success Skills

Two new skills have been added to benefit the mining critical success system:

• Mining Precision is a new rank 2 skill that provides a 10% bonus to mining laser and ice harvester critical success chance per skill level.

• Mining Exploitation is a new rank 6 skill that provides a 5% bonus to mining laser and ice harvester critical success bonus yield per skill level.

Changes to Mining Cycle Rounding

The rounding system used for mining yields has been adjusted so that the amount of ore you receive over time while mining will more closely match the estimated values of your modules. Previously, any remainder of less than one whole unit of ore that was left over after the ore unit volume was divided into the mining cycle yield volume would be rounded down and lost. Now we have implemented a system of stochastic rounding so that each cycle will have a chance of receiving one additional unit of ore, so that over time your overall yield will tend towards the yield that would be expected from your module attributes and bonuses.

One-key Compression Shortcut

A bindable hotkey can be assigned to compress all ore, ice, and gas in your ship at once when you have access to compression in space through a mining foreman ship in fleet.

Mining Laser Efficiency Mining Foreman Burst Charge

A new Mining Laser Efficiency charge for the mining foreman burst module has been added.

This new charge provides a base bonus of +50% mining critical success chance and -15% mining residue chance to fleetmates within range. These bonuses scale with pilot skills, ship bonuses, and mindlinks just like other mining foreman bursts.

All of the mining foreman burst charges provide enhanced mining surveyor functionality to all affected fleet members that are piloting ships with an integrated mining surveyor, allowing them to track the remaining number of units of ore in nearby asteroids.

New Introductory Message When Entering Asteroid Fields

When warping into asteroid belts and mining anomalies, a new introductory message will appear in the bottom third of the screen that lets players know the name of the location they just arrived at, as well as an estimate of how depleted or fresh the asteroid field is. This should be especially helpful to players in high-traffic space to indicate at a glance whether a field is mostly picked clean by other players or not.

Phased Asteroid Field

• Phased Fields are high-value mining sites featuring unique mechanics. They spawn randomly in low and null-security space, and must initially be discovered using probe scanning. They contain a valuable new ore - Prismaticite, which can be mined from Phased Asteroids within the site and which requires the use of industrial command ships to mine efficiently.

• In addition to the incredibly valuable Prismaticite, there are also several high-value asteroids of superior grades present which can be mined at any time as normal.

• These sites contain a hyperspace fracture which will slowly move across space, breaching any Phased Asteroids along its path.

  • Once breached, Phased Asteroids are phased-out and can be mined for prismaticite at 10% efficiency immediately.

    • After deploying a Mobile Phase Anchor and connecting it to industrial command ships, the asteroid will phase-in and can then be mined at 100% efficiency.

    • This persists until it phases-out over time or the fracture moves away, collasping the asteroid.

• Mobile Phase Anchors require 100 energy to phase-in the Phased Asteroids. Rorquals provide 100, Orcas 50, and Porpoises 35.

  • Mobile Phase Anchor Blueprints are available for 140 million ISK in the following locations: Ytiri, Propel Dynamics, Eifyr & Co., Freedom Extension, Zoar & Sons, Ducia Foundry, Impetus, Chemal Tech, Mordu's Legion, ORE, and Intaki Bank Stations.

• Once the fracture has moved halfway across the site, a beacon is spawned revealing the site. Once revealed, the site’s location is visible to everyone in the solar system, and it also becomes visible on the Star Map.

• Prismaticite is resource-rich, but it is also the first in a new type of ore called Erratic. When Prismaticite is reprocessed, each reprocessing batch will randomly become 1 of the 8 possible mineral types and provide a variable quantity of that mineral.

• Capsuleers can control the mineral output of Prismaticite by running Unrefined Mineral Reactions. These reactions require Compressed Prismaticite and Atmospheric Gases.

  • Reactions for the Unrefined Minerals can be purchased from most Upwell Consortium member corporations for 50 million ISK.

  • Unrefined Mineral Reactions require Standup Composite Reactor.

  • Unrefined Minerals can be reprocessed into their respective Minerals with variable output quantity.

Mining Content

• Revamped the ‘Asteroid Belt Remnants' site found in all starter systems and career agent systems. It has instead been replaced by an empire managed asteroid belt instead with enhanced visuals and NPCs.

  • Number of sites reduced from 3 to 1 to make it more likely for new players to meet each other in the sites.

  • New site uses an acceleration gate which only lets the standard Venture and empire corvettes inside (Impairor, Ibis, Velator and Reaper).

  • Veldspar size in the site increased by 10-12x.

• Kernite and Omber anomalies will now spawn rarely in all high security space between 0.5 and 0.8 security rating as they once did before the resource distribution update.

• Kernite and Omber anomalies have had a full visual pass.

• Kernite and Omber anomalies will have a slightly higher chance to spawn in high security space within 3 jumps of Empire Militia FW War HQ systems.

• Kernite and Omber anomalies have a very small chance to get an escalation to a brand new highsec exclusive mining escalation, the shrouded asteroid belt.

• Hidden Omber Deposits which need to be probed down with scanner probes will also appear rarely between 0.5 and 0.8 security rating systems. This site contains some +15% Platinoid Omber and a higher chance to get the mining escalation.

• Highsec mining anomalies such as the Kernite and Omber sites, Rare Border sites, Ice Belts and the new managed asteroid belts will now spawn a beacon into space on the overview when a player first warps to them (like FW sites) to give better visibility to newer players and showcase mining activity in highsec. These beacons have been added to the default mining overview.

  • We have not added these beacons to anomalies in lowsec/nullsec/w-space for now since miners in these areas of space might want to hide their activity.

  • The hidden omber site (found with scanner probes) and the highsec mining escalation do not spawn a beacon when warped to as players may want to keep the location to themselves.

• Added a system wide buff effect into Empire Miltia FW War HQ systems that grants a 10% mining speed bonus.

• NPC mining ships will now spawn much more frequently in their factions respective FW War HQ systems.

• Veldspar Deposits will now spawn in Empire Militia FW War HQ systems.

  • The War HQ systems are where the shipcasters are located for each empire militia and are listed below.

    • Amarr - Mehatoor

    • Caldari - Onnamon

    • Gallente - Intaki

    • Minmatar - Amo

We are adding back the Omber and Kernite anomalies that were taken away from High Security space when the Resource Distribution update took place 5 years ago. Specifically, we are only adding back the Kernite and Omber anomalies (and not the ones containing Jaspet or Hemorphite) to keep Nocxium a more low-sec focused mineral. We want to bring back a source of Omber and Kernite to highsec so that players are able to mine it for level 3 and level 4 storyline trade missions that require it, and also add more valuable sites that are slightly less predictable than the rare border sites which spawn in the same locations. Additionally, we are adding a highsec escalation as a rare jackpot for highsec miners.

To help encourage mining in FW empire war HQ systems (and help encourage them to become market/trade hubs and good places for producers to buy minerals from and stock ships, which they can then sell to FW players) we are weighting the chance of the Kernite and Omber anomalies to have a higher chance of spawning in and around the War HQ systems. We’re also adding a small mining boost effect in these systems and then adding in a Veldspar Deposit as a more reliable source of highsec minerals in the War HQ systems, as Amo and Mehatoor specifically only had 4 asteroid belts, and Intaki had special asteroid belts that only respawned infrequently which made it hard to get consistant mining going there.

• Improved the visuals of lowsec Asteroid Belts.

• Lowsec mining anomalies can no longer spawn multiple copies of the same site in the same solar system. For example, 2x Small Gneiss Deposits can no longer share the same system. This means they will be more spread out and more widely available and won’t congregate as much in a single system.

• Rare Border Sites that could spawn in 0.5 high security systems that border lowsec, nullsec that borders lowsec and Blue A0 sites which could spawn in systems with blue A0 suns in wormhole space and nullsec can no longer spawn multiple copies of the same site in the same solar system.

• Adjusted the Medium Jaspet Deposit and renamed to Average Jaspet Deposit to match the naming scheme of similar anomalies. It no longer spawns in every lowsec system, and will now instead appear uncommonly throughout lowsec. Increased the size of the asteroids, increased the amount of asteroids by approximately 4x and added +5% and +10% Jaspet variations so that the site should at least feel more rewarding.

• Doubled the chance of the small variation of mining deposits from appearing in lowsec.

• Removed rogue drone NPCs from lowsec small anomalies, so that they are a bit easier to ninja mine with ventures/prospects etc. The standard asteroid belt NPCs can still show up at the anomalies.

• Added new variations of the small mining deposits as ‘hidden’ versions that need to be discovered with scanner probes. These variations have higher quality ore and a much higher chance to get the new lowsec mining escalation. We’re adding just the small ones for now to see how players respond to them in low security space, we’re hoping the extra safety of needing to discover the site first and higher quality ore make them attractive to miners and will lead to more mining ships in space overall in lowsec.

• All lowsec anomalies now have a small chance to escalate to a new exclusive lowsec escalation, the Veiled Asteroid Field.

• The Veiled Asteroid Field has a similar amount of minerals found in the Large Crokite, Dark Ochre and Gneiss anomalies, but they are condensed into far fewer asteroids at higher tiers. It has the added advantage of other players needing to combat probe you to find the site.

Mining Missions

• All mining missions have had an enhanced visual pass.

• All Level 1 and Level 2 mining missions have had their ISK and LP Payouts increased by 50%.

• We’ve made sure to do a QoL pass on many of the sites too, making sure the mission asteroids are usually within 20km of the warp in point for the mission so the mission ore can always be found with the on board scanner and players don’t have to move far away to be able to mine the ore, now that everything has been replaced with non-interactable objects to the mission ore should always be at the top of the overview if you sort by range closest to you.

Mining Mutaplasmids

• New Mutaplasmids have been added that can mutate:

  • Mining Lasers

  • Strip Miners

  • Ice Mining Lasers

  • Ice Harvesters

  • Gas Cloud Scoops

  • Gas Cloud Harvesters

  • Mining Drones

  • Ice Harvesting Drones

These new mining module Mutaplasmids can be found in Abyssal Deadspace, while the mining drone mutaplasmids are potential rewards from CONCORD Rogue Analysis Beacon sites.

New Ships

Catalyst introduces 4 new mining ships along with the Sisters of EVE Expedition Command Ship the Odysseus!

ORE Mining Destroyer - Pioneer

• Pioneer Skill Bonuses:

  • Mining Destroyer: (per skill level)

    • 10% bonus to Mining yield

    • 20% bonus to Mining range

    • 5% reduction in Gas Cloud Scoop duration

  • Role Bonus:

    • 50% bonus to Mining yield

    • 25% reduction in Gas Cloud Scoop duration

• Blueprint Originals for the Pioneer can be purchased from Outer Ring Excavations (ORE) stations in Outer Ring.

• Alpha Clones are able to train the new Mining Destroyer skill to level 2.

ORE Command Destroyer - Outrider

• Outrider Skill Bonuses:

  • Mining Destroyer:

    • 15% bonus to Mining yield

    • 10% bonus to Drone hitpoints and damage

    • 6% bonus to all shield resistances

  • Command Destroyer:

    • 5% reduction in Micro Jump Field Generator spool up time

    • 2% bonus to Shield Command and Mining Foreman Burst effect strength and duration

  • Role Bonus:

    • 95% reduction in powergrid requirements for Command Bursts

    • 50% reduction in Microwarpdrive signature radius penalty

    • 50% reduction in reactivation delay for Defender Launcher

    • Can fit Micro Jump Field Generators

    • Can fit one Command Burst module

    • 75% bonus to tractor beam range

    • 30% bonus to Tractor Beam velocity

• Blueprint Copies of the Outrider can be obtained by performing Invention jobs on blueprint copies of the Pioneer.

ORE Navy Mining Frigate - Venture Consortium Issue

• Venture Consortium Issue Skill Bonuses:

  • Mining Frigate: (per skill level)

    • 5% bonus to Mining yield

    • 5% reduction in Gas Cloud Scoop duration

    • 10% bonus to Shield Booster amount

  • Role Bonus:

    • 100% bonus to Mining and Gas Cloud Scoop yield

    • 2+ bonus to ship warp core strength

    • 50% reduction in Industrial Cynosural Field Generator liquid ozone consumption

    • 50% bonus to Mining critical hit chance

    • 10+ bonus to Salvage Drone salvage chance

• Blueprint Copies for the Venture Consortium Issue can be obtained from Upwell Consortium member corporations LP stores for the price of 10 million ISK and 10,000 Loyalty Points.

  • This includes Chemal Tech, Ducia Foundry, Eifyr and Co, Freedom Extension, Impetus, Intaki Bank, Mordus Legion, Propel Dynamics, Ytiri and Zoar and Sons corporations.

  • ORE offers a 60% discount in their LP store, at a price of 4 million ISK and 4,000 Loyalty Points.

ORE Navy Mining Destroyer - Pioneer Consortium Issue

• Pioneer Consortium Issue Skill Bonuses:

  • Mining Destroyer: (per skill level)

    • 10% bonus to Mining yield

    • 20% bonus to Mining range

    • 10% bonus to Shield Booster amount

    • 5% reduction in Gas Cloud Scoop duration

  • Role Bonus:

    • 50% bonus to Mining yield

    • 50% bonus to Mining critical hit chance

    • 25% reduction in Gas Cloud Scoop duration

    • 10+ bonus to Salvage Drone salvage chance

• Blueprint Copies for the Pioneer Consortium Issue can be obtained from Upwell Consortium member corporations LP stores for the price of 30 million ISK and 30,000 Loyalty Points.

  • This includes Chemal Tech, Ducia Foundry, Eifyr and Co, Freedom Extension, Impetus, Intaki Bank, Mordus Legion, Propel Dynamics, Ytiri and Zoar and Sons corporations.

  • ORE offers a 60% discount in their LP store, at a price of 12 million ISK and 12,000 Loyalty Points.

SOE Expedition Command Ship - Odysseus

• Odysseus Skill Bonuses:

  • Amarr Battlecruiser: (per skill level)

    • 4% bonus to Armor Resistances

  • Gallente Battlecruiser: (per skill level)

    • 10% bonus to Light, Medium and Heavy Drone damage

  • Expedition Command Ships: (per skill level)

    • 50% bonus to Data Analyzer and Relic Analyzer optimal range

    • 5% reduction in gas cloud scoop duration

    • 3% bonus to the strength and duration of exploration command bursts

    • 1% bonus to the strength and duration of armor command bursts

  • Role Bonus:

    • 100% bonus to the duration of Expedition Command Bursts

    • 50% bonus to the range of command burst modules

    • 50% bonus to Medium Energy Turret Optimal Range

    • 50% Reduction in CPU cost of Gas Cloud Scoops

    • 37.5% bonus to Scan Probe Strength

    • 10+ bonus to Relic and Data analyzers

    • Can fit Covert Ops Cloaking Device

    • Can fit two command burst modules

    • Cloaking reactivation delay reduced to 15 seconds

    • Can fit Zero-Point Mass Entangler

    • This ship can recieve bonus effects depending on the environment.

• Blueprint Copies for the Odysseus can be obtained from the Servant Sisters of EVE faction member corporations for the price of 250,000 LP and 250,000,000 ISK.

  • This includes The Sanctuary, Food Relief and the Sisters of EVE corporations.

Modules

• Added new Expedition Command Burst modules, these modules can be activated to give you and nearby fleet members bonuses to hacking, scanning and salvaging.

• These modules can be loaded with 1 of 3 charges.

  • Expedition Strength Charge - improves scanning strength and virus coherence of all analyzer modules.

  • Expedition Pinpointing Charge - improves scanning scan deviation and cycle time of salvager modules.

  • Expedition Reach Charge - Improves the range of Analyzer modules, Salvager modules and directional scanner range.

• Blueprints of the Expedition Command Burst modules and charges can be found in Servant Sisters of EVE member corporation stations for sale.

• A faction variation of the Expedition Command burst can be found in the Servant Sisters of EVE member corporation LP stores.

• An expedition command mindlink can be found in CONCORD LP stores and purchased for 20 million ISK and 20,000 LP.

• The sisters expedition command mindlink, which combines the effects of the Armor and Expedition mindlink, can be purchased from Servant Sisters of EVE member corporations for 100,000,000 ISK and 100,000 LP.

• Added a new Integrated Sensor Array - Carrier only module. More about that below.

Carriers

• Decreased build costs by approximately 30%.

• Decreased build times by 10%.

The cost of Carrier construction has been brought down significantly. The reduction represents around 1 billion ISK per hull at time of writing. At this new price point, these ships will be somewhere between a Marauder and a Dreadnought. This allows a player to make a more meaningful choice when selecting their ship.

• Carriers can now have an additional Support Fighter squad active:

  • Increased the Support Fighter Squad limit to 2 (from 1).

  • Increased the total number of Fighter Squad Tubes to 4 (from 3).

• Added new Support Fighter effectiveness bonuses:

  • Archon: +2% bonus (per level) to Cenobite Support Fighter neutralization strength.

  • Chimera: +2% bonus (per level) to Scarab Support Fighter ECM strength.

  • Thanatos: +2% bonus (per level) to Siren Support Fighter afterburner speed bonus.

  • Nidhoggur: +2% bonus (per level) to Dromi Support Fighter stasis webification strength.

• Increased Fighter Bay Capacities:

  • Archon: 60,000 → 65,000 m3.

  • Chimera: 55,000 → 60,000 m3.

  • Thanatos: 70,000 → 75,000 m3.

  • Nidhoggur: 65,000  → 70,000 m3.

These changes aim to strengthen the Carrier’s long range EWAR niche. A Carrier pilot can now field an additional Support Fighter, giving them additional utility with no loss of DPS. They will also have the option to field 2 Support and 2 Light Fighters at the same time if the need arises.

Support Fighters themselves are now more powerful when used by a Carrier. Each faction will be able to make the most out of their respective Support Fighters, with an up-to 10% bonus to effectiveness.

• Increased Ship Maintenance Bays to 2,000,000 m3 (from 1,000,000 m3).

Part of the expectation of a Carrier is the ability to move a large number of ships. As such, the SMB of all Carriers has been doubled. This brings these ships to the same ballpark as a Bowhead.

• Decreased max target ranges:

  • Archon: 3,950 → 315 km.

  • Chimera: 4,620 → 350 km.

  • Thanatos: 3,670 → 300 km.

  • Nidhoggur: 3,760 → 305 km.

• Added a max target range cap of 750 km.

• Can fit the new Integrated Sensor Array:

  • Functionally identical to Networked Sensor Arrays, other than the following:

    • Multiplies max target range by 12.

    • Removes the max target range cap.

    • Has a 2-minute duration.

    • Adds a -30% bonus to repair module duration and capacitor use.

    • Does not disable MJD or MJFG.

    • No increase in EWAR capacitor costs.

    • Uses the visual effect of a Triage module.

    • Cannot be fit to Supercarriers.

    • Note: You can still receive remote repairs when this is active, just like the NSA.

  • Build costs and blueprint availability are the same as those of Networked Sensor Arrays.

  • Networked Sensor Array can be traded in for Integrated Sensor Arrays at all LP stores.

The above changes aim to tackle “skynetting” Carriers. Carriers will no longer be able to engage at their previous extreme ranges without an active Integrated Sensor Array. While this module is active, the Carrier will be unable to warp, dock, or tether. This provides counterplay for those attacking into Carriers within tether range of a structure.

The Integrated Sensor Array is a much more powerful variant of the Networked Sensor Array. The MJD and MJFG restrictions are not present on this variant, allowing the ships more mobility. Active tanking is also buffed when using the Integrated Sensor Array. Lastly, the EWAR capacitor cost increases of the Networked Sensor Array are not present to allow more flexibility in fitting.

Note that Carriers will still be able to fit a Networked Sensor Array until early next year. After this time, the Networked Sensor Array will be made exclusive to Supercarriers.

Support Fighters:

• Increased Scarab Support Fighter ECM strengths:

  • Scarab I to 2.4 (from 1.6).

  • Navy Scarab to 2.7 (from 1.95).

  • Scarab II to 3.0 (from 2.3).

• Increase Cenobite Support Fighter Energy Neutralizer amounts:

  • Cenobite I to 70 GJ (from 60 GJ).

  • Navy Cenobite to 80 GJ (from 70 GJ).

  • Cenobite II to 90 GJ (from 80 GJ).

The Scarab and Cenobite are the least popular Support Fighters by a noticable margin. Increasing their effectiveness helps make the bonuses found on the Archon and Chimera feel impactful. Having more viable options for a Carrier also gives them better flexibility.

Supercarriers:

• All Supercarriers can now Conduit jump with the same mechanics as a Carrier:

  • Can jump with a maximum of 30 other capsuleers.

  • All sub-capital combat ships are eligible to be jumped.

The addition of a Conduit jump to Supercarriers gives them extra utility and some nice QoL when flying in a smaller fleet.

Force Auxiliaries

• Increased the Fuel Bay of all Force Auxiliary ships to 6,000 m3.

Force Auxilary ships are often more fuel hungry than other ships with the same sized bay. Increasing the Fuel Bays for these ships should make the experience of flying them more enjoyable.

Balancing

• Molok

  • Blueprint Copy added to the Blood Raider LP store at 165 billion ISK and 165 million LP.

• Chemosh

  • Blueprint Copy added to the Blood Raider LP store at 15 billion ISK and 15 million LP.

• Dagon

  • Blueprint Copy added to the Blood Raider LP store at 15 billion ISK and 15 million LP.

• Loggerhead

  • Blueprint Copy ISK and LP cost reduced from 25 billion ISK and 25 million LP to 15 billion ISK and 15 million LP.

We’re adding the Blood Raider capital ships to the Blood Raider LP store, as we are unhappy with the state of NPC Sotiyos and to get parity with the other pirate factions. We are adding them at a slightly higher cost (+10% of the others) to carefully monitor them, and we’ll slowly adjust them down when we’re satisfied, although we know that this is likely too high of a cost, and the other pirate dreadnoughts are likely still too expensive as well.

Additionally. we are reducing the cost of the Loggerhead at the same time to match the Dagon at 15 billion ISK and 15 million LP. We want to monitor pirate FAX being more available before reducing them to the dreadnought values, since they may be overpowered in some niche areas of space such as wormholes if they are easier to replace and more available.

• Cenotaph

  • Breacher Pod M Damage Duration reduced from 50s to 40s. (From 75s to 60s with max skills).

  • Breacher Pod M Maximum Damage reduced from 800 to 600 (from 1000 DPS to 750 DPS with max skills).

  • This is a large reduction to the total amount of damage done per breacher pod, especially against larger ships, with max skills this is a reduction from 75,000 to 45,000 maximum damage per pod.

• Tholos

  • Breacher Pod S Damage Duration reduced from 50s to 40s. (From 75s to 60s with max skills).

  • Breacher Pod S Maximum Damage increased from 160 to 200 (from 200 to 250 DPS with max skills).

  • This maintains the total amount of damage done per breacher pod against large ships, at 15,000 damage per pod.

The Cenotaph is still too strong despite our attempts to add more counterplay to it in the Legion Major Update. We are reducing the maximum damage duration of pods with max skills from 75 seconds to 60 seconds, and lowering the maximum potential flat damage output that the breacher pod outputs. This comes close to halfing the total damage per pod (a 40% reduction overall). Which we think will still leave it in a very strong place against high resistance targets, but reduce the overall pressure it provides when spreading multiple pods over multiple ships at once.

We are also adjusting the Tholos a little for consistency, so that all breacher pods now last 60 seconds with max skills. We are lowering the total damage duration of the pod but then compensating it by increasing the flat damage, keeping the damage per pod the same as now. This will see it increase from 200 to 250 DPS against larger targets it is focusing a few pods on, but it will see a small reduction of damage if spreading multiple pods over smaller targets.

• Stratios

  • Added 50% Medium Energy Turret damage role bonus.

  • Reduced Number of Turrets from 4 to 3.

Even though the Stratios was bonused for Medium Energy Turrets, they were frequently ignored for other weapons or energy neutralizers and felt weak despite the bonus. We’re giving it a large 50% damage role bonus, but then taking away a turret. This should make the lasers feel better to use with most stratios fits since you can fit 3 bonused lasers alongside a cloak and a probe launcher at the same time, and it also reduces the fitting and capacitor costs needed for full gun fits, while providing a small boost in damage as now the 3 turrets will outdamage the old Stratios with 4 turrets fitted.

• Mamba

  • Guristas NET Resonators required to build the Mamba reduced from 40 to 30.

• Mekubal

  • Angel NET Resonators required to build the Mekubal reduced from 40 to 30.

• Venture

  • The Venture Blueprint no longer requires Isogen to be able to manufacture a Venture.

• Porpoise

  • Medium Industrial Core I

    • Shield Booster cycle time bonus improved from 10% to 20%.

    • Shield Booster amount bonus improved from 10% to 20%.

  • Medium Industrial Core II

    • Shield Booster cycle time bonus improved from 10% to 20%.

    • Shield Booster amount bonus improved from 15% to 25%.

• Orca

  • Large Industrial Core I

    • Shield Booster cycle time bonus improved from 30% to 40%.

    • Shield Booster amount bonus improved from 20% to 40%.

  • Large Industrial Core II

    • Shield Booster cycle time bonus improved from 30% to 40%.

    • Shield Booster amount bonus improved from 30% to 50%.

Giving a small boost to the active tanking capabilities of the Porpoise and the Orca while they are using the industrial core modules.

PLEX Transaction Logs

New PLEX Transaction Logs are now available through the Wallet. There are 2 tabs available Overview and Transactions.

• The Overview tab shows a Pie Chart of either Income or Expenses.

• The Transactions tab will show the latest 2000 entries.

• Description of transaction includes which Character interacted with PLEX balance.

• Entries can be sorted by date, ascending or descending.

• Transactions can be copied to clipboard in CSV format for easy pasting in your workbook software of choice.

Epic Arc

• A New Epic Arc — Fractured Legacy — has been added!

  • Consisting of three mining-focused missions, this new Epic Arc is meant for new and returning players.

    • The Arc showcases Catalyst features, including a gorgeous Phased Field!

  • The latest Epic Arc in nearly 16 years, it is short and experimental compared to its predecessors.

    • It is estimated to be completable in the length of a normal session.

  • Earn novel rewards, such as the new ORE Mining Destroyer, the Pioneer!

    • Other rewards include other new expansion goodies, such as modules and BPCs.

  • To get started on this ORE Epic Arc, go to the AIR Laboratories station in

    Kisogo VII and speak to Elias Peltonnen.

Air Opportunities - Freelance Jobs Visibility Update

We’ve updated Freelance Job tab in Air Opportunities to only display jobs that the current character is eligible to participate in.

Factional Warfare:

• New NPCs have been added to most FW Complex sites:

  • NPCs of both the occupying and attacking factions will be present.

  • NPCs will fight based on factional allegiances and can contest sites.

  • Some NPCs may be fitted with warp disruption.

  • NPCs can still drop tags, but at a lower rate given their increased presence.

  • Scout, Small, Medium, and Large Complex sites have all been updated.

These changes borrow strongly from the mechanics found in Pirate Insurgency sites. Capsuleers will always be able to take part in a small scale skirmish when entering a complex.

Having NPCs of both factions present will also mean a capsuleer will want to be fit for combat even when defending. Keeping track of pointing NPCs will also be necessary if a player wants to be ready to a quick getaway.

Pirate Strongholds:

• The rewards for destroying a Pirate Strongholds (sometimes referred to as Pirate FOBs) have been rebalanced:

  • A 10-pilot fleet will now be optimal for the maximum payout.

  • Up to 1 billion ISK can be earned per Stronghold.

• Roaming NPCs spawned by the Pirate Stronghold will no longer attack player structures.

The rewards for Pirate Strongholds did not fit the expected risk/reward within low-sec. There has also been some demand for 10-pilot content within these systems. The FOBs have been rebalanced to provide rewarding content for medium scale low-sec pilots. Note that the drops from the FOB have been unchanged.

The roaming Pirate NPCs have been causing frustration for those who have structures within those systems. This was especially true with Metanox Moon Drills, where their frequent brief attacks meant constant upkeep. As such, these NPCs will no longer shoot at structures. However, they may still visit them looking for other targets!

We're excited to see what you do with the updates coming in the Catalyst expansion, and we'd love for you to get involved with the discussion on the EVE Online Discord and the EVE Online Forums.

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Greetings,

The following page will list patch notes for all updates within this release (Version 23.01). We invite you to join the player discussion about the content of this release on EVE Online forums:

• General Feedback

• Known Issues

Initial Release Date: 2025-05-27 Last update: 2025-11-06

🤝 - Indicates a change inspired by the player's feedback or suggestions.

Patch Notes for 2025-11-06.1

Miscellaneous:

• Kitsune Shattered Paradigm SKIN enters New Eden.

Patch Notes for 2025-11-04.1

Features & Changes:

Events/Crimson Harvest:

Crimson Harvest has now ended.

• 90% loot drop has been disabled and returned to normal values.

• 50% implant drop has been disabled.

Patch Notes for 2025-10-29.1

Defect Fixes:

Audio:

• Audio will now correctly follow beam based weapons along their entire length, eg: Mining lasers, Vorton Projector.

Graphics:

• Fixed an issue where lighting on some ships would sometimes render incorrectly when certain weapons were fitted.

• Ghosting on Plasma planets when using anti-aliasing or upscaling has been vastly improved.

Technical:

• Certain wrecks causing the client to crash has been resolved.

• The client will no longer stop responding when using DLSS and jumping through a series of stargates or wormholes.

Patch Notes for 2025-10-28.1

Features & Changes:

Balancing:

• Cruor

  • Small Energy Turret Damage role bonus increased from 100% to 125%.

  • New bonus, +20% bonus to Energy Nosferatu and Energy Neutralizer optimal range per level.

  • New bonus, +10% bonus to Energy Nosferatu and Energy Neutralizer falloff range per level.

• Ashimmu

  • Medium Energy Turret Damage role bonus increased from 100% to 125%.

  • New bonus, +20% bonus to Energy Nosferatu and Energy Neutralizer optimal range per level.

  • New bonus, +10% bonus to Energy Nosferatu and Energy Neutralizer falloff range per level.

Events:

Crimson Harvest:

• New rewards have been added to the Seasonal Reward Track!

• Class 3 Biocybernetic Incident sites can now be discovered in high-security space.

• Spawn delays for standard Blood Raider, standard Tetrimon, and Biocybernetic Incident sites have been significantly reduced.

• Advanced Blood Raider and Tetrimon sites can now be discovered in the Hed, Jayai, and Semou constellations.

Patch Notes for 2025-10-17.1

Features & Changes:

Crimson Harvest:

• Fixed an issue where Biocybernetic sites didn’t despawn correctly after the boss appeared, even if no players were present.

• Fixed an issue where Formidable Orthrus NPCs could remain on Biocybernetic Incident sites after completion.

• Class 1 & 2 Biocybernetic Incident sites have been rebalanced.

• Increased the spawn frequency of Automated Extraction Shuttles on all Biocybernetic sites.

• Difficulty adjusted for standard hacking sites to improve accessibility across different space types.

• Removed celestial beacon visibility from the new escalation sites so they no longer appear on overview to other players.

Patch Notes for 2025-10-15.1

Defect Fixes:

User Interface:

• Fixed an issue where the EverMark donation tab was visible immediately after moving corporations, despite ineligibility.

• Fixed a text cutoff in the Emblems tab of the Fitting Window when using the Spanish client.

• Fixed an issue where metallic design elements incorrectly displayed matte and gloss subcategories.

• Fixed a bug where hotkeys didn’t work if the Probe Launcher window was fullscreen with a docked filter window.

• Fixed a misleading tooltip in the ACP window that suggested incorrect SP totals for Omega Graduation Rewards.

• Fixed an issue where if one Info Panel failed, it could prevent other panels from updating system info.

• Fixed issue in NES that caused the popup window to hang when trying to buy PLEX.

Patch Notes for 2025-10-14.1

Features & Changes:

Crimson Harvest:

• Fixed incorrectly expired booster from Twitch drops.

• Added a fix to prevent event sites from not clearing up correctly.

Defect Fixes:

Graphics:

• Sanguinary Savant SKINs now feature correct Bloodraider decals.

Patch Notes for 2025-10-10.1

Features & Changes:

Crimson Harvest:

• Loot drop rates for destroyed capsuleer ships are now set to 90% across all areas of space, excluding Highsec, where standard drop rates remain in effect.

Defect Fixes:

User Interface:

• Fixed incorrect name for “Dr. Hwung Rudolfo” in Cybernetic neural lattices description.

Patch Notes for 2025-10-09.1

Features & Changes:

Vanguard Nemesis Event:

• Item Traders from this event have been removed.

Defect Fixes:

Graphics:

• Drones previously stuck in Old Man Star system at Villore gate are moving again.

• The brightness of some volumetric clouds have been adjusted to be darker.

• Missing VFX on various Arkombine Arisen SKINs have been added again.

• The Zealot and Sacrilege War for the Empire SKINs had minor decal adjustments for better visibility.

Patch Notes for 2025-10-08.1

Features & Changes:

Vanguard Nemesis Event:

• Per downtime on 9 October, Item Traders from this event will be removed. Trade in your items now or forever have them take up space in your hangers!

Patch Notes for 2025-10-07.1

Defect Fixes:

Events:

• Fixed an issue where Biocybernetic Incident Sites could fail if another ship joined the site during an on going session.

• Fixed an issue where an expired booster was dropping from event sites.

Technical:

• AMD FSR has been updated to version 3.1.4

Patch Notes for 2025-10-06.1

Features and Changes:

Crimson Harvest

The Crimson Harvest has begun! The event will run until downtime on Tuesday, November 4th, 2025. This year’s event sees the Blood Raiders and the Order of St. Tetrimon locked in conflict once more, but a catastrophic failure in Upwell’s secret clone research shifts the war into a darker chapter.

Event Sites

Combat Sites

• Crimson Gauntlet and Tetrimon Base sites are appearing across New Eden in Highsec, Lowsec, Nullsec, W-space, and Pochven.

• Approach with caution: these sites are balanced for battlecruisers, battleships, heavy assault cruisers, or stronger vessels.

• Defeating the battleship-class NPCs at the end of these sites can yield ISK items, boosters, SKINs, character apparel, and more.

Hacking Sites

• Crimson Harvest Network Node and Tetrimon Network Node sites are also scattered across New Eden.

• These contain hackable network structures offering valuable rewards.

Advanced Sites

• Both Blood Raider and Tetrimon forces are escalating their conflict, establishing stronger bases in the warzone.

• These advanced combat and hacking sites appear only in:

  • Blood Raider controlled systems in Delve

  • The Eugidi, Angils, and Essin constellations

• Advanced sites are rarer, tougher, and offer greater rewards. Bring allies, but beware of rival capsuleers hunting the same prizes.

Escalations: Now obtainable in standard sites!

• The most elusive and valuable strongholds of both factions can only be discovered through rare escalations, now from both standard or advanced combat sites. These escalations can now trigger from nullsec, lowsec, and highsec. When this happens, a mysterious Dark Blood structure will appear after the site has been completed. Destroying it will lead to the escalation.

Biocybernetic Incident Sites

This year introduces a new twist. Upwell’s experiments with cloning technology, in special biocybernetics facilities, have gone terribly wrong. Jump instead of bridge kind of wrong. The locations of these incidents are now combat sites across all space.

• Class 1: Highsec - balanced for new players in basic Tech I frigates

• Class 2: All areas - for experienced players in Tech I destroyers, Tech II frigates, and lower.

• Class 3: Lowsec, nullsec, wormholes, and Pochven - for veterans flying up to Tech III destroyers

The sites require pilots to stay within a designated perimeter for a certain period of time, fighting waves of enemies, and ultimately taking on an even more formidable foe. Keep the Opportunities Info Panel open to see how much time is left, and watch out for shuttles attempting to leave the site laden with valuable loot. Destroy them before they escape to make these sites even more lucrative.

Encounters:

These sites also tie into the broader event: Blood Raider and Tetrimon sites now have a chance to contain narrative-related encounters, offering both danger and lucrative rewards.

Increased Loot Drops

• For the duration of the event, capsuleers who are podded have a chance of dropping any implants they have installed. The implant drop rate is 50%

• The Blood Raiders have bribed the Loot Fairy and, starting October 10, player ships outside of highsec will drop 90% of their loot for the duration of the event.

Agency Challenges & Rewards

Both Blood Raiders and the Order of St. Tetrimon are calling for capsuleer support.

• Each character must choose a faction allegiance in the Agency.

• You’ll earn points by attacking and hacking the opposing faction. The Biocybernetic Incident sites are an exception, granting points to both factions for participation.

• There is no penalty for engaging both factions’ sites, but Agency progress only advances by hitting the opposition. Engaging with the new Biocybernetic Incident sites will yield progress for both sides.

• Rewards include 100 PLEX, Skill Points, seasonal boosters, Deathglow Remnant SKINs and more.

• The reward track expands in the final week with rewards too good to miss.

Daily Login Rewards

Log in throughout Crimson Harvest for devilish rewards:

• Alpha and Omega pilots receive separate reward tracks

• Omegas claim both tracks daily, and upgrading to Omega unlocks all past Omega rewards retroactively

• Rewards include:

  • Boosters

  • SKINs and SKINR nanocoatings & patterns

  • EverMarks

  • Skill Points

  • And more!

Don’t miss out: the 24th login during the event grants a special Skill Point bonus for both Omega and Alpha capsuleers.

Patch Notes for 2025-10-01.1

Defect Fixes:

Gameplay:

• Changed name of Fulleride Reaction Formula to Fullerides Reaction Formula

• The mission, A Demonstration, which is part of the Minmatar Epic Arc, will no longer spawn in the system of Ammold

Patch Notes for 2025-09-29.1

Features and Changes:

Vanguard Nemesis Event:

• The Vanguard are finding even more Upwell Convoys being discovered throughout New Eden, with four convoys in each security band appearing for a total of 12.

• Upwell Convoys are now hauling more loot.

Patch Notes for 2025-09-26.2

Defect Fixes:

Technical:

• Resolved an issue where EDENCOM ships, fitted with a Vorton Projector would sometimes crash when jumping through a stargate.

Patch Notes for 2025-09-25.1

Defect Fixes:

Graphics:

• The client will perform better in situations where there is a lot of lights present in the scene

Technical:

• The ‘blip’ sounds which could sometimes be heard when a client is entering space has been fixed.

• Fixed some old Windows 10 OS versions not correctly launching the client. This includes:

  • Any Windows 10 install not patched to at least version 1703, released back in 2017

  • Windows 10 Enterprise 2016 LTSB 64-bit

  • Windows 10 Enterprise 2015 Long-Term Service Plan

Patch Notes for 2025-09-24.1

Features and Changes:

Vanguard Nemesis Event:

• Completion of the Community Track within EVE Vanguard now reveals the location of 9 Upwell convoys in EVE Online. (Number of convoys increased)

Patch Notes for 2025-09-23.1

Defect Fixes:

User Interface:

• Fixed the enlistment flow, incorrectly telling you that you need to be -2.0 to join the pirate militias instead of 0.0 as of the Legion major update.

• It’s now possible to search for ships and modules in contracts that had errors (Such as Exequror Navy Issue)

Patch Notes for 2025-09-18.1

Features and Changes:

Vanguard Nemesis Event:

Updated item description for the Sealed Projects Container to include the systems where they can be traded in:

• Uttindar

• Perimeter

• IZ-AOB

• Hedion

• Hemin

• FWST-8

• Botane

• 9IPC-E

• UT-UZB

Patch Notes for 2025-09-17.1

Defect Fixes:

User Interface:

• Fixed an issue that showed an advert for Capsuleer Day in the Air Opportunities.

Patch Notes for 2025-09-16.1

Features and Changes:

Vanguard Nemesis Event:

Nemesis is live! Log in daily from September 16th until October 2nd to gain valuable rewards with a DLI giving out SKINr Design Elements, Boosters, SKINs and Skillpoints.

This event is all about completing expedition assignments in Vanguard that contribute to the new global track in EVE Online. Once that is filled, it will reveal secret Upwell Convoys across the universe. Hunting them down and destroying the haulers will give juicy rewards including PLEX and Sealed Projects Containers with a chance to earn Implants, SKINS or Boosters.

Sealed Projects Containers can be taken to a Deathless Wraith Trader, which are located throughout New Eden to trade for new Design Elements, SKINs, and even Small Skill Injectors!

Players also earn personal rewards through a personal reward track unlocking SKINs, Design Elements, and Sealed Projects Containers. Your actions in Vanguard can shape the EVE universe.

Defect Fixes:

Technical:

• DLSS will no longer experience freezing or stuttering that could occur in some situations.

• Godrays will now always render as intended.

Patch Notes for 2025-09-12.1

Defect Fixes:

Gameplay:

• Fixed the Hrada-Oki Atavum Transport item trader in the rare wormhole Hrada-Oki Bivouac site having some trade offers for Infomorph Decryption Keys instead of Atavums.

Patch Notes for 2025-09-11.1

Features and Changes:

Triglavian Invasions:

• Roaming NPCs will now only warp to the following sites:

  • Observatory Flashpoints, Vigilance Points, World Ark Proving Grounds, Accelerator Flashpoints, Stellar Fleet Deployment Sites, and Stellar Observation Posts.

• Roaming NPCs will no longer warp to destructible effect beacons.

• Roaming NPCs will weigh warping to sites more consistently.

Previously, some fleets were able to enter certain sites (e.g. EDENCOM Field Bases) and alter the intended balance of that site. Now, these NPCs will only go to sites that feature a lobby area. In addition, roamers will now more evenly split their attention between sites and other locations.

Note that these changes apply to all Triglavian Invasion roamers, including those spawned in Pochven, minor victory systems, EDENCOM Fortress systems, and NPCs spawned from Pochven wormholes.

User Interface:

• Added Icons to the market tooltips for your orders and orders that are on your route.

Defect Fixes:

Gameplay:

• Skyhooks can be warped to again from the ‘My Orbital Skyhook’ window.

Pochven:

• Roaming NPCs will no longer warp to small-scale sites within Pochven.

Patch Notes for 2025-09-10.1

Defect Fixes:

Gameplay:

• The Bastion Module no longer requires safety being set to red to use in Empire space.

Patch Notes for 2025-09-09.1

Legion Major Update

The Legion Major Update is now live!

Features and Changes:

Balancing: 🤝

• Reduced the Maximum Number of drones that can be assigned to a character from 50 drones to 20 drones.

We’re cutting down on the number of drones that can be assigned to a single character at a time from 50 to 20 drones. There are things that we really like about drone assistance: there is a skillful element of assigning drones to someone else when you are jammed, damped or out of range. There is also some niche gameplay such as assigning drones to an interceptor to decloak players at gatecamps, assigning light drones to a dedicated anti-frigate ship in PVE such as incursions or PVP, and you can assign drones if you’re doing some specialized task like Logistics. Further, if you’re a new player you can assign drones to your more knowledgeable friends & fleet mates so you can focus on piloting your own ship.

We feel like dropping down to 20 drones will still keep most of these cool use cases intact, while cutting down on undesirable gameplay.

• Sentry Drones

  • Increased Signature Radius on all sentry drones from 100m to 300m.

Increasing the signature radius on Sentry Drones to Battlecruiser size so that they take more damage from Missiles, Bombs and Vorton Projectors, and are faster to lock so that they can be countered more effectively.

• Armor Rigs

  • Changed the drawback from Armor Rigs to be Agility instead of Max Velocity.

• New Skill added - Advanced Armor Layering

  • Grants 2% reduction to the mass penalty of armor plates per level.

  • Rank 5 skill.

  • Available in all empire school stations to purchase for 15,000,000 ISK, or from the character sheet for 19,500,000 ISK.

  • Skill Requirements

    • Armor Layering IV

    • Mechanics V

    • Hull Upgrades V

We’ve heard concerns that shield setups are dominating and armor doesn’t feel great for skirmishing now. To help address this, we’re introducing a new advanced skill to shave off a bit more mass from armor plates and changing the drawback on most armor rigs to be a penalty to Agility instead of Max Velocity. This will still keep the original design intent and tradeoff that exists with armor/shield rigs in that they reduce some of your ability to mitigate damage in exchange for more tank. Losing turning speed and handling means you won’t be able to orbit as tightly or get as high angular velocity as before, but you now won’t also be giving up range control anymore which should make them feel much better on the field.

We hope that this will make armor more viable especially at smaller scales and help promote more ships that have fallen out of favor such as AHACs.

• Encounter Surveillance System site

  • Increased the range that players are unable to cloak in the main bank room from 150km to 500km.

Cutting down on some frustrating gameplay where snipers could enter the ESS and then cloak in the site to ambush players as they come in.

• Marauders

  • Removed -70% Micro Jump Drive reactivation cooldown role bonus from all Marauders.

  • Vargur: 7.5% Falloff bonus per Minmatar Battleship level reduced to 5%.

  • Marauders are now unable to access the main bank room of the ESS.

Marauders continue to be dominant and oppressive at smaller scales of PVP. Marauders currently have incredible damage, high projection, a durable tank, and incredible mobility. We’re making an adjustment here to reign them in a bit while solidifying their role as ships which trade mobility for improved offense and defensive capabilities, and making the Bastion Module their core identity.

We’re making another small adjustment to the Vargur because it is still an outlier. This set of changes should still keep them as apex PVE and PVP ships and the undisputed kings of firepower and defense, but allow for counterplay opportunities when it comes to facing them on grid.

Additionally, we are experimenting by blocking Marauders from the ESS main bank room. This should hopefully lead to a more diverse meta for ESS engagements and allow other battleship and battlecruiser hulls to shine. We’ll be keeping an eye on this change to see if it leads to a healthier ecosystem overall.

• Bastion Module

  • Armor Repair and Shield Boost Amount Reduced from 100% to 60% while active.

  • Added new bonus, 20% reduction in cycle time and capacitor cost for Armor Repairers and Shield Boosters while active.

This retains the current repair effectiveness over time values as now without increasing the capacitor cost per second.

We are doing this to help improve active armor Marauders which could sometimes end up repairing for most, or even exceeding their maximum Armor Hitpoints when using Asklepian Implants, boosters, x-type hardeners, et cetera. This would limit the ability of armor Marauders like the Kronos and Paladin when outfitted with high-end modules. It also made them require a disproportionally higher skill cap relative to shield Marauders given how armor repairers apply their reps at the end of the cycle.

This will make Armor Repairers easier to use without over-repping on armor Marauders and limit them less when it comes to high-end fits that push the limits.

Additionally, this change will help reduce the power of Ancillary Shield Booster Marauders a bit in PVP. We’ve heard a lot of frustration from the playerbase about multiple XLASB shield fit Marauders (Looking at you Vargur!) since they’re both very cheap and bypass the normal weakness that active tank marauder fits have against capacitor warfare. By moving some of the power of the bastion module into cycle time, this specifically hurts ancillary shield booster fits since they mostly just want raw boost amount to get the most effectiveness out of each charge and clip, rather than cycle time and the capacitor cost reduction.

• Tactical Destroyers

  • Can now enter the main bank room of the ESS.

We're giving Tactical Destroyers some more roaming utility by allowing them to enter the ESS site. Like with Marauders, we’re experimenting a little here to mix things up, we’ll make changes if things end up going in an unhealthy direction like with 10mn T3Ds becoming meta or becoming too hard to catch.

• Confessor

  • New Defense Mode Bonus: 33% bonus to Remote Armor Repairer amount, and reduction in activation cost.

  • Damage per level of Tactical Destroyer increased from 5% to 7.5%.

  • Max Velocity increased from 230m/s to 250m/s.

• Svipul

  • New Defense Mode Bonus: 33% bonus to Remote Shield Booster amount, and reduction in activation cost.

  • Damage per level of Tactical Destroyer increased from 5% to 7.5%.

  • Max Velocity increased from 220m/s to 240m/s.

Both the Confessor and Svipul are suffering a bit in usability. The Confessor has a bit too much overlap with the Retribution right now, which has significantly better mitigation while also having high damage with a range bonus. The Confessor's only strengths over the Retribution is the added utility, commonly used as a probe launcher, and the added damage and ewar resistance in sharpshooter mode. The Svipul has also struggled with other new ships entering the game like the Thrasher Fleet Issue and buffs to the Stabber, Navy Cruisers and medium Autocannons.

The Hecate and Jackdaw are doing very well right now and are some of the most used ships in the game, so we’re giving both the Confessor and Svipul a bit more base damage and speed to hopefully make them stand out a bit more. We’re also adding a Remote Armor/Shield Booster bonus to them in defensive mode, to give them some more utility to potentially open up some spider tanking fleet options in PVP and PVE.

• Ferox Navy Issue

  • Medium Hybrid Damage per level bonus reduced from 10% to 7.5%.

  • Medium Hybrid Tracking per level bonus reduced from 7.5% to 5.0%.

  • Powergrid Reduced from 1250 to 1150 (same as regular Ferox).

  • CPU reduced from 565 to 515 (same as regular Ferox).

  • Reduction in Shield Booster power and CPU requirements per level bonus improved from 7.5% to 10%.

We’re making some adjustments specifically to the Ferox Navy Issue to address its dominance in the fleet meta. Specifically, we are reducing the damage, tracking and reducing the Powergrid and CPU that it has, setting it back to the same values that the regular Tech 1 Ferox has. This should still mean it is viable but make it harder to fit a 5-6 slot tank and a DLA with railguns without fitting modules. At the same time we are improving the shield booster fitting bonus that it has which should compensate active tanking fits with a fitting reduction to make up for the loss in base PG and CPU.

Additionally, we know there are concerns about the dominance of other railgun ships that may just simply replace the FNI as the top meta railgun ship, with those being the Vulture, Ferox (t1), Naga and Rokh. So we are going to make some adjustments to all rails overall.

• Medium and Large Railguns

  • Tracking Reduced by 10%.

  • Optimal Range and Falloff Reduced by 10%.

Railguns are dominating at all sizes, so we’re going to reduce their tracking and optimal & falloff slightly for medium and large railguns. Medium Railguns have been very strong for a very long time now, while Large Railguns have recently taken the top spot since the Viridian expansion where we gave a significant buff to the Rokh with a tracking and rate of fire bonus.

This will mean that most of the Tracking Speed bonus for Large Railguns got rolled back, maintaining about 3.5% of it, but they’ll keep the rate of fire bonus they received. We hope this will mean that Large Rails will land in a good spot between now (Super Dominant) and pre-Viridian (Considered weak).

We will continue to keep a close eye on the Vulture, Ferox, Ferox Navy Issue, Rokh and Naga after this set of changes and make further adjustments in the upcoming expansion if needed, whether they continue to dominate or end up too weak.

• Naglfar

  • Midslots improved from 6 to 7.

  • Lowslots reduced from 6 to 5.

• Naglfar Fleet Issue

  • Midslots improved from 6 to 7.

  • Lowslots reduced from 6 to 5.

Improving the shield tank effectiveness of the Naglfar line by improving the number of midslots they have available at the cost of a lowslot. This should mean the Naglfar can take advantage of the shield booster bonus a bit more effectively in HAW setups and open the door for stronger shield based anti-capital turret dreadnoughts. While we do think we are trading some of the unique versatility of the Naglfar hull here, the dreadnought meta has been heavily dominated by Revelations for the last half-decade, and the T1 Phoenix (that the T1 Naglfar now shares a slot layout with) are missile based so we feel comfortable making this change.

• Sin

  • Removed 10% bonus to logistic drone transfer amount per level.

  • Added 10% bonus to Warp Scrambler range per level.

  • Added +1 bonus to Warp Scrambler strength per level.

    • These bonuses only apply to Warp Scramblers and not Warp Disruptors.

The Sin is the least used Black Ops, and the logistics drone transfer amount bonus is fairly weak. We are replacing this with a 10% bonus to the range of Warp Scramblers, and then a +1 bonus to strength per level to Warp Scramblers. This bonus should be a lot more desirable and makes more sense for the role of Black Ops. We hope this bonus will improve the Sins utility in drops by making it more powerful at holding targets, and give it a niche in super hunting with the extra point strength.

• Apocalypse

  • Removed 7.5% Large Energy Turret Tracking bonus per level.

  • Large Energy Turret optimal range bonus improved from 7.5% to 10% per level.

  • Added 5% Large Energy Turret damage per level.

  • Added 10% reduction in Large Energy Turret capacitor cost per level.

• Apocalypse Navy Issue

  • Removed 7.5% Large Energy Turret Tracking bonus per level.

  • Large Energy Turret optimal range bonus improved from 7.5% to 10% per level.

  • Added 7.5% Large Energy Turret damage per level.

  • Added 10% reduction in Large Energy Turret capacitor cost per level.

Reworking the Apocalypse. There is a lot of competition for large energy turret ships with the Apoc, Apoc Navy, Abaddon, Nightmare, Bhaalgorn, Armageddon Navy Issue and Oracle all fighting for the same space. Currently, the Apocalypse feels weak due to lack of a damage bonus, while the tracking bonus doesn’t feel particularly strong because a lot of other laser ships are better in applying damage in practice, such as the Bhaalgorn (Webs+Neut), Nightmare (Superior mobility and same tracking bonus), Armageddon/Armageddon Navy Issue (Ranged neuts and can fit Rapid Heavys/Bonused Drones) and the Oracles superior mobility allowing it to get better tracking through managing traversal. The unique selling point of the Apocalypse hull is the optimal range bonus, however the damage is still underwhelming.

The aim here is to move the Apocalypse more towards a sniper attack role, focusing it more on ranged damage. so we are removing the tracking bonus of the Apocalypse, while giving it more damage, giving it a cap reduction bonus for lasers so that it doesn’t hurt as much running a MWD while shooting, and then improving the optimal range bonus slightly. We feel like this should make the Apocalypse stand out more in the lineup of Amarr Battleships.

• Maelstrom

  • Highslots reduced from 8 to 7.

  • Turrets reduced from 8 to 6.

  • Midslots increased from 6 to 7.

  • Removed 5% bonus to Large Projectile Turret rate of fire bonus per level.

  • Added 10% bonus to Large Projectile Turret damage per level.

  • Powergrid reduced from 21000 to 18000.

Reworking the Maelstrom to be a shield mirror of the Hyperion. This should help make it much more viable as a small gang brawler and PVE platform with the extra utility high and the extra midslot, while also making it more attractive in fleets by being a bit easier to fit with a pure artillery fit and increasing the alpha capability slightly at the cost of some DPS. We hope this will make it stand out a bit more from other Minmatar projectile ships like the Tempest Fleet Issue by leaning it more towards alpha strike damage and less towards rate of fire in fleets as an alternative option, and making it more viable as a counterpart to the Rokh.

• Megathron Navy Issue

  • Tracking bonus improved from 7.5% to 10% per level.

  • Added 15% reduction in Armor Plate mass penalty per level.

  • Maximum Velocity improved from 130m/s to 135m/s.

Giving some extra tracking to the Megathron Navy Issue to compensate it for the adjustment to large railguns, which will also mean a direct improvement to it with blasters fitted. Also adding a small speed boost and an armor plate mass reduction bonus to the Megathron Navy Issue to improve it for nano/skirmish armor fleets. This bonus has worked well on other ships, like the Oneiros, Eris, Catalyst Navy and Exequror Navy Issue, so we're excited to see the effect this will have on the Navy Mega.

• Cenotaph

  • Ladar Sensor Strength reduced from 25 to 15.

  • Armor Hitpoints reduced from 5,000 to 3,500 (-1500).

  • Structure Hitpoints improved from 6,000 to 7,500 (+1500).

  • Low Slots reduced from 3 to 2.

  • Role bonus to Medium Projectile Turret and Heavy Assault Missile damage improved from 100% to 125%.

  • Max Velocity Improved from 160 to 170m/s.

  • Agility improved from 0.6x to 0.55x.

• Tholos

  • Ladar Sensor Strength reduced from 16 to 8.

We’re hearing about complaints of the Cenotaph's strength from wormholers and to a lesser extent other areas of space where very expensive, high resistance ships are used at very close range around fixed locations. These fits allow the Cenotaph to survive even with a 3 slot tank. In this environment things like range and speed don’t matter as much. We are making a set of adjustments to the Cenotaph to try and retain its strength in other areas of space where it’s not as dominant, while also adding more meaningful counterplay options to the Deathless ships as a whole.

We are reducing the sensor strength of the Deathless ships to make ECM a very effective counter against them, especially in wormhole environments where their very close range missiles are not at as much as a disadvantage as they are in other areas of space. This should hopefully allow wormholers to more reliably counter while preserving a lot of their strength in other environments, where it is very difficult to ever get close to their maximum potential paper DPS output. ECM also is not very punishing in situations where you only have a DoT on 1-2 targets (since as long as you get a lock every 75 seconds then you can keep up the damage), but ECM is very effective at lowering the total DPS across the whole field since even a 25% chance to jam results in dropping the number of pods spread in optimal scenarios from 7 to 5.

Additionally, we are shifting some hitpoints from Armor away into Structure to make armor tanked Cenotaphs more vulnerable, and taking away a low slot, which should make heavy armor cenotaphs much less viable. To compensate it for the lost lowslot and buff it in situations where it isn’t using the lowslots for tank, we are improving the damage role bonus and also giving it some extra speed and agility to partially compensate the potential loss of modules such as nanofibers and gyrostabilizers/ballistic controls.

• Cyclone Fleet Issue

  • Max Velocity reduced from 190m/s to 180m/s.

  • Signature Radius reduction per level bonus reduced from 5% to 3%.

The Cyclone Fleet Issue is a bit healthier than the Ferox Navy Issue, but still overperforming somewhat. We’re reducing the speed slightly and also reducing the signature radius reduction bonus to the same as the Hyena to remove some of the mitigation it has.

• Harbinger Navy Issue

  • Powergrid increased from 1550 MW to 1625 MW.

The Harbinger Navy Issue is underused so we’re giving it some PG to open up a few more fits. Combined with the changes to armor rigs and the other dominant battlecruisers being knocked down a bit, we hope this will make this a more attractive pick.

• Myrmidon Navy Issue

  • Drone Capacity increased from 250m3 to 300m3.

  • Now additionally gets a 10% bonus to drone tracking per level just like the Vexor Navy Issue does.

Myrmidon Navy Issue is still the least used battlecruiser in the game. We’re giving it a powerful tracking bonus to match the VNI, and then improving the drone capacity on it so that it has more options and is harder to defang, and can afford to include more utility drones like the web drones it has a bonus to.

• Tornado

  • Agility Nerfed from 0.475 to 0.54.

  • Max Velocity increased from 225m/s to 250m/s.

  • Falloff bonus per level improved from 5% to 7.5%.

We’ve heard frustrations when it comes to dealing with low align time, warp speed rigged, artillery fit Tornados “Windrunners”. So we’re making an adjustment to the Tornado which should hurt it in this role, but buff it in other roles. We’re nerfing the agility enough so that it will be much harder to get an under 4 second align time on the Tornado, making this type of fit a lot more vulnerable to being caught. To compensate it for this nerf, we’re buffing the base speed of the Tornado and also improving the falloff bonus per level that it has. The net outcome of this hopefully is that Windrunner fits are less effective and can be caught more easily, but Tornados that are staying on the field feel stronger.

• Talos

  • Max Velocity improved from 220 m/s to 235m/s.

Giving the Talos a little love since it’s underused outside of structure grinding and ganking.

• Deimos

  • Signature Radius reduced from 150m to 120m.

The Deimos had a very large signature radius for a brawling focused armor HAC, moving it down to 120m which places it between the Vagabond (115m) and Zealot (125m), so that it can mitigate more damage. This should help it when brawling and in AHAC roles.

• Zealot

  • 5% Rate of Fire bonus replaced with 7.5% bonus to medium energy turret damage.

This is a very small damage bump (from 33.3% to 37.5% more damage) but will help the Zealot a lot more with cap stability, since the guns will no longer be consuming as much capacitor per second, and also means the crystals will last longer before they break.

• Mamba

  • New role bonus added, 25% bonus to drone max velocity.

  • Maximum Velocity improved from 245m/s to 255m/s.

• Mekubal

  • New role bonus added, 50% bonus to small projectile falloff.

The Mamba and Mekubal aren’t quite at the power level expected from a Pirate Destroyer and their current price point. We’re buffing them up by giving them an extra role bonus which currently all other T1 Destroyers and Navy Destroyers in the game get. The Mamba is getting the drone speed role bonus which the Algos has, and a bit more speed since it’s a bit too slow right now while the Mekubal is getting an additional falloff bonus, which will stack with its per level bonus, just like the Khizriel.

• Magnate Navy Issue

  • Capacitor Improved from 325 to 500.

  • Capacitor Recharge Time increased from 180 seconds to 250 seconds.

• Heron Navy Issue

  • Capacitor Improved from 245 to 300.

  • Capacitor Recharge Time increased from 135 seconds to 150 seconds.

• Imicus Navy Issue

  • Capacitor Improved from 270 to 400.

  • Capacitor Recharge Time increased from 150 seconds to 200 seconds.

• Probe Fleet Issue

  • Capacitor Improved from 235 to 280.

  • Capacitor Recharge Time increased from 130 seconds to 140 seconds.

Setting the Navy Scanning Frigates base capacitor amounts and capacitor recharge time to the same values as their navy racial counterparts. This will result in them having much higher base capacitor pools and slightly higher capacitor per second rates. It was difficult to use them in PVP because of how low their capacitor pool was since they were unchanged from the base exploration frigates so this should improve them.

• Skybreaker

  • An additional high slot has been added.

• Stormbringer

  • An additional high slot has been added.

Giving these ships a utility slot allows them a chance to escape their current niches and see more use in other areas of the game. Powergrid and CPU values have not been changed, so their new modules must fit within current fitting constraints.

• Outpost Construction Skill

  • Now gives 1% reduction per level in manufacturing time for items that require the skill.

Making the outpost construction skill worth training to higher levels since currently no item in the game requires it to be higher than level 3 to build, and the vast majority of items only require it at level 1.

Factional Warfare:

• The minimum requirement to join the Pirate FW Factions (Angel Cartel and Guristas) has been raised from -2.0 to 0.0 to match the four empire militias.

We are raising the standing requirements for players and corporations to enlist with pirate insurgency factions from -2.0 to 0.0 as we said we would in the earlier patch notes released on the 26th of June.

We are doing this to address concerns with team killing (Awoxing) in the pirate militias, which happens significantly more frequently in the pirate factions than the empire factions which already have a standings requirement of 0.0.

By raising the minimum to 0.0, corporations can no longer add fresh characters to bring their corp standings up below -2.0 as was previously the case.

We know this isn’t going to completely fix the problem with team killing in factional warfare, but we hope it will reduce the number of incidents in pirate militias for the time being.

• Insurgency Balance

  • Reduced the base amount of systems needed to be won from 7 to 5.

  • Increased the ambition modifier cap from +13 to +15 (so winning 20 systems is still the maximum difficulty cap).

  • Increased the weighting of Frontline and Command Ops systems for the Insurgency FOB when choosing a system for a new insurgency so that it is more likely to choose those systems.

  • Increased the weighting of dominant control (when a side owns 66% or more of the warzone) so that the Insurgency FOB is more likely to choose those systems.

• Insurgency Mining Ambush Sites

  • Increased the signature radius of the Hijacker Taipans and Hijacker Echos from 25m to 80m (which is the same as the ORE Safeguard Atrons) so that they are much easier to track for players and the NPCs.

  • Increased the shield hitpoints of the pirate and Mordus battleship NPCs by 50% to increase the time it takes to run the sites a bit and give more opportunities for players to get caught while running the site.

The pirate tackle frigates had very low signature radius when compared to the ore tackle frigates, and were very hard to track for both players and NPCs. Additionally, the sites were getting run a bit faster than we would like so we’re increasing the time slightly by increasing the HP of the battleships.

Character Resculpt Update:

• It’s now possible to swap between the Male and Female body models using a Pilot’s Body Resculpt Certificate available from the NES.

• As part of the update, every capsuleer receives a free character resculpt token that is bundled with the weekly 15,000 free Skill Points available in the New Eden Store. This is normally an Omega only benefit, but until 16 September only, it is available to Alphas as well!

Capsuleer Safety in Highsec:

• Autothysian Lancers:

  • In the aftermath of the Drifter Crisis, the Autothysian Lancers no longer have a presence in high security space.

• Forward Operating Bases:

  • Forward Operating bases that would previously spawn in highsec are now spawning in lowsec, and at a higher rate.

We’ve been looking into the subject of capsuleer safety in highsec, and as part of our investigation we've noticed that new players do lose ships to Autothysian Lancers and 'diamond rats' (from the FOBs). While the new player journey should include the experience of ship loss, destruction at the hands of Autothysian Lancers and diamond rats does not adequately teach new players about how to improve their survivability. The issue of highsec safety is an ongoing discussion that will require further time and continuing feedback.

Missions & NPCs:

• Significantly increased NPC buy order quantities for the following commodities:

  • Rogue Drone Infestation Data.

  • Neural Network Analyzer.

  • Sleeper Data Library.

  • Ancient Coordinates Database.

  • Sleeper Drone AI Nexus.

The new buy order quantities will mean no more stack splitting for all but the most determined of hoarders. These quantities have been split more equally across all applicable stations, meaning you can expect a consistent experience no matter which Corporation you choose to sell to.

New Contribution Methods for Freelance Jobs:

Freelance Jobs now include three new contribution methods, giving more options for corporations.

• Destroy Capsuleer: Project Managers can now set up Freelance Jobs that reward destroying specific capsuleers or organizations.

• Remote Boost Shield: Earn rewards by boosting allies’ shields through Freelance Jobs.

• Remote Repair Armor: Earn rewards by repairing allies’ armor through Freelance Jobs.

Pochven:

• Smaller-scale sites have had some mechanical tweaks:

  • All such sites will now appear within the Triglavian Invasions Opportunities page.

  • NPCs within EDENCOM Scout Fleets will no longer have mixed factions (e.g. Amarr NPCs will no longer appear with Caldari).

  • Battleship NPCs will no longer spawn during the first wave in these sites.

  • Moved NPC spawn locations to reduce bumping with the hackable container.

  • Various improvements to how NPCs within these sites handle idling and swapping targets.

  • NPCs will now make more consistent use of their microwarpdrives.

  • A Rogue Drone battleship will now always spawn during the 2nd or 3rd wave of an Incipient Drone Swarm site.

Adding the sites to the Triglavian Invasions page has their location visible at any range within the region. This should promote more purposeful movement around the triangle while also offering a way for hunters to locate potential targets.

Separating the EDENCOM subfactions will mean there are less types of EWAR to deal with per instance. This should bring the difficulty of the site more in-line with that of the Convocation Watchpost.

Lastly, battleships spawning in the initial wave could result in swings in difficulty and time requirements. This was especially true for Incipient Drone Swarms, which could take far longer when multiple battleships spawned. Now, battleships will only spawn during the 2nd or 3rd wave. A battleship spawn is guaranteed in Incipient Drone Swarm sites, both to supply standings gains and to ensure the site runtime is a decent length.

• Rebalanced Torpid Sleeper Hives distribution and rewards:

  • Increased the number of sites present within the region to 6 (from 3).

  • Decreased the optimal per-pilot ISK payout to 27m (from 33m).

  • Decreased the average number of Stability Telemetry commodities within the hackable container.

• Increased the optimal per-pilot ISK payout earned within Convocation Watchpost and EDENCOM Scout Fleet sites to 18m (from 15m).

Three instances of this site proved to not be enough to meet demand, so the number of sites has been doubled. Rewards have been rebalanced to compensate for the greater potential faucet.

Convocation Watchpost and EDENCOM Scout Fleet sites continue to be less appealing than Incipient Drone Swarms and Torpid Sleeper Hives due to their negative standings effects. The payout increase aims to reward those who are willing to put up with the additional dangers these standings hits cause.

• Optimal per-pilot payouts for Observatory Flashpoint sites have been increased to 150m ISK (from 120m ISK).

• Micro Jump Drives can no longer be activated within the lobby area of Observatory Flashpoint sites.

• The Observatory Flashpoint failure timer will now only start after the initial guard NPCs are destroyed within the main combat area.

The previous change to site rewards had an outsized effect on groups running non-Marauder setups. We are adjusting the payout values of the site so it is still valuable for these groups.

To compensate for the reward reversion, a Micro Jump Drive block has been added to the lobby of these sites. This is intended to reduce the usefulness of Marauders within that area.

In addition, the site must now be fully in-progress before the failure timer begins ticking down. This is to prevent players rerolling the site spawn without any effort.

• NPCs within Vigilance Point sites have had a number of balance changes:

  • NPCs will now utilize microwarpdrives to close distances.

  • NPCs will move more slowly when within their optimal orbit range.

  • Inertia modifiers and mass values have been adjusted to make NPCs more agile.

  • Optimal weapon ranges have been increased and falloff ranges have been added.

  • Weapon tracking has been improved significantly.

  • Shield and armor resistances have been reduced.

  • Signature radii for Frigates, Destroyers, and Cruisers have been increased.

  • Signature radii for Battleships have been decreased.

• Drifter officers within Vigilance Point sites must now be destroyed before the next wave spawns to increase the Destroy Drifter Commanders counter.

• Vigilance Point site beacons will now appear within their lobby area instead of the combat area.

• Vigilance Point site beacons will now persist after the site is completed.

• Vigilance Point acceleration gates will now be accessible without a key after the site is completed.

A common solution to this site has been kiting NPCs and largely ignoring them, which goes against the intended gameplay loop. As such, outrunning these NPCs has been made much more difficult. NPCs will now be more of a threat, but are also easier to destroy.

The change to when Drifter officers must be destroyed aims to increase the challenge when attempting to draw out Strategos. This also prevents Allecto’s blind fury being used as a tool to help clear multiple waves.

The beacon and acceleration gate behavior has been made consistent with Observatory Flashpoint sites. This prevents them being usable as safe locations following the site’s completion.

• Overmind Nursery Groves have been partially rebalanced:

  • Replaced the Triglavian Survey Databases found when salvaging an Overmind Nursery Nest with Triglavian salvage materials.

  • Reduced the maximum number of sites to 9 (from 10).

  • A beacon will now spawn in the site’s lobby area when the site completes.

Replacing the red loot with Triglavian salvage gives a way to acquire these materials without damage to Triglavian standings.

The average value for this site has increased fairly significantly with this change, resulting in a small tweak to the number of sites available. Also, the number is now divisible by 3.

Like with Vigilance Point sites, the beacon has been added to prevent the site being a safe haven once the site ends.

Science & Industry:

• Increased metenox daily consumption from 3600 to 4800 (from 150 hourly to 200).

• Decreased magmatic gas volume from 0.1 to 0.01.

We are actively working towards a stronger long-term solution for the Metenox and its impact. These changes are meant to be short-term iterations to nudge the Metenox in the right direction, while we take the time we need to find a better long-term solution.

Sovereignty:

• 🤝 It’s now possible to configure Skyhooks while they activating (during the 30 minute window).

• 🤝 It’s now possible to configure Skyhooks remotely through the ‘My Orbital Skyhooks’ page.

Wormholes:

• Wandering k-space wormhole connections have been added to C4 wormhole systems:

  • S047 will connect to high-sec systems.

  • N290 will connect to low-sec systems.

  • K329 will connect to null-sec systems.

  • Each of these new wormholes will be battleship-sized.

  • These wormholes will be significantly rarer than those found in C5 and C6 systems.

• Z142 and C248 wormholes will now spawn more frequently.

• Scan levels for certain wormholes have been changed:

  • Wandering wormholes Z647, D382, U574, V753, V911, and W237 from level 1 to level 2.

  • Wandering wormholes O477, Y683, E175, and Z457 from level 2 to level 1.

  • Wandering wormholes R474 and B274 from level 3 to level 2.

  • Wormhole S199 within low-sec from level 2 to level 3.

  • Wormhole M267 from level 3 to level 2.

• J492 wormholes will now appear within wormhole systems.

The goal for these new(-ish) C4 wormholes and increased frequency of Z142 and C248 wormholes is to give residents access to more content opportunities. In addition, those in C4s may occasionally luck into a direct to high-sec connection!

Scan levels have been tweaked for both consistency and usability. Any wormhole that can appear as both static and wandering will now use different scan levels so they are more easily distinguishable.

• Information window descriptions for wormholes have been updated:

  • The messages for the wormhole’s destination, maximum ship size, lifetime, and mass stability have been simplified.

  • Lifetime and Mass Stability messages now include color for improved readability.

  • A 1-hour remaining lifetime message has been added.

  • A Drifter wormhole destination message has been added.

  • A C13 wormhole destination message has been added.

This change aims to improve the readability of wormhole messaging and remove an unintuitive barrier for newer players. Messages will no longer need to be decoded and can now be read as plain text. The new destination messages have been added to make them more clearly distinct from C1-C3 wormholes. These additions should still leave plenty of room for mastery, such as learning to narrow down locations further via wormhole names or appearances.

The 1-hour remaining message gives players a bit more clarity to the level of risk they are taking when jumping through a wormhole near its end of life. This should be especially useful for those jumping through frigate wormholes.

• The warp-in and spawn points within C2 cosmic anomaly sites have been adjusted.

• The targeting prioritization for Capital Escalation site Drifter NPCs is now much more varied.

• The value of loot dropped from Upgraded Avenger NPCs has increased to 50m ISK (from 35m).

• Deepflow Rift sites will no longer spawn within wormholes.

Many of the spawn points found in C2 cosmic anomaly sites were extremely far apart. This resulted in a lot of time within the site being dedicated to just moving between locations. Having the spawns closer together makes running these sites more enjoyable and rewarding.

Capital Escalation site Drifters often focused logistics ships when present, making it easier for higher value ships to avoid danger. These NPCs are now much more likely to vary the kinds of ships they target.

Upgraded Avenger NPCs will only appear and remain within a Capital Escalation site that has been escalated. Increasing the rewards earned by defeating these NPCs further encourages the use of capitals for this content, creating more juicy targets out in space.

Deepflows Rifts have generally been considered out-of-place within the wormhole ecosystem and as such have been removed. Already existing sites will remain but will not respawn once completed.

Defect Fixes:

Gameplay:

• Rorquals, FAX and Jump Freighters will now be blocked from sites which disallow other capital ships from entering.

• The Retriever is now shown on the Astrogeology skill as ‘required for’ at level 3 like the other 2 mining barges.

• Fixed a Sansha NPC showing up in the Serpentis Variation of the ‘Violent Expulsion’ level 1 mission.

• Fixed Angel Sentry towers being used in the Serpentis Rally Point instead of Serpentis sentry towers.

Localization:

• Fixed a typo in the name of the Consortium Vorton Tuning System.

• Fixed a typo in the name of the Ship Restrictions for the Pirate Interception missions.

• Fixed the name of Mordu’s Legion in the Outer Ring region description.

• Fixed a typo in the Delve region description.

Pochven:

• Fixed a very rare issue where a second Gallente Dreadnought could appear within Observatory Flashpoint sites.

• NPCs within Observatory Flashpoints and smaller-scale sites will now correctly orbit within their EWAR effect ranges.

• Drifter and Sleeper NPCs with remote repair effects can now repair their allies.

Patch Notes for 2025-09-08.1

Defect Fixes:

Graphics:

• Fixed an issue on the Hrada Oki Offender, Sponsored Security, and Azdaja Extirpated SKIN lines where various VFX were missing.

• Ship previews in the Paragon Hub no longer appear misaligned.

Technical:

• Fixed a Mac client crash when trying to display some corp descriptions or character biographies.

User Interface:

• Fixed an issue that caused the UI to overlap on fast checkout.

• Fixed an issue that caused the cinematic Omega screen to trigger in space while extending Omega status. This screen should now only appear when upgrading from Alpha to Omega.

Patch Notes for 2025-09-01.1

Features & Changes:

Technical

• We've updated the way our physics engine, Destiny, sends updates to clients. This won't have any effect on current performance, but will better enable us to make further optimization of Destiny updates in the future.

  • This update was rolled back to version 2025-08-27.1 at 12:52 after a graphical issue was discovered. Will keep you updated on when it returns!

Patch Notes for 2025-08-27.1

Features & Changes:

Audio:

• The Visual Damage System and hangar Fire BOBs are accompanied by audio, so you can enjoy the sound of your ship as it burns, ignites or gets extinguished. Fire audio adapts to ship speed.

Graphics:

Smart-Light-System

• Introduction of the new Smart-Light-System to improve ship lighting performance and reactivity.

  • Smart-Light-Sets handle all components for light prefabs, including flares, point lights, cone lights, and beam effects.

    • They inherit colors from SOF and can change dynamically based on variables and states they are authored to.

    • Optimized for better system performance and fewer draw calls.

    • Allows shared visual “recipes” per race/faction, triggered by ship state (e.g., warp, docking, combat).

    • Supports animated instanced meshes for future space scene effects such as debris fields and enhanced explosion debris.

  • The first batch of ships utilizing the Smart-Light-System in this update is: all cruisers.

Visual Damage System

• Smoke & Fire VFX have finally returned for ships in hull damage (player ships as well as NPC’s), their last known sighting was sometime pre-EVE: Trinity expansion.

  • Fires appear at specific hull thresholds and respond dynamically to ship movement (always starting though when entering hull damage).

  • Fire VFX are disabled on Medium/Low shader settings to maintain fleet fight performance, and do not load at all.

  • Smaller ships have larger fires in relation to ship size, and the larger the ship, the more fires there are (smaller in size in relation to the ship), going up to 7 fires on a titan.

• Smoke & Fire VFX have also now been added to structures that made sense to start with: Citadels, Refineries, Moon Miners, Skyhooks, Navigation Structures, Industrial Arrays, and Outposts.

  • Here 10 fires will appear, roughly corresponding to each 10% of Hull damage (as there is a chance a fire can spawn twice in one location).

  • As with Ship fires, these exist only on High Shader Quality.

New Hangar Visualizations

• Fire BOBs: When a ship enters a hangar with hull damage and thereby with fires, Fire BOBs will fly into the rescue to put out the fires, making sure your egregious lack of proper fire containment safety protocol does not spread to the rest of the station.

  • If you undock without repairing hull damage, then fires will re-ignite.

  • Extinguished fires will continue to emit gas/smoke until such a time you repair the ship.

• Repair BOBs: When you utilize in-hangar repair, Repair BOBs will fly in from all directions and repair your ship over a period of 30 seconds.

  • This is purely visual, if you undock immediately after the repair goes through then you will undock repaired.

  • This will only happen for full repairs, partial repairs will not trigger animations.

• Repair and Fire BOBs have models and color schemes corresponding to the station owner’s faction. Fire BOBs (of course) all have the fire engine color scheme of Iceland.

Patch Notes for 2025-08-18.1

Features & Changes:

Graphics:

Upscaling

Upscaling is a rendering technique that allows the game to be drawn at a lower resolution and then intelligently scaled up to match your display’s native resolution. This reduces the workload on your graphics card, helping to improve performance while maintaining high-quality visuals. The result is smoother gameplay with higher frame rates, particularly valuable in large fleet fights or other demanding scenarios where your system may be limited by GPU performance. Upscaling is particularly effective for players using lower- and mid-range graphics cards who want to run at higher resolutions or graphical settings than would otherwise be viable.

Frame generation takes the upscaling process one step further by creating an additional frame where possible, increasing the frame rate further.

Modern upscaling techniques have come a long way since we since we introduced FSR 1 with Uprising in 2022. This update brings more up-to-date solutions from NVIDIA, AMD, Intel and Apple.

Beyond performance improvements, upscaling can also reduce power usage. By lowering the load on the GPU, it helps keep systems cooler and, on mobile or portable setups such as laptops, can extend battery life. This makes upscaling not only a performance booster but also a useful tool for players who want to balance visual fidelity with system efficiency.

Windows

The client must be running in DX12 for the following upscalers to work. The available upscalers are:

• NVIDIA DLSS Super Resolution with Frame Generation. The version of DLSS Super Resolution that is available will depend on your NVIDIA hardware and OS settings. If your system has a GeForce RTX 50 Series GPU, then the latest DLSS 4 Super Resolution is supported. DLSS is an NVIDIA only solution that is recommended for NVIDIA users.

• FSR 3 with Frame Generation. It supports the AMD Radeon™ RX 5000 Series and above, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 20 Series and above and Intel Arc Alchemist GPUs. FSR 3 is recommended for AMD based GPUs.

  • If you have a slightly older GPU, then FSR 3 without frame generation will work on the AMD Radeon™ RX 590 and above and the NVIDIA GeForce® GTX 10 Series and above.

• Intel XeSS 2 is supported by the Intel Arc Alchemist series, Intel Xe-LP integrated graphics, AMD Radeon RX 6000 Series and above, and the NVIDIA GeForce® GTX 10 Series and above. XeSS is recommended for Intel based GPUs.

• The existing AMD FSR 1 solution. This provides a basic upscaling option for older hardware and operating systems that don’t have the required features to support a more modern solution. It is available in both DirectX 11 and 12.

macOS

• macOS 13 (Ventura) and above has a high performance upscaler supplied by Apple called “MetalFX”. While available for both Intel and Apple Silicon based systems, Apple Silicon benefits from a more advanced version that has a higher quality output.

• FSR 1 has been deprecated on macOS systems - on some systems you may need to manually select MetalFX.

General upscaling notes

• Some settings such as Anti-Aliasing will be disabled by some upscalers. This is intended, as this happens as part of the upscaling process.

• Upscaling can only give you more FPS when the GPU is the limiting factor in your system.

• There is no ‘best’ upscaling technique that is recommended for every client due to the vast number of computer configurations and in-game activities. We encourage you to experiment with the different upscaling solutions and choose one you are happy with.

• The “Upscaling Setting” will allow you to vary the image quality against performance. It is normal to get small visual differences between non-upscaled and upscaled renders. In some situations, frame generation may introduce some small artifacts but allow for a higher frame rate.

• If V-sync does not behave as you expect, try toggling ‘hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling’ in Windows. Let us know on the forum if this impacts you.

Ray tracing

Ray tracing is a modern rendering technique that simulates the physical behavior of light. Instead of relying on approximations, it calculates how rays of light travel from a source, interact with objects, and ultimately reach the camera. This makes lighting and shadows appear more natural, precise, and consistent with how light behaves in the real world.

For EVE Online, ray tracing is applied specifically to shadows, further improving the shadow system introduced in 2023. Raytraced shadows provide far greater accuracy than older methods, producing sharper edges, smoother gradients, and dynamic changes that reflect the movement of ships, stations, and other objects.

Raytraced shadows are an optional feature that can be enabled in the client’s graphics settings by selecting “Raytraced” under “Shadow Quality.” It is supported on the following systems:

Windows

• Windows 10, October 2018 Update (version 1809) and above

• Windows 11

• A GPU which supports DirectX Raytracing (DXR)

  • NVIDIA RTX 20 Series and above

  • AMD Radeon RX 6000 series and above

  • Intel Arc Alchemist series

macOS

• macOS 12 Monterey or above

• An Apple Silicon based system

Patch Notes for 2025-08-14.1

Defect Fixes:

Gameplay:

• Fixed not being able to use the ‘board my corvette’ button, if you just logged into a station without changing ships or undocking at some point earlier.

Patch Notes for 2025-08-12.1

Features & Changes:

Air Daily Goal:

• 5th Air Daily Goal

As part of the refinement for the Air Daily Goal System, we are adding a new daily goal “Complete 3 jumps”. This goal will appear as the 5th daily goal that is always available, repeating every day alongside the four career-specific goals. Unlike other goals, it isn't tied to a specific career.

The goal is simple and universal, so it's easier for players - new or experienced - to reach their daily bonus SP and progress on the monthly reward track.

Objective: Jump between systems in space 3 times.

• How it works:

  • Each jump contributes to the goal, whether it’s to a new system or back and forth between the same systems.

• Jump Types That Count:

  • Stargates

  • Ansiblex Jump Gates

  • Shipcasters

  • Wormholes

  • Jump Drives

  • Jump Filaments (Such as needlejack, pochven or event filaments)

You can make progress whether you´re running missions, exploring new systems or simply taking a quick trip.

Defect Fixes:

Gameplay:

• Fixed the Meta Level and the Tech Level of the Babaroga being incorrect in static data and the compare tool.

• Fixed Simulated ships not showing hardpoints being filled if clicking the show info button in the fitting simulation window and looking at the fitting tab, and also added the status bars for fittings.

Graphics:

• Potentially fixed an issue where visual effects for remote repairs (ie. remote armor repair, shield boosters, etc.) would persist after the repairing player or NPC is destroyed.

Technical:

• A randomly occurring rare crash during warp and jumping has been fixed.

• CPU performance has been improved for areas that contain a large amount of ships.

• The number of threads a background client uses has been adjusted. This can result in better overall performance in situations where several applications are competing for CPU time. On some systems, this can help when running lots of game clients at the same time.

• General performance has been improved on higher end Apple Silicon systems, such as the M1 Max.

User Interface:

• Removed the 'Recruitment' UI Pointer as that window no longer exists.

• The 'Favourites' Map Filter UI Pointer now says: "This element is not on your screen" if you click on it with the world map open, and no favourites set, instead of leading to random places.

• Fixed UI Pointers tooltip text being duplicated if the window did not have enough width to display the full pointer name.

Patch Notes for 2025-08-01.1

Defect Fixes:

Gameplay:

• The medium-sized Mordunium Deposits will now rarely appear in lowsec non-FW systems instead of the Small Mordunium Deposit, as it was meant to be.

• Additionally, the Small Mordunium Deposit will now rarely appear in highsec 0.5 systems which border lowsec.

• Sites that were already spawned before downtime may remain in their incorrect locations until they are mined out.

The Mordunium yearns to be mined. In yesterday's update, the Mordunium Deposits and the Small Mordunium spawn locations were flipped. The additional larger sites will now be spawning in lowsec, with the smaller additional sites in highsec.

Patch Notes for 2025-07-31.1

Features & Changes:

Balancing:

Pyerite Balance

• Scordite - Pyerite reprocessing amount has been improved by approximately 10%.

• Mordunium - Pyerite reprocessing amount has been improved by approximately 10%.

• Small Mordunium Deposits will now appear in non FW lowsec systems as an uncommon site.

• Medium Mordunium Deposits will now rarely appear in 0.5 systems bordering low security space.

In a continuing effort to curb the current price and supply trend of Pyerite, we're making a few more small tweaks to the ecosystem. We're happy with the previous change to the yield of Scordite and Mordunium as they were helpful without creating any destabilization, so we're going to keep nudging it up a little further.

However, that won't solve the universes needs for Pyerite alone so we're going to add a few more sources of Mordunium to Highsec border systems and to non-Factional Warfare Lowsec systems.

We anticipate this will require further iteration and not be just a quick fix. As always we'll be monitoring and looking for further opportunities to tune in the future.

Patch Notes for 2025-07-17.1

Features & Changes:

Balancing:

• Fewer proximity mines will now spawn within AEGIS Capital Ship Security Facility sites on average.

• Ghost Sites have had a number of updates:

  • NPC guards will now take longer to arrive on average.

  • The variance in NPC guard arrival times has been decreased significantly.

  • The time between NPC guard arrival and container detonation is now always 30 seconds.

  • Added info Panel objectives to show hacking progress and time-to-detonation on NPC guard arrival.

• The chance for players to receive capital control items has been increased in Lesser and Standard Covert Research Sites (Ghost Sites).

• Dented Storage Depots found in Sleeper Cache exploration sites now have a very rare chance to drop capital control items.

• The volume of the Counter-Subversion Sensor Array item has been lowered from 20m3 to 2m3.

• The volume of the Nanoscale Filter Plate item has been lowered from 5m3 to 1m3.

• The Overmind Nursery Nest Wreck found in Pochven no longer drops Enhanced Electro-Neural Signallers when salvaged, and now drops red loot instead.

As we look to alleviate bottlenecks which currently affect capital and supercapital industry, we are updating exploration sites which drop these industry's components. The aim of these changes is to make such sites more accessible and consistent for players.

Additionally, we have also rebalanced the drop chances and amounts of these items. We will continue to monitor the impact of these changes and respond with any other changes that may be necessary. Additionally, Enhanced Electro-Neural Signallers have been removed from Overmind Nursery Groves sites within Pochven and replaced with red loot of equivalent value. This component can still be found in other sites.

Lastly, as exploration activities thrive on jackpot-moments, we have added capital and supercapital components as rare bonus loot in all sleeper caches!

Freelance Jobs:

• Deliver Jobs now include a warning if the job issuer is asking for a delivery in a location you can’t dock at.

• Deliver Jobs now include a comparison between the set reward price per delivered item and the average universal price.

Science & Industry:

• The SCC charge for research jobs is now 50% of the baseline SCC charge.

  • This means that, instead of the 4% SCC charge, research jobs will now cost 2% SCC charge.

We’re making an adjustment to the SCC tax specifically for blueprint research jobs to help new industrialists catch up to existing ones that already have fully researched blueprints.

Defect Fixes:

Freelance Jobs:

• Fixed an issue where tracked Freelance jobs would automatically become untracked and disappear from the Opportunities info panel.

• Fixed an issue where searching for Assets in Capsuleer Deliveries through the Corporation window would fail to work.

• Fixed an issue in the Create Freelance Job form where already-selected locations were still available for selection in the dropdown options for Destination and Available Broadcast Locations.

• Updated and clarified a few error messages.

Graphics:

• Fixed an issue where the strip miner impact VFX was clipping with asteroids.

• Fixed an issue where the orbit camera for the Babaroga was misaligned.

• Fixed an issue were the Alliance Emblem placement on the Lachesis hull was misplaced.

Patch Notes for 2025-07-16.1

Defect Fixes:

Graphics:

• Fixed an issue with the Hyperlane Weave pattern that caused it to repeat horizontally instead of vertically.

Patch Notes for 2025-07-15.1

Features & Changes:

DLI:

A reward track for Solar Fest has been made active. Claim new rewards every day from 15-22 July.

• 50% sequencing in SKINR.

• Limited time offer. Components while not be available after event.

  • Hyperlane Weave pattern.

  • Sunken Plating material.

• Component offers raging from 20% - 60% off regular price.

Defect Fixes:

Gameplay:

• The following capital modules will now have a volume of 1,000m3 when repackaged like other capital modules in the game.

  • Consortium Capital Tractor Beam.

  • Capital Micro Jump Drive.

  • Capital Micro Jump Drive Field Generator.

  • Strategos' Modified Siege Module.

  • Xarasier Capital Micro Jump Drive.

  • Xarasier Capital Ancillary Shield Booster.

  • Xarasier Capital Ancillary Armor Repairer.

Patch Notes for 2025-07-14.1

Defect Fixes:

Freelance Jobs:

• Fixed an issue where it was possible to create Deliver jobs for unsupported item categories.

Patch Notes for 2025-07-10.1

Features & Changes:

Freelance Jobs:

• New contribution method “Deliver” added to Freelance Jobs.

  • New method that allows creating Freelance Jobs asking other capsuleers to deliver items to your corporation.

  • Corporations can set any station or structure with a rented office as a delivery location.

  • Multiple delivery locations can be selected at the same time.

  • Corporations can specify item type or group to be delivered.

  • Delivery is connected to a specific job, allowing for concurrent jobs to deliver the same item type, this makes sure that the same contribution isn’t counted for multiple jobs at the same time.

  • Freelancers complete deliveries by dragging desired items into the Freelance Job window’s drop box.

• New corporation hangar - “Capsuleer Deliveries”.

  • This hangar will contain any items capsuleers have delivered to your corporation via the “Deliver” freelance job.

  • Director and Project Manager roles can access this hangar.

Freelance Jobs Known Issues:

• In the Create Freelance Job window it's possible to set the delivery location to structures that are abandoned or low power, which will prevent the job from being created.

Defect Fixes:

User Interface:

• Fixed issue with market filters that caused global PLEX market orders to not show.

Patch Notes for 2025-07-09.1

Defect Fixes:

Gameplay:

• Fixed an issue where there was no ambient sound in some stations.

Patch Notes for 2025-07-08.1

Defect Fixes:

Localization:

• Fixed missing localization for error messages in the global PLEX market.

Patch Notes for 2025-07-07.1

Features & Changes:

Market:

Introducing the Global PLEX Market, a unified, galaxy-wide market to make PLEX accessible from nearly anywhere in space.

All PLEX buy and sell orders are now pooled into a single global order book, dramatically improving liquidity and price transparency. Purchases are delivered directly to your Vault, eliminating the need for travel or regional market friction. This change streamlines PLEX trading across New Eden, making it faster, simpler, and more efficient than ever.

Global PLEX market prices will be visible in private structures (e.g. citadels and keepstars) across New Eden, but trading from private structures with ACL restrictions will remain the same; you will not be able to buy items from, or sell items to, orders in stations that you cannot access. Listing taxes are still based on standings and location, no changes here. 

All outstanding PLEX orders were cancelled, and fees will be reimbursed within a few days.  

Patch Notes for 2025-07-01.1

Defect Fixes:

Gameplay:

• Fixed a bug which could cause some players signed up for the Pirate FW faction through non Direct Enlistment methods (I.e. whole corp/alliance in the militia, or the player in the Commando Guri/Malakim Zealots NPC corporations) to not get warned and kicked for going below -2.0 standings.

  • Any corps or players who now are under -2.0 will get a warning after the day of this deployment, and kicked if not fixed within 24 hours at tomorrows downtime.

Graphics:

• Fixed damage decals flickering in some situations.

Technical:

• Fixed a crash that could occur on some old Intel onboard GPUs. If you use an Intel GPU, making sure you’re on the latest drivers can improve stability significantly. We recommend that you use the driver update tool from Intel: Download Intel Drivers and Software.

User Interface:

• Resolved an issue where certain columns in the Compare Tool displayed incorrect information.

• Fixed a bug causing some filters selected in the Compare Tool to appear active in the Fitting Window.

• Fixed an issue in the Compare Tool preventing the cogwheel menu from opening in horizontal view mode.

• Added a new filter to toggle attribute visibility in both horizontal and vertical views of the Compare Tool.

Patch Notes for 2025-06-26.1