Bloodcurdling Capsuleers,

Beware – Halloween is nearly upon us, and New Eden has been plunged into its spookiest season yet! A new Crimson Harvest event, daily login rewards, a special Proving Ground event, increased PVP loot drops, and special offers are all imminent, so get ready for a fully packed season of frights!




EVE’s premiere Blood Raider seasonal event has begun once again, starting today and running until 9 November! This year, Capsuleers will be met in battle by the forces of the Order of St. Tetrimon, an Amarr religious order dedicated to the preservation of the scriptures of the faith. Join the Order in their campaign to drown this sanguine spectacle in laserfire, or for the first time ever take the side of the Blood Raiders, venerating the Harvest and painting New Eden in crimson!

Combat and hacking sites for both sides of the conflict are appearing in Highsec, Lowsec, Nullsec, and Wormhole systems, with the advanced sites spawning in Lowsec systems within the Derelik region, as well as within Blood Raider-controlled systems in Delve. Additionally, communications intercepts have revealed whispers of deeper, more vital sites being established across the cluster, which may only be tracked down through escalations of the advanced combat sites.

Choose which side to support in the Agency section for the event, with unique sets of challenges and rewards for either path. Additionally, you can look forward to special daily login rewards packed with Skill Points, special Boosters, and new SKINs!




During the event, PVP kills can be expected to drop loot at an increased rate, averaging at 90%! Carve out your harvest from the wrecks of your targets, which will be marked with a special pumpkin icon , but beware in your prowl for treats – you may very well become someone else’s!




Rise from the dead at your full potential, with a discount on every Omega subscription! The one, three, six, and twelve-month options are all available now at 15% off, but only until 3 November – so save big on immortality while you can!




The Malagrin Marshlight SKIN series will be returning to the NES for the Harvest, with added availability on 8 additional hulls! Headhunter SKINs will also be returning, giving pilots a fantastic selection of terrifying visages to display as you trick-or-treat across the cluster. Check out the SKINs on offer, and prepare for a season of frights!




Keep an eye out for some extra treats: each 240, 500, 2860, and 7430 PLEX package purchased during the event will come with its own free Deathglow Hunters SKIN!




A new 4-player free-for-all Destroyer Proving Ground will be running Halloween weekend, from 29 October to 2 November, in celebration of the Crimson Harvest, with an arena effect providing an increase to Stasis Webifier range, Nosferatu and Energy Neutralizer strength, and Laser turret damage! Only the Coercer, Dragoon, Cormorant, Corax, Catalyst, Algos, Thrasher, and Talwar-class Destroyers may enter, with modules limited to meta level 5 and pirate implants restricted. Demonstrate your fervor and quench your thirst for blood in this special event!

The Harvest is upon us, so fly safe, and see you in space!

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Welcome back, Capsuleers, to the Community Beat.

In our inaugural publication, we covered some wonderful community projects, events, artists, and content creators. We greatly appreciate everyone’s feedback and suggestions, and we look forward to seeing more of it in the coming weeks.
If this is your first Community Beat, worry not, as this is a relatively new project. To get you up to speed, our aim with these articles is to provide a foundation for all aspects of the EVE community: in-game events, developer chats, player meets, CSM reports, and much more. With a landscape as diverse and turbulent as EVE’s has become over the last near-nineteen years, no version of the Community Beat will ever look the same.

As is customary for the Beat, sit back, crack open a brand new Apple Quafe, and enjoy!






As part of the player-organized Totality Day events, Wirashoda played host to a spectacular brawl last weekend. The events pay homage to one of Pochven’s most exciting - and bloody - battles, which took place this summer. That encounter saw Electus Matari finishing off an Azbel belonging to the Triglavian loyalist group, Stribog Clade, in a nail-biting finale.

This weekends’ festivities were more celebratory than tactical, although that didn’t diminish from the action! With over a dozen fleets involved, the brawl continued for over two hours, and featured ships ranging from Frigates to Marauders.

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Shortly after 21:00, the first two fleets arrived on grid and the battle began in earnest. The biggest ballers of the night were Jazzy Jassamune Omanid and the combined group of PHUB/PHEW/LBUS/T0AST/KYBER. They brought not one, not two, but FIVE Marauders out to play, along with assorted support ships and logi. Jassamune's big bucket of red meat chummed the waters, and proved to be irresistible to the circling sharks hunting for juicy killmails. Most of the fleets turned to clear the Marauders first. – Sahara Jackal

You can read more about this epic battle from the various sides involved here






This week we saw CCP Convict & former CSM council member Steve Ronuken host an informative Quasar Devblog panel with Team Tech Co, live on CCPTV. Covering the technical aspects of EVE’s future is always fascinating, and was a hit for both tech-savvy and casual players alike. If you missed it live, no worries! You can watch a recording of it here.

Coming up on CCPTV this week, Mike Kingswell continues his lecture series on EVE mechanics at 18:00 UTC, this Saturday 23 October. This week’s presentation will cover the ins and outs of one of EVE’s core mechanics for surviving in - and interacting with - New Eden: the Directional Scanner (DSCAN). Thanks Mike - and EVE University - for sharing your knowledge with us!






It’s trick-or-treat time, New Eden-style! The Crimson Harvest isn’t alone in the spooky festivities. Eden Trade is bringing back its Halloween Event this year, with over 45 billion ISK in treats to be doled out in Stacmon. Of course, it just wouldn’t be EVE without some explosions too, so a post-giveaway brawl has been scheduled in Placid’s most notorious pirate den: Ostingele. Expect a bevy of pumpkin-shaped-wrecks, and with so many potential explosions enterprising salvagers may make off with some handsome rewards.

Mark your calendars and keep up with the festivities on Eden Trade’s official forum thread!






Whether you’re day-tripping in a wormhole or hauling goods between trade hubs, one thing is true: New Eden is spectacular. Sprinkled throughout the universe you’ll find beautiful landmarks and monuments that paint a vivid picture of life in New Eden. Join Mark726 on his EVE Travel Blog adventures, accompanied by his trusty Buzzard Professor Science, as he guides you through the wonders that EVE has to offer. Show off your most stunning screenshots using the #CommunityBeat hashtag on Twitter, and we’ll give our favorite submissions an Astero SOE Gold Cell SKIN!



With guides that cover a wide variety of NPE activities, from blitzing Angel Extravaganza to optimizing runs in the Abyss, AceFace has you covered! Living primarily in high-security space, AceFace really does push the limits of his ships, and explores fascinating ways to take on various challenges. Most importantly of all, he shows you how to earn ISK while doing it. We love his dedication to variety, finding efficient and fun ways to challenge himself, while teaching us all some new tricks and tips.






While most of EVE’s denizens are familiar with the cap-sucking ways of the Blood Raiders, or the wily exploits of V. Salvador Sarpati and the Serpentis, there are some smaller groups that perhaps you’re not as familiar with. Not as universally notorious, The Order of St. Tetrimon also have a long and storied history, specifically within the Amarr Empire.

During the rule of Empress Catiz I, the fortunes of the Order of St. Tetrimon have continued to improve. Under the leadership of Grand Master Khemon Dulsur an-Tetrimon, the Order has established a role as a force useful for seeking out and suppressing rebellion and heresy. Increasing conflict across New Eden has revitalized the "Religious Reclaimer" tendency among the Amarr Empire's powerful nobility and brought support for the Order. Militant and conservative houses such as the Ardishapur and Sarum have forged cordial relations with the Tetrimon, in an Amarr Empire with royal houses, powerful ministries, and religious factions carefully balanced against one another by a relatively new Empress.

Swing by the Order of St. Tetrimon Fortress Monastery in Thebeka to witness the monument. If you'd like to know more, you can brush up on your Amarr lore and learn about Inirie Ardishapur, the dark history of Emperor Zaragram II, and the Order of St Tetrimon.

Who knows when this information may prove useful...

That's all for this installment. Head on over to the EVE Online forums to chat and share your stories.

Entrepreneurial Capsuleers,

Back in July, we introduced a temporary Brokers Fee and Sales Tax reduction across New Eden with the Grand Heist release, which was stated to last for three months. This period has now reached its end - but instead of merely returning to the market’s previous taxes, a modified tax structure will be coming your way soon.

In the Grand Heist release, the base Sales Tax and Brokers Fee in NPC stations were each cut in half, going from 5.0% to 2.5%. In place of the previous numbers, taxes will be changing to the following structure:

Base Unmodified Taxes:

• Sales Tax: 2.5% -> 8.0% (Previously 5.0%)
• Brokers Fee: 2.5% -> 3.0% (Previously 5.0%)
• Total Taxes: 5.0% -> 11.0% (Previously 10.0%)

Minimum Taxes (Modified by Skills, Standings, etc):

• Sales Tax: 1.125% -> 3.6% (Previously 2.25%)
• Brokers Fee: 0.5% -> 1.0% (Previously 3.0%)
• Total Taxes: 1.625% -> 4.6% (Previously 5.25%)

This change shifts a higher percentage of the tax division toward the sales tax instead of on the order placement, permanently reducing the cost-pressure associated with listing orders by moving the cost into the sales tax taken out upon purchase by another player.

In effect, trading at base tax values under the new structure will increase total taxes by 1% compared to pre-relief values – but if you operate with taxes reduced to their minimum, your total taxes will be decreased by 0.625% compared to pre-relief, on top of requiring less ISK to list your orders in the first place!

See you in space (or in station, for all you market moguls), and fly safe!

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Attention Capsuleers,

The Summon the Swarm update is now live in EVE Online, providing daring pilots with a new opportunity to earn exciting rewards!

This update introduces a new deployable structure, the CONCORD Rogue Analysis Beacon - or CRAB. This new deployable is authorized for use in Low and Null security space to research local Rogue Drone activities.

To begin its broadcast and analysis cycles, it must be powered up through the use of a capital or supercapital class vessel. Once initialized, it will attract hostile Rogue Drone threats that must be destroyed in order to complete the analysis cycle.

Successful completion will reward pilots with new mutaplasmid technology for mutating drones, as well as both bounties and research data to be handed in for additional ISK.

Thanks to extensive player testing on the Singularity test server, a number of improvements have been made that significantly enhance the experience of the new update:

• Fighter targeting AI has been refined, allowing more ship types to complete the sites.
  
• Deployables have been further restricted, to prevent interference with nearby Player Owned Structures or Citadels.
  
• Bounty rewards have been more than doubled in the live release!
  
• Infested Ogres have been modified to no longer pause the site.

Ready for a new challenge? Form your fleet, acquire a Rogue Analysis Beacon, and prepare to summon the swarm!


Over the course of many repeated deployments of the CRAB, it was observed that active scanning for Rogue Drone activities failed. Analysis of test data indicates signal interference rapidly reaches a saturation point within the local system rendering further operation ineffective. Restrictions and information systems have been integrated into CRAB deployable structures, providing researchers with the current state of local system signal interference levels. This information will also be updated into Neocom firmware used by capsuleers going forward.

CRAB deployment and activation requires the involvement of capsuleers, due to a specific design requirement for using the secure FTL communications equipment available within hydrostatic capsules. However, capsules only have a limited reserve of Complex Encryption Qubits (CEQs) available for use to securely establish the link with the CRAB, and bridge to CONCORD FTL networks, during the broadcast cycle. This will impose limitations on use, as repeated linking to a CRAB by the same capsuleer will eventually deplete their reserve of CEQs. The CEQ reserves available for secure linking will regenerate over time as the capsule systems generate new encryption keys.

During the course of our CRAB testing and analysis, DED fleets engaged a number of extremely dangerous modified Rogue Drones. It has been found that these newly-detected Rogue Drones have been mutated by the use of new Rogue Drone technology. Our fleets have made note of several new mutaplasmids retrieved by the CRAB from the remains of the Rogue Drone threats encountered, all with radically different characteristics from the mutaplasmids retrieved from Triglavian technology caches. This finding urgently demands further study. Due to the extreme threat from these entities, we have assigned bounties on every discovered new Rogue Drone variation so far.

On completion of the broadcast and analysis cycle, the CRAB will relay its findings. The operating capsuleer may retrieve any resources recovered by the CRAB. CONCORD has now set up purchase orders for Rogue Drone Infestation Data collected during the operation of the CRAB, incentivizing capsuleers to sell their observation data for our research team to study further.

Unflinching Capsuleers,
A new, one-day event is coming to the Abyssal Proving Grounds, inviting you to pilot the mightiest frontline ships of the core nations of New Eden in one-on-one combat, unleashing punishing force on your opponent as you battle for victory!

This event begins at 11:00 UTC on 16 October, and runs for exactly 24 hours.

The ruleset is as follows:

• Only the Apocalypse, Armageddon, Abaddon, Raven, Rokh, Scorpion, Dominix, Megathron, Hyperion, Tempest, Typhoon, Maelstorm, and Praxis may enter
  
• Pilots receive 100m ISK payout per match
  
• Only one local repair module allowed per ship
  
• No Sensor Dampeners or Shield Boost Amplifiers allowed
  
• No passive shield tank modules (power relays, flux coild, purger rigs) allowed
  
• Modules and drones are restricted to meta level 5
  
• Pirate implants are restricted

Board your battleships, ready your weapons, and snag your Proving Ground filaments – available in Abyssal Deadspace caches, in Triglavian wrecks in Pochven, or on the ingame market – and launch into a momentous battle , hitting your foes with everything you’ve got as you plow your way to the top of the Proving Ground Leaderboard, demonstrating immovable strength & spirit and earning rewards!

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Fashionable Capsuleers,
After an intense round of judging, following a great number of fantastic submissions from across the world for the GM Week Cosplay Contest, we’re proud to announce the winners of this stylish competition!

In truest EVE Online fashion, Carol Hernandez shows off a phenomenal spacefaring getup, evocative of one of New Eden’s most sustaining profession – complete with ship spinning!






As the Domain of Pochven reaches its first anniversary, Araknos BloodFeather has outfitted himself in a beautiful custom Trigalvian survival suit - the prideful garb of Kybernauts everywhere!






The Amarr maintain the oldest and most well-established of New Eden’s spacefaring navies – and Sven Saltzburg shows his loyalty to the Empire with a snazzy officers’ uniform!





The Sisters of EVE are best known as a humanitarian organization, but their interests extend to far deeper and more dangerous fronts – Lucas Amarlio shows off his custom-made combat armor in the classic red-and-white colors of the SoE!



Congratulations to all entrants, and thanks to all for their fantastic submissions! In addition to these winners, look forward to the winners of the community vote as well, which you can find and participate in here on the EVE Forums.
Thanks to all who entered, and congratulations to the winners! We look forward to seeing all of your fantastic cosplays in person at future EVE meetups someday soon(tm).

See you in space, and fly safe!

If you’re missing some of this year’s best SKINs, a new bundle of the very best is now available to buy from the EVE Store! As well as the brand-new Thanatos Green Demons SKIN, the Best SKINs of 2021 bundle is packed with this year’s cosmetic highlights.

Bundle contents

• Green Demons Thanatos
• Rockbreaker Pioneers Orca
• Vampire’s Hex Gila
• Vampire’s Hex Rattlesnake
• Ghost’s Hex Orthrus
• Ghost’s Hex Barghest
• Hazard Control Loki
• Ultraviolence Vortex Nyx

Head to the EVE Store now to add this stunning cosmetic collection to your personal fleet.




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Visionary Capsuleers,

EVE Online is now fully native on Mac, with a brand-new client bringing improved graphics and visual effects, reduced RAM and power usage, full support for macOS keyboards & mice, and more!



As the ongoing Gateway Quadrant continues to see a great influx of new players, there’s no better time to dive into New Eden. Immerse yourself in a full realization of the vast and limitless world of EVE Online, and experience the game on Mac as never before.

To commemorate this release, you can look forward to new daily login rewards stocked with Quafe Zero Green Apple, a sparkling new product line from the beloved Quafe brand. These rewards will provide pilots with party packs of the premier Capsuleer performance drink of New Eden, as well as various celebratory SKINs until 11:00 UTC on 19 October!

Mac users’ feedback during the client’s time on the Singularity test server has provided vital assistance – thank you all for helping to make this a reality! Any general feedback you might have is welcome, and you can find a specific thread to post it to on the EVE Forums.

After installing the latest launcher version, the migration from the previous Wine client to the new Mac client will begin automatically, seamlessly ushering players on both Intel and M1 Mac machines into this new experience.

Welcome to a new era. See you in space, and fly safe!

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Specialist Capsuleers,

You only have 24 hours to get 10% off the specialist Foreman, Destroyer, and Black Ops Packs in the EVE Store, as the offer ends at 11:00 UTC on 10 October! In addition, you have until 14 October to get your hands on the new Glass Semiotique monocle to customize your character, available now in EVE Online’s New Eden Store.

The Black Ops Pack includes 6 months of Omega, 2860 PLEX, half a million Skill Points, 6 months of Multiple character training, awesome Fireblade Guerilla SKINs, Expert Cerebral Accelerator and Blood Raider apparel.

The Foreman Pack brings great value to industry-minded Capsuleers. This awesome pack contains a wealth of PLEX, Omega time, Skill Points, 3 months of Multiple Character Training, Expert Cerebral Accelerator, magnificent Capsuleer Day XVIII SKINs for the Rorqual, Orca, and Porpoise, plus character apparel.

The Destroyer Pack offers PLEX, half a million Skill Points, boosters, a character implant and four stunning SKINs for destroyer class ships.



Don’t forget that the spectacular Glass Semiotique monocle is also still available in EVE Online’s New Eden Store, but only until 11:00 UTC on 14 October, so this is your only chance before it's gone forever! Wear this coveted cosmetic today and join the exclusive monocle owners club while you still can. 

   
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Sociable Capsuleers, 

As vast and varied as the world of New Eden is, the EVE Online community is just as diverse. Between the EVE Forums, subreddits, Discord communities, podcasts, streams, and news sites, the amount of information to be navigated and consumed can be truly head-spinning. To celebrate the EVE community and help you find your way in this crazy, wild, wonderful world, we’re introducing a new bi-weekly piece: The Community Beat!

Our aim in these articles is to provide a foundation for all aspects of the community: in-game events, developer chats, player meets, CSM reports, and much more. With a landscape as diverse and turbulent as EVE’s has become over the last near-nineteen years, no version of the Community Beat will look identical. We’re very excited to share the wonderful stories of the EVE community, and look forward to chatting regularly.   

Welcome to the inaugural publication of the EVE Online Community Beat: sit back, relax, and enjoy some refreshing Quafe!




The CONCORD Rogue Analysis Beacon, coming soon to EVE, is a new kind of observatory structure, intended to draw enormous Rogue Drone attention toward itself and those near it, providing a new and revolutionary way to engage in exciting and profitable gameplay content in Low and Null Security space. This beacon requires a significant influx of power to spool up, however, and can consequently only be activated by specific kinds of capital ships.

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"We’ve had just over 4,700 CONCORD Rogue Analysis Beacons deployed in the last week, and we’re really happy with the responses. Thanks to your feedback, we’ve made a few changes and we're still on the lookout for more. We're excited to see how you CRAB! - EVE Online Team

To learn more details about this swarm-attracting beacon, tune in to Pando & Mirandalorian’s Podcast this week, where CCP Rise will be coming on to discuss the feature in greater depth. Likewise, you can learn more about how to get a sneak peek at this feature on the Singularity Test Server here.




The Foundation Quadrant saw the four core nations of New Eden – the Gallente Federation, the Amarr Empire, the Minmatar Republic, and the Caldari State – celebrate what it means to be a member of their respective empires with various holidays.

Not to be outdone by the core Empires’ supporters, pilots aligned with the enigmatic Triglavian Collective have come together to celebrate the formation of the Domain of Pochven – the climax of the successful attainment of Final Liminality in 27 systems across Empire space – on a newly designated day of celebration on 13 October, dubbed Totality Day. Various player events - which are by no means limited to the RP community - will be taking place from 9 to 16 October, so join in the week-long celebration (aiming to be at least three times as energized as the Empires’ holidays) and embrace your inner triangle!

What was your favorite Empire celebration? Tweet using the #CommunityBeat hashtag with your favorite moment, and the Empires will send a SKIN code to their favorite responses.


EVE suffers no shortage of extremely talented content creators covering a wide array of gameplay styles. One of our most prominent streamers, Bjorn Bee, is enthusiastically dedicated to showing New Eden what it means to PvP both as a lone wolf, as well as in small-to-medium sized fleets. Whether you want to experience late-game content or learn more about PvP mechanics, Bjorn is a great resource – and if you're interested in participating in PvP fleets, Bjorn also has NPSI (Not Purple, Shoot It) roams where he takes viewers out in public fleets, open to many skill levels. Be warned, FC Bee is not afraid to take a fight, so this might be a one-way trip!



If PvP isn’t your forte, have no fear – Frost is here!  Frost Ees has a wonderfully informative YouTube channel covering player news in EVE Online, as well as the Alliance Spotlight series where she interviews various alliance leaders from across the cluster. Whether you’re looking to catch up on what EVE players have been up to, or simply want to stay up to date with their hijinks, Frost’s Weekly Updates will keep you abreast without bogging you down in lexicon. 




By no means do we only take notice of our Partners; EVE players across the world constantly surprise us with their talent. For SHIPTember (which we’re totally making a thing), Oleena Natiras of GoonWaffe has combined a love for both EVE and LEGO to tremendous effect, so be sure to check out their absolutely jaw-dropping LEGO rendition of the iconic Apocalypse battleship!



Thanks for sharing, Oleena – we’re positively gold with envy!




Being able to unwind and put a face to the voices you’ve heard on Teamspeak, Mumble, and Discord is a truly special experience, so for those wanting to experience the splendor of an in-person player gathering, some very storied venues will at long last resume and continue their traditions in the coming weeks! We’ve had the pleasure of going to meetups far and wide, and each one is spectacular and memorable in their own way.

Returning to its roots as a player-run meetup, EVE Vegas will host the annual meetup from 22 October to 24 October. With almost 400 confirmed guests from across New Eden, it once again proves to be a consistently popular venue year after year.

On the other side of the Atlantic, EVE London returns after a 21-month break at a brand-new venue on 6 November. What started as a corp meetup at a pub many moons ago has evolved over the years into an institution all its own. Pop in to hobnob with fellow Capsuleers for, amongst many other things, the Alliance Tournament XVII Viewing Party! If this will be your first time attending EVE London, a bit of advice: go easy on the POS Fuel (you’ll thank us later).

In conjunction with these events, we’re happy to announce that the FriendShip has finally been cleared to undock; CCP will be sending a few developers to support both events, as well as various other player events through the year. We are overjoyed to be able to once again meet with you, kick back, and hear all the wonderful stories that always come out of these events!