Festive capsuleers,

It’s that time of year again, when we feast, exchange gifts, and reminisce about the past. And what a year it’s been! This year has seen exciting developments for EVE Online, including the release of the Uprising expansion, bringing new ships, updates to Factional Warfare, and more space goodies; the welcoming of Spanish speaking players into Nuevo Edén; the return of EVE Fanfest to Iceland; improvements to the new player experience; EVE Evolved setting the course for the future, with features designed to enhance the sensory experience of New Eden like never before; and so much more. New Eden is vibrant and full of life as EVE enters its 20th year, giving us even more cause for celebration.

This year was all about coming together. The EVE community is the lifeblood of New Eden, and this year was an amazing one, full of achievements, accomplishments, and incredible experiences. Together you’ve had fun blowing each other up, exploring the far reaches of New Eden, mining and manufacturing and creating memorable experiences.

There are plenty of reasons to be proud of the year in EVE. Here are just a few:



New Eden was chock full of activity this year, with action, drama, life and death, and most importantly, plenty of conflict and competition.


















Now let’s go and smash this year’s numbers in 2023!

Enjoy the holidays and have a very happy new year!

Knowledgeable capsuleers,

With the holiday season upon us and EVE Online’s 20th anniversary just over the horizon, the time has come to put out the call for player presenters at EVE Fanfest 2023!

While there are many exciting things in store for Fanfest, the lifeblood of any EVE gathering has always been the sharing of experiences, memories, connections, and knowledge between capsuleers from around the world. Whether in venue halls, on the Pub Crawl, around Reykjavik, or onstage at Fanfest, we want to provide ample opportunity to share your stories with space friends both old and new alike.




If you are a passionate and articulate capsuleer with a special area of interest in EVE, and are interested in giving a presentation at Fanfest 2023, be it on a playstyle, community, activity, mechanic, lore topic, leadership philosophy, or anything else, send an email by 1 February to communityteam@ccpgames.com with a detailed outline of what you’d like to present.

Presentations should be a maximum of 30 minutes long, with an allotted 15 minutes for Q&A afterward, and any accepted applicant’s PowerPoint presentation must be submitted for review no later than 20 August.




On top of the excitement that comes with presenting your passions to your fellow capsuleers, all accepted presenters will also enjoy a free ticket to Fanfest 2023 (or a refund if you’ve already purchased one), as well as access to special facilities at the venue to relax and prepare for their appearances.

There are still Early Bird tickets available – and whether or not you’re looking to present, there’s always room for more space friends at Fanfest ❤️

Happy holidays; we’ll see you in space, and in Reykjavik next September!

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Festive capsuleers,

The ever-popular Winter Nexus series of events and rewards from 15 December 2022 until 3 January 2023! There is also a stuffed calendar of in-game updates and improvements to further spread the holiday cheer.

The roaming Volatile Ice Storms will once again provide exciting and unique Wightstorm combat, mining, and hacking sites with awesome rewards across highsec, lowsec, and nullsec. Be sure to use your variety of Ice Storm Filaments from the daily login rewards or loot drops to transport yourself directly to (and from!) the action.

The Wightstorm combat sites will be most challenging – and rewarding – in lowsec space, followed by the nullsec and highsec varieties. The same goes for the hacking and mining sites, and you can expect last year’s Yoiul Festival and 13 Days of Nexus reward SKINs - plus the unique Yoiul Clone trinkets - to drop as loot at these sites for the 2022 event!

Keep in mind that you’ll be able to take advantage of special bonuses inside the Volatile Ice Storms, allowing you to overheat your modules for longer. That should keep the fire burning throughout your enemies’ hulls this winter!

Getting into the holiday spirit of gifting, the 13 Days of Nexus daily login rewards will once again provide free Skill Points, new Aurora Universalis SKINs, Expert Systems, Ice Storm Filaments, and more from 15 December until 3 January 2023. This year the 13 Days of Nexus login rewards for Omega pilots also include up to 20,000 EverMarks, which you can exchange for corporation and alliance emblems on ships. Omegas will also receive up to 510,000 Skill Points! Log in on 13 of the 19 days of the Winter Nexus celebrations to grab all the rewards!



In addition to the above, the Winter Nexus also includes the daily and seasonal challenges that provide even more rewards for taking part. The Yoiul Festival seasonal challenges and rewards will allow you to unlock more boosters and new Aurora Universalis SKINs for completing activities within Volatile Ice Storms, and the Chilling Spree will offer up Skill Points for hitting fellow capsuleers with snowballs daily!



If slinging snowballs at each other isn’t enough, you’ll also be able to go nose to nose with your fellow capsuleers in dedicated Abyssal Proving Grounds events, themed around the special Ice Storm environment! You’ll have new opportunities to overheat your modules for longer and get a bigger speed boost from afterburner modules too!

Here are the different formats you’ll be able to tackle throughout the festive season:

• Yoiul T1 destroyer 4-player free-for-all - 30 December - 2 January

As part of the ongoing improvements made to help fresh capsuleers enter the universe of New Eden more seamlessly and find their path, career agent mission updates have arrived just in time for the holiday season. This includes UI guidance improvements throughout the Industrialist paths, tweaks to mission objectives, reward rebalancing, more clarity in mission text, and more. One of the main outcomes has been an observed rise in the new player completion rate for these missions. With today’s release, you will continue seeing improvements such as these made to career agent missions.

In addition, an introductory short mission has also been added to guide players through the ship personalization process. The journey incudes being introduced to IRIS, receiving a Paragon gift crate, assembling and boarding a destroyer, learning about the PLEX Vault and wallet, then purchasing, redeeming, and activating a SKIN through the ‘Personalization’ tab. Be sure to check out the patch notes for full details.

Furthermore, the AIR Career Program will see an update later this week with better visuals and usability changes that will improve the experience of new capsuleers.





The in-game New Eden Store (NES) will also be providing irresistible Winter Nexus offers, Yoiul Star SKINs will return at 20% off from 15 December to 3 January. Make sure you stock up and show off those SKINs, especially as the charge will build up incrementally and then project a star from 25 December onwards.

If all of that is not enough to sate you this season, for a limited time, any purchase you make in the EVE Merch Store will come with a free SKIN bundle for the character of your choice.

The SKIN bundle includes:

• Rokh Aurora Universalis SKIN
• Gila Aurora Universalis SKIN
• Jackdaw Yoiul Star SKIN
• Oracle Yoiul Star SKIN

Check out the main EVE Merch Store or EU Merch Store and treat yourself or a friend. The offer expires at 23:59 UTC on 24 December, so don’t miss out!



This time of year is synonymous with reflection, so it’s the perfect opportunity to mention that the 2022 end of year EVE Online video will be coming next week and will highlight collective capsuleer achievements in New Eden. In addition, if you subscribe to our mailing list, you will receive an email containing some of your own personalized 2022 EVE Online statistics!

Attention capsuleers,

Following the new Uprising expansion, New Eden is buzzing with activity. Factional Warfare affects everyone, no matter who you side with or fight for. It can therefore be imperative to stay on top of the latest developments on the Frontlines, and it is now easier than ever to get an overview of the skirmishes and conflicts brewing.

There is now a brand new and exciting Frontlines page up and running, delivering live updates on the state of Factional Warfare in New Eden. The page features maps of conflict hotspots, information on the warzones, and a new video outlining how Factional Warfare works. Even more data will be added to the page throughout 2023.

Don’t miss the latest conflict developments, capsuleers! Visit the Frontlines page now and get in the loop!

Ice-cold capsuleers,

Fly into frigid one-on-one combat during the next Abyssal Proving Ground event, heating up the holiday season aboard festive Tech I cruisers!

This event begins at 11:00 UTC on 16 December, and runs until 11:00 UTC on 19 December.

The ruleset is as follows:

• Only the Omen, Caracal, Thorax, Stabber, Maller, Moa, Vexor, and Rupture may enter this event.
• 100% boost to afterburner speed.
• 50% reduction to heat damage taken by modules.
• Sensor dampeners, weapon disruptors, shield boost amplifiers, rechargers, power relays, and flux coils cannot be fitted.
• Maximum of one local repair module per ship (shield or armor).
• Modules and implants are restricted to meta level 0 (basic Tech I).

Heat up your engines, pick up your Proving Ground Filaments (found in Abyssal Deadspace, Pochven, or on the in-game market) and make the most of the snowstorm as you strive for glorification this holiday season, climbing the leaderboard and earning special rewards!

Festive capsuleers,

The holiday season is coming to New Eden, and with it returns the ever-popular Winter Nexus series of events and rewards from 15 December 2022 until 3 January 2023! There is also a stuffed calendar of in-game updates and improvements to further spread the holiday cheer.

Whether you’re logging in daily to grab your free gifts as part of the 13 Days of Nexus, enjoying the introduction of multiple overviews and updated Photon UI elements, or admiring new corp and alliance emblems on your ships, there’s something for every capsuleer in EVE this winter.
The roaming Volatile Ice Storms will once again provide exciting and unique Wightstorm combat, mining, and hacking sites with awesome rewards across highsec, lowsec, and nullsec. Be sure to use your variety of Ice Storm Filaments from the daily login rewards or loot drops to transport yourself directly to (and from!) the action.

The Wightstorm combat sites will be most challenging – and rewarding – in lowsec space, followed by the nullsec and highsec varieties. The same goes for the hacking and mining sites, and you can expect last year’s Yoiul Festival and 13 Days of Nexus reward SKINs - plus the unique Yoiul Clone trinkets - to drop as loot at these sites for the 2022 event!

Keep in mind that you’ll be able to take advantage of special bonuses inside the Volatile Ice Storms, allowing you to overheat your modules for longer. That should keep the fire burning throughout your enemies’ hulls this winter!
Getting into the holiday spirit of gifting, the 13 Days of Nexus daily login rewards will once again provide free Skill Points, new Aurora Universalis SKINs, Expert Systems, Ice Storm Filaments, and more from 15 December until 3 January 2023. This year the 13 Days of Nexus login rewards for Omega pilots also include up to 20,000 EverMarks, which you can exchange for corporation and alliance emblems on ships. Omegas will also receive up to 510,000 Skill Points! Log in on 13 of the 19 days of the Winter Nexus celebrations to grab all the rewards!


In addition to the above, the Winter Nexus also includes the daily and seasonal challenges that provide even more rewards for taking part. The Yoiul Festival seasonal challenges and rewards will allow you to unlock more boosters and new Aurora Universalis SKINs for completing activities within Volatile Ice Storms, and the Chilling Spree will offer up Skill Points for hitting fellow capsuleers with snowballs daily!


If slinging snowballs at each other isn’t enough, you’ll also be able to go nose to nose with your fellow capsuleers in dedicated Abyssal Proving Grounds events, themed around the special Ice Storm environment! You’ll have new opportunities to overheat your modules for longer and get a bigger speed boost from afterburner modules too!

Here are the different formats you’ll be able to tackle throughout the festive season:

• Yoiul 1v1 T1 cruisers - 16-19 December
• Yoiul T1 destroyer 4-player free-for-all - 30 December - 2 January

Following the successful debut of corporation and alliance emblems on over 100 ships with the launch of the Uprising expansion, on 15 December Paragon will make those emblems available on a further 186 ships! These include all remaining frigates, destroyers, cruisers of all tech levels, Tech I mining barges and exhumers, and non-capital industrial ships. Remember, as an Omega, you get more EverMarks for every Paragon agent mission completed, and you’ll get up to 20,000 EverMarks during the 13 Days of Nexus to use on these new emblems!


As part of the ongoing EVE Evolved initiative, the Photon UI has undergone a number of updates this holiday season to give players a more modernized in-game interface to enjoy. Be sure to check out the summary of those improvements up to November for more info.

In addition, since this time of year is about getting what you’ve asked for, the much-requested introduction of multiple overview windows in EVE is now live in-game! The overview is an essential tactical tool and allowing multiple instances of it will mean that you can tailor the presented information to your chosen playstyle in a more precise way than ever before. Speaking of which, don’t forget that a new default overview based on the popular Z-S Overview pack is now available to all players, too!

Further updates to Photon UI include settings for window margin size, updated security colors, transparency controls, and an auto UI scaling option.

Due to the number of changes and improvements made since the opt-out release in October, we have reset the opt-out state of all clients. If you still wish to use the classic UI instead, you will need to opt out again.


As part of the ongoing improvements made to help fresh capsuleers enter the universe of New Eden more seamlessly and find their path, career agent mission updates have arrived just in time for the holiday season. This includes UI guidance improvements throughout the Industrialist paths, tweaks to mission objectives, reward rebalancing, more clarity in mission text, and more. One of the main outcomes has been an observed rise in the new player completion rate for these missions. With today’s release, you will continue seeing improvements such as these made to career agent missions.

In addition, an introductory short mission has also been added to guide players through the ship personalization process. The journey incudes being introduced to IRIS, receiving a Paragon gift crate, assembling and boarding a destroyer, learning about the PLEX Vault and wallet, then purchasing, redeeming, and activating a SKIN through the ‘Personalization’ tab. Be sure to check out the patch notes for full details.

Furthermore, the AIR Career Program will see an update later this week with better visuals and usability changes that will improve the experience of new capsuleers.


Following the recent discovery by Upwell Consortium Corporations, new ores can now be found distributed in close proximity to some type A0 blue stars. These resources have appeared mainly in nullsec and wormhole space, specifically the following asteroid types:

• Ducinium - contains deposits of Megacyte 
  
• Eifyrium - contains deposits of Zydrine 
  
• Mordunium - contains deposits of Pyerite 
  
• Ytirium - contains deposits of Isogen 

This increases the amount of ore in the universe, offering more opportunities for capsuleers to get their hands on valuable industry materials.

Alongside the above, the maximum moon mining yield has been reduced by 25% – striking a balance between necessary conservation and last year’s doubling of extraction yields. More details can be found in the Resources Realigned article.


To celebrate this season of festivities, the new Winter Luminae Pack will be available from 15 December to 3 January in the EVE Store, featuring 13 Yoiul-inspired days of Omega time, 250 PLEX, 100,000 Skill Points, Luminae Polaris SKINs for the Cruor, Succubus, and Garmur, and an Advanced ‘Boost’ cerebral accelerator.

Also in the EVE Store, between 16 – 21 December, you will be able to get 20% off PLEX packages of 500 and up, plus free brand-new Luminae Polaris SKINs for the Phantasm, Barghest, Nightmare, and more with 1000 PLEX packages and higher.



The in-game New Eden Store (NES) will also be providing irresistible Winter Nexus offers, including the Yoiul Stormchaser Pack from 16-21 December, which features 3 months of Omega time, the Yoiul Star SKIN for all three Sisters of EVE ships, plus Men and Women’s Yoiul Stormchaser Suits.

Also available in the NES, all the other Yoiul Star SKINs will return at 20% off from 15 December to 3 January. Make sure you stock up and show off those SKINs, especially as the charge will build up incrementally and then project a star from 25 December onwards.



If all of that is not enough to sate you this season, for a limited time, any purchase you make in the EVE Merch Store will come with a free SKIN bundle for the character of your choice.

The SKIN bundle includes:

• Rokh Aurora Universalis SKIN
• Gila Aurora Universalis SKIN
• Jackdaw Yoiul Star SKIN
• Oracle Yoiul Star SKIN

Check out the main EVE Merch Store or EU Merch Store and treat yourself or a friend. The offer expires at 23:59 UTC on 24 December, so don’t miss out!



This time of year is synonymous with reflection, so it’s the perfect opportunity to mention that the 2022 end of year EVE Online video will be coming next week and will highlight collective capsuleer achievements in New Eden. In addition, if you subscribe to our mailing list, you will receive an email containing some of your own personalized 2022 EVE Online statistics!

War-hungry capsuleers,

The face of war in New Eden has changed since the launch of Uprising, EVE’s latest narrative-driven expansion. The conflict between the four main empires has seen noticeable escalation over the last several months. They are beginning to directly intervene in the warzones, and the diplomatic ties they once shared seem to be increasingly ignored. The Uprising expansion ushered in a suite of new navy ships, corporation and alliance emblems for ships, new immersive Upwell hangars, and major changes to Factional Warfare (FW), signaling the future of war arriving to New Eden.

Now that the expansion has been live for several weeks, we wanted to take a moment to reflect on the changes to Factional Warfare and give you a sneak peek into what’s coming up next in the warzone.
Before the Uprising expansion, one of the key desires of players was to make Factional Warfare easier to navigate and easier to locate the action. With the new Frontline system, more topology has been added to these systems, creating an all-new dynamic and giving players clearer direction. Systems closest to the action – Frontline systems – have the greatest rewards. Meanwhile, the Rearguard systems are significantly safer and have comparatively lower rewards. This dynamic system is easily understandable, so when you undock you know the amount of risk you are taking. These design elements can be applied to other areas of space as well, so when we say the future of warfare is changing, this is what we have in mind.

It’s been a thrill to watch all the activity and skirmishes over territory and resources on the Frontlines following the Uprising expansion and we hope this shift in the warzone has resonated with all of you participating.

Another goal of ours was to address the one-sided swings in the Warzone. Since Uprising, we have seen a great impact in this vein with a noticeably more equal playing field for all four empires, allowing capsuleers to fight for the empire that they want to support, rather than the empire that can net them the most profit.

In the spirit of fighting for your chosen empire, we’re offering new themed banners that allow you to proudly fly the colors of your chosen empire. You can access them here.
The Uprising expansion has completely shaken up Factional Warfare in more ways than one! The new line of Navy ships introduced in Uprising are already leaving their mark, with the Navy Destroyers being some of the most utilized ships in the warzone.

We've also seen plenty of older ships - rebalanced during Uprising - making their presence known. Ships like the Exequror Navy Issue are dominating the killboards.

The Uprising expansion also improved several Navy faction ships as well as adding balance updates to Heavy Assault Cruisers which has shifted warfare strategies across New Eden.

Uprising brings more variety to larger scale PvP engagements, so no longer are heavy assault cruisers crowding the field. With the latest changes, these ships are now forced to fight in closer quarters, making room for more ships and a wider variety of tactics. Like with the FW warzone, ship diversity is at an all-time high!

The tactics and action surrounding Factional Warfare are still evolving post-expansion, and we can't wait to see where you take it.

The left shows ships used before Uprising, and the right is just after
Unique to the Frontlines are new Battlefield sites - aimed at organized groups of 25+ players and offering significant rewards for both individual capsuleers and their represented empire factions. These sites offer new objectives for player groups, and we've been enjoying the stories and tactics that you all have been coming up with - from Thrasher Fleet spam to brick-tanked Navy Scorps!

We've been closely monitoring the Battlefields and have put together a list of ongoing areas of focus:

• Adjusting payout mechanics to reward more active participation and discourage "seagulling"
• Balancing the individual and empire rewards (Loyalty points for capsuleers, Advantage Points and Victory Points for empires)
• Adjusting the "Defender LP penalty" that is applied, which currently makes it less optimal to contest the Battlefields that spawn in your own Frontlines, compared to those in enemy Frontlines
• Focusing Battlefields primarily on Advantage rather than victory points so they augment plex running, but do not replace it
• Adjusting Battlefield spawn rate and capture speed. We like how these are focal points for conflict, but we're aware that their rewards - both LP and VP - potentially overshadow the other complexes. We want to ensure these still feel like rare and exciting sites, but we also want to make sure they're not the only sites worth running.

The ship eligibilities across the Factional Warfare Complexes have also been rebalanced, creating new and cost effective PvP metas and making for wider accessibility and a fairer fight within them. Since this change, capsuleers are now more eager to engage in battle, leading to a significant increase in activity in these complexes.
The future of war has begun, and this is just the beginning of Factional Warfare improvements for EVE. We welcome your feedback in (this dedicated forum post) on how we can make FW even better moving forward. As we continue to improve and iterate, addressing some pain points and making various improvements, from NPC interaction with supply depots to Advantage System balance, we're excited to see many more of you join in Q1 of next year with the launch of an exciting new feature, that will allow individuals to join the fight without having to leave their existing groups.

Although there’s more on the horizon, Factional Warfare has already become a space that is rife with activity and possibilities. One of the primary goals has already been achieved following Uprising: focusing capsuleer efforts towards emerging key conflicts making the warzone more fun and exciting to participate in. This has already led to a huge increase in capsuleers participating in PvP, with equal growth in the number of kills within FW systems.

There is so much more to come, and we can’t wait to reveal more on the future of war over the coming weeks and months. In the meantime, see you on the battlefield!

Fight with honor, capsuleers.

Prospecting capsuleers,

Two recent exploratory and regulatory developments between the factions and corporations of New Eden are set to disrupt the cluster’s industrial landscape next week:

Read the full report from New Eden News to get the complete picture and story behind these events in the living universe of EVE!
Surveys conducted by four Upwell signatory corporations have revealed fields of novel mineral-rich asteroids in close proximity to type A0 blue stars across New Eden. Each of these new asteroid types will be named for the corporations involved in their discovery, and contain high concentrations of specific minerals:

Concern by the Empires regarding the over-extraction of moon ore has led to a compromise between CONCORD, the Upwell Consortium, and ORE which will see maximum moon mining yield reduced by 25% – striking a balance between necessary conservation and last year’s doubling of extraction yields.

The Upwell Consortium's rollout of requisite firmware updates is set to take place next week, concurrent with the public release of the coordinates for the newly discovered near-solar asteroid fields.

As part of resource distribution plan, we intend for this to ease some bottlenecks in T1 industry, specifically as it pertains to capital manufacturing which is ramping up, while ensuring that T2 resource harvesting & industry remains profitable.

Prepare for a realignment of resources, capsuleers – we'll see you in space!

Factitious capsuleers,


Carry the interstellar animosities of Uprising into the Abyss in the next Proving Ground event, tag-teaming your opponents in turbulent 2v2 combat aboard top-of-the-line Empire Navy frigates!!


This event begins at 11:00 UTC on 10 December, and runs until 11:00 UTC on 12 December.


The ruleset is as follows:

• Only the Imperial Navy Slicer, Crucifier Navy Issue, Magnate Navy Issue, Caldari Navy Hookbill, Griffin Navy Issue, Heron Navy Issue, Federation Navy Comet, Maulus Navy Issue, Imicus Navy Issue, Republic Fleet Firetail, Vigil Fleet Issue, and Probe Fleet Issue may enter this event.
• Overheat bonuses for turrets & missile launchers as well as tackle, propulsion, repair, resistance, and energy warfare modules are doubled.
• +500 bonus shield, armor, and hull HP for all ships that enter the arena.
• Pilots receive 10 million ISK payout per match where they deal at least 2000 damage.
• Sensor dampeners, weapon disruptors, and shield boost amplifiers, rechargers, power relays, and flux coils cannot be fitted.
• Maximum of one local repair module per ship (shield or armor).
• Modules and implants are restricted to meta level 5 and below.

Clean up that navy camo, prep your Proving Ground Filaments (found in Abyssal Deadspace, Pochven, or on the in-game market), and take advantage of the Empires' most advanced engineering as you climb the leaderboard and earn special rewards!

Rising Capsuleers,


Starter packs have long given new pilots a boost to their early journey through the New Eden star cluster. With immediate effect, however, the established starter packs have been replaced with new editions, each having been revised to better serve the needs of today’s ambitious pilots.


Four packs are now available, from the introductory Bronze Starter Pack, through to the elite Platinum Starter Pack. Just as with the previous packs, each is filled with items that accelerate your early progress, giving you a chance to taste more of the full EVE experience, and letting you try on SKINs and other cosmetic items for size.


Pick up a Bronze or Silver Starter Pack, and you’ll get a spread of Omega time, Skill Points, Standard and Advanced 'Boost' Cerebral Accelerators, pilot apparel, and a selection of SKINs


Grab a Gold Starter Pack, and you get more of all those things, an upgrade to a Specialist 'Boost' Cerebral Accelerator, and 500 PLEX to spend or trade. Still want more? A Platinum Starter Pack provides the most ambitious pilots with even greater volumes of Omega and Skill Points, an Expert 'Boost' Cerebral Accelerator, 1500 PLEX, and access to Multiple Character Training certificates.


Whichever Starter Pack you choose, you can be sure it will supercharge your journey to mastery, while also providing a chance to explore different options as you build your pilot’s future (and if you are already an EVE veteran, the packs simply offer a great deal on a vast selection of piloting essentials).


So, what are you waiting for? Grab a new starter pack in the EVE Store today!