Aug 28, 2021 — CCP Zulu published a [dev blog](//www.eveonline.com/devblog.asp?a=blog&bid=934) on Sunday, June 26 which talked about an upcoming summit with the [CSM](//wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Council_of_Stellar_Management) and CCP to "discuss the events of the past week, to help us define and address the real underlying concerns, and to assist us in defining and iterating on our virtual goods strategy.**"** During the last two days the CSM have discussed these issues with CCP Zulu (Senior Producer for EVE ...

Aug 28, 2021 — Hello! First of all we want to thank you for all your feedback and interest in the [Player Owned Customs Office](//www.eveonline.com/devblog.asp?a=blog&nbid=2899)! We have gone through the thread and thanks to the efforts of the community team as well as Team Pi members sitting up all night following the thread we believe we have a pretty good grasp on your feedback and your concerns (let us know if we don't). One thing that really stood out was your concern for the transition period when all...

Aug 28, 2021 — Hi! CCP Punkturis of BFF here with another feature coming in the Winter Expansion! Remember when we published the [font dev blog](//www.eveonline.com/devblog.asp?a=blog&nbid=2401)? You guys gave us a lot of good comments from that and the majority was about the font size. EVE's current UI has been designed based on a certain fixed font size.  For a UI to properly work with scalable fonts requires the design itself to take that into account from the start similar to how HTML works in webpages.  ...

Aug 28, 2021 — Hello! I am CCP Cascade, Associate Technical Producer working in the Core Technology Group. I have been given the role of Internet Herald to tell you about some of the projects the Core Infrastructure team, CCP Atropos, CCP Mandrake, CCP Sputnik, and CCP TopKnot have recently worked on. The team works on a lot of in-house tech that you don’t often get to see, but they also work on some pretty important stuff that you see every day, such as the installer, patcher and repair tool. You might know ...

Aug 28, 2021 — As we speak, our artists (don‘t worry, I don‘t actually get to [draw ships](//www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150362915094394&set=a.10150357499574394.364414.17614129393&type=1&theater)) and game designers are working on the Talos, making sure it‘s ready for the abuse you guys are planning to put it through following our upcoming winter expansion. [](//content.eveonline.com/www/newssystem/media/2768/3014/Gallente_...

Aug 28, 2021 — Attention explorers!  I am CCP Affinity from Team BFF and we have many exciting features in store for you this winter.  CCP Bettik and CCP Big Dumb Object, formerly of Team Commie Pinkos, have joined the BFF ranks to form a multidisciplinary Flying in Space super team that's been making stuff for the Winter Expansion! * In an on-going commitment to iterate on existing content we've been filling the gaps for the DED complexes. We have added new DED complexes, rated at 3/10 and 4/10 in difficul...

Aug 28, 2021 — As we have [hinted at](//cdn1.eveonline.com/www/newssystem/media/2701/2918/Winter2011Ships01.jpg), the [Tornado](//news.deviantart.com/article/133951/), originally designed by [dreamwa1ker](//dreamwa1ker.deviantart.com/) from Deviant Art (Pattern Clarc in EVE), is warping into the 2011 winter expansion...and it‘s bringing friends. [](//content.eveonline.com/www/newssystem/media/2765/3001/Minmatar_02.jpg) We couldn‘t ...

Aug 28, 2021 — Hello Spacefriends As [mentioned previously](//community.eveonline.com/devblog.asp?a=blog&nbid=72779), we are not at all happy with the state of the [unified inventory](//www.eveonline.com/inferno/unified-inventory-ftr/). To everyone that is currently struggling with it, you have my apologies. As a remedy, we’re going to try and provide you with weekly changes to it, until we get it into a state where you’re happy with it. Our first group of fixes will go out **Tuesday, May 29th**, and are as ...

Aug 28, 2021 — The four price indices of New Eden have been calculated for September 2011.  For more detail on the indices, please refer to the [Market Indices page on Evelopedia](//wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Market_Indices). Prices of PI made POS fuel rise by 15% from last month.  The index blog for August mentioned the negative correlation between the prices of PI made POS fuel and ice products.  Sure enough, this month sees ice product prices decline, but only by a meager 1.4%.  This is less than one would...

Aug 28, 2021 — Killmails are great.  They serve as reminders of good fights (or dubious mistakes).  They let you measure losses inflicted on your enemy in cold hard ISK.  They also demonstrate some interesting choices in ship fitting, or cargo-movement attempts.  If you're so inclined, they provide a way to track your kill/death ratio, and measure it against your peers.  I especially like the ones where a pod gets squished.  But I’ve always felt that those pod-mails were missing a certain... something. **In t...

Aug 28, 2021 — Following the [announcement](//www.eveonline.com/news.asp?a=single&nid=4769&tid=1) by CCP Manifest on Wednesday, October 19 concerning the goals of CCP and the downsizing of staff, it became clear to many players that the EVE Community team was one of those affected. The loss of our colleagues, friends and mentors has saddened us greatly and we wish them all the very best for the future. So what is happening with the Community team now? Will players see less communication from CCP on the develo...

Aug 28, 2021 — Last but certainly not least in the line of ships en route to TQ in the upcoming Winter Expansion, is the Caldari Naga. [](//content.eveonline.com/www/newssystem/media/2816/3059/Caldari_Ship.jpg) _Click to enlarge_ The Naga is based on David L‘s _„Caldari battleship“_ design, from the [Create a Starship](//evecontest.com/finalvote/) contest, which has now been repurposed for battlecruiser duty. In the earthly cul...

Aug 28, 2021 — Hybrid turrets have fallen out of grace. Maybe they weren't that amazing to begin with, but things have gotten somewhat worse in recent years. The speed change made it more difficult for blaster ships to get in close. The webifier change meant that blaster tracking suddenly wasn't good enough. The projectile boost made hybrids worse by comparison. Whatever it was that broke the camel's back, this is where we are now; Hybrid turrets do not compare favorably to the other turret systems. How we ...

Aug 28, 2021 — I am proud to announce that this winter, we are going to release some long-anticipated ship balancing. Specifically, capital ship balancing. For a long time, there has been an outcry in the community that fleet fights are stagnating and are just not as fun as they should be. There are dozens, if not hundreds, of pages of forum threads dedicated to this subject both on the [official EVE Online forums](//forums.eveonline.com), other EVE forums, as well as in blogs and articles. There is no shor...

Aug 28, 2021 — **Background** During Fanfest 2011, CCP Fendahl and I attended the Planetary Interaction roundtable, and what was discussed there helped shape what we are about to share with you now. We hope it excites you as much as it excites us! One of the standout ideas that was mentioned during the roundtable was that players should own and operate the Planetary Customs Offices rather than some nebulous NPC entity. Guess what? That is exactly what we are doing! Behold the Player-owned Customs Office! **...

Aug 28, 2021 — _"I like to melt stuff and I dislike stuff that doesn't melt"_  -Phoebe‘s brother in the TV show Friends Based on the Mentor, originally designed by Alexey M for the „[Create a starship](//evecontest.com/finalvote/)“ contest, the Oracle is the third player created spaceship coming out of warp in our upcoming winter expansion. [](//content.eveonline.com/www/newssystem/media/2791/3035/Mentor_Battlecruiser.j...

Aug 28, 2021 — As some of you might know we've been working on something called Corp Locations (formerly called corp bookmarks). The concept is quite simple really. Once Crucible is released, you will be able to share your bookmarks with your corp so anyone in the corp can see them and use them. Well, you're not exactly sharing them, what you are really doing is copying them and giving them to the corp. There is a little bit more to it than that though. To protect our server the corp bookmarks are cached so t...

Aug 28, 2021 — Last week we mentioned in [this blog](//www.eveonline.com/devblog.asp?a=blog&nbid=3005) that CCP is in the process of bringing back the volunteer moderator program and I wanted to give you a progress update. The Community team is now accepting applications from prospective candidates who would be interested in becoming part of [ISD](//community.eveonline.com/community/volunteer-program/) (Interstellar Services Division) to join forces with us to keep the forums a lively and informative resource ...

Aug 28, 2021 — I always find it fascinating how the most life threatening issues often come up from the smallest, most innocent moves. For instance, you could enjoy a meal at home, drop the dirty cutlery into the sink with the firm intention to clean it the day after, only to realize two weeks have passed and the kitchen is now inhabited by a new indigenous, hostile life-form derived from all the junk you forgot to wash during that time. The same shocking, and quite horrifying principles apply with ship balan...

Aug 28, 2021 — Things have been afoot in the Jita solar system recently... ### WHAT IS JITA? For quite some time, the [Jita](//wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Trade_hub#Jita) solar system has been the most populated solar system in EVE Online on a sustained basis, having organically risen as the main player trade hub in game due to its location and the basic human need to gather together and trade stuff. It's had a varied reputation as [_wretched hive of scum, villainy and scammers_], [_representative product of...