-
Opinion: Free SP versus New Player Experience
CCP recently announced, with the upcoming Vanguard Expansion, they are changing the starting skill points each player receives with the aim of improving the New Player Experience (NPE). You can read details of the skill point tweak here. Will higher starting skill points really improve retention rate? What other impacts might this change have? Introduction To understand…
-
CCPizza: Appreciation Campaign To Supply CCP With Pizza Smashes Target
Cornak Firefist is one grateful capsuleer. On a a whim, he decided he’s like to buy the staff at CCP pizza, as a way of saying thanks for all their hard work. After being in contact with CCP, he decided to start a GoFundMe campaign to raise $60, enough money to buy 4 pizza’s for…
-
Pirates Continue to Target Refugees
Pirates Continue to Target Refugees Reports continue to pour in from the Amitrite system of pirates targeting refugees fleeing the war-torn Pegasi sector. The refugee transports have been stopping in Amitrite to refuel while travelling to a resettleme…
-
Sothis Crystalline Gold
Sothis Crystalline Gold Scientists based at Newholm Station in the Sothis system have made a startling announcement – the discovery of an entirely new metalloid. The material, called Sothis Crystalline Gold, is produced by exposing ordinary gold to the thermal vents that line the seabed of the planets Sothis A5 and Sothis A6 – or,…
-
Senator Patreus offers Support to Senator Lavigny-Duval
Senator Patreus offers Support to Senator Lavigny-Duval Although the Senate remains in closed session until the succession is determined, Senator Denton Patreus made his support clear in a speech to his command staff: “Everyone knows that my priority is the security of the Empire. It is my duty as a senator to provide the best…
-
GalNet Weekly Conflict Report
GalNet Weekly Conflict Report This weekly transmission lists some of the systems currently in conflict around the galaxy, based on the latest data (*). Here are 10 of the 13,414 minor factions involved in a civil war: Cupis Power Corp. Workers of A…
-
Around the Verse
Welcome back to Around the Verse!
-
Academies of New Eden improves their program!
In recent years, many capsuleers wrestled with the quality their initial education, high cost and citing low standards of Empires factions schools. The major problem they tried to point out was that schools do not prepare their them for a life of a pod pilot. Lack of practical skills, like use of propulsion-jamming modules or scanning modules, forced them to…
-
ANNOUNCING THE AMARR CHAMPIONSHIPS
[Original dev blog] 2015-09-24 18:19 By CCP Logibro | Comments Click for 1920×1080. Also available in 1920×1200, and 2560×1440 Greetings prospective Champions As previously announced during Alliance Tournament XIII, after the death of Empress Jamyl I, the Amarr Empire will be holding the Succession Trials to determine the next Emperor, or Empress, of the Amarr…
-
Announcing the Amarr Championships
Click for 1920×1080. Also available in 1920×1200, and 2560×1440 Greetings prospective Champions As previously announced during Alliance Tournament XIII, after the death of Empress Jamyl I, the Amarr Empire will be holding the Succession Trials …