It’s Friday as soon as extra and, as typically occurs, I’m feeling low on motivation and have just a few objects in my again pocket I can throw on the market as bullet factors, this time round EVE On-line.
- EVE On-line Challenge Discovery Turns Ten
It’s a signal of age that I so typically really feel a conflicting emotion at anniversaries that this each couldn’t have been occurring this lengthy AND that it feels prefer it has been longer than prompt.
So it’s with Challenge Discovery, which feels prefer it has been a part of the sport for a very long time and no time in any respect.
Challenge Discovery – tenth Anniversary
I’m to know if our in-game flailing at making an attempt to attract strains round what kinda-sorta seems like a clump of… one thing… contributed in any respect to any scientific analysis. I imply, I do know CCP presents it that approach… but additionally, have you ever met avid gamers? We’ll completely search for the optimized shortcut to getting extra samples processed quicker with no thought to high quality of output.
Anyway, there might be extra about this at Fanfest 2026 later this 12 months to have fun the practically billion classifications we’ve collectively cranked out. It’s the cause these Biosecurity Responders SKINs are so low cost in Jita. (I solely have 81 of the 247 obtainable… I ought to repair that. They’re really good SKINs.)
As a salute to capsuleers all people who has participated in Challenge Uncover… will get one other SKIN… due to course. However that ought to be in your in-game redemption queue immediately.
- Faction Warfare – Awoxing and Seagulling
There was a pair of issues plaguing Faction Warfare in EVE On-line.
Properly, there are greater than two issues in FW, I assure you, however these two have been on the entrance burner as of late.
The primary is expounded to standings losses with different empires for taking pictures their stuff when you’re doing issues to your empire in FW by way of derived standings. As a Minmatar pilot, doing missions to your facet in opposition to the Amarr militia would get mirrored in your standings with the general Amarr empire and its subsidiary firms.
So that’s going to get some tweaks and derived standing gained’t be a part of FW missions anymore.
The second is expounded to awoxing, which is the apply of taking pictures folks in your personal corp, alliance, militia, or different related group. Named for a participant who used to do this, you’re taking pictures individuals who anticipate you to be on their facet, which is at all times an disagreeable shock, and sometimes frustratingly so if in case you have your overview set to solely show hostiles.
Shock! There’s a subset of gamers who get pleasure from this form of factor in FW… surprising, I do know… and have been shielded by some sport mechanics from being kicked out of their corps or FW general. So the penalties for awoxing are going to be elevated and a few loopholes closed. Standings hits for awoxing might be elevated and you’ll now not be shielded by being in a corp whose common standing is excessive sufficient to not be penalized.
Appears easy sufficient, proper?
Besides that I lied, there are three issues on the entrance burner, the third is named seagulling. Seagulling is when gamers cling round FW websites which are being attacked with out serving to, which will get them the LP payout with none effort. LP has worth in sport and we all know there are MMO gamers who will put in as little effort as attainable with a view to accrue in sport foreign money.
Because it seems, one of many accepted types of awoxing was taking pictures seagulls. However now the penalties are extreme sufficient that the seagulls are secure and can possible proceed to flock.
This all went in with this morning’s replace.
- Month-to-month Financial Report for Feb 2026
The standard financial report was out for February 2026. CCP’s picked highlights had been:
- Destruction Worth elevated, whereas Mining and Manufacturing Worth declined.
- Velocity of ISK continues to lower.
- The Mineral Worth Index continues to say no, down ~52% over the previous 12 months.
- The Ship Worth Index continues to say no, down ~21% over the previous 12 months.
- The Module Worth Index continues to say no, down ~13% over the previous 12 months.
Not talked about is their success is suppressing the worth of ISK.
ISK costs – July 2025 to March 2026
It’s down from a peak final July round 6 million ISK per to touching as little as 4.2 million ISK per earlier this 12 months.
- Historical past Written in… ewww… Blood?
What’s it with eccentric sport builders and blood? Lord British tried to promote his blood… however he’s nonetheless affected by some form of dementia… he retains telling folks he was an actual astronaut. Then there was that PC prize with blood within the cooling system to advertise Diablo IV… which is no less than a sport with some blood in it.
And now CCP is doing a blood promotion… however they need YOUR blood.
I do know Hilmar is behind this. What e-book did he learn now?
Anyway, at Fanfest they’ll be in search of just a few drops of blood from capsuleers to combine in with the ink to jot down/print The Capsuleer Edda?
The Capsuleer Edda – In Blood
And what’s the Capsuleer Edda? A poem within the Norse alliterative verse format, solely this time will probably be about web spaceships. From the put up:
The Capsuleer Edda is commissioned by Icelandic authors, writing to mirror the historical past and shared expertise of EVE On-line as a digital tradition.
The contributing writers are Andri Snær Magnason and Jónas Reynir Gunnarsson. They are going to protect capsuleer tales in verse, producing a murals fairly than a purely biographical textual content. They’ve been interviewing the EVE group, getting suggestions, and scouring the player-driven historical past of New Eden to encourage and inform their epic poetry.
The manuscript might be hand-written by knowledgeable calligrapher and deliberately left unsigned to mirror historic manuscript traditions, through which scribes documented sagas with out credit score.
What it would really find yourself being and whether or not will probably be understandable to those that can neither learn Icelandic nor will possible have entry to the textual content stays an open query. I imply, is there even an Icelandic phrase for “awox?”
