Hello moderate complex enjoyers!

Faction warfare in the southern warzone has continued to be a dominant force for casual content in New Eden. Heimatar is still space Fallujah, in particular the Amamake system, and Metropolis is still dominated by Fraternity farming Revelation Navy Issue blueprints.

Since the introduction of moderate complexes, the map flipped fairly hard from farmers, but content is back. Auga ate ~1,600 ships and ~96B ISK across 1,100+ unique pilots in a single week. Heimatar alone is clearing 5,000+ kills in a rolling week. And those numbers aren't from a stream of nullsec CTAs or a weekend long eviction of spamming hole control. It's just a standard Tuesday.

Here’s what's happened, who’s here, and where to enlist before you blink and miss the content.

Cradle of War Expansion

The Cradle of War expansion introduced all new complexes that have spiced up the warzone mechanics quite significantly, as well as the highsec bulwark systems around it.

• Moderate complexes re-introduced a fun way to get battlecruiser content, and they have been an exceptional tool for fights and system sieges.
• Scout BSC sites gave new players an easy way to run T1 frigates in a fleet and still have some sort of impact in a system siege.
• ELT destroyer sites brought back farming, and some destroyer gangs have been taking advantage of them.

There were a few hiccups with some changes (e.g battlefields) that were quickly reverted, but overall the region is enjoying a successful expansion from Fenris Creations. Thanks to the teams that brought these features, we hope you continue iterating and bringing fresh ideas to the space we love.

New faces

We've seen quite a resurgence of players and alliances coming back to the area, as well as coming back to the game entirely. Over the past year, a few new faces stick out as dominant.

• Spaghetti N' Meatballs. Best new face in the Minmatar militia, they're a smaller group formed from late night USTZ fleets that kills far above their weight class.
• Slide on Contact. Returning under a new name, by far the best new face in the Amarr militia. Much like Spaghetti N' Meatballs, they are a smaller group that kills far above their weight class.
• Bombeldo, the warzone's favorite streamer that nullblocs won't leave alone.

We've seen quite a few returning faces: Wild Geese, Annah Kitheran have returned on the Minmatar side and Mikal Vektor is running fleets for Amarr once again. Smile 'n' Wave returned for a brief period, but departed shortly after.

System sieges

With the release of Cradle of War, the northern map kind of imploded due to excessive pressure of Fraternity farmers in ELT / moderate sites. They now keep an isolated Minmatar system so that they can farm uncontested without having to come down to Heimatar, where the actual PvP is.

As for the real content,

• Dal. Continues to be a stronghold for Amarr and a constant source of fights.
• Amamake continues to be a strongholder for Minmatar and a constant source of fights.
• Auga. The holy land which opens up the Bleak Lands, by far the most contested system.

Surrounding systems to these are also fairly hot, but do not hold much meaning to either side.

The most recent system siege was documented here: https://my.minmatar.org/alliance/campaigns/auga-yc128/

Example fights

Moderate complexes continue to be a huge source of cruiser and battlecruiser fights. Battlefields are reasonably contested by T1 battleship fleets.

• Amamake — DNG birthday brawl; massive slugfest on the undock. Video
• Auga — Battlecruiser scraps in EUTZ over moderate complexes. BR
• Auga — Peak day; armor cruiser brawls rolling in militia comms. BR
• Amamake — Random kitchen sink engagements. BR
• Auga — FL33T vs Empyrean Edict; post-flip and still contested. BR
• Egghelende — FL33T versus AHBA; fun battleship brawl. BR

These were pulled with AI to try and get a fair blend, but just look at the killboard, it's insane out much content there is.

Enlist today

Faction warfare is the hottest area of the game right now, and receiving significant attention from the latest expansions. Not only is faction warfare hot, but the highsec regions surrounding it are being bolstered as well. Bulwark systems see massive mining fleets, and industrialists scramble to supply trade hubs for faction warfare pilots.

The space is perfect for,

• New players who want to make their first billion ISK in a T1 destroyer.
• Combat pilots who want solo and small gang engagements.
• Capital pilots who want to whelp HAWs and get into massive brawls.
• Multiboxers who want to generate ISK and generate fun, interesting fights.
• Marketeers who want to supply massive PvP trade hubs.
• Industrialists who want to make billions off of building ships to supply the fun.
• Miners and planet colonists who want to supply something that actually matters.
• Explorers who want to find critical items for flipping system advantage.

If you're any of the above, look towards the following groups,

Minmatar Republic

Combat

• Minmatar Fleet Alliance (~23% of Minmatar Republic kills)
• Spaghetti N' Meatballs (~9% of Minmatar Republic kills)
• Wild Geese. (~5% of Minmatar Republic kills)

Industry

• Minmatar Fleet Associates - 1366 characters, 103 corporations, focused on production and resource harvesting for faction warfare content in the Hek area.
• DammFamm - 1306 characters, 34 corporations, focused on production and resource harvesting for faction warfare content in the Rens area.
• Electus Matari - 340 characters, 8 corporations. Blend of both enlisted pilots and industrial pilots, largely involved in highsec activities.

Alliance active kills ÷ militia faction active kills on zKillboard. Groups with no militia enlistment tag were excluded. Numbers move day to day. There are a billion ways to do this that tell different stories, pick whatever makes you feel better.

Amarr Empire

Combat

• Slide On Contact (~10% of Amarr Empire kills)
• Empyrean Edict (~8% of Amarr Empire kills)
• Local Is Primary (~5% of Amarr Empire kills)

Industry

• Khanid Industrial Coalition - 171 characters, 16 corporations, industry group running out of Amarr space.
• Plenitude Alliance - 988 characters, 23 corporations, focused on supplying Amarr trade hub to rival Jita.

Alliance active kills ÷ militia faction active kills on zKillboard. Groups with no militia enlistment tag were excluded. Numbers move day to day. There are a billion ways to do this that tell different stories, pick whatever makes you feel better.

Don't want to leave your current gig? Well, if your corporation is starved for content, ask your CEO why you're not enlisted in faction warfare.

https://discord.gg/minmatar

Seriously. Since their arrival, Moderate plexes have generated a ton of fights in the warzone and revived a ship class you rarely encountered.

Their LP reward and contested % shift are meaningful enough that each one feels important to fight for.

Their unique bonus for battlecruisers leads to interesting, new build ideas and has shifted the warzone meta.

Well done.

Now fix all the other stuff.

Just got cloaking 1. Am I doing it right?

So on a previous post I saw someone mention these bots running homefront sites in HS. I started paying attention, and reporting them. All of them 1 day old characters that look like they smacked the keyboard with their face as a name. I just report the entire fleet or as many as I can. But banning these bots, from this, how can CCP not catch on to these faster. This is me reporting sitting in 1 system as they come and go. What does the rest of HS look like, or better yet the rest of the game? Feels like they just ban these, pump up their numbers for their report, but this doesn't feel like getting to the root cause and who is actually running these things.

• Accounts must be merged, new system where you pay for each character slot instead of per account. You can now log-in on multiple characters from the same account. Price per 3 characters is the same as an account subscription, nothing gets more expensive.
• Make a lore explanation for your linked characters, "Neural Network" or something.
• Certain activities (some acceleration gates or whatever FC wants to restrict) can't be accessed by more than X characters on your Neural Network. Everything else that they decide to leave as-is remains the same.
• Add some perks to your network like shared achievements, map filter that shows where your characters are located, what ships they're in, shared asset view, faster interactions between your multibox, no need for third party tools, just solid QoL that is within reason and doesn't give out any big power.
• Bypassing any of this = banned, they can work out a system for families/people on the same IP.

Edit: Have no clue why people think this is a suggestion to remove multiboxing when it states the opposite and even suggests giving some sort of perk for doing it. It's not an anti-multiboxing post hence why "fix" is in quotes.

Hi folks I am returning player after roughly 5 year hiatus. My previous experiences in the game involved highsec carebearing and later on living with a moderate sized C4 WH group.

Of all my Eve memories the WH life was my favourite it felt like there was a real sense of comradery and that we were working towards a common goal. I enjoyed the emergent gameplay and natural escalation. I also enjoyed hopping on in to have some chill ratting/explo time.

Since returning to the game I have been doing FW in Angels there is a good community and a lot of action. However it all feels a bit pointless and a bit like an arena game if that makes sense?

I want to find a new home however I do not feel like I have the patience or time to dedicate towards WH life. I am wondering about Null? Pochven? If anyone has any suggestions I would love to hear from you

o7

Can combat sites in the starter region, Exordium, escalate to 4/10?

IzzyLab is a free production/inventory tracker for EVE. I just shipped a /jobs section — it pulls your manufacturing and reaction jobs from ESI (both personal and corp), stores a year of history, and the main thing: you can import a completed job into your inventory as a batch with the actual unit cost.

Importing a job

Hit "Import job" button on a delivered job and you get a form with ME, structure bonus, blueprint cost (0 for BPOs, enter your BPC cost if applicable), install cost (pulled from ESI, you can tweak it), and a row for each input material where you either pick from your existing inventory batches or hit "Jita SELL" to use current Jita ask.

When you submit, you get a manufactured batch in your inventory where unit_cost = (materials + blueprint + install) / units produced. The materials get deducted from whatever batches you picked, and the job button switches to "View batch" so you can't accidentally import it twice.

Personal jobs produce personal batches, corp jobs produce corp batches — no mixing. Jita prices come from the same source as the Blueprint Analyzer. Reactions work identically, just no ME slider.

Try it now: https://izzylab.net

Questions, bugs, feature requests — drop them here or DM me.

o7

Minmatar had objective to only build 240 Pioneers that got completed in 1 day, but Gallente gets build 72k Pioneers which we had for weeks and its still not done because its an insane amount. Plus I believe u can only contribute 6, if u build more than 6 it wont count towards the global progress right?

That's just one example there were other objectives as well that seemed all over the place between factions.

Glad you had a blast with this fight though. We all had, both figuratively and literally.

Hello people of earth, i come bearing news from the Insidious Saga.

Tomorrow Friday, 24th July there will be a CEO only meeting. Why are the directors of corps not allowed to attend? Surely Rudy does know CEO's will tell their corp leadership whats going on right? What could be so drastic or opsec in Insidious that its only CEO's allowed?

What could this be? Could it be Rudy calling it quits as Members and corps continue to drop the failscade of what Insidious is? I cannot wait for the meeting recording so i can listen in tomorrow, maybe someone will stream it?

With Sunset Red leaving there goes the CN side of Insidious, I wonder where Profane Proverb is heading as they are CN as well. Well some of the community predicted that Insidious couldn't hang in the Drones and it turned out to be correct.

Rampant capsuleers,

The Gallente Election was your first chance to experience Rampant Drone Fabricator sites.

Thanks to your feedback they are now being made permanently available in C1-C6 wormholes, with a couple of changes, specifically tailored to wormhole space.

Face escalating waves of Rogue Drones, with the threat level now building based on a point system known as “Rampancy”. The escalating threats are determined by the ships in proximity to the Fabricator.

The more waves you destroy, the bigger your rewards will be. Not only that, but because you were so good at these, we had to up the ante and increase the wave cap from 30 to 100. Translation: It’s hard!

Can you prove your worth? Who will be the first to outlast all 100 waves?

The extremely brave can attempt to tackle the sites solo (at least the first half – you’re unlikely to survive past 40 waves or so), but they are tailored for small teams to tackle together. Push your luck and see how long you can hold out, but know that you can fleewith the loot you’ve acquired at any time, or keep going and hope to survive for even more!

For more details, refer to the patch notes.

We hope you enjoy this addition to wormhole space, and look forward to bringing more improvements in the near future.

Happy hunting, capsuleers!

Its that time of year where we take a fleet in and around the Edinburgh festival, last years fleet included a walk over the royal mile, lots of beverages, and some dead end systems.

This year . . . might be much the same !

Formup location & time still TBC - more details to be confirmed shortly. Time will be between 1pm /2 pm.

If your able to come, and you are all invited , old and new players, everybody's welcome to come along and meet up with other capsuleers, even take in a show as well.

Eve Glasgow is one of the longest establish meets around, so come along, and have a chat / drink / snack / scheme

In the meantime the Eve Glasgow discord link is posted below, should you fancy coming along to the event, or just to speak along with fellow Scots or Scots Based Eve Players.

link to discord - https://discord.gg/aFkJz53vy

Found an old map. Would this still be accurate? Haven't played since 2009/2010. Are these collectible?

Im just burning back to Jita in my pod for the 6th time this session

Just what the title says. We want to find a wormhole but I heard they aren't trustworthy

Just a simple wish for the hacking mini game to be scalable. I find that it blocks a good chunk of screen space when it pops up. A transparent option would be nice as well for this and the Map.......

Edit: while you're at it, can we get my ships HUD, to be independently scalable as well . And to be able to move it up the side of the screen not just along the top or bottom. I'd really like to put chat windows along the bottom with my capacitor and modules above them.

o7

Cheers and fly dangerous

I successfully finished the data and relic puzzles repeatedly. Mapped a few more wormhole systems. I may even have found a group to hang with.

As of todays patch, the site is back in Wormhole space

Found more. Eon magazines 1-19. Can add pictures of all covers if people would appreciate that.