Today, Monday March 25th, CCP Games is delighted to announce the 19th free expansion to EVE Online, titled EVE Online: Odyssey. This expansion is planned for release on June 4, 2013. Odyssey will greatly expand the opportunities for players to explore all corners of the massive EVE Universe and its 7,929 solar systems.

I hope this counts as legitimate speculation from the PAX EAST announcement, but:



To me, all corners means everywhere, and to get 7,929 means that 'everywhere' has to include Jove space.

Empire---------1907
Outlaw----------3294
Dev Region----230
Sleeper----------2498
Total-------------7929


Happy Birthday New Eden?

Imagine if it was a nullsec space that couldn't really be jump bridged to

What if it was only accessible by noobships and whatever they could carry in cargo so everything had to be built there from the ground up just like the early days.

Realistically if it ever opens up (and I doubt it ever will), it'll be claimed by one of the blue naptrains and farmed for any new items there that can be turned into a cartel. (or rented out to a pet alliance if the space turns out to be as bad as providence etc).

Nah, Marketing made an executive decision to include the Dev Regions, because bigger numbers are better numbers.

Topsy-Turvey World shakes free the mites. The Worms are infested with cats. All work for One. One is coming soon.

That is FAR more likely than the OP's assessment.

I would hope if CCP ever did open up Jove space than it would be some conditions:

1 - The entrance to Jove space much harder to scan down than a wormhole.
2 - Very small mass allowed to go thru said entrance before it closes, a couple dozen ships max (no capitals)
3 - Entrance only stays active for a hour then closes.
4 - A one way trip, have to scan another entrance back to regular space.
5 - NO SOV Allowed
6 - NO Local
7 - NO POSes Allowed
8 - Jove rats (combo Sansha & Sleeper AI plus)

9 - Here's the kicker, Entrances to Jove space only found in low or null sec.

Jove space would have to make it extremely hard for someone to live there for any length of time.

I would hope if CCP ever did open up Jove space than it would be some conditions:

1 - The entrance to Jove space much harder to scan down than a wormhole.
2 - Very small mass allowed to go thru said entrance before it closes, a couple dozen ships max (no capitals)
3 - Entrance only stays active for a hour then closes.
4 - A one way trip, have to scan another entrance back to regular space.
5 - NO SOV Allowed
6 - NO Local
7 - NO POSes Allowed
8 - Jove rats (combo Sansha & Sleeper AI plus)

9 - Here's the kicker, Entrances to Jove space only found in low or null sec.

Jove space would have to make it extremely hard for someone to live there for any length of time.

I like how you turn an admitted speculation into an 'assessment'.

To me, all corners means everywhere, and to get 7,929 means that 'everywhere' has to include Jove space

So, roll a cheap alt, move it next to Jovian space, and PREPARE FOR EPIC TEARS!

Epic tears over an alt? Methinks, you overestimate people's emotional attachments to their alts (WiS boobies notwithstanding.)

I thought Jove Syndrome was something bad posters have

I would hope if CCP ever did open up Jove space than it would be some conditions:

1 - The entrance to Jove space much harder to scan down than a wormhole.
2 - Very small mass allowed to go thru said entrance before it closes, a couple dozen ships max (no capitals)
3 - Entrance only stays active for a hour then closes.
4 - A one way trip, have to scan another entrance back to regular space.
5 - NO SOV Allowed
6 - NO Local
7 - NO POSes Allowed
8 - Jove rats (combo Sansha & Sleeper AI plus)

9 - Here's the kicker, Entrances to Jove space only found in low or null sec.

Jove space would have to make it extremely hard for someone to live there for any length of time.

Actually, the new space will be an invite only area. Invitations are sent to all bittervets and when they go, they shall never return. Nobody will know quite where they went or how awesome it must be there, but it leaves everyone else in Eve to enjoy the game as it is, without having to listen to whining about "disappointing" expansions long before any details have been released.

If they did open up Jove space: here's an idea to prevent the nearest coalition from just taking over and ruining the experience for the rest of us: Maintain the lack of stargates to the outside, so while you can jump between the systems in Jove space, access to the outside is limited. The access they should get should be through wormholes. To maintain some level of danger, I suggest only C5 and C6 connect (or at least those are the only systems that should have Jove statics) so you have to make multiple jumps to get there from highsec (HS to low level WH to a higher level WH to jove space). Note this also means null is still closer to Jove space since they get more links to high level Wormholes, but ALL null is closer rather than just the Sov blocks that are physically nearby.


If this leads to jove ships, the skills should have to be reverse engineered or otherwise acquired at high cost, and the ships themselves should be on the level of faction ships in cost and abilities (I know everyone always goes on about the superiority of Jove tech, but it's been a while since any of their ships were seen in open combat [and I do NOT count dev ships because dev ships cheat] and we have recovered quite a bit of tech since then that might reduce the power gap; we do routinely blow up Sleepers and take their tech. Aside from that, their superiority over the Amarr once upon a time was just as much due to military intelligence and the Amarr's own hubris as it was the Jove's actual military power)

Lmfao. So what you're asking for, is wormhole space, with tighter mass limits, and no control towers. Do you have ANY clue how moronic this is?

Tears will come from the four year old character who thought he'd slip into Jove space and then lost every_single_minute of previous training.

:)

Sounds like a personal assessment to me, based only on what you describe as so-called "legitimate speculation".

I would hope if CCP ever did open up Jove space than it would be some conditions:

1 - The entrance to Jove space much harder to scan down than a wormhole.
2 - Very small mass allowed to go thru said entrance before it closes, a couple dozen ships max (no capitals)
3 - Entrance only stays active for a hour then closes.
4 - A one way trip, have to scan another entrance back to regular space.
5 - NO SOV Allowed
6 - NO Local
7 - NO POSes Allowed
8 - Jove rats (combo Sansha & Sleeper AI plus)

9 - Here's the kicker, Entrances to Jove space only found in low or null sec.

Jove space would have to make it extremely hard for someone to live there for any length of time.

When I look at the big screen in the announcement there's two big clusters - one looks like the current star map, the other is much lighter and clearly separate from the current one. Well, it may be that this is WH space, but normally the WH cluster should be way out of sight. Also the "Odyssey" name suggest at some long voyage or someone getting lost a bit.

So I am guessing/hoping that they'll introduce a whole new cluster.

Happy "leeroy for the sov day" erryone!

let me clear this up for you.

Jove space is CCP ALLIANCE SPACE. its where they do live testing and its where isd,gm,dev... etc come out of. why would they open the space they use for testing and thier own fun? it is also where the GM/dev get the officer spawns that drop loot that they funnel to the goon alts.

i had a isd alt and giving from isd alt to other char is 100% legal, so remember CSM/devs/Gm/ISD is all insider trading. CCP should not be allowed to play in ANY player alliance other then thier own.

11 - Jove space prevents cloaks from working
12 - If you stay in one spot too long, Jove NPCs will find you
13 - Bubbles of any sort do not function, i.e hics, dics, drag bubbles
14 - Ship directional scanner does not work properly
15 - Probes are the only means of scanning

I cleaned some posts from this topic that were stating incorrect things about ISD and CCP characters. Everyone please remember that both ISD and CCP are strictly forbidden from spawning items for their own benefit.

I cleaned some posts from this topic that were stating incorrect things about ISD and CCP characters. Everyone please remember that both ISD and CCP are strictly forbidden from spawning items for their own benefit.

I cleaned some posts from this topic that were stating incorrect things about ISD and CCP characters. Everyone please remember that both ISD and CCP are strictly forbidden from spawning items for their own benefit.

I hope CCP do unlock Jove space and fill it with new content and new dangers.

However, i hope that Jove space is only accessible through wormhole space (to help increase the population) and people shouldn't be able to anchor POS's or build stations in Jove space.

What if it was only accessible by noobships and whatever they could carry in cargo so everything had to be built there from the ground up just like the early days.

Massively has picked up on the possibility! Who is wearing the tinfoil hat now bitches!

How long before people start begging to be a Jove?