CCP Seagul, Executive Producer of EVE Online, gives us an overview of the Hyperion release which is going to be published on August 26th:

• Changes to wormholes and wormhole space
• Improvements to tooltips
• A new and very easy way to share overview settings
• Rebalance pass of Heavy Assault Cruisers
• A new kind of Level 4 missions
• Incursion Scout site improvements

That and more improvements are coming with Hyperion.

Check out the Hyperion overview and read CCP Seagull's latest dev blog Coming in Hyperion on August 26th.

Lowered activation cost for 100MN Micro Warp Drives
Capacitor activation cost is cut in half for all 100MN Micro Warp Drives.

A new kind of Level 4 missions

Redeem PLEX for game time to another character

Planetary Industry in claimed 0.0 space becomes available to people outside the sovereignty holding alliance

Not going to lie, the plex change/added flexibility is a nice idea...but I want to know why red flags aren't popping up in CCP's game developers heads.

[aka new way to scam for plex hint hint.]

Scamming is a part of the way you can play the game but I still feel that tricking someone in game out of 30 days of gameplay is a fundamentally bad business strategy on CCP's part. My $0.02 worth.

Not going to lie, the plex change/added flexibility is a nice idea...but I want to know why red flags aren't popping up in CCP's game developers heads.

[aka new way to scam for plex hint hint.]

Scamming is a part of the way you can play the game but I still feel that tricking someone in game out of 30 days of gameplay is a fundamentally bad business strategy on CCP's part. My $0.02 worth.

Take on a single, powerful enemy using fitting skills and combat tactics in new optional level 4 missions for frigate size ships that will be available from all security agents in Empire space. An upcoming dev blog will present the new missions.

This new mission thing... wut?

Who wants to fight a boss in the smallest ship in the game...

This new mission thing... wut?

Who wants to fight a boss in the smallest ship in the game...

This new mission thing... wut?

Who wants to fight a boss in the smallest ship in the game...

A new kind of Level 4 missions
Take on a single, powerful enemy using fitting skills and combat tactics in new optional level 4 missions for frigate size ships that will be available from all security agents in Empire space. An upcoming dev blog will present the new missions.

New frigate wormholes
New frigate missions

I know what this means...

T3 frigates on the horizon! :)

scamming someone out of 800m ISK is okay, but scamming him out of 30 days of gametime is not ?

This new mission thing... wut?

Who wants to fight a boss in the smallest ship in the game...

okay well that sounds super cool...

mmmm


I still want Gallente pleasure hubs back as a station environment, but........ Thansk for bringing back gallente head pieces that was long over due.


Now can we get back all the original intaki hair styles? you know all that long hippie hair :D

Mmmmmmm... Wormhole changes...

Will we see some non-Frigate (ie: Battlecruisers, Battleships) with respect to expanded PvE content in the near future?

This new mission thing... wut?

Who wants to fight a boss in the smallest ship in the game...

A beautiful selection of tinfoil hats. Love it.

This new mission thing... wut?

Who wants to fight a boss in the smallest ship in the game...

Nice change to the MWD but I'm wondering what the point of the Afterburners will be now?

Planetary Industry in claimed 0.0 space becomes available to people outside the sovereignty holding alliance
In Hyperion, it becomes possible for players outside the alliance holding sovereignty in a system to operate planetary colonies.

Planetary Industry in claimed 0.0 space becomes available to people outside the sovereignty holding alliance
In Hyperion, it becomes possible for players outside the alliance holding sovereignty in a system to operate planetary colonies.



Can someone please explain.. how in the holy heck this gets slipped in without informing the entire sov holder base of this major change??

Redeem PLEX for game time to another character
Activate game time for the account of another character using PLEX. This feature is designed to help those who need to keep multiple accounts active for themselves or others, and also gives anyone a simple way to use PLEX to give away game time.

Btw... what's with the subtle troll, with this pic... Clothing, etc.?

The top middle pics feature the strappy-leather-catsuit-thingy that's not on offer, yet... (I recommend making it a loyalty-point store item for folks in NPC Blood Raider space.) ;)

Nice to see some of the old stuff coming back!

(In b4 certain die-hards arrive for no other purpose than grumble about tights...)

That catsuit has been on sisi ages ago but got removed. and for some reason never seen in the game again.

All in all I like the changes. I'm really excited about the new level missions, tbh - be curious to see what those look like.

I am too, wish they'd come on with the blog on that lol. A number of questions come up.

Like if it's one npc and frig sized encounters, will there be some kind of mechanism restricting the encounter to only you. Because if its a lvl 4 mission pay out and you can bring multiple ships in, I smell unbalanced farming opportunity lol.

Come on CCP, blog me baby!

As a small step to ease the use and discovery of these character services, we will introduce new items that can be purchased from the New Eden Store that can be activated for character re-sculpting or multiple character training. These items can also be traded on the market.

I hope you allow male characters to wear the tights and high heels.

Awesome stuff !

The only thing im worried about is the size of the patch... I got some seriously crappy internet here ( on vacations).

A new kind of Level 4 missions

Take on a single, powerful enemy using fitting skills and combat tactics in new optional level 4 missions for frigate size ships that will be available from all security agents in Empire space. An upcoming dev blog will present the new missions.

first i was like "that sounds interessting".

but then i realized "in Empire space". why? i dont want to go to empire space :(

i havent done any pve for income for 4? years now. what came closest o "fun" was doing the guristas epic arc. i mean its as boring as every mission. move to agent, click ok, follow autopilot, kill everything until mission says "done", return to agent, get bacon. in one case i had to actually read what i have to do because mission was not done after i killed everything .

but the almost fun part was to do this in a crow (and in a talwar after my crow exploded to some kind of ae damage) in potential pvp enviroment.

This could be interesting

If by interesting, you mean crash LP stores, then yes. Also, buy tags now.

I would very much like to see a brief 'concept level' dev blog describing your goals around module tiericide before the main event kicks off with the hundreds of module changes listed. There will undoubtedly be a lot of focus on individual items and the broader picture will be blurred.

Redeem PLEX for game time to another character
Activate game time for the account of another character using PLEX. This feature is designed to help those who need to keep multiple accounts active for themselves or others, and also gives anyone a simple way to use PLEX to give away game time.

New tooltips for the Market
A new set of tool tips will add contextual help to the market.

A new kind of Level 4 missions
Take on a single, powerful enemy using fitting skills and combat tactics in new optional level 4 missions for frigate size ships that will be available from all security agents in Empire space. An upcoming dev blog will present the new missions.

Lowered activation cost for 100MN Micro Warp Drives
Capacitor activation cost is cut in half for all 100MN Micro Warp Drives.

what? oh, uh. sure. will afterburners ever be worth fitting?

Having the PI in Null detached from sovereignty is a great step. I can totally see ninja implantation using black ops and covops transports, but the risks will be huge and it may force sovereignty holders to patrol all of their spaces
The concept is a great step forward though, and hopefully we see more things detached from sovereignty in the future...

i don't like missions in eve because i'm convinced the repetitive solo gameplay drives away newbies, and i don't think you're blind to that. (besides being really boring for those who stay) looking forwards to seeing where you're headed with this, and if pve can be a bit more interesting.

First the hair pieces, second, the totally see-through plastic tops--right? RIGHT!? I HAD ONE! i want it back!

Why would SOV holders want to stop you from doing PI? They own the custom offices, and get the taxes from you. Plus they get to try and blow you up. They can stop you from doing PI easily enough by setting a 100% tax for your standings. I guess it's possible to access an existing Interbus office, but I'm not sure there are any left in NS.

New tooltips for the Market
A new set of tool tips will add contextual help to the market.

Now that this has been done, we will look at improving the experience with tooltips in later releases. In that regard we are looking at configuring tooltip behavior by category, which we think would allow for you to tune how tooltips display based on the relevance of the information to you.

Loving this new release schedule! :D Hope you guys enjoy all the changes.

So, where's that dev blog about new L4s? You had few hours of extra downtime to finish it up

Pitchforks and torches!
Get your pitchforks and torches here!
Can't be an uruly mob without your pitchforks and torches!

De'Veldrin, thanks to your sig I learned today what 'corollary' means.

Now, basic set for unruly mob member (1 pitchfork + 1 torch), please.

Sorry, can't right now, traded in my pitchforks and torces for Boats and Hoes.

That will be 1 hundred billion ISK. Station trades only, I'm too short on ISK to make a contract.

No Invention overhaul? Was it not supposed to come right after the industry overhaul? Or is this supposed to come in 18 months Soon(TM).

6 weeks after the Crius release is too soon to get this amount of work done. However it will be before the end of the year.

New L4 look interesting, I just hope it won't boil down to 'dps speed tank him to death' - go make a sandwitch, all done when you come back. EWAR could complicate things but then it's not such a problem to fit ECCMs. Pitchforks aside, I would love to see that dev blog more than 3 days before Hyperion rolls out...

Also, no new ship models? Well **** this **** and excuse my caldari

Hey, why don't men get tights? I happen to think I have nice legs

I think this is an excellent idea, and we'll probably also discuss the plan and concepts for module tiericide on the Alliance Tournament stream over the next four weekends.

I guess they could design them to require a blinged frigate, but that would suck too because they're just be alpha thrasher magnets.

De'Veldrin, thanks to your sig I learned today what 'corollary' means.

Now, basic set for unruly mob member (1 pitchfork + 1 torch), please.

One minor concern :)

100MN meta 4 MWD would go from 720 to 360GJ for comparison T2 AB burns 352GJ.

Now obviously AB's are still scram immune, don't bloat your sig and have no innate cap penalty. And they already don't really get fitted to battleships anyway, but still you might want to also have a look at afterburners if you do this. Because I'd be very hard pressed to find a reason other then over sizing on cruisers to fit one now :)

And where exactly those alpha thrashers would go after blinged frigs? I assume mission for frigs will have gate restrictions to allow only frigs otherwise what would prevent me from going with something bigger? And if frig hull on grid would be trigger for rat to appear why not frig + sentry VNI? So assuming gate restrictions only place to gank that blinged frig would be undock and last time I checked frigs align and warp out pretty fast. Also insta undock BM and I wish you good luck in catching that bling even in linked remote sebo'ed alpha thrasher. Sure, some would pop because they spend too much time exposed but those who don't pay attention deserve to be ganked as always.

Initially I was really excited about the new level 4 missions, as a more PVP-like way to make ISK would be nice. However, after thinking about it a bit, I have no real hopes for it being done well. I don't see how they plan to balance missions doable in frigates; either the rewards will be terrible, or you're basically getting an ISK printing machine that can be done in a ship that's worth under 10 mil. Neither option sounds like a good thing. I guess they could design them to require a blinged frigate, but that would suck too because they're just be alpha thrasher magnets. Bleh, guess I'll wait for the dev blog, but I'm not really feeling optimistic at this point.

One minor concern :)

One minor concern :)

100MN meta 4 MWD would go from 720 to 360GJ for comparison T2 AB burns 352GJ.

Now obviously AB's are still scram immune, don't bloat your sig and have no innate cap penalty. And they already don't really get fitted to battleships anyway, but still you might want to also have a look at afterburners if you do this. Because I'd be very hard pressed to find a reason other then over sizing on cruisers to fit one now :)

One minor concern :)

100MN meta 4 MWD would go from 720 to 360GJ for comparison T2 AB burns 352GJ.

Now obviously AB's are still scram immune, don't bloat your sig and have no innate cap penalty. And they already don't really get fitted to battleships anyway, but still you might want to also have a look at afterburners if you do this. Because I'd be very hard pressed to find a reason other then over sizing on cruisers to fit one now :)

I'm pretty sure they didn't have T1 frigates in mind, so no ship will be worth less then 10 million ISK. The cheapest T2 frigate alone costs almost twice as much and with a proper T2 fit, the price could easily double. And faction frigates go up to prices comparable to T2 cruisers and T1 battleships (I'm looking at you, Garmur).

Also, frigates are still flimsy enough you would occasionally lose a ship. Contrast this with L4 missions run with battleships: After a certain point, no enemy can even touch you. I remember doing missions with dozens of frigates, cruisers and battleships and no ship ever coming close enough to even shoot at me. This is luckily not possible with a frigate.

I'm pretty sure they didn't have T1 frigates in mind, so no ship will be worth less then 10 million ISK. The cheapest T2 frigate alone costs almost twice as much and with a proper T2 fit, the price could easily double. And faction frigates go up to prices comparable to T2 cruisers and T1 battleships (I'm looking at you, Garmur).

Also, frigates are still flimsy enough you would occasionally lose a ship. Contrast this with L4 missions run with battleships: After a certain point, no enemy can even touch you. I remember doing missions with dozens of frigates, cruisers and battleships and no ship ever coming close enough to even shoot at me. This is luckily not possible with a frigate.

My usual FW farming bombers cost approx 50 mil/pop. I do lose them occasionally (on alt). In hi sec, if the rewards are good enough I might actually put some bling on them. A faction fitted AF with links in system can do pretty sick things.

As far as L4 missions being "totally safe". Depends really - I have lost far more ships in hi sec lev 4 missions over the past 5 years than doing PvE in null sec. Including, for example, a Drake with proper hardeners with max skill Scimi boosting it with everything it got. That is btw equivalent of running four T2 XL boosters locally. Existing L4 missions do have some quite spectacular tripwires in them and can kill quite blingy ships if you mess up. That drake btw had 6 points on it when it pulled the full stage agro and had still 3 points left on it when it went down.

links will either break the new missions or be required to run them. If they are 1v1 it gets worst as some assault frigs get very good active tanks for very little isk.

Lv 4's are only hard if you go in willy-nilly and pop all the triggers at the same time.

Lowered activation cost for 100MN Micro Warp Drives
Capacitor activation cost is cut in half for all 100MN Micro Warp Drives.

Hopefully maybe they add a way to disable links in them, that would go a good way to make things interesting. Even better if they are low-sec based. Frigate pvp is fun.

Glass helmets are the most important part of this patch. People asked for them since their removal in Incarna.

Excited about today live stream where devs will say a lot of nothing...

Where's that damn devblog about new L4s?

GIMME NAOW!

pliiiiiizzzz...

I do not live in WH space and have noexperience with it, but one day maybe... it would be nice to have it as a base to raid nullsec bears. How about this: in regular space, all wormholes would look like the same on probe scanner (no indication what kind of hole it is and where it leads to), but in wormhole space, WH signatures would indicate "Wormhole leading to HED-GP". What do you think?

Now there's an idea: links don't work in deadspace ("that's why they call it dead"). Suddenly, beyond more easily balanced PVE, you have the option of introducing deadspace-for-its-own-sake as a terrain option for PVP.

The only downside, which I admit is not much of one, is that it's fun to link the daylights out of newbies in their little ships and watch their glee as they motor around like bosses in a mission they'd have no hope of running otherwise.

A number of structures commonly seen in missions and exploration sites get a small visual overhaul and are upgraded to use the latest rendering technologies.

CCP Seagull, Executive Producer of EVE Online, gives us an overview of the Hyperion release which is going to be published on August 26th:

• Changes to wormholes and wormhole space
• Improvements to tooltips
• A new and very easy way to share overview settings
• Rebalance pass of Heavy Assault Cruisers
• A new kind of Level 4 missions
• Incursion Scout site improvements

That and more improvements are coming with Hyperion.

Check out the Hyperion overview and read CCP Seagull's latest dev blog Coming in Hyperion on August 26th.

Mmmmmmm... Wormhole changes...