As mentioned in an article released on 1 April, the four Empires will also be embarking on projects to construct new stargates to their territory, and they will be asking the players for help to reshape the map of New Eden. So, you may want to keep your eyes peeled for some highly anticipated Gates coming this Quadrant.
CCP announced that the next quadrant for EVE Online will be arriving shortly. Dubbed “Foundation,” it is hinting at some strange things.
The Foundation Quadrant is Coming
That quote above is strangely portentous as the only thing that CCP posted on April 1st was the assumed April Fools joke about the long asked for low sec gate to the Stain region.
The April Fools Tease
That seemed almost cruel at the time, being something argued about for years by that point. But now maybe it was a double reverse fool, where on April Fools an item that was obviously an attempt to fool turns out to be not a fool at all?
Of course, what I have quoted at the top doesn’t say that a low sec gate to the Stain region will be a thing, just that the empires will be building new stargates, so this could be a triple twist, a tease that is followed by hope only to turn out to be an even more cruel tease at the end.
However this works out, the Foundation Quadrant will be focused on the four main NPC empires of New Eden.
The usual NPC suspects
There will be a special trailer for each of the empires.
This also leads into the EVE Online 18th anniversary events and a new login event will kick off on Thursday of this week with the usual round of prizes for Alpha and Omega clones.
EVE Online becomes an adult I guess
There will also be the usual updates to the game with the announcement saying that there will be update to Pochven, the Triglavian region carved out of empire space by last year’s event and the possibility that reserve bank ESS keys might become available in some form, allowing players a way to access to the billions of ISK that has been locked up in them since CCP hit null sec (and then low sec) with the ESS and dynamic bounty nerf last November.
The first few updates arrived earlier today. They include new hangar visuals in Jita 4-4 and a fully 3-D rendered Aura.
Most of the Triglavian gates in the Pochven have had their standing requirements removed, thus clearing a huge obstacle to anybody wanting to start of in the region. Of course, some of those already farming the region are not best pleased at having their crabbing disturbed by strangers.
And structures can no longer be transferred from a Corp that has a negative wallet balance, which feels like a bit of a swipe at the Dronelands botting groups who have evade sanctions by just moving assets around in their alliances to carry on as before.
The Patch notes for today cover this and a few other items.
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