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Feature suggestions
Data Site Improvements
CCP RedDawn comes with interesting an proposal to improve Data Sites. Materials required building Cosmos items will be added to all Tier 4 Data sites. Higher tiered (higher value) Cosmos site building materials to all class wormhole Data sites (C1 to C6). The drop amount of the most commonly used building materials found in all data sites will be halved. Your feedback on the proposed changes is most welcome!

[December] Discovering a New Expedition Frigate
CCP Terminus comes with exciting news about a new Expedition Frigate, the Discovery. This ship will be a new T2 Expedition Frigate with a bonus to ice mining. Together with the new frigate sized Ice Mining Lasers, this ship will be perfect for the more adventurous miners out there to explore and mining valuable ice in places they haven’t had a chance to before, such as shattered wormholes and null-sec.

[December] Missile Disruptors and Tweaks to Missile Guidance Mods
For the December release we plan a new module: Missile Disruptor! Missile disruptors will work similar to Tracking disruptors, only that they affect missiles instead turrets. The missile disruptor will decrease missile velocity, flight time, explosion velocity and will increase explosion radius. Together with introduction of those disruptors, the missile guidance modules will receive a slight buff. Please note that all stats are open for discussions! Your constructive feedback is most welcome!

[Focus Group] Tactical Destroyers
EVE Development comes with an interesting new concept: dedicated focus groups to discuss game changes. CCP Fozzie starts with a call to interested people who both have the experience, the drive and reasonable communication skills to discuss changes to Tactical Destroyers (T3D). If you are interested to join that group, please use this thread to sign up. The focus group won't receive any special, secret information. Discussions will take place on Slack. Chat logs of the discussions will be made public.

Module Tiericide – Shield Rechargers and Others
The next module groups being improved by the Tiericide initiative are Shield Rechargers, Shield Power Relays, and Shield Flux Coils. This will also include also balance changes. These changes and consolidations are now set for the December release together with further modules.


Game development
Early feedback is extremely valuable to the developers
CCP Ytterbium explains that feedback from players is extremely valuable and can lead to considerable change. One example is the recent full redesign of Citadel capture mechanics which consumed a good amount of dev time. While it would be much easier/less work sticking to a design and pulling it through, this is not how EVE development is working - proven countless times. Of course mistakes can be made, but we think that this open approach with active communication between development and players is best for EVE.

350k added skillpoints for new characters!
With the Vanguard release, new characters will start with 400k skillpoints instead of 50k. The list of skills can be found in this album of screenshots. The goal here is to get new players over as many early barriers to gameplay as possible. By throwing in a whole bunch of prereqs and adding to the basic support skill amounts we are hoping new players have faster access to a wider range of activities right out of the box. Characters created in the two weeks leading to Vanguard will receive 300k unallocated SP to compensate for the difference.


Lore
Death and becoming a Capsuleer
We see an interesting question about the Lore and background story of EVE. Cloning involves transfer of consciousness from one body (original) to another (clone), with the original body getting killed. CCP Falcon reveals interesting details about cloning and the development of the Capsule. Both the capsule and cloning has been around a long time, only in YC 104 both were successfully tied together (currently we have YC 117). Killing the initial, original body is part of the Capsuleer exam required by the Schools; it is not a physical requirement. The EVElopedia has an interesting article about Cloning.


Testing and test server
Recent mass test for "Brain in a Box"
The most recent mass test for "Brain in a Box" yielded very useful data, thank you for your participation! All participants have...

/bows/ thank you for the updates!

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