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Dev blog: Thera and the Shattered Wormholes

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CCP Phantom
C C P
C C P Alliance
#1 - 2014-11-13 16:26:42 UTC  |  Edited by: CCP Phantom
With Rhea - the next release scheduled for December 9th - we will get 100 completely new wormhole systems and one additional new extraordinary gigantic wormhole system called Thera.

Thera will harbour four NPC stations with station services including cloning and manufacturing. Thera will be highly connected to the known New Eden Universe via wormholes and will also have connections to other wormhole systems.

These other new wormhole systems have interesting properties, for example all their planets are shattered, you won't be able to find any moons, but you might be able to find ice.

Explore all the details in CCP Fozzie's latest dev blog Thera and the Shattered Wormholes and dive deeper into the mystery of the ever evolving EVE background story and theEVE lore!

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CCP Fozzie
C C P
C C P Alliance
#2 - 2014-11-13 16:28:41 UTC  |  Edited by: CCP Fozzie
Welcome to the new frontier!

To get easy access to Thera on SISI, check out CCP Lebowski's thread over in the Test Server Forums.

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BadAssMcKill
Aliastra
#3 - 2014-11-13 16:36:21 UTC
Will systems other than Thera have stations or what?
Phoenix Jones
Small-Arms Fire
#4 - 2014-11-13 16:36:32 UTC  |  Edited by: Phoenix Jones
Quick summary for the wormhole group.

1) 75 standard wormholes, no poco or pos's. 25 frig wormholes.
2) dual statics
3) more sights present
4) contains ice
5) 25 destroyer holes (frigs destroyers ). All wolf rayetes.

Yaay!!!!
Querns
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#5 - 2014-11-13 16:36:41 UTC
Damn, you guys are going all out with the whole "eff you, you can't live in these new wormholes" thing. I like.

Quick question -- will the The Sanctuary stations in Thera have agents?

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Nyctef
Royal Amarr Institute
Amarr Empire
#6 - 2014-11-13 16:37:07 UTC
Is there an overview somewhere of the new story things that are happening? I haven't been keeping up
Ab'del Abu
Atlantis Ascendant
#7 - 2014-11-13 16:38:12 UTC  |  Edited by: Ab'del Abu
The system looks nice! One quick suggestion:

I think you'll want to add a couple more statics though, it should be relatively easy for a big alliance to take over hole control, especially on those lowsec/nullsec holes.
Sentient Blade
Crisis Atmosphere
Coalition of the Unfortunate
#8 - 2014-11-13 16:38:56 UTC
No anchoring bubbles, awesome :D

Going to be lots of frigs capping out in those warps.
CCP Lebowski
C C P
C C P Alliance
#9 - 2014-11-13 16:41:08 UTC
Test Server is updated with these new systems now, feedback thread found here. Big smile

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Mizhir
Devara Biotech
#10 - 2014-11-13 16:41:46 UTC
This is looking good. I like the concept of the shattered systems for attracting preys and predators. Though I have one major issue with the small ship ones. If you give them the normal C6 WR bonus you will just exclude shield ships. Make it a special WH effect instead (which could also be integrated in the lore and why they only allow small ships).

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Dacil Arandur
Habitual Euthanasia
Pandemic Legion
#11 - 2014-11-13 16:44:10 UTC
Exciting!
I'm looking forward to doing some exploring soon!
CCP Fozzie
C C P
C C P Alliance
#12 - 2014-11-13 16:44:35 UTC
BadAssMcKill wrote:
Will systems other than Thera have stations or what?

Nope. Thera is unique.

Querns wrote:
Quick question -- will the The Sanctuary stations in Thera have agents?

Not right now.

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Phoenix Jones
Small-Arms Fire
#13 - 2014-11-13 16:45:15 UTC
Mizhir wrote:
This is looking good. I like the concept of the shattered systems for attracting preys and predators. Though I have one major issue with the small ship ones. If you give them the normal C6 WR bonus you will just exclude shield ships. Make it a special WH effect instead (which could also be integrated in the lore and why they only allow small ships).



It's not possible to bonus both shield and armor (they function very differently). What I would have considered is the cataclysmic variable, except that would nerf solo play and anybody with 1 frig Logi would own....
But that would balance out ship options (though I get that people are sick of crow's online).

Yaay!!!!
Marlona Sky
State War Academy
Caldari State
#14 - 2014-11-13 16:47:19 UTC
Will one of the planets in Thera look just like Earth?
King Fu Hostile
Mea Culpa.
Shadow Cartel
#15 - 2014-11-13 16:47:22 UTC
Brilliant and awesome!
Longdrinks
Zero Fun Allowed
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#16 - 2014-11-13 16:47:22 UTC
This sounds really cool! looking forward to visiting thera and seeing what kind of groups are ready to make it their homesystem.
Rivr Luzade
Coreli Corporation
Pandemic Legion
#17 - 2014-11-13 16:48:59 UTC
Nice info and Thera sounds interesting.

One thing: Can one of the gas giants please be one of this type: Orange Band Gas Giant. They look stunning and are used way too rarely in EVE.

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Swiftstrike1
Swiftstrike Incorporated
#18 - 2014-11-13 16:50:45 UTC
I look forward to these 101 dalma- err... new systems!

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CCP Fozzie
C C P
C C P Alliance
#19 - 2014-11-13 16:50:47 UTC
Rivr Luzade wrote:
Nice info and Thera sounds interesting.

One thing: Can one of the gas giants please be one of this type: Orange Band Gas Giant. They look stunning and are used way too rarely in EVE.


Can you give me the location of one of those on TQ? I'll poke into it's texture maps and see.

No promises though.

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Mizhir
Devara Biotech
#20 - 2014-11-13 16:51:34 UTC
Phoenix Jones wrote:
Mizhir wrote:
This is looking good. I like the concept of the shattered systems for attracting preys and predators. Though I have one major issue with the small ship ones. If you give them the normal C6 WR bonus you will just exclude shield ships. Make it a special WH effect instead (which could also be integrated in the lore and why they only allow small ships).



It's not possible to bonus both shield and armor (they function very differently). What I would have considered is the cataclysmic variable, except that would nerf solo play and anybody with 1 frig Logi would own....
But that would balance out ship options (though I get that people are sick of crow's online).


Well, they could just buff the damage and some other fun stats and then leave tanking out of it.

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