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CCP Phantom

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C C P Alliance

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#1 - 2015-06-18 15:24:45 UTC | Edited by: CCP Phantom

Drifters ... mysterious, highly powerful and dangerous beings. Their presence in New Eden is starting to become a considerable threat to both NPC Empires and Capsuleers, but where do they come from? What do they want? What is their connection to the Jove? And what lurks behind those Unidentified Wormoles? Death and destruction? Fantastic riches? Unimaginable power?

Check out the latest dev blog An Update On Drifters - The Wandering Death by CCP Affinity and CCP RedDawn for more details and images!

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Quay Industries 1,110
Steijn Quay Industries Likes received: 1,110	#2 - 2015-06-18 15:33:29 UTC 5 The Drifters new weapon has nothing on CCPs new weapon, 'Icongate'.

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Chribba Otherworld Enterprises Otherworld Empire Likes received: 15,906	#3 - 2015-06-18 15:38:01 UTC 7 How do I gain good standings with them? ★★★ Secure 3rd party service ★★★ Visit my in-game channel 'Holy Veldspar' Twitter @ChribbaVeldspar

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CCP Affinity C C P C C P Alliance Likes received: 1,831	#4 - 2015-06-18 15:41:41 UTC 12 Chribba wrote: How do I gain good standings with them? you don't ;) they have no interest in being your friend! ♥ CCP Affinity ♥ Follow me on Twitter Game Designer for EVE Online Team Astro Sparkle

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Samuel L Maximus MissoCorp Likes received: 2	#5 - 2015-06-18 15:42:03 UTC 2 Space winter is coming...

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Dermeisen Likes received: 30	#6 - 2015-06-18 15:46:51 UTC The Empires will fall, the drifters will kick over the ants' nest. Muhhhahhahha "Not the Boreworms!"

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stoicfaux Likes received: 6,283	#7 - 2015-06-18 15:54:47 UTC 1 Note to self: hold off on increasing my Amarr standings. Pon Farr Memorial: once every 7 years, all the carebears in high-sec must PvP or they will be temp-banned.

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Jon Hellguard X-COM Likes received: 60	#8 - 2015-06-18 15:56:06 UTC 1 You just wait till I tell them about Jita!

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Radus Osq Pox Damnatus Likes received: 0	#9 - 2015-06-18 15:58:36 UTC Amarr space, best space?!?!!?

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Makoto Priano Kirkinen-Arataka Transhuman Zenith Consulting Ltd. Arataka Research Consortium Likes received: 9,936	#10 - 2015-06-18 15:59:01 UTC \| Edited by: Makoto Priano Drifters! \o/ Gotta say, the new sites are rather fun, and the spacebread gives lots of reasons to tinfoil. :D Itsukame-Zainou Hyperspatial Inquiries: exploring the edge of the known, advancing the state of the art. Would you like to know more?

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Tzar Sinak Mythic Heights Likes received: 230	#11 - 2015-06-18 16:04:44 UTC I am confused: Is it the Drifters or the Goons doing Burn Amarr shortly? Also, nice summing up of events. Hydrostatic Podcast First class listening of all things EVE Check out the Eve-Prosper show for your market updates!

stoicfaux

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#12 - 2015-06-18 16:44:28 UTC

Tzar Sinak wrote:

I am confused: Is it the Drifters or the Goons doing Burn Amarr shortly? Also, nice summing up of events.

CCP Affinity saw the Goons' Burn Amarr date, looked at the Drifter plotline, and then decided to work all night to tweak the Drifter AI to "synergize" with the Goons' actions as a means of determining if the New & improved NPC AI is a bigger pain in the arse than the Goons.

It's good to be in a position where you can test your pet theories and algorithms on live subjects...

Pon Farr Memorial: once every 7 years, all the carebears in high-sec must PvP or they will be temp-banned.

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Sir Livingston Doomheim Likes received: 357	#13 - 2015-06-18 17:01:04 UTC Oh how ominous this is. Sci-fi games as played by an earthbound human in the 21st century http://www.youtube.com/JonnyPew

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Aeril Malkyre Knights of the Ouroboros Likes received: 434	#14 - 2015-06-18 17:06:58 UTC Let the Amarr burn. If they start moving on Dodixie or Hek, then I'll be concerned.

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Leeluvv Caldari Provisions Caldari State Likes received: 96	#15 - 2015-06-18 17:58:17 UTC 2 CCP Affinity wrote: Chribba wrote: How do I gain good standings with them? you don't ;) they have no interest in being your friend! Ooh, unfriendly to Chribba? That's about the only thing that could unite the Eve players against them, so probably a bad move on their part. :-)

Unsuccessful At Everything

The Troll Bridge

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#16 - 2015-06-18 18:31:38 UTC

Leeluvv wrote:

CCP Affinity wrote:

Chribba wrote:

How do I gain good standings with them? Lol

you don't ;) they have no interest in being your friend!

Ooh, unfriendly to Chribba? That's about the only thing that could unite the Eve players against them, so probably a bad move on their part. :-)

When the Drifters gank the Veldnaught.. there will be all out war.

Since the cessation of their usefulness is imminent, may I appropriate your belongings?

Eli Stan

Center for Advanced Studies

Gallente Federation

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#17 - 2015-06-18 18:35:28 UTC

Barbican - a fortified outpost, protecting the path (eg, drawbridge) to a structure (eg, castle.)
Conflux - a flowing together
Redoubt - literally, "a place of retreat"; a small fortified structure not attached (or even near) a main defensive structure
Sentinel - an entity that stands guard and watches, often attached to a stationary element such as a border
Vidette - a mobile sentry in advance of a combat force

These are all functions hinted at by the blog about the new deployables.
The are all elements that can be found inside the Drifter vaults.

I would not be surprised if these Elements end up being used as manufacturing materials for some new deployables, much like Antikythera Elements are used to manufacture Entosis Links. This ties in nicely with lore, since presumably (some of) these deployables can be manipulated by Entosis Links. That is, this is Drifter tech and it interfaces with other Drifter tech we've already found.

Currently, these Elements appear to be exceedingly rare. Possibly some event relating to the drifter story will make them easier to acquire - for example, Antikythera Elements come from Drifters, Circadians and Observation Towers, but we cannot assume that those will always be present in New Eden. Or, they are meant to be very rare as a form of price control.

Random thoughts -

Will POSes and other structures that will eventually be replaced by these new deployables be ultimately removed by the Drifters going on a New Eden-wide rampage some point in the future, forcing our adoption of this new tech?

If the new shields that prevent damage to station services is based on CONCORD shields, but Entosis Links can enable or disable station services, what effect does an Entosis Link have on a CONCORD ship?

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Ivana Twinkle Viziam Amarr Empire Likes received: 485	#18 - 2015-06-18 18:46:59 UTC Tzar Sinak wrote: I am confused: Is it the Drifters or the Goons doing Burn Amarr shortly? Also, nice summing up of events. I guess that's why CCP gifted us all Drifter Battleships.

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Aston Martin DB5 Deaths Consortium Pandemic Horde Likes received: 85	#19 - 2015-06-18 19:28:14 UTC I got a complete 'hard on' reading this..... is this normal?

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Akrasjel Lanate Immemorial Coalescence Administration Immemorial Coalescence Likes received: 2,007	#20 - 2015-06-18 19:36:58 UTC How will the Drifter Incursion be "diffrent" from the Nation Incursions ? CEO of Lanate Industries Citizen of Solitude