Will try to summarize here…
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My prediction is that it’s going to be underwhelming based in the pre-keynote chat:
- Hilmar is up…
- Planning the third monument (30 years of EVE)
- Shout-out to CCP employees…
- Next expansion is “something to behold”…
- EVE memes… “friendship”
- EVE Guiness World Records…
- EVE CSM shout-out…
- EVE Forever (new focus), taking their time with Vanguard, plan is for EVE + EVE Vanguard to be the two main games, “Nemesis” Vanguard expansion in September…
- EVE Frontier (far along enough to get FanFest coverage), dev team smaller than I imagined (<30-35 devs)… Frontier carbon supposedly contributing to advancements in EVE…
- Upgrade to Python 3 with “EVE Evolved” initiative, massive undertaking (4-5 million lines of code)… sounds like they’re working on some of this under Frontier and porting over to EVE
- Himlar done… (CCP Orca? up)
- CCP employees w/10 years get swords… CCP alliances 10+ years get a sword ceremony tomorrow…
- Fan art (charity auction)…
- Alliance reset and the great migration…
- EVE Vanguard community plug, meetup in London, plug to join Discord…
- EVE Echoes, Galaxy Conquest plugs, 680k installs for Conquest… stopped listening
- EVE partnership program, 200 creators, 80k+ paid out to creators, plugged streamers…
- EVE Alliance Tournament trophy… expanding charity cup, new tools for tournament organizers … another Discord plug … EVE Board Game … EVE Dice Game in the works …
- EVE Online music coming on out vinyl (double record), old and new music…
- EVE Foundation of Poem book (short video), part of EVE Forever… will chronicle legendary moments in EVE…
- EVE Forever logo again (infinity symbol)
- CCP Ratatouie and Burger now up…
- EVE Forever plug again, Rat has been at CCP for 18 years…
- Burger talking about capitals, 43k dreadnoughts built (-10k destroyed), 483 trillion ISK of destruction, -83 trllion of dreads destroyed
- Fun at Imperium’s expense while congratulating them on their migration…
- New player focus, emphasis on community, strong organizations, unlock their potential, not fixing the new player experience, new plan to bring old vets and single players into the fold…
- 6th expansion, new features as well as fixing existing ones… talking about last year’s expansions, needs CSM for future expansions… (FML, this doesn’t bode well)
- They feel they are “out of the woods” now, more openness, more info, honest, etc.
- Shout-out to CCP Okami… (lots of applause)
- Burger talking about new expansion (finally!)
- EVE Legion, 27th of May (looks like some new Deathless ships? on the graphic), said “new toys”…
- Talking about the map now, going to overhaul, not easy task… more content, customizable, sov maps, make the map a more permanent fixture in gameplay (work to cross several expansions)…
- Burger done, CCP Okami up!
- Okami cuts to the chase about the expansion, video with CCP Nomad talking about freelance jobs…
- Freelance jobs, talking about missions (etc.) being player-created, “Goalsmith” (new implementation), ESI endpoints with freelance jobs
- SKINR and Paragon Hub here to stay, Corporation branding after Legion, hinted ag ship lighting and other possibilities, short video - corp palette, corp SKINs, corp logo editor (full RGB)…
- Burger back, talking about 3rd party development, ESI will be a focus going forward…
- Talking about EVE graphics now… video with CCP Caffrine, Trinity engine upgrade, ray-tracing, upscaling later this tear, upgrades to carbon… CCP Goggi talking about cube maps later this year, more realistic lighting, etc. All cruisera are getting lighting/VFX upgrades, 13 new T1 ships have been upgraded (look great!)…
- Okami talking about Deathless and Drifters, fate of drifter wormholes, what is the new tech, why is Deathless interested in Jovian tech, Deathless saga far from over…
- Sovereignty scalability, new features…
- Video with CCP k1p1, more custom options: options to better utilize workers, new upgrades that apply effects to ships (can enhance shield doctrine, etc. in specific systems), immediately capture existing Skyhooks…