Winter Nexus (2020)

Winter Nexus

Winter Nexus was an Event that ran from 11:00 UTC on 10 December 2020 to 11:00 UTC on 5 January 2021.

The festivities include:

• Volatile Ice Storms which feature Wightstorm sites
• 13 Days of Nexus Login Event
• Yoiul Festival YC122 Daily Challenges
• Chilling Spree
• Yoiul Festival-themed Abyssal Proving Grounds

Volatile Ice Storm

Volatile Ice Storm is a Metaliminal Storms that moves between High, Low and Null Security Systems. The center System experiences the Strong effect while nearby Systems the Weak effect. Volatile Ice Storm can overlap.

Volatile Ice Storms spawn special Sites:

• Wightstorm combat sites
• hacking sites
• ice mining sites

Effect	Weak	Strong
Overheat damage reduction	10%	25%
Thermal resistance bonus	4%	10%

13 Days of Nexus

You must log in on at least 13 days of the event to claim all the rewards, but those days need not be consecutive.

Alpha clone rewards:

• Aurora Universalis ship SKINs
• Ice Storm Filaments
• Quafe Zero
• 80,000 Skill Points
• Fireworks crates
• Snowball crates
• Stormchaser character apparel

Omega clone rewards:

• all Alpha clone rewards
• Aurora Universalis SKINs
• 250,000 Skill Points
• Cerebral Accelerator
• Ice Storm Filaments
• Stormchaser character apparel

Yoiul Festival YC122

Daily Challenges earn you points. When you accumulate enough points you will be given a reward.

Daily challenges:

• Hit targets with a Snowball
• Complete Volatile Ice Storm Data, Combat and Ice Sites

Rewards:

• Aurora Universalis SKINs
• "Brainfreeze" Cerebral Accelerators

Chilling Spree

From 10th December 2020 and 5 January 2020 you will earn 5,000 Skill Points a day for hitting other Capsuleers with Snowballs.

From 12th December 2020 to 24th December 2020, you will receive Daily Challenges involving the lobbing of snowballs at various NPCs.

Ice Storm Filaments

Ice Storm Filaments transport Capsuleers to a System affected by the Volatile Ice Storm.

There are separate Ice Storm Filaments for High, Low and Null Systems.

Combat Sites

System with a Volatile Ice Storm spawn Combat Anomalies:

• Wightstorm Forwards Base in High Security Systems
• Wightstorm Muster Point in Low Security Systems
• Wightstorm Transite Site in Null Security Systems

If a capsuleer is present at the Combat Anomaly it will appear in the Overview of every capsuleer in the same System.

Fading Volatile Ice Field

This ore anomaly spawns in systems affected by volatile ice stormm.

The site is gated and only medium and small mining and hauling ships to enter (Expedition Frigates, Mining Barges, Exhumers, Industrial Ships, Blockade Runners, Deep Space Transports, and the Porpoise).

Event Data Sites

Event Data Sites spawn in Systems affected by the Volatile Ice Storms.

All Sites are:

• Level IV Data Sites which requires no more then 92 Scan Strength
• only have one container that requires a Data Analyzer to unlock

Different areas of space have different sites:

• High security: Wightstorm Communication Relay
• Low security: Wightstorm Strategic Node
• Null security Wightstorm Cryptographic Array

Lower Security Systems have Sites with better rewards.

Rewards:

• Normal Data Site loot like Tech 1, Tech 2 Salvage and Decryptors
• SKINs: Glacial Drift, Aurora Universalis, Onyx Glacial Drift, Tormentor Glacial Drift, Purifier Glacial Drift, Sleipnir Glacial Drift,
• Filaments:
  • Yoiul 2v2v2v2 Destroyers Proving, Yoiul 3v3 Frigates Proving, Calm Abyssal
  • CMT-05N Nullsec Ice Storm, DSHR-01H Highsec Ice Storm, DNNR-01L Lowsec Ice Storm
  • Noise-5 'Needlejack', Signal-5 'Needlejack'
• Overseer's Personal Effects
  • High: 6th - 8th Tier
  • Low: 6th - 12th Tier
  • Null: ?
• Fireworks: Yoiul Festival Snowballs, Snowstar Crystalburst, Rimefrost Starburst
• Basic/Potent/Extended 'Brainfreeze' Cerebral Accelerator
• Agency Drugs: Agency 'Hardshell', Agency 'Pyrolancea',
• Sansha Faction modules and ammo
• Blueprint Copies: Rapture (Lowsec only)

External Links

• Winter Nexus - EVE's holiday season