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The following synopsis of changes and additions to be found in Odyssey is based on content from the Neural-Boost.com news site: http://neural-boost.com/odyssey - EVE University has received permission to republish and amend this content, provided by the editor of Neural-Boost.com, Nar Tha.

 

Please note, that some features, like V3 for capitals, new station interior or the Naglfar changes, despite being commonly referred to as Odyssey features, went live already with Retribution 1.2 or another recent patch - therefore they are not included in this article.  

The Discovery Scanner is basically a new visualisation of the former on-board scanner, with a few additions. Every time you enter a system the Discovery Scanner will start to search for cosmic anomalies and signatures. You will see a scan sweep moving from one side of your screen to the other and further all around the system.

[[File:scansweep.jpg|200px|thumb|center|Discovery Scanner in action]]

Along with this, if the system has any anomalies or signatures, you will notice icons poping up in space, similar to the brackets of stations or stargates. These icons will not only mark the position of exploration sites, but also indicate your progress of pinpointing them. Anomalies will allways be at 100% signal strength right from the initial scan sweep, just like they do now. Signature results will only tell you the very rough area where they are located but will have 0% signal strength at the start, requiring you to further probe scan them down (see the next section). You can also interact with those icons via a tooltip window that will pop up when you hover over them.

[[File:Discovery_full.jpg|200px|thumb|center|Discovery: Full Signal Strength]][[File:Discovery_low.jpg|200px|thumb|center|Discovery: Poor Signal Strength]] ‎

At any time you can hide the Discovery Scanner via the new radial menu for scanning (read more about this in section 9.).

Scanning is becoming a lot quicker and easier ([http://community.eveonline.com/news/dev-blogs/team-super-friends-do-odyssey/ Dev blog source]). Basically, the new discovery scanner will show you all signatures that are available in your current system, but only the very rough location and no signal strength whatsoever. To be able to interact with them you have then to, as you are used to, pinpoint these signatures down to 100% signal strength. This process, however, is changing in the following ways:

* When you use your launcher module, all probes loaded will get launchet at once.

** At the bottom of the window you will see how many results you filtered out or have ignored, with a button to show those.

[[File:Probeform_spread.jpg|200px|thumb|center|Probe Formation: Spread]]  ‎

[[File:Probeform_pin.jpg|200px|thumb|center|Probe Formation: Pinpoint]]

[[File:Scanwin red.jpg|200px|thumb|center|Scan Window: Low Strength / While Scanning]]

[[File:scanwin_orange.jpg|200px|thumb|center|Scan Window: Medium Strength / Idle]]

Signatures and Anomlies are being renamed, to make it more clear what they are. Wormholes and combat sites will now allways show which group they are in, when you discover them (no more Unknown). Also, former Gravimetric and the currently static Ice Belts, will become cosmic anomalies and both be known as Ore Sites.

Because players are no longer guaranteed to get all the of a profession container (see next section), loot drops have been increased.

Also, as reported in [https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=237815 this thread], T3 cruisers are no longer allowed to enter 3/10 and 4/10 DED sites. This change is expected to go live with Odyssey, but has not been confirmed yet.

'''Step I: Arriving at the Site and Infiltrating Target System'''

[[File:Hacking_overview.jpg|200px|thumb|center|Hacking overview]]

'''Step II: Understanding the Hacking Window'''

The main part contains the system's nodes, which you will work through in order to complete the Hacking process (explained in Step III). In the bottom left you will find information on your viruses coherence (marked with a star icon) and strength (marked with a signal icon). Coherence is what commonly would be referred to as HP, strength is damage. When your visuses coherence reaches 0 your hacking attempt will fail. You can influence your viruses coherence and strength in the following ways:

* T1 scanfrigs have a bonus to virus strength of +5

* T2 cov ops frigs have a bonus to virus strength of +10

* the skills Archaeology and Hacking give a +10 bonus to virus coherence per level to their relative analyzing module

In the bottom center you will find a number of utility slots. You can fit these slots with utility subsystems found within the minigame. These utilities will benefit you in various ways to help complete the hacking process. Currently, all analyzing modules in all tech variants have 3 of these utility slots. I don't know if there are ways to add more of them as of yet.

[[File:Hacking_window_start.jpg|200px|thumb|center|Hacking Window: Start]]

[[File:Hacking_window_progress.jpg|200px|thumb|center|Hacking Window: Progress]]

'''Step III: How Hacking works'''

The goal of the game is to reach and breach a specific node, the system core, that is hidden somewhere in the system. To work your way to the system core, you have to travel through and explore at least a certain number of other nodes. You can explore (left click) nodes adjacent to the ones you have previously conquered.

*** the densive subsystem's coherence is reduced by the amount of your viruses strength

** can be used by left clicking them, once fitted (which will consume them)

*** Secondary Vector: decreases coherence of target defensive subsystem or system core by a varying amount per charge; comes with 3 charges; first charge consumed on use; second and third charge consumed one each after any interaction with the system

*** Self Repair: increases virus coherence by a varying amount per charge; comes with 3 charges; first charge consumed on use; second and third charge consumed one each after any interaction with the system

'''Step IV: Collecting the Loot'''

Once you have completed the hacking process by breaking the system core, the window will close and the profession container will release a number of mini-containers, that will float away in different directions. These mini-containers will disappear after a short amount of time, and your goal is to collect as many of them as possible before they do so. To collect them, just left click the brackets in space and your ship will suck them in, which will take a couple of seconds. You can only collect one of them at a time. When your ship is free to start sucking a mini-container in, the brackets will be colored green. If you are already in the process of doing so, the target mini-container's bracket will be colored white, while all other will we yelllow to indicate your ship is busy at the moment. In any case, if you're too far (>3,500m - no typo, this one is higher than the normal interacting range) you can't loot them and their brackets will turn grey.

A small icon at the left side of your HUD will be displayed for every item you acquire this way.

Also, for every failed hacking attempt, the number of mini-containers a specific profession container will release will increase. The overall loot however will stay the same, thus making it harder for you to collect the same amount of items.

[[File:Hacking_minicont_busy.jpg|200px|thumb|center|Mini-Containers: Busy]]  

[[File:Hacking_minicont_retrieved.jpg|200px|thumb|center|Mini-Containers: Loot Notice]]

[http://youtu.be/gNbGU07GgOo?t=6m22s YouTube video of hacking example]

Decryptors, which you can find through exploration and are used for invention, will be reorganized quite a bit. They will now be put in their own market groups (Amarr, Caldari, Gallente and Minmatar Decryptors), be renamed and also get some additions.

* Esoteric Accelerant (renamed from Prototype Diagram): Probability +20% / Max. Run +1 / ME +2 / PE +5

There's also a [http://community.eveonline.com/news/dev-blogs/wanttotrade-tags-for-security-status/ dev blog] on this topic.

Each of the five pirate factions that populate low sec areas (Angels, Blood Raiders, Guristas, Sanshas and Serpentis) will get 4 new NPCs: the Clone Soldier Trainer, Clone Soldier Recruiter, Clone Soldier Transporter and Clone Soldier Negotiator.

Each of these NPCs will allways drop one of the new tags.

There will be four new tags, one for each of the new NPC types: the Clone Soldier Trainer Tag, Clone Soldier Recruiter Tag, Clone Soldier Transporter Tag and Clone Soldier Negotiator Tag. These tags can be freely traded on the market.

There will be a new station service, unique to DED and CONCORD stations in low sec - the security office. There are 45 of these stations and you can highlight them on your ingame starmap (World Map Control -> Star Map -> Stars -> Services -> Security Offices). Using this service will prompt you with a new window. In this window you can drag a slider across a security status bar from -10 to 0. The tags and ISK (there will be an additional ISK fee) cost will adjust according to your current status and the status you dragged the slider to. If you have the required items you can then press the "Exchange Tags" button and your sec status will get updated.

[[File:Security_office.jpg|200px|thumb|center|Security Office]]

* The (unmodified) CONCORD->character standing is copied in to the new Security Status attribute.

In an effort to balance resource distribution across the universe and make it worthwile in every part of space for pilots to participate in resource gathering professions, Odyssey will bring huge changes to how the base materials of all things in New Eden are to be found and also how important to the manufacturing industry they are. This will affect basically all parts of mining / harvesting, with the exception of gas.  

There are two dev blogs on this topic, which you can read [http://community.eveonline.com/news/dev-blogs/resource-shakeup-blog here] and [http://community.eveonline.com/news/dev-blogs/resource-companion-blog here].

T2 Production will be expanded with two new intermediate materials, four new composites and adjustments to the composition of Microprocessors, Capacitor Units and Reactors. This will make R64 minerals much more important (which is one of the goals). Because of that, 227 existing moons of low and nullsec will be newly seeded with certain types of those minerals. Also, the time required to complete a moon scan will be reduced.

All T1 and faction items that currently require T2 composites and construction components to build, will no longer do so after the patch. ([https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=238311&find=unread Source])

** Prototype cloaking devices

These T1 blueprints have had their composite requirements replaced mainly with planetary interaction products, and in the case of the Warp disrupt probes, more Stront.

 

Mineral composition of ores will be changed, so that the rewards will be more fitting to the higher risk of mining in more dangerous space. Also, null sec ores will contain much more low end minerals to help reduce the reliance on imports.

Ice Harvesting will be made a bit more lucrative and dynamic. Ice Belts will become cosmic anomlies, that respawn allways in the same system four hours after they have been completed. These anomalies will be located in the same solar systems they are currently in, with the exception of some Clear Icicle belts.

All null, low and high sec systems located in Caldari, Gallente or Minmatar space, that currently contain ice belts, will spawn ice belt anomalies after the patch. Systems that currently have multiple ice belts are likely to also spawn multiple ice belt anomalies in the future.

Player Owned Structures (POSes) will get some love in Odyssey. These are all changes that should help managing the every day life of POS operators and especially enhance the experience of players and corporations living in wormhole space. Please note that the following list of changes has not been 100% confirmed to be shipped on June 4th. Due to technical difficulties the ancient underlying code provides, some of them might have to be pushed back to a later patch.

** no limit in number of characters

** each character's storage limited to 10k - 40k m³ (yet to be decided)

** if a member leaves, the according items can not be accessed until they rejoin

If you want to know more about these changes, head over to [http://community.eveonline.com/news/dev-blogs/odyssey-summer-expansion-starbase-iterations/ the dev blog].

Please note that the following changes go hand in hand with tweaks to Large Energy Turrets, which you can read more about in section 6.1.

* The Apocalypse trades its cap bonus for a tracking one along with slight buffs to fitting, defense, mobility, targeting and sig radius and a nerf to drone bandwidth. While the ship loses some capacitor amount, it will recharge faster now. Also, note that the Apocalypse ship model is being overhauled, which you can read more about in section 8.5.

* The Armageddon is completely being reworked as a drone boat with bonuses to drone damage and hitpoints, as well as neut range. With 5 turret and 5 launcher hardpoints, the available 7 high slots can be used very flexible. The ship's fitting slightly moves focus towards CPU, recieves significant buffs to defense, capacitor, of course drone bay and sensor strength while losing some of its mobility and suffering from increased sig radius.

Please note that the following changes go hand in hand with tweaks to Cruise Missiles, which you can read more about in section 6.1.

* The Raven loses a utility high slot for an extra mid, trading minor buffs to fitting, capacitor, mobility and sig radius with slight nerfs to defense and drone bandwidth, pushing it more into the attack role.

* The Dominix forfeits its split weapon type oriented bonuses to become a full focused drone boat, trading the hybrid damage for a drone tracking bonus. It also gets slithly more powegrid, significantly more defense and capacitor while on the other hand suffering from increased mass and sig radius.

* While the Hyperion now only can fit 6 turrets the ships damage bonus is getting doubled. Also, because the ship only loses one high it practically gains a utility slot, along with an additional low. A minor buff to powergrid is accompanied by significant buff to drone bandwidth and bay, now allowing for a full flight of heavy or sentry drones.

* The Megathron trades the hybrid damage bonus for rate of fire, losing a utility high in exchange for a low slot and is getting rid of its launcher hardpoints. These changes come together with minor buffs to CPU, shield, capacitor, mobility, sig radius and slight nerfs to armor as well as drone bandwidth and bay.

* The Tempest recieves slight buffs to powergrid, armor, hull, capacitor, mobility, targeting and sensor strength, while losing a little bit of shield and having increased sig radius.

* The Typhoon gets reworked into a missile boat, trading the projectile rate of fire bonus for missile explosion velocity. It gains a mid slot as well as one turret and launcher hardpoint each, while losing a high. Slight buffs to CPU, shield, armor, capacitor, mobility, targeting and sensor strength go hand in hand slight nerfs to hull and sig radius as well as a significant cut in drone bandwidth and bay.

Please note that the following changes go hand in hand with tweaks to Large Energy Turrets, which you can read more about in section 6.1.

* The Apocalypse Navy Issue, according to its T1 counterpart, trades the cap bonus for tracking speed. The ship is getting rid of the unused launcher hardpoints, recieves slight buffs to powergrid, hull and sig radius, significantly enhanced mobility and targeting as well as a nerf to shield, armor and capacitor. Also, note that the Apocalypse Navy Issue ship model is being overhauled, which you can read more about in section 8.5.

* The Armageddon Navy Issue in contrary will not follow the T1 Armageddon redesign and stay the lase brawler it is. However, the ship's general attributes will shift in the same direction, recieving buffs to fitting, defense, capacitor, drone bay, targeting and sensor strength while having its sig radius increased.

Please note that the following changes go hand in hand with tweaks to Cruise Missiles, which you can read more about in section 6.1.

* The Raven Navy Issue trades its rate of fire bonus for explosion radius and gets an additional launcher hardpoint to make up for that. It receives an extra mid slot, enhanced fitting, capacitor, mobility, sensor strength and sig radius while only losing a tiny bit of targeting capability.

* The Scorpion Navy Issue gets its resistance bonus tweaked, which you can read more about in section 5.9. The ship gains a low slot as well as minor buffs to powergrid, defense, capacitor, mobility and increased sig radius.

* The Megathron Navy Issue generally follows the rebalancing philosophy of its T1 counterpart, also trading the damage bonus for rate of fire. One launcher hardpoint is getting cut, CPU, capacitor, mobility and sig radius are getting slightly buffed. Defense and sensor strength are both getting slightly nerfed.

* The Dominix Navy Issue, in contrary to the T1 Dominix, sticks to its split weapon bonuses. They share the general idea behind the rest of the changes though, resulting in slight buffs powergrid, capacitor, mobility and a significant buff to defense. Also, the ship will suffer from a slightly higher sig radius.

* The Tempest Fleet Issue recieves minor buffs to fitting, shield, armor, capacitor, sensor strength and a highly increased targeting range. However, it loses hull, mobility and has slightly higher sig radius.

* The Typhoon Fleet Issue retains and even recieves buffs to its flexibility with the split weapon bonuses, trading the missile rate of fire bonus with damage, though. It will get one more mid instead at the cost of a low slot and also get one additional turret and launcher hardpoint each. The ship recieves slight buffs to shield, capacitor, mobility, targeting and sensor strength while powergrid, armor and hull are being slightly lowered.

Attack battlecruisers are recieving some tweaks to further bring them in line with ship progression. All four ships will have their mobility, targeting and signature radius slightly nerfed. ([https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=219864&find=unread Source])

Odyssey is introducing a navy variant of each of the four races combat battlecruiser: the Harbinger Navy Issue, Drake Navy Issue, Brutix Navy Issue and Hurricane Fleet Issue. The skill requirements will match the overhauled skill requirements of T1 battlecruisers, which you can read more about in section 7. The only exeption is that you will need the racial battlecruiser skill at level 2 ([https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=3099800#post3099800 Source]).

This section has been updated (and thus might differ slighty from the original forum posts), according to [https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=3094690#post3094690 CCP Ytterbium's post here].

[[File:Navy_harbinger.jpg|200px|thumb|center|Harbinger Navy Issue]]  

[[File:Navy_drake.jpg|200px|thumb|center|Drake Navy Issue]]     

[[File:Navy_brutix.jpg|200px|thumb|center|Brutix Navy Issue]]   

[[File:Navy_hurricane.jpg|200px|thumb|center|Hurricane Fleet Issue]]  

These new navy battlecruisers can be acquired either through direct purchase or the according blueprint, available in LP stores of Factional Warfare as well as regular NPC corporations. ([https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=3094690#post3094690 Source])

 

Here are the details on pricing:

** Regular corporation LP stores, blueprint offer: 200,000 LPs plus 100 million ISK for 1 run blueprint copy (BPC)

** Regular corporation LP stores, built ship offer: 250,000 LPs plus 1x built tech1 Battlecruiser plus two Cruiser sized Nexus Chips

** Faction Warfare Loyalty Point stores, blueprint offer: for 100,000 LPs plus 10m ISK for 1 run BPC

** Faction Warfare Loyalty Point Stores, built ship offer: 100,000 LPs plus 1x built tech1 Battlecruiser plus two Cruiser sized Nexus Chips

As an iteration on recent rebalancing changes of T1 cruisers, in Odyssey there will be some tweaks to this ship class. The support cruisers Augoror, Osprey, Exequror and Scythe will recieve nerfs to their electronics to make them more vulnarable to electronic warfare and further distinguish them from their T2 counterparts. The Omen and Stabber will get buffed. ([https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=219607&find=unread Source])

* The Augoror Navy Issue trades its cap bonus for significant damage, to make up for these changes however loses 2 turret hardpoints. It receives a buff to fitting, armor, hull, shield recharge time, capacitor, mobility, number of max targets, sensor strength, sig radius and cargo. It loses some shield and scan resolution.

* The Omen Navy Issue trades its cap bonus for damage and the rate of fire bonus for optimal range. It loses one high slot, one turret hardpoint, defense and getting cut on the number of max targets. The ship is getting slightly buffed on powergrid, shield recharge time, mobility, drone bandwidth and bay (now allowing for a full flight of medium drones), targeting range, scan resolution, sensor strength, sig radius and cargo. While the ships capacitor amount slighty increases, it will take longer to recharge.

* The Caracal Navy Issue trades its bonus to kinetic missile damage for launcher rate of fire and the missile velocity bonus for missile explosion radius. Fitting, shield, shield recharge time, capacitor, scan resolution, sensor strength, sig radius and cargo are getting buffed, while the ship loses its turret hardpoints, some hull as well as all drone bandwidth and bay. While the ship is getting significantly faster, it's also getting slightly less agile.

* The Osprey Navy Issue trades its bonus to launcher rate of fire for missile damage, with an emphasis on kintetic missiles, and the missile velocity bonus now also applies to light missiles. It gains one high, medium and low slot each, getting buffed on fitting, defense, capacitor, targeting and sensor strength. Shield recharge time, mobility, sig radius, and cargo are getting a minor nerf, though.

* The Exequror Navy Issue recieves one high, mid and low slot each as well as an additional turret hardpoint. The ship's fitting, defense, shield recharge time, capacitor, mobility, drone bandwidth and bay (now allowing for a full flight of light drones), targeting, sensor strength and cargo are getting buffed. The only negative aspect is a very minor increase of sig radius.

* The Vexor Navy Issue is becoming more drone focused, trading its medium hybrid turred damage bonus with drone velocity and tracking. Along with this the ship loses one high slot and 3 turret hardpoints but gains an additional mid slot. It's getting buffed on fitting, armor, hull, shield recharge time, capacitor, mobility, drone bandwidth and bay (now allowing for a full flight of heavy or sentry drones), targeting, sensor strength and cargo. However, shield will be significantly cut.

* The Scythe Fleet Issue retains and even recieves buffs to its flexibility with the split weapon bonuses. The medium projectile turret rate of fire bonus will get doubled, the launcher rate of fire bonus will get swapped with significantly more missile damage. The ship loses one high slot, but gains one medium, 2 lows and one turret and launcher hardpoint each. It's recieving buffs to CPU, defense, shield recharge time, capacitor, mobility, targeting and sensor strength.

* The Stabber Fleet Issue loses minor amounts of CPU, armor, hull, mobility and suffers from slightly increased sif radius. It recieves buffs to shield, capacitor, sensor strength and cargo.

As an iteration on recent rebalancing changes of T1 frigates, in Odyssey there will be some, mostly very minor, attribute tweaks to this ship class. ([https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=214280&find=unread Source])

Also, all dedicated exploration vessels will recieve a new role bonus to virus scan strength of data and relic analyzers (see section 1.4.). T1 scan frigates will give +5 to virus strength and T2 cov ops frigates will give +10 to virus strength. ([https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=3106057#post3106057 Source])

* The Imperial Navy Slicer recieves buffs to fitting, armor, hull, capacitor, targeting and sensor strength, getting slightly cut on shield, though.

* The Caldari Navy Hookbill recieves buffs to defense, capacitor, targeting and sensor strength, getting slightly cut on mobility, though.

* The Federation Navy Comet recieves buffs to CPU, armor, hull, capacitor and targeting, getting slightly cut on shield, though.

* The Republic Fleet Firetail recieves buffs to its damage bonus as well as fitting, defense, capaciror,  targeting and sensor strength.

Along with the enourmous amount of ship changes there will be some tweaks to certain module groups.

The scan resolution bonus of remote sensor boosters were too strong, instalock gatecamps too easy to set up being one of the main resulting issues. Therefore the bonus will be reduced. However, the bonus to targeting range, that used to be static, will now increase slightly according to module meta level.

The bonuses to falloff and optimal range that tracking enhancers provide in addition to their tracking bonus were too strong and caused wide reaching balance issue, like overly increaded shield tank usage. Therefore these bonuses will be lowered by 1/3.

===mall Navy Cap Booster===

There will be some changes to scanning and exploration related modules and items. ([https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=233600&find=unread Source] / [http://community.eveonline.com/news/dev-blogs/team-super-friends-do-odyssey/ Source])

** There are a three new mid slot modules in the new group "Scanning Upgrades". They are the "Scan Acquisition Array", the "Scan Pinpointing Array" and the "Scan Rangefinding Array".

[[File:Scan_acqui.jpg|200px|thumb|center|Scan Acquisition Array]]  

[[File:Scan_pin.jpg|200px|thumb|center|Scan Pinpointing Array]]  

[[File:Scan_range.jpg|200px|thumb|center|Scan Rangefinding Array]]

* Rigs that previously did not affect capital modules will now do so (e.g. Core Defense Capacitor Safeguard, Auxiliary Nano Pump and Nanobot Accelerator)

==7 Skill Changes==

 

===7.1 Ship Skill Requirements===

 

The skills you will need to fly specific ships will change for a large number of them in Odyssey. The details were announced a long time in advance to help pilots prepare in this dev blog, which I strongly suggest you to read if you haven't done so yet. Despite quite some skill requirements switching around, the overall skilltime for invidiual ships is roughly staying the same in nearly all cases.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

        Now requires Advanced Spaceship Command 5 instead of 1

        Racial Industrial skill requirement reduced from 5 to 3

        Mining Frigate 3 skill added as a requirement of the Mining Barge skill

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

    All the other vessels not listed here (shuttles, frigates, Interceptors, Assault Ships, Covert Ops, Logistics, Strategic Cruisers, Black Ops, Marauders, Pirate Frigates, Pirate Cruisers, Pirate Battleships, Pirate Supercarrier, Transport Ships, Jump Freighters, Mining Frigate, Ore Industrial, Exhumers) are not directly affected by the skill modifications, although this may create prerequisite changes in nested requirements. For instance, Marauders require Battleship at 5, whose own requirements are changing.

 

===7.3 Clone Cost Changes===

The costs of setting up a medical clone will be lowered by 30% across the board, to change how this affects player behavior. (Source)

===7.4 Dual Character Training===

Odyssey will offer a new option, that mainly will help people train alt characters, with a specific purpose and a limited amount of SP needed, on the same account and without the need to stop the skill queue of their main character.

When right clicking a PLEX there will now be a new option called "Activate Dual Character Training". Using this will consume the PLEX and you will be able to to train two characters on the same account for 30 days.

Important things to note: Dual Character Training time will not extend your current account game time, even if it's below 30 days. When your Dual Character Training time expires, the character with the most skillpoints will be considered your main and that one's skill queue will continue automatically, while the other will be stopped. Also, Dual Character Training time can not be stacked (yet).

Read more about this feature in the according devblog.

With Odyssey the art of certain areas of the game will see some serious facelift. Along with some love for the Apocalypse hull and the containers of mini-profession sites, CCP started a war against loading bars and outdated transition effects.

In addition to all the changes I will list below, there is a general change that will make your camera automatically rotate towards any item selected.

===8.1 Stargates and Jump Effect===

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

===8.4 Exploration Sites===

 

 

Relic Site Container

 

 

 

 

Apocalypse Navy Issue

It looks like the Paladin might get a seperate model before Odyssey goes live, though (Source). I will update this when I know more.

Additionally, EoM Deathlord NPCs, who are using the same model, will also be affected by this. You can find screenshots of them here and here, captured by player Funzinnu BT.

 

 

 

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===8.7 Blueprint Icons===

 

 

 

==9 UI: Radial Menu==

In an effort to move away from everything being accessed through multilevel right click drop down menus with 20+ entries, Team Pony Express digged up the old radial menu and gave it a huge overhaul - graphically as well as functionally.

Radial Menu (Station)

 

 

The menu is split into 8 segments. The 12 o'clock position will allways be a primary action like jump for stargates, board for ships, dock for stations or open cargo for containers. On the opposite side, in the 6 o'clock position there will allways be the targeting command. To the left (9 o'clock) and right (3 o'clock) you will find show info and a button for some additional options, like look at or bookmark. The rest of the sections, one each lying in between the positions I already explained, will hold the navigational commands, align, warp to, orbit and keep at range.

Read more on this feature in the according devblog and an update to it in this forum post.

Also, there will be an individual small radial menu for the scanning button, at the left side of your ship's HUD. The left (9 o'clock) option will take you the probe scanning window, the right one (3 o'clock) to the directional scanning window and the bottom one (6 o'clock) to the moon survey window. With the top option (12 o'clock) you can toggle whether you want the Discovery Scanner overlay to be displayed or not (learn more about the Discovery Scanner in section 1.1.).

==10 "Little Things" aka The Rest==

This is a compilation of minor changes, that have not been covered in the previous sections.

After Odyssey, the only people who will be able to cancel a corporation job will be (Source):

a) the person who started the job

New status text above HUD

There is some new text being displayed while your ship is operating a specific navigational command. This is an addition to the text, that is already being displayed when you are warping.

You can now bind hotkeys for overview item tagging operations.

Odyssey will increase performance for unloading objects at warping and jumping (Source). So, jumping will not only look better, you will also notice it will be a lot faster.

There are also minor UI updates, quality of life updates coming with this expansion. The UI updates include a new, useful radial menu.

Supercapitals will be getting the "V3" treatment and will have updated textures and shaders, bringing them visually in-line with smaller ship sizes.

 

 

 

Nullsec and wormholes space will be getting more music.

 

Turret sound effects have been touched up.

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZPCiqBLPM8 Eve Online: Origins] in celebration of EVE's 10th Birthday.

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FxpY7YfWBs April Fools: In Development: EVE Online: Odyssey Further Features]