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The following synopsis of changes and additions found in Odyssey is based on content from the now-defunct Neural-Boost.com news site. EVE University received permission to republish and amend this content, provided by the editor of Neural-Boost.com, Nar Tha.

Along with this, if the system has any anomalies or signatures, you will notice icons popping 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 always 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 [[#Probe Scanning|Probe Scanning]]). You can also interact with those icons via a tooltip window that will pop up when you hover over them.

Scanning is becoming a lot quicker and easier ([https://www.eveonline.com/news/view/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 launched 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.

Signatures and Anomalies are being renamed, to make it more clear what they are. Wormholes and combat sites will now always 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.

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.

*** ''Self Repair:'' Increases your virus coherence by a variable amount. Three charges. The first charge is consumed immediately after use, and subsequent charges are consumed after each interaction with the system.

[https://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 Compact Diagram): Probability +20% / Max. Run +1 / ME +2 / PE +5

There's also a [https://www.eveonline.com/news/view/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 always 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.

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

In an effort to balance resource distribution across the universe and make it worthwhile 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 [https://www.eveonline.com/news/view/resource-shakeup-blog here] and [https://www.eveonline.com/news/view/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])

** Compact cloaking devices

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

The mineral composition of ores will be changed so that the rewards will be more fitting to the higher risk of mining in a 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 anomalies, that respawn always 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 manage the everyday 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 on the number of characters

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

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

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

* 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 flexibly. The ship's fitting slightly moves focus towards CPU, receives significant buffs to defense, capacitor, of course, drone bay, and sensor strength while losing some of its mobility and suffering from increased sig radius.

* 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 slightly 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 ship's 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 a 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 receives 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 with slight nerfs to hull and sig radius as well as a significant cut in drone bandwidth and bay.

* 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, receives 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 on the 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, receiving buffs to fitting, defense, capacitor, drone bay, targeting, and sensor strength while having its sig radius increased.

* 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, and CPU, capacitor, mobility, and sig radius are getting slightly buffed. Defense and sensor strength are both getting slightly nerfed.

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

* The Typhoon Fleet Issue retains and even receives 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 receives slight buffs to shield, capacitor, mobility, targeting, and sensor strength while powergrid, armor, and hull are being slightly lowered.

Attack battlecruisers are receiving 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 exception 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 slightly from the original forum posts), according to [https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=3094690#post3094690 CCP Ytterbium's post here].

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 receive 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, and defense and gets 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 slightly 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 kinetic 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 receives 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 turret 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 receives buffs to its flexibility with the split weapon bonuses. The medium projectile turret rate of fire bonus will get doubled, and 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 receiving buffs to CPU, defense, shield recharge time, capacitor, mobility, targeting, and sensor strength.

* The Stabber Fleet Issue loses minor amounts of CPU, armor, hull, and mobility and suffers from slightly increased sig radius. It receives 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 receive 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 receives buffs to fitting, armor, hull, capacitor, targeting and sensor strength, getting slightly cut on shield, though.

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

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

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

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

The scan resolution bonus of remote sensor boosters was 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, which 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 issues, like overly increased shield tank usage. Therefore these bonuses will be lowered by 1/3.

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] / [https://www.eveonline.com/news/view/team-super-friends-do-odyssey Source])

** There are 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".

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

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 [https://www.eveonline.com/news/view/the-great-skill-change-of-blessed-2013 this dev blog]. Despite quite some skill requirements switching around, the overall skill training time for individual ships is staying roughly the same in nearly all cases.

* Destroyers and Battlecruisers skills are going to be split up into four racial versions each.

* Assault Ships, Heavy Assault Ships, and Heavy Interdictors classes are going to be renamed to Assault Frigates, Heavy Assault Cruisers, and Heavy Interdiction Cruisers.

With all this getting reworked, it is important to note that, if you could fly a ship before the changes, you will also be able to do so after them.

The split of the destroyer and battlecruiser skill will be handled like this: Basically, your current level in the destroyer / battlecruiser skill will be translated into the respective new racial destroyer / battlecruiser skills with the same level, but only if you also had the necessary level of the according racial frigate / cruiser skill (level 3) that is currently needed to fly that races destroyers / battlecruisers. This is explained in much more detail in the already earlier mentioned [https://www.eveonline.com/news/view/the-great-skill-change-of-blessed-2013 dev blog].

** All these new skillbooks will have the same training attributes, rank, and cost of the previous generic Battlecruisers skill

** Racial Carrier requirements on the Aeon, Wyvern, Nyx, and Hel have been reduced from 3 to 1

** Adding the Jump Drive Calibration skill at 3 as a prerequisite (which itself requires the Jump Drive Operation skill trained at 5)

** Adding the Tactical Weapon Reconfiguration skill at 1 as a prerequisite (requires Advanced Weapon Upgrades at 5)

** Adding the Jump Portal Generation skill at 1 as a requirement (which itself requires the Jump Drive Operation skill trained at 5)

** Graviton Physics 1 added as a skill requirement in the Interdictor skill

** Propulsion Jamming 5 added as a skill requirement in the Interdictor skill

** Energy Management 4 added as a skill requirement of the Assault Ship skill

*Recon Ships

** Cloaking 4 added as a skill requirement of the Recon Ships skill

** Graviton Physics 4 added as a skill requirement of the Heavy Interdictor skill

** Generic and old Battlecruiser skills removed from the Command Ship skill

** Information Warfare 5 skill added as a requirement for the Command Ship skill

** Armored Warfare 5 skill added as a requirement for the Command Ship skill

** Siege Warfare 5 skill added as a requirement for the Command Ship skill

** Skirmish Warfare 5 skill added as a requirement for the Command Ship skill

** Adding ORE Industrial 3 as a requirement

* Does not alter the ability to launch probes, all players can now launch 8 probes. (went up from 7 in the first iteration of the change)

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 train two characters on the same account for 30 days.

Read more about this feature in [https://www.eveonline.com/news/view/dual-character-training this dev blog].

In an effort to remove the number of loading bars within the game and improve immersion, Odyssey will introduce a spectacular new jump effect. When you initiate a jump, the camera will turn to a certain angle towards the stargate. You will then see an animation of flying through a "jump tunnel", on the end of which you can already see the nebula of the destination system. Data will load during this animation and after that is done, you exit the jump tunnel and the camera will seamlessly return to be controllable again.

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAOrzQWBifU&feature=player_embedded YouTube video of new jump effect]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=jqtSjO67ZUo YouTube video of new undock]

The ship death animation transition effect is rather subtle, in essence just getting rid of the loading bar and replacing it with a quick change of camera. However, there is a new text warning that will pop up above your ship HUD when your armor, shield, or hull is getting low and when your capsule is being ejected. Both the critical stage of hull and the pod ejection are additionally highlighted with a red backdrop. When your ship blows up you will also see some lines of red "error messages" from your board computer.  

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyvAh6a6HEw&feature=player_embedded YouTube video of New Ship and Pod Death Animation]

The Apocalypse and all variants of it receive a model overhaul. It's basically getting a bit beefier and is looking simply fantastic.

Additionally, EoM Deathlord NPCs, who are using the same model, will also be affected by this. You can find screenshots of them [https://i.imgur.com/sFEcYjY.jpg here] and [https://i.imgur.com/eK70Ag8.jpg here], captured by player Funzinnu BT.

Blueprint icons will look a lot shinier after Odyssey, thanks to an improvement to the tools used for icon creation. (Source)

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZPCiqBLPM8&feature=player_embedded EVE Origins video]

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

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 always 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 [https://www.eveonline.com/news/view/new-radial-menu the dev blog] and an update to it in [https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=3091534#post3091534 this forum post].

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruiPh3QYAJo&feature=player_embedded Video of Fanfest presentation: Improving User Experience]

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.).

* Change to permissions for canceling corporation jobs

* Target UI disappearing with a blink effect on kill: when one of your targets dies, the accompanied target UI will now no longer just disappear but blink briefly. This is to help distinguish if a target really died or not just warped away.

* Performance improvements: Odyssey will increase performance for unloading objects at warping and jumping ([https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=2887089#post2887089 Source]). So, jumping will not only look better, but you will also notice it will be a lot faster.

Full EVE Keynote can be watched here: [https://www.twitch.tv/ccp/c/2208288]

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

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