Winter Nexus (2020)

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Winter Nexus

Winter Nexus is an event that ran from 10 December 2020 to 5 January 2021 (downtime to downtime).

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

Timeline

Timeline

Date	Winter Nexus	13 Days of Nexus	Chilling Spree	Abyssal Proving Grounds
10th December 2020			5k SP Start
12th December 2020			NPC Trinket Start
18th December 2020				2v2v2v2 T1 Destroyers
22nd December 2020				2v2v2v2 T1 Destroyers
24th December 2020			NPC Trinket End
1st January 2021				3v3 T1 Frigates
5th January 2021			5k SP End	3v3 T1 Frigates

Login campaign (13 Days of Nexus)

Capsuleers must log in for 13 out of the 26 days to collect all rewards. A total of 80k Skill Points are available to  Alpha clone accounts, while  Omega clone accounts have access to an additional 250k SP (plus up to ~17k SP from the accelerator).

Day	For Alpha Accounts	Additional for Omega
1	Omen Aurora Universalis SKIN (Tier 2 Gift)	Oracle Aurora Universalis SKIN (Tier 2 Gift)
2	Yoiul Festival Snowballs Crate (Tier 1 Gift) Festival Launcher + 200x Yoiul Festival Snowball	DNCR-05H and PRNCR-10H Highsec Ice Storm Filaments Crate (Tier 3 Gift)
3	DSHR-01H Highsec Ice Storm Filament (Tier 2 Gift)	25,000 Skill Points (Tier 3 Gift)
4	Caracal Aurora Universalis SKIN (Tier 2 Gift)	Naga Aurora Universalis SKIN (Tier 2 Gift)
5	10,000 Skill Points (Tier 2 Gift)	25,000 Skill Points (Tier 3 Gift)
6	Quafe Zero (Tier 1 Gift)	Basic 'Brainfreeze' Cerebral Accelerator (Tier 3 Gift) +4 all stats, 24 hour base duration
7	10,000 Skill Points (Tier 2 Gift)	DNNR-01L Lowsec Ice Storm Filament (Tier 3 Gift)
8	Snowstar Crystalburst Fireworks Crate (Tier 1 Gift)	25,000 Skill Points (Tier 3 Gift)
9	Thorax Aurora Universalis SKIN (Tier 2 Gift)	Talos Aurora Universalis SKIN (Tier 2 Gift)
10	Yoiul Stormchasers T-Shirt and Pants Crate (Tier 2 Gift) Men's & Women's Yoiul Stormchasers T-Shirt & Pants	Yoiul Stormchasers Suit and Cap Crate (Tier 2 Gift) Men's & Women's Yoiul Stormchasers Suit & Cap
11	10,000 Skill Points (Tier 2 Gift)	25,000 Skill Points (Tier 3 Gift)
12	Stabber Aurora Universalis SKIN (Tier 2 Gift)	Tornado Aurora Universalis SKIN (Tier 2 Gift)
13	50,000 SP (Tier 3 Gift)	150,000 Skill Points (Tier 4 Gift)

Agency campaign (Yoiul Festival)

Yoiul Festival points & event tracker in The Agency.

Daily Challenges earn you points. When you accumulate enough points you will be given a reward. This system was last seen in 2019's Guardian's Gala, and marks the first time it has returned since the latest version of The Agency was released in May 2019. Tasks involve the event sites or throwing snowballs, and are categorized as follows:

• Travel
• Combat
• Exploration
• Mining
• Filament

The challenges reward event points and/or a special event filament. An incomplete list of tasks is available in the table below.

Category	Task Name	Description	Reward
Combat Challenges
Combat introduction 1/3	Burst through the gate	Enter a Wightstorm Forward Base, Muster Point, or Transit Site located in a Volatile Ice Storm in high-security, low-security, or null-security space. You will need a Tech II fit battleship (or equivalent) for the fight ahead.	5 points
Combat introduction 2/3	Battle the Nation	Destroy 5 Sansha's Nation NPCs while in a Wightstorm Forward Base, Muster Point or Transit Site.	15 points
Combat introduction 3/3	Battle the Sansha's Elite	When the Wightstorm Fleet battleship arrives, destroy it.	15 points
Combat challenge 1/2 (repeatable)	Challenging the Nation	Hunt down the Sansha's Nation Wightstorm Fleet in the Volatile Ice Storms in high-security, low-security or null-security. The fight will become harder in lower security areas.	5 points
Combat challenge 2/2 (repeatable)	Not a snowball fight	You have entered a combat site. Destroy its occupants. (Destroy 10 rats inside a Wightstorm combat site. Battleship kills don't count.)	10 points
Combat challenge (repeatable)	For New Eden!	Once you defeat enough Sansha's raiding vessels, a Wightstorm Fleet battleship will arrive. Destroy it.	10 points
Combat challenge	A dangerous journey	Make your way to a Volatile Ice Storm in low-security space to find and complete a Wightstorm Muster Point	20 points
Combat challenge	A treacherous path	Make your way to a Volatile Ice Storm in null-security space to find and complete a Wightstorm Transit Site	15 points
Combat challenge	Fighting the Sansha's Nation	Make your way to a Volatile Ice Storm in high, low or null security space, and complete 3 combat sites	40 points
Combat challenge	Decisive action	While in the Wightstorm Forward Base, Muster Point or Transit Site destroy 4 Sansha's Nation battleships	50 points
Exploration Challenges
Exploration introduction 1/3	Slip through the back door	Enter a Wightstorm Comms Relay, Strategic Node or Crypto Facility site located in a Volatile Ice Storm in high-security, low-security or null-security space. You will need a data analyzer module and a probe scanner for the task ahead.	5 points
Exploration challenge 2/3	Open the data packets	Hack into a Communication Relay, Strategic Node or a Cryptographic Array and see what hides inside.	15 points
Exploration challenge 3/3	A few more would not hurt	Keep finding and opening Wightstorm Communication Relays, Strategic Nodes and Cryptographic Arrays. Riches await! (Hack 3 event exploration cans.)	10 points
Exploration challenge 1/2 (repeatable)	Infiltration	Find a Wightstorm Comms Relay, Strategic Node or Crypto Facility located in the Volatile Ice Storms. Bring a data analyzer, a probe scanner and prepare to open some presents.	5 points
Exploration challenge 2/2 (repeatable)	They didn't need it anyway!"	Hack into a Communication Relay, Strategic Node, or a Cryptographic Array, and retrieve any valuables hidden inside. (Hack 2 event exploration cans.)	10 points
Exploration challenge (repeatable)	A few more would not hurt	Keep finding and opening Wightstorm Communication Relays, Strategic Nodes and Cryptographic Arrays. Riches await! (Hack 3 event exploration cans.)	10 points
Exploration challenge	They're all addressed to you	While in a Wightstorm Comms Relay, Strategic Node or Crypto Facility site within a Volatile Ice Storm, successfully access 8 Communications Relays, Strategic Nodes or a [sic] Cryptographic Arrays	40 points
Mining Challenges
Mining introduction 1/3	Into the eye of the storm	Enter a Fading Volatile Ice Field, Fresh Volatile Ice Field, or Friable Volatile Ice Field located in a Volatile Ice Storm in high-security, low-security, or null-security space. You will need ice harvesting equipment for the task ahead	5 points
Mining introduction 2/3	This is not a drill!	Harvest 7 Faded Volatile Ice, Fresh Volatile Ice, or Friable Volatile Ice from a Fading Volatile Ice Field, Fresh Volatile Ice Field, or Friable Volatile Ice Field	15 points
Mining introduction 3/3	Frozen chunks of space gas	While frozen volatiles may look worthless to you, ORE are rewarding those who provide them with Faded Volatile Ice, Fresh Volatile Ice, or Friable Volatile Ice. Visit an ORE Volatile Ice Processor accepting the correct form of Volatile Ice to exchange the ice you have mined for rewards.	15 points
Mining challenge 1/3 (repeatable)	Ice Carving	Find a a [sic] Fading Volatile Ice Field, Fresh Volatile Ice Field, or Friable Volatile Ice Field located in a Volatile Ice Storm. Bring an ice harvester and be ready to harvest	5 points
Mining challenge 2/3 (repeatable)	Volatiles Galore	Harvest Faded Volatile Ice, Fresh Volatile Ice, or Friable Volatile Ice from a Fading Volatile Ice Field, Fresh Volatile Ice Field, or Friable Volatile Ice Field	10 points
Mining challenge 3/3 (repeatable)	Something more usable	Visit an ORE Volatile ICE Processor accepting the correct form of Volatile Ice to exchange the ice you have mined for rewards. (Do 3 ice conversions with the Orca inside the site.)	10 points
Mining challenge	Motherlode	While in a Fading Volatile Ice Field, Fresh Volatile Ice Field, or Friable Volatile Ice Field within a Volatile Ice Storm, gather a total of 60 units of Volatile Ice ore	80 points
Other Challenges
Festival introduction 1/2	Target Practice	Test your snowball launching prowess on a station before moving onto something more manueverable.	5 points 1x DSHR-01H Highsec Ice Storm Filament
Festival introduction 2/2	Accuracy training	Stations seem easy enough for you to hit. Find an NPC and try launching a snowball at them to see if you are lucky or skilled.	5 points 1x DNNR-01L Lowsec Ice Storm Filament
Filament (repeatable)	Target Practice	Launch a snowball at any Station to receive a filament	1x DSHR-01H Highsec Ice Storm Filament
Filament (repeatable)	Snowball Fight	Launch a snowball at any 3 Capsuleers to receive a filament	1x DNNR-01L Lowsec Ice Storm Filament
Filament (repeatable)	Snowball Fight	Launch a snowball at any 3 NPCs to receive a filament	1x ??? Nullsec Ice Storm Filament
Travel (repeatable)	Return to the Eye of the Storm	Enter a Fading Volatile Ice Field, Fresh Volatile Ice Field, or Friable Volatile Ice Field located in a Volatile Ice Storm.	5 points

The overall event point rewards are available in the table below. Rewards are immediately attached to the redeeming character, and can not be attained as an item.

Points	Reward
50	Capsule Aurora Universalis SKIN
90	Basic 'Brainfreeze' Cerebral Accelerator
130	Abaddon Aurora Universalis SKIN
170	Rokh Aurora Universalis SKIN
210	Hyperion Aurora Universalis SKIN
250	Maelstrom Aurora Universalis SKIN
290	Crusader Aurora Universalis SKIN
330	Potent 'Brainfreeze' Cerebral Accelerator
370	Raptor Aurora Universalis SKIN
410	Taranis Aurora Universalis SKIN
450	Claw Aurora Universalis SKIN
490	Heretic Aurora Universalis SKIN
530	Onyx Aurora Universalis SKIN
570	Phobos Aurora Universalis SKIN
610	Broadsword Aurora Universalis SKIN
650	Extended 'Brainfreeze' Cerebral Accelerator

Volatile Ice Storm

The view inside Wightstorm Forwards Base. The snowing effect is visible in all systems affected by the storm.

Volatile Ice Storm is a Metaliminal Storm that moves between High, Low and Null Security systems. During the event, there are approximately 14 highsec, 5 lowsec, and 14 nullsec storms. The center system and its neighbors experiences the Strong effect, while systems 2-3 jumps out from the center get a Weak effect. Volatile Ice Storms can overlap. The sites spawned depend on the security status of the center system (e.g. a low security system in a highsec-centered ice storm will have highsec sites).

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

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 security systems, capable of taking up to one, five, or ten ships.

Area / Ship Count	1	5	10
Highsec	DSHR-01H	DNCR-05H	PRNCR-10H
Lowsec	DNNR-01L	BLTZN-05L	RDLF-10L
Nullsec	VXN-01N	CMT-05N	CPD-10N

Wightstorm Combat Anomalies

If a capsuleer has warped to a combat anomaly, it will appear in the overview as a beacon.

Different areas of space have different sites:

• High Security: Wightstorm Forward Base is the easiest
• Null Security: Wightstorm Transit Site is of intermediate difficulty
• Low Security: Wightstorm Muster Point is the hardest

Volatile Ice Fields

Volatile Ice Fields contain Ice that cannot be processed but can be traded in 7 at a time for a package of Salvage and Sansha items at the Site.

Different areas of space have different sites:

• High Security: Fading Volatile Ice Field
• Low Security: Fresh Volatile Ice Field
• Null Security: Friable Volatile Ice Field

Only the following ships can fit through the Acceleration Gate:

• Expedition Frigates
• Mining Barges
• Exhumers
• Industrial Ships
• Blockade Runners
• Deep Space Transports
• Porpoise

Wightstorm Data Sites

All Sites are:

• Level IV Data Sites. 86 scanner probe strength is able to scan them down but higher is recommended.
• only have one container that requires a Data Analyzer to unlock

Different areas of space have different sites:

• High Security: Wightstorm Communication Relay is the easiest
• Null Security Wightstorm Cryptographic Array is of intermediate difficulty
• Low Security: Wightstorm Strategic Node is the hardest

Rewards:

• Normal Data Site loot like Tech 1, Tech 2 Salvage and Decryptors
• SKINs: Glacial Drift, Aurora Universalis
• 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: 5th - 8th Tier
  • Low: 6th - 12th Tier
  • Null: 5th - 11th Tier
• Fireworks: Yoiul Festival Snowballs, Snowstar Crystalburst, Rimefrost Starburst
• Basic/Potent/Extended 'Brainfreeze' Cerebral Accelerators (Basic/Potent/Extended)
• Agency Drugs: Agency 'Hardshell', Agency 'Pyrolancea',
• Sansha Faction modules and ammo
• Blueprint Copies: Rapture (Lowsec only)

Yoiul Chilling Spree

From 10th December 2020 and 5th January 2020 you will earn 5,000 Skill Points a day for hitting other Capsuleers with Snowballs. During the 2v2v2v2 T1 Destroyer Proving Grounds event, the daily 5k SP reward was replaced with 5 Proving Ground filaments, with the 5k SP reward moved to entering the Proving Grounds.

From 12th December 2020 to 24th December 2020, Capsuleers had the option of snowballing an NPC to receive a lore display item. Each day had a different item as a reward. The items rewarded were:

Date	Reward
Dec 12	Lifestock-Liberator Display
Dec 13	Fuel-Stealer Display
Dec 14	Radiation-Rogue Display
Dec 15	Tool-Swiper Display
Dec 16	Recycler-Raider Display
Dec 17	Water-Sucker Display
Dec 18	Airlock-Slammer Display
Dec 19	Ectoplasm-Skimmer Display
Dec 20	Ration-Grabber Display
Dec 21	Scanner-Jacker Display
Dec 22	Data-Sniffer Display
Dec 23	Freezer-Thief Display
Dec 24	Power-Drainer Display

Abyssal Proving Grounds

From 18th December 2020 to 22nd December 2020 four teams of two Capsuleers will do combat in Tech 1 Destroyers.

From 1st January 2021 to 5th January 2021 two teams of three Capsuleers will do combat in T1 Frigates.

Both events feature a modifier to heat damage.

External Links

• djAFK's EVE Online - Winter Nexus Exploration / Data Sites - How to start?
• djAFK's EVE Online - Winter Nexus Mining - How to start?
• Winter Nexus - EVE's holiday season
• Patch Notes For 2020-12-10.1 - Winter Nexus