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Patch Notes for 2025-12-09.1
Features & Changes
Winter Nexus
Winter Nexus is live!The event runs until downtime on January 12, 2026, bringing the return of the Volatile Ice Storms and their signature mix of combat, hacking, and mining sites. This winter brings a twist: InterBus' newly deployed Yoiul LAD drones roam the storms under the guise of traveler safety, yet whispers spread that their true purpose may be far more alarming.
Volatile Ice Storms
To Be Determined - Volatile Ice Storms have begun to appear across highsec, lowsec, and nullsec space. These ice storms spread out across the stargate network two jumps from a central system, and occasionally move from system to system just like metaliminal storms. These storms provide bonuses to ship thermal resistances and module overheating for all capsuleers flying within them. Sansha's Nation and Outer Ring Excavations have both mobilized to take advantage of the novel forms of stellar ice found within these storms.- To Be Determined - Limited-time Ice Storm filaments are now available that will instantly transport capsuleers into one of these volatile ice storms. Each filament clearly states in its description how many capsuleers it can transport and whether it will take them to a highsec, lowsec, or nullsec storm.
Event Sites
- To Be Determined - Wightstorm combat anomaliesare now appearing inside Volatile Ice Storms, filled with hostile Sansha vessels. CONCORD recommends bringing at least abattlecruiser. Difficulty scales by space:
- Highsec: Wightstorm Forward Base (easiest)
- Nullsec: Wightstorm Transit Site (medium)
- Lowsec: Wightstorm Muster Point (hardest, best rewards)
- To Be Determined - Wightstorm data sites also spawn in the storms and can be hacked using scan probes and a data analyzer.
- To Be Determined - Volatile Ice Fields can be found within storms as well. ORE and Mordu's Legion have secured these sites, accessible via an ORE-commandeered gate allowing only medium and small mining/hauling ships(Expedition Frigates, Barges, Exhumers, Industrials, Blockade Runners, DSTs, Porpoise).
The volatile ice harvested here cannot be refined, but ORE will trade7 units for a bundle of valuable Sansha salvage. Additional rare salvage may be mined directly from ice chunks. - To Be Determined - Across all storm sites, capsuleers can earn Nation Stormhive Shards, festive shipSKINs, Cerebral Accelerators, apparel, Sansha combat boosters, pirate implant BPCs, and rare faction modules.
Yoiul LADs
Roam exclusively within Volatile Ice Storm systems.
- To Be Determined - Locate them using combat probes—make sureInterBus Yoiul LADsare enabled in your overview.
- Destroying them yields Verity Cryo Tech, an item used to unlock enhanced versions of event content and increase rewards.
Using Verity Cryo Tech
Combat Sites
- To Be Determined - Deposit Verity Cryo Tech into a Sansha's Transit Modulator to reroute the acceleration gate to a hidden high-difficulty pocket in space with greater rewards.
- Normally, Marauders cannot enter highsec sites, but they can enter if the gate is rerouted.
Data Sites
- To Be Determined - Use Verity Cryo Tech in a Sansha's Stormfield Projector to unlock an additional data relay, providing extra loot opportunities.
Mining Sites
- To Be Determined - Trade Verity Cryo Tech alongside volatile ice at the on-site item traders to receive an upgraded salvage package.
Agency Challenges & Rewards
- To Be Determined - Complete the seasonal reward track to earn the Perseverance ice-mining destroyer BPC, new for this year's Winter Nexus.
- To Be Determined - Earn Agency points by engaging in combat, hacking, and ice-mining sites within the Volatile Ice Storms.
- To Be Determined - Snowball challenges make their return for bonus points.
- To Be Determined - New Yoiul LAD hunting challenges are available—track down all variants to earn the Odysseus Aurora Universalis SKIN.
- To Be Determined - Additional rewards will be added to the track during the final week of the event, so stay tuned!
Daily Login Rewards
- To Be Determined - A new set of daily login gifts are available over the course of the Winter Nexus event including snowballs, ice storm jump filaments, new Aurora Universalis skins, SKINR components, Sansha combat boosters, EverMarks and up to 650.000 skill points. Players can receive all of these rewards by logging in everyday between now and January 12th.
- To Be Determined - ⚠️ Don't miss out: the26th loginduring the event grants a special Skill Point bonus for both Omega and Alpha capsuleers.
Patch Notes for 2025-12-08.1
Features & Changes
User Interface
Updated EVE Online Developer Credits.
Patch Notes for 2025-12-05.1
Patch Notes for 2025-12-04.1
Features & Changes
User Interface
- To Be Determined - The method of price estimation used by the mining surveyor UI has been updated to use an estimate of the value of the minerals obtained by reprocessing the ore when possible, rather than entirely relying on the market price history of the ore itself. This should allow the UI to present more accurate estimates in a large number of situations, especially with ores that are less commonly traded on the market directly.
Patch Notes for 2025-12-03.1
Patch Notes for 2025-12-02.1
Features & Changes
Freelance Job Access Lists (ACLs)
Freelance Job now supports Access Lists (ACLs), giving corporations and job creators the ability to define exactly who can view and accept the job postings. This updates provides better control and privacy and a more tailored collaboration for corporations.
- To Be Determined - ACLs allow visibility restrictions at three identity levels:
- Character– specific characters.
- Corporation– all members of selected corporations.
- Alliance– all members of corporations within selected alliances.
- To Be Determined - Creating Jobs with ACL
- You can select which ACL to use during job creation, and once assigned, a job's ACL cannot be swapped, but the contents of the ACL may be edited at any time.
- Changes to ACL affect job visibility and participation but will not remove existing participants.
- If an ACL that's attached to a freelance job is deleted, only the active participants of the job are able to contribute. No other capsuleers can accept the job.
- Blocked characters can't see or access relevant job listings, even with a direct link.
- The job creator and corporation project managers always retain full access regardless of restrictions.
New Skill: Freelancing
Updated - A new Freelancing skill has been introduced.
- Each level increases the number ofconcurrent Freelance Jobs a character can accept, up to maximum of 11.
Freelance Job Cost Adjusted
To make the job creation more sustainable, two cost reduction have been applied:
- To Be Determined - Duration fee reduced by 25%.
- To Be Determined - Broadcasting Fee reduced by 33%.
Freelance Job : Alliance Column in Participant view
A new Alliance column has been added to the Participant view for Freelance Jobs. Project managers will now be able to view and sort participants by alliance membership.
- To Be Determined - Clicking the Alliance column header sorts the participants alphabetically by alliance name and clicking again reverses the order.
- To Be Determined - If a participant does not belong to an alliance, a "-" symbol will be shown.
Map
- To Be Determined - Changed the ore price preview from 'price per unit' to 'price per m3' in the Ore Distribution filter's overview.
Defect Fixes
Gameplay
- To Be Determined - Slash commands via chat have been disabled.
Patch Notes for 2025-11-27.1
Features & Changes
Miscellaneous
- To Be Determined - A new batch of Refined Resourcer SKINs enters New Eden.
Patch Notes for 2025-11-26.1
Patch Notes for 2025-11-25.1
Features & Changes
Balancing
To Be Determined - Citadel "stand-up" Fighters can no longer decloak ships.
Map
- To Be Determined - Added the option to Exclude Ineligible Systems from the Jump Range Visualization.
User Interface
- To Be Determined - Added pointers for various Map UI elements.
Patch Notes for 2025-11-24.1
Features & Changes
Miscellaneous
- To Be Determined - Odysseus receives a cosmetic uplift with SKIN extensions for the many historic SOE ships SKIN lines.
Patch Notes for 2025-11-21.1
Patch Notes for 2025-11-20.1
Features & Changes
Factional Warfare
To Be Determined -
- Defending a complex will reward the same amount of LP as capturing one offensively.
- Both the base 25% penalty and system contested percentage scaling have been removed.
- Added NPCs of both attacking and defending factions to the 4 Open Complex sites.
- These NPCs function the same as those added to standard Complex sites.
Fractured Legacy Epic Arc
To Be Determined -
- Decreased the amount of ore required in mission 2.
- Increase the amount of ore available to be mined in mission 2.
- Added a highlight on the Mining Surveyor UI button during the initial mission 2 transmission.
- Added the relevant hackable structure to the looting objectives in missions 1 and 3.
- Added an objective that lists any missing required modules in all three missions.
- Items retrieved from the end of mission 3 can now be sold to NPC buy orders.
- Improved handling for when to show the skill training conversation in mission 1.
- Improved handling for when to show fitting recommendation conversations in all three missions.
Pirate Strongholds
- To Be Determined - Decreased the volume of strong boxes dropped by the structure to 50,000 m3 from 400,000 m3.
Patch Notes for 2025-11-19.1
Patch Notes for 2025-11-18.1
The Catalyst expansion is out!
Full overview of the contents of the expansion can be found here: Catalyst Expansion Notes !
Features and Changes
Miscellaneous
- To Be Determined - Brand new Refined Resourcer SKINs line has been released.