Winter Nexus (2022)

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Winter Nexus

Winter Nexus was an event held from 15 December 2022 to 03 January 2023 (downtime to downtime) and includes Volatile Ice Storms which feature Wightstorm Sites, 13 Days of Nexus Login Campaign, the Winter Nexus Agency Challenge, the Yoiul Chilling Spree, and Yoiul Festival-themed Abyssal Proving Grounds.

Login campaign (13 Days of Nexus)

Capsuleers must log in for 13 out of the 19 days to collect all rewards. A total of 85k Skill Points are available to alpha clone accounts, while omega clone accounts have access to an additional 425k skill points and 20,000 EverMarks.

Day For Alpha Accounts Additional for Omega
1 Yoiul Festival Crate Icon.png Yoiul Festival Snowballs Crate (Tier 1 Gift) Icon 25k Skill Points.png 25,000 Skill Points (Tier 3 Gift)
2 Yoiul's Ascent Fireworks Crate (Tier 1 Gift) Icon vorton projector booster gift box.png Ice Storm Filaments Crate (Tier 2 Gift)
3 Icon ExpertSystem 4.png Winter Nexus Expert System (Tier 1 Gift) Aurora Universalis SKIN.png Cruor Aurora Universalis SKIN (Tier 2 Gift)
4 Icon ice storm filament highsec.png DSHR-01H Highsec Ice Storm Filament (Tier 1 Gift) Icon EverMark.png 2,500 EverMarks (Tier 4 Gift)
5 Icon 10k Skill Points.png 10,000 Skill Points (Tier 3 Gift) Icon 50k Skill Points.png 50,000 Skill Points (Tier 4 Gift)
6 Aurora Universalis SKIN.png Worm Aurora Universalis SKIN (Tier 3 Gift) Aurora Universalis SKIN.png Skybreaker Aurora Universalis SKIN (Tier 3 Gift)
7 Aurora Universalis SKIN.png Dramiel Aurora Universalis SKIN (Tier 3 Gift) 4,000 EverMarks (Tier 4 Gift)
8 Icon ice storm filament highsec.png DSHR-01H Highsec Ice Storm Filament (Tier 1 Gift) Aurora Universalis SKIN.png Daredevil Aurora Universalis SKIN (Tier 3 Gift)
9 Icon 25k Skill Points.png 25,000 Skill Points (Tier 3 Gift) Icon 100k Skill Points.png 100,000 Skill Points (Tier 4 Gift)
10 Aurora Universalis SKIN.png Succubus Aurora Universalis SKIN (Tier 3 Gift) Icon EverMark.png 6,000 EverMarks (Tier 4 Gift)
11 Icon ice storm filament highsec.png DSHR-01H Highsec Ice Storm Filament (Tier 1 Gift) Aurora Universalis SKIN.png Damavik Aurora Universalis SKIN (Tier 3 Gift)
12 Aurora Universalis SKIN.png Astero Aurora Universalis SKIN (Tier 3 Gift) Icon EverMark.png 7,500 EverMarks (Tier 4 Gift)
13 Icon 50k Skill Points.png 50,000 Skill Points (Tier 4 Gift) Icon 250k Skill Points.png 250,000 Skill Points (Tier 4 Gift)

Agency campaign (Yoiul festival)


Points Reward
50 Aurora Universalis SKIN.png Typhoon Aurora Universalis SKIN
100 Icon ice storm filament highsec.png DSHR-01H Highsec Ice Storm Filament
150 Aurora Universalis SKIN.png Dominix Aurora Universalis SKIN
200 Icon cerebral accelerator.png Wightstorm Sunyata Booster II
250 Icon ice storm filament nullsec.png VXN-01N Nullsec Ice Storm Filament
300 Aurora Universalis SKIN.png Scorpion Aurora Universalis SKIN
350 Aurora Universalis SKIN.png Armageddon Aurora Universalis SKIN
400 Icon ice storm filament lowsec.png DNNR-01L Lowsec Ice Storm Filament
450 Aurora Universalis SKIN.png Garmur Aurora Universalis SKIN
500 Icon cerebral accelerator.png Wightstorm Nirvana Booster II
550 Icon vorton projector booster gift box.png Ice Storm Filaments Crate
600 Aurora Universalis SKIN.png Sacrilege Aurora Universalis SKIN
650 Icon vorton projector booster gift box.png Ice Storm Filaments Crate
700 Aurora Universalis SKIN.png Ishtar Aurora Universalis SKIN
750 Icon cerebral accelerator.png Wightstorm Cetana Booster II
800 Icon vorton projector booster gift box.png Ice Storm Filaments Crate
850 Aurora Universalis SKIN.png Cerberus Aurora Universalis SKIN
900 Aurora Universalis SKIN.png Muninn Aurora Universalis SKIN


Volatile Ice Storm

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.

Ice Storm Filaments

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

Area / Ship Count 1 5 10
Icon ice storm filament highsec.png Highsec DSHR-01H DNCR-05H PRNCR-10H
Icon ice storm filament lowsec.png Lowsec DNNR-01L BLTZN-05L RDLF-10L
Icon ice storm filament nullsec.png Nullsec VXN-01N CMT-05N CPD-10N


Combat anomalies

Wightstorm combat anomalies have begun appearing within the Volatile Ice Storms. These sites are full of hostile Sansha's nation vessels, and CONCORD advises capsuleers to bring a battlecruiser or better when attempting to engage with these forces.

Wightstorm Forward Base

Found within storms that originate in highsec space appears to be guarded by the weakest Sansha fleets.

Main article: Wightstorm Forward Base

Wightstorm Transit Site

Found within storms that originate in lowsec space appears to be guarded by intermediate strength Sansha fleets.

Main article: Wightstorm Transit Site

Wightstorm Muster Point

Found within storms that originate in nullsec space appears to be guarded by the strongest Sansha fleets.

Main article: Wightstorm Muster Point

Hacking sites

Wightstorm data signatures can be found within Volatile Ice Storms. These Sansha's Nation data sites require scan probes and data analyzer modules.

Wightstorm Comms Relay

Site is an ungated pocket with 1 can ~20km from the warp-in point.

Nodes Tools Available
System Core
Hacking coherence.png50 Hacking strength.png10
Firewall
Hacking coherence.png40 Hacking strength.png20
Anti-Virus
Hacking coherence.png30 Hacking strength.png30
Self Repair

Wightstorm Strategic Node

Wightstorm Crypto Facility

Mining sites

Volatile Ice Field anomalies can also be discovered within Volatile Ice Storms. These fields of newly discovered stellar ice have recently been captured by ORE and Mordu's Legion forces who have driven away the Sansha harvesting fleets. These ice fields can be accessed through a special ORE-commandeered acceleration gate that only allows medium and small mining and hauling ships to enter (Expedition Frigates, Mining Barges, Exhumers, Haulers, Blockade Runners, Deep Space Transports, and the Porpoise).

The volatile ice found within these fields cannot be reprocessed by standard facilities, however Outer Ring Excavations has set up mobile ice collection operations within each of these ice fields, and is willing to trade with capsuleers who contribute to their mining operation. Capsuleers can trade seven units of volatile ice with the ORE representatives in the ice fields to receive a package of valuable salvage and items that ORE forces collected from the wrecks of Sansha ships.

Rumors suggest that other valuable Sansha salvage has frozen directly into some of the ice chunks and can be occasionally picked up along with the ice by normal mining activities.

Fading Volatile Ice Field

  • Appear in high-sec
  • Contains Faded Volatile Ice which can be exchanged for ORE Green Salvage packages. The packages, like containers have a capacity that is greater then their volume.
  • Asteroids respawn
  • Belt rats have been spotted
  • When bookmarked, can still be jumped to when disappeared from the probe scan window

Fresh Volatile Ice Field

Friable Volatile Ice Field

Yoiul Chilling Spree (Daily Campaign)

The Chilling Spree will offer up 5,000 Skill Points for hitting fellow capsuleers with a snowball daily!

Abyssal Proving Grounds

If slinging snowballs at each other isn’t enough, you’ll also be able to go nose to nose with your fellow capsuleers in dedicated Abyssal Proving Grounds events, themed around the special Ice Storm environment! You’ll have new opportunities to overheat your modules for longer and get a bigger speed boost from afterburner modules too! 

Timeline
16th December - 19th December Yoiul 1v1 T1 Cuisers
30th December - 2nd January Yoiul T1 destroyer 4-player free-for-all
7th January - 8th January 2v2 Battleships arena

Note: The battleship 2v2 will feature a repeatable challenge that grants 100 million ISK for doing 10,000 damage in the arena.

Special game mechanics

All of these proving events will feature a special set of environmental effects that increase afterburner speed bonuses by 100% and reduce heat damage suffered by overheating modules by 50%.

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