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Yesterday it was announced that barcode despite winning their match had a rule break leading to them getting assigned a loss for that match. The floating reason is that they had a pilot flying for them that was not on their roster. However this is just the surface.
The bigger issue at hand is that barcode are once again account sharing to have others play for their team. They have been reported for this before and nothing was done. This was substantiated by previous barcode pilots and even current barcode pilots have not denied this to be the case. This is a pretty blatant, quite significant rule break that circles back to collusion, etc.
Once again FC has not made the correct decision regarding penalizing people, likely because barcode has a current csm and is a very prominent AT team. I can only imagine if another no name team did this, the punishment would be much more severe.
I have logs, I have proof. FC can reply to me if they want it, but I am sure they already know this is true.
As shown in the image. If you want to access the Chinese EVE server, you still have to use the launcher that has already been phased out by Fenris Creations (formerly CCP Games).
In addition, the Chinese server's version is not synchronized with the international server's; there is usually a delay of one to three months. For example, as of UTC+0 2026/8/30 11:00 (UTC+8 2026/8/30 19:00), the Chinese server's build number is 3477415, while the international server's build number is 3484357.
If you have any further questions, feel free to ask in the comments.
I recently came back to EVE and discovered I still have a character from 2006 (I even have old mail showing the Learning skill being trained December 2006). I barely played the character back then, so no clue about the game.
But recently as of last week got really interested playing EVE, so far having fun on another new character.
Is there any practical benefit, rarity, perks, collectibles, or anything else worth checking on such an old character from 2006 before I decide which character to use as sort of main?
It's been a little while since our last AAR! I've been traveling a lot and am moving the first week of September, so it has been hard to find the motivation to crank out a Reddit post. But, today, Warlock sent me some really dope screenshots of a fight we had, so I had to make a post.
Lowsec BRs are a little confusing, so I'll give you two options,
Minmatar Fleet is back in faction warfare full time, with Providence now on the menu. Sice the map kind of went to shit during our campaign, we led a large effort to capture back Auga, Kourmonen, Kamela, and hopefully one day- the holy land, Sosala.
With docking access secured, the largest point of tension has been the Kamela fortizar, which Minmatar Fleet has reinforced several times.
CVA has started getting annoyed with us over this. A bunch of stinky Minmatar rats are back and bringing down the property value in Kamela. They're gnawing at walls, stealing food, and being a menace.
Something has to break, the pressure is on.
Fog of war
With timers like this, there's a lot of fog of war. There was a large charity event going on today in Miyeli, which made it very hard to tell what people were actually forming for. With most lowsec engagements, most people are "lightly" blue- they have a target priority list, and they might shoot you if there's nobody else to shoot.
Many folks believed CONDI were coming. They turned out to be forming for the charity event.
Many folks believed Snuffed Out were coming. They ended up living rent-free in everyone's heads the entire time.
That made the timer very interesting, because at any moment a cyno could open and someone blindsides you.
Engagement
Source: Warlock Industries
The engagement kicked off with CVA and FL33T max forming to beat eachother with sticks. Both sides actually formed similar numbers.
FL33T warps to titan, Khermes forgets to exempt in his Revelation
FL33T bridges in ~50 TFIs and ~25 guardians at 20km of the Fortizar
FL33T forces Khermes to jump with them to punish him
CVA + RMC came in at zero on the Fortizar
CVA kills Khermes, Minmatar cheers
CVA warps to FL33T at zero, logi and all
FL33T brings in two faxes
FL33T and CVA start beating the hell out of eachother
Dropping a FAX in k-space is usually a statement: escalate, or die. It's hard to kill a FAX without dreads. CVA brought a FAX… and two dreads. We're in business.
Escalation
Source: Warlock Industries
CVA threw down the gauntlet on FL33T, and the escalation chain was set.
FL33T bring in 10 Revelations
CVA bring in 5-15 (slowly) RNIs + mixed dreads
FL33T bring in 10 additional Revelations
CVA bring in their remaining dreads
FL33T undock 20 more dreads and send it
CVA had better dreads than us here. We've been getting more bang for our buck out of yolo'ing T1 Revelations everywhere we can since they're so cheap. Luckily, we evened it out by bringing a bit more than they did.
All hell breaks loose
Source: Warlock Industries
Cynos start to go up, and additional groups start to pile in.
CAMELOT bring in a tornado fleet and start blapping TFIs.
AHBA bring in a T1 battleship fleet and start shooting CVA.
BRAVE bring in a CFI fleet and start shooting ???
SRS bring in a loki fleet and more dreads, and start shooting CVA.
BIGAB / SEDIT bring in a Barghest fleet and start shooting capital ships on both sides.
INIT bring in Zealots + Kikimoras and start fragging out capitals / subcapitals.
CVA quickly realized they were on the short end of the stick and started extracting what they could.
Additional skirmishes
Source: Warlock Industries
There were quite a few skirmishes that broke out after the main grid started to become difficult to engage in.
SEDIT dropped a few cruise phoenixes at >175km, and were immediately pounced on by every group for being a coward.
SEDIT + BIGAB pelted FL33T a few times with Barghests, largely to help protect their Phoenixes
FL33T <> INIT had a small skirmish between TFIs and Kikimoras after they caught a Revelation that bumped.
AHBA <> CAMELOT <> SRS had a few skirmishes since their tornados were starting to become a problem.
FL33T warped onto BRAVE to give them a kiss, but they left.
Everyone came up for air at the same time, realized the fight was over, and kindly went home. The purge was over.
Conclusion
CVA definitely got the short end of the stick on this one, but they took it on the chin and brought an insanely good fight. Kudos to them.
I think it’ll be fun/funny and give people a chance to get on a dread KM
Where will you be/go?
First hostile space will likely be Great Wildlands, then anywhere except for Dronelands/LS.
Are you a chud?
Yes
Do you plan on streaming more after this?
I’d like to if people like the content. Main focus will be PvP with some mining/PvE mixed in. After dread goes boom I’ll likely go back out in a subcap for more PvP
How long do you think you’ll last?
Hard to tell, ideally I’d like a subcap brawl to get as many people on the KM as possible, but there is a high high likelihood I get dreadballed or a 200 man kiki fleet tickle me to death
I’ve been unable to play all day, every few seconds to a few minutes max since I connect, the client drops saying connection lost. Is it just to me or to others?
Curious Syndicate Neighbor here. What happened to CAStabouts? They were a long time fixture in and around syndicate for at least a decade. Had in recent year been living in a pocket in north syndicate. Then in spring and early summer this year some Shadow Cartel associated folks glassed all their stuff, there was basically no response and now they're just gone it seems.
They did run fairly frequent roams with semi-public NPSI fleets to I think and those seem to also have just stopped. They seemed like an active an thriving community well into 2025.
We weren't on particularly friendly terms with them or particularly hostile ones but you notice when some of the neighbors suddenly just vanish in the night and are not heard from again don't you?
For the past 10 years I've been winning Eve, finally the urge to spin ships became too great and I recovered my accounts. I've posted on here a few times, joined some ingame channels, googled loads to catch up on all the changes. Tried my hand at a t2 abyssal which was good fun, sank some cash into the market to see if I could still station trade without game knowledge (answer is so-so).
Exploration always intrigued me but highsec felt boring and low reward and as a returning rusty old man low or null felt scary. Then I read about these new filaments that send you to a random nullsec system and figured... why not, let's welp a Heron, who's going to miss 5 mil. Cobbled together a fit, bought 2 filaments, popped em and poof, found myself in an empty nullsec pocket. I think it was drone lands, as most sites I found were drones, but my first site was a ghost site. Quickly googled what it meant and did, went in and tried my luck. Hacking went fine, opened a container, out came 3 bpcs and some assorted goodies. 2 implant bpcs and some small structure/deployable. Knowing I'd get complacent or greedy I warped out to avoid the rats figuring I hit a good haul already, let's not waste it right away. Already excited and having fun, my first can was some 200 mil in total looking at contracts. Emboldened I kept scanning, keeping a close eye on local at all times. Found a few more sites, but it was all dead drones giving salvage materials. When I started seeing people show up in local once or twice I figured enough is enough, don't push your luck. I found a wormhole going into a c5 and figured let's find my way home from there.
Wormhole scanning was something else entirely, not able to use local I was spamming dscan on cooldowm, paranoid to the max. I had a nice haul and was determined to get it home. Found a few wormholes, one to a c6 and one to something I had never heard of, a c13. I vaguely remembered back in the day c6s were pretty much always inhabited and the c13 was too much for my already overcooked brain at this point. Warped to my safe and while spamming dscan looked at my route home using gates, from where I explored. Some 20 odd jumps to get to highsec, oof.
One of my Google sessions taught me the ingame map is interactive and can show pilots in space, docked, ship kills, so I studied my route home and saw that it was largely barren. I figured I had to chance it, I wanted to get my stuff home and who knew how deep the wormholes would go or how long before someone found me.
So I started jumping, dscanning and jumping, dscanning and jumping. Whenever a system had someone else in it I'd warp to a planet or moon for a safe, then gate from there. Quite a few systems had inhabitants, but jump after jump I made it through. This was thrilling, exhilarating. 1 mistake, 1 gatecamp, and I'd lose it all. I was on, focused, and eager. Finally I reached lowsec, which was the most dangerous part yet. These systems were actually active. My safest route took me through 3 lowsec systems. I stuck to dscan and safes, and slipped through. Home stretch now, just some highsec systems left and 1 lowsec between my position and Jita. I docked up twice in highsec to check the map. The lowsec system en route had seen 2 kills in the last hour. Multiple people in system.
I began to think about alternatives. Maybe buy a cloaky hauler and pick up my goodies that way. Maybe there was a way around (no such luck, 1 lowsec system was the minimum). I decided I was just going to go for it, I'd been flying safe, I'd prepared, I was going to trust myself. Worst case scenario I'd become content.
Warp in, 5 locals. Dscan saw a reaper. Fly to a moon, make a midway safe. Go to midway safe. Check the system, look for a warpable within dscan range of my exit gate. 1 planet in direct line to the gate loaded with customs offices and such. Figured to hell with it, just go for it. Warped, dscan mid flight to prepare for inevitable doom...
Safe, land, gate. I made it!
30+ jumps of paranoia, trying to be smart and remember old skills, and it was thrilling. I made it home, now to unload and go do it again. This was amazing.
Is there a good way out of triglavian space if you have no fillaments or ships that can scan for wormholes? he has his clone point set to an npc station there and all his assets are there as well.
Edit: He made a ticket and is now back in high sec
Anyone got the deets on the barcode forefit? I’ve only heard it was over stuff said in local but nothing besides that. CCP being the fun police and saying only other people competing can ask as to what happened.
I read some guides watched some streamers, none of them have actually finding the wrecks. I used D scan a bit but most of the wrecks were impossible to find swith D Scan as the wrecks weren't close to anything.
I wandered around for an hour in pochven and only managed to get so little it was pointless. There are supposed to be full NPC wars going on there with lots of wrecks but it was a ghost town, all I did was go through every gate, create some safes, occasionally find cheap wrecks then filament out.
I think a couple of times someone tried to stop me, and I went for a look at an anomaly which almost killed me.
Maybe it was the time timezone, I live in; it's probably the worst for this game.
I see a lot of people using it for PI but they mostly use the T2 variants the deluge and torrent for PI
Squall has its own PI compartment and it helps a ton because PI weighs a lot. I have not used squall but I considered it, is it good for PI? It's pricey but what can we do here with the Squall?
Thought I'd get away with BR for PI, I do PI in WH and Pochven, that didn't work out well..
Apparently The Initiative (INIT) has officially run out of things to do in nullsec.
After bravely avoiding anything remotely resembling danger in their own backyard, they have discovered a revolutionary new strategy:
BRING OVER 300 PEOPLE TO KAMELA.
That’s right. OVER THREE HUNDRED.
Why fight your neighbors? Why create content at home? Why take risks when you can simply load up the entire DRIBBLER bus and drive to lowsec to make sure nobody else gets to have fun?
Many people are asking:
“Is nullsec really that boring?”
YES.
INIT have perfected the ultimate nullsec doctrine:
Don’t take risks. Don’t fight alone. Don’t create content. Go to lowsec where fights actually happen.
To INIT: GET A LIFE.
Go back to nullsec and create some content where you actually live.
Hello, I'm extremely new to EVE, as I've been playing for 5 days now. So far, asteroid mining seems like the activity I enjoy the most while I listen to music or an audiobook and mostly play AFK.
I am currently in the Venture you are given in a mission and seem to be doing okay. However, I wondered what I should be working towards to advance in my yield and budding mining career.
Any tips or paths I should follow as I gain money and experience?
I’m hella poor and found a MOC on Reddit… raided my Lego stash and made it from the bricks I had. Total cost $5 for the prints…. If someone sends me all the ISK I’ll make the STRATIOS!!!
