We spend time with CCP Snowedin and CCP Zeotrope talking about the EVE API – and how only ESI will be supported after May 8th. This leads to a long and detailed discussion about the nature of EVE and its relationship to Modders and Third Party developers. How much information is too much? We conclude with a first-person perspective on a Jump Freighter loss and the memes that followed Matterall.

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We meet Wind Spirits, a Chinese leader of Fraternity and the Winter Coalition – a coalition of Asian corporations. Jinn’Taan joins us as we explore the fascinating differences in culture between east and west.  Eastern players are paid real money to be fleet commanders and approach the game as athletes, while the western players rely heavily on the meta (out of game advantages) to win wars. Two very different approaches to EVE Online.

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The New Eden Trading Company effort is over, and the structures have been given away to new owners – Fafer and Max Singularity. They (along with me) will form a league of City-State Sanctuaries (Freeported Keepstars). We also check in with Vily of TEST Alliance on their recent victories in war, and we end with a closer look at theory crafting with Pando, from Initiative.

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Signal Cartel was founded in January 2015 and is a neutral, peaceful exploration corp with a public service mindset and a culture driven by a very specific Credo. G8keeper and Johnny Splunk created EvE-Scout to provide public access points to Thera and later formed Signal Cartel for scanning for Thera wormholes.  Mynxee was asked to be the CEO. The group was expected to be 25 members but has grown to over 600. Here is a brief with more details.

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It has been a week of heavy development in and around EVE Online.  Alliances in the north are faltering under attacks from the Goonswarm from the south. In the east, pressure on Drone Region Federation pushed them to retreat to just two regions Insmother and Cache. Opner Dresden from Mercenary Coalition fills us in on recent events. We catch up to Elise Randalph after his wonderful presentation on the history and lineage of Fleet Commanders in EVE. NoizyGamer talks about being backstage at Fanfest.

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We take a closer look at Into the Abyss expansion that will arrive on May 29th. Elise Randalph returns to discuss recent events in sovereign space and the surrounding areas. Ashterothi and Bardghost Isu take us into the Abyssal space gameplay where they describe the real world experience.  Are they fast and fun? We’ll find out. Faction War makes an appearance as Caldari gain momentum against the Gallente.

Live coverage of the Battle of 9-4RP2. Fight between Northern Forces and The Imperium. Part 3 of 5

Recorded on Twitch/ImperiumNews, 1/23/2018, 11 hours total run time.

Hello, this is Matterall from the fan-created EVE Online podcast called, “Talking in Stations.” At TIS we like to bring you the most important news of the week, straight from news-makers themselves. For over two years TIS has covered EVE Online relentlessly, giving you the best insight into modern day EVE. But it is not enough. Thanks to our financial supporters on Patreon, we are able to bring you more.

The following is the first in a series of short episodes called “Conversations.” Each conversation will focus on a single aspect of EVE Online. We’ll talk to everyone; from experts that have logged for over 15 years to those that follow EVE’s fascinating player-created stories, but don’t play it themselves.

In this segment, we talk about attacking and defending conquerable areas of space. EVE Online takes place in a cluster of solar systems called New Eden. The cluster is mostly ruled by a few Empires (controlled by non-player entities). Beyond the control of these empires, lies Outlaw-space. These regions are roughly 1/3 of the game’s map and can be conquered and settled by players.

The security rating of these outlaw regions is 0.0 which players used to name the area, calling it “Zero Zero” space. The recent generation evolved the name to “null-sec” space – in other words, no security, except that which players provide other players.

The sovereignty system has changed three times in 15 years. The original system was based on claiming the majority of moons in a single system by anchoring and onlinging Player owned Stations next to them. The POSes looked like towers with force fields. Powerful corporations used the fire-power of dreadnoughts to siege the towers. Alliances of these corporations could easily overpower their smaller rivals.

2009 the system was changed with the Dominion Expansion. Dominion sov, as it was called, changed the system from moon control to Territorial control units that claimed and the entire system without the labor and resources of multiple towers. It took some years before players learned how to make Dominion sov miserable for their opponents.

In 2015 sovereignty was changed again to satisfy player outcry. The node-based sov system was introduced in the Aegis sov expansion. This system was also known as Fozzie sov based on the name of the developer that explained the system to players – CCP Fozzie. The sov system is controversial.

Here are two expert players, one from wormholes and another from small-gang combat. As they discuss the pros and cons of sov mechanics.

This week on Talking in Stations we will be talking with ProGodLegend with Test Alliance Please Ignore as the clear winner of the conquest for stations. We will be looking back at the takeover of Pandemic Legion sovereignty in Providence with TEST FC Farmstink and the tale of Lumio Tilavine – the ‘hero’ of Providence. The legendary corp Ushra’Khan receives a permanent monument in space in their ancestral home of 9UY and Harvey Skywalker comes on to discuss his article ‘The Sack of Providence’ and what’s next for Pandemic Legion.

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Lumio en Tilavine weighs his odds on taking Tenal away from Pandemic Legion. Lumio was made famous by relentlessly resisting the overwhelming force of PL during their invasion of Providence. “YOU DIDNT HEARD THE LAST” of Lumio! Was one of his mantras. (more…)