To New Eden Capsuleers,
EVE Echoes will undergo maintenance on 9/10/2025 at 08:00 (UTC+0) and will take approximately 120 minutes to complete. During this time, players will be unable to log in to the game. We kindly ask for your understanding and patience during the maintenance.

New Ship: Wang-Yue
Unlike prototype ships usually used for training, the Wang-Yue battleship reflects the traits of the Yan-Jung faction. It's designed to carry large Decomposers and offers strong firepower, shields, and warp speed. It can also activate the Sun Chaser Engine quickly to reach its target.
How to obtain: Manufacture them based on the blueprints obtained via reverse engineering.

Advanced Industrial Ship Rigs
New advanced core rigs are now available for medium industrial ships and large industrial command ships. The first batch includes three types from ORE.
ORE Medium Industrial Ship Salvage System Enhancement I
An advanced rig developed based on Noctis, boosting both defense and salvage performance for medium industrial ships.

ORE Large Command Ship Salvage System Refactoring I
The Advanced Salvage Rig, developed by applying the mature salvage technology of the Noctis to the Orca-class ships, is designed to enhance the salvage performance of ships like the Orca and Humpback.
These rigs enhance defense and general cargo capacity by reducing special cargo holds such as delivery and ore holds.

ORE Large Command Ship Mining System Enhancement I
A rig developed based on the core technology of Orca, designed to improve the mining efficiency of large industrial ships.

How to obtain: Manufacture them based on the blueprints obtained through the Loot Crates from the Gravitational Wave Graph.
Tip: Because of their low customization, advanced industrial rigs can also be fitted to battleships of the same tonnage, though this is not recommended.

Lance Manual Aiming Feature
A new quick aiming option has been added to battle settings. It's enabled by default, keeping the current aiming method for lances.
When quick aiming is turned off, lances can be aimed manually. Aim at the enemy's path ahead of time to land precise strikes.
Tip: This feature requires the latest engine version. Manual aiming demands high skill, so it is recommended to switch to Tactical Overlay in horizontal mode for better accuracy.

Celebration Event
Event Duration: September 10 - October 15 (after maintenance)
During this season of celebration, the empires and consortiums have launched limited-time reward events to encourage fending off pirates and resource production, and provide trading tax discounts as well. These include:
Loot from repelling pirates +25%
At Jita and Amarr Trading Centers, Transaction Tax -7%
Planet Yields Mining Speed +50%

Balance Adjustments
Cosmic Anomaly
The Rorqual at the Capital Ship Quarry has a chance to drop the Advanced Mining Foreman Burst when destroyed.
Loot Crates from the Gravitational Wave Graph now have a chance to grant blueprints for industrial rigs and Yan-Jung Ship Debris.

Loyalty Point Store
The ORE Data Compiler and the four empires' Data Compilers have been merged into the Opt Box. The Opt Box now includes a new item, the CONCORD Data Compiler, which can be used for reverse engineering CONCORD module blueprints.
Three Needlejack Filaments have been merged into the Opt Box. The weekly purchase limit has been raised to 10 units, with an additional 25% discount.
Five blueprints have been removed: Shield Field Inhibitor, Armor Link Disruptor, and three Capital Close-in Defense Guns.

Market
Blueprints for three Structure Close-in Defense Guns have been removed.
Valuable items such as Marshal ship blueprints and hangar optimization blueprints are now protected by transaction codes.

Construction
Eight new reverse engineering blueprints have been added: Shield Field Inhibitor, Armor Link Disruptor, and six Close-in Defense Guns.
The core material for reverse engineering the above blueprints is the CONCORD Data Compiler. More advanced CONCORD module blueprints for reverse engineering will be available in the future.

Ships
Noctis: Added core system rigging slots, allowing the installation of Medium Construction Ship rigs.
Orca and Humpback series ships: Added core system rigging slots, allowing the installation of Large Construction Ship rigs.
Shanhai: Exterminator Lance damage bonus adjusted from +100% to +150%, and Annihilator Lance Warm-up and Restart Time penalty reduced from +50% to +25%.
Chimera Navy Issue and Archon Navy Issue: Fighter damage bonus increased from +2.5% to +5%.
Nidhoggur Fleet Issue and Thanatos Navy Issue: Fighter damage bonus increased from +5% to +7.5%.

Modules
The Starbreak Nanocore's Starbreak Reforge has been changed. Instead of being determined automatically by shield and armor capacity, it can now be freely selected (switch by dragging the button).
Foreman Mining Bursts: When activated, it also increases the mining yield of the ship's Mining Drones.
Three Industrial Modules can now compress Moon Ores.
Starblade Exterminator Lance: Fuel consumption reduced from 4.5 million to 4 million, restart time reduced from 600 seconds to 480 seconds, and self-interference duration reduced from 90 seconds to 60 seconds.
Annihilator Lance: Self-interference duration reduced from 150 seconds to 120 seconds.

Disguise Operation
To reduce the misuse of camouflage functionality, it is now required to reach Technology Level 8 before camouflage can be activated.
While disguised, players cannot use jump clone services from any Corporation Outpost or Fortizar.
Note: After the Binary Star Group Purchase event ends, activities such as Cloak Operations and Faction Missions will not be affected and will continue as usual.

Optimizations
When Corporation Diplomacy Maintenance Cost and Alliance Sustention Fee are at 0, bill emails will no longer be sent.
The maximum number of saved locations has increased from 30 to 50.
Structure combat authority has been separated. Controlling structure combat now only requires combat authority instead of full citadel management authority.
Loading speed has been improved for logging in, using Stargates, and entering or leaving stations.
Stellar Gold Meow Series Core: AI Core expansion is now available, along with the new analysis feature.
The analysis feature is now available for all six series of Lancer Dreadnought Nanocores.

Bug Fixes
Fixed an issue where the Pulse Crystal Capacitor Reinforcement Unit's additional capacitor use was not applied.
Fixed an issue where the Support Projection Implant's electronic interference immunity cooldown did not trigger properly.
Fixed an issue where the Serpentis Cruiser Core System Enhancement rig icon displayed incorrectly.
Fixed an issue with disguise display, where the wreck of a disguised ship would show a false name.
Fixed an issue where combat logs during disguise could appear in the original Corporation's records.
Fixed a rare issue where the KM interface could potentially reveal information from before cloaking.
Fixed an issue where PLEX was deducted when a Corporation name change failed.
Fixed an issue where the reward quantity was not displayed in the mission details.
Fixed an issue where a mismatch warning appeared when equipping Lightweight Ships with implants.

The Scope
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