EVE Online Equinox Launches: Talking Nullsec Changes, MJFGs on Carriers And EVE Vanguard

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EVE Online’s first of two 2024 expansions, Equinox is now live, bringing new changes to nullsec in the form of new structures, resources, and more. But it’s also bringing some new features for everyone, most notably its SKINR tool for ships.

While the last expansion, Havoc, focused mainly on revitalizing lowsec space with its new pirate insurgencies, Equinox is squarely focused on nullsec. This region of space is known most for its player empires holding large swathes of systems under their control, and the various wars that play out between them for sovereignty over space.

Equinox seems poised to ramp this up even more, especially with the infusion of new structures and resources to fight over.

“This is going to be one of the handful of times where we kind of change what defines how valuable a system is, right?” community developer Peter “CCP Swift” Farrell tells me in an interview last week heading into the launch. “So you can decide what type of ore spawns there, what type of anomalies you get, and within each system, the planets are now gonna decide, or be another factor in deciding, how valuable a system is. So we already have players, like, kind of looking over their shoulder to see what their competitors are doing.”

Farrell describes a situation where, even ahead of today’s launch, where players were effectively staging fleets and invasion forces to take systems that are rich with the resources that will become important once Equinox’s nullsec changes fully roll out. Structures such as the Metenox Moon Drill will become mainstays in many null — and even lowsec space corporations, and the fight over the systems to support them will be intense.

However, CCP doesn’t want to simply flick the light switch on and throw nullsec into extreme chaos. Some chaos is good (embrace the chaos, CCP Games), but nullsec corporations have spent literal years building up their sovereignty in these systems, so the developers are going to be rolling out the nullsec changes in