EVE Online Viridian Launches In June; Aims To Empower Player Corporations Even More
EVE Online's next expansion, Viridian, hits in June, bringing more tools for player corporations as the next stage of warfare hits New Eden.
The upcoming expansion announcement comes on as CCP Games prepares to celebrate EVE Online's 20th anniversary, complete with fireworks in Jita 4-4, the unveiling of the Fabric of New Eden mosaic featuring over 80,000 EVE Online players.
Speaking with MMORPG.com last week ahead of this morning's announcement, EVE Online's community developer Peter «CCP Swift» Farrell tells us that while Uprising was more focused on getting players into the factional warfare fight, Viridian is more focused on the corporations being able to better service their corp members.
«Maybe Uprising was a little bit more individual focused, getting people into the war zone of factional warfare itself, Viridian is definitely about empowering corporations, giving them tools they never had access to before, helping them provide for their members.»
One of the ways this works out, according to Swift, is by giving corporations tools to better contribute to a warzone without having to be on the frontlines. As a result of the tools being provided, corporations will be able to «organize much, much better.» Swift says the team is focused in this expansion on giving corporations tools that the players have been asking for.
One improvement is the ability to tax Loyalty Points earned in-game right now, giving the corporation a better way to get the currency to then spend on the corporation itself — especially by selling the LP to make some ISK for the Corp coffers.
«So this is something that it's not like a sales tax or anything, the game doesn't treat this as a sink,» CCP Swift tells me. «This is going to be a tool for
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