The new Eve Online heraldry system will be a big deal
From the outside looking in, adding new custom ship skins to the massively multiplayer space game Eve Online might not seem like a particularly noteworthy change – sure, it’s nice to be able to personalise your avatar and spaceship, but certainly not essential, right? But in Eve Online, identity drives everything – who you are, what you’ve done, and the groups you belong to are critically important to the experience and fantasy. The upcoming heraldry system that CCP Games announced at Fanfest 2022 will finally make it official and allow players to establish distinct visual identities for themselves and their corporations and alliances.
It’s obvious how important heraldry is to Eve players the moment you walk into an event like Fanfest: the throng of players is peppered with custom-printed alliance T-shirts, jackets, and flags. Those icons are common sights on Eve streams and in forums, but the new heraldry system will make them usable within Eve, too.
The heraldry system isn’t just about showing allegiance to a group, however. The new system includes visual modules and add-ons for ships, killmarks, and holograms that will change and grow along with your achievements.
The vision is for fully customisable ships and structures, says Snorri “CCP Rattati” Árnason, Eve Online’s director of product, and it’s been made possible thanks to enhancements to Eve’s art and graphics engine capabilities made over the past couple of years.
“Imagine a future where you warp into a system and go through the gate, and you see that the gate is in the colours of the alliance that controls the system,” Bergur Finnbogason, Eve Online’s creative director, tells us. “There’s a statue of their leader. And you either feel like you’re not welcome, or
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