This year, however, a well-known figure in Eve Online’s political meta-game - called "The Judge" - used his vast in-game wealth to pay for votes, earning him an ill-gotten seat on the governing body. This is a small group of player-elected councillors who work with the game's developers, CCP. For instance, we also covered this year’s elections for the Council of Stellar Management. Not all our articles are about battles, however, and many often require additional work to source. But there are also a variety of third-party tools such as one that tracks any fleets moving about and a live-ish map of New Eden. Obviously, the Eve Online subreddit is filled with players discussing the latest dramas, trash-talking each other’s alliances, and posting propaganda for their own alliance. The Eve Online community doesn’t stop there in providing tools and tidbits of information. And once we’re aware of a battle, and its participants, it becomes more straightforward to pursue the story. At this point, finding battles to report on is much easier as the losses become apparent. So even if an alliance maintains total radio silence, their PVP activity is still public. As a battle rages or a conflict emerges, the ships lost will be listed on the killboards of the alliances involved. There are player-developed intelligence tools which tell us which ships were destroyed and where, all using player account APIs. Salivan might speak to a pilot from a particular bombing run, or to a commander overseeing a capital fleet, and he will chase down Discord tags and send out Eve mails to find his man.īattle reports become much easier to piece together after the fight is over. It’s not easy getting in touch with specific people in a short time, but it ensures his posts are as detailed and impartial as possible. Otherwise, he won’t submit the article at all. He will interview fleet members and commanders from multiple sides of any skirmishes he writes about. A good example is Salivan Harddin, our main battle reporter at New Eden Report. Although it sometimes does result in the loss of a camera ship or two.īut of course, we rely on writers as well. We’ve made an effort to cover some of these in news-style streams with tickers, commentators, and live broadcast-type animations on Twitch streams. These are basically massive space stations that can house players, and there are often thousands of players clashing over them, leading to some spectacular fights (albeit laggy ones due to the sheer amount of spaceships on the field at once). In the current war, the largest structures in-game, Keepstars, have come under assault multiple times. This is usually a case of sending players out in fast, stealthy ships to sit on perches around the battlefield from which the fighting can be viewed safely. For the big fights (like the recent battle which saw the firing of hundreds of doomsday weapons) we’ve been experimenting with YouTube and Twitch. While articles are generally our focus, we also have our own video wing. We’ve only been doing it a short while, since May, although some of us have backgrounds in other Eve Online news media and we have staff who've been playing the game since its earliest years. What we end up with is a functioning news site. We have a dozen members writing, editing, sourcing information, producing graphics, and doing video work. New Eden Report is the work of many different players. This isn’t always easy in a secretive meta-game known for its back-stabbing and propaganda. Whether it’s roundups of the galaxy’s conflicts, in-depth battle reports, video updates, or interviews with space warlords, we provide news on events that might otherwise fall into obscurity. For instance, the recent rout where hundreds of supercapitals (the largest and most expensive ships in the game) were forced to stay logged off while they were “hellcamped”. Many non-Eve players may be aware of these large fights, the ones that make it to mainstream gaming media. New Eden Report covers events and conflicts from the Icelandic space MMO Eve Online, known for its player-run universe (or the time $300,000 worth of spaceships died). Hello, I’m Curt, and I am the editor of a space newspaper.
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