Red Moon rises on EVE Online

By Tom Bramwell Published 19 December, 2005

Huge content update.

CCP has completed a semi-overhaul of EVE Online, which it calls Red Moon Rising. RMR optimises performance, makes some changes to combat (including defences and configuration overhauls), makes some UI improvements, includes a full Unicode client, and of course adds an absolute ton of new content.

Apparently things are getting toward the brink of full-scale war in Red Moon Rising, as nations conspire against each other and secretly prepare to do each other in - which is as good a backdrop as any for a load of new content according to Phoenix.

There are 23 new ships including destroyers, battlecruisers and mining barges, Titans (the biggest vessles ever) and Carriers (frontline ships offering fighter coverage and support), while CONCORD will now allow lawful retribution if someone biffs your ship to bits. Red Moon Rising also includes new missions to the Gallente and Amarr territories.

EVE fans will also find new Asian bloodlines available to each race, refinements to the starbases and sovereignty, upgraded manufacturing and research facilities (including remote industry management), new equipment and skills for miners, and the flagging up of folks who loot jettisoned canisters as thieves.

For more details and download information, take a gander at the game's official website.

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  • barchetta #1 7 years ago

    B*std... Been putting together animation / game design doc going by the title of ...
    RED MOON RISING. (Mars related - yes, not a planet but sounded more interesting).

    Now I've gotta think of something else (and redesign logos etc.).

    Arse.

  • quantumsheep #2 7 years ago

    My god, it's full of stars...

  • Yeevle #3 7 years ago

    Eve is one of the best MMO's out there at the moment. WoW was too simple for me and I got bored playing it after a month or so. Eve on the other hand is slow burning and as complicated as you want it to be, I might just return there once this lot goes live, for now though?.... Bloody sick of MMO's hehe.

    OOPS, it's gone live already.
    Edited by Yeevle at 19/12/05 @ 14:28

  • Pirotic #4 7 years ago

    I admire Eve, but short of giving up my job i just didn't have even 10% of the time required to learn the basics. it's huge, it's pretty much an alternative life and not really the dip-in, dip-out game i hoped for.

  • neuroniky #5 7 years ago

    I'm going to try this very soon. Eve seems much promising, but I have some doubts about the time commitment factor everybody speaks about. But being a long time Elite lover, this looks like a dream come true. I'll probably say goodbye to my sleep and say hello to this...

  • symmetry #6 7 years ago

    Ahhhh EVE, good old EVE.

    This update makes it very tempting to renew my subscription for a 3rd time...

  • Mr_Brown #7 7 years ago

    Never tried it...but keep hearing such good things about it...not sure weather to or not though, is it noob friendly and easy to get into?

  • ave #8 7 years ago

    "EVE fans will also find new Asian bloodlines available to each race"

    Delayed til next year.

    The new content is nice, but it's not that much really, almost all the "new" ships are just old ones reskinned with different stats.

    The new Concord rules are overdue, but the implementation is lacklustre (People ejecting cans outside stations in Jita, waiting for people to open them and then killing them is just one example), the game was also down 27 hours and basically unplayable for another 24, and all we got was a patronising message telling us we were getting a free "expansion" so stop complaining about downtime.

  • Yazoo #9 7 years ago

    I tried this, but I found I was more of an "action" person, I didnt want to attain "status" or play the markets, I just wanted to kill things with lots of strategy, although from playing the 14 day trial extensively and then playing on a friends high-end ships, it just... wasn't enough for me as I didnt want to do the economy route

  • SenorGrande #10 7 years ago

    As much as I'd like to go back to EVE, I know I don't have enough time to do it properly. It was hard enough to get into it back when it was first released. I stopped playing after Exodus because I couldn't get used to all the new ships and skills they required. I've got a character with about 14mil skill points and a couple Battleships but I'd still feel like a newbie if I went back now.
    Edited by SenorGrande at 20/12/05 @ 09:08

  • Speedwolf #11 7 years ago

    It's not fair! I so desperately want to play this game, it has everything. It's gorgeous to look at, it's a persistent online space sim, has thousands of players... yet I'm put off by all the trading and everyone tells me that it's such an enormous time-sink to get anywhere.

    What I really want is something like Freelancer Online.

  • Gurgeh #12 7 years ago

    Lag has been pretty nasty of late but there seems to have been an influx of new players, especially from Star Wars Galaxies after the NGE fiasco.

  • ave #13 7 years ago

    @Speedwolf, it's not a space sim, think of it as EQ2 or WoW but with space graphics - it feels and acts the same(although you have more movement controls in eq2/wow)

  • Stickman #14 7 years ago

    Looks great, sounds great, but Jesus, its dull. Like everone's said already, unless you're going to play this and this alone most evenings for considerable months, you may as well not bother. I'll probably be shouted down or told I must have met some bad people, but it's the most noob unfriendly MMO I've dabbled with.

  • machiavelli_7 #15 6 years ago

    best. game. evah.

    been playing for over 2 years and have barely bought another game since.

    If you ever enjoyed Elite, give this a try - you won't regret it.