Agents & Missions
54 new missions have been added for Level 1 through to Level 5. These missions are primarily for Empire based factions.
Character Creation and New Player Experience
Earn official recognition for accomplishing certain levels of skill training in all areas from trading to combat. Certificates are a powerful tool to reinforce your bragging rights and bargaining power. The certificate system will be an invaluable asset to new players who wish to plan a new skill. Full details can be seen in the Certificates blog from CCP Greyscale.
Science & Industry
Moon minerals have gone through some changes in regards to production. Moon mining will remain unchanged and will process as normal; however, players can now create some of the rarer moon minerals like dysprosium and promethium through reactions. We have created six new reactions which allow you to create key intermediate materials without relying on the rarest moon minerals. This isn't, of course, an efficient process and each rare mineral has been assigned a more common counterpart, which can be used in the place of the rare mineral in these new reactions at a ratio of 20:1. This roughly approximates the difference in moon count between the rare mineral and the common mineral in each case. The four pairings are cadmium/dysprosium, vanadium/thulium, chromium/promethium and platinum/neodymium. The final output of each of the reactions will be ten units per cycle, and the common mineral always replaces the mineral at a 20:1 ratio. More details can be found in the Alchemy Dev Blog from CCP Greyscale.
Markets & Contracts
The market has had a bit of a makeover. Extra filters have been added and the price history screen has been adjusted.
Corporation & Alliance
Player corporations will be able to create and award medals to their members.
Any member with the personnel manager, director or CEO role can create a medal in the corp interface > members > decorations section. When creating a medal you define the look of the medal, give it a title and description. Creating a medal costs 5 million ISK paid from the corp wallet.
A personnel manager, director or CEO can then award a medal they have created to their corp members either by context selecting the corp member in the chat channel or using the memberlists and multi selecting many members. The cost of awarding a medal is 5million ISK per award to each member. The same medal can be awarded multiple times to the same member.
When you are awarded a medal, you will receive an evemail notification detailing why you were awarded the medal. You can then check the decorations tab in your character sheet to see a list of medals you have been awarded. From here you can opt to display a medal publically or trash it or set it back to private. Your other corporation members can see an overview of the corporations medals within the corp interface> members > decorations tab which displays various information for each medal including its recipients.
Medals can be set public after you have been awarded them through your character sheet in the decorations > settings tab. Medals may take up to an hour to show to other players around the universe.