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The remit of the Council has been changed since it was first proposed and is now seen by CCP primarily as a route for players to make requests for changes and improvements to the game mechanics, presentation, and game content of Eve Online.

The first four Councils served for six months, after which new ones were to be elected. The following third Council of Stellar Management included a modified age restriction: candidates under the age of 21 are then no longer eligible as CSM members.

Beginning with the eighth CSM, a single transferable vote system was introduced, allowing voters to select up to 14 candidates. Users start playing Eve Online by creating a free account known as an Alpha account , being invited to the game as via the game's Recruit-A-Friend program, or purchasing the Eve Online Special Edition retail box.

The accounts through the Recruit-A-Friend program function identically to normal Alpha accounts, but start with some additional unallocated skill points worth approximately 5—6 days worth of training time on their first character. In addition, if the recruited account is subsequently converted to a subscription account known as an Omega account , the referrer is rewarded with 30 free days of subscription time or the equivalent amount of PLEX.

Alpha accounts are free and allow players to access most of the Eve Online game, with exceptions. Alpha players cannot train skills for some advanced ship types or modules, including all Tech 2 ships and most Tech 2 modules.

Alpha accounts can also only passive train up to 5 million skill points using the normal skill training system. After that limit, the only way they can acquire more skill points is by converting to Omega, or by using skill point injectors available on the in-game market. In December, , an additional item called a Daily Alpha Injector was added to the game, available for purchase via the official game store for PLEX.

This allows Alpha accounts to progress at a similar rate and cost to an Omega account even beyond the 5 million skill point limit, but to purchase that progression in smaller increments than a full day subscription. Alpha accounts are limited to a specific list of skills and levels in those skills, and are unable to inject skill points into disallowed skills or beyond the maximum level in allowed skills.

Alpha accounts have approximately Omega accounts that lapse on their subscription are downgraded to Alpha accounts. These accounts don't lose any skill points or skills, but any skills or skill levels beyond those allowed for an Alpha account are inactive and cannot be used to fulfill the prerequisites of modules or ships, nor do the passive effects of those skills take effect.

Functionally, Omega accounts that lapse into Alpha accounts can only access and use any of those skills that are on the Alpha skill list and thus may not be able to fly ships that they could as an Omega pilot , but if they later upgrade back to Omega, they regain access to their full skill list.

Before then, they were also offered in , , , and day increments. Discontinued cards remain valid. Players using ETCs are treated like normal subscribers in every way. Both provide the exact amount of specified game time, are entered into the same account section and can be exchanged between players for ISK using a secure exchange system facilitated by a 'Timecode Bazaar' forum.

PLEX is the reason that the cost of in-game assets can be translated into real-life money. As of March 10, , a boxed edition is available in shops. The distribution is being managed by Atari. Although marketed as included in the retail box, the bonus items are only available to new accounts created with the day ETC. Eve Online received mixed reviews at the launch of the game in but more favorable reviews later in its lifecycle.

The game is showcased as a 'day in the universe' video. Furthermore, CCP Games contributed a large amount of data from its servers, which were compiled to produce a 'stunning view' of the accomplishments of player collaborations.

In , CCP said that they had made deals to create both a comic book and a television series based on Eve Online. As of May , no information has been given about the title or the premiere date of the television series. The storylines from both the graphic novel and the television series will be based on actual player-driven events that happened in the game.

At 5 AM, Gigx received a phone call that would change his life. Minutes earlier, a text message had come through but the year-old Serbian had slept through the beep.

The phone call woke him up. He was panicking. Its citadels, the massive space stations that protects CO2's region of space, were now in the hands of its former allies. CO2's treasure trove of blueprints, the plans necessary to build their capital fleet, had been plundered along with its bank accounts. And worst of all, two separate armies had sieged CO2's crowning gem, a Keepstar citadel that its 5, players called home.

In the span of an hour, Circle-of-Two lost everything. Circle-of-Two is one of the biggest alliances in EVE's brutal null-sec political game, where thousands of players rally under banners and wage war against one another for control of star systems.

And as their leader, Gigx is one of the most infamous players in the game. He's known for being brutal and uncompromising. Few generals ever inspire such loyalty from their troops—but not everyone is a zealous believer. I'm speaking with him in the same Discord voice chat room where the heist was executed. Until now, The Judge was Circle-of-Two's head diplomat. It was at one of those summits that The Judge decided to burn CO2 to the ground. He's another CSM representative but, more importantly, an 'operator' for the Goonswarm Federation alliance.

He might log in now and again, but much of his time is spent playing EVE's 'metagame. He would change directions at the drop of a dime. The smallest slights to his ego, he would overreact. There was a running joke that the only thing you had to do to get Gigx to [deploy his supercapital fleet] was to insult him. It's hard not to take Aryth's words with a grain of salt.

After all, his hatred of Gigx is somewhat personal. Their northern home of Deklein was surrounded by a 'blue donut' of allies called The Imperium—an impenetrable coalition of superpowers that the rest of EVE hated.

Circle-of-Two was one of those allies. Then in , a group of players who had built a gambling website that used EVE's in-game currency decided to leverage their insurmountable wealth and funded a war to destroy The Imperium. During the crucial battle of M-OEE8 in March of , Circle-of-Two betrayed Goonswarm and triggered a landslide that would eventually shatter the coalition.

Gigx's pivotal betrayal was a grudge that Goonswarm had been looking to settle for over a year. And Gigx wasn't doing himself any favors by pissing off The Judge. In early September of , Circle-of-Two was heading toward a diplomatic disaster. Then during the summit, we were in the middle of meetings with the developers and my phone was buzzing on the desk because I'm getting messages about how Gigx had done this and that, and Legacy had held a secret meeting to kick CO2.

I had no power to do anything about it. And this was exactly what Aryth had planned. Seeing his dissatisfaction with Gigx, they hoped to secretly turn him. But as Kotaku reports , it was over a dinner meal with CCP developers sitting across the table that Aryth convinced The Judge to exact a more direct kind of vengeance against Gigx. I didn't go and talk to him or anyone, I just sat in the AFK channel.

The Judge invited a personal friend into his Discord channel and handed him a list of step-by-step instructions of everything he needed to do to help him keep track. First he plundered CO2's coffers, stealing as much as he could get access to. Finally, he transferred the Keepstar citadel, the station that most of CO2's 5, members called home, into a personal corporation that only he controlled.

As soon as the Keepstar changed hands, CO2 members had their docking permissions revoked. Those that were already docked inside could stay there for as long as they wanted, but as soon as they left they'd be locked out. The first messages that came through were people thinking that it was a mistake, that someone had just clicked the wrong button. Combined with the ISK and assets that he took, The Judge estimates his profit from the heist totals around 1. But it was just beginning, with countless Circle-of-Two pilots and trillions of ISK worth of ships and resources still inside the Keepstar, Goonswarm launched their offensive.

Aryth sent out an alliance-wide broadcast:. Goonswarm immediately mustered a fleet of Heavy Interdiction Cruisers 'hictors'. These powerful ships deploy warp disruption bubbles that Goonswarm used to cover the Keepstar in its entirety. Anyone who undocked would find themselves trapped in a several hundred kilometer deadzone—sitting ducks to be evaporated by Goonswarm guns.

During this time, Nammcek called Gigx who logged in and began frantically trying to revoke The Judge's roles and stop him. But it was already too late. Gigx snapped. And there was no response. I was trying to convo him in-game, but the game was telling me I was blocked.

He blocked me. Meanwhile, CO2's alliance chat was complete chaos. Gigx, his temper getting the better of him, boiled over. But that was just another trap. Aryth and The Judge had a hunch that Gigx was going to lose it. To fully capture the chaos they'd created, The Judge was streaming the alliance chat window over Twitch to 2, viewers.

Not only would they see the panic and fear of CO2's members, but the EVE community was about to get a firsthand taste for Gigx's raging temper. Many of them filed petitions to have Gigx banned. You will need protection. You motherfucker. That morning was chaos. EVE Online's community of player-journalists woke up and began scrambling to cover the story and piece together the details. Meanwhile, popular EVE podcast convinced Gigx to appear during a live broadcast to discuss the events. It was another embarrassing moment piled on a mountain of embarrassing moments.

But every once in awhile shit works. Gigx's ban struck a nerve in the community. In the week that followed, Reddit threads and forum posts criticized and defended CCP's actions.

For many CO2 loyalists, the ban strikes a parallel to an event that happened years ago when Goonswarm's leader, The Mittani, endorsed the ongoing harassment of another player while appearing on a community livestream. So why was Gigx banned permanently, and, considering the circumstances, can we really fault him for losing his temper? The truth is, our policies are constantly evolving.

We're one of the oldest MMOs around, and what happened six, seven, or eight years ago, compared to happening today, maybe dealt with differently based on the way that online harassment and griefing has changed over the years. Elsy confirms that CCP has a zero tolerance policy towards threats that it perceives as not within the context of the game. It remains a contentious issue, with many players finding creative ways to ignore the fact that Gigx openly tried to doxx The Judge in addition to physically threatening him.

Others feel that a permanent ban is too harsh or that Gigx was deliberately trolled into lashing out. In that moment, 14 years were deleted from me, but I definitely deserve a punishment for what I said.

Give me a break, I need a break from the game. But don't just take it away from me forever. It's an easy plea to sympathize with. Gigx was obviously under incredible duress as he watched his virtual empire burn. He even issued a public apology to The Judge and his fellow alliance members a day later. But The Judge isn't convinced that Gigx is truly sorry. To him, it's just another day living with an unhinged egomaniac. He sent me messages privately on Discord.

And when he was banned on the stream, that's when it hit him. Once his guys found out he was banned, everyone was just like, just apologize and they'll lower it. That's why his apology is out there, he just wants to be unbanned.

People aren't mentioning that in the articles, but obviously that has to play into why they would [permanently ban] him. It's not just that he did it on a stream in from on 2, people. Still, that hasn't stopped the EVE subreddit from featuring memes and posts to unban him in the weeks that followed. They're zealots for Gigx.

They're so sure he can't do anything wrong,' The Judge argues. Understanding the full implications of what happened on September 11 will likely take years. But Circle-of-Two is almost certainly finished. Four thousand members have exited the alliance in the past week, leaving it a husk. What's worse, it will be impossible to ever reclaim what was lost. In EVE, resources that were stored inside a citadel can be recovered from a secret location in the event the citadel is destroyed or taken over.

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