CCP Announce Planet Mining In New EVE Online: Tyrannis

The game developer CCP has announced the new expansion of EVE Online. This version goes by the name Tyrannis and will include planet mining. In Dominion they gave all the planets a facelift, created beautiful landscapes, burning lava fields, dry deserts and Ewok-like green forests. I thought that was just going to be eye candy to get away from your space ship and get a change of scenery, but thank god that I was wrong. In the new expansion Tyrannis you will be able to build infrastructure and harvest minerals and other goodies from the planets.

This is what CCP had to say on their dev blog:

OMG did you say all of the planets!?

That‘s right, you will finally be able to survey for juicy deposits of minerals and other goodies, build infrastructure to harvest them, store them, process them and launch them into space. Build complex networks of facilities and fine tune them for optimal production. All in a very massive single shard sandboxy way as only EVE can provide. And it‘s not just the terran planets. It‘s ALL OF THEM. The gas giants, the lava planets, the ice worlds, the water worlds and even the elusive plasma planets. Each type with their unique properties. Maintaining facilities on gruesomely hostile planets will be tougher and more demanding, but the rewards may be so much more “onturning.”

More will be revealed in upcoming blogs and on our test server, Singularity. Make note however that Singularity is a test server, primarily intended for testing of code in development and nothing is final until it hits Tranquility. All graphics, UI, balancing and mechanics are subject to change, iteration and polish…

Is there combat on planets?

No, not in this expansion. This expansion is about exploration and industry. When something goes bad or breaks it is because of the owner‘s mismanagement, and when things are awesome and perfect, it is because of skill and hard labor on part of the player that runs the facilities.

In future expansions you will be able to project military force for attack and defense of planetary installations. That will be where DUST 514 will connect with EVE. But DUST 514 will not be coming out at the same time as Tyrannis, so that is at a later date.

They are also launching a new web frontend communication service called EVE Gate. Along with a Mail, Calendar and Contact service. Read more