Talk:Expansions of Eve Online

Why this article should be kept
A summary: In the beginning the expansions were part of the EVE Online article. Eventually the article was nominated as a good article. However, at that time it didn't meet the requirements for a truly good article. The administrator David Fuchs suggested changes that would help EVE Online become a good article - one of them said that "the patches list should be removed entirely". Alatari and me, Aexus, figured that the patches deserved a mention. Since they apparently weren't meant for the main article we decided to move them into this seperate one. Here's where we stand. While this article is not nominated for deletion it may happen. This section is to prepare arguments in case the article is nominated. -- Aexus (talk) 00:44, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

Pros (and counter-arguments to expect)
1. The WoW expansion The Burning Crusade has its own article - why shouldn't EVE Online have one for its expansions?
 * Because WoW has more than nine million players and EVE Online has about 200,000.

2. The contents of this article were a part of the main EVE Online article for months without objection or suggestions they be removed. Alatari (talk) 18:48, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

3. It's much easier to find convenient summary information about the expansions here on Wikipedia than trying to navigate the EVE Online website to collect the same information. It took me 20x as long to load the EVE home page, and that was before I even began looking for the information. For the purpose it serves, this page is a definite boon to users. Jogar2 (talk) 20:45, 13 December 2009 (UTC)

Cons (and how to tackle them)

 * Anarchy Online doesn't have a seperate article for it's expansions either.
 * Yeah, and is Anarchy Online a good article? See...


 * To address the point EVE Online's playerbase: whether it has nine players or nine million, that an article exists for the expansions of one game is precedent for allowing those of other games; either we keep both articles on that basis, or we remove both articles (and those for any other game's expansions) using the above criteria. It should also be noted that most of the justifications listed for removing the page are entirely subjective and non-encyclopedic. 207.6.127.98 (talk) 03:18, 5 September 2014 (UTC)
 * See WP:OTHERCRAPEXISTS... Keri (talk) 17:48, 16 May 2016 (UTC)

Images
While I'm at it, perhaps we should look at adding some images here to illustrate what was new with various patches? cncplyr (talk) 01:02, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

-- Aexus (talk) 07:57, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
 * For a Trinity Classic/Premium comparison that might be a real option. Though for the expansions before Trinity I don't see how to demonstrate new features without overloading this relatively short article with images. A Trinity before/after screenshot might be real cool.

Goztek (talk) 13:10, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
 * You mean something like This?

-- Aexus (talk) 20:18, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Yeah, that's an image I had in mind. Though especially this image is the largest version I've found of the Osprey comparison. I think once upon a time someone captured it from one of the promotion videos CCP has published. I've found two other possible sources for comparison images. One is a video by CCP that you can download here. It has a resolution of 1200 x 480 pixels and allows e.g. for this image of a Prophecy and this image of a Vexor. The second source is a Flickr photo set on CrazyKinux' Flickr page here. I've put four of his pictures together: a comparison of the Abaddon, Apocalypse and two images of the Scorpion. But while CrazyKinux' images make for higher-quality comparisons the camera's angle isn't always the same. Anyway, from a resolution point of view both the captures from the video and the Photoshop'ed images from CrazyKinux' photo set are what I could imagine for this article. What do you guys say?

Goztek (talk) 11:12, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Personally, I think the Prophecy one or the Vexor one should be used, with a slight preference for the Vexor, partly because it has changed quite a bit from the old model, with the gold-coloured plating being replaced with a more bluey-grey all over colour, and some of the lights moved around etc. For all of the photoshopped pics, I feel they are a bit too wide, so I'd go for the Vexor pic to go in the article.


 * The zip file CCP distributed with the screen shots doesn't contain those ships, it has: abaddon, apocalypse, executioner, impairor, megathron, and scorpion. I created one with the scorp, which has very similar camera angle. — raeky ( talk 19:09, 3 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Appreciate this topic is 8 years old now, but the page has been getting some love from me and others recently. It's now rather long and could really do with some small images to break up the wall of text. I would like to use the Eve Citadel Promotional picture from the Eve Online Press Kit (https://www.dropbox.com/sh/kl269v1dsdqmr54/AACKbVcGLULHaKpGU_vMGZUya/EVE%20Online%20-%20Citadel%20(SPRING%202016)/EVE%20Online%20Citadel%20Keyart?dl=0&preview=EVE+Online+Citadel+Keyart+2560x1440%2BLogo.png) however the wikimedia legal requirements leave me totally confused! --Ischloear (talk) 13:12, 3 May 2016 (UTC)

Project COSMOS
As far as I know, the original codename for the social networtk for EVE Online was COSMOS and not vice versa. http://www.eveonline.com/devblog.asp?a=blog&bid=733 Wendelin (talk) 19:30, 22 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Pretty sure it was originally described as COSMOS but it was considered to confusing with past elements in the game that shared that name, has gone through a couple different names and the current and final name is EVE Gate. — raeky ( talk 21:18, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

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Proposed Addition : Add Uprising Expansion details
Disclosing that I am an employee of CCP Games the developers of EVE Online.

I'd like to suggest an addition to this page - specifically the addition of another EVE Online expansion that was just released on November 8, 2022.

Uprising
Release date: November 8, 2022. Uprising saw a return to the expansion release format from CCP Games. Since early 2020 they had changed from expansions to releases each quadrant (4 per year). The launch of Uprising saw the culmination of a lore focused story centered around the four major Non-Player Character (NPC) factions within the game. In the weeks preceding Uprising launch the relationship between the factions became more and more tense with as each faction pursued new volatile technologies. The pursuit of these untested technologies came to a head with the Amarr empire causing the destabilizing of the sun in the Turnur solar system. On the day of Uprisings launch this story arc continued with the invasion of Caldari owned systems by the Gallente Federation. In terms of added gameplay, the expansion introduced new ways for players to display their affiliation with Alliance and Corporation hologram emblems added to ships hulls. An update to the visuals of hangars within Upwell structures allowed players to view their collection of ships. An additional 16 new ships were added in the form of navy variants to existing frigate, destroyer, battlecruiser and dreadnaught hulls. Most significant to the expansion was perhaps the updates to the Factional Warfare system which allowed players to enroll and fight on behalf of the NPC factions. Players were also offered 7 day Omega game time for free as well as the ability to retroactively recruit their friends into the game for rewards including PLEX, Omega game time, Boosters and ship blueprints. CCP Arcade (talk) 11:48, 11 November 2022 (UTC)