Greetings spacefriends!
Welcome to another Community Beat, your source for, and a highlight of, some of the kickass content you create that we get to share with you all, and oh my have you all been busy, we’ve got a PACKED beat for you today. We’re back from another phenomenal Fanfest - On behalf of the Community Team (and the rest of Fenris), thank you to everyone who came and joined us! We had an incredible time seeing you all and hanging out, both inside and outside Harpa. In fact, the first video to get us started off today comes straight from the Fanfest frontline; however, its potential accuracy leaves a lot in question:
Rate My Setup
Whilst Fanfest had a share of PC’s to play on, there were still a few people in attendance with Laptops, naturally. But one thing that also amuses me is seeing what other devices people play EVE on. In the office here in Reykjavik, we recently managed to get the coffee machines to display a ship spinning whilst they weren't in use. But we also noticed this one recently over on Reddit - playing EVE on a stream deck, with a fold-out keyboard and TRACKPAD mouse. We used to routinely roast/admire FC Swift on the community team for playing EVE with a trackball mouse, but this feels even more next-level.. We'd be curious to know if anyone else has played it on anything strange!
Synthwave Vibes
We were joined by Cpt Armarlio at Fanfest as well, sharing some of their incredible posters (and postcards). There was a kickass Python print up in the silent auction, and now we also see some very synthwavey style posters for the Rifter that we loved the design for in his store!
A few of us in the community team are big fans of retro and the synthwave aesthetic of the oranges/reds that you see in Armarilios image above, but the more common blues/purples - even the Pulse resonates with the very neon/electric pink that's usually associated with the genre. But on that vibe, Powervul recently put out a video highlighting some of the Imperium's incursions across the universe, documenting in fantastic style some of their accomplishments, from STONKS growth and the challenge of mass manufacturing ships to the deployment and destruction of multiple Keepsars.
On the topic of fire, well, technically, giant spheres of plasma, Kae04 toured around the universe a bit and snapped a few shots, including a few extras from Pochven and Zarzakh.
Throwdown in Querious
Just prior to Fanfest, a 2.6T dreadbrawl in Querious hit our radar, or rather, we saw the battle report and those involved, but didn’t have much in the way of details about it. But this video was sent to us, offering the perspective of WOMP pilots in the battle! The editing in the video was fantastic and reminded us of some of the early days of EVE videos, with its choice of backing track, and the inclusion of some of the fleet coms is always entertaining to hear the commands and conversations. OnlyFleets, who were also fighting on WOMP's side during the fight, also recorded their POV, which will be tagged in below.
Of course, no big battle is complete without its selection of meat popsicles being left floating in space. Now, we love collectors as much as the next person. Collecting rare ships, spodblessed mutaplasmid rolls or special edition commodities, sure, these all make sense, but corpses? Well, it's the year 2026, and there’s a collector's website for even those now.. Frozencrypt, for your source of protein delicacies.
CCP Zelus was sent a picture of his corpse being “occupied” in May, and, well, sometimes, you just don’t want to know.
With Cradle of War coming up as well, it felt like highlighting some of the Empire's content was also worthwhile!
For the Minmatar, Komi Valentine is hosting an Art Content event with conditions that are pretty broad to accommodate many types of artists. From writing about Minmatar Architecture, highlighting a famous location within Minmatar space, celebrating the rich history of the Minmatar, or even denigrating the enemies of the Republic. Check out the forum thread for it.
For the Gallente, Alain Colcer highlights the upcoming Federation Day in Dodixie! This time, not even a single day, but rather a whole week of different fleets hosted by various Gallente-supporting groups. Ending with a spectacular pageant, ship customization, and fireworks parade, trivia, and even a poster competition!
For the Amarr, a new website popped up! With running routine fleets in the Amarr/Minmatar warzone, with a timer up on the website, as well as fleet stats, auctions, and suggested fittings and a link to their Discord if you want to get further involved.
Then, finally, the Caldari.
Well.
You guys got Syndicate, that should be enough, stop being greedy.
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