FAQ
About the game
What is EVE frontier
EVE Frontier is a space survival simulation defined by freedom and consequence. You awake from stasis as the last relic of humanity from a lost age. Civilization has decayed in the ruin of its ambition, feral drone swarms scour its wastes, and survivors fight to gain control over its resources. In the shadow of the Trinary, who will you become?
What genre is EVE Frontier?
EVE Frontier is an online space survival game with an open and persistent sandbox. It focuses on self-reliance, tactical and emergent gameplay, and third-party development.
Is EVE Frontier, Project Awakening?
Yes.
Tech Stack
What engine does EVE Frontier use?
EVE Frontier is developed on the Carbon engine, which we recently committed to making open source. As the development of EVE Frontier continues, so will the open sourcing of Carbon; allowing players to program on top of, and within the game world with our own toolkit. EVE Frontier also utilizes MUD and Redstone, an L2 blockchain designed for permissionless and open software.
Does EVE Frontier use blockchain technology?
Yes: players can edit aspects of the game world and server in real-time; giving the community the power to add their own functionality to the game through Smart Assemblies, a feature that lets players program infrastructure they deploy into space. Smart Assemblies utilizes MUD, a framework for building on-chain applications: MUD | Framework and Redstone, a L2 blockchain designed for permissionless, open software: Redstone | Cost-effective chain for MUD apps, games, and worlds. Combined with Carbon, these tools are at the foundation of our persistent and programmable game server at universe-scale: one server, one universe, evolving through players forever. In addition, the economy of EVE Frontier is an open environment: all and any transactions are allowed, using in-game currency built on token standards. These solutions are environmentally friendly: all technology used to develop and operate EVE Frontier has the same energy consumption as EVE Online’s infrastructure.
Open Sourcing
You mentioned open sourcing, what does that mean for EVE Frontier?
In creating EVE Frontier we wanted to make a new type of survival game: testing not just the individual survival of players, but the survival of civilization itself within a sandbox simulation. By letting players program with and access an open environment, combined with the open-sourcing of our own development platform, we will give them both the ingredients and freedom to shape and recivilize the world as they see fit: a moddable layer to the entire universe and single-shard server itself. Players will currently interact with this layer through Smart Assembles: infrastructure constructed in space that can be programmed.
Smart Assemblies
What can players construct with Smart Assemblies?
Players can construct infrastructure such as storage facilities, trading posts, defenses and more. Think of it as enhanced base-building. Through each structure having a programmable layer, EVE Frontier allows for greater moddability and player expression on top of each "base item". Constructing infrastructure and deploying it on the Frontier does not require it to be programmed. For example, a Smart Storage Unit (SSU) is a structure anchored in space, which acts as smart storage, holding and dispensing any form of inventory players choose to load it with (currencies, items etc.). With Smart Assemblies, this structure can be coded to serve as a marketplace, a quest giver, a bounty hunter system, an arcade machine etc. The programmable interface can be coded to be anything that results in an in-game output relevant to each piece of infrastructure.
How can players program through Smart Assemblies?
EVE Frontier is developed on the Carbon engine, which we recently committed to making open source. As the development of EVE Frontier continues, so will the open sourcing of Carbon; allowing players to program on top of, and within the game world with our own The programmable interface of in-game infrastructure is manipulated through coding, specifically the open-source Solidity programming language: Home | Solidity Programming Language. Using Solidity, players can code functionality through smart-contracts (on-chain code) and connect infrastructure to decentralized applications (DApps): programs through which you can modify how that infrastructure functions and behaves.. EVE Frontier also utilizes MUD and Redstone, an L2 blockchain designed for permissionless and open software.
Does EVE Frontier have real-money transactions (RMT)?
In EVE Frontier's sandbox, you own your items and all transactions between players are permitted. CCP Games will not prohibit transactions outside of, and inside of the game. Players will be able to turn assets (ships, items, resources), their services (e.g. providing bodyguard services to a fellow player, maintaining third-party development environments) and their reputation (as a renowned player, my members pay me to lead their alliance) into real-world value through the in-game economy and in-game currencies.
Will EVE Frontier have cryptocurrency?
In EVE Frontier, you own your items and all transactions between players are permitted. CCP Games will not prohibit transactions outside of, and inside of the game. To support this, EVE Frontier will have a range of in-game currencies available, all of which are built on ERC-20 token standards. EVE Token: a utility token that can be exchanged as a means of external value. The EVE Token will exist in a test environment until it has undergone rigorous testing and meets our standards for game & economy design, usage, performance, security and transaction speed. LUX: used only for in-game transactions. For example, LUX can be used to purchase items from in-game markets, to acquire station services, used for trades between players etc. These enable: - The ability to trade currency and therefore in-game value outside of EVE Frontier. - The de-incentivizing of secondary markets. - The ability for players to create, exchange and use their own currencies (for example alliance-specific currency) with the same utility. - A means to reward and support the builders of programmed infrastructure (Smart Assemblies) and the operation of its maintenance (e.g. maintaining external development environments).
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