FAQ
About EVE Frontier
What is EVE frontier
An in-development Space Survival MMO for PC and Mac. The galaxy of EVE Frontier is a sandbox shaped by player-driven activity. From player-made factions, to bases, private economies and the stargate network itself, CCP is giving players the tools to create the ultimate living game world. With third-person spaceship gameplay, awareness over your surroundings, as well as tactical mastery, is crucial: explore, mine, build and fight to survive the ever-constant dangers of the Frontier and re-civilize its remains.
What genre is it?
EVE Frontier is a Space Survival MMO.
When will it be released?
EVE Frontier is currently accessed through Founder Access, allowing players to experience the game as it continues development.
What's the gameplay?
You are a Rider - a cloned body reawakened by the Keeper and sent into the Frontier in the hopes of reigniting the spark of civilization. Your clone body interfaces with your vessel - one of any number of spaceships built by other players or yourself - in order to access full control over your ship's various systems. Starting from a basic shuttle and advancing up through more and more complex and technical vessels, your goal remains the same - survive, thrive, and expand the reach of man across the galaxy. Players will crack open asteroids and extract valuable minerals, engage waves of strange and aggressive Feral Drones, or fight off other players looking to capitalize on the weakness of others. Build and live out of your own base, link that base up with others to create villages, towns, and cities in space. Craft extensive manufacturing arrays, build up your defenses, harness feral AI and accumulate power. Explore the stars, search for strange new locales, rediscover ancient and forgotten histories - your opportunities are limited only by your imagination.
How does Fuel work?
Fuel is a derivative product of Crude Matter, a strange substance that leaks through rifts in the universe. Collect crude matter using special mining lenses, refine that crude matter into fuel, and then use that fuel to power your vessel. Fuel is exhausted as your ship uses energy - normal activity will consume fuel slowly, but more aggressive actions will see a higher rate of fuel use, forcing Riders to make snap decisions of whether to save their fuel and flee, or burn that fuel and fight. Higher quality crude matter results in higher quality fuels, and the manufacture and sale of fuel across the Frontier will be the backbone of many player economies.
How does EVE Frontier have modding?
CCP is building a new kind of survival experience that adds greater depth and meaning to the concept of ‘survival’: not just the survival of individual players, but of the societies and eventual civilization they will build as the game world evolves. EVE Frontier adds a moddable layer to the entire universe: allowing players to not only craft in-game objects but also configure their functionality to their own needs: a feature we call Smart Assemblies. By letting players mod by programming with open-source code, combined with the open-sourcing of our own game engine we want to give players the tools and freedom to evolve a living game world in real-time, shaping its evolution into the far future. Players will be able to use and interact with mods that others have created like any other game - requiring no coding knowledge at all.
What kinds of things can players mod in EVE Frontier?
Smart Assemblies are an open-ended platform allowing players to construct and configure in-game bases and objects to serve their needs. For example, a Smart Storage Unit is a ‘space chest’, holding and dispensing any inventory players choose to load it with (currencies, items etc.). With Smart Assemblies, this structure can be configured as a quest giver, bounty hunter system, or arcade machine through the object's overlay and configurable parameters. Smart Assemblies allow players to mod objects through coding, specifically the Solidity programming language. We are working on tools and UX to make this more accessible, including preset configurable elements for each object (e.g. Smart Turrets having ‘kill on sight’ or ‘attack allies’ presets).
What monetization model will it have?
At launch, EVE Frontier will be free-to-play with an optional subscription available. Pre-launch, EVE Frontier can currently be played through Founder Access, allowing players to play EVE Frontier while it continues development.
Does EVE Frontier have real-money transactions?
EVE Frontier will have two main currencies, EVE Tokens ($EVE: a web3 currency) and LUX (an in-game currency). With an open economy, EVE Frontier will give players the choice to exchange between these currencies and exchange in-game value outside of the game.
Will EVE Frontier have server wipes?
Yes, until the launch of EVE Frontier, the server will receive periodic wipes as we continue development.
System Requirements
OS: MacOS or Windows 10 64-bit
CPU: Dual Core @ 2.0 GHz
RAM: 4 GB or higher
Video: AMD Radeon 5450 or NVIDIA GeForce 420 or better with at least 1024 MB VRAM
CPU: Intel i7-7700 or AMD Ryzen 7 1700 @ 3.6 GHz or greater
RAM: 16 GB or higher
Video: NVIDIA Geforce GTX 1060, AMD Radeon RX 580 or better with at least 4 GB VRAM
Founder Access
What is Founder Access?
Founder Access allows players to have exclusive access to the pre-launch version of EVE Frontier; an always-on live server that will receive continuous updates with new features and content. By acquiring Founder Access, players can play, give feedback and experience the future of EVE Frontier on a 24/7 basis with no restrictions until EVE Frontier launches. Founder Access holders receive additional benefits and rewards, such as name reservation, ship cosmetics, Discord Roles, access to developer streams and more. Once EVE Frontier launches, Founders will be able to use premium subscription time that is included in each Founder Access pack when the game launches as free-to-play with an optional subscription.
What does Founder Access cost?
Founder Access is available at different price points, starting at $39.99. To view Founder Access details visit EVE Frontier Founder Access
Is Founder Access under NDA?
As of 11 June 2025 the NDA has been removed, allowing players to share their experience and gameplay footage publicly.
Technology
What engine does EVE Frontier use?
EVE Frontier is developed on the Carbon Development Platform (CDP). As the development of EVE Frontier continues, so will the open sourcing of the CDP; allowing players to build on top of, and within the game world with our own toolkit.
Does EVE Frontier use blockchain technology?
We use blockchain technology in EVE Frontier’s design and codebase to realize our ambitious vision of a massively moddable, truly player-owned, and persistent game world - giving players more features and unique new ways to engage with the Frontier. Think of it like an MMO as a platform. From player-made factions and bases to private economies and the stargate network itself, CCP is giving players the tools to create the ultimate moddable space MMO. It's entirely up to players how they engage with the in-game economy and certain in-game features, like Smart Assemblies. This ranges from creating and programming their own moddable structures and creating Tribe-owned in-game currencies to trade with, to playing the game entirely free-to-play and acquiring in-game content with regular in-game currency when they like.
How does blockchain evolve our game design?
EVE Frontier adds a moddable layer to the entire universe: allowing players to not only construct in-game objects, but also configure their functionality to their own needs: a feature we call Smart Assemblies. In designing EVE Frontier, we wanted to create a new kind of survival experience that would add greater depth and meaning to the concept of ‘survival’: not just the survival of individual players, but of the societies and eventual civilization they would build together. A collaborative struggle to survive against perpetual darkness. By leaning into the concept of open-source software and distributed development, we are creating a MMO that will allow players to configure their experience in real time, giving them the ingredients and freedom to build on top of an open game world, co-shaping the game’s evolution into the far future.
Will blockchain be an optional part of EVE Frontier?
Blockchain is intrinsic to our design and code: allowing us to create a shared, moddable and permanent universe that all players will inhabit. However: interactions with on-chain elements of the game will be seamless and invisible. We believe that gameplay and game features are what is important over the underlying infrastructure. Acquiring $EVE outside of the game will be entirely optional and players will be able to exchange LUX for $EVE within the in-game currency exchange, like how ISK and PLEX function in EVE Online.
Will EVE Frontier have cryptocurrency?
EVE Frontier will have two main currencies: LUX: an in-game tradeable currency used for in-game transactions. It cannot be traded outside of the game. The EVE Token ($EVE): an on-chain utility token that can be exchanged outside of the game.
How will EVE Frontier go open source?
In time, our aim is to eventually open source the game client and put it into the hands of the Frontier's inhabitants as a decentralized autonomous virtual world.