FAQ
About EVE Frontier
What is EVE frontier
EVE Frontier is a space survival simulation, an online multiplayer survival sandbox where 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 it?
EVE Frontier is an online multiplayer space survival game with an open and persistent sandbox and third-person tactical space combat.
When will it be released?
EVE Frontier will enter Closed Alpha on 10 December 2024. To access the Closed Alpha and further pre-launch development phases, players can acquire Founder Access, giving them the ability to play on a live server that will be continuously updated till launch and beyond.
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 be played through a one-time fee or free trial as it continues development through Founder Access, beginning with Closed Alpha.
Does it have real-money transactions?
In EVE Frontier's open sandbox, you will own your items and all transactions between players will be 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 Tribe) into real-world value through the in-game economy and in-game currencies.
Does it have cryptocurrencies?
As part of EVE Frontier's open sandbox economy, players will be able to create their own private markets, sub-economies and currencies. To support this EVE Frontier will have two official in-game currencies, built on ERC-20 Token standards: EVE Token: a utility token that will 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. Test Tokens featured in pre-launch development phases will be wiped and will not convert to TGE Tokens at the 1.0 launch of EVE Frontier. 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 Tribe currency) with the same utility through the same tech stack. - A way to reward and support the builders who design Smart Assemblies utility (and maintain external environments for it) and for those who contribute to the wider game world.
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, starting with Closed Alpha and including subsequent development phases. By purchasing Founder Access, players will be able to 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 will also 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 with a variety of Founder Access packs available, starting at $29.99. A free tier of Founder Access is also acquirable.
What is included in Founder Access?
Founder Access packs offer a variety of different contents and rewards: - Pre-Launch access to EVE Frontier - Post-Launch Premium Subscription time - Name Reservation - Cosmetics - Discord Roles - Access to CCP Games Developer Streams - Future Rewards
Will Founder Access be under NDA?
Yes, players in Founder Access will be subject to a Non-Disclosure Agreement as EVE Frontier enters Closed Alpha on 10 December. This means that while players can access the game, they cannot share gameplay publicly. We aim to lift NDAs in the future when we move out of Closed Alpha and as we continue to harden the core experience of our space survival simulation.
When does Founder Access start?
Founder Access will launch on Tuesday 10 December 2024 with the start of Closed Alpha. Founder Access packs are on sale from Thursday 5 December 2024.
Will the pre-launch server receive wipes?
Yes, until the launch of EVE Frontier, the pre-launch server will receive periodic wipes as we continue development. This means that game characters, character data, or any other value or status indicators achieved through gameplay during Founder Access may be erased, and such data will not be exported into EVE Frontier at it’s 1.0 launch.
Tech Stack
What engine does EVE Frontier use?
EVE Frontier is developed on the Carbon engine, CCP Games' proprietary game engine that is currently being open sourced. 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 uses MUD and Redstone, an L2 blockchain designed for permissionless and open software.
Does EVE Frontier use blockchain technology?
As an open environment, players can edit components of the game world and game server in real-time; giving the community the power to add their own functionality through Smart Assemblies, a feature that lets players program and configure in-game components and structures. 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, EVE Frontier features a player-driven, open economic sandbox using cryptographic standards. Create your own currencies, establish markets, and trade assets, services, and reputation for real-world value in a truly unrestricted environment. All technology used to develop EVE Frontier is environmentally friendly.
Open Sourcing
How will EVE Frontier go open source?
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 modify 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 galaxy of the Frontier and game server itself. 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 decentralised autonomous virtual world.
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 Smart Assemblies infrastructure?
The programmable layer of in-game infrastructure is configured through coding, through the Solidity programming language (https://soliditylang.org/) and MUD (https://mud.dev) Using Solidity and MUD, players can code functionality through smart-contracts (on-chain code) and connect infrastructure to decentralized applications (DApps): programs through which you can modify how each piece of infrastructure functions and behaves. For example: - Smart Turrets can be configured to only attack non-Tribes, or specific players. - Smart Gates can only allow the travel of certain players or players who possess certain items, or who have completed specific objectives.
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