EVE Online's Citadel Expansion Launches, TV Show In The Works

Citadel, what is perhaps EVE Online's largest and most anticipated expansion in quite some time, has finally arrived. Players can now make their own "gargantuan" space cities, complete with super-capital ship docking and defensive platforms. They can be placed nearly anywhere, allowing placement the chance to truly matter. Citadels vary in cost wildly, from cheap to expensive to the "special Palatine version of the Keepstar" that the game will only allow one of. Fortunately for you, you can always attempt to capture it, but citadels can be outfitted with superweapons, making the task harder than it may initially seem.

A number of changes have come to EVE's "capital and supercapital warfare." New superweapons and "anti-subcapital guns" have been introduced. The roles of both capital and supercapital ships have been "reimagined." New fighter squadrons have been added. Over 100 modules and a whole new class of Force Auxiliary hulls—starting with four hulls—have also made it into the update. New billboards provide a place for "player-made advertisements." Capital ship NPCs can now be found and fought. A new "tethering" mechanic will protect friendlies around "the edges of citadels." Hangars have been altered in order to be able to hold the "kilometers-long capital ships."

You can find the full Citadel patch notes here.

Additionally, CCP CEO Hilmar Veigar Pétursson told Wired that the company is currently working with Ridley Scott on a TV series. The quotes are as follows.

We're actually exploring that with Ridley Scott's production company and Baltasar Kormákur, an Icelandic director. We're actively working on that. I think we have some traction on it.

It's a very big idea obviously – doing a television series is something that takes years to get going. I think House of Cards took around seven years to get going.

I think the world and events of EVE Online could, in many ways, be constructed into a TV series just like Andrew Groen has taken the history and structured Empires of EVE.

I think there's a huge opportunity to bring EVE Online's stories that have already happened into something like a television series. [Not] a movie – EVE is the size of Game of Thrones, and you couldn't make a movie about Game of Thrones, it's just way too big. EVE Online is at that scale, so I think a TV series is something that makes sense.

I have often read that people find EVE more entertaining to read about than to play. A TV series might end up being the perfect way to capitalize on that.