Abstract

With 22 years of learning and data from our pioneering space-based MMO, EVE Online, we are embarking on the journey to build a true “forever game” within a persistent virtual world. A world that will outlast some sovereign nations. A universe that is truly built and owned by its inhabitants.

We present EVE Frontier, a crowd-built virtual world and player-driven sandbox designed with blockchain at its core. EVE Frontier builds upon and extends the success of various virtual worlds that have come before it, particularly EVE Online. It is a space survival simulation where inhabitants will find themselves awakened within a shattered region of space, warped by the presence of three supermassive black holes gravitationally bound in a macabre dance. It is a place where civilization has risen up and fallen. Rogue AI infests its depths, corrupting and consuming the remnants of what still stands.

To achieve this vision, EVE Frontier has embraced blockchain architecture to overcome many of the challenges that a more traditional tech stack posed. The universe of EVE Frontier is built upon technically robust foundations, rooted in immutable rules that govern its physics and behavior. Our vision is that EVE Frontier will be in players’ hands, allowing them to modify aspects of a single-shard server at runtime. In tandem with its open design, it will offer an evolved, co-created sandbox through open third-party development and tooling, giving participants recognition, ownership, and freedom over their creative efforts.

As one part of this approach, EVE Frontier will deploy the $EVE token on Sui. The token will be used to purchase Crude Mining Lenses, a crucial item required to extract Crude Matter from Rifts. This raw material is refined into high-efficiency Crude-based Fuels that power advanced ships, keep stations online, or enable further resource mining.

As players take a greater role in the evolution and growth of EVE Frontier, the amalgamation of this creativity will result in self-organizing societies and, ultimately, civilization. The keys to its universe will be handed over to its inhabitants, allowing them to shape, define, and expand this virtual world. The future of the Frontier depends on the players rebuilding and modding their way out of the relentless hellscape that is EVE Frontier to build a new civilization.