EVE is a community-driven massively multiplayer online (MMO) game, set in a world of galactic proportions. This online universe is governed by a hyper-capitalistic economy where space flight is the path to all commerce, communication, and conflict. Your mission is to establish yourself as a major competitor, trusted by your friends, feared by your enemies. To accomplish this, your principle tools -- apart from an impressive array of sophisticated equipment, customizable space ships and in-game corporations -- will be your natural business acumen, social skills, Machiavellian thinking and cunning combat strategies.

Set tens of thousands of years in the future, EVE Online is a breathtaking journey to the stars, to an immersive experience filled with adventure, riches, danger and glory. With nearly a quarter of a million subscribers worldwide inhabiting the same virtual universe, EVE features a vast player-run economy where your greatest asset is the starship, designed to accommodate your specific needs, skills and ambitions. EVE offers professions ranging from commodities trader to mercenary, industrial entrepreneur to pirate, mining engineer to battle fleet commander or any combination of these and much more. From brokering business deals to waging war, you will have access to a diverse array of sophisticated tools and interfaces to forge your own destiny in EVE.

CCP Games announced updates to EVE Online as part of EVE Evolved, its long-term initiative to modernize its iconic sci-fi MMO through meaningful, player-focused improvements.

With the release of Aura Guidance, an in-development AI-powered assistance feature to help rookie capsuleers navigate EVE Online’s famously deep sandbox, CCP Games takes another step towards making New Eden more accessible.

Starting as an early prototype in ongoing development, Aura Guidance will initially be introduced through a controlled A/B test to evaluate its impact. New players creating their first character will be randomly assigned to either a group with access to the new companion or to a control group experiencing the standard onboarding process, ensuring the feature is refined through real capsuleer journeys from day one.

Aura Guidance Overview:

• Aura Guidance is an in-development chat tool designed to help new pilots find their footing without reliance on external resources. It is currently a prototype and will be iterated on over time as CCP Games collects data on how players use it. The results will determine what to keep, what to discard, what to improve, and where to go next.
• Built using insights from more than 5.8 million messages sent in the Rookie Help channel across nine months, Aura Guidance is an AI-powered system trained on real questions and answers from EVE Online players. In its current early release state, the chat tool is focused on aiding new players to build foundational knowledge during their early experience in New Eden.
• Responses are informed by in-game context, including where a pilot is and what they are flying. When the system cannot find a confident match, it redirects players to Rookie Help, ensuring guidance remains accurate and community-driven.
• Aura Guidance reflects CCP Games’ vision for Aura: a responsible AI companion designed to assist newcomers through their first steps in New Eden, while strengthening the tradition of capsuleers helping one another that has long defined EVE’s new player experience.

“The next step for EVE Evolved continues our long-term commitment to EVE Forever with relentless innovation and enhancements to EVE Online’s systems. Aura Guidance is an opportunity to drastically improve the way players find information and reduce friction for new capsuleers taking their first jumps into New Eden,” said Bergur Finnbogason, Creative Director at CCP Games. “Players submitted over 5.8 million Rookie Help messages in just the nine months we analyzed. That’s an impossible amount of content to navigate when you’re trying to answer a single question. We built Aura Guidance to make that process easier, enabling capsuleers to get fast, accurate answers drawn from the generations of rookies and veterans who helped them navigate EVE’s complexities."

“First and foremost, Aura Guidance is not generative AI and does not produce game content, create art, or replace creative work. Aura Guidance has been carefully designed by our team and is grounded in existing player support data to supplement Rookie Chat, not supersede it,” said Snorri Árnason, Executive Producer at CCP Games. “We are building this tool to make EVE Online’s depth and intricacy more welcoming for aspiring capsuleers who want to join our community of passionate players. We remain committed to EVE Forever, and to make that vision a reality, we are dedicated to ensuring our game is approachable to current and future players."