This year's PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted included a new trailer for EVE Frontier , CCP Games' upcoming survival-focused spinoff to the long-running EVE Online. The new space sim is promising an oppressive atmosphere, more granular combat, and punishing survival elements, all built on a blockchain-based framework that actually, as difficult as it is to believe, seems to add to the experience⁠—just don't call it a "blockchain game," its developers insist. Blockchain is involved, sure, but it's more about the fact that it is distributed and not centralized. With all the hoopla around AI, it's easy to forget that just a scant two years ago, NFTs and crypto were an unstoppable, overheated leviathan threatening to remake gaming with new forms of microtransactions and promises of an interoperable Fortnite-ification of all games. Those buzzwords have firmly landed on the "what's not" list since right alongside the metaverse, but EVE Online studio CCP Games is still working on a blockchain-based game (notably, there are no NFTs in sight). After seeing what the EVE Frontier team is working on and hearing the developers' vision for the game, I was persuaded that this sister game actually justifies its use of the tech. The most compelling argument I heard from CCP, and something that distinguishes EVE Frontier from every half-baked MMO project I saw at the height of crypto-mania, is that the blockchain stuff is meant to be in service to the game Frontier is trying to be and not the other way around. "When we were building EVE Online, we decided to build it on top of a database. Our choice of a database was hotly contested⁠—at least in this community of people making MMO-like games," said CCP CEO Hilmar Veigar Pétursson. "And never did we really position the game, 'Eve Online: The First Database Game!' And we're not really looking to do that with EVE Frontier either. It is not really a blockchain game, no more than EVE is a database game. "We're just being very explicit about it because it is a hot topic, and we don't want to hide it away. Blockchain is involved, sure, but it's more about the fact that it is distributed and not centralized." The top line is that CCP is using blockchain to make EVE Frontier moddable on the client side without compromising the basic integrity of the MMO. "Using blockchain technology also lets us open up this universe to a layer where other players will be able to modify and co-create this universe with us," said CCP chief blockchain engineer Cheryl Ang. The primary point of contact for this modability will be "Smart Assemblies," valuable space stations that will serve sort of like a survival game home base, but with added complexity. "You can think of it kind of like modding on a traditional game," explained EVE Frontier product manager Scott McCabe. "You can play the original game as it came. You can then start getting truly independent third party mods. And finally you can actually build your own, if you set up all the development environments and really get into the nitty gritty." The biggest gaming news, reviews and hardware deals Keep up to date with the most important stories and the best deals, as picked by the PC Gamer team. McCabe was quick to clarify that you don't need to be an experienced coder to enjoy EVE Frontier or its mods. Just like how a vanguard of modders will spearhead a community of thousands or even millions on the Nexus or ModDB, McCabe and Ang hope to see sharing and trading of mods and coding expertise among Frontier's community. Some players programmed a Smart Assembly to automatically host king of the hill-style PvP tournaments, dispensing rewards to the victors. Others turned Smart Assemblies into vendors and even simple NPC questgivers. McCabe and Ang explained that the blockchain underpins something CCP calls "digital physics"—immutable rules in EVE Frontier that will limit what modders can create, ensuring that they can transform the game, but never "break" it. McCabe explained to me that you won't be able to cheat with Smart Assemblies, for example⁠—no infinite ammo and fuel, or cranking up your speed and damage beyond the impossible. What CCP's proposing with Eve Frontier⁠—client-side modding of a live multiplayer game without compromising the basic integrity of the experience⁠—doesn't sound like anything I've seen before in a game. I don't know how feasible it would have been to build it using tech with less controversy, name recognition, and investor interest than blockchain, but McCabe intimated that part of the motivation was to use blockchain's decentralization to eventually defer EVE Frontier's governance entirely to its players instead of CCP, and even ensure the game's continued operation in the event of CCP's dissolution. A move that impressed me on that front is CCP's plan to make the Carbon engine⁠—which powers both EVE Online and EVE Frontier⁠—open source. I find that to be more evidence of EVE Frontier being a genuine game design experiment rather than a belated passenger on the crypto hype train, though in-game transactions⁠—including the purchase of new ships⁠—will be done with a crypto wallet set up in character creation rather than EVE Online's ISK in-game currency. Some of what has already been done in EVE Frontier's playtests call to mind EVE Online's long and legendary history of emergent shenanigans. Some players programmed a Smart Assembly to automatically host king of the hill-style PvP tournaments, dispensing rewards to the victors. Others turned Smart Assemblies into vendors and even simple NPC questgivers for other players. Since players have to build and maintain their own warp gates in the sparsely-populated Frontier, CCP observed players weaponizing warp gate control against enemy factions. Scary Space The combat and exploration of EVE Frontier are similar to EVE Online at first glance. You control a single ship from a zoomed out, overhead⁠—at least as much as you can be "overhead" in space⁠—perspective, as opposed to the first-person cockpit of Elite Dangerous or third-person rear view in something like Starfield. "The action's a little bit faster, more decisions that you have to make in the heat of the moment with imperfect information, and that will lead to some emergent gameplay," McCabe said of EVE Frontier's moment-to-moment combat. The new game will introduce line of sight and cover, meaning that stealth, surprise, and positioning will be critical in a way they never were in the original EVE. "You might not know what's behind the next rock, you might not know who is waiting for you, or perhaps how many reinforcements they have when you're setting your trap," explained McCabe, and that tension will only be heightened by EVE Frontier's more limited resources compared to EVE Online, where the loss of a ship can already be a devastating financial proposition⁠—McCabe suggested that these complications resulted in an experience that "bordered on survival horror." McCabe also hopes this will make EVE Frontier feel like a larger, more dangerous universe, reminding me of the way the beginning of a game of Civilization can feel so vast, threatening, and full of infinite potential, versus a Civ late game fully explored and settled map, represented by EVE Online. "You can't just perpetually fly around forever without eventually running out of energy. You will need to stop and do something. That makes the universe feel substantially bigger than infinite free travel." EVE Frontier sounds like a fascinating, unique space sim that makes a genuinely worthwhile use of crypto-derived technology I had basically written off. If nothing else, CCP's extensive experience with operating a digital economy that long preceded crypto commands a certain benefit of the doubt, as does its commitment to the project well after the gold rush already ended. If you're interested in EVE Frontier, you can go to the game's official website to purchase a founder's pack and participate in ongoing playtests.NoneNonejili macau super ace 。

Bob Nightengale of USA Today reported that the White Sox would love to trade Luis Robert Jr. , so could the Yankees be a potential suitor? While the Juan Soto sweepstakes rage on, the scenario where the team fails to retain the star outfielder looms, and deep down you have to imagine that Brian Cashman and his team have thought of ways to successfully pivot to acquire someone else. It would make sense on paper to acquire Robert via trade, he’s an inexpensive player who oozes upside, but his play this past season leads me to think it would be a disaster. With an 84 wRC+ and regressing defensive abilities, the injury-prone outfielder looks completely lost at the plate and the slew of injuries he’s dealt with haven’t gone away either. If the Yankees had to replace Juan Soto, trading for Luis Robert Jr. would be the wrong route to go down. Why Luis Robert Jr. Is A Poor Fit For the Yankees Once considered an elite player who could contend for multiple MVP awards, Luis Robert Jr. has struggled to live up to the high expectations placed on him as a rookie. Dubbed “La Pantera”, the 27-year-old outfielder burst onto the scene after putting up a 155 wRC+ with 13 home runs in 68 games for the 2021 White Sox, playing elite defense with a 3.5 fWAR and looking like a star in the making. While 2022 wouldn’t be the year he hoped for, a 111 wRC+ and 2.2 fWAR in 98 games is far from bottoming out, and in 2023 we saw the star outfielder put it all together for a full season. He played a career-high 145 games with a 128 wRC+, 38 home runs, 13 Outs Above Average, and a 4.9 fWAR as we began to see his star shine brighter than it ever had before in the big leagues. That ascent quickly turned into a career-worst year in 2024, where he posted a putrid .278 OBP and hit just 14 home runs across 100 games, but there were greater concerns than just his poor play at the plate. He accumulated 1 OAA across 827.2 innings in centerfield, the lowest he’s had in a single season as a Major Leaguer, and while defense isn’t as sticky year-to-year as offense, this still displays some alarming trends. Furthermore, the White Sox would have every right to ask for the moon in return, as they’ve held off on trading the star outfielder before and may hold off on doing so this winter as well. Luis Robert Jr. is under control for up to three seasons after 2024, and the Yankees would have to headline their trade offer with someone like Jasson Dominguez to land his services. While trading away a top prospect for a player with superstar upside isn’t the worst idea in the world, would the Yankees be best taking such a drastic gamble of trading Dominguez away? For the right player, anyone should be available, but Luis Robert Jr. doesn’t strike me as the kind of player who would entice them to move off of their top prospect. Perhaps someone with a more proven track record or with greater upside could better serve as a potential option for trading away Jasson Dominguez, someone like Garrett Crochet. Granted, the bevy of suitors with better farm systems would likely remove the Yankees from any bidding war, but Robert Jr. wouldn’t be that kind of addition. Not only is he probably not worth obliterating the farm system for at this point, but he’s also not the kind of player who can reasonably replace Juan Soto’s production or even come close to it: These two players don’t belong in the same sentence, much less the same tier, and Juan Soto is a year younger than Luis Robert Jr. as well. While the Yankees would have a lesser financial burden in this scenario, it’s not as if the Yankees are paying pennies on the dollar either. Since the CBA changed the way that the Luxury Tax is affected when you acquire a player via trade, Luis Robert Jr. would have the Luxury Tax hit of the AAV of the money remaining on his deal. Owed $15 million this season with two club options at $20 million a year, the Yankees would be looking at a $15 million hit to the Luxury Tax this year and two $20 million hits for the 2026 and 2027 seasons. If he plays like a superstar its a bargain, but if he’s an injury-prone player who doesn’t accumulate more than 2-3 WAR in a single season, then he’s being paid right around his market value on top of requiring a massive prospect commitment. The moral of the story? Sign Juan Soto. Don’t make your life difficult Yankees. This article first appeared on Empire Sports Media and was syndicated with permission.

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