After many months of activity under the name Project AwakeningGame developer CCP Games has finally revealed EVE Frontierits open source, blockchain-based game within EVE Online universe.
As described in the white paper, EVE Frontier is described as a “crowd-built virtual world and player-driven sandbox” based on “cryptographic techniques and blockchain technology,” including an Ethereum-based L2 ecosystem.
Basically, this means that CCP Games establishes the formal rules that will underpin the universe – and which will be fixed and immutable; unchangeable even by CCP – while it will be the players and other developers who will build on these rules of “digital physics” by providing their own tools and content.
In this way, CCP hopes that players will gain “recognition, ownership and freedom over their own creative efforts” in a universe that will be autonomous, persistent and “outlive us all.”
As for the blockchain elements, there will be the virtual currency LUX in the game, which is similar to the ISK currently in EVE Online. It will be limited to transactions within the running server technology. EVE Frontierwhile EVE Token will be the cryptographic token that can be traded in and out of the game, and can also be used for governance purposes to control the future of the game. Of course, players will also be able to create their own tokens in the game.
In terms of governance, players will group together to form tribes, which will consist of hundreds of players. Tribes can then group together by the hundreds and thousands to form unions.
The white paper has much more detail and is worth reading.
It should also be noted that EVE Frontier will continue its series of closed playtests, with the next one taking place on Friday, September 27th.
You can register for more details on the EVE Frontier website.
