EVE Online engineers a patch full of quality-of-life improvements

Maybe it’s a sign of age or maturity as a video gamer when you start to rejoice over less flashy “quality of life” patches. New features and content is all well and good, but taking something broken and fixing it or making a decent thing way better can completely change your outlook on a game.

EVE Online has such a patch in the works for August 15th, but it’s not waiting until then to talk about it. Among the QoL tweaks coming with the update are improvements to the beta starmap and a much more user-friendly scanner system.

The team’s also developing new interface that will more clearly explain how standings with various NPCs will unlock specific content: “NPC standings are an important part of EVE. They govern which missions you can do, your ability to join faction warfare, and when you will be attacked in NPC controlled parts of space to name a few. With this in mind, we’ve been working on a way to show you when these things either become available to you or when you will lose access to them.”