by EVE Online Community Team10:00pm on Saturday 18th July 2026
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Hello spacefriends and welcome to the Community Beat! Let's see how much fun you can have...
FUN Inc/Even Better with Friends is celebrating their 450th Shrinkwrapped roam on 25 July. You're invited to participate in this public PvP fleet setting off from Jita at 18:30 UTC.
If you've never tried PvP before or just want to knock the rust off an NPSI (Not Purple Shoot It) fleet like this is the perfect on-ramp! No commitment beyond joining the fleet and following the fleet commander's orders is necessary, so when you get back to Jita - whether that's in your ship or your pod - you can go back to your normal life in New Eden. Although you might find once you get a taste for fleet combat in EVE you'll be craving more!
Join their in-game channel EBWF Public to find out more. Oh, and check out this sick promo Keacte made:
Make sure to also check out the npsi.rocks calendar which aggregates the schedules of multiple NPSI communities - there are public fleets going out all the time!
Minmatar Fleet Alliance continue to add features to their cool website and dashboard we first showcased a few Beats ago. If you like charts then you might like this! It's a comprehensive report on FL33Ts recent campaign in Etherium Reach, by the numbers!
Ceema has been well known in the community for his prolific and creative posts on the EVE subreddit for some time, but he has recently embarked on a new enterprise - hosting an EVE talk show called This EVE Life. He writes:
The purpose of the Twitch show and podcast is to interview 100 folks from all walks of EVE Life; from nullsec to highsec, from EVE Online to EVE Frontier, by 2027 (if not sooner). There are a thousand stories out there and not all of them get to be heard, so I'm going in search of these tales to present them in the form of interviews with those who lived them as a way to give back to a community that has entertained me for close to 20 years now.
Ceema already has several recordings up over on his Youtube channel, and you can catch new ones as they're recorded on Twitch. A full schedule of upcoming episodes is on the This EVE Life website, with the next one all about the Alliance Tournament with match commentators Rahne and Rose being recorded live on Sunday at 20:00 EVE time so be sure to tune in!
First up let's check out this catch and kill of a very rare Cybele - one of the coveted prize ships from Alliance Tournament XIX. This video from Grunt Kado shows the lead up to and execution of the kill but then goes on to break down the preparation and planning that goes into big game hunting an exotic spaceship like this.
Sticking with Grunt and Strix Ridens here's nearly 30 minutes of unbroken real time lowsec brawling with fleet comms. Grunt throws his Vargur into a group of gate campers who stand and fight. Reinforcements from his corp show up and a prolonged engagement plays out.
And still sticking with Strix Ridens (they're so prolific!) next up is a video from STRIX-adjacent capsuleer Hunter Hughes featuring a pair of engagements against WOMP which showcases their Flykiller comp.
Finally check out this this tech 3 cruiser 4 v 1 from PvP maestro iBeast. Even though it's not in English the PvP speaks for itself.
EVE Down Under is only a few weeks away and they were recently able to announce that FC Bee will be traveling all the way from Iceland to Australia for the event. Taking place from 7 to 9 August in Melbourne, EVE Down Under has been running in one form or another since 2012. If you live in or around Melbourne or you're willing to make the trip grab yourself a ticket and spend awesome with some spacefriends!
November 6th - 8th - EVE Amsterdam
See you in the next Community Beat! o7