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EVE Online: Inferno key art - capital ships drifting before a fiery nebula beneath the INFERNO logotype; the May 2012 expansion the nine-year anniversary gift celebrated

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Capsuleer Day 2012 - 9th Anniversary

Image: CCP Games · (c) CCP Games (used under CCP fan-content policy)

EVE Online's 9th anniversary on 6 May 2012 - CCP shipped an eight-option gift box (cruiser SP packs per race, mining crystals, a collector's hull, attribute implants) with a month-long redeem window kicking off 4 May.

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Capsuleer Day 2012 - 9th Anniversary

The 9th anniversary of EVE Online's launch fell on 6 May 2012, but CCP opened the redeem window two days early on 4 May 2012 and kept it open for a full month (through 23:59:59 UTC on 4 June). The gift this year was the most elaborate to date: an eight-option gift box that capsuleers chose from once per active account.

The eight options published in the dev blog "Nine glorious years of EVE Online on May 6th":

  1. Fire All Lasers (with Dignity) - Amarr cruiser + energy turret skills
  2. Duty, Honor, State (and Missiles) - Caldari cruiser + missile skills
  3. Deadly Elegance (Drones Extra) - Gallente cruiser + hybrid turret skills
  4. Heavy Iron (Rusted) - Minmatar cruiser + projectile turret skills
  5. Plug and Play - Attribute implants (default if no choice was made)
  6. Refine Your Skills - Ore processing implants and skillbooks
  7. Drill Bits - Mining crystals
  8. A Paxist Treasure - Society of Conscious Thought collector hull

The package was built deliberately so that both new accounts (cruiser SP packs, attribute implants) and veteran accounts (mining crystals, the collector hull, the SoCT flavour option) had something useful to claim. The framing in CCP's dev blog - "you, through the individual and collective forces of your imagination and will, have made your own EVE experience" - is also a noticeably more player-led tone than the earlier subscriber-number announcement of 2009.

The 9th anniversary sat between two expansion releases: Crucible 1.6 (March 2012, war-dec changes) and Inferno (May 2012, the larger overhaul of factional warfare, the unified inventory, and a mercenary marketplace). The anniversary box content explicitly nodded at Inferno's racial-cruiser-relevant changes.

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