Notes from mapping EVE Frontier

The Intelligence card was built in April as a stack of folded sections. Six months on, one dictated brief turned it into a single card that draws the pilot, tribe or system on the map, without changing the data behind it.

After 19,685 WhisperTyping recordings I was weighing up paying three times as much for accuracy. I moved to OpenWhispr and Groq's free Whisper Large v3 instead.

I lost GrokBot's morning briefing when I dropped Grok. From a browser tab, ChatGPT rebuilt it, then built and debugged its own replacement for a £19 a month analytics connector.

Forty tools behind forty small icons. How a browser mock-up killed my advert idea, why the Tools Library is cards now, and what the News button tells you is new.

A trailer for EF-Map showed me its EVE Frontier hover card had fallen behind the rest of the interface. What looked dated, and the few hours it took to fix.

Fewer EF-Map users than at the start of Cycle 6, but far more time spent. How EVE Frontier's Fog of War turned bookmarks and Shared Storage into my to-do list.

What EVE Frontier players open in EF-Map, what they actually stay in, how smoothly the map runs, and how it all compares with EO-Map, the EVE Online map.

Fenris showed Fog of War on Frontier Friday, 11 September 2026. I think it breaks EF-Map's oldest assumption and could make the map more useful, not less.

I spent recent weeks on EO-Map. A SpaceMouse request became Creator Mode, then I adapted that filmmaking toolkit back into the EVE Frontier map.

EVE Frontier is not on Steam. How you actually install it, the devs' Steam Deck experiments, controller support, and the Valve blockchain rule in the way.

No release date is announced. A founder access player walks the cycle history, the phased roadmap, the mainnet token question and whether you should wait.

EVE Frontier is made by CCP Games, renamed Fenris Creations after the May 2026 management buyout. A 23-year customer on the studio, Google DeepMind and what changed.

What EVE Frontier gameplay really looks like right now: tribe gate networks, the Dermestid event, missions and Grace, one ship, and why the cycle shapes everything.

Official minimum and recommended specs for EVE Frontier on PC and Mac, plus real numbers from my machines, including a 10-year-old PC running three clients.

One is a single-shard survival MMO, the other an extraction shooter. A Frontier player untangles the three EVE games, their status, and which might fit you.

Multiboxing EVE Frontier from a four-account EVE Online veteran: what the rules allow, how the game quietly designed the advantage out, what a second account is still good for, and the Sandboxie Plus guide for running two clients on one PC.

Adding Xbox controller support to EF-Map: controller-native map navigation, an EVE Frontier style flight mode with automatic banking, and recorded camera flights you can replay or hand to the Director.

EVE Frontier explained by a player with 18 months of founder access: single-shard survival, cycles and wipes, what it costs, and what state the alpha is really in.

What the Sui blockchain actually does in EVE Frontier, from a player and tool builder: the chain as a public game database, the Ethereum move, and what players touch.

The EVE token explained in plain English: how Lux converts to EVE, why the money flows both ways at launch, and what a normal EVE Frontier player actually touches.

The Panel Creator lets EVE Frontier players build custom intelligence dashboards over live chain data. Describe one in plain English, or build it by hand.

Six months of new EF-Map features had no translation keys at all. How 1,750 strings reached five languages overnight, and the prompt that missed the point.

Open Market puts an EVE Online style order book on an EVE Frontier Smart Storage Unit: browse every live market, buy remotely from the browser or in game, and collect at the storage. As of this week you no longer need CivilizationControl to see them.

System Finder on EF-Map now takes plain-English requests: describe the EVE Frontier systems you want and an AI selects the filters for you. Free, unannounced, and built in an afternoon.

EF-Map Intelligence subscribers can now query the chain indexer live: preset questions, a query builder, and a plain-English assistant that builds the query for you.

Performance Mode stopped matching EF-Map's UI after the Ember work. The depth fade and a themed backdrop cost nothing. Bloom was the expensive one.

A Sui testnet outage took down EF-Map's gas sponsor, Intelligence purchases and treasury dashboard at once. I read it as a deprecation and built a proxy anyway.

EF-Map now has an optional paid Intelligence layer on EVE Frontier's testnet. What it is, what stays free, why we are testing payments now, and why 100 testnet EVE is not mainnet pricing.

Filling EVE Frontier's Cinematic Mode with interstellar gas between the stars, fixing a long-standing bloom flicker, and making supernovae light the gas.

Gate jumps we indexed but ignored became an intelligence panel in two hours: who owns EVE Frontier's gates and catapults, and who jumps through whose network.

Players kept asking what EVE Frontier's sensor modules do. The scan data was in RootFit all along — now it's a Scanning stat panel plus a full explainer of strength, resolution and stacking.

A hand-made progress chart in Discord showed what tribes needed: bookmarks now carry catapult and gate links with build statuses, turning a Yeet Planner route into a shared construction tracker.

EVE Vault is a desktop extension, so every wallet-gated tool in the ecosystem is desktop-only. EF-Map now borrows the WhatsApp Web trick: scan a QR on desktop and your phone browser is signed in as you for seven days. No wallet on the phone, no app, works in plain Safari.

An agent-readiness test scored us 29 for the wrong reasons, but one finding mattered: WebMCP. The operator spotted that our Ctrl+K command palette was secretly the hard 80 percent, and seven in-page agent tools shipped the same afternoon.

Two friends should not need a market interface to pool their ore. Shared Storage turns any storage unit into an open container that looks exactly like the game's own screen. Why I built it, why it has no gates, and what the last 10 percent took.

EF-Map is now in closed testing on the Google Play Store. How an eight-month-old layout decision made the app easy, why the Play Console paperwork wasn't, the honest story on pricing — and how to join the test.

Default fonts, stock icons, rounded corners everywhere — EF-Map looked like every LLM-built app. How Claude Fable 5 designed a bespoke identity, made Ember the default, and rethemed 105 pages in an afternoon.

How EF-Map built Yeet Planner, an EVE Frontier Catapult infrastructure planner, from announced patch rules, then polished it through player feedback.

Explorer Cards turns EF-Map's extended hover label into a map layer for EVE Frontier, showing system info cards for a whole constellation at once.

EF-Map now preserves a Cycle 5 archive for EVE Frontier, freezing map data, killboard, structures, smart gates and activity snapshots for future reference.

EXTI is hosting a community 3v3 EVE Frontier PvP event in ESP-J64 on June 20, 2026, with Reavers provided and teams formed on the day.

EF-Map's Killboard now has mobile Simple and Expanded modes, ship and structure breakdowns, CSV export, and shareable Snapshot cards for EVE Frontier.

How EF-Map made its EVE Frontier map usable on phones by reusing the existing desktop panels inside a mobile host instead of maintaining two apps.

How EF-Map reuses killboard, activity, structure and Smart Gate data to generate a weekly EVE Frontier field report.

A plain-English look at EF-Map's extended solar system database, from stars and planets to L-points, frost lines and underused fields.

A grounded look at how EF-Map's extended solar system database may hint at EVE Frontier's System Resource Potential UI.

How we overhauled EF-Map's outdated Help system in under 30 minutes of operator time using LLM sub-agents - fixing 20+ outdated entries, adding search, and cleaning up the UI.

How we built a DIY HLS video streaming pipeline on Cloudflare R2 to deliver preservation-grade EVE Frontier cinematics—because YouTube compression destroys dark gradients.

Yes, there is a map for EVE Frontier. EF-Map is a free interactive 3D star map with Smart Gate routing, region analysis, and collaborative tribe marks—no account required.

EF-Map includes a free blueprint calculator for EVE Frontier that calculates material requirements, supports batch quantities, and shows complete material trees in your browser.

Yes, EF Helper is a free Windows desktop companion for EVE Frontier available on the Microsoft Store. Get real-time location sync, in-game overlay, and mining telemetry.

Turn your EVE Frontier game logs into actionable insights—locally. Introducing the Log Parser: a privacy-first analytics dashboard that never sends your data anywhere.

A complete breakdown of how EF-Map works—what runs client-side, what data we access, what requires login, and why we built a privacy-first EVE Frontier mapping tool.

How we discovered and fixed a non-deterministic bug in FOAM attribution that caused kill statistics to fluctuate between runs—a deep dive into SQL behavior and greedy algorithms.

How we're preparing EF-Map's blockchain indexer for EVE Frontier's migration from Ethereum L2 to SUI—researching Move contracts, comparing indexing approaches, and building a migration timeline.

How we built a complete Module Mission feature—tracking all 114 Assembler modules with checkboxes, materials totals, and persistence—in under an hour using existing patterns, data pipelines, and LLM-assisted development.

How we tracked down a 'network error' that halved our connected users—from POST to /null bugs to Cloudflare Durable Objects auto-response for zero-cost WebSocket keepalives.

The complete story of migrating EVE Frontier Map's backend infrastructure from a Windows workstation to a Hetzner VPS—why Docker made it trivial, the cost breakdown, and lessons learned.

How we added S/M/L size filtering to EVE Frontier's Smart Assemblies panel—modifying a Docker container, blockchain indexer, Cloudflare KV snapshots, and React frontend—all in under an hour.

How EF-Map turns typed or spoken requests into map actions with IBM Granite on Cloudflare Workers AI, what happens when a parse fails, and why the Ctrl+K palette does the same job without a model.

We built an interactive configurator to help streamers, tool makers, and community sites embed EF-Map with customized styling, coordinates, and feature toggles.

A transparent look at how we handled a leaked Cloudflared tunnel token for EVE Frontier infrastructure—rotation, history scrubbing, and updated guardrails.

How we tunneled the Assembly API through Cloudflared to stream EVE Frontier smart deployables from a local Postgres indexer directly into Solar System view.

The complete story of building a 3D planetary explorer for EVE Frontier Map in three days—from initial coordinate bugs to production deployment, featuring dynamic icon grouping, starfield backgrounds, and smooth camera transitions.

How we reduced monthly KV operations from 1.6 million to 108,000 through intelligent caching, adaptive polling, and serverless architecture—without compromising user experience.

The three ways EF-Map remembers where you have flown: helper all-time and session tracking, the Log Parser travel replay, and a manual region checklist.

What the Compare Regions panel really computes across 274 EVE Frontier regions, checked against the code, including why 174 of them have no stargates at all.