EVE Online refines and redefines its forums.

As the game evolves, EVE Online strives to morph all aspects of its game and apparently its forums. With this in mind, CCP is moving the forums in a new direction to ease communication, consolidate some of the lower population forums and add sections for the factional warfare. Some of the changes appear fairly major as your forum access will be dictated by your factional warfare status and other changes look to provide much needed trade boosts.

CCP Taera provides some highlights:

One of the most notable changes is the addition of the Warfare and Tactics forum for PVP discussion, including Factional Warfare. With the addition of this area, members of Factional Warfare NPC corporations will no longer be permitted to post in the Corporations & Alliance Discussion forum.

The Science & Industry and Missions & Complexes sections have always held a prime location near the top of the page; trade is an equally important aspect of EVE and we feel it’s time to give the Market Discussions area a boost. These three sub-forums, along with several other sub-forums dealing with gameplay, have been moved to the new EVE Gameplay Center category near the top of the page. We hope this will make it easier to find specialized conversations on gameplay topics instead of just posting in General.

The Trades, trades and more trades and EVE Localization Development and Discussion forums have always been a little skinny; as such, we’ve merged these areas into the larger Want Ads and Known Issues & Workarounds to create Want Ads & Trades and Issues, Workarounds & Localization. This will slim the page size down a bit, meaning less scrolling while browsing the forums. The Events section is also being rolled into the Player Gatherings and Events section, though no name change was necessary.

And finally, several of our forums make their way to the forum graveyard. All readers please take a moment of silence for EveTV and the PvP Championships, Corporations and Alliances Summit, Windows, and EVE Technology Lab. Again, this means less scrolling through the forum area.

These changes are still in the making and should be launching in the upcoming weeks. For more information, read the details and topical breakdowns of the forum topology at EVE Online.