Some of the features of this upgrade include:

- New Player Experience: New players are now introduced to EVE in a very easy and approachable manner by a completely revised tutorial system that ensures that all levels of users can learn to play and have fun doing so.
- COSMOS Constellations: A new large scale gameplay element where pilots will have agent encounters in space, new environments to explore, and new technologies to discover.
- Dreadnoughts: The fearsome Dreadnought enters the battlefield equipped with jumpdrives and will have enough firepower to take down player owned structures.
- Outposts: A compact and effective alternative to the current player built stations.
- Freighters: Massive haulers with immense capacity to help players conquer deep space.
- Leadership Overhaul: Enhanced fleet warfare, new skills, and modules will improve players' ability to defend and attack in fleet combat.
- Pirate Factions: Better... Stronger...and likely to reveal their secrets and high value loot.
- Industrial Revolution: Starbases get a major boost and more valuable minerals will be available in low security Empire space.
- Combat Changes: Many changes that will further improve combat in EVE, making combat even more tactical.
- Unicode Chat Input: Chat in any language, for example Asian fonts will be rendered by the EVE font system, along with Cyrillic and Greek.
- New Tech Level 2 technology: Includes missiles launchers, drones and various defensive modules.