EVE Online's Carbon engine is now open source: Fenris Creations explains why

Re:EVE Online's Carbon engine is now open source: Fenris Cre... by adrian17 on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @07:56AM (#48830766)

Makes sense, they probably don’t want to leak _the_ secret sauce driving the game itself.

I saw some eve-specific logic in Destiny repo, like warp enter condition and warp velocity math, or entity visibility between grids.

(Also, it’s full of std::(unordered_)map/set. Surprised they didn’t try squeeze some more perf there.)

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Re:EVE Online's Carbon engine is now open source: Fenris Cre... by lyu07282 on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @11:35AM (#48833346)

But they announced it as if they are releasing a game engine? This is just bits and pieces of one with major missing pieces so I'm not sure what the point was with that. I guess its more to help modding or they are yet to release everything they wanted.

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Re:EVE Online's Carbon engine is now open source: Fenris Cre... by 0xffff2 on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @02:13PM (#48835321)

If there was ever a game where the secret sauce doesn't have anything at all to do with the code, Eve has got to be it. They could probably release every single thing including all of the assets, complete buildable client and server code, etc and I doubt it would hurt the Eve at all.

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