CCP Announcements

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EVE Online: Crucible 1.2 has been deployed successfully. This update introduces considerable client performance improvements as well as fixes for the UI and the Mac client. The full patch notes are available here.

Please report any issues with Crucible 1.2 here; a thread for general feedback is available here.

Crucible 1.2 will be deployed during the regular daily downtime tomorrow, Thursday the 16th of February. No extended downtime is scheduled.

Most notably, Crucible 1.2 brings some exciting performance improvements to the EVE client which we hope will make your space violence all the more enjoyable.

The patch notes can be found here.

Every pilot attending Fanfest in Iceland at the end of March, will receive a couple of unique in-game collectors items. An Iteron Mark IV Quafe Ultra edition ship, and a Quafe 2012 t-shirt.

Click here to read more about the two items and click here to buy your Fanfest ticket!

Downtime on Wednesday, February 15 has been extended to 12:00 UTC due to ongoing server configuration changes.

Thank you for your understanding.

EVE Online: Crucible 1.2 is scheduled for deployment on Thursday, February 16. The downtime schedule will be announced as soon as it is available.

A variety of client performance improvements will be introduced with Crucible 1.2. More information about client performance improvements is available in this devblog.

As of Monday, February 13, we have added PayPal as a payment option for the buddy program again. The terms and conditions of the program will be updated accordingly.

If a player you invite to the game selects PayPal as their payment method you will be eligible again for the game time or PLEX reward you had selected. Please be aware that it might take up to three business days before you receive your chosen reward if the invited player uses PayPal as payment method and after we have received the payment confirmation. It is not required to file any petitions to receive your rewards. 

The next mass test on our test-server Singularity will be on Tuesday, February 14 at 20:00 UTC. In this mass-test we will be again testing performance improvements to the overview window and other parts of the UI. The SisiLauncher tool is available for the Windows client, otherwise please follow the instructions on the Singularity page in Evelopedia.

Testing should last around 60 minutes. All participants will receive two million skillpoints on Singularity.

Please refer to this thread for more information about how you participate in the test, and this EVElopedia article for more information on mass testing.

A couple of EVE Gate features were deployed today, pseudo-stealthily-style.

EVE Gate has gotten an improved login system and a navigation menu to the other EVE webpages, located in the top right corner of the page. As part of these changes you can now switch active characters more conveniently than before.

Additionally you can now click the DEV bar next to a topic on the forums to be taken directly to the first dev post in that thread.

These changes are part of our ongoing commitment to improve and expand the EVE Online web presence and we hope you like them!

The successful series of ISD Seminars continues! This Saturday, February 11, at 20:00 UTC the ISD divisions STAR and Mercury will hold a joint seminar 'The Storylines of New Eden', explaining the relationship between the empires, pirate factions and a lot more. All you need to do is to join the in-game channel 'Seminars' for the lecture and 'Seminar Q&A' for asking questions. Further information is available here.

The Corporation forums discussed in this dev blog as possibly getting released today, need a little more work and will not be opened today.

We will keep you posted on the progress and let you know when we have a new release date in sight.

The new EVE Online website, focused on showcasing the EVE universe, has been deployed. A new community website has replaced the old EVE Online website and will play host to the various resources and support tools existing EVE players use on a regular basis. Please take your time to browse and bookmark both sites and give us your feedback in the official feedback thread.

A dev blog with more information on this change can be found here.

The deployment of the new sites is staged, which means that while some will see them immediately, for others it will take a little while longer.

We hope that you enjoy the new EVE Online website, and that you find the new community website to be an improvement to your daily EVE routine.

Crucible 1.1.3 will be deployed tomorrow, February 7th, during the regular daily downtime. No extended downtime is scheduled. The patch addresses a C++ runtime error some players have been running into lately, along with adding some much needed backend additions for devs. Patch notes and information about patch size can be can be found by scrolling to the bottom of this page. Please use this forum thread for your feedback.

The next mass test on our test-server Singularity will be on Tuesday, February 7 at 20:00 UTC. In this mass-test we will be testing the latest performance improvements to the overview window and brackets in space. The SisiLauncher tool is available for the Windows client, otherwise please follow the instructions on the Singularity page in Evelopedia.

Testing should last around 60 minutes. All participants will receive two million skillpoints on Singularity.

Please refer to this thread for more information about how you participate in the test, and this EVElopedia article for more information on mass testing.

The new EVE Online website (discussed in this blog) is going to undergo a few final tweaks and is scheduled to release next week, instead of this week as originally estimated.

At the same time the new website will be revealed, the resources and information which players have sought on the EVE Online site, will be made available on a new community website which should prove to be quite an improvement in terms of browsing and locating what you need. 

We look forward to showing you the two websites and wish you all a great weekend!

The new EVE Online website (discussed in this blog) is going to undergo a few final tweaks and is scheduled to release next week, instead of this week as originally estimated.

At the same time the new website will be revealed, the resources and information which players have sought on the EVE Online site, will be made available on a new community website which should prove to be quite an improvement in terms of browsing and locating what you need. 

We look forward to showing you the two websites and wish you all a great weekend!

EVE Online: Crucible 1.1.2 is scheduled for deployment during a regular downtime on Wednesday, February 1. This patch includes several crash fixes and a number of improvements to the new Neocom. Patch notes have been added to the list of Crucible 1.1 patch notes.

The Community team have prepared a blog about some of the cool community events happening in the Harpa Center during Fanfest. Click here to read all about it!

We are upgrading the infrastructure EVElopedia is hosted on and we expect it to be down on Monday, January 30 between 14:00 and 16:00 UCT while we make the necessary changes.  Apologies for any inconvenience this causes you all and rest assured, my love for you remains as true as it ever was.

CCP Ginger.

EVE Online: Crucible 1.1.1 was successfully deployed during a regular downtime on Thursday, January 26, 2012.

Several small fixes to the Neocom were released together with corrections to localization and various texts throughout the game. The patch notes are available here.