EVE Online News

2006-03-05 - By Svarthol

We'll be doing unscheduled reboots today, Sunday

We will be doing a number of unscheduled reboots today, Sunday to address the memory allocation issue on the servers. This is done to recreate the situations where certain nodes rapidly go into the vegetative state. To clarify, a memory allocation error breaks pretty much any service which requires

2006-03-04 - By Svarthol

We're on it with all able hands!

We've been deploying server hotfixes in the downtimes and working on a client patch to address the issues in this thread which we can't fix serverside. The biggest issue still is the memory allocation problems which cause a ton of errors when services encounter them, causing nodes to go into a vege

2006-03-04 - By Svarthol

Unscheduled reboot at 19:54

Due to massive node deaths caused by the server memory leak we are rebooting at 19:54. During this reboot we will deploy a small hotfix that will add more memory counters to help us track down the leak and also change the solarsystem loadbalancing scheme to loadbalance by memory usage only.

2006-03-02 - By Svarthol

Patch deployed - felt like Back to the Future

This patch day didn't go as planned. After a successful deployment of one of the most extensive changes done for a long time to Tranquility - the hardware upgrades - experiencing this was like are returning back in time. The sheer number of small problems that went wrong in this patch deployment rea

2006-03-01 - By Svarthol

The 'Jewel of Branch' falls.

BRANCH - System BKG-Q2, long time home of The Phoenix Alliance (PA) has changed hands last week, falling to The Five Alliance (.5.) after a series of destructive dreadnaught strikes against all stations in the system. This development marks a major shift of power in the Northern theater as the confl

2006-02-27 - By Svarthol

Bloodlines Deployment and the Power of 2 Offer

The Bloodlines patch deployment will take place on Thursday, 2 March at 1100 GMT. We are estimating a 4 hour deployment time, Tranquility should return with the new content by 1500 GMT. As always, we recommend training a long-duration skill. Patch Notes have been recently updated with some new items

2006-02-24 - By Svarthol

Serpentis Forces Continue Annexation of Outer Ring

As recently reported on GalNet, the Serpentis Corporation has announced plans to take a controlling interest in the Outer Ring Excavations corporation, a move that has surprised the business world and put even the common citizens of the Federation on edge. “I live in a quiet city on a quiet planet,

2006-02-23 - By Svarthol

Devs attending the Las Vegas Player Gathering

Oveur, TomB, activeALLI and kieron will be attending the Player Gathering in Las Vegas next month, 15 and 16 March. If you missed out on FanFest because of the travel involved, this is an opportunity to join other EVE players in one of the entertainment capitals of the world. There will be prizes,

2006-02-22 - By Svarthol

Tranquility Returned at 0019 GMT, EVE is reborn

The Hardware Upgrade has been completed, Tranquility has returned with 70 dual-core, dual-CPU AMD Opteron LS20 Blades in 5 new IBM Blade Center Chassis. A small patch is necessary to connect to the new hardware. The Autopatcher will update your client, the patch may be downloaded for manual patchi

2006-02-22 - By Svarthol

Trouble in the south escalates as Tribal Souls joins Stain conflict

Paragon Soul - The Tribal Souls alliance announced their intent to join forces with Band of Brothers (BoB) and participate in their ongoing war with the Stain Alliance. The announcement places additional strain on the fragile political landscape of the war-torn southern regions and threatens to upse