EVE Online News

2007-09-25 - By Svarthol

False Positive Virus Warnings After the Revelations 2.2.2 Patch Deployment, Updated 26 Sept

Some anti-virus programs are falsely reporting the following files as a virus: RedistD3DXOnly.exe located in the C:\Program Files\CCP\EVE\bin\ directory, and stdlib.ccp located in the C:\Program Files\CCP\EVE\lib\ directory (normal locations after a default installation). The AV programs flagging

2007-09-22 - By Svarthol

Revelations 2.2.2 Patch Deployment on Tues, 25 September from 11.00 to 14.00 GMT

Tranquility will undergo an extended downtime on Tuesday, 25 September. The start time is 11:00 GMT and the length of the downtime is expected to be 3 hours. During this time, a patch will be applied to Revelations consisting mainly of fixes. Patch Notes will be available for review in the near fut

2007-09-21 - By Svarthol

Testing... testing... EVE TV

We are testing the feasibility of having EVE TV as a free-to-view service. Episode 13 will therefore be available to watch from the main EVE TV site on the usual pay-per-view stream, as well a free one (using the player used for the Alliance Tournament replays). Links from the EVE TV site will poi

2007-09-21 - By Svarthol

The Fanfest Access Pass for Sisters of EVE Access Pass Exchange Program

Since some of you may have purchased a Fanfest Access Pass before Sisters of EVE was announced you may wish to exchange the Fanfest Access Pass for a Sisters of EVE Access Pass, and now that is possible! All you need to do is to email us your name, the name of your spouse and the order number and w

2007-09-20 - By Svarthol

EVE Online and the Golden Joystick Awards

We're proud to say that EVE Online has been nominated for a Golden Joystick Award in the Online Game of the Year category. It is you, the gamers, who decide who wins by voting for your favourite game in each category. To vote you simply go here, select your favourite games, EVE Online of course, an

2007-09-19 - By Svarthol

Updates from Customer Support - Billing, Character Transfer, Portrait Swap & ETC Trading

As you may have noticed there has been some issue floating around in the last few days, and we wanted to give you all an update. The Billing Queue As you may recall we introduced a system to prevent Credit Card fraud and increase security about 5 days ago, an unfortunate side effect of this was th

2007-09-19 - By Svarthol

Localization Team – Bughunters Recruiting

As part of the next major expansion, CCP will be launching Localized clients for Russian and Japanese, as well as expanding the German Client. The Bughunter team is now recruiting a new team of players, the Localization test team. This team will comprise of native speakers of the languages in questi

2007-09-17 - By Svarthol

Character transfer problem!

Dear customers, There is currently a problem present in our billing system that is making character transfers impossible. This is being worked on with highest priority and we will hopefully have the situation sorted out before long. We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience this may cause. Al

2007-09-15 - By Svarthol

Tranquility Issues Resolved

This Monday it was brought to our attention that an alliance couldn't get Sovereignty 4 in their capital system even though they should. Looking into it we concluded that their capital station was a conquerable station which shouldn't be possible to set as a capital station. Fixing this required cha

2007-09-15 - By Svarthol

Recent Tranquility Database Issues - An Update

We still haven't been able to identify the exact cause for the recent database issues on Tranquility. However, we're moving slowly closer and each crash brings us one step further in diagnosing what is wrong. We know that something causes a random database thread to block other threads access to ta