We're happy to announce that the February Release is now live!

The February release brings a whole host of quality of life tweaks to EVE Online, including a long list of "little things" as well as UI fixes, stability improvements and visual updates.

This release also sees the kickoff of a new event, as the Guardian's Gala returns with improved visuals, more challenges and more diverse rewards.

In addition to a whole host of fixes and improvements, the February Release brings the deployment of a new website - CCPlease, a page where we'll be tracking quality of life changes going forward. You can read more about this new page in the latest devblog here.

Check out the patch notes and the links below for more details and information on how to provide feedback on this release!

RELEASE RESOURCES:

Full Patch Notes - EVE Online Website
Release Information - EVE Updates
General Feedback Thread - Official Forums
Known Issues Thread - Official Forums
Known Issues & Feedback Thread (Mac) - Official Forums
Event Feedback Thread - Guardian's Gala

We're super happy to announce that deployment of the February release is scheduled for next Tuesday, February 12th, during a standard daily downtime.

Downtime will begin at the usual time of 11:00 UTC, and will for fifteen minutes, during which the February release will be deployed. It is expected that Tranquility will be back online and accepting connections by 11:15 UTC.

The February release brings a whole host of quality of life tweaks to EVE Online, including a long list of "little things" as well as UI fixes, stability improvements and visual updates.

This release will also see the kickoff of a new event, as the Guardian's Gala returns with improved visuals, more challenges and more diverse rewards.

For more granular details on all the fixes coming with the February release, check out the full patch notes here!

Due to essential database maintenance that needs to occur on the Tranquility cluster, daily downtime will be extended tomorrow and will run for a total of 60 minutes.

This downtime extension is required because we need to perform a cold restart of the entire Tranquility cluster – quite literally a request from our friends at Microsoft to turn the universe off and on again!

Downtime will begin at the usual time of 11:00 UTC, and will run through until 12:00 UTC, when we expect the cluster to be back online and accepting connections.

Apologies for any inconvenience that this downtime extension may cause. We’ll have the cluster back up and running for you all as soon as we can!

As always, you can follow @EVE_Status on twitter for updates on Tranquility, including any server issues or downtime extensions that may be required.

We're happy to announce that the first release of 2019 is now live!

The January release brings a whole host of additions and fixes to the Activity Tracker, as well as new visuals for asteroid depletion, additional account security changes and a whole host of bug fixes, optimizations and improvements to EVE Online.


Release Information - EVE Updates
Full Patch Notes - EVE Online Website
General Feedback Thread - Official Forums
Known Issues Thread - Official Forums
Known Issues & Feedback Thread (Mac) - Official Forums

We're delighted to announce that we've made a few additions to the patch notes for the January release this morning after confirmation of readiness for a few more fixes that will be deployed in the January release.

Chief among these is a resolution for the defect that was causing visual desync for pilots when exiting warp.

We're fully aware that this was causing substantial concern for many of our pilots across a wide range of roles, and are happy to confirm that this will be resolved with the deployment of the January release tomorrow.

We're delighted to announce that the deployment of the January release is scheduled for next Tuesday, January 15th, during standard daily downtime.

Downtime will begin at the usual time of 11:00 UTC, and will run for fifteen minutes during which the January release will be deployed. It is expected that Tranquility will be back online and accepting connections by 11:15 UTC.

The January release brings a whole host of additions and fixes to the Activity Tracker, as well as new visuals for asteroid depletion, additional account security changes and a whole host of bug fixes, optimizations and improvements to EVE Online.

For more granular details on all the fixes coming with the January release, you can check out the full patch notes. In addition to this, you can head on over to the EVE Updates page for January for an overview of what's coming!

Since the deployment of the new chat backend with the March 2018 release, we’ve seen a wide range of issues with the new system that have both severely inconvenienced the community and had long term adverse effects on gameplay for many of our pilots.

At this point in time, given that feedback from the community is crystal clear regarding issues that are still being experienced ten months after deployment, we feel that it’s imperative to provide an update on the status of the chat issues to give a little more clarity.

Overhauling the chat system is a very important part of the futureproofing work that’s going into many of the older systems in EVE and over the course of the next three weeks, we’ll be looking at finalizing its stabilization with a view to resolving all the major outstanding issues. Finding a fast, effective and permanent resolution to these issues is now a top priority for the development team.

If our current efforts do not yield positive results by the end of January, we’ll begin the process of investigating the reinstatement of the original chat back end, which despite its future limitations, served New Eden reliably in the past.

While we aim to have the issues resolved as soon as possible one way or another, reinstatement of the original chat back end will take some time given that settings, permissions and content will need to be migrated back to the old system again and several technical changes need to be made to bring it back online.

As soon as we have more information on the progress of our current efforts, we’ll keep you updated via the @EVE_Status twitter handle. Once we reach the end of January you can expect more details from us on a final decision regarding the chat system, as well as in-game compensation for the disruption to gameplay that has occurred due to the issues that have been experienced.

We would like to sincerely apologize for the issues that the community have experienced with reliability of the chat system, and for the completely unacceptable length of time that it is taking to bring stability to chat, which is a fundamental part of gameplay in New Eden. We hope to have the issues resolved as soon as possible.

We're super happy to announce that Lavacore Imperial SKINs are now available in the New Eden Store for a selection of Amarr hulls!

This new SKIN is available for the following vessels as of downtime today:

• Confessor – 250 PLEX
  
• Apocalypse – 390 PLEX
  
• Armageddon – 390 PLEX
  
• Apocalypse Navy Issue – 390 PLEX
  
• Armageddon Navy Issue – 390 PLEX
  
• Redeemer – 390 PLEX
  
• Revelation – 695 PLEX
  
• Apostle – 695 PLEX
  
• Aeon – 695 PLEX
  
• Avatar – 695 PLEX

A Battleship SKIN bundle that contains the Apocalypse, Armageddon Navy Issue and Redeemer SKINs is also available at a 3 for 2 discount, for 780 PLEX.

Head on over to the New Eden Store to take a look at these SKINs and grab them for your collection!

We're delighted to announce that this year's holiday event, Operation Permafrost, has kicked off with today's daily downtime!

Permafrost offers new and exciting challenges, visuals and content that will encourage pilots to get involved in all kinds of gameplay over the holiday including gas mining, combat, mining and hacking in order to gather the resources to build some awesome rewards.

An unknown party has contracted The Agency to enlist the assistance of capsuleers across the cluster in disrupting Operation Permafrost, which is being carried out by Outer Ring Excavations.

Pilots can access Operation Permafrost objectives via the agency, and head over to the Permafrost sites, one of which is located in each constellation, to take part in the event.

Be sure to gear up, lock and load, and head on in if you want to grab more holiday rewards!

Operation Permafrost runs from today, December 17th, through to January 2nd, so be sure to jump in as soon as you can!

For more information, check out the live events portal here!

You can also leave your feedback on the event in this thread over on the official forums! You can also leave your feedback in the comments below!

We're super happy to announce that the December release is now live after a slightly extended daily downtime!

This release brings a whole host of features and improvements, including the first iteration on wardec changes, as well as the new Rodiva and Zarmazd class Triglavian logistics cruisers and remote repair modules to complement them.

Certain types of planets in New Eden will start to see the rare appearance of Auroras at their poles, and the Etana class Alliance Tournament prize cruiser also receives a unique new model.

In addition to this, quality of life and balance changes will be packaged with this release, including a number of UI and UX tweaks, as well as improved new player experience flow and adjustments to the respawn rates of certain nullsec anomalies.



In addition to all this, the December release sees the kickoff of the 13 days of EVE, where pilots will receive gifts for consecutive days of activity in New Eden between December 11th and 28th.

Be sure to log in as either an Alpha or Omega pilots during this 18 days window and your days of activity will stack to earn you rewards during the 18 days of EVE.

If you're an Alpha pilot, you can upgrade at any point during the 18 days to also unlock all the omega rewards accrued for your days of activity!

During the 13 days of EVE, Alpha pilots will be able to earn all new facial augmentations, Ice Cloud Investigator SKINs for the Apotheosis and Sunesis, a Calm Abyssal Filament Crate, Frostline Explorations suits, faction ammunition crates and 50,000 free skillpoints!

In addition to all the Alpha pilot rewards, those with Omega clones will be able to claim additional Ice Cloud Investigator SKINs for the Praxis and Gnosis, more facial augmentations and additional faction ammo crates, as well as all new boosters, an additional 150,000 skillpoints, and an 'Absolute' injection Augmentor booster, which expires early in the new year, but in the meantime, allows the pilot who consumes it to utilize three skill injectors with zero diminishing effects!

Be sure to log in and stack up those days to earn fabulous rewards!

Release Information - EVE Updates
Full Patch Notes - EVE Online Website
13 Days Of EVE Event Information - EVE Online Now
General Feedback Thread - Official Forums
Event Feedback - 13 Days Of EVE - Official Forums
Known Issues Thread - Official Forums
Known Issues & Feedback Thread (Mac) - Official Forums