Recent events with the ISD Volunteer Team

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Bid now for the Office Tour and read about our other events!

With less than three weeks remaining until Fanfest 2009 we are finalizing plans to make this the biggest and best Fanfest ever. From the thrills of the PvP Tournament to the Party at the top of the world we are sure to have something for everyone. Our ongoing support for Child's Play means even...

Sovereignty - Breaking the Chains

The other major factor is the more space you spread your ‘Dominion' across, the more expensive it will become to maintain your stargate network.  We do not want to see alliances holding space simply for the sake of holding it or just making their color on the map bigger.  We want to see allianc...

A CSM delegate resigns

The Council of Stellar Management is a democratically elected council of representatives of the EVE player base towards the publisher and developer of the game, CCP. This is a unique concept for online games, and something that CCP is very proud of having initiated as a new way of communic...

New Level 4 Agents Coming to New Eden

Out with the old, in with the new. Whether it's the discovery of new areas of space or new graphics and effects, EVE Online continuously evolves. Joining the evolution: content. In addition to renovating some old missions and new dead space areas, a slew of new Level 4 agents have made their ho...

EVE Online: Apocrypha Mac patch, May 6th

Fixed a memory leak that occurred every time the mouse was moved.Included a version checking dialog that gives the user better feedback when they're attempting to run EVE on an unsupported version of Mac OS X.Implemented a small engine update that increases performance. 

EVE Online Fanfest 2009

Iceland is a once-in-a-lifetime destination vacation. Perlan, the Saga Museum, the Blue Lagoon, the Northern Lights and many other wonders await your arrival. The Sisters of EVE Program will give your friend or partner a chance to visit Iceland along with you: Details regarding the prog...

Getting High On Your Own Supply

8 New Hacking sites (4 Hisec, 4 Lowsec) across the five pirate factions makes 40 sites.8 New Archaeology sites (4 Hisec, 4 Lowsec) across the five pirate factions takes that to 80 sites.24 New Salvaging sites (split across all security status) across five pirate factions makes a total of 20...

Machine Translation's Bad, m'kay?

Of course we have also been working on the issues that were reported during the public testing. We have fixed a lot of things, but representing EVE in Russian presents many challenges and we haven't overcome them all yet. Most of these arise because the original CCP warriors who carved the fi...

"War makes thieves and peace hangs them."

The POS: What it is supposed to do and what it did by CCP Pleognost How Stuff Works Smarts 'R' Us Right? Oops. The Aftermath Economic Impact  by CCP Diagoras and CCP Dr.EyjoG Ferrogel 98 52 Dysporite 35 Ferrofluid 13 Prometium 5 The wider impact Crime and Punishment by GM Grimmi

An Update on Linux Support

As some of you may know, I am also the producer in charge of the project bringing EVE Online to the Mac and Linux operating systems. In order to achieve this aim, we are working in partnership with Transgaming Technologies, utilizing their Cider engine to allow EVE Online to run on the Mac OS a...

I'm In Your Websites And Other Such Memes

The great spotlight of CCP development has now been turned to EVE’s web presence, which whilst great, has tended to grow a little ‘organically’ over the years. Now is the time to bring the websites up to the same levels of AWESOME as EVE itself. CCP CAPSLOCK

Sic Itur Ad Astra - Building a New Bridge to the Stars

Hello. My name is Whisper and I am here to talk to you about one part of Apocrypha, the upcoming expansion for EVE Online. I head up Team Bifröst, which includes such luminaries as CCP Casqade from Quality Assurance, CCP Bella Bee from the Software group, CCP Greyscale and CCP Abathur from Gam...

The Eve Client - A Love Story

In conclusion, without wanting to sound immodest I must say that with Quantum Rise 1.0.3 the EVE Online client will be by far the best performing piece of software ever constructed in the entire history of mankind :-) The End. Jon Bjarnason Technical Director EVE Online, CCP Games

Patch Notes for Quantum Rise

Mac and Linux Updating clients from Cider on the Mac will no longer erase personal overview settings, market quick lists, folders, bookmarks or notes. The auto-patcher in Cider for the Mac client will now start the patch install correctly when clicking the "OK" button to start the patch p...

Why ghost training was disabled

As many of you know by now, on Wednesday, Oct 15th, CCP will put out a server update disabling "ghost training". Ghost Training was an unintended feature where unpaid accounts of EVE Online were able to continue training skills. While this allowed players to run multiple characters on a sho...

EVE Online: Empyrean Age 1.1.2 Patch Deployment - Mac/Linux additions

This patch will only affect Mac and Linux users and no additional downtime will be required. Mac and Linux users will be asked to update their version when they launch the EVE client again after downtime. Please note that this patch does not affect Windows users in any way.

My node was equipped with the following...

The EVE Server application itself (also known as a node) is primarily a CPU intensive process. Due to the nature of the Stackless Python programming methodology chosen for EVE Online, the python component of each node is a single thread, which means it can only ever utilize 1 CPU core at a ti...

EVE64

StacklessIO, after years of development, has been a big success. We measured the improved performance, and you've told us on the forums and in the local chat in Jita that we have made a significant advancement in our goal of eliminating all lag from EVE Online.

Forums Refined

And finally, several of our forums make their way to the forum graveyard. All readers please take a moment of silence for EveTV and the PvP Championships, Corporations and Alliances Summit, Windows, and EVE Technology Lab. Again, this means less scrolling through the forum area.

EVElopedia

We are currently testing it and reporting bugs to our partner, and it is looking quite well so far. Mostly there are aesthetic changes and some minor problems we have been running into, which makes us very confident that we can release it very soon™. A previous blog from Ginger explained YARR...

Storytime!

Empyrean Age marks a big turning point for EVE Online. The cluster of New Eden has seen a lot of great storytelling and roleplaying but until now, most of that activity has been created by the players and there has been very little interaction between player created content and the content c...

Patch notes for Empyrean Age

Keeping the Hoff out of EVE

The Yulai Archives & Record Repository Team (YARR) is the most recent addition to ISD. We have been formed to be the administrative team responsible for the new EVElopedia. For those who may not have heard of the EVElopedia project, it has been on the horizon for some time. The EVElopedia...

Forum and Community Changes and Improvements

Finally, this blog marks the last day for the Communications Relay Commission, the volunteer forum moderation team. Their efforts will be taken up by our new community representatives, CCP staff members of the Community Group. We would like to thank the members of the CRC team for their ef...

About the boot.ini issue

My name is Dr. Erlendur S. Thorsteinsson and I have been directing the EVE Online Software Group for the better part of this year. From my previous work experiences in the antivirus industry and following CCP for quite some time now, I have come to appreciate the need for full disclosure when t...

EVE: Trinity Features, Improvements and Balance Changes

EVE Online now available on Linux and Macintosh

As announced at the 2007 EVE Online Fanfest, EVE Online has now been released as both a Mac and a Linux client, and already news reports are cropping up. Check out the coverage on Macworld, TUAW, MacApper and Inside Mac Games, along with our own blog and discussion thread on this groundbreak...

EVE Online: Trinity: Get a load of these beauties

We are so excited about our next expansion, EVE Online: Trinity, we have to show it off. Don't be fooled by the sleek lines and sheer beauty of these ships. Trinity is not just a pretty face. It's absolutely bursting at the seams with new content: agent missions, combat advancements, Tech II sh...

EVE Online service restored after unexpected downtime

CCP Chief Operating Officer Jón Hörðdal has issued the following statement regarding the unexpected interruption of service for EVE Online and its website on Friday, October 19. Regards, Jón Hörðdal Chief Operating Officer, CCP

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...

Introducing White Wolf Enterprises, an Integration of the White Wolf and EVE Online Communities

Having said that, we are pleased to formally announce the start of a new campaign that will familiarize the White Wolf fan community with EVE Online. The blending of the fans from the two prior companies will continue to find common ground in future games, like the MMOG based upon the World o...

Eve Central Bank Wrecks

Eve Central Bank is a NPC corporation, there are no mobile NPCs or players in the EVE Central Bank corporation, so you can take from these wrecks and salvage from them without fear of reprisal. The only problem here seems to be that players are not able to use tractor beams on the wrecks in ques...

Patch: EVE Online: Revelations II Deployment Completed!

The deployment of EVE Online: REVELATIONS II was completed on 19 June at 2215 GMT, a deployment completed before the scheduled return to service. The second of three installments in EVE Online's second major game expansion, Revelations brings a wide range of new content, features, upda...

GTC for ISK trading outside official system is NOT SUPPORTED

This message goes out to all those who sell Game Time Codes for ISK. Trading outside the official secure system is risky and may cause you, the sellers, serious problems. The secure system was designed and created in order to ward off the constant problems we have had with ISK sellers, hacker...

EVE 4th Anniversary

On this day, 4 years ago, EVE Online was released and the masses rejoiced because a new age of MMOG gaming and enlightenment was upon them - "The Age of EVE".

EVE Online: The Power of 2

For a limited time, CCP is offering current EVE players the opportunity to create an additional account with 6 months of game play for only 35.85. That’s an amazing 6 months for the price of 3.