The EVE Online: Retribution launch went smoothly and now everyone in the cluster is busy placing and collecting bounties!
Speaking of bounties, have you seen the awesome Retribution trailer yet? If not (or you just want to watch it again and again), it's now live on our CCPGames YouTube channel. Check it out here.
Give all your Retribution feedback here.
Report all your Retribution issues here.
Good news everyone! Roll-out of the Retribution 1.0 patch is going smoothly and it is expected Tranquility will be opened to connections at approximately 11:00 UTC. We will keep you apprised of any changes in this thread.
Too excited to wait? Check out all the lovely new features coming in Retribution here.
Retribution 1.0 patch notes: http://community.eveonline.com/updates/patchnotes.asp
Our next public mass test will happen on our test server Buckingham on Thursday, November 29, at 17:00 UTC (= EVE-time). We are testing the client and server performance of our next expansion EVE Online: Retribution. Included will be tests for overall performance, new explosions, new ship models, new brackets, new damage notifications, and Crimewatch.
Testing should last around 30-45 minutes. All participants will receive two million skillpoints on our test servers.
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.
CCP Ingo, EVE Online's Global Brand Director, will be holding a marathon question and answer session with Raptr on November 27-28 between 18:00 and 02:00 GMT. Many fantastic prizes, including ship models and Art of EVE books, will be given away to those with the best questions! Check out full details at: Raptr Q&A: EVE Online.
CCP Ingo, EVE Online's Global Brand Director, will be holding a marathon question and answer session with Raptr on November 27-28 between 18:00 and 02:00 GMT. Many fantastic prizes, including ship models and Art of EVE books, will be given away to those with the best questions! Check out full details at: Raptr Q&A: EVE Online.
The regularly scheduled downtime for November 22 will be extended by half an hour from 11:00 to 12:00 UTC while we perform server upgrades. We thank you for your patience during this brief downtime.
Update - 12:31 - 22/11/12
The startup of Tranquility was delayed and downtime was extended until 12:30 UTC. Tranquility is now back online, and we apologize for any inconvenience the extended downtime has caused.
The regularly scheduled downtime for November 22 will be extended by half an hour from 11:00 to 12:00 UTC while we perform server upgrades. We thank you for your patience during this brief downtime.
Update - 12:31 - 22/11/12
The startup of Tranquility was delayed and downtime was extended until 12:30 UTC. Tranquility is now back online, and we apologize for any inconvenience the extended downtime has caused.
Players, have you ever wanted to blow up your favorite (and least favorite) developers? Today, November 15th, is your chance! At 16:00 GMT we will be running a special Buckingham Showdown: Developers vs Players Cruiser Brawl in order to do a mass test of the cruiser rebalancing for Retribution. Not only that, but we will also be live streaming the event from the developers' perspective on the CCP Own3d.tv channel.
Full details can be found in here.
For information on connecting to Buckingham, please follow the instructions on http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Buckingham
CCP gladly announces an officially sponsored and judged Fiction Contest and we invite everyone to participate. The contest has wonderful prizes provided by both our sponsors and EVE Online players, including over 20 billion ISK, multiple PLEX, subscriptions to EON Magazine, and an Nvidia EVGA Superclocked GeForce GTX670 graphics card. Submissions are due by December 2nd.
For further information, including the full rules and regulations, as well as a prize list here: EVE Fiction Contest.
On Wednesday October 17th, we completed the switch from HTTP to HTTPS for traffic to the api.eveonline.com as announced earlier in this devblog: http://community.eveonline.com/devblog.asp?a=blog&nbid=73407.
We have also improved the API infrastructure backend.
If you run any services that utilize the API such as killboards or other services such as mentioned in the devblog and have not updated to the new API address, it will no longer be functional until you complete the update.