The silent auction for a spot in the 11th Alliance Tournament ends tonight at midnight, 23:59 UTC on June 16. 

There is still time to have a chance at participating in the biggest competitive tournament in EVE Online. If your alliance still hasn't entered a bid, contact your alliance executor or team captain and demand that you be given the chance to engage in honorable spaceship combat against other reputable alliance pilots, and win the Alliance Tournament XI. En garde!

The Tranquility cluster is currently experiencing several network issues that began at approximately 23:15 UTC on Saturday June 15th, 2013.

Our engineers are currently working on resolving these issues, please see this thread for further updates regarding the current issues.

The 8th Council of Stellar Management (CSM8) will be holding its first Town Hall on June 16 at 1900 EVE time. This is an excellent opportunity to speak with your elected representatives to CCP on matters that you feel are important in New Eden. CSM8 is working in cooperation with EVE University and EVE Radio to provide an interactive session where you can listen, ask questions, learn about what the latest CSM is up to.

The focus of this particular Town Hall will be player reactions to the Odyssey expansion, suggestions for topics for us to take to the first CSM/CCP Summit, any final questions about the CSM8 election cycle, and of course, general questions from EVE players on any topic they desire.

The Town Hall will last for one hour. Any interested player is invited to attend! You can learn how to attend at this thread on the EVE Online forums. Hope to see you there!

The random draw for Alliance Tournament XI was streamed live yesterday through CCP Games Twitch.tv channel. The VOD from the draw can be seen here, and the results of the draw can be seen here.

From today to 23:59 UTC on June 16th, we will accept bids from alliances towards one of the remaining 32 spots in the tournament.  All alliances are able to participate in the silent auction regardless of if they were signed up for the random draw. Submit all bids to CCP Gargant via EVEmail.

A bid is accepted when CCP Gargant has an Eve-mail from the executor of the alliance and has a personal contract assigned to him with the PLEX of the bid. Teams who did sign up for the draw should contract five fewer PLEX than their bid to account for the PLEX that were reverse-redeemed during signup for the draw. If your bid does not win you one of the 32 spots in the tournament, the contract will be cancelled and any reverse-redeemed PLEX will be refunded.

The 11th Alliance Tournament is gearing up to be quite the spectacle once it kicks off on the 20th of July. The Tournament Team has taken strides to lower the barrier of entry into the tournament and we encourage all alliances that might want to participate to submit their bid and join us on this fun ride! Remember that you will have a private system on a seperate server to practice in, and the prizes are fantastic!

The Tranquility cluster is currently experiencing several network issues that began at approximately 01:00 UTC on Wednesday June 12th, 2013.

Our engineers are currently working on resolving these issues, however we may need to reboot Tranquility in order to finalize this process. 

Please see this thread for further updates regarding the current issues.

Today at 17:00 UTC the Tournament Team will host the random draw for the 11th Alliance Tournament, where 32 lucky teams will be drawn straight into the tournament that will kick off on the 20th of July.

Join us live at the CCP Games Twitch.tv channel at 17:00 UTC today, the 11th of June.

We have made some small edits to our “EVE Online User and Character Name Policy” for the purpose of clarifying a few things and also to establish the fact that the policy includes all player named entities, not just character names. 

First, we changed the name of the policy from “EVE Online User and Character Name Policy” to “EVE Online Naming Policy” in order to better fit the actual purpose it serves. Then, we changed the heading of section 2. from “CHARACTER NAMES” to “IN-GAME NAMES” so that it is made clear that the policy covers much more than just the names of characters.  As further clarification of this, section 2. b. has been expanded to say:

“In-game names include, but are not limited to: Character names, corporation names, alliance names and any other player-nameable item or entity within the game world.”

Also, we have added section 2.c. which states:

“c. No player may use the character name of another player to impersonate or falsely represent his or her identity.  Player created corporation and alliance names also fall under this policy, as does any other in-game entity named by players”

This is to strenghten the impersonation part of the policy and to clear up any misunderstanding there may have existed regarding such matters. Finally, we have put in “support ticket“ to replace the word “petition” which is being gradually phased out of our system. 

Here is the link to the EVE Online Naming Policy for your reading pleasure.

That‘s all folks.

- Lead GM Grimmi

We apologize to all our Mac users who have purchased EVE Online: Odyssey via Steam and are currently unable to play. The Mac client for integration with Steam is currently in testing, which will be completed as soon as possible. We hope to deliver the client within the next week.

If any of our users who are connecting via Steam require any further assistance, or an additional means of contacting customer support, we can be reached at support@eveonline.com.

We will of course be fully reimbursing all lost game time in the run up until the Steam based Mac client goes live, and apologize for any inconvenience that this issue has caused.

We recently discovered an issue where players who started the Advanced Military Career Arc prior to the deployment of the EVE Odyssey expansion are receiving the generic Destroyers skillbook upon completion of the 8th mission in the arc rather than the newly-released racial varient. In order to resolve this issue, we will be deploying a script prior to this weekend that will reset the arc for all players who are currently on the arc. Those who have already completed the 8th mission and received the incorrect skillbook will have the correct skill reimbursed to them next week.

We apologize for any inconvenience this has caused to our capsuleers-in-training.