The new EVE Online website (discussed in this blog) is going to undergo a few final tweaks and is scheduled to release next week, instead of this week as originally estimated.

At the same time the new website will be revealed, the resources and information which players have sought on the EVE Online site, will be made available on a new community website which should prove to be quite an improvement in terms of browsing and locating what you need. 

We look forward to showing you the two websites and wish you all a great weekend!

EVE Online: Crucible 1.1.2 is scheduled for deployment during a regular downtime on Wednesday, February 1. This patch includes several crash fixes and a number of improvements to the new Neocom. Patch notes have been added to the list of Crucible 1.1 patch notes.

The Community team have prepared a blog about some of the cool community events happening in the Harpa Center during Fanfest. Click here to read all about it!

We are upgrading the infrastructure EVElopedia is hosted on and we expect it to be down on Monday, January 30 between 14:00 and 16:00 UCT while we make the necessary changes.  Apologies for any inconvenience this causes you all and rest assured, my love for you remains as true as it ever was.

CCP Ginger.

EVE Online: Crucible 1.1.1 was successfully deployed during a regular downtime on Thursday, January 26, 2012.

Several small fixes to the Neocom were released together with corrections to localization and various texts throughout the game. The patch notes are available here.

The next mass test on our test-server Singularity will be on Thursday, January 26 at 17:00 UTC. In this mass-test we will have a look at client performance and server code improvements. The SisiLauncher tool is available for the Windows client, otherwise please follow the instructions on the Singularity page in Evelopedia.

Testing should last 60 minutes. All participants will receive two million skillpoints on Singularity.

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.

EVE Online: Crucible 1.1 Client Update #2 will be released during a standard downtime tomorrow. Patch notes for this release are still being compiled but will be added to the main patch notes page before downtime begins.

In addition there will be a 30 minute outage of the EVE Gate forums and EVE API to facilitate migration of web databases. In an effort to keep API downtime to a minimum, we will be truncating the player access logs which keep the last seven days history of locations and IP's.  

EVE Online: Crucible 1.1 has been deployed. This patch brings a number of improvements into EVE Online, including the new Neocom panel, rebalanced assault ships, ability for alliances to join Factional Warfare and numerous UI enhancements. For more information on these changes, please refer to CCP Soundwave's recent dev blog or visit the Crucible feature page. Patch notes are available here.

Please report any issues with Crucible 1.1 in this thread and a thread for general feedback is available here.

As of Monday, January 23 we have removed PayPal as a payment option for the buddy program due to an exploit discovered with this payment method. The terms and conditions of the program have been updated.

If a player you invite to the game selects Paypal as their payment method you will not be eligible for the game time or PLEX reward you had selected.

EVE Online: Crucible 1.1 is scheduled for deployment during an extended downtime on Tuesday, January 24. Downtime will begin at 11:00 UTC and is expected to be completed by 12:00 UTC.

Crucible 1.1 brings a number of improvements into EVE Online, including the new Neocom panel, rebalanced assault ships, ability for alliances to join Factional Warfare and numerous UI enhancements. For more information on these changes, please refer to CCP Soundwave's recent dev blog or visit the Crucible feature page. Patch notes are available in English, German and Russian.

Please note that in December we have temporarily doubled the size of POS fuel bays to reduce the impact of the delay to fuel block switch-over. In Crucible 1.1, these changes will be reverted and the fuel block consumption enabled. Towers left with their fuel bays in an "overloaded" state as a result of this change should continue to function as normal.

A discussion thread is available here.