Aug 28, 2021 — CCP Zulu published a [dev blog](//www.eveonline.com/devblog.asp?a=blog&bid=934) on Sunday, June 26 which talked about an upcoming summit with the [CSM](//wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Council_of_Stellar_Management) and CCP to "discuss the events of the past week, to help us define and address the real underlying concerns, and to assist us in defining and iterating on our virtual goods strategy.**"** During the last two days the CSM have discussed these issues with CCP Zulu (Senior Producer for EVE ...

Aug 28, 2021 — Hello! I am CCP Cascade, Associate Technical Producer working in the Core Technology Group. I have been given the role of Internet Herald to tell you about some of the projects the Core Infrastructure team, CCP Atropos, CCP Mandrake, CCP Sputnik, and CCP TopKnot have recently worked on. The team works on a lot of in-house tech that you don’t often get to see, but they also work on some pretty important stuff that you see every day, such as the installer, patcher and repair tool. You might know ...

Aug 28, 2021 — Hello! First of all we want to thank you for all your feedback and interest in the [Player Owned Customs Office](//www.eveonline.com/devblog.asp?a=blog&nbid=2899)! We have gone through the thread and thanks to the efforts of the community team as well as Team Pi members sitting up all night following the thread we believe we have a pretty good grasp on your feedback and your concerns (let us know if we don't). One thing that really stood out was your concern for the transition period when all...

Aug 28, 2021 — Attention explorers!  I am CCP Affinity from Team BFF and we have many exciting features in store for you this winter.  CCP Bettik and CCP Big Dumb Object, formerly of Team Commie Pinkos, have joined the BFF ranks to form a multidisciplinary Flying in Space super team that's been making stuff for the Winter Expansion! * In an on-going commitment to iterate on existing content we've been filling the gaps for the DED complexes. We have added new DED complexes, rated at 3/10 and 4/10 in difficul...

Aug 28, 2021 — Hi! CCP Punkturis of BFF here with another feature coming in the Winter Expansion! Remember when we published the [font dev blog](//www.eveonline.com/devblog.asp?a=blog&nbid=2401)? You guys gave us a lot of good comments from that and the majority was about the font size. EVE's current UI has been designed based on a certain fixed font size.  For a UI to properly work with scalable fonts requires the design itself to take that into account from the start similar to how HTML works in webpages.  ...

Aug 28, 2021 — I am proud to announce that this winter, we are going to release some long-anticipated ship balancing. Specifically, capital ship balancing. For a long time, there has been an outcry in the community that fleet fights are stagnating and are just not as fun as they should be. There are dozens, if not hundreds, of pages of forum threads dedicated to this subject both on the [official EVE Online forums](//forums.eveonline.com), other EVE forums, as well as in blogs and articles. There is no shor...

Aug 28, 2021 — As some of you might know we've been working on something called Corp Locations (formerly called corp bookmarks). The concept is quite simple really. Once Crucible is released, you will be able to share your bookmarks with your corp so anyone in the corp can see them and use them. Well, you're not exactly sharing them, what you are really doing is copying them and giving them to the corp. There is a little bit more to it than that though. To protect our server the corp bookmarks are cached so t...

Aug 28, 2021 — _"I like to melt stuff and I dislike stuff that doesn't melt"_  -Phoebe‘s brother in the TV show Friends Based on the Mentor, originally designed by Alexey M for the „[Create a starship](//evecontest.com/finalvote/)“ contest, the Oracle is the third player created spaceship coming out of warp in our upcoming winter expansion. [](//content.eveonline.com/www/newssystem/media/2791/3035/Mentor_Battlecruiser.j...

Aug 28, 2021 — Things have been afoot in the Jita solar system recently... ### WHAT IS JITA? For quite some time, the [Jita](//wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Trade_hub#Jita) solar system has been the most populated solar system in EVE Online on a sustained basis, having organically risen as the main player trade hub in game due to its location and the basic human need to gather together and trade stuff. It's had a varied reputation as [_wretched hive of scum, villainy and scammers_], [_representative product of...

Aug 28, 2021 — Killmails are great.  They serve as reminders of good fights (or dubious mistakes).  They let you measure losses inflicted on your enemy in cold hard ISK.  They also demonstrate some interesting choices in ship fitting, or cargo-movement attempts.  If you're so inclined, they provide a way to track your kill/death ratio, and measure it against your peers.  I especially like the ones where a pod gets squished.  But I’ve always felt that those pod-mails were missing a certain... something. **In t...

Aug 28, 2021 — Last week we mentioned in [this blog](//www.eveonline.com/devblog.asp?a=blog&nbid=3005) that CCP is in the process of bringing back the volunteer moderator program and I wanted to give you a progress update. The Community team is now accepting applications from prospective candidates who would be interested in becoming part of [ISD](//community.eveonline.com/community/volunteer-program/) (Interstellar Services Division) to join forces with us to keep the forums a lively and informative resource ...

Aug 28, 2021 — The subject says it all! Ok, it actually doesn‘t so I‘m going to write some more words about this. We are adding the option for every corporation in EVE to have it‘s own Corporation Forum, on the EVE Online forum. ### **Why are we doing this?** There are two reasons basically. We are very interested in providing corporations, particularly new and smaller corporations, with a community enhancing tool which boosts communication and corp cohesion without all the hassle of starting their own exte...

Aug 28, 2021 — I always find it fascinating how the most life threatening issues often come up from the smallest, most innocent moves. For instance, you could enjoy a meal at home, drop the dirty cutlery into the sink with the firm intention to clean it the day after, only to realize two weeks have passed and the kitchen is now inhabited by a new indigenous, hostile life-form derived from all the junk you forgot to wash during that time. The same shocking, and quite horrifying principles apply with ship balan...

Aug 28, 2021 — Patch notes For EVE Online: Odyssey 1.0.20 Released on Wednesday, August 21st 2013 ## CHANGES **Miscellaneous** * Optimization for the bug report system Patch notes For EVE Online: Odyssey 1.0.19 Released on Tuesday, August 13th 2013 ## CHANGES **Miscellaneous** * Updating the bug reporting tool in preparation for the launch of the new bug reporting system. Note that bug reporting is still disabled within the client. Further information about our bug reporting improvements can be ...

Aug 28, 2021 — Hello Spacefriends As [mentioned previously](//community.eveonline.com/devblog.asp?a=blog&nbid=72779), we are not at all happy with the state of the [unified inventory](//www.eveonline.com/inferno/unified-inventory-ftr/). To everyone that is currently struggling with it, you have my apologies. As a remedy, we’re going to try and provide you with weekly changes to it, until we get it into a state where you’re happy with it. Our first group of fixes will go out **Tuesday, May 29th**, and are as ...

Aug 28, 2021 — Greetings lovely Internet Spaceship pilots!  _Hanging some bots out to dry_ Some of you have rather astutely noticed by virtue of reading various shadey forums that we've taken some administrative action against some botters. I'm saving pretty pictures and graphs for Fanfest (I don't have any yet) but I'll say that the total number of accounts actioned against was more than 1000 and less than 2000\. I'm actually quite happy ...

Aug 28, 2021 — tl;dr This is a theory blog, there is no tl;dr. Sorry! **The top bit** So as you may or may not have heard, Team BFF are thinking about nullsec again, with an eye to making some improvements over the next year or so. In the past we've often started thinking about nullsec again because we were unhappy with our sovereignty mechanics (again), which leads into a nice self-contained area of work. This time our initial discussions were about resources and industry in nullsec, which are things that ...

Aug 28, 2021 — As we have [hinted at](//cdn1.eveonline.com/www/newssystem/media/2701/2918/Winter2011Ships01.jpg), the [Tornado](//news.deviantart.com/article/133951/), originally designed by [dreamwa1ker](//dreamwa1ker.deviantart.com/) from Deviant Art (Pattern Clarc in EVE), is warping into the 2011 winter expansion...and it‘s bringing friends. [](//content.eveonline.com/www/newssystem/media/2765/3001/Minmatar_02.jpg) We couldn‘t ...

Aug 28, 2021 — Hi! Here‘s a few more little things from Team BFF to make your life easier. We didn‘t have much time for doing this so we mostly just harvested good ideas from the forums and prioritized by how much work it would be to implement them (and things that I personally find annoying when playing EVE - heh). ## Filtering skills This was asked for a lot in the [comments](//forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=36240) thread for my last [devblog](//www.eveonline.com/devblog.asp?a=blog&nbid=3097)...

Aug 28, 2021 — Since [Time](//www.eveonline.com/devblog.asp?a=blog&bid=900) [Dilation](//www.eveonline.com/devblog.asp?a=blog&nbid=2437) (TiDi) was activated fully on Jan 18th, we’ve seen it trigger in many different places, from Jita to some of the [biggest spaceship slugfests](//eveswarm.com/2012/01/a-titans-folly-the-battle-of-92d/) we’ve seen in some time.  In all cases, it has kicked in appropriately when the server node has become overloaded, keeping things running responsively and sanely. I want to sha...