eve-online.com | news from EvEEVE: The Second Genesis, is a massively multiplayer, online, persistent world game. Players are spaceship captains cruising around a distant universe, trading, fighting and communicating with other playersUnscheduled reboot at GMT 18:45- December 17, 2003 Dear customers, unfortunately we have to do a quick reboot due to stuck crisis.http://myeve.eve-online.com/news.asp?a=single&nid=247&tid=1 Ishukone CEO Gariushi unveils Crielere discoveries- December 17, 2003 Otro Gariushi, CEO of Ishukone has announced that recent discoveries made at the ultra secret Crielere labs are to made freely available to the public. <br><br> Lead scientists at Crielere labs today published a detailed white paper describing possible manufacturing methods using a relatively unknown mineral named morphite. Driven by advances in deep core mining, the team has found an economically feasible method of using the mineral, found in mercoxit ore, for mass production....http://myeve.eve-online.com/news.asp?a=single&nid=246&tid=4 Castor NPCs- December 17, 2003 Are considerably more powerful than Gemini NPCs. They are both more clever and have T2 at their disposal. Be very careful in lower security systems. Use the 50 km warp-in option to case before you attack. Also note that Microwarp Drives and Afterburners now take mass into account so you need frigate, cruiser and battle ship variants.http://myeve.eve-online.com/news.asp?a=single&nid=245&tid=1 Castor is here- December 17, 2003 Finally we managed to fix the server side bug that prevented us from finishing the update within the originally expected downtime. Many thanks from us to everyone for your patience and understanding. Expect a bumpy ride over the next days while we see the full effect of this patch. So please be careful out there the first days, don't take any unnecessary chances. We highly recommend you read about the changes in Castor.http://myeve.eve-online.com/news.asp?a=single&nid=244&tid=1 Downtime update- December 16, 2003 Dear players,<br> We want to update you about the reason for the delays in the downtime. <br><br> We are sorry to inform you that weve had an unexpected server side problem when starting up the cluster after the Castor update. Because of the complexity of our cluster environment were unfortunately unable to reproduce the cluster setup environment fully in our testing environment. <br><br> Our dev team is working as we speak on analysing the problem and we...http://myeve.eve-online.com/news.asp?a=single&nid=243&tid=1 Market bids and factoryresearch jobs- December 16, 2003 As a part of the Techlevel 2 upgrade we have cancelled all market buy orders (bids).<br> <br> We have also completed all manufacturing, research and duplication, regardless of the time remaining.<br> <br> This was done to prevent people from losing resources due to changed market and manufacturing dynamics.http://myeve.eve-online.com/news.asp?a=single&nid=242&tid=1 Special downtime today at GMT 16:00 - 22:00 due to the release of Castor- December 16, 2003 Dear customers, there will be a special downtime between GMT 16:00 - 22:00 today to deploy Castor. Note that everyone with build 1238 will have to manually patch to 1352 We recommend you read about the changes in Castor in here. Most notable is the new Tech Level being introduced but a number of changes have been done to travel, standings, research, speed boosting modules and the market. NPC's have also had a considerable boost so watch out if you are traveling in 0.4 space or less, they...http://myeve.eve-online.com/news.asp?a=single&nid=241&tid=1 Prepare for Castor- December 16, 2003 We want to keep you updated on the progress of Castor. Some last minute bugs showed up in our final intensive testing, which we are fixing as we speak. We will let you know about the special downtime when Castor gets the final approval from the testing department. To prepare for Castor we encourage everyone with build version 1238 to patch manually to version 1254 as the autopatcher in version 1238 has been found not to work in many cases. To patch, simply click on the link to the patch,..http://myeve.eve-online.com/news.asp?a=single&nid=240&tid=1 Castor deployment update- December 15, 2003 Just to keep you updated, we are working feverishly on testing the new patch, commonly called Castor. It will be deployed as soon as we consider it healthy enough today or the next couple of days. We will have a special downtime for the update so you don't need to wait for the next scheduled downtime. <p> And as with large patches, expect a bumpy ride the next couple of days - so be careful out there ;-)http://myeve.eve-online.com/news.asp?a=single&nid=239&tid=1 Castor Update Overview- December 14, 2003 Eight has compiled a splendid overview of some of the changes players can expect to see in the Castor update that we're planning to release Monday, December 15. Check it out herehttp://myeve.eve-online.com/news.asp?a=single&nid=238&tid=1 |