Per the election schedule, the list of candidates who qualified for the nomination stage of the seventh Council of Stellar Management elections is now available. The final list of candidates that will appear on the ballot will be made available in a dev blog on February 29^th.

Good luck to all candidates and remember - every vote matters!

We will be conducting maintenance on some of our web servers on Wednesday, February 22, from 12:30 to 13:00 UTC. During that time the EVE Online forums and EVE Gate will be unavailable.

Thank you for your understanding.

EVE Online: Crucible 1.2.1 has been deployed successfully. This update introduces crash fixes and improvements to the user interface based on player feedback. The full patch notes are available here.

Please report any issues with Crucible 1.2.1 here; a thread for general feedback is available here.

As part of our plan to cause death to the Session Change Timer, we will once again reduce it in tomorrow's daily downtime.

It is currently at 15 seconds but will be set to 10 seconds tomorrow.

"A new pilot, reborn as one of the universe's immortal elite, is presented with a glimpse of the dangerous and opportunity-filled future that awaits them."

We proudly present the latest work from our video team, The Awakening.

EVE Online: Crucible 1.2 has been deployed successfully. This update introduces considerable client performance improvements as well as fixes for the UI and the Mac client. The full patch notes are available here.

Please report any issues with Crucible 1.2 here; a thread for general feedback is available here.

Crucible 1.2 will be deployed during the regular daily downtime tomorrow, Thursday the 16th of February. No extended downtime is scheduled.

Most notably, Crucible 1.2 brings some exciting performance improvements to the EVE client which we hope will make your space violence all the more enjoyable.

The patch notes can be found here.

Every pilot attending Fanfest in Iceland at the end of March, will receive a couple of unique in-game collectors items. An Iteron Mark IV Quafe Ultra edition ship, and a Quafe 2012 t-shirt.

Click here to read more about the two items and click here to buy your Fanfest ticket!

Downtime on Wednesday, February 15 has been extended to 12:00 UTC due to ongoing server configuration changes.

Thank you for your understanding.

EVE Online: Crucible 1.2 is scheduled for deployment on Thursday, February 16. The downtime schedule will be announced as soon as it is available.

A variety of client performance improvements will be introduced with Crucible 1.2. More information about client performance improvements is available in this devblog.