Following the release of the Dominion expansion we started to get reports from players about an increase in "fleet lag." Before we go any further, I would like to assure everyone that a taskforce of developers has been working on this continuously, but tracking down the source has proven a very difficult task.

So, what is the problem?

"Lag" is  an ambiguous term and can refer to  many things.

Dear EVE Players,

Along with the rest of the world, we at CCP have been following the devastating impact  of the earthquake of January 12 on the people of Haiti.  The situation is as dire as ever for Haiti's brave population, even with the rush of goodwill and aid from many countries, international organizations and countless individuals-including many of you.  In 2004 we assisted a collection amongst EVE players to help with the Southeast Asia Tsunami relief efforts and we have figured out a way to use our PLEX system to facilitate such a collection again.

Beginning January 29th, 2010 and ending February 15th, 2010, CCP will accept PLEX donations from players and convert them to a cash donation for the Red Cross efforts in Haiti.

Over the past few months capital ships have been through quite a few changes.  This blog aims to bring all of that under one umbrella and explain where things are headed in Dominion 1.1.

Motherships -> Supercarriers

The biggest news is that Supercarriers will make their long-awaited debut on Tranquility.

"We need awesome looking planets" - Torfi Frans.

The scrum team responsible for the updated planet graphics in Dominion was Team Oli Dan. Here we will explain how the planets came into existence; but the team also redid the star field background, created sovereignty structures, fighter bombers, and factional ships.

We have several types of planets in EVE: Gas giants, Temperate (Earthlike), Barren, Ocean, Storm, Ice and Lava.

The Council of Stellar Management is a process that is constantly being revised. It has to be because as a process it serves two constantly evolving entities - you, the player and EVE. Revision can however hardly be done without information and transparency. 

We want each CSM to be better than the last one, a measurement not necessarily a quantitative integer but also a qualitative measure.

Dominion has been a busy time for CCP as a whole, and the Content Team is no exception. Fresh off the release of Apocrypha 1.5, we tackled numerous tasks at once. Our primary contribution for Dominion, the pirate arcs, has already been detailed by CCP Jasonitas.

You have given so much to CCP through EVE Online. Massive fleet fights with untold destruction, a friendly arm to steady us during a Fanfest pub crawl, the ingenuity behind gaming‘s most compelling player stories and even the criticism that we need to follow the right path as stewards of EVE Online.

Introducing the fourth CSM *drumroll*

The election results have now been confirmed and we're pleased to announce who the delegates for the fourth CSM are:

Tomas Ljumovic ('ElvenLord') is the Council's chairman, having received the highest number of votes.

With EVE Online: Dominion about to be released, and most of the features covered in blogs and forum threads, one of the new upcoming Engineering improvements we're including is the awesome Client Repair Tool.

It does what it says on the tin; it repairs your client.

Often, with new releases, people run into issues downloading or patching their clients for a variety of reasons.

Team Cosmos Client, working closely with our cousins in Team Cosmos Web (seriously, this is Iceland, they are our actual cousins), have been working hard to bring you a shiny new mail system that functions much more like the mail clients we all use out of game.