Patch Notes for Trinity 1.0.1
Trinity 1.0.1 Patch Notes, released 18 December 2007
Linux and Mac Client
- General stability fixes for both Mac and Linux clients have been added.
- An issue where closing the Mac EVE client would cause a lockup has been fixed.
- The Mac client will now use the current OS resolution as a default rather than the hard coded settings.
- Windows should no longer turn inside out.
- Mac client users can now use Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V to copy and paste both in-game and desktop.
- EVE Voice should now work under Mac OS Leopard. Now ransomers can hear their victims sing "Dancing Queen".
- Some missing Unicode clipboard formats have been added.
NPE & Tutorials
- The drones tutorial no longer blanks out when the starmap is open nor will it lock up in certain circumstances.
- The tutorial window will no longer disappear if the screen size is decreased.
- Containers in tutorial dungeons have been fixed to be usable by characters going through the tutorial.
- Under certain rare circumstances, new characters would be thrown in the trash when entering the game in-station. This has been resolved in a hotfix earlier.
Skills and Implants
- The Nanite Operation skill has been fixed.
- A rare case where a jump clone would lose its implants after a jump has been resolved in a hotfix earlier.
Drones
- Drones no longer instantly recharge their shields when recalled to the drone bay.
NPCs
- NPCs have been ordered to cease their attacks on secure containers in space. This issue was hotfixed earlier.
- NPC bounties will now be processed correctly at downtime.
Missions
- Activities performed by drones now count towards determining whether a mission is complete - specifically, using mining drones would prevent mining missions from completing properly.
- The issues with the mission Pot and Kettle - Seek and Destroy (4 of 5) have been resolved.
- Objectives for the mission In the Shadow of War (1 of 5) have been clarified.
- Security agents are no longer giving out mining missions. No more milk runs!
Science and Industry
- Combat Recon ships can be manufactured once again.
Starbases
- A number of hotfixes have been applied since Trinity's deployment to resolve numerous issues with starbases and their shields.
- Launching a jump bridge array no longer locks the Premium Graphics Content client up.
- The name change of the reactor arrays that occured in the Trinity release broke all existing connected Starbase structures. This was resolved as part of a hotfix.
- The cause of the starbase shield reset at downtime has been found and resolved as part of a hotfix.
- An error that was preventing the Cynosural System Jammer from operating correctly has been resolved as part of a hotfix.
- Damaged control towers will no longer cause problems with the loading of a Starbase while the solarsystem is loading. This was resolved in a hotfix earlier.
- A situation where modules requiring a specific sovereignty level would break a starbase on system load has been resolved as part of a hotfix.
- An issue with jump bridges not working for non-corporation members has been identified and resolved.
Corporations & Alliances
- Corporation mails are no longer sent to all members with a title.
- A major issue with the corporation registry has been fixed.
Killmails
- An exception that would prevent kill details from showing up has been fixed.
- A bug where NPC data would overwrite a player's entry in the kill database has been fixed.
Star Map
- Star Map is no longer grayed out when no region names have been selected in Labels.
- An issue preventing the Star Map from displaying properly after viewing solar system map has been resolved.
Other
- Numerous server-side errors have been resolved. These will have no visible in game effect, but server-side performance has improved.
- Extraneous bulkdata should no longer be downloaded when logging into EVE. This should decrease login time.
- The login screen should no longer be spammed with error messages.
- Account names and installation folders with Unicode characters are now fully supported.
- An exception thrown by the In-Game Browser has been fixed.
- Nanite repair paste can now be stored in all hangar divisions, not just the first.
- The new gas cloud resources can now be seen on the market.
- Overview behavior while minimized has been optimized.
- The displayed log entries for derived standing changes were incorrect. This issue has been fixed moving forward. The dervied standings themselves were correctly calculated.
- The locked targets display origin point will no longer be hidden under the Neocom in certain circumstances.
- The undocking point for certain stations has been moved so that undocking ships remaining within the docking perimeter.
- An error with loyalty point processing has been fixed.
- The region names approved for the recently open "drone regions" have been added to the starmap.
- Leaving voice on in a channel now shows properly on other player's clients.
- Selected items are again added into the contract selection when a contract is started through a right click on one of the selected items.
- A number of server log issues have been resolved. The server log should no longer be spammed with error entries.
- A large number of sound issues have been resolved.
- Sounds that error out and do not replay until a client reboot have been resolved.
- Non-English characters in certain circumstances would create petition issues. This has been resolved.
Settings
- The graphics cache setting has been added to the classic client.
- An error in the "Restart after changing graphics settings" window has been fixed.
- The "Sun is occluded by ships" option now applies to items on the login screen.
Graphics
- LOD processing for shadows has been improved.
- The drone interface window will no longer disappear when drones are launched.
- An issue causing the character selection screen would shift to blue has been resolved.
- Rendering of blueprint icons has been fixed.
- A problem where ship icons would be re-rendered an unnecessary number of times has been resolved.
- Certain cloaked ships now display properly on the cloaked player's client.
- The Minmatar have repaired the plasma routing on their military and mining stations.
- A glowing problem with the Tribal Issue Tempest has been fixed.
- The Light Electron Blaster II now has the correct model in the premium client.
- Lasers no longer have strange interactions with glass surfaces when bloom is enabled.
- NPCs now leave thruster trails.
- Capture Portrait works correctly again.
- Several issues with display and animation of mining lasers and strip miners have been fixed.
- The cloaking effect in the Premium Graphics Content client has been changed. The effect has less Strobing™ and more Throbbing™.
- Sentry Drone models are no longer Missing In Action.
- Gallente ship models have been touched up with darker colors and shinier metal surfaces.
- Bloom state leakage should no longer occur, especially on the log-in screen.
- GMs are able to make adjust wallet balances as needed. This was fixed in a hotfix earlier.
- The API access to data has been optimized in a special release.
Patching
- A warning indicating that a DirectX file was not installed because of user privileges has been added.
- The content patch from classic to premium should now check to ensure sufficient hard drive space before installing.
- The premium content upgrade will now warn that it is about to close EVE before it starts the process.
Exploit Fixes
- Contracts for ships with modules fitted will no longer cause a ship to be unable to undock.
- Customs officials have resumed issuing fines and confiscating illegal cargo.
Please note: No Windows system files were harmed during the creation or deployment of this patch.
Trinity 1.0.1-1 Server-side changes deployed 9 January 2008
- An issue causing the random unlinking of jump arrays after downtimes has been resolved.
- The issue causing situations where starbases would starting up with only 50% shields has been resolved.
- In rare situations, an issue would cause starbases to not work properly after system startup. This has been resolved.
- Some pre-Trinity release Rorquals were not upgraded to 4 production lines. This has been resolved.
- Some R&D agent missions were not working properly due to a server-side error. This error has been resolved.
Trinity 1.0.1-2 Server-side changes deployed 15 January 2008
- Fixed an exploit that could cause a node to crash.
- Fixed an exploit that would allow people to view the contents of a courier mission package prior to accepting.
Trinity 1.0.1-3 Server-side changes deployed 16 January 2008
- Forum upgrades
Trinity 1.0.1-4 Client-side changes deployed 17 January 2008
- This client-side change was revoked.
Trinity 1.0.1-5 Server-side changes deployed 24 January 2008
- Control tower shields will no longer drop to 50% after downtime.
- It is no longer possible to either create 0-run BPCs through blueprint copying nor to invent from 0-run BPCs.
- Fixes to derived standings logs.
Trinity 1.0.1-5.1 Server-side change deployed 30 January 2008
- Moving Nanite Repair Paste into any Capital Ship Corporate hangar division EXCEPT division 1 caused the Paste to simply vanish. This issue has been resolved.
Trinity 1.0.1-5.2 Server-side change deployed 6 February 2008
- Ships have been unfitted based in changes done in the Trinity expansion in December. For more details please see this news item.