With his latest Dev Blog, Hammeread is reminding all the players that the last time that he asked them "What are the top ten things you would like to see fixed, introduced or removed from EVE" their feedback has been seriously taken into consideration during the successive months.
He thinks it is now the time to ask again for a similar top ten, which should now take into consideration the current status of the game after the Revelations patches.

The EVE Online server downtime will be longer today as the Revelations 1.3 patch is being released. This update will rearrange some jump routes, remove asteroid belts and universities from busy systems, fix the mail bug, improve salvaging and more.
For the patch notes of any previous update please check the EVE Online patch notes archive.

The belgian website Force Feedback has an interview (in english) with CCP about the recent launch of the first chapter of the Revelations free content expansion, the merge between CCP and White Wolf, the possibility to walk on stations and much more. Enjoy!

The network infrastructure changes have been completed and Tranquility has returned to full service. A list of yesterday's tasks included:

• The addition of more multihoming capability for Tranquility,
• Replacment of older routers, switches and load balancers with new equipment,
• Upgrade to Cisco Bladecenter architecture, thus providing a roughly 700 Gb backbone in the data center,
• Installion of a new service pack for the Tranquility database, and
• The addition of 6 new servers for present and future improvements of the Billing system.

When fighting NPCs in EVE Online it is very important to be able to tank the right type of damage and to hit the weakest spots of your enemies. If you ever wondered what type of damage the Angel Cartel ships mostly inflict, or what kind of ammos is better to use against a Caldari Navy cruiser, you might find this guide to NPC Damage Types useful.

Tomorrow the EVE Online Tranquility cluster will be brought offline for about 12 hours to allow network infrastructure changes and database server software updates.
During the following 12 hours the network connection with the game server might be unstable, for the reason CCP announced that users logging in the 4th January 2007 will be playing 'at risk' and will not be reimbursed for losses incurred by upgrade related issues.

One day after the deployment of the new expansion Revelations, the EVE Online quality assurance team has started to collect bug reports and complains from the players.
At the moment only minor issues seems to be present, with the exception of a rare serious issue that makes players loose skillpoints after jumping to a system where a node has recently died.
A bug fixing patch is scheduled for the 5th of December. In the meantime here is the known bug list.

The Revelations expansion has been released. The patch notes we published yesterday as preliminary have been officialized and our EVE Online patch notes archive has been updated.

Starting from tomorrow morning the EVE Online cluster should be unavailable for 24 hours to release the first part of the game free content expansion Revelations.
A summary of the new features that will be introduced can be found on the EVE Online Website. Detailed preliminary patch notes follows.

The OGRank Eve Online Patch Notes Archive has been updated and now includes also the patch notes for the update 5245 to 27121 which changed the timer for declining a mission without receiving a faction penality and improved the client autopatcher.