We are currently investigating the cause of a mass disconnect that dropped ~7,000 pilots. Please stay tuned for more information.
15:30 UTC
Investigation is still ongoing as we check our login servers and the health of Tranquility.
15:45 UTC
Investigation into these issues is still ongoing. We sincerely apologize for the interruption to gameplay.
16:00 UTC
The source of the issue has been confirmed to be a DDoS attack against Tranquility and associated services. We are currently working to stablize things and resolve the situation.
16:15 UTC
Connectivity to Tranquility has now been restored and the cluster is behaving normally. we are currently monitoring the state of the cluster.
ROUND TWO OF ISSUES!
18:15 UTC
Numerous reports of login issues are being received now, we are currently working on investigating the cause of these problems.
18:30 UTC
Tranquility is now stable again - We are monitoring performance and network stability.
Well, after the Devblog on the Summer Challenges a lot of CCP staff were enthusiastic to get to work and tackle any and all issues, after all, they have such wonderful, sweet and adoring customers. On top of that, the Hamsters that run the EVE server cluster are pretty awesome too.
But in order to work hard, you have to eat well. So people did just that.
But they had this one trainee, who saw a book title at CCP’s office, and got things a little mixed up.