# Daily Downloads **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Created:** [December 10, 2025, 11:13am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/daily-downloads/502753 "2025-12-10T11:13:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![DeMichael\_Crimson](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/demichael_crimson/32/514115_2.png) [@DeMichael\_Crimson](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/DeMichael_Crimson)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2026, 4:06am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/daily-downloads/502753/61 "2026-01-30T04:06:37Z")
> [@Meridan\_Night](#): > > These daily downloads affect players who have checked ‘download full client’. I get them. Not on weekends, but Mon-Fri it’s mostly every day that these ‘‘mini-patches’’ get downloaded. Mine are usually 120MB on a Mac, but sometimes there are multiple additional downloads adding up to around 200-300MB per day. I don’t have ‘Download Full Client’ checked in the Launcher on my HP Desktop running Windows 11 which is getting those mini downloads almost daily… Obviously everybody has different computer systems which might explain why everybody has different experiences with it… Here’s an old thread from July 2024 about it: > [@Launcher Updates](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/launcher-updates/455539): > > What is it with the 170+ MB launcher updates every single day? There has only been one day out of the past two weeks that my launcher hasn’t downloaded an update. Edit: Now it just downloaded another 650 MB ---
**Author:** ![Dyver\_Phycad](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/dyver_phycad/32/358575_2.png) [@Dyver\_Phycad](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Dyver_Phycad)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2026, 5:20am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/daily-downloads/502753/62 "2026-01-30T05:20:01Z")
> [@Namdor](#): > > Where are you getting an undocumented patch from? Only the 8.9 MB game patch yesterday are officially documented. The 200 MB patch prior to that are not. Both patches should be in the patch notes because that is what patch notes are meant for. ---
**Author:** ![Namdor](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/namdor/32/396179_2.png) [@Namdor](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Namdor)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2026, 5:26am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/daily-downloads/502753/63 "2026-01-30T05:26:19Z")
> Only the 8.9 MB game patch yesterday are officially documented. Wrong. The launcher updates are documented in the launcher changelog, right in the launcher. That aside, your expectations of how patch notes “should” work don’t really comport with reality. There are plenty of valid reasons for not publishing customer-facing notes for every last change. Some updates are likely pre-staging for future updates that aren’t live yet. Many simply don’t warrant a note - they’re not going to tell you about it every time they refactor something with no user-facing changes. ---
**Author:** ![Dyver\_Phycad](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/dyver_phycad/32/358575_2.png) [@Dyver\_Phycad](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Dyver_Phycad)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2026, 6:51am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/daily-downloads/502753/64 "2026-01-30T06:51:44Z")
Reading comprehension. These are not Launcher updates. The 200 MB undocumented patches are game client updates. Launcher patches are not downloaded like game updates and are not visible in the download line at the bottom of the launcher. Every patchnotes that I have seen so far in my life list even small changes because they are the reference to figure out what’s going on with the software you use and if something goes wrong. CCP is so far the only company that patches stuff undocumented in such a regular and recurring fashion. ---
**Author:** ![DeMichael\_Crimson](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/demichael_crimson/32/514115_2.png) [@DeMichael\_Crimson](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/DeMichael_Crimson)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2026, 9:30am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/daily-downloads/502753/65 "2026-01-30T09:30:44Z")
> [@Namdor](#): > > The launcher updates are documented in the launcher changelog, right in the launcher. Actually, only a few of the Launcher updates are documented in the changelog… Back in July and August of 2024, I recorded all Launcher activity for each day during that time period… During those 2 months, there was a total of 24 days of downloads and the changelog only contained documentation for 4 of those downloads… > [@Launcher Updates](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/launcher-updates/455539/40): > > Figured I’d update my post on Launcher Downloads… This is a copy of my Daily Launcher Notes… July play_button Summary August play_button Summary ---
**Author:** ![Geo\_Eclipse\_Oksaras](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/geo_eclipse_oksaras/32/500781_2.png) [@Geo\_Eclipse\_Oksaras](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Geo_Eclipse_Oksaras)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2026, 11:04am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/daily-downloads/502753/66 "2026-01-30T11:04:42Z")
i can’t find the comment, but ccp, i think swift has stated that not every patch will have notes. ---
**Author:** ![Synthetic\_Infomorph](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/synthetic_infomorph/32/489149_2.png) [@Synthetic\_Infomorph](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Synthetic_Infomorph)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2026, 12:03pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/daily-downloads/502753/67 "2026-01-30T12:03:26Z")
> [@Dyver\_Phycad](#): > > CCP is so far the only company that patches stuff undocumented in such a regular and recurring fashion. CCP are actually unusually good at documenting patches. With most companies we are lucky to get ”improves stability” in the patch notes, CCP regularly documents even small changes in the translated descriptions in the Chinese client. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Rochard](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/john_rochard/32/373864_2.png) [@John\_Rochard](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/John_Rochard)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2026, 12:36pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/daily-downloads/502753/68 "2026-01-30T12:36:59Z")
Even if you had an online game running on multiple server shards, shunting users to different shards to perform routine server maintenance, then you still must shutdown to update all the client software on the player’s PC. The model CCP chose is rapid maintenance with multiple updates per week. The alternative is longer maintenance with fewer weekly updates. Regardless of the chosen model, all servers do update files while you are interacting. Most of the time the only files sent and received are compressed informational packets. If there is a missing texture for example, then it can be downloaded on the go as needed. Even when a player is sitting in dock reading their mail, the server looks in to see what you are doing and updates the changes. It is just how things work. As to the content of updates, I would not think there is any concern of a hidden agenda. There are far too many players on these games who are code monkeys, that would quick detect and report shenanigans on Reddit and YouTube. Fly safe o7 ---
**Author:** ![Meridan\_Night](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/meridan_night/32/488304_2.png) [@Meridan\_Night](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Meridan_Night)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2026, 12:42pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/daily-downloads/502753/69 "2026-01-30T12:42:08Z")
> [@John\_Rochard](#): > > Even when a player is sitting in dock reading their mail, the server looks in to see what you are doing and updates the changes. I rarely --if ever-- get updates for EVE client outside DT patch. Launcher, yes, client no. ---
**Author:** ![Namdor](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/namdor/32/396179_2.png) [@Namdor](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Namdor)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2026, 12:43pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/daily-downloads/502753/70 "2026-01-30T12:43:30Z")
> [@Dyver\_Phycad](#): > > Every patchnotes that I have seen so far in my life list even small changes This is just a delusional belief of the you-don’t-know-what-you-don’t-know variety. > [@Dyver\_Phycad](#): > > The 200 MB undocumented patches are game client updates. If the build number didn’t change then no, it isn’t, but you’re wrong about which update is which, I bet. Eta: Yep, you’re wrong again. The 200mb update is build #3183544, which you keep attributing to an 8MB DL because you don’t actually know what you’re talking about but aren’t going to let that get in the way of being a relentless malcontent. The 8MB file is just a prefetch file. Both files are part of the same build, not individual updates. Once again, you keep assuming that every individual file the launcher downloads constitutes a separate update to the game client and that isn’t actually the case. `2026-01-29 11:07:19.007 app info: [server-manager] Previous tranquility build: 3182286, current build: 3183544` `2026-01-29 11:07:19.021 app info: [quasar-elg-events] Queueing event eve_launcher.electron.eve_client.GameClientUpdateStarted` `2026-01-29 11:07:19.023 app info: [server-manager] Starting download of build 3183544 for tranquility.` `2026-01-29 11:07:19.388 app info: [manifest] Excluded 42 files from the manifest, leaving 184 entries` `2026-01-29 11:07:19.389 app info: [server-manager] Downloading 184 binary files (212 MB)` `2026-01-29 11:07:19.390 app info: [download-from-manifest] Preparing to download 184 files { cdn: 1, concurrent: 10 }` `2026-01-29 11:07:19.708 app info: [quasar-elg-events] Event sent ``type.evetech.net/eve_launcher.electron.eve_client.GameClientUpdateStarted` `2026-01-29 11:07:20.511 app info: [server-manager] Downloaded 12.92 MiB/201.98 MiB at 7.96 MiB/s` `2026-01-29 11:07:21.523 app info: [server-manager] Downloaded 31.98 MiB/201.98 MiB at 19.17 MiB/s` `2026-01-29 11:07:22.524 app info: [server-manager] Downloaded 50.53 MiB/201.98 MiB at 27.89 MiB/s` `2026-01-29 11:07:23.528 app info: [server-manager] Downloaded 67.16 MiB/201.98 MiB at 19.48 MiB/s` `2026-01-29 11:07:24.532 app info: [server-manager] Downloaded 81.71 MiB/201.98 MiB at 19.52 MiB/s` `2026-01-29 11:07:25.537 app info: [server-manager] Downloaded 100.19 MiB/201.98 MiB at 27.63 MiB/s` `2026-01-29 11:07:26.544 app info: [server-manager] Downloaded 119.15 MiB/201.98 MiB at 9.08 MiB/s` `2026-01-29 11:07:27.548 app info: [server-manager] Downloaded 137.51 MiB/201.98 MiB at 18.97 MiB/s` `2026-01-29 11:07:28.548 app info: [server-manager] Downloaded 155.99 MiB/201.98 MiB at 18.50 MiB/s` `2026-01-29 11:07:29.548 app info: [server-manager] Downloaded 171.78 MiB/201.98 MiB at 16.94 MiB/s` `2026-01-29 11:07:30.550 app info: [server-manager] Downloaded 188.05 MiB/201.98 MiB at 24.30 MiB/s` `2026-01-29 11:07:31.474 app info: [download-from-manifest] Downloaded 184 files (200.03 MiB) in 12.83 seconds` `2026-01-29 11:07:31.474 app info: [download-from-manifest] Average download speed: 16.55 MiB/s` `2026-01-29 11:07:31.532 app info: [quasar-elg-events] Queueing event eve_launcher.electron.eve_client.CopyingFilesStarted` `2026-01-29 11:07:31.533 app info: [binary-copier] Copying 226 files (408 MB) to ‘C:\EVE\SharedCache\tq’` `2026-01-29 11:07:31.534 app info: [quasar-elg-events] Event sent ``type.evetech.net/eve_launcher.electron.eve_client.CopyingFilesStarted` `2026-01-29 11:07:31.558 app info: [server-manager] Downloaded 201.98 MiB/201.98 MiB at 9.22 MiB/s` `2026-01-29 11:07:31.693 app info: [binary-copier] Removing old binaries` `2026-01-29 11:07:31.717 app info: [binary-copier] Copying binaries from ResFiles` `2026-01-29 11:07:31.859 app info: [binary-copier] Finished copying 226 files to ‘C:\EVE\SharedCache\tq’ in 0.329 seconds` `2026-01-29 11:07:31.860 app info: [quasar-elg-events] Queueing event eve_launcher.electron.eve_client.CopyingFilesFinished` `2026-01-29 11:07:31.861 app info: [quasar-elg-events] Event sent ``type.evetech.net/eve_launcher.electron.eve_client.CopyingFilesFinished` `2026-01-29 11:07:31.863 app info: [server-manager] No prerequisites found for product eve-online` `2026-01-29 11:07:32.726 app info: [server-manager] Copying executables 226/226` `2026-01-29 11:07:33.626 app info: [manifest] Excluded 52022 files from the manifest, leaving 1 entries` `2026-01-29 11:07:33.626 app info: [server-manager] Downloading 1 prefetch files (8.8 MB)` `2026-01-29 11:07:33.627 app info: [download-from-manifest] Preparing to download 1 files { cdn: 2, concurrent: 10 }` `2026-01-29 11:07:33.750 app info: [server-manager] Copying executables 226/226` `2026-01-29 11:07:34.358 app info: [download-from-manifest] Downloaded 1 files (7.60 MiB) in 0.731 seconds` `2026-01-29 11:07:34.358 app info: [download-from-manifest] Average download speed: 10.39 MiB/s` `2026-01-29 11:07:34.660 app info: [manifest] Excluded 3198 files from the manifest, leaving 0 entries` `2026-01-29 11:07:34.660 app info: [server-manager] Downloading 0 prefetch files (0 B)` `2026-01-29 11:07:34.661 app warn: [download-from-manifest] The manifest contained no entries to download { cdn: 2 }` `2026-01-29 11:07:34.661 app info: [download-from-manifest] Downloaded 0 files (0.00 B) in Unknown time` `2026-01-29 11:07:34.661 app info: [download-from-manifest] Average download speed: 0.00 B/s` `2026-01-29 11:07:34.893 app info: [server-manager] Downloaded 0.00 B/0.00 B at 0.00 B/s` `2026-01-29 11:07:35.282 app info: [manifest] Excluded 118283 files from the manifest, leaving 0 entries` `2026-01-29 11:07:35.283 app info: [server-manager] Downloading 0 prefetch files (0 B)` `2026-01-29 11:07:35.283 app warn: [download-from-manifest] The manifest contained no entries to download { cdn: 2 }` `2026-01-29 11:07:35.292 app info: [download-from-manifest] Downloaded 0 files (0.00 B) in Unknown time` `2026-01-29 11:07:35.292 app info: [download-from-manifest] Average download speed: 0.00 B/s` `2026-01-29 11:07:35.294 app info: [quasar-elg-events] Queueing event eve_launcher.electron.eve_client.GameClientUpdateFinished` `2026-01-29 11:07:35.295 app info: [server-manager] Downloaded 0.00 B/0.00 B at 0.00 B/s` `2026-01-29 11:07:35.296 app info: [server-manager] Ready to play!` `2026-01-29 11:07:35.297 app info: [server-manager] Finished refresh cycle for tranquility` `2026-01-29 11:07:35.297 app info: [server-manager] Build for tranquility is now 3183544` ---
**Author:** ![John\_Rochard](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/john_rochard/32/373864_2.png) [@John\_Rochard](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/John_Rochard)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2026, 12:59pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/daily-downloads/502753/71 "2026-01-30T12:59:58Z")
> [@Meridan\_Night](#): > > Launcher, yes, client no. If you read anything I have ever said about the launcher, I am no fan of the Chromium source code either. They basically used Google Chrome open source for this launcher. Many online games use a simple web browser interface to access the account and start the client. However it doesn’t need to be this complicated. Unless the client needs to be updated, the game client should be able to log you into the game directly. However CCP has apparently made it impossible to log in using only the client software. Fly safe o7 ---
**Author:** ![Dyver\_Phycad](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/dyver_phycad/32/358575_2.png) [@Dyver\_Phycad](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Dyver_Phycad)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2026, 1:25pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/daily-downloads/502753/72 "2026-01-30T13:25:11Z")
> [@Namdor](#): > > The 8MB file is just a prefetch file. Both files are part of the same build, not individual updates. Once again, you keep assuming that every individual file the launcher downloads constitutes a separate update to the game client and that isn’t actually the case. See? That’s the issue. You don’t know what belongs to which download. But thank you for finally confirming to yourself and others that there are 2 patches by virtue of your list. Let that sink in. If you look up to 4d ago and 10d ago, I do not think that there are 960 MB or 164 MB prefatch files. I don’t attribute anything in the wrong way, because the launcher and the patch notes do not give any information about what’s going on. I do not assume that any download is a separate update to the game, that’s what you assume. I only assume that something is being downloaded in 2 patches of which only one is listed in the patchnotes, and I want to know what the other payload is. I’ve never said anything besides that one point. ---
**Author:** ![Namdor](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/namdor/32/396179_2.png) [@Namdor](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Namdor)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2026, 1:28pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/daily-downloads/502753/73 "2026-01-30T13:28:13Z")
> [@Dyver\_Phycad](#): > > I only assume that something is being downloaded in 2 patches of which only one is listed in the patchnotes, and I want to know what the other payload is. It is literally just part of the same payload, what part of this is too difficult to wrap your mind around? They’re not separate patches, they’re stages of the same patch. The “patch” isn’t the act of downloading some individual file, it is the update of the client from version X to version \>X. ---
**Author:** ![Dyver\_Phycad](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/dyver_phycad/32/358575_2.png) [@Dyver\_Phycad](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Dyver_Phycad)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2026, 1:35pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/daily-downloads/502753/74 "2026-01-30T13:35:53Z")
> [@Namdor](#): > > It is literally just part of the same payload, what part of this is too difficult to wrap your mind around? Because it’s highly unusual from virtually any other commercially used update process. No other game, no launcher, no productivity software I use downloads updates like CCP does. CCP also never explained this shift in the patchin paradigm. It just suddenly started to happen in typical intransparent CCP fashion. ---
**Author:** ![Namdor](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/namdor/32/396179_2.png) [@Namdor](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Namdor)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2026, 1:39pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/daily-downloads/502753/75 "2026-01-30T13:39:44Z")
> [@Dyver\_Phycad](#): > > Because it’s highly unusual from virtually any other commercially used update process. In what way do you imagine it is “highly unusual”? It’s basically just a CI/CD-ish cadence, which is not unusual in 2026 at all. ---
**Author:** ![Gleb\_Koskov](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/gleb_koskov/32/374138_2.png) [@Gleb\_Koskov](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Gleb_Koskov)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2026, 1:39pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/daily-downloads/502753/76 "2026-01-30T13:39:55Z")
Lets fix on our semantics and not call them ‘patches’ but bug fixes. ---
**Author:** ![Antihrist\_Pripravnik](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/antihrist_pripravnik/32/502236_2.png) [@Antihrist\_Pripravnik](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Antihrist_Pripravnik)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2026, 9:58am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/daily-downloads/502753/77 "2026-01-31T09:58:16Z")
> [@Namdor](#): > > > [@Dyver\_Phycad](#): > > > > Because it’s highly unusual from virtually any other commercially used update process. > > In what way do you imagine it is “highly unusual”? It’s basically just a CI/CD-ish cadence, which is not unusual in 2026 at all As a software developer, I can confirm this. My projects use the same process. The real problem lies in local bad cash-grabbing anti-consumer ISPs. No ISP in 2026 should charge based on used bandwidth. I live in a part of the World that even God forgot about, and we still didn’t have this Internet access payment model for the last 15+ years. I don’t have any problems with downloads. It’s just a couple of seconds of waiting before starting to play. Nothing to even think about, let alone being bothered by it. If anyone has a problem with downloads, maybe it’s time to put some pressure on your ISP, or even local legislators to eliminate charging per GB and improve Internet infrastructure. Going to individual services that you are using and blaming them will go nowhere, especially since unlimited download is considered a standard for decades in most even remotely developed parts of the World. ---
**Author:** ![BangoSKank](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/bangoskank/32/493034_2.png) [@BangoSKank](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/BangoSKank)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2026, 2:37pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/daily-downloads/502753/78 "2026-03-06T14:37:58Z")
Why do you care so much? I’ve played this game on and off for 20 years. Nobody I know has ever had any problem with the update system, apart from all the people who whine about unexpected downtime and demand free SP. Who cares about a 200mb update? It takes almost no time at all. What do you think they’re doing to your computer? Have you a reason for being so worried about it? ---
**Author:** ![Dyver\_Phycad](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/dyver_phycad/32/358575_2.png) [@Dyver\_Phycad](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Dyver_Phycad)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2026, 3:57pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/daily-downloads/502753/79 "2026-03-06T15:57:24Z")
> [@BangoSKank](#): > > Have you a reason for being so worried about it? A guy who played for 20 years should know about boot.ini. ---
**Author:** ![baron\_von\_fish](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/baron_von_fish/32/493443_2.png) [@baron\_von\_fish](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/baron_von_fish)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2026, 2:49pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/daily-downloads/502753/80 "2026-03-11T14:49:09Z")
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