A node death occurred in the Forge market at 11:32. This node failure is currently impacting the cluster with multiple other systems now experiencing issues. Players may get disconnected if they are on affected nodes.
We are currently working on restoring all nodes to proper functionality. We will update with more details as they become available. Thank you for your patience.
Update 12:29: Systems have been restored and should now be working properly. There are some lingering issues with portal app functionality which we are working on resolving.
Imagine a victorian fabric loom, sometimes yarn gets jammed in a spindle or roller, or a roller needs lubricating so they send a small spritely person to go unjam or oil a roller. Well that sprite has just got caught and shredded by the loom, that is a node death.
CCP are mopping it up, don’t worry there are plenty more sprites.
A node is basically a server in the cluster (the network of servers) that make up the game. Each node runs various processes for the game to work - markets, character info, solar system simulations (the main flying around and doing stuff part of the game), etc.
When a node dies it takes with it all of the services which were assigned to it (these may vary day to day for most nodes as the system auto-allocates based on how much resources they’ve needed recently).
Here you can see the basic layout of the EVE cluster which makes up the game. The nodes in this image are the SOL and Proxy servers:
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