EVE Online API sends apps offline

by Krystalle Voecks Sep 14th 2009 at 8:00PM

Filed under: Sci-fi, EVE Online, Bugs, Server downtime, News items

As many EVE Online players likely already know, Tranquility's server hamsters decided to take an unscheduled nap yesterday, causing the entirety of New Eden to grind to a screeching halt. While we're glad to note that the servers came up some time later without any major problems, the forums and API remained offline until this morning's regular maintenance at 7:00 AM Eastern. While the folks at CCP were able to get the forums back online and working without incident, they opted to leave the API offline today while they're trying to figure out what happened. Better safe than sorry, we think.

For those of you who are occasional EVE Online players (are there really such beasts?) you'll notice the API shutdown in terms of changes not tracking properly in EVEmon, Capsuleer, or any other external programs that make calls to the API to pull your character information. The hope is that full functionality will be restored after tomorrow morning's regularly scheduled daily downtime. If not, might we suggest breaking out some chocolate covered espresso beans for the server hamsters?

Tags: api, bug, capsuleer, downtime, eve, eve-online, evemon, offline, unscheduled-maintenance

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

DrewIW said on 8:43PM 9-14-2009

A minor correction: the servers were brought up about 40 minutes after the emergency shutdown, however connections were throttled, resulting in some lengthy logon queues.

That said, the fail cascade began about 15 minutes before the emergency shutdown when gates began to lock up.

source: http://www.eveonline.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=1178554

Averice said on 8:52PM 9-14-2009

It was one of the Succubus as they get ready for their party.

Benicio said on 10:13PM 9-14-2009

You dont realise how much these 3rd party programs become part of your daily gaming routine til they are disabled due to this API freeze.

Chris said on 9:46AM 9-15-2009

LOL i know, was kinda funny when evemon, evehq, and eve meep, along with my capsuleer all stopped responding lol, oh well... shud be better today hopefully.