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CCP Director, Dr. Erlendur S. Thorsteinsson, posted a full disclosure regarding the recent Trinity Patch incident, in which the patcher deleted BOOT.INI file from the system. Thorsteinsson explained how and why the fatal mistake happened in detail:

Shortly after releasing EVE Online: Trinity at 22:04 GMT on Wednesday, 5 December, we started receiving reports that the Classic to Premium graphics content upgrade was causing problems to players by deleting the file C:boot.ini, which is a Windows system startup file. In some cases the computer was not able to recover on the next startup and would not start until the file had been fixed. In this dev blog I want to tell you how this happened.

In the weeks leading up to the release of Trinity, one of our concerns was how to deliver this update to our players in a very short amount of time and to players that might not all have a good internet connection. Significant effort was therefore put into making the Classic to Premium graphics content upgrade as small as possible at various stages in the process.

Read the full explanation after the jump.

Apparently there is a new exploit in EVE Online that allows one to increase their rate of fire exponentially up to the point of having literally no delay. A post on the EVE Online forums by their Community Manager "Wrangler" makes it known that CCP is aware of the issue and will be handling it with urgency.

There is currently a problem with a few Starbases that makes it possible for those attacking them to increase their rate of fire so there's almost no delay. This is an exploit and we will take appropriate action against those found using it. We are currently working on a fix and it will be deployed as soon as possible. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause you.

Wrangler
Community Manager
CCP Games, EVE Online

The original post can be found here.

Despite all the bad PR from the fiasco involving the Trinity expansion, EVE Online is still pushing stronger than ever! CCP has just announced that EVE Online has broken another simultaneous user record of 41,690 users! CCP could definitely use the good press and it certainly proves that OS destruction aside the game is running strong. Makes you wonder if the number would have been higher if the people who had their OSes screwed up were able to play.

Get the full story here.

Is your Windows XP rig toasted due to the EVE Online Trinity fiasco? CCP Games is trying to do the responsible thing and provide step by step instructions on how to revert the damage and restore your system.

Details on how to restore your PC to normal are located here.

CCP Games will release the free Trinity Expansion on December 5th, according to a press release issued today. The update provides a host of gameplay changes, but is best known for the graphics upgrade it brings.

Read more after the click.

Trinity, the third part of an epic expansion to EVE Online is coming soon and CCP Games today introduced the complete trailer. We had previously brought you a teaser, but this video really underlines the huge visual improvements fans can expect.

Watch it on the next page.

EVE Online and MMO Calendar have partnered for a charity fund-raising event for St. Jude Childrens Research Hospital.

The EVE-verse is fraught with doom and gloom. However, our world does not have to share in those attributes. EVE Online is participating with MMO Calendar to raise funds for children in need. MMO Calendar is an annual, non-profit fund-raiser for St. Jude Childrens Research Hospital. St Jude's incredibly gifted staff battles against catastrophic diseases that affect children. Think of it as research and development we all will benefit from.

You can learn more about MMO Calendar here.

Are you curious as to what exciting new features Trinity will be bringing to the EVE Online universe? While the expansion is still a short while off yet, CCP has provided us with a feature site for the upcoming expansion.

EVE Online: Trinity will be coming to your computer this winter, and we don't want to keep all the cool information to ourselves. Plenty of sneak peeks were shown at the Fanfest, now it is time to bring more of the Trinity expansion to light.

The EVE Online: Trinity Feature Site is now online and available for viewing.

You can check the site out here.

In the fourth of our five part "The War on the Impossible" series, we focus on Trinity, the next expansion to EVE Online. Due out this winter, CCP promises a complete graphics overhaul, a brand new client and a host of gameplay improvements. We preview them all in this article and bring you a host of videos that show off the graphics on the final page.

To get caught up on this series, you can check out Part One: Introduction, Part Two: Democracy and Part Three: Ambulation. Part five follows later this week.

"We have a focus in this expansion and its beautiful ships," said Chief Technical Officer Halldor Fannar. "I believe this is only the beginning."

The expansion is about more than just pretty pictures though. During a detailed presentation, Fannar explained that all those graphics would be made possible by a brand new client, which not only provides significant improvements for everyone in a traditional DirectX9 environment, but also paves the way for the future and DirectX10. The goal is not just to throw more polygons at people, but to take advantage of larger company resources to build a client that runs better as well.

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EVE Online's chief economist Dr. EyjoG has released his first quarterly newsletter that reveals - among other things - that EVE's economy has actually seen deflation, not inflation, in recent months.

Check out the full document from the first true in-house doctor of economics for a virtual world on the official site.