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?
