EVE developer CCP not buried under ash

By Robert Purchese Published 20 April, 2010

Icelander "far less affected" than Europe.

Icelandic developer CCP is not buried under ash, and has told Eurogamer that the eruption of the Eyjafjallajökull volcano hasn't disturbed day-to-day operations or EVE game servers at all.

"We want to assure you all that we are in no danger whatsoever, and that things are running smoothly here at CCP's HQ," said CCP spokesperson Sveinn Jóhannesson Kjarval.

"There hasn't been any impact on our day-to-day operations, including the production of our next EVE Online expansion, Tyrannis. The servers hosting the EVE universe are located in London so they are not affected by the fire and brimstone in any way.

"Volcanic eruptions are a regular occurrence here in Iceland," he added, "and as such we have been wise enough to locate our major settlements mostly out of harm's way."

Jóhannesson Kjarval said the Eyjafjallajökull volcano is 130km from Reykjavík, the capital city that houses CCP HQ. What's more, there are mountain ridges adding further volcano defense in between.

"Also, due to the fact that the high winds mostly always blow to the east, we here in Reykjavík are ironically far less affected by the fallout of ash than the rest of northern Europe (sorry about that, Northern Europe!)," said Jóhannesson Kjarval. "The most trouble we've suffered so far is having to plot courses half way around the world for a few employees stuck in Europe on business trips."

EVE Online expansion Tyrannis is due out on 18th May. The lofty aim of this add-on is to allow pilots to build on, exploit and control planets for the first time ever in EVE.

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  • Spekingur #1 2 years ago

    FYI Jóhannesson is the last name, not the first.

    Edit: Reading the article again I see the name is Sveinn Jóhannesson Kjarval. Icelanders very rarely refer to people by their last name (unless they have a optional hereditary name such as Kjarval).
    Edited by 1 at 20/04/10 @ 14:14

  • Armoured_Gideon #2 2 years ago

    Yes, but presumably all the spaceships are docked until further notice, with only test dreadnoughts being sent out.

  • President_Weasel #3 2 years ago

    It'll be a free expansion by the way; all the EVE expansions are.

  • telboy007 #4 2 years ago

    [blatant plug]Hey all you eve players, get online and join the eurogamer.net channel - the unofficial EG corp are a friendly bunch. :)[/blatant plug]
    Edited by 1 at 20/04/10 @ 11:11

  • Macross #5 2 years ago

    lol i completely forgot about the eg channel, waiting for some ingame politics to align enuf for an old corp to reactivate so a bit bored right now and might be nice to have some ppl to chat with while i wait for thumbs to be removed.

  • hardtech #6 2 years ago

    I have always considered playing EVE...Just never gotten around to trying.

  • TSYNDMonkfish #7 2 years ago

    EvE is like smoking, It takes ages to give up and you feel all good about yourself for a while - then one little slip & your back playing it full time. Ive been clean for two years now but I keep tabs on it even now. Once an EvE player always an EvE player.

    Whats the Eurogamer EvE corp up to these days, just out of interest?

  • Halo.Jones #8 2 years ago

    Lollipops For Rancors is still going strong. We've created a splinter corp that allows members of Lollipops to join us if they wish to PVP.

  • telboy007 #9 2 years ago

    Couple of things; the corp split into two recently - one side is running the wormhole POS, sleeper sites, showing newer players the ropes and is more PvE orientated while the other is PvP, low/null sec orientated. We're friendly with several other corps and semi-regular roams see members from some or all merrily losing frigates through low sec.

  • Gl3n #10 2 years ago

    Careful with info thar :)

  • telboy007 #11 2 years ago

    Yeah the entrance to the hole is currently...

  • KillerMonkey #12 2 years ago

    @TSYNDMonkfish: "EvE is like smoking, It takes ages to give up and you feel all good about yourself for a while - then one little slip & your back playing it full time. Ive been clean for two years now but I keep tabs on it even now. Once an EvE player always an EvE player."

    So true.. I've been clean for years but I still check the forums for the awesome political stuff from time to time.

  • Spekingur #13 2 years ago

    I wonder if Robert tried pronouncing the name of the volcano. >:D