EVE Online Patch Corrects Game Balancing and In-Game Bugs

The latest EVE Online patch update was released on July 17, 2025; it was catered towards balancing various gameplay elements, including Ghost Sites and Dented Storage Depots. Ghost Site NPC guards now take longer to arrive, while the variance in arrival time has been decreased; the time between NPC guard arrival and container detonation is consistently 30 seconds. In addition, various bug fixes were added. Specifically, bugs affecting freelance jobs and graphics were implemented. 

Here are the full patch notes, according to the official blog post:

Features & Changes:

Balancing:

• Fewer proximity mines will now spawn within AEGIS Capital Ship Security Facility sites on average.
• Ghost Sites have had a number of updates:
  • NPC guards will now take longer to arrive on average.
  • The variance in NPC guard arrival times has been decreased significantly.
  • The time between NPC guard arrival and container detonation is now always 30 seconds.
  • Added info Panel objectives to show hacking progress and time-to-detonation on NPC guard arrival.
• The chance for players to receive capital control items has been increased in Lesser and Standard Covert Research Sites (Ghost Sites).
• Dented Storage Depots found in Sleeper Cache exploration sites now have a very rare chance to drop capital control items.
• The volume of the Counter-Subversion Sensor Array item has been lowered from 20m3 to 2^3.
• The volume of the Nanoscale Filter Plate item has been lowered from 5m3 to 1m3.
• The Overmind Nursery Nest Wreck found in Pochven no longer drops Enhanced Electro-Neural Signallers when salvaged, and now drops red loot instead.

Freelance Jobs:

• Deliver Jobs now include a warning if the job issuer is asking for a delivery in a location you can’t dock at.
• Deliver Jobs now include a comparison between the set reward price per delivered item and the average universal price.

Science & Industry:

• The SCC charge for research jobs is now 50% of the baseline SCC charge.
• This means that, instead of the 4% SCC charge, research jobs will now cost 2% SCC charge.
• We’re making an adjustment to the SCC tax specifically for blueprint research jobs to help new industrialists catch up to existing ones that already have fully researched blueprints.

Defect Fixes:

Freelance Jobs:

• Fixed an issue where tracked Freelance jobs would automatically become untracked and disappear from the Opportunities info panel.
• Fixed an issue where searching for Assets in Capsuleer Deliveries through the Corporation window would fail to work.
• Fixed an issue in the Create Freelance Job form where already-selected locations were still available for selection in the dropdown options for Destination and Available Broadcast Locations.
• Updated and clarified a few error messages.

Graphics:

• Fixed an issue where the strip miner impact VFX was clipping with asteroids.
• Fixed an issue where the orbit camera for the Babaroga was misaligned.
• Fixed an issue were the Alliance Emblem placement on the Lachesis hull was misplaced.

EVE Online is estimated to have a daily average player base of 133,452 this month, according to estimations from MMO Population. The same website estimates over 10 million total players. EVE Online was initially released on May 6, 2003, and continues to see regular content updates.