Logging out

How do I log out of EVE?

Logging out of EVE can be done by pressing 'Esc' and choosing 'Quit', by pressing 'CTRL' and 'Q' together and choosing 'Yes' or if you are playing in windowed mode you can simply close the window.

What happens to your character after you log out is not as simple.

Logging out while in a station will ensure that your character is safe, but if you log out while in space the character will warp to a random point 1,000,000km away and remain there for 1 minute or so.

Special cases

Logging in NPC combat

If a player logs out from space while in NPC combat, their ship will be removed from space after 2 minutes instead of the standard 1 minute. This is to make it harder to use "logging out in combat" as a means to escape from your enemy. Note that if you are warpscrambled, you will not warp away from the fight.

Logging in PvP combat

If you are in PvP combat, your ship will warp to a random point and remain there for 15 minutes, unless it's being warp scrambled, in which case it will be at the mercy of your enemies. If your ship is blown up after you log out, your pod will remain for another 15 minutes, which is plenty of time for a resourceful player to find it, using scanner probes.

Please note that if a player logs out of the game without an aggression timer/PvP logout timer and is shot at or aggressed in other ways before his ship disappears from space, he will not be given an aggression timer (unless the player logs in again within 15 minutes), which in turn leads to his ship disappearing exactly one minute after the time which he logged out of the game. The ship will still take damage as normal however, so if you are packing enough firepower to destroy the ship before the one minute timer is over, it will be destroyed.

NOTE: If you log out in-space with no active PVP timer, but are attacked in the one minute gap until you disappear, you will get an active PVP timer if you log in 15 minutes from the attack.

Players are therefore advised to dock their ship in a station before logging out of the game to ensure their safety.