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This Week in EVE #83 - Week 25/2015

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CCP Phantom
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C C P Alliance
#1 - 2015-06-19 15:23:25 UTC  |  Edited by: CCP Phantom
"This week in EVE" is a weekly overview of EVE Online related news and events and shows what is going on in EVE Online. The focus of this overview is on official news from CCP: For example, dev blogs and important forum posts by CCP developers, the ever evolving background story and upcoming events. The previous weekly overview can be found here. The next weekly summary can be found here.

The current "This week in EVE" gives an overview of the week from June 6th to 19th


Dev blogs and announcements
The Dominix, Work In Progress And A New Art Director
After 15 years of tireless work for CCP, countless designs and a tremendous legacy of the style of New Eden, CCP Huskarl, Art Director, is moving on the torch to CCP Jörg, our new Art Director. We also see a redesigned Dominix coming in August, several redesigned Minmatar ships and of course the Gallente Tech-3 destroyer "Hekate". Additionally to that, CCP Jörg gives some feedback on community influenced designs in this blog. Check it out!

A Call to Art: Contest Winners - Feedback
After announcing the Call to Art by CCP Customer Support, we have seen many interesting and high quality submissions. The best entries are going to decorate the CCP office and we are delighted to present you “Sandcastles Before Me” by Kalistonius II, “The Patrol” by Rixx Javix, “Lobach” by Dome Odu, “Death of the Tengu” by Saladiin, and”Trap” by Eraly Moonbringer. Thank you for those amazing images and this incredible dedication!

An Update On Drifters - The Wandering Death - Feedback
Check out the update on the mysterious and dangerous Drifters! Read the review of the recent history (Caroline's Star, massive structures that have been first cloaked but then decloaked and to be revealed as Jove listening posts, emergence of Circadian Seekers, Drifters and Seekers deconstructing the posts and disappearing through wormholes ... and the Amarr Empire developing Entosis Links from salvaged Jove posts which provoked Drifters to aggress against the Amarr Empire) and find out what is going on with the Drifters and the new wormholes.

Bracket Icon Madness - Feedback on the new Overview Brackets - Feedback
With the Carnyx release on June 2nd we got a set of completely new icons in space and in the overview. CCP Surge provides answers in this dev blog why those icons has been changed in the first place, what the design goals are, and how the player feedback will help to improve the icons and the UI.

SMTS White Metal Rifter Model Now Available!
The White Metal Rifter model manufactured by SMTS, first presented during Fanfest 2015, is now available and ready to be ordered. The model comes in two variations: painted and assembled and as bare metal self-assembly kit.



Videos and Shows
o7 Show - Episode 8
The 8th episode of the CCP produced o7 show was broadcasted on June 11 including the following highlights
* How do you say it?
* Oceanic Assault tournament at oceanicassault.com
* Player gatherings and the CCP Euro tour - Check out the player gathering forums!
* Nullsec politics (thanks to Hendrick Tallardar!)
* Does it fit? Ship fitting with CCP Rise
* Game balancing and the road ahead- with CCP Fozzie and CCP Larrikin
* Celebrity shootout - Manfred Sideous and Lazarus Telraven
* AT XIII - Random draw
* Dev roam with Typhoons
Check it out!



Alliance Tournament XIII
Rule update: Battlecruiser point costs
CCP Fozzie informs us that the point cost for battlecruisers (including faction variants) have been increased to 12 points (13 points for the faction variants). The full rules can be found...

CCP Phantom - Senior Community Developer
CCP Phantom
C C P
C C P Alliance
#2 - 2015-06-19 15:23:30 UTC
Issues and workaround
Audio issues in Linux?
Ariz Black inquires about audio issues under Linux. Fortunately, and after skillful research, that issue was resolved by Aziz a bit later. Well done!

White screen after ship explosion
As reported by Kalpel with a reference image, a certain bug leads to a white screen for several seconds after a ship explosion. This specific issue is already known and investigated, but it might be hard to pinpoint and fix. Please continue sending bug reports from within the client (in-game push F12 and "Report Bug") whenever you encounter a bug! Those bug reports will help with the investigations.


Testing and the test server
Faction and complex modules on Singularity?
Faction and deadspace modules are not seeded on Singularity as the rest of the modules/ships for 100 isk each. This policy has been in place since years and longer with good reason and even better results.

Sovereignty Playtest Competition on test server Duality
We are delighted to announce that you can test the new sovereignty capture system on the test server Duality. There are several rules to follow, so if you are interested in testing the new sov system, please read the rules and the FAQ carefully!
The names of every alliance that participates in this testing event (by capturing at least one system within the competition area) will be listed in the description of the Entosis Link I blueprint. The identity of the first place alliance will be incorporated prominently into the lore surrounding the Entosis Link.

Account reactivation on Duality
If your account is active on Tranquility but not active on the test server Duality, you can request account activation in that thread - simply post there. The posts will be processed automatically. If you have a new character or if your character was transferred to a new account, unfortunately you have to wait until a full database update took place.

Connecting to Duality
Please check above linked EVElopedia page for detailed instruction how to connect to the test server Duality. It is similar to connecting to the test server Singularity.

New version of EVE Probe
A new version of EVE Probe, the test alone graphic testing and rendering program, has been released. Download the new version here. Learn more about EVE Probe here and in this dev blog!

Changes to data gathering on the test server
When you connect to the test servers, such as Singularity, you will be asked to consent to data gathering. You can see what data we will get by running the LogServer – anything marked as a Warning or an Error (yellow and red lines) will now be sent to us. Receiving those errors and warnings will help the team. In the past you had to run LogServer manually and then send the logs to us; now the logs are sent automatically. CCP Snorlax confirms that we are not scanning your computer in general and that this, of course, is only taking place on the test server and not on TQ!

Bug reporting pays out!
After noticing some problems with the hacking mini-game, bug reports have been sent by diligent players. Thanks to the fantastic ISD bug hunters and the excellent CCP QA team, the issue was identified and the bug swiftly fixed with the next patch. Bug reporting pays out :) Thank you!


Third party development
In-game browser, JavaScript and setting autopilot destination
You can use JavaScript in conjunction with the in-game browser to set the autopilot destination. CCP Avalon points to an excellent resource explaining the in-game browser methods. The player Darkblad then explains how you can use the SDE and a SQL Query to get according URLs.

Access to character models?
After seeing some interest in getting access to the character models, CCP Darwin explains that this might not as easy as it may sound. However, there might be good alternatives that could produce sufficient good enough results with less work involved as pointed out with excellent examples by the player community.

CCP Phantom - Senior Community Developer
CCP Phantom
C C P
C C P Alliance
#3 - 2015-06-19 15:23:51 UTC  |  Edited by: CCP Phantom
Please note that the next weekly summary will be published in 2 weeks due to my participation in the Cyclothon, the non-stop relay race around Iceland. I hope that the CCP Cyclothon team will make it back alive Big smile

CCP Phantom - Senior Community Developer
Darkblad
Doomheim
#4 - 2015-06-19 15:56:51 UTC
Thank you for this week in review, and good luck for your survival! Blink

NPE – ISD – RIP
Aryth
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#5 - 2015-06-19 16:05:07 UTC
Sweet. Props for the Videos and Shows sections. That is a lot more than I thought was occurring. Eep.

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Chribba
Otherworld Enterprises
Otherworld Empire
#6 - 2015-06-19 19:00:11 UTC
Thank you

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TheSmokingHertog
Julia's Interstellar Trade Emperium
#7 - 2015-06-20 06:28:53 UTC
07 - thx for the new video listings.

"Dogma is kind of like quantum physics, observing the dogma state will change it." ~ CCP Prism X

"Schrödinger's Missile. I dig it." ~ Makari Aeron

-= "Brain in a Box on Singularity" - April 2015 =-
Darkblad
Doomheim
#8 - 2015-06-20 13:10:34 UTC
CCP Phantom wrote:

Third party development
In-game browser, JavaScript and setting autopilot destination
You can use JavaScript in conjunction with the in-game browser to set the autopilot destination. CCP Avalon points to an excellent resource explaining the in-game browser methods. The player Darkblad then explains how you can use the SDE and a SQL Query to get according URLs.

And while I poke around here to announce, that once again there is an Übersetzung -

I also compiled a page with all systems of New Eden with showinfo() methods, as well as for their constellations and regions. The links only work if you open the page from within the IGB, as well as: grant Trust (is limited to that directory) and set destination to a system. Only for systems where this actually works.

NPE – ISD – RIP