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"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 summary of the previous week 34/2013 can be found here.

The current "This week in EVE" gives on overview of the week 35/2013 from August 24th to 30th


Dev blogs

• Email verification and you - Forum discussion
All new EVE Online accounts require email verification with immediate effect. Already existing accounts can optionally verify their email with an according button on Account Management. Additionally everyone with multiple accounts can see all their own accounts registered with the same email.


• 28 Ships Later: Ship and Module Balancing in Odyssey 1.1 - Forum discussion
CCP Fozzie gives in his latest dev blog an overview of changes coming to ships and modules in Odyssey 1.1. Please follow the links listed below for further information about specific topics.
Heavy Assault Cruiser changes
Command ship changes
T1 Industrial ship changes
Warfare link changes
Medium large long range weapon changes
Local repair module changes
Nosferatu changes
Dominix change
Quite an impressive list and good things heading towards Tranquility!

Devposts on the forum and news
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Patch notes for Odyssey 1.1

The full patch notes for Odyssey 1.1 are published. Check out what all will get improved and changed on September 3, 2013!

[Winter] Marauder rebalancing

CCP Ytterbium introduces ideas on Marauder changes for the coming winter expansion. Marauders should overall keep their current PVE capabilities while increasing their PVP value. This is done by introducing a "bastion mode" for Marauders which makes them immobile for 60-80 seconds (depending on skill) and immune to remote effects like electronic warfare and remote assistance while granting them higher resistances, and increased weapon and lock range. Additionally Marauders will receive a Micro Jump Drive bonus and shorter target painter duration. Further information and details about individual Marauder changes are available in the discussion thread.

EVE Online: Odyssey 1.1 to be released on Tuesday, September 3rd

The point update EVE Online: Odyssey 1.1 will be released on September 3rd and will introduce more than two dozen re-balanced ships, updated warfare links, medium large long range weapons, user interface improvements, some reorganized and renamed skill groups, and more. The full patch notes and downtime announcement will be published within the next few days.

Ship maintenance array - ship drops upon destruction

CCP Habakuk confirms that there will be no changes in the behavior of the Starbase ship maintenance arrays (SMA) upon destruction in Odyssey 1.1, however we have plans to change this behavior.

More module interactions with missiles after Odyssey?

CCP Rise takes some time and explains some of the current torpedo based battleship performance. He also mentions that there are investigations of modules interacting more with missiles - no actual plans exist at the moment though.

Capsuleers are still humans to some degree and not a "brain in a machine"

The fundamental principle of joining the capsule and clone is based on the successful fusion of a human being with the machine. CCP Falcon explains that Capsuleers profits from all the benefits of still being "human" while being the best piece of technology to ever be plugged into a starship.

Background information about portrait rendering

CCP karkur explains a bit about the EVE character portrait rendering process and how the portrait is delivered to the character and other players.

Beam lasers doing more damage per second than pulse lasers

It is intended that beam lasers more damage per...

CCP Phantom, the never failing star of the Community Team.

Not reading every dev blog, not reading every dev post or not keeping up with j.random other streams of information from CCP can be excused.

But failing to read "This Week in Eve" will forever mark you as a lazy ****/person, and you'll most likely ending up in the queue of similar simians complaining that CCP has cheated by suddenly changing something that you wasn't aware of.

Sap. O/

Phantom, What is the preferred way to send contributions for the upcoming "This Week in Eve" summary?

MDD

Usually contributions are not sent in; instead the forums and other news sources are searched and the important news items then collected and summarized. While it is not always possible to answer all EVEMails, I read them all, so that would be one way.

I love these, keep them coming!

I spend a lot of time on the www reading about EVE and I always find at least two or three news I wasn't aware of about the game in those weekly summaries : good job !