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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 36/2013 can be found here. Available is also the overview 2013

The current "This week in EVE" gives on overview of the week 37/2013 from September 7th to 13th


In the press

• EVE Online wins World Summit Award
EVE Online has been selected as a winner in the bi-annually UN, UNESCO and UNIDO backed World Summit Awards (WSA). The win comes in the category of e-Entertainment & Games, and was picked by the WSA’s international experts jury from a total of 460 qualifying submissions. The World Summit Awards will be awarded at the WSA Global Congress in Colombo, Sri Lanka, October 23-26.


• Bitcoins, virtual currencies and EVE Online
CCP DrEyjoG, lead economist for EVE Online, had a great contribution in above linked Polygon article on Bitcoin, virtual currencies and EVE Online. EVE is a set of virtual businesses that operate within virtual economies using virtual currencies, and virtual currencies are basically a measure of economic value that is used in a system. We encourage you to read the interesting full article!

Devposts on the forum and news
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EVE Online Terms of Service Update

The EVE Online Terms of Service (ToS), Article 8, has been updated so that the ToS are now in accordance with the EVE Online EULA and Naming Policy. This update is not result of policy change, it is only an overdue adjustment of the ToS to be in accordance with all other policy related documents.

EVE Collector's Edition codes redeemed to the wrong character?

GM Karidor explains what you can do when you have redeemed the items from the EVE Collector's Edition to the wrong character: Please file a ticket into the "Billing & Account" category so that this can be looked into and fixed by the CCP Customer Support team.

Energy Nosferatu mechanics in PVE adjusted to reflect PVP behavior

Instead of splitting the Odyssey 1.1 mechanics of Energy Nosferatu (NOS) into a PVE and PVP version, the NOS mechanic for PVE is now working in the same way as for PVP. NOSing NPCs in a ship class higher than yours should be very easy. CCP Rise welcomes questions if further clarification is required.

CCP Sledgehammer looks into Mac issues

CCP Sledgehammer gladly investigates all feedback regarding EVE Mac clients slowing down considerably over time.

YouTube partner monetization of EVE Online videos

Currently monetization using CCP's Intellectual Property is usually not an option. CCP Stillman however raises this issue to our legal team to see what can be done for example for monetization of player created EVE Videos on YouTube. There are indeed many fantastic player created EVE Videos available! Check the My EVE forum section for a first overview.

Locating EVE username and password when using Steam

CCP Sunset answers the question regarding EVE username and password of EVE Steam accounts - you will use your Steam credential to log into EVE via Steam. Further information is available from the Steam support.

The Golden Capsule ... how does it work?

The Golden Pod is a bonus item of the EVE Collector's Edition, but how does the Golden Pod work? CCP Paradox explains that the Golden Pod springs into existence when you plug in a special implant into implant slot 79 - that implant is not removed when being pod killed or when clone jumping.

CCP Soundwave send off party

After Lead Game Designer CCP Soundwave announced his departure from CCP, players are organizing a farewell party in game with fireworks and...

Excellent!

EVE Amsterdam is actually called Evesterdam ;)

I don't mean to wine, but CCP never comes to the mid-west (usa). Believe it or not, there is more than just corn fields and flat plains out here.

You are aware that except for Fanfest all gatherings are organised and performed by the players them self?

The eventual participation by CCP Marketing and/or Community Teams are them both using and supporting local activities.

Ranging from Blue tags cheering you on, shipping devs with or without goodie bags or poaching your staff.

Eve is all about player generated content, even out of the game ;)

edit:
And thanks for the post Phantom, your weekly summaries might be the most important post on the forums.

Jed Stevens (of Gentleman's Agreement) did not create the NFL skins. These were created by another alliance mate of ours, Marne DeVille. His design studio service, Dogface Design, can be found here. Jed simply posted the link to the album on the Eve-O forum. Just want to make sure the right person is getting credit

I remember wasting a lot of time money and frustration not knowing which modules fit my ship. I simply wanted to fill all or most of my slots but there is no way to know which modules i need cuz most random modules dont fit any particular ship. Either i did not have the skills, or not enough power/cpu or simply the module doesnt fit there. ARGHH!

I believe later on they built the 3 boxes up top that glows green or red that tells if they work in the ship you are flying but even that wont tell you if your adequate or a proper set up to your needs.

*What we need is a halo deck to use any/ all modules to see what fittings i need before i save up money and find out that the module doesnt fit or i cant use it or if its even useful.

*What we need is a halodeck also to train PVP before going out there and loosing your ass trying to learn to pvp against the pros.

EVE has such a learning curve. There are still some things I dont know. It really took me 6 months before i could even start to really play eve and il guess it will take a year before you can start to be effective at anything. Many players wont wait that long. :(

Shorten the learning curve.

Sincerely,

Godric

Agreed with you, Ryuichi. The main aspect that makes EVE unique amongst the other MMORPGs is time and patience!

Eve is hard and long. Shortening the curve or allowing shortcuts will allow new people to jump into high-end scenarios, or for good people to make an alt and instantly get the alt on the same level as his/her main character, thanks to the isk from the main. It would completely throw eve off its tracks and throw it into a spiral of despair.

I found, at first, the learning times to be tedious... but to be honest, how quickly are you going to learn something as complicated as how to drive a massive battleship in under 20minutes? I think they're short enough!

Chunc.