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All Killmails to be made public?

While the idea to make all killmails public was discussed both on the forums and during Fanfest, the decision for now was made to not publish all killmails automatically according to CCP FoxFour. Killmails relating to wars however will still be made available.

How to pull mails from char via the API?

CCP FoxFour explains a way to receive your character's EVE mails via the API. It is very simple when you are using Python and the evelink library.

Advertise on EVE TV during AT XII

If you would like to advertise on EVE TV during the Alliance Tournament XII, then CCP Loxy's explanation will help you with good general rules and technical specifications. When your advertisement is ready, please submit it to evetv@ccpgames.com!

Gecko drones are updated with Kronos

The Gecko drones, which were given as gift for the 11 year anniversary celebration of EVE Online, got also updated with the drone rebalance in Kronos. Their optimal range got changed, but not their base damage.

Static blueprint data adjustment - Draft #4

CCP Greyscale continues his very constructive and excellent discussion with the community regarding the static blueprint data adjustment scheduled for the Crius release on July 22nd. The latest draft, version 4, can be found here. Please check the discussion thread for further information!

Freighter/Jumpfreighter balance and ganking

With the Kronos release Freighters and Jump Freighters received three low slots to allow customization. CCP Fozzie would like to remind everyone that feedback is gathered continuously and that further rebalancing might occur if necessary. Currently it is not believed that this balance is a step too far against gankers.

Pirate implant changes

The formerly known low-grade pirate implants were renamed in Kronos to mid-grade implants (amongst other changes). Additionally new low-grade pirate implants were introduced. Sites which contained those former low-grade implants will now contain mid-grade implants.

Improvements in Expansion/Release/Patch quality

When asked about the quality improvements of patches during the recent years, CCP Goliath (QA Director) explains that the constant strive for improvement is doing its work. Further good information can be found in the presentation at Fanfest 2014.

Continued work on third party developer documentation

CCP FoxFour informs us about the ongoing work on the third party developer documentation. Many thanks also to those in the community who are helping improving this documentation!

A few reasons why I'm excited for Kronos

CCP Manifest gives some reasons why he as a player is excited about Kronos. Many more developers follow his example and explain their most liked features coming with Kronos. Please do not forget that developers also enjoy playing EVE a lot and are passionate about this wonderful game.

Coverting AUR to PLEX is not possible

While it is possible to convert PLEX into AUR, it is not possible to convert AUR back into PLEX as CCP Xhagen explains. Exchanging AUR into PLEX was never possible.

Guristas Infiltration

Mordu's Legion is trying to pin down the location of highly important Covert Research Facilities owned by the Guristas. For that they require capsuleers to discover their location. Scan down Contested Guristas Covert Research Facilities with scan probes, and hack their transponder towers. Doing so will reward you with Guristas Data Sequences, which you can then turn in to the Legion in 5ZXX-K in exchange for BPCs for their new faction ships. The Data Sequences can also be sold on the market. Please note that these sites have similar constraints as Ghost Sites - you have limited time and one attempt to hack the site before a large explosion will hit your ship.

Drone Link Augmentor skill requirements

Several drone skills were renamed/introduced with the Kronos release, but unfortunately the skill requirements for the Drone Link Augmentor were not adjusted accordingly. This is a known issue and will be fixed as soon as possible.

Industry changes are coming to Singularity

Massive changes to Industry are coming to the test server Singularity soon in preparation of the Crius release on June 22nd. You all are most welcome to test...

This week in EVE : Tiptoe through the ToolTips thread got unstickied, Does this mean you guys are done with "Iteration" of this "Feature"?

Cause we of your player base would really like more to happen on this. Starting with, but not ending with, a way to turn them off.

With the last post of a dev in that thread by CCP Karkur (#1029 Posted: 2014.05.29 00:40) mentioning that something was a known defect, Any word on when you guys will fix the things you broke? or is it "Finished" and we need to play through this terrible UI thing.

At the very least the Dev blog was aptly named. For we must mouse carefully lest we get one of the tool tips to spawn.

The last Tooltip Dev post was actually CCP Delegate Zero saying that they are still working on it and reading feedback.

What's wrong with the Tracking Camera???

CCP Explorer has also confirmed via twitter that they are still working on both issues. Hopefully we will get a dev blog or post soon talking about iterations on those features.

The team working on the tooltips is still reading feedback and looking at metrics.

Regarding tracking camera and look at, yes this is an issue since you should lose the tracking camera focus at exactly the same time in the subject's warp sequence as you would lose the lock (if you had a lock on them).

AND Eve Down Under tickets have gone on sale!

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Gogogogogogo! It's during summertime in the southern hemisphere. Perfect time to take that dream Australian holiday you northern hemisphere types have always wanted to go on.

We'll even drive off all the dropbears and stingrays for you.

Isnt the whole point of sticky to denote its importance? That is why its kept at top no?

I mean, I understand why you want it, among many other threads to get buried but its not finished, and its not good.
Its not as game breakingly bad as the Unified Inventory, but its pretty annoying and when the slider is put to longest time interval much of the old style tip functionality is removed, while having it on any other setting creates tons of small popups that are intrusive and not usefully informative.
Because there is no setting for :
1. which popups you want to appear and which you do not,
2. How long the popups remain after the cursor is moved from the opject that caused them to appear
3. What level of computer literacy the user has to filter the "This is a window" tip from opening.
4. Where the tool tips appear

there is no real middle ground that We as users can manage to find that retains or improves on gameplay from before.
From Post #1089 Posted: 2014.06.07 01:55


While this is nice to hear, it also doesnt say anything. What issues of ours do you understand? What feedback is under consideration and what does that actually mean? Why is a tooltip off switch, off the table when that is the single most requested item for this new "feature" and what is being done about mitigating the other concerns posted in the thread about tool tips?

Since that post CCP Karkur has posted three times #1107 #1111 and #1117 2014.06.11 00:02, two of which were not even about tool tips but about the absolute readout of Shield Armor and Structure that can be toggled on and off. No mention of the Capacitor which was part of the persons post she was responding to, And happens to only be available through a tool tip.

It has only been two days since that last Karkur post and six days since Delegate Zero, but this is not a new issue. and with it being unstickied because of "routine server maintenance" that simply underscores how long this has been an issue with the new Iteration of tool tips.

This is a long post for what should have been a quick fix and a non-important feature improvement. Instead its become this ridiculous point of contention with a dev who has 7 posts in his 57 page Month old thread. Two of which do not relate any relevant information as they are not topic posts, and two of which are simply to say that nothing has been done "yet".
This **** is getting sad.

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=4707747#post4707747

Is a true update

That and the warp away loosing focus during "look at" to early. Great fraps.