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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 32/2014 can be found here. Available is also the overview 2014 (up to date now).

The current "This week in EVE" gives on overview of the week from August 9th to 15th

Dev blogs

• Coming in Hyperion on August 26th - Forum discussion
CCP Seagull presents in this overview blog the features and improvements coming with Hyperion, the next release for EVE Online to be published on August 26th. We will see wormhole changes, easily shareable overview settings, a new kind of Level 4 mission, new apparel, PI in nullsec available outside sov holding alliance and more. Check out the blog!


• Size Matters: Introducing Burner Missions - Forum discussion
With Hyperion we will see a new kind of Level 4 mission. In these new missions you will fight against a single powerful NPC frigate while you can only use frigate sized ships. Read more about those missions in CCP Fozzie's blog.

Official news and Customer Support updates

• CSM9 Summer Summit
CCP Leeloo comes with news from the CSM. The CSM9 Summer Summit is scheduled this year from September 17th to 19th and will see a large amount of exciting, interesting and constructive discussions between the CSM and the dev teams. For further information and discussions, please use this thread.


• Alliance Tournament XII Team Spotlight: Test Alliance Please Ignore and Nulli Secunda
The Alliance Tournament XII begins August 16th. Once more we will see Alliances fighting tooth and nail in battles for eternal fame and glory. To present some background information that would be otherwise unavailable and to introduce some of the teams participating in the tournament, the Interstellar Correspondents present interviews with team captains and publish Tournament Team Spotlights. This week Test Alliance Please Ignore and Nulli Secunda were featured.


• Try EVE Valkyrie at Gamescom 2014!
Gamescom 2014 is the world's largest trade fair for interactive games, it is hosted in Cologne, Germany. If you happen to visit Gamescom, don't miss the EVE Valkyrie demonstrations which are available both at the Sony and the Oculus booths.


• Where to report exploits?
If you become aware of exploits or cheating within the game, please check out the knowledge base article on reporting exploits to learn that contacting the Customer Support via Support Tickets is the right way to report those issues. Please also check the dev blog on responsible disclosure.


• Don't RMT!
Do not try to sell in-game items, characters, accounts, services, assets, currencies etc. for real money. Such behavior is strictly forbidden and poses a serious breach of the EVE Online Terms of Service.

General game topics

• Is it possible to copy contacts between accounts?
At the moment it is not possible to copy contracts in an easy way between accounts as CCP FoxFour explains.


• Specific issues with unanchoring POS structures usually resolve during downtime
Sometimes there are issues with unanchoring POS structures. Those issues will often resolve itself during the downtime as GM Arcade explains. However, you are of course welcome to contact Customer Support if you need any in-game issues to get fixed.

Hyperion
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Updates on appearance of K162 exit wormholes

After good discussions and constructive player feedback regarding the proposed changes to K162 exit wormholes, CCP Fozzie gives an update to the plan: K162 wormhole will have a random chance to appear every once and a while whenever they have less than 15 hours of lifespan remaining.

Matching clothing sets

CCP karkur explains that the clothing assets were made as sets with matching properties. Of course you are free to mix and match all the clothing items to your best liking. While originally some clothing was made just as top and had to be...

Thanks again, CCP Phantom!
Too bad, there's yet no forum post for the booster timer, only the twitch recording of the Hyperion Feature Broadcast.

And again, there is a deutschsprachige Version.

Generally people wouldn't have to go outside of the system, if the system actually worked the way it should.

Or if the system worked, y'know, at all.

Thank you for another great read of the weekly summary.

The next weekly summary (Week 34) is available here.