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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 previous weekly overview can be found here.

The current "This week in EVE" gives on overview of the week from January 17th to 23rd


Dev blogs and official news
A Glimpse into the Future of Ship Skins - Feedback thread
CCP FoxFour introduced the next evolution of ship painting: super Kerr-Induced Nanocoatings aka SKINS! These SKINS will be bound to characters and not to ships, therefore they don't get lost when a ship is getting destroyed. To bind a SKIN to your character, you buy a SKIN license from the market or New Eden Store (or find it maybe in game) and then use that license to generate a SKIN in your character's brain. But there is much more to this new system, in future iterations you could have SKINs for corporations, SKINs for a wide range of ships instead and more. The details for the transit from currently existing skins to the new SKINs are currently mapped out.

The Republic Strikes Back: The Svipul Tactical Destroyer and Projectile Changes in Tiamat - Feedback thread
With Tiamat, released on February 17, the new Minmatar tactical destroyer, the Svipul, will be introduced. In best Minmatar craftsmanship the Svipul hull is vertical in two modes and mainly horizontal in the other mode. We will also see a rebalance of projectile weapons and Tech-2 barrage ammunition.

CSM 9 Winter Summit - Day Two Meeting Minutes - PDF document - Feedback thread
The CSM meeting minutes of the CSM Summit Day 2 have been published! Read all about Wormholes, Team Space Glitter, the UI Modernization Project, Team Pirate Unicorns, the Cinematics Team, Fanfest 2015 and Customer Support. 24 pages packed full with information are waiting for you!

CSM 9 Winter Summit - Day One Meeting Minutes - PDF document -Feedback thread
The CSM meeting minutes of the CSM Summit Day 1 have been published right away! Read all about the Roadmap & Release Cadence, the Web Team, Team Size Matters, Corporations & Alliances and Team Homegrown. Interesting information and insight await you on 23 pages.

EVE_NT takes place in Nottingham February 7 - Discussion thread
EVE_NT, the EVE Nottingham player gathering in the UK, will be held on February 7th with around 150 players attending and four developers. Check out the discussion thread and the event website for more information. There will be also EVE: Valkyrie 3v3 PVP tournaments!

o7 Show - Please participate in the survey - Link to the survey
The o7 Show is a great success with lots of positive feedback. But since we aim to improve even the good things, please take part in the o7 survey and tell us what we can do better and what you want to see more!



Game mechanics
Notification counter and popups
All notifications belong to the customizable notification system. You can choose the events which should send you a notification and the way the notification appears (pop-up, counter or both).


Tiamat release
First Tiamat features are now available on the test server
Tiamat is the second release in 2015 and will be published on February 17. The first Tiamat features are now available on the test server Singularity including visual improvements, audio improvements with a brand new version of the audio engine, projectile rebalance and the Svipul tactical destroyer.

"Little things for corporations" with Tiamat
The Tiamat release includes also "Little things" for corporations which are small but useful improvements for corporations. Check out CCP Punkturis' thread for an overview of those improvements!


Third party development
CREST killmail endpoints are not public
Are there no public CREST endpoints for killmails? CCP FoxFour replies that those killmails are not public and that it is not possible for a player to collect all killmails via...

Thanks again, CCP Phantom \o/

And Happy Birthday Fawlty7!

Wieder übersetzt.

Thx again