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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 next weekly overview can be found here.

The current "This week in EVE" gives a condensed overview of the weeks from April 4th to 10th


World news
Basgerin Pirate
Read this story about Basgerin Pirate, a lowsec pirate corporation, and discover how the author of this report, the ISD Interstellar Correspondent Caiden S'or, is able to piece together an interesting portrait of the life as true pirate in the perilous low security space.

The BHAstion
Moon harvesting or moon mining of the rarest moon minerals is usually associated with ultra large alliances having thousands of people at hand and not a business for the smaller guys with just a few hundred members. Follow this story from ISD Lunaire Elois and learn how even the smaller alliances can profit, grow and have great experiences by being bold and daring!


Videos and streams
EVE Universe - Art of New Eden book The amazing art book "EVE Universe - Art of New Eden" is now available. Watch the video to get a first impression of this book. Some players seem to like Art of New Eden!



Background information and lore
Amarrad and Caldarian Language Glossary
Dailar Toralen posted a language glossary for the Caldari and Amarr. This is quite intriguing. CCP Falcon remembers a study of languages in New Eden that summarized some origins of the languages of the major races: Amarr has relations to Latin/Arabic, Caldari to Finnish/Japanese, Gallente to French, and Minmatar to Old Norse/Icelandic. There is still a lot of uncharted territory when it comes to language study in New Eden!

Description and lore information of regions/star systems?
The descriptions and lore information of regions and selected star systems are currently not displayed. Having that extra information was quite nice and helped to get better immersed into New Eden. A copy of the region text can be found on Backstage EVE Inspiracy. Fortunately CCP DelegateZero confirms that the missing in-game text is a (known) defect, being worked on and that none of that information is lost.


EVE: Valkyrie
EVE Valkyrie: Pre-alpha flight correction on/off comparison
CCP Karkuck explains with a video comparison the current flight model and drift correction in EVE: Valkyrie in its current pre-alpha stage. Please bear in mind that EVE: Valkyrie is designed for VR and that a VR experience is vastly different from watching something on a 2D screen.


Fanfest 2015
Football tournament images
Photos from the football tournament players vs devs at Fanfest 2015 are available at this Facebook photo album. The photos were taken by CCP Logibro. Thank you to all the participants!


Features of the next release in April
New Nanite Build Effect
A new visual build effect for anchoring POS and POS structures will be introduced with the next release. As a lot of old system has been refactored, we would be thankful if you could report any irregularities you notice when anchoring a POS or related structures. The in-game client bug reporting tool (accessible at the bottom of the F12 help menu) allows you to submit a bug report in an easy way.

Sensor overlay changes
The Sensor Overlay will get improved with the coming release at April 28. As CCP Paradox explains the overlay should become less intrusive, receive smaller brackets for overlay locations, get a new settings menu and more. Please check out this new overlay on the Singularity test server and help with your feedback!

New damage control icon
On April 1st a new icon to replace the famous "suitcase" damage control system has been spotted on the Singularity test server. CCP Darwin confirms that this is not an April Fools' joke and that this old icon was long scheduled to be replaced by something that better fits into the general EVE theme than a symbol for a suitcase.


New ship SKIN system
More information in a dev blog soon
More information about the new ship SKIN system will be available in an upcoming dev blog soon. That blog will also...

When skins comes out, I think that would be a good chance to maybe give those with the collectors mystery code something, doesn't have to be anything big, I think it would just be nice to get a random free skin or something.

whats the anticipated market price for ship skins?

But I like the suitcase! Le sigh, I'll hold out until we get one as a christmas present.

In all seriousness, excellent work as always. Love these posts and love The Scope videos you guys are doing. Great job CCP!

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