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This Week in EVE #101 - Week 48/2015

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CCP Phantom
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C C P Alliance
#1 - 2015-11-27 14:01:50 UTC  |  Edited by: CCP Phantom
"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 an overview of the previous two weeks from November 21st to November 27th

Dev blogs and announcements
EVE Black Friday Sale Now Live!
The "Black Friday" Sale is live and offers you 15% discount of PLEX and brings double bonus Aurum! Additionally we have ship SKIN bundles for you. Check out the offers on your Account Management page!

Operation Frostline and Holidays 2015 in EVE Online - An update from CCP Seagull - Feedback
The next release on December 8 brings a huge amount of new things and CCP Seagull is here giving us an overview of all the exiting stuff we will see arriving on TQ just in a few days. New ships (Command destroyers, Ice mining frigate, logistic frigates, navy EWAR frigates), lots of careful tweaks and ship rebalances, new modules (micro jump field generator, ice mining lasers), game mechanic changes (falloff for neuts/nos and remote repair modules), crazy good new visuals (damage effects, propulsion system) and even more. And don't forget, Operation Frostline (player speculation) is also kicking off!

Dirt & Killmarks - Dirt and Destruction in New Eden - Feedback
Each ship in EVE has its own history. With the next release this history will become visible on ship hulls in form of dirt (accumulated over time, can be cleaned) and killmarks (the more ships you kill with that hull, the more killmarks it will have).

New version of EVE Launcher (beta)
A new version of the EVE Launcher (beta) has been deployed. If you have already installed the beta launcher it should update itself automatically - otherwise you can install the latest version for Windows or Mac. This new version includes an improved GUI and several bug fixes and additional requested by you, the players. To restore your previous settings, simply follow the instructions by CCP Snorlax.

New Designer SKIN line "Valimor Legacy" for Gallente ships and Discounts on SKIN bundles
A brand new Designer SKIN line is now available for Gallente Tech-1 ships. The Valimor Legacy line was designed by the famous sculptor Dominique Correador from the University of Caille and celebrates the prosperity and culture of the city of Valimor on the now lost Seyllin I as well as their metal processing achievements.

Upwell Consortium Announces Development of 'Citadel' Line of Stations for Capsuleer Market
The newly-formed Upwell Consortium revealed that it is developing a new line of space stations for the Capsuleer market that it is branding as "Citadels". The announced range of Citadels includes offerings aimed at "Capsuleer corporations and organizations with operations ranging from the medium scale to those requiring the extra-large capacity used by major Outer Regions powers." The Citadel size types are named "Astrahus" (medium size), "Fortizar" (large), and "Keepstar" (extra-large).

Mystery Still Surrounds Drifter Wormhole Contents
As reported by ISD Jarrett Pelley the scientific Capsuleer community of New Eden has discovered over the course of the recent weeks further artifacts and oddities in wormholes inhabited by the strange Drifter forces. Baffled by those discoveries, only very few of these newly discovered items have had their use or design explained. Inside the wormholes, complex mazes over mazes have been discovered that eventually lead to heavily guarded Drifter vaults. Extremely brave and skillful Capsuleers have discovered five different elements of unknown origin or design inside those vaults, but the purpose and nature of those elements are, at this point, a complete mystery. The only thing that is clear so far is the unreal aspects of those objects: they are "playing havoc with the minds of...

CCP Phantom - Senior Community Developer
CCP Phantom
C C P
C C P Alliance
#2 - 2015-11-27 14:01:55 UTC
Game development
How to build the new "Endurance"?
On December 8 the new ice mining frigate Endurance will get deployed on Tranquility. But how can we actually build it? You invent it from Venture blueprint copies! The build material requirements are in the same ballpark as for the Prospect, just not exactly the same.

New visual shield effects
CCP Sledgehammer explains the idea behind the new visual (shield) effects. You will see the initial activation cycle for the shield effects. When you then actually start taking damage you will see the full, continuously cycling Booster/Hardener and Impact effects (depending on what you have running). As for the armor and hull effects - Armor repair effects are shown around the damaged areas of your ship and Hull repair effects will be shown as long as the module cycles.

Updated armor hardener effect
As part of the full revamp of visual damage, repair, and hardening effects, the armor hardener visual effect has been changed. If you don't know what exciting new visuals are coming to you on December 8, check out this feature description and this player made video from the recent mass test on Singularity.


Testing and test server
2 Million free skillpoints for mass test participants
Participants of the previous mass test have received their promised reward of 2 million free skillpoints. The reward for the mass test on November 24 has been handed out as well. Thank you for your participation! We hope to see you at the next mass test again.


Third party development
Siphons and the API
Siphons are a way to "profit" from moon mining operations conducted by other players. In order to prevent automated Siphon detection via the API, the API reported tweaked numbers. This approach was not good enough; it had workarounds, and as such has been abandoned now.


Various
More alliance logos to be deployed
62 more alliance logos will be deployed to Tranquility over the course of the next days. If your alliance meets the formal requirements and if you have a suitable logo, then don't hesitate to submit it. The details are explained by CCP Falcon in the Alliance Logo Submission Process.

CCP Streams: Feedback Thread
We are running a small project with called "CCP Stream" where developers stream various things every work day. The first couple sessions included so far Worst fit ever roam, Developer duels, Live concept art with CCP Jorg. We would love to hear your feedback on this!


Special announcement
Visiting all planets in New Eden - Congratulations Katia Sae
The player Katia Sae visited in an incredible long journey across New Eden ALL planets available - highsec, lowsec, nullsec - and took pictures of every single one. Today on November 27, 2015, she finished her ventures after six years of travelling. Without losing a single ship! Congratulations!

CCP Phantom - Senior Community Developer
JonnyPew
Doomheim
#3 - 2015-11-27 14:22:44 UTC
Thanks for the recap, CCP Phantom o7

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Katia Sae
EvE-Scout
EvE-Scout Enclave
#4 - 2015-11-27 16:11:58 UTC  |  Edited by: Katia Sae
Esrevid Nekkeg
Justified and Ancient
#5 - 2015-11-27 16:42:15 UTC
CCP Phantom wrote:

War disruptor field generator Tiericide
A War disruptor field generator?!? Shocked
Seems like a typo to me. Lol

Thank you for the write up Phantom, appreciated.

Here I used to have a sig of our old Camper in space. Now it is disregarded as being the wrong format. Looking out the window I see one thing: Nothing wrong with the format of our Camper! Silly CCP......
Erin Crawford
#6 - 2015-11-27 18:16:54 UTC
Esrevid Nekkeg wrote:
CCP Phantom wrote:

War disruptor field generator Tiericide
A War disruptor field generator?!? Shocked
Seems like a typo to me. Lol...

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TheSmokingHertog
Julia's Interstellar Trade Emperium
#7 - 2015-12-02 09:39:53 UTC
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"Dogma is kind of like quantum physics, observing the dogma state will change it." ~ CCP Prism X

"Schrödinger's Missile. I dig it." ~ Makari Aeron

-= "Brain in a Box on Singularity" - April 2015 =-