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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 an overview of the previous week from July 23 to 29

Dev blogs and announcements
Summer PLEX Sale Now Live! - 15% Off!
Currently we have a nice summer sale going on with a 15% discount PLEX and PLEX bundles. The discounts are available only for a short amount of time; if you want to stock up on PLEX, don't hesitate too long!

Alliance Tournament XIV: Draw Results and Prizes
The famous Alliance Tournament takes place between October 1 and 16 with 64 alliance fighting tooth and nail for glory and unique prize ships! Check out the latest dev blog and discover which teams are already set to participate in the tournament and which teams have make an offer in the silent auction! You also should check out the prize ships Caedes and Rabisu.

Serpentis Capital SKINs Available In The New Eden Store!
A new selection of Serpentis SKINs for Gallente Capital ships is now available in the New Eden Store including the Thanatos, Moros, Nyx,
and Erebus.

Share Your Stories - We Want You!
We’re looking for EVE players who want to take part in filming, where you’ll talk about your EVE experiences and stories! We’ll be looking to see what kind of suggestions for stories are submitted, and will arrange filming and locations with people on an individual basis. Of course any costs for travel and accommodation will of be covered by CCP. If you are interested, please check out the news item and fill out the survey.

Updated EVE Updates
EVE Updates provides information in an easy and great looking way about the EVE development and future projects. The site has been updated with the latest info about the coming release on August 9, check it out!


Audio and Video
New EVE theme "Detached from time"
CCP RealX has blessed us with another brilliant soundtrack. This time we can listen the new theme "Detached from time" for the EVE Online release "118.7" coming August 9.


Alliance Tournament XIV
Why is there an entry fee for the Alliance Tournament?
You might wonder, same as Sinree did, why there is an PLEX entry fee for participating in the Alliance Tournament. The answer, provided by CCP Fozzie, is pretty simple: the entry fee is a reasonably good way to limit the entries down to 64 so the tournament will be manageable to run. Of course we would love to see larger tournaments; if you think likewise, please do not hesitate to support player run tournaments and spread the word.

Restrictions on using unique ships in the Alliance Tournament
Why did we change the restrictions on using unique ships in the Alliance Tournament and allow only to use one unique ship at any given time? There are a couple of aspects (some arguing about more unique ships per match, some less), but in the end we simply had to make a decision that takes all the aspects into account and results into a good balance between spectator excitement and power issues.


August release on Aug 9
Visual Damage System 2.0
The visual damage system is going to receive an overhaul. For example, hull repair effects are now unique and are not reusing the armor repair effect any longer (check out the animated GIF). We also are adding damage outburst effects to both armor and hull layers and introduce racial variants for armor repairing. Finally you also can see the effects on all ships within a certain range (previously only ships that you had locked would display shield/armor effects), and we've added shield ellipsoids to almost everything that can be seen in space. Of course all those effects...

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