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This Week in EVE #133 - Week 48/2016

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CCP Phantom
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C C P Alliance
#1 - 2016-12-02 13:32:18 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 week from November 26 to December 2


Dev blogs and announcements
Skill Reimbursement Deployed After EVE Online: Ascension Issue
A fix for the skillpoint issues that a number of pilots were experiencing after the launch of EVE Online: Ascension has been deployed. This fix relates to those pilots who had skills that trained skillpoints beyond the number of points that were needed to take them to Level V in a skill.

Blood Raider Cerebral Accelerators expired on Dec 1st
The Blood Raider Cerebral Accelerators and the Advanced Blood Raider Cerebral Accelerators expired at 23:59:59 UTC on November 30th, 2016.

New SKIN for mining ships available: Morphite Shine
A beautiful gleaming red SKIN is now available in the New Eden Store for your mining ships. If you don't have access to Morphite ore, you still can enjoy its enchanting visuals with the new Morphite Shine SKIN!

More Information On CCP Studio Visits Now Available!
Until now, there hasn't been a 100% clear procedure on how to contact CCP to arrange a tour of one of our studios, with most pilots simply submitting support tickets to request a tour. Now we have some helpful guidelines on how to contact us and what information we'll need if you're looking to come visit. Check out the new Studio Visitation Policy!

Audio and Video
#myEVEstory - The Pirate Underworld
Another story from the EVE Universe. Get a glimpse at the nearly endless possibilities in EVE; check out Jayne Fillon's descent into the pirate underworld of EVE Online!

EVE Online - Astero-class Frigate
The "Astero"-class frigate is the first vessels made available to capsuleers by the Sisters of EVE. The Astero is an agile, tenacious ship highly suitable for exploration (including search & rescue operations).

o7 - The EVE Online Show: Episode 20
In this episode of the exciting o7 show, CCP Seagull (Executive producer for EVE) along with CCP Quant (Senior Data Scientist) discussed how things are going following the Ascension expansion. Daily activity graphs (logon count, manufacturing stats, ratio between alpha and omega characters etc). We also got impressions from other development team about the launch of Ascension. Additionally, we got news from the EVE_NT championship. Check it out!


Ideas and new features
Defender missiles as bomb destroyers
As a previously introduced idea, defender missiles will be repurposed to not destroy incoming missiles but instead to destroy bombs. CCP Larrikin answers questions about this new concept, check it out!


Issues and Workaround
Skillpoints appearing out of nowhere?
If you see a good chunk of skillpoints suddenly appearing on your character, then you might have gotten a skillpoint reimbursement. We had a bug that let characters "overtrain" and accumulate skillpoints on a skill past skilllevel 5. We fixed that bug and reimbursed those skillpoints on November 28.

Skillpoint issues related to attribute boosters?
If you are experiencing some skillpoint issues related to attribute boosters, please continue to be patient while we are working on a fix / script.


Testing and test servers
Weird sound effects?
There have been reports of some weird / broken sound effects on the test server. CCP Claymore explains that this could be a result of standardizing the sounds across the game, but that we gladly will look at what we can do. For insiders: below the Gongs.


Third party development
Minor changes to EVE Swagger Interface
On November 30, we made a couple minor changes to the EVE Swagger Interfaces...

CCP Phantom - Senior Community Developer
Ariel Rin
Tactically Challenged
The Initiative.
#2 - 2016-12-02 13:42:14 UTC
It's also Fawlty7's birthday!

Ariel Rin

Creator and Manager of EVE Meet, for notification and sharing of out of game meets.

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Keyren
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#3 - 2016-12-02 13:47:54 UTC
Happy birthday Fawlty7!

Also, Insurrection is recruiting
Sergey Hawk
The Sith Syndicate
REFORD
#4 - 2016-12-02 13:54:33 UTC
EVE devs over the next few weeks you will need to do several things.

  1. For Gods sake make Custom Tracking Position for camera
  2. Limit deviation of the ship with dynamic camera. The ship in any case should not hide behind the pinned window and HUD dashboard.
  3. Gather telemetry data to find out how much milliseconds passes from undock to the moment when pilots begin to spin the mouse wheel or use tracking to cancel undocking animation. Maybe then you will see how useless this animation and make toggle for this disaster.

Aura: "You need to be within range to execute this function."

Kimi Räikkönen: “Leave me alone, I know what I’m doing.”
Sylvia Kildare
Kinetic Fury
#5 - 2016-12-02 14:34:29 UTC
Sergey Hawk wrote:
EVE devs over the next few weeks you will need to do several things.

  1. For Gods sake make Custom Tracking Position for camera
  2. Limit deviation of the ship with dynamic camera. The ship in any case should not hide behind the pinned window and HUD dashboard.
  3. Gather telemetry data to find out how much milliseconds passes from undock to the moment when pilots begin to spin the mouse wheel or use tracking to cancel undocking animation. Maybe then you will see how useless this animation and make toggle for this disaster.


A) Amen to that.

B) probably good... but I turned it off (twice now) due to it being about as irritating as camera shake on warping off/landing years ago.

C) There already is a toggle for the undocking (and docking) animation. I can't remember the name of the graphics option, but I turned it off literally a day after that patch introduced it. It was one of the dynamic camera things... gotta flip that off to kill it. There is no separate toggle, though, which is perhaps what you're after (but whatever else it turns off to turn it off isn't worth keeping on, IMO).
Seythia Song
Unicorn Ghetto
#6 - 2016-12-02 17:30:05 UTC
CCP Phantom wrote:

Issues and Workaround
Skillpoints appearing out of nowhere?
If you see a good chunk of skillpoints suddenly appearing on your character, then you might have gotten a skillpoint reimbursement. We had a bug that let characters "overtrain" and accumulate skillpoints on a skill past skilllevel 5. We fixed that bug and reimbursed those skillpoints on November 28.

Skillpoint issues related to attribute boosters?
If you are experiencing some skillpoint issues related to attribute boosters, please continue to be patient while we are working on a fix / script.

Wow, such a lie. That so called fix made some people lose skillpoints and only answer we got from ccp was something like "customer support should help you". It's been a week and support didnt even said a word about working on this problem.
Nicola Arman
Deep Maw Salvage
#7 - 2016-12-02 18:23:02 UTC
New this week! New Old Custom Tracking Camera returns and everyone rejoices!
Yosagi Yojimbo
Worthless Carebears
The Initiative.
#8 - 2016-12-02 20:07:04 UTC
Sergey Hawk wrote:
EVE devs over the next few weeks you will need to do several things.

  1. For Gods sake make Custom Tracking Position for camera
  2. Limit deviation of the ship with dynamic camera. The ship in any case should not hide behind the pinned window and HUD dashboard.
  3. Gather telemetry data to find out how much milliseconds passes from undock to the moment when pilots begin to spin the mouse wheel or use tracking to cancel undocking animation. Maybe then you will see how useless this animation and make toggle for this disaster.


A: Sure

B: Why not.

C: When in game press ESCAPE, goto the DISPLAY & GRAPHICS tabs, deselect DYNAMIC CAMERA MOVEMENT in the bottom left corner, press APPLY.

Success!
Matterall
Talking In Stations Corporation
#9 - 2016-12-03 02:34:38 UTC
Awesome thanks for the list!

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DICE Corp, Northern Coalition.
Iha Ulall
Drunken Reprobates
#10 - 2016-12-03 05:10:18 UTC
Seythia Song wrote:
CCP Phantom wrote:

Issues and Workaround
Skillpoints appearing out of nowhere?
If you see a good chunk of skillpoints suddenly appearing on your character, then you might have gotten a skillpoint reimbursement. We had a bug that let characters "overtrain" and accumulate skillpoints on a skill past skilllevel 5. We fixed that bug and reimbursed those skillpoints on November 28.

Skillpoint issues related to attribute boosters?
If you are experiencing some skillpoint issues related to attribute boosters, please continue to be patient while we are working on a fix / script.

Wow, such a lie. That so called fix made some people lose skillpoints and only answer we got from ccp was something like "customer support should help you". It's been a week and support didnt even said a word about working on this problem.


Same here... Lost a level 5 skill, got no points and after a few days it changed into a partialy trained level 4 skill. Filed a bug report on 25 November and after no reaction at all a support ticket a few days later. So far no reaction.
Sergey Hawk
The Sith Syndicate
REFORD
#11 - 2016-12-03 08:13:37 UTC
Yosagi Yojimbo wrote:
C: When in game press ESCAPE, goto the DISPLAY & GRAPHICS tabs, deselect DYNAMIC CAMERA MOVEMENT in the bottom left corner, press APPLY.

without dynamic movement we definitely need Custom Tracking Position back in game.
not everyone likes to look straight in the a$s of own ship while target is tracked Lol

Aura: "You need to be within range to execute this function."

Kimi Räikkönen: “Leave me alone, I know what I’m doing.”
Nadramia
Immortal Bacon Warriors
#12 - 2016-12-04 23:36:57 UTC
Yeeess.. I have been waiting for these Morphite Shine SKIN. best skin ever for ore ship imo.. Just one thing tho..
Where the hell is the Morphite Shine SKIN for my ORCA.. its left out, feel alone and cry's in the corner.. My Orca wants Morphite Shine SKIN too you know..! :/
Sylvia Kildare
Kinetic Fury
#13 - 2016-12-06 09:31:42 UTC
Yosagi Yojimbo wrote:
C: When in game press ESCAPE, goto the DISPLAY & GRAPHICS tabs, deselect DYNAMIC CAMERA MOVEMENT in the bottom left corner, press APPLY.

Success!


That's the one. Been so long since I unchecked it I forgot which one it was tied to. Problem is for some people who want to keep dynamic camera movement but not keep the undock/dock animation. Ah well, can't have everything.

Sergey Hawk wrote:
Yosagi Yojimbo wrote:
C: When in game press ESCAPE, goto the DISPLAY & GRAPHICS tabs, deselect DYNAMIC CAMERA MOVEMENT in the bottom left corner, press APPLY.

without dynamic movement we definitely need Custom Tracking Position back in game.
not everyone likes to look straight in the a$s of own ship while target is tracked Lol


Yes. I miss hitting "c" and getting a nice slightly-off-center view of my ship staring down the target (which I'd put a bit to the up and left, kinda to the left of damage notifications and to the right of the player count at top right of my local window).

Nadramia wrote:
Yeeess.. I have been waiting for these Morphite Shine SKIN. best skin ever for ore ship imo.. Just one thing tho..
Where the hell is the Morphite Shine SKIN for my ORCA.. its left out, feel alone and cry's in the corner.. My Orca wants Morphite Shine SKIN too you know..! :/


I too am most excited about Morphite Shine for Orca specifically.... but yes, it seems they've only released the barges + exhumers so far. If you do a market search for morphite shine in-game, though, you will find the Orca (and Bowhead)... so apparently it will be coming... just not yet. ;_;