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This Week in EVE #156 - Week 24/2017

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CCP Phantom
C C P
C C P Alliance
#1 - 2017-06-16 11:52:43 UTC  |  Edited by: CCP Phantom
"This week in EVE" is a weekly overview of EVE Online related news and events. The previous overview is here. Orange text links to further information.

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The current "This week in EVE" gives an overview of week from June 10 to 16

Rogue Swarm Alert - Get active!
[img]http://cdn1.eveonline.com/community/TWiE/156/RogueSwarm550.jpg[/img]
A new event is live on Tranquility! Alpha and Omega: Fight the new Rogue Swarm sites and reap the rewards.

  • Start: June 13 -- End: Downtime on 27 (11:00 UTC)
  • Look for Rogue Swarm Nests in your overview and warp to the sites
  • Fight several waves of rogue drones and destroy the swarm overseer
  • The swarm overseer will drop bounty: PLEX, Accelerator, SKINs and more
  • Rogue Swarm Accelerator gives +10 attribute boost for 24 hour (can be extended with Biology skill up to 48 hours)
  • The Accelerator expires on June 29 at 23:59:59 UTC

Have fun and get rich!

June 2017 release is live
[img]http://cdn1.eveonline.com/community/TWiE/156/RogueSwarmship550.jpg[/img]
The latest EVE Online release was published on June 13: A new live event, game balance changes and lots of useful improvements!


Full power ahead: EVE Online all weekend long!
[img]http://cdn1.eveonline.com/community/TWiE/156/Eveathon.jpg[/img]
15 famous EVE streamer are broadcasting this weekend the best of EVE Online. Enjoy the 72-hour EVE live stream.


Permaband songs for Rockband 4
[img]http://cdn1.eveonline.com/community/TWiE/156/Rockband.jpg[/img]
Rock Band 4 and CCP - a perfect match! If you own Rock Band 4, then have fun with two free songs coming directly from CCP's in-house band.


New EVE book: "Frigates Of EVE Online: The Cross Sections"
[img]http://cdn1.eveonline.com/community/TWiE/156/FrigatesOfEVE.jpg[/img]
A new amazing, stunningly beautiful EVE book is available!

  • 160 pages of Spaceawesomeness
  • Illustrations of 28 Frigates
  • Detailed technical descriptions
  • Technical articles about capsule technology and ship subsystems

Available on Amazon (US, UK, DE, AUS, CA) and stores around the world. Order your copy!

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Ghost Training (that is: accruing skillpoints on alpha accounts faster than through regular game play or training omega skills on an alpha accounts) is an exploit and will be dealt with accordingly. Inform yourself about declared exploits.

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Battle news! Goonswarm tried to ambush a Leviathan titan in the system of 5H-SM2. The result was a large fight between Goonswarm and Triumvirate / FCON. Ships worth 300 bil ISK got destroyed. Check out the images from the battlefield and the battle video. The battle stats is...

CCP Phantom - Senior Community Developer
Chribba
Otherworld Enterprises
Otherworld Empire
#2 - 2017-06-16 12:55:46 UTC
Thank you!

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Yodik
Dwarfed ORE
#3 - 2017-06-16 13:21:56 UTC
Chribba wrote:
Thank you!

answer the mail ingame.

В любой непонятной ситуации - качай Prospect.
Lexx Devi
Freeport . 7
#4 - 2017-06-16 14:24:20 UTC
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You can get the Molok blueprint by destroying a Blood Raider Shipyard.


Right, i can't steal it anymore & i won't sell my soul to goons or red. Thank You CCP.
Any chance for LP or Limit Spawn to NPC Null? Goons owns to mutch of the game alrerady.
Farr Arrow
Cry Of Death
Almost Underdogs
#5 - 2017-06-16 15:10:42 UTC
Lately there seems to be some dissatisfaction among some player groups with the way CCP and some of its employees run the Eve Universe. This can often be seen in the general tone and direction of a lot of comments posted in reply each week to the weekly "This week in Eve" overview. However, I personally believe that CCP and the vast majority of all of its employees do their very best to keep the Eve Universe running as smoothly as possible for all of us to enjoy. And this also includes doing their very best to fix most of the pressing issues in Eve that seem to frustrate some players. From a logical standpoint, does it make much sense for a corporation to intentionally sabotage its products or services or to not do its very best to keep as many of their customers as happy as humanly possible? Also, what seems to be a problem for one group of players may actually seem to be a solution to another group of players.

For those pilots who suspect that CCP routinely fails, either intentionally or through sheer incompetence, in trying to do the best job humanly possible in keeping Eve running smoothly, please realize that we, as customers, only see the end result of their labors. We do not know most of the details and the actual process that is constantly needed to provide a playable Eve Universe to us. The complexity of most modern MMORPG's is astounding and successful games such as Eve just keep getting more and more complex as each year passes. All of us as customers demand this. Many MMORPG's that are not evolving and changing to keep up with the needs and demands of players are failing and shutting down their servers while the Eve Universe keeps spinning.

It seems fairly easy to hate and demand more and more perfection from an incredibly complex software product that just keeps getting more complicated and intricate as each year passes. Eve Online is now almost impossible for any one person to understand in its sheer size and in all its entangled details. I believe that praise and commendation is rightfully due to CCP and to most of its employees for the amazing thing that they have all been able to achieve as a team. And I really think that the Eve Universe speaks for itself for anyone who simply wants to enter and listen.
Jeremiah Saken
The Fall of Leviathan
#6 - 2017-06-16 15:28:12 UTC
You disussed with CSM about ghost training. Why? This exploit was reported for months. Clusterf**k summer is coming CCP. You cannot hide bad decisons behind pointless discussions with CSM. CSM was created to help you balance the game. Involving them into this make them looks bad as well because there is nothing to discuss. Exploit is an exploit.

"I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas..." - Herman Melville
CCP Phantom
C C P
C C P Alliance
#7 - 2017-06-16 16:30:29 UTC
By the way, did you know that the stargates in EVE were constructed in binary star systems? Only in those systems, the gravitational topology allowed for constructing these stargates.

Here is the relevant article from the fiction portal:
[img]http://content.eveonline.com/www/newssystem/media/73174/2/FictionPortalArticle.jpg[/img]

Now, guess what!

A recent research article discovered that most stars are born as twins:
[img]http://content.eveonline.com/www/newssystem/media/73174/2/BerkeleyUni.jpg[/img]

Let's build some stargates!

CCP Phantom - Senior Community Developer
WhiteOrm
Pator Tech School
Minmatar Republic
#8 - 2017-06-16 20:29:41 UTC
CCP Phantom wrote:
Let's build some stargates!


Lets build Custom Office first. Orbital elevator, plasma powered planet-space rockets. Whatever will be not as costly as our current Earth-space planetary launches. We will greatly appreciate if you will write someting prophetic about this theme.
Morgan Agrivar
Doomheim
#9 - 2017-06-17 07:00:16 UTC
I, for one, appreciate what you are doing CCP in providing a MMO for us to play. I enjoy logging in and playing the game. If it isn't fun for you anymore, please send all your isk and stuff to me and uninstall.

Thank you.
Lothar Mandrake
Mandrake Executor Corp
Mandrake Alliance
#10 - 2017-06-18 13:47:10 UTC
Kudos to all of those that contributed to the EVEathon including many CCP employees. It was nice to talk to CCP_Falcon and CCP_leeloo AFTER work hours on their own time in the Twitch chat.

It helped me personally try to connect with CCP employees and see them as people trying very hard to make us happy. It can't be easy for them with the office politics. "Between a rock and a hard place" seems to be the best description. CCP will never get a free pass from me, but I will give credit when credit is due.

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Kael Decadence
Banana-Republic.
Shadow Cartel
#11 - 2017-06-19 17:49:26 UTC
CCP Phantom wrote:


Let's build some stargates!


Is this a hint of something to come?
Arrendis
TK Corp
#12 - 2017-06-19 18:37:53 UTC
CCP Phantom wrote:
By the way, did you know that the stargates in EVE were constructed in binary star systems? Only in those systems, the gravitational topology allowed for constructing these stargates.

Here is the relevant article from the fiction portal:
[img]http://content.eveonline.com/www/newssystem/media/73174/2/FictionPortalArticle.jpg[/img]


Out of curiosity, if every system with a stargate is a binary system, why do all the systems with stargates only have one sun?
My Nameis Mud
Dark Venture Corporation
Kitchen Sinkhole
#13 - 2017-06-19 21:30:29 UTC
Arrendis wrote:
CCP Phantom wrote:
By the way, did you know that the stargates in EVE were constructed in binary star systems? Only in those systems, the gravitational topology allowed for constructing these stargates.

Here is the relevant article from the fiction portal:
[img]http://content.eveonline.com/www/newssystem/media/73174/2/FictionPortalArticle.jpg[/img]


Out of curiosity, if every system with a stargate is a binary system, why do all the systems with stargates only have one sun?


About half of the Binary systems in the Milky Way have the partner star about 1000 AU or more away from the other star. I have not seen a system in EVE with anything listed that far away, so they are defenitely "Off Grid".

BTW, thank you for all the hard work CCP.

You cannot please everyone everday.
Players: Today is not your day...Tomorrow does not look good either... Twisted
Sephiroth Angell
Sephiroths meat grinding Company a. s.
#14 - 2017-06-20 11:45:08 UTC
You forgot to mention that Plex prices went crazy and out of control.. :) Players owning the market are making prices higher and higher testing what ppl are willing to pay... For many years.. i was buying plex on market for isk.. But now.. ill not. Ill sub for RM cause im NOT willing to pay 1.5B for plex.. ill rather pay the sub..
April rabbit
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#15 - 2017-06-20 12:50:07 UTC
Lexx Devi wrote:
Quote:
You can get the Molok blueprint by destroying a Blood Raider Shipyard.


Right, i can't steal it anymore & i won't sell my soul to goons or red. Thank You CCP.
Any chance for LP or Limit Spawn to NPC Null? Goons owns to mutch of the game alrerady.

You know the IRONY: after casino war everyone was yelling "goons are ded!". Lol
Nevyn Auscent
Broke Sauce
#16 - 2017-06-20 12:56:20 UTC
April rabbit wrote:

You know the IRONY: after casino war everyone was yelling "goons are ded!". Lol

A few idiots who didn't know any better does not constitute 'everyone'.
Balarat
Native Freshfood
Minmatar Republic
#17 - 2017-06-20 23:12:33 UTC
I've found a lot more PVP content in blackrise due to rogue swarms, thanks CCP!
CCP Phantom
C C P
C C P Alliance
#18 - 2017-06-23 18:04:50 UTC
The next weekly report has been published and is available here:

https://meta.eveonline.com/t/this-week-in-eve-157-june-17-23/6432

CCP Phantom - Senior Community Developer
Tessa Sage
Long Pig Luncheon Meat
Sending Thots And Players
#19 - 2017-06-23 18:31:27 UTC  |  Edited by: Tessa Sage
My Nameis Mud wrote:
Arrendis wrote:

Out of curiosity, if every system with a stargate is a binary system, why do all the systems with stargates only have one sun?

About half of the Binary systems in the Milky Way have the partner star about 1000 AU or more away from the other star. I have not seen a system in EVE with anything listed that far away, so they are defenitely "Off Grid".

Prepping for 'Tactical Warp Core Configuration' skill training then.. Blink