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This Week in EVE #73 - Week 14/2015

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CCP Phantom
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C C P Alliance
#1 - 2015-04-03 16:47:09 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 next weekly overview is available here.

The current "This week in EVE" gives a condensed overview of the weeks from March 13th to April 3rd



Dev blogs and official news
Back Into the Structure - Feedback
First announced at Fanfest 2015, we will see a complete overhaul and rework of all structures in space. This (long) dev blog gives a high level overview of our current ideas and thoughts how to improve structure game play. Please note that this is an early overview and that details need to be worked out. We aim to implement the first changes in 2015, but more will follow 2016. Please read the dev blog and the thread for more information. Please also check the discussion threads on individual structure groups!

Announcing EVE Universe: The Art of New Eden - Feedback
The "EVE Universe: The Art of New Eden" is a wonderful, high quality book illustrating the beauty of New Eden with impressive art work, background information, concepts, and more. You can order the book now from TFAW or soon via Amazon/

Fly Quafe – Fanfest Ship Skins with Game Time Bundles - Feedback
In celebration of Fanfest 2015 you can now order game time for EVE Online and receive Fanfest Quafe ship skins as free bonus. Due to the popular demand, this offer has been extended until April 7, 2015. You can simply order game time via account management.

Fanfest 2016 and EVE Vegas 2015 Tickets Now On Sale! - Feedback
Fanfest 2015 is over, welcome to Fanfest 2016! Fanfest 2016 will take place in Iceland from April 21st to 23rd, but before that you have the chance to join the fantastic EVE Vegas event from October 23 to 25, 2015. Tickets as well as more information abut those events are available now, check the blog!

Your feedback counts! New sovereignty survey available
After we presented ideas of changing the sovereignty mechanic we would like to invite you to voice your opinion especially about the proposed time zone mechanic. Please use our survey which is also available in German and Russian!

CSM X - Voting Results - Feedback
The full election results for the 10th Council of Stellar Management have been published. Congratulations to the winners! All voters deserve a big "Thank you" for their participation; of course many thanks also to the candidates who invested time and effort into their campaigns.

I Take Off My Robe And Wizard Hat - Fanfest 2015 Cosplay Results! - Feedback
During Fanfest 2015 we saw a Cosplay competition with amazing and very interesting results. All participants of this competition deserve full applause; especially the winning entries are extraordinary. The overall winner is the Amarr character "Max Singularity" - congratulations!


Victorieux Luxury Yacht Now In Redeeming System
Camel Empire won the Worlds Collide Tournament in an intense match live on stage during Fanfest 2015 against the team City of Angels. Camel Empire was the Champion for the Tranquility server against the Champions for the Chinese server Serenity, and therefore everyone on Tranquility with an active subscription received a blueprint copy for a Victorieux Luxury Yacht. The blueprint is waiting for you in...

CCP Phantom - Senior Community Developer
CCP Phantom
C C P
C C P Alliance
#2 - 2015-04-03 16:47:15 UTC
Features of the next release in April
Overview thread
The first changes for the next release in April are available now on the test server Singularity. Connect to Singularity and check out those new features! Gain access to Singularity - with the new Download on Demand it is even more simple than before!

Corp roles UI improvements
The user interface for managing corp roles, titles and access rights will be improved. The new interface only needs 5 tabs instead of the current 19 tabs to manage all the functionality in a much easier way. Additionally we will see several bug fixes. Please note though that this this is a user interface change, all the functionality of roles, access rights etc. is unchanged - for now.

SKIN system
The new skin system is available on the test server. Simply play around with this new system and enjoy the variety of ship skins! This is just the first iteration of the new system; possible future features included skins for multiple ships, skin bundles and a lot more.

Volume and manufacturing changes to Infrastructure Hubs and IHub Upgrades
Moving infrastructure hubs and system upgrades will become easier because their volume will be lowered so that most of the items will fit into non-freighter ships as well. Additionally all structures can be deployed from fleet hangars (available on ships such as the Orca or Deep Space Transports). IHub upgrades can be also manufactured using resources from Planetary Interaction; check the list of required materials.

More information on the Entosis Link
After a lot of good and fruitful feedback CCP Fozzie has more details about the new Entosis Link which is needed to fight for sovereignty in the new sov mechanic system. Activating the Entosis Link module will increase the mass of the ship and consumes fuel (1 Strontium per cycle). Of course nothing is set in stone and constructive feedback and discussions are most welcome.

Confessor and Svipul - Balance and manufacture updates
The new Tech-3 destroyers, the Confessor and the Svipul, will be tweaked a little bit and their fitting abilities slightly changed. Additionally the build material requirements for those ships will be increased so that those ships are closer to the original target price.

Battlecruiser Warp Speed and Warp Rig changes
Battlecruisers will warp 8% faster. Furthermore the penalties from installing warp speed rigs will be changed from a current drawback in CPU to an increased signature radius.

Removal of "Garage Door" cyno fields
The method of "Garage door" cyno fields - lighting cyno fields within the range of a disabled forcefield of a POS, jumping to the cyno and then activating the pos forcefield to guarantee safety - will be removed. Cyno fields will behave the same near a starbase regardless the status of the starbase. Please note that lighting a cyno field within an active starbase forcefield is considered being an exploit.

Consumption of high end minerals increased
The usage of the minerals Megacyte and Zydrine in blueprints will be doubled. This should change the value of most end products not by a huge amount, but it will benefit high end ores that contain those minerals. Additionally the mineral composition of nullsec ores will be revamped. Please note though, that pre-release speculation on mineral prices is all on your own risk!


Structure revamp
During Fanfest 2015 we announced the plan to completely revamp all player made structures in EVE Online. CCP Ytterbium's dev blog contains a lot of details. Since we have made this announcement early enough, we have enough time to listen to all your feedback! Please discuss the ideas and plans and work together to shape the future of New Eden by posting in the following discussion threads:



Also watch the Fanfest 2015 structure revamp presentation !

CCP Phantom - Senior Community Developer
Darkblad
Doomheim
#3 - 2015-04-03 17:01:27 UTC  |  Edited by: Darkblad
Yay, Something for Easter! Thank you CCP Phantom! Blink

And there's the Übersetzung.

NPE – ISD – RIP
CCP Phantom
C C P
C C P Alliance
#4 - 2015-04-03 17:03:33 UTC
Darkblad wrote:
Yay, Something for Easter! Thank you CCP Phantom! Blink

Due to Fanfest I had to condense news from previous three weeks into this summary. As such, not all dev posts are listed, I put focus on the most important ones and skipped some that are a bit outdated by now already.

Happy Easter!

CCP Phantom - Senior Community Developer
Darkblad
Doomheim
#5 - 2015-04-03 17:58:19 UTC
The translation will take a while, but it's in progress already. Pirate

NPE – ISD – RIP
Cleanse Serce
Lonesome Capsuleer
#6 - 2015-04-03 19:42:32 UTC
Thanks for this recap' !

Hope you will abandon the strontium consumption of cycles, mass though is a good idea.
Please don't lower too much your will on that Sov mecanic revamp.

Keep it up ! ♥
Aryth
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#7 - 2015-04-03 20:51:06 UTC
It will be fun to watch how many people hear about zyd/mega now and the moshpit for the next presumably 3 1/2 weeks.

Leader of the Goonswarm Economic Warfare Cabal.

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Alejandro Rebenga
#8 - 2015-04-06 14:14:00 UTC
This is quite a loaded update, thanks for the links.
Renice
Makers
#9 - 2015-04-06 16:26:10 UTC
So what was the original price for the svipul again?
TheSmokingHertog
Julia's Interstellar Trade Emperium
#10 - 2015-04-06 19:57:05 UTC
Was nice meeting you @ fanfest :D... - keep this up.

"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 =-
DINGDONG DING
Doomheim
#11 - 2015-04-07 08:22:16 UTC
small and medium belts in -1 systems should have same bonus as large and above. so people would use them at-least.. they seem to be just wasted..
SilentAsTheGrave
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#12 - 2015-04-09 03:01:11 UTC
The community loves these 'This Week in EVE' stuff. Please never stop. ♥
CCP Phantom
C C P
C C P Alliance
#13 - 2015-04-10 13:11:03 UTC
SilentAsTheGrave wrote:
The community loves these 'This Week in EVE' stuff. Please never stop. ♥

Thank you!

The next weekly summary is available here.

CCP Phantom - Senior Community Developer