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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 following weekly overview can be found here.

The current "This week in EVE" gives a condensed overview of the weeks from April 11th to 17th


Dev blogs and announcements
Alliance Logos & You - Submissions Re-Opened! - Feedback
Alliances can submit their logos again to CCP to be added to the EVE Online universe. Approved logos will receive a slight modification and a small CONCORD logo of approval before they are put in game. Read the details on the submission process and the logo requirements in CCP Falcon's blog!

A quick update from Team Security - Recap from Fanfest 2015 - Feedback
Team Security has an interesting recap from Fanfest 2015 and their presentation. Learn more about Team Security, bans, security awareness, and black market ISK.

CCP Games on GitHub - Feedback
CCP Games is on GitHub with already a number of projects. All GitHub projects are under the MIT license. Check out CCP's GitHub and come back with feedback, ideas and suggestions!



World news
Leading Imperial weapons manufacturer confirms research on Antikythera Element
Imperial Armaments have confirmed that a specialist team is going to research hardware salvaged from destroyed Drifter battleships for potential application in future projects. Chief Researcher for CreoDRON warned that "Imperial Armaments should be extremely careful with this technology”.

Catch Region Faces Change
The region Catch has been bustling with activity, fights and deadly ship kills for almost a year with engagements between HERO, Pandemic Legion and many others. Recently the conflict heated up even more, but read yourself the thrilling story of HERO in Catch by ISD Lunaire Elois!

Drifter Threat Analysis Continues to Develop
With the recent emergence of the mysterious Drifters we saw a new powerful entity that is easily capable of destroying capsuleer piloted ships. A few brave souls have undertaken the risk to evaluate and analyze this new threat. Check out the analysis summarized by ISD Jarrett Pelley and heed the warning by the capsuleer Audomaro: "Avoid engagement at all costs."

Corporation Spotlight: Es and Whizz
The corporation Es and Whizz celebrated a few days ago their 10th anniversary, congratulations! To learn more about this famous corporation, their smuggling operations and drug manufacturing please read the Corporation Spotlight from the Interstellar Correspondent ISD Jarrett Pelley!



Features of the next release in April
New Burner Missions on Singularity
New "Burner" missions are available on the test server Singularity: one Serpentis and one Blood Raider mission. Those missions are supposed to be very challenging, but we are most eager to hear your feedback on this!

Confessor and Svipul Balance Tweaks
CCP Fozzie has news regarding the Confessor and Svipul rebalance! Both ships will receive a 50% damage output to their primary weapon system and at the same time lose two weapon highslots. Fitting requirements and ship attributes have been adjusted as well. These changes should keep long range weapons competitive.

Ore, Mineral and Nullsec Mining Anomaly Revamp
We will see a considerable revamp of nullsec ores, high end mineral demand and the composition of mining anomalies generated by Ore Prospecting Arrays. The use of Zydrine and Megacyte in blueprints will be doubled, nullsec ores will contain one main mineral and the mining anomalies will be rebalanced so that nullsec industry will be more self-sufficient. CCP Fozzie presents all the details and numbers in his forum post, check it out!


New ship SKIN system
SKINS and character trading
The new SKINs will be permanently available on a character and as such they are a valuable asset that can influence the price of a character when it is sold via the Character Bazaar. The rules of the Character Bazaar forum will be updated accordingly when the SKIN system has been released. Please be aware that any scams involving character trading are strictly forbidden.


[u]Testing and the test...

I'm always surprised at just how many things show up in these review posts. Never seems like that much as it's happening through the week.

Thank you for the updates!

/c

If you only read one post each week, CCP Phantom's weekly review is that post.

Brave newbs were famous ;p, thx for the spotlight dude