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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 week from July 11th to July 17th


Dev blogs and announcements
Aegis Sovereignty - Deployed on July 14
The long announced large change to the nullsec sovereignty capture game mechanics has been deployed on July 14 in the Aegis Sovereignty update. Check out the details of the new capture mechanics in the help center.
Please also check out the Feedback thread, Issues (including known issues), and the patch notes.

Sovereignty - Pay your bills!
Please be aware that all TCU maintenance bills have been removed and new Infrastructure Hub bills have been added. The new IHub bills will NOT automatically be paid per default, you need to manually activate the autopay settings as explained in above linked news item. Everyone has until July 21st to pay the first of their new Infrastructure Hub bills. If bills remain unpaid until they expire, all associated Infrastructure Hubs will automatically self-destruct.

New ship SKINs available
Aegis Sov introduced new SKINs for Tech-2 Cruisers and Industrials, a total of 40 new SKINs. Check out the news item for a preview of these new SKINs. It might be also worth to check out the other recently released new SKINs for Tech-2 frigates and destroyers.

Unscheduled downtime extension on July 15 (resolved)
On July 15 after the Aegis Sovereignty 1.2 deployment we experienced issues with starting up Tranquility. Those issues were difficult to resolve (more details later), but the fantastic devs were able to locate the problem and solve it with knowledge and dedication. CCP Masterplan, one of the involved devs, finally headed to bed way after midnight. The community was of great help, supporting the devs with patience, humor and understanding. Thank you!!


Videos
Sovereignty in New Eden - how does it work?
Together with the Aegis Sov update we have published an overview video explaining how sovereignty works in New Eden. It is recommended to watch this video!

Flight Academy: Sovereignty mechanics in detail
CCP Customer Support has a great video series, the Flight Academy, explaining certain game mechanics of EVE Online in a clear and informative way. With the publication of the new sovereignty capture mechanics on July 14; this series has been expanded to cover those mechanics in detail. The topics cover a wide range from Vulnerability Window and Capital Systems over Capture Mechanics and Command nodes to Station Freeport mode, Active Defense multipliers and Sov structures.



Game design
"Little Things" for Sovereignty UI
Team Five 0 is very interesting to hear your ideas and suggestions for improvements to the user interface regarding the newly introduced Sovereignty. Please keep in mind that only "little things" can be addressed - but don't get the wrong impression, often those little things make a huge difference between "is ok" and "freaking awesome".

Status of the shield recharger tiercide feature
A few weeks ago CCP Terminus introduced the shield recharger tiercide feature (read more about it here). This feature is currently in the community discussion stage. This means that we are collecting feedback from the community (you, yes you!), answer questions and collect concerns about the presented proposal. As soon as there are updates, CCP Terminus will let us know.


Graphics and Art
Minmatar hull graphics
CCP Terminus explains that the Minmatar hulls appear more "rusty" after the introduction of the V5++ shaders. While those new shaders introduced great new possibilities for the graphic designers, they also changed the look of some ships away from the designed art design. We will work on improvements and overhaul the looks so that they are again closer to their original color scheme.

Are there fewer SKINs for Caldari and Minmatar?
It appears that there are...

thx for the update

Just in case anyone has not said so already.

I would like to thank the CCP crew for their hard work and dedication they showed in fixing the issues earlier this week. I personally have tried BASIC programming and needless to say "hello world" is my limit to that particular skill so good work ladies and gents you have some amazing skills !

By the way I hope the pizza was YUMMY it looked good ! you deserved it and much more.

Pray it never happens again but if it ever does you get ahold of me first large pep n cheese & bottle of advil is on me !

Best of wishes and keep up the AWESOME work ! I look forward to seeing what new ideas you come up with next.

Tony

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