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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 May 23rd to 29nd


Dev blogs and announcements
Carnyx Release Theme
The Carnyx release theme has been published on Soundcloud and is now available for you. Tune in and enjoy that inspiring deep theme!

Updating to Carnyx using the Repair Tool Issues
If you have previously been using the Repair Tool to update your EVE Online client, you might be required to use the EVE Launcher to update your client with the Carnyx release. If you are unable to use the EVE Launcher due to an error, please reinstall the EVE Launcher using these instructions.

Fanfest 2016 website
Fanfest, the exciting and largest EVE gathering at the top of the world in Iceland, will take place in Reykjavik from April 21 to 23. A completely new website is available now to provide you with all important information regarding Fanfest 2016 in one central place. Check out fanfest.eveonline.com!

EVE Updates
The website EVE Updates was first announced at Fanfest 2015 and informs you about confirmed features coming to EVE Online in an easy to read and visually interesting way. The site has been updated with the Carnyx information. Please not that EVE Updates is also available in all supported languages (DE, FR, RU). Have a look!

Patch notes for Carnyx
The patch notes for the next update on June 2, Carnyx, has been released. Check them out! We will see the first step towards a new Sovereignty system with the introduction of the Entosis mechanics, defense multipliers, and vulnerability times. Of course we are going to see a lot more than that with the Jackdaw (Caldari Tech-2 destroyer), beautiful new shaders, Marauder SKINS, new icons in space and the overview, UI improvements and many small balancing improvements and features. The deployment will take around 1 hour and 45 minutes from 11:00 to 12:45 UTC on June 2.


World News
The Scope – Amarr Empire releases new technology
On behalf of the Amarr Empress Jamyl Sarum, new shield technology has been developed and deployed by the Amarr Empire. As this new shielding technology is CONCORD tech, CONCORD was infuriated when the Amarr Empire announced that this technology is going to be handed to capsuleers. Speculations run high that this is a desperate move to fence off Drifters. Jamyl Sarum also urged capsuleers to stop their nullsec wars and to unite their support for the Empire.



Community
PLEX for GOOD auction
The PLEX for GOOD: Nepal earthquake relief included also an auction of items for PLEX. Those PLEX will also contribute to the charity drive. We are glad to announce the winners of the auction. Congratulations!
Lot 1: Various signed books - Winner: Entity
Lot 2: Various signed books - Winner: Sven Viko VIkolander
Lot 3: Various signed books - Winner: Boltorano
Lot 4: Various signed books - Winner: Fango Mango
Lot 5: Collectible Card Game Booster packs - Winner: Sacred Worlds
Lot 6: Concept art prints - Winner: Fango Mango

New Carnyx bracket icons
The player Darkblad has compiled a list of the new bracket icons (ships and drones, other entities) available as CSS Sprites. This might be especially useful for web designers. Thank you!

Did developers stopped communicating?
While it is easy to get concerned or worried that developers have stopped talking with the players, often the explanation is quite simple. Devs are made of flesh and blood (most of them at least) and thus have also weekends when...

Thank you! As long as the summaries are being read and useful for the community, they are going to continue.

A decision needs to be made about fairness to those who cannot watch every podcast and video. They don't make it into this report and are floods of information not public in another format yet.

I am fine with it as I have an army to watch. The average player.. not so much.

Hi Aryth, such feedback is always valuable and important. It would be great if you would have some examples at hand to examine the details a bit more, thank you!

I agree. Maybe a thread where appearances can be listed would be adequate. If one of the devs makes an appearance perhaps they could either post to a dev-only sticky or let Falcon know (who will then post). We don't need a summary because that's too much work. But an indication that they have 'appeared' somewhere would be good.

Just a brief summary of their appearance and topics discussed maybe. People won't expect cliff notes just the ability to stay informed from one "official" place. Your writeups are the closest thing there is to that.

Except that this is the one and only instance that they didn't stop responding after the first day or two. For example, take the Icon Changes feedback thread, find a dev response in the last couple of weeks, or the SKINs thread, if you can find a dev response past the first day or two that doesn't just repeat an answer that was already posted in the devblog then I will concede they do actually keep up with feedback threads they start. And those are just two of the plentiful examples of things that were still needing considerable work and had a good amount of very constructive feedback for necessary changes that were completely ignored as if they never asked for feedback to begin with.

Worst off still is the complete lack of dev responses to the feedback for weeks and then the sudden announcement that the change is going live in a couple of days with no alterations based on the feedback. Yes, I understand they might be reading, and may even be taking notes or making changes based on that feedback. But experience tells all of us that just simply isn't true 95% of the time, any hope of it being a discussion or opportunity for feedback to make a difference is gone the moment the devs stop responding.