EVE General Discussion

FANFEST was awesome. Full of surprise's and new things we can't wait for but for the Faction warfare and some of things about changing the game Kinda disappointed me.
Its a shame they can't throw in NPC's fighting one another. Say you got two systems that the o Militias have and no one is fighting there. You can have NPC's battling it out across both systems just to add some atmosphere to FW. As for the missions you should some date chip so you can only or your fleet to warp into the mission without PL dropping Caps on you. Another thing is that should allow Minmater or Gallente in one of the Militias instead of Amarr pilots. It seems stupid that a Amarr can join a Minmater Militia. But everything else in this vid is alright but it could use some work. But I would really love to see some NPC's duking it out both in lowsec and hi-sec. Minmater NPC's ambushing Amarr transport. Something of some sorts.

It be great for CCP to add lots of NPC's flying around doing stuff. In the books or story's' they say its a rich place with pilots or ships everywhere. Its be great too ships just flying around to add more immersion too the game. But not so that it can crash games or anything like that. Just more activity. Plus it be better for pirates too get some good loot or just unleash their inner pirate when they can't kill anything atm.

Just my opinion,

But overall, a great Fanfest and EVE FOREVER!!!

It was indeed a very good fanfest, not as cozy as in the old building last year with Gallante theme, but still a very good one. (here's to hopefully next year themed again).

Hmm when do tickets go on sale for the next one, sounds like you may have to set up two venues

Definitely coming next year with my CEO of my corp. who offered me a job in real life and now he is my boss. Going to book a week and enjoy Iceland hospitality at its best.
Really looking forward to a holiday of a lifetime.
See you guys there o/

I had great time in Iceland and I think I will be there next year also!

I saw no new fanfest videos posted today in the ccp youtube channel. I hope you are not done with them, I'm still waiting for the eve pvp tournament video for example. Also I'm still waiting for a devlblog that wraps up the fanfest events etc.

This was my first fanfest and it just blew me away.

When CCP offers the hospitality of the house they mean it in the grandest possible way. This is how you do it right. I went from round table to keynote to demo, it was an inspiration. I forgot to eat sometimes, that's how busy I was.

To finally meet the people you only read about or see in pictures, that's very cool. It's also a great help not to have to explain to someone what this EVE thing is you're involved in.

I fell in love with Iceland and its people. I now have a better understanding of where EVE Online comes from. I see the magic :-)

When I was taking a bus tour, not the EVE tour, the tour guide mentions there's this convention thing going on about EVE Online, something he first heard about 10 years ago during his masters' studies. There's a guy who says it would be a great idea to have a virtual space game with a player-driven economy. The tour guide says it sounded like a daft idea then and he still thinks its a daft idea.

10 years on he's a tour guide [and there's nothing wrong with being a tour guide], while I'm flying all the way to Iceland to meet other people from all over the planet.

/true story

My thanks to all of CCP for a truly grand showing in wonderful Harpa.

Edit: there's this bug in this text field which eats up the last character in the sentence. If you don't see a period at the end of this line it's not because I forgot to type it, it's because it was deleted.

I rendered it out yesterday and will hand it over to Marketing today so they can publish it through our CCP account on YouTube

Awesome, thank you CCP Arrow! I'm looking forward to seeing it.

Still can't wait!!! Hurry up with the cake!!!

The ultra high resolution version of the UI video has been sent to our great Video Producers for encoding. Stay tuned on our channel on YouTube right after easter!

I was one of those High Sec Carebears!

I convinced My Corp Mate to join me this year for Fanfest The Dust Beta Key pushed him over the edge.
we arrived a few days early to do the tourist thing, but got caught up Drinking with the Devs @ their bar, which was practically across the street from our hotel!
Did not get to as much non eve stuff as I would have liked, but there's always next year!
Next year i will have to book more time off before and after fanfest. It was so difficult leaving the Blue Lagoon to catch our plane.

I have posted the Map of Reykjavik I got from the hotel at my Desk at Work (12 months to plan next year's trip)

2 Suggestions for next year

1) Clearer info regarding registration for events (Dust514 Tournament, Pub Crawl, etc)
Many people who paid for the Pub Crawl were unaware you had to sign up for a group until the Crawl was underway.

2) Better ownership (Registration) of additional events Pub Crawl, Blue Lagoon, Golden Circle Tour, etc.
The passes for the extra items were handed out as generic tickets without ownership info.
My Corp Mate's pass fell off his Lanyard as we were leaving Harpa on Thursday night with 2 Pub Crawl passes, and a blue Lagoon pass. (Fortunately a conscientious Pilot/Dev returned it to the Info Desk mid-day Friday) \o/

Overall and Awesome Time

PS> if next year's Fanfest is half the size I expect it to be with 2 or more venues, a shuttlebus or 3 would be a necessity