Live Events Discussion

Noone from the original team is involved in the current team. We do have a fair bit of documentation on technical challenges and we got a lot of feedback from the players on what worked and didn't in the past.

FE convoy thingy today was fun, and I greatly appreciated having a small, low-key event where a number of things *could* have gone wrong but in the end none *did*. It makes the world, events, and actor characters feel ever so much more real when I now know for a fact that not every event will turn out to be a major free-for-all shoot-out with nodes crashing because everyone will know and show up to take shots at the CCP guys. ;)

Agreed!
I would add that the lead up to the event was just as much a part of a well executed live event. CCP characters created a "tension" that allowed for good RP interaction among Gradient and EM characters before the actual event. That was very enjoyable! I know that it allowed me to explore more of this character's personality and interact with others involved.

As to being in the news "again", I do not know in which alternate universe you live in, if you think we are there a lot. Anyhow, even if that was the case, we certainly did not contact the faction reps in order to coax a live event out of them so that we could make news and get awesomecoolgloryfame. In fact, we aimed at doing the event in secrecy and then STFU about it (probably not going to happent, though, due to Stuff(tm)). I posted positive feedback because it was pointed out to me that it is probably a good idea to do so if we want more of the stuff to happen. ;)

EDITed to add: I suspect part of why we did get an event was because we obviously were not trying to haggle for one, but simply RPing stuff that could have lead to something completely different too. In any case, like Seraphim points out, the main fun was not so much in the event itself, but in the interactions that lead into it and the interactions it caused inside the alliance.

Out of interest, here:

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=179792

Five Minmatar Corps and seventeen individuals declared loyalty to the Republic. I had assumed that these would have some opportunity to have some small input into any live event appropriate for the Republic of only which one or two EM's corps were in the know, it would appear.

It'd be churlish to begrudge EM their place in what looks like a fun mini-event, but of those corps/individuals outside of EM -who else having declared loyalty to Republic, on the above list, was left out of the loop? What is the point of declaring loyalty, then?

Mildly annoying. Please would someone help me with some joined-up thinking on this matter?

Thank you for your post., its appreciated. And well done, EM.

Sincerely, Princess Stampyfoot.

*waddles over to IGS"

Dude you lost your DEV tag... I stole it & will ransome it back for 1 QA mod


The X-MASS live event needed a reinforced node the lag was horrid

here is my feedback

if you are talking about player influence, you should not lock gates and not let players to do something

if you want to do event, first of all you should use brain and think that not everyone have good galante standings, so you could just turn off galante police on inbound gates

if you don't want your "events" to be totally failed don't turn on concord just after titan dies next time only 1/10 of those pilots will come, and may be you will understood that you are doing it wrong

Feedback from the Luminere event.

- Channel for just event actors
Next time there is an event this large can we have a separate chat channel for just the event team and where only the event actors have posting privileges.

The channels : Local and Live Events were so full of spam that it was hard to see when the Caldari and Gallente navies/admirals were talking. Plus seeing all the Pro and Neg CCP comments and other non role playing talk made it it less immersive for those who came for the story rather than just to blow the crap out of each other. :D


- Clearer Event Start Info
Next time could you provide clearer information on when the event will start. lots of people logged on after DT friday only to find out the event started 5 hours later. (the eve client log-on portal's news section only stated that the luminere system would be staging the event after downtime it didn't say when the actual event was to begin)


Live Stream Presenter feedback
- The live stream was a good idea however the presenters should have all the pre planned dialogue/scripts in front of them so they can tell the audience what the actors are saying and what is happening in the fight.

They should also have live info on who the primary and secondary targets of the actor fleets are and fleet number status of those ships. There was alot of comments similar to "im not sure what is happening right now" and "scale of fight is to big to pick out details" from the presenters indicating they only had the same info as the rest of the participants.

Rather than turning on the brackets they should have live presenter software so they can highlight particular ships with drawable circles and arrows etc to indicate what is happening. Turning the ship brackets on just looked like a big mess. which is fine if your participating in the fight but not so enjoyable if your just watching.

Presenters should also have access to live statistics such as how many ships have been destroyed etc. would make it more exciting for those watching.

Was to much advertising to non eve subscribers by presenters. (as stated in above post)

The twitch tv idea was nice but their servers are terrible. Over 10 hours after the event the video is loading at 20kb/s for me in Australia. my connection is 8mb/s to Europe and US.

Overall a solid attempt by the two presenters especially the guy who has been at CCP for only a week !


Titan bumping looked a bit silly
- can you prevent capital ships from being bumped. seeing the titan rolling and spinning from cruiser and frig bumping was funny at first but then kinda lame and detracted from the story.


Thanks CCP for putting on this event and to all the Devs that participated. Was fun... would attend again !

Quoting because it applies to me too