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Playing Eve is like herding cats.

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Pewty McPew
EVE Corporation 2357451
#1 - 2013-02-15 17:10:15 UTC  |  Edited by: CCP Falcon
Getting groups of players together and having them act as a cohesive unit against a common enemy or work for a commonm goal seems like an exercise in futility lately. Im not talking 0.0 blob warfare either.

Maybe a live event of some sort might help foster a sense of community amongst players. Bring them together to say defend Jita against a Jove invasion. Embark with a convoy, 50 jumps to protect a Caldari diplomat while a Gallante fleet is deployed to kill him.

Everyone has their own individual agenda in this game, which is not a bad thing per se. Would it not be epic though to see 1000 ships from a multitude of corporations show up to engage a Jove carrier or something to that effect. People working together for once for a common goal that would benefit everyone (Unless you are the Jove in this case).

The CCP fleets were a novel idea but it seemed rather a short lived one.

Just wondering if others had any ideas for events that would bring players together?

PS: added for the lols
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJH-vWepm2Q
Skorpynekomimi
#2 - 2013-02-15 17:11:34 UTC
Maybe not spouting ableist hatespeech is a good start.

Economic PVP
Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#3 - 2013-02-15 17:14:00 UTC
Just 'herding cats' would have been good enough.

Also, learn how to spell Syndrome.

"He has mounted his hind-legs, and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck."  - Ambrose Bierce on Oscar Wilde's Lecture in San Francisco 1882
Pewty McPew
EVE Corporation 2357451
#4 - 2013-02-15 17:15:12 UTC
Krixtal Icefluxor wrote:
Just 'herding cats' would have been good enough.

Also, learn how to spell Syndrome.


Ok I'll admit it I can't type for beans.
Unsuccessful At Everything
The Troll Bridge
#5 - 2013-02-15 17:15:30 UTC
Pewty McPew wrote:
Getting groups of players together and having them act as a cohesive unit against a common enemy or work for a commonm goal seems like an exercise in futility lately. Im not talking 0.0 blob warfare either.



This is why highsec will never band together against the Big Blue Blob.

Since the cessation of their usefulness is imminent, may I appropriate your belongings?
stoicfaux
#6 - 2013-02-15 17:20:19 UTC  |  Edited by: stoicfaux
Don't use the cats directly, instead use the cats to train the rats (because rats are more trainable than cats.) Then use the rats to find landmines. Then recover the mines (using dogs,) put the mines in a nearby town, wait for the fear to set in, and then sell the services of your cats and rats and dogs to remove the land mines from the town. For additional pocket cash, sell dog meat burritos (at least until you're left with nothing but smart dogs.)

Rinse and repeat. Save some cash to buy forgiveness from your local religious institution.


edit: To be clear, rats/cats/dogs/town can be substituted with carebears, miners, gankers, Goons, Jita and CCP; in no particular order.

Pon Farr Memorial: once every 7 years, all the carebears in high-sec must PvP or they will be temp-banned.
Nicolo da'Vicenza
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#7 - 2013-02-15 17:20:49 UTC
There's thousand man fights all the time, you're just playing in the zone that's so safe and the rewards are so effort free that there's no reason for the vast majority of people to cooperate in order to achieve goals.
Doc Fury
Furious Enterprises
#8 - 2013-02-15 17:22:25 UTC
Autocannon cat frowns on your shenanigans.

☼

There's a million angry citizens looking down their tubes..at me.
Thur Barbek
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#9 - 2013-02-15 17:23:38 UTC
One word: Incursions.
stoicfaux
#10 - 2013-02-15 17:24:29 UTC
Doc Fury wrote:
Autocannon cat frowns on your shenanigans.

CCP's sound team is outdone by a cat. Shocked

Pon Farr Memorial: once every 7 years, all the carebears in high-sec must PvP or they will be temp-banned.
Benny Ohu
Royal Amarr Institute
Amarr Empire
#11 - 2013-02-15 17:32:57 UTC
ccp already does live events
Imiarr Timshae
Funny Men In Funny Hats
#12 - 2013-02-15 17:39:23 UTC
Sol Weinstein
Lunatic Warfare Federation
#13 - 2013-02-15 17:42:02 UTC
stoicfaux wrote:
(at least until you're left with nothing but smart dogs.)


Laughing out loud. "smart dogs". Laughing out loud.

Thank you.
Inxentas Ultramar
Ultramar Independent Contracting
#14 - 2013-02-15 18:34:14 UTC
Wait untill it gets hard to not be in a fleet. Big smile I'll try a more serious response. I think it's simply about (light) social pressure. In lowsec / Nullsec / WH your fleet is the main body of protection. It determines the scale of objectives you can handle and the level of danger external threats truly pose. You want to be in that fleet whether you are in PVE or PVP, because being fleeted improves your abilities (fleet boosts) and overall coordination. The more people that desire to be in your fleet, the easier it will be to get one together.

For example we discovered a hostile small POS near ours. It was unfueled and it's owner was sitting in a neighbouring hisec system, possibly on his way to fuel it. The desire to remove it was high due to the actual history we have with this enemy, so people were very motivated to hop into a DPS ship and come tear it down while we had the chance. It all came down to opportunity, knowing we could handle the cost of failure, and the plain desire to see that tower burn.
LHA Tarawa
Pator Tech School
Minmatar Republic
#15 - 2013-02-15 18:43:35 UTC
Unsuccessful At Everything wrote:

This is why highsec will never band together against the Big Blue Blob.


Why would we want to? Where is the profit in it?

To become the blue blob ourselves? Sorry, but I have a life outside of EVE.
Corey Fumimasa
CFM Salvage
#16 - 2013-02-15 18:56:34 UTC
stoicfaux wrote:
Doc Fury wrote:
Autocannon cat frowns on your shenanigans.

CCP's sound team is outdone by a cat. Shocked

That cat is awesome!
Felicity Love
Doomheim
#17 - 2013-02-15 19:02:29 UTC  |  Edited by: Felicity Love
Meow. Shocked

"EVE is dying." -- The Four Forum Trolls of the Apocalypse.   ( Pick four, any four. They all smell.  )
Din Chao
#18 - 2013-02-15 19:06:07 UTC
Wait, who has Down's, you or the cats?
Google Voices
Doomheim
#19 - 2013-02-15 19:06:25 UTC
Pewty McPew wrote:
Getting groups of players together and having them act as a cohesive unit against a common enemy or work for a commonm goal seems like an exercise in futility lately. Im not talking 0.0 blob warfare either.

Maybe a live event of some sort might help foster a sense of community amongst players. Bring them together to say defend Jita against a Jove invasion. Embark with a convoy, 50 jumps to protect a Caldari diplomat while a Gallante fleet is deployed to kill him.

Everyone has their own individual agenda in this game, which is not a bad thing per se. Would it not be epic though to see 1000 ships from a multitude of corporations show up to engage a Jove carrier or something to that effect. People working together for once for a common goal that would benefit everyone (Unless you are the Jove in this case).

The CCP fleets were a novel idea but it seemed rather a short lived one.

Just wondering if others had any ideas for events that would bring players together?

PS: added for the lols
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJH-vWepm2Q




This is what happens when you spread the already limited brain power of the average player across 10-20 accounts, you get lemmings....

"Fozzie could not comment on when this issue would be resolved and stated that “one day Veritas will come up to me and say ‘hey I fixed off-grid boosting’”, but he had no idea on a potential timeframe for this sort of miracle."
Ivbeen Cloned
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#20 - 2013-02-15 19:11:37 UTC
So, how about that meteor?
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