EVE General Discussion

http://i.imgur.com/cbDMbqi.jpg

This image sums up my interaction of the live event.

With that said i have to say: WHAT THE HELL CCP?!? That had to be the most poorly executed live event I have ever seen. First off the 1000 people cap in local was just plain absurd. This allowed nearly all the people who actually wanted to participate to stay stuck on gate to do **** all. Hell freighters on AP runs were still warping to the gate. Even when the cap was raised was access near impossible.

The other problem was the stream. Now i assume that the player cap was so that the stream didn't grind to a halt. I'm damn sure i'm right on this since big pre planned and non pre planned titan oops fleet fights have more than triple the numbers involved in this thing. It had the worst commentary in anything I've ever seen online or off. The guys didn't even know some of the ship types and it was filled with silent dead air moments and endless mispronunciations or even knew what was going on. The word "ehh" was spoken more than words.

The stream allowed me to see that less than 40% of local population was actually even involved in the event at any time. And of course NPC/Player interaction wasn't great seeing as people rather shoot each other.

How about spreading this over a constellation and not only one player cap limited system? Like some sort of... what's the word i could use? "incursion" into gallente space, yeah that sounds about right. The RP player in me truly regrets not being part of this, let alone not even being in the sidelines or a witness. Tibus Heth is going to war? Where do i sign up? And none of this FW bullshit i mean a real game shattering war! I know live events are a kick to the lore sac but how come they are so infrequent in any form?

Other than the location, my DUST 514 character did nothing in this little mix up. Here was a prime opportunity for full on EVE/ DUST interaction. The part that still baffles me is I keep hearing different stories on how the two were supposed to actually interact. All i had was just normal boring DUST matches.

Hell if this event was a prerequisite of the game that i'm forced to miss out on i'd ask for my money back.

I can hear the capsuleers honking their horns in frustration in that pic. Kind of like THIS.

Maybe live events shouldn't be restricted to one solar system then.

There was a live event?

During the event I was logged off and watching comedy specials on NetFlix with friends, so I probably had more fun than at least half the people who were in there and definitely had more fun than all the people who spent hours locked out at the gates.

Sorry, but a thousand people in one spot doing anything just isn't fun.

"i decided to get there last min and wonder why all the tickets were sold out"

k.

Great, I've got a trolling stalker now.

A few thousand players is not the "Entire active player base".
And perhaps they should have planned a little better for the turnout they had, rather than set an absurdly low cap of 1k, and then slowly let it go up, but never anywhere near the numbers that wanted to get in.

I certainly got a reminder of why I log in so rarely.

I think Nyla nailed it, as many others have. Moar systems.

The best way to do these events is probably to have multiple simultaneously across the eve universe. Whether this is a bread crumb trail or herding cats or just many large events... split up interest and you'll split up node load.

Caldari/Gallente call on their Amarr/Minmatar allies to reciprocate their planned action with one of their own. Meanwhile pirate factions a, b and c are leaked word and take advantage by timing blah blah blah you get the idea.

I'm just glad we still have an events team despite the best efforts of others. They seem genuinely interested in improving these and I'm sure they will learn with every one.


More like you troll so much you were bound to run into the same person twice. amirite m8m8m8?

I was laughing uproariously at the amount of crying on the forums from people who couldn't get in.