Live Events Discussion

So... I was looking at pictures of the new model for the Apocalypse (oh god sexy) and someone sent me a screenshot the Apocalypse Imperial Issue. (Dear Lawd.) How sad it was, I thought, that I would probably never get to see one in space, let alone fly one.

However, this got me thinking.

The Apoc Imperial Issue has only been handed out in relation to the old live events. Very few were given out, and as a result they have become some kind of mythical, legendary beast amongst players, whispered about with a hint of awe in their tone, especially during the dark days when live events no longer existed.

However, now is a different time. I think it is soon time to start rewarding legendary players and legendary efforts with legendary ships such as the Apoc Imperial Issue, along with their other racial counterparts.

Now, I am by no means proposing that they be given away like candy to just anyone that participates in live events. A group or individual should have to do something meaningful and special for one. I'll leave it up to the dev team to decide what that entails, but I would like to open up the subject for discussion.

I am not going to lie, my ambition is to land one of those Golden Glory Boats and achieve Imperial War Hero status so that my character is immortalized in EVE history. I have high hopes! DO NOT CRUSH THEM.

The issue is very touchy, due to this sort of thing being a scandel with live events in the past being used simply to hand out stuff to friends.
Obviously this was years ago and the current live events team was uninvolved.
But it's still a huge issue, especially if anything rare gets handed out. What makes one persons contribution any more than someone elses. Especially in a RP type enviroment. How do you score RP? What if that person over there is RP'ing someone who is neutral to this event, so does nothing just observes, does that make them a better or worse contributor to the guy that just wants to gank the shiny ship so organises an attack fleet.

Well, I'm not 'against' the idea of things getting handing out. But there needs to be a very very transparent process that doesn't only reward certain styles of play over all the others if things are going to be given out.
And personally I can't think of how to design such a process, even if I was only giving out T1 Battle Cruisers & Cruisers without seeming unfair or biased sometimes.

Im not sure about that, how would you judge one deserves it, such stuff would create so much drama, don't think Team Illuminati would like to have drama around them.

The rare special edition ships should never be handed out again, There's only one fedthron in exsistance and while i'd murder my granny for a chance at flying it, Handing them out again after so long wouldent be fair on the collectors who've paid unimaginable amounts of isk, the tribal tempest and a imperial (geddon?) i think it was both recently sold for 2trillion isk...each.

CCP is churning out new faction ships anyway on a yearly basis. Arn't Sarum Magnates and etc. enough to suit your needs? No need to reissue existing old oddities.

You might as well ask CCP to reissue ALL the Alliance Tournament ships for Live Events as well (but hey, that wouldn't be fair for the original winners of the tournaments right? Neither for the collectors who paid 60 billion ISKs to acquire an individual ship!)

Once again, all this issue could be resolved by CCP providing ships with different skins. There is a way to respect "Collecting" as a profession and those who are delve in it, while suiting the other constituents who want something with the words "Imperial or Federate" on them. Recent addition of "Sarum Magnates" and etc, is a good way.

There is absolutely no need to anger hundreds of those who spent countless hours and billions to trillions of ISK in the name of collecting, only to see them getting devalued by participating in a Live Event for 5 minutes.

On the other hand, I support handing out NEW SUPER RARE SHIPS for those who have played an integral part in the Live Events. A good example would be something like Grideris leading an entire invasion force to **** and pillage Sanshas in Jove Space) and being bestowed with a truly unique Jovian Batlteship.

But in the end.

Or maybe just being involved in something that lets you play a part in the story of EVE could be reward enough.

If nothing else, I'd quite like to see them used by actors in events.

After we once had to escort an Impoc to Amarr, maybe at some point we'll get a chance to escort it back out again.