In-Game Events and Gatherings

Hi everybody!

As some of you may have noticed, the King of Lowsec event did not go off without some controversy. We declared Pandemic Legion the winner of the event and were prepped to fly their flag over CCP HQ. However, some people rightly complained about this decision. According to in-game kill reports, Urine Alliance appeared to be in the lead, thanks to their destruction of numerous CCP pods from the Dev Roam that were fitted with highly expensive Crystal implants and hardwirings.

Our initial intention with the King of Lowsec event was to encourage PVP and get players to blow each other up. We like seeing players explode. But in that last sentence you will see a very important word that we forgot to include in our rules (hint: it's the word "player"). Because of this, our intent did not square with our published rules. Compounding this was the fact our rules contained the clause "All kills which adhere to these guidelines will count, regardless of the circumstances surrounding them."

Once again, our intention there was to cover certain cases. For instance, if some alliance had decided they had a few extra Titans laying around and were willing to sacrifice them for this event to friendly fire, we were all for that. Or if there was a loss due to a bug or other issue, we were still going to count it, even if there was a reimbursement. And, once again, our intention was not clearly reflected in the actual rule.

Therefore, after a long bit of internal discussion, we have decided the only fair thing to do is revise our original announcement and instead announce the Kings of Lowsec:

Pandemic Legion AND Urine Alliance

We have already received a logo from Urine Alliance that we are in the process of having made into a flag. But because it's not done yet, we are going to have to delay putting up either flag until it is finished. Our original goal was to put the flag up June 1st and fly it until July 1st. We're not exactly sure how long it will take to get the flag printed, but we're hoping not too long.

In the end, both flags will be flown side-by-side for 1 full month. It may be from June 14th to July 14th, or whenever, but it will happen.

We apologize to everyone who has been negatively affected by this and we've definitely treated it as a learning experience for when we put together contests like this.

Given the name of the other alliance, couldn't you just pee on the PL flag and fly it?

Lets get it right.

PL Kings of Player vs player lowsec pvp.

Urine kings of some other stat padding method.

PL just got a plate full of buttmashed potatoes put on their doorstep.

That's some nice spineless backpedaling there CCP. Well done.

How does this change the top 10?

PL in the company of their equals and the liquid they are no better than.

It's cool PL, you can be our queens.



U mad?

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I see it didn't take the PL misguided damage control long to arrive

also you should totally post the new line-up of results

FTFY.

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