EVE General Discussion

Okay, I'm going to be drawn into sperging an opinion all over the forums in GD...


When EVE is unavailable through circumstances beyond CCP's control, such as power outage or DDOS, there should not automatically be a "here's some free SP."

I can understand people wanting it and jumping on any opportunity to get free stuff. Sometimes it's just people being opportunistic and ruthless (because EVE players are generally fluffy kitten fanciers) and other times it seems to be an ugly expression of undeserved entitlement.

It's the second part of that where I have a problem. People work hard to bring EVE to you. They then suffer an attack and put in extra effort above and beyond their paygrade to fix it and protect you. Some people's attitude on this has been extremely rude and I only hope the CCP folks can manage to not take the more vitriolic comments to heart.


I think it's pretty likely that active accounts will get an extra day's playtime added across the board.

I don't know about SP. I'm thinking here of people who may have lost a day's training and will thus not make Battlecruiser V or Destroyer V or Command Ships or any of the other changes they needed to do before the expansion. Sure, people should have planned ahead better and not left it to the last possible second, but let's not be surprised that most haven't ;)

It's still going to suck a little bit if they lost out on BC V and now have to train 4 long skills to V. Personally, I wouldn't mind - if I was already training BC V, I'd get the Racial BC Skills at the level I had, so training them up wouldn't be a huge impact. If CCP chose to give out some unallocated SP for this, I could understand that.


My main hope isn't for game time or SP, but that CCP's infrastructure will be more resilient as a result of the efforts to mitigate this attack and that security, failover and vulnerability management improvements mean that it's back to normal service for a good long while. We have to admit for a complex online service, EVE uptime is pretty fantastic.

Simple Solution

When CCP gives out compensation, and they already said they would, just don't accept it.

The fact they are sticking to their schedule of releasing Odyssey despite the attack on TQ is a pretty good compensation in itself.

None can stop CCP

I'd like to see them compensate the players but not with SP nor items nor anything like that.

An event.

Game time was taken so give higher quality game time back - run one hell of a big event for Dust and EVE.

The logic being no different than if you order a meal at a restaurant - if there are problems, make sure that the meal they do get is the best it can be and that the quality makes it worth the wait.

So instead of people remembering a DDoS with a trivial SP grant or the like... Instead of potentially rewarding some EVE players who may have been involved in creating such a situation...

Give the gamers here an event that will make them smile about when it happened.

I didn't lose a single skill point and I still want my compensation. Make it something big too!

That's awesome! +1

If any compensation is happening it should be rather an extra day onto the subscriptions of active accounts, but generally I would also prefer to have no compensation happening at all.

"If you wanted a sure thing, maybe you should have paid a professional. Have a nice life."

*headslap*
Nobody playing eve seriously enough to break several laws to get 50k sp would take down their precious eve for 24 hours.
Besides. We all know this was TEST trying to keep their space.

Yay we were rightly-so reimbursed due to losing a day of game time that we paid for.

And to the OP, don't speak for me, kthx.