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Dev Blog: A New Live Event for July

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Haseo Antares
Production N Destruction INC.
F O R M I C I D A E
#261 - 2013-07-31 17:34:10 UTC
Portia Tigana wrote:
I've scanned down and entered at least 100 worm holes and haven't found a Wolf-Rayet Star. Am I just unlucky or am I missing something? This is the last photo I need and I'm getting very frustrated.

The rest was fun, this is a grind.



Haseo Antares wrote:
Doc Lucius wrote:
I'm having fun searching for all these sites. However, I am having some frustrations with the Wolf-Rayet star. I've visited a couple dozen wormholes already. Any strategies/tips? Are the wolf-rayet systems evenly distributed between C1, C2, ..., C6 or are they only found in a certain class? It may be all random, but if anyone has some helpful tips, they would be greatly appreciated!


Scan for wormholes in k(known)-space rather than scanning down wormhole chains in J(WH)-space...that way there are less signatures that you need to scan down. I've seen several J-space systems with 80+ signatures. Also, pay close attention to any notifications that may pop up after jumping through a wormhole. If you do not get a pop-up notification about system wide effects, there is zero chance that the system is a Wolf-Rayet. If you do get that notification, enter the locus signature into StaticMapper to identify the environmental effects of the system. Good luck! Cool

We currently have the world's greatest linguists and scientists trying to decode what you just said.
Portia Tigana
Signal Cartel
EvE-Scout Enclave
#262 - 2013-07-31 17:41:43 UTC
I had thought that the sun type would be Wolf-Rayet, my mistake. Went on a 10 hop jaunt during lunch and found a wormhole that had one in it.

On the positive side, I'm really good at scanning down sites now. Big smile
Oscha Esservic
Theta1
#263 - 2013-07-31 18:18:41 UTC  |  Edited by: Oscha Esservic
Contest is on the cusp of closing. Good luck all!

First, thank you CCP Goliath CCP Eterne and whoever else is working behind the scenes. Damn, do you have (noble) work ahead of you in validating pictures. It is appreciated.

With that said (excuse me if it has been answered) do we have a more precise time for the Grand Prize drawing and consolation goodies distribution?
Hazen Koraka
HK Enterprises
#264 - 2013-07-31 22:34:18 UTC
Yes, good luck to all who submitted, and thanks for the idea CCP :) Kudos to the Live Event's team.

Exploration is Random. Random is Random... or is it?! http://docs.python.org/2/library/random.html
Roguetwo
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#265 - 2013-08-01 01:00:20 UTC
contest was fun

an extension would be nice :D

anyway, thx CCP! more stuff life this
SauronsLeftNut
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#266 - 2013-08-01 12:19:14 UTC
where do we recive our prizes if any?
CCP Goliath
C C P
C C P Alliance
#267 - 2013-08-01 13:19:25 UTC
SauronsLeftNut wrote:
where do we recive our prizes if any?


Prizes will be coming over the course of the next week or two. No firm date, as we are awaiting people to come back from vacation, but shouldn't be longer than that (with the exception of the monument component of the grand prize, which will take longer.)


Thanks to everyone who participated in this event. It was great fun to run and amazing to read so many stories along with the pictures. If you've got any more stories, or general feedback on the event, please feel free to share it here!

CCP Goliath | QA Director | EVE Illuminati | @CCP_Goliath
Oscha Esservic
Theta1
#268 - 2013-08-01 16:50:09 UTC  |  Edited by: Oscha Esservic
CCP Goliath wrote:
If you've got any... general feedback on the event, please feel free to share it here!

That is a can of worms!

Actually I enjoyed the event immensely. I even dropped corp so not to draw the Uni into sov null politics when I skulked around taking pictures and looking for a WH home.

I understand that the logistics of it make the concept challenging but I do wish that next time there be a 'quality' aspect to the grand-prize winner. Someone encapsulated it perfectly as, "A monument to the winner of a raffle." Which is what it is.

Maybe crowd source it, by letting people vote for their favourite...

Regardless of how you implement the next one I am looking forward to it!
Haseo Antares
Production N Destruction INC.
F O R M I C I D A E
#269 - 2013-08-01 17:59:25 UTC
Oscha Esservic wrote:
CCP Goliath wrote:
If you've got any... general feedback on the event, please feel free to share it here!

That is a can of worms!

Actually I enjoyed the event immensely. I even dropped corp so not to draw the Uni into sov null politics when I skulked around taking pictures and looking for a WH home.

I understand that the logistics of it make the concept challenging but I do wish that next time there be a 'quality' aspect to the grand-prize winner. Someone encapsulated it perfectly as, "A monument to the winner of a raffle." Which is what it is.

Maybe crowd source it, by letting people vote for their favourite...

Regardless of how you implement the next one I am looking forward to it!


I think the raffle method works best...otherwise Gooonswarm would have every voter based competition/event locked down. Plus it would take forever to inspect every single screenshot...a task that is sure to drive at least one Dev to rage quit lol.

We currently have the world's greatest linguists and scientists trying to decode what you just said.
Vicinitus
Odfjell Drilling Terra Global Enterprises
#270 - 2013-08-01 19:42:46 UTC  |  Edited by: Vicinitus
The comp was ahell of a lot of fun. One of the best bits for me was coming across the 300km in every direction gate bubble XD the guys in that system were cool but damn it took ages to slwo boat through without breaking cloak on one of them. Lots of fun to do though

As for suggestions for more I don't know. I think a raffle at the end is the best way to hand out the grand prize for something like this. Unless it's acompetition which has a clearly defined winner then raffle is fairest.
JEFFRAIDER
THIGH GUYS
#271 - 2013-08-02 09:06:02 UTC
this was super fun

pls do another soon
Rangh Ovaert
#272 - 2013-08-04 08:58:27 UTC
JEFFRAIDER wrote:
this was super fun

pls do another soon


Agree, but please with concealed result posting to make it more explorative and less copy pasting.
Rob Crowley
State War Academy
#273 - 2013-08-04 11:05:39 UTC
Rangh Ovaert wrote:
Agree, but please with concealed result posting to make it more explorative and less copy pasting.

You mean they should DDoS Eve Travel for the duration of the event? Well, interesting proposition... and they should have the resources required.
CCP Goliath
C C P
C C P Alliance
#274 - 2013-08-04 17:42:36 UTC
Rangh Ovaert wrote:
JEFFRAIDER wrote:
this was super fun

pls do another soon


Agree, but please with concealed result posting to make it more explorative and less copy pasting.


I don't follow, sorry. Could you elaborate please?

CCP Goliath | QA Director | EVE Illuminati | @CCP_Goliath
CCP Goliath
C C P
C C P Alliance
#275 - 2013-08-04 17:54:28 UTC
For those not watching ATXI, the winner of they competition has now been announced. Marcus Yeon - congratulations!

CCP Goliath | QA Director | EVE Illuminati | @CCP_Goliath
Jarvid Myyk Sunrider
Native Freshfood
Minmatar Republic
#276 - 2013-08-04 19:26:16 UTC
Aw, and dreams = dashed.

But still, congratulations Marcus Yeon and enjoy your monument. Smile
Marcus Yeon
Electro World
#277 - 2013-08-05 06:40:47 UTC
HELL YEAH!! Thanks a lot to CCP for the great event, and to those who helped me to complete this contest, it's brought to me a lot of fun )
(sorry for my mistakes, my english isn't as good as my luck)
Lukas Rox
Aideron Technologies
#278 - 2013-08-05 07:51:00 UTC
Congratulations Marcus! Seen your pictures, prize is well deserved ;-)

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Aptenodytes
Reckless Abandon
#279 - 2013-08-05 12:38:34 UTC
CCP Goliath wrote:
Rangh Ovaert wrote:

Agree, but please with concealed result posting to make it more explorative and less copy pasting.

I don't follow, sorry. Could you elaborate please?

I will elaborate for you Big smile

Anyone who had any difficulty finding the locations could simply go to the results posting thread and look at other people's submissions. Next time if the results thread could be private in some way then more exploration would be required. (Or rather, people would have to spend 30 seconds on google instead of 30 seconds finding the results thread...)
Rangh Ovaert
#280 - 2013-08-06 01:48:59 UTC
Of course people can look up eve travel, use google, etc. but with doing so one still has to actively search and would learn some background info. Also looking into several sources makes it more of research work. Just being able to take the results of the other players is a bit too simple and does not feel like exploration in my opinion. It also takes away uncertainty wether one's result is valid or not.