EVE General Discussion

YES

Well, if this thread proves one thing it's that a lot of people are overly fixated with earning skill points.

Tell you what im happy to give up a days skill points for no consquence violence fest and im a carebear.

This guy is a Goon. Isn't that what they do anyway?

@OP - Dumbest idea ever. Wouldn't the lag be unbearable?

Assuming this means you will roll back the server by one day.

HELL YES

YES

Everyone keeps thinking 'Oh, everything can be replaced after 24 hrs.'

Sure, if a snapshot is done of the entire server just before it happens. All isk, ships, equipment, clones, implants, etc, will all be recorded and then after 24 hrs everything is set back to how the snap shot was. That means all the shinny loot, KM's and corpses earned during that 24 hr period will also be erased as well. So basically it's a waste of time and makes this 'Armageddon Day' useless.

So yeah, everything gets replaced except for the 24 hrs of missing skill training time and 24 hrs of disrupted game play.

Oh right, Credit of skill points added to all characters after that 24 hr period.

Just exactly how is that to be done?

Someone with a full set of +5 implants trains a higher amount of skill points than someone with no implants. Also would the amount of skill points be based on a rank 1 skill or a higher rank skill? Rank 1 skills have a faster training time thus more skill points would be trained.

So you say the amount of SP's will be based on the snap shot. OK, that would mean the skill rank being trained as well.

Snapshot of a player with a set of +5 implants training a rank 1 skill. That player then switches to a naked jump clone (No implants) and goes on a rampage and probably goes thru a few more j-clones. Then said player jumps back to main clone with the +5 implants just before the 24 hrs is over.

Snapshot shows him with +5 implants training a rank 1 skill and he gets credited massive amount of SP's when in reality he spent the majority of that 24 hr time period with no implants at all. He then uses those credited SP's on a rank 14 skill. This situation can also be viewed on the flip side. Suppose someone was going to buy a set of implants on that day? Problem is the snapshot only shows him with no implants thus he won't get the extra SP's due.

Also what about the players other accounts? Do they also get SP's even if they aren't active that day? And what about other alts on the same account? They all lost 24 hrs.

I'm sorry but this sounds like it could be exploited just to gain extra SP's or in some cases, short change players.

As for the disrupted game time, adding an extra 24 hrs to every account could balance out the numbers but it wouldn't replace that day.

Maybe a player had that specific day free from real life obligations and was going to do some mining to refuel his POS that only has a couple days of fuel left. He logs in to see all hell is breaking loose and Concord is nowhere to be seen. He tries to do his plan but get's ganked every time he turns around. That player now can't do his regularly planed game play and logs back out. Unfortunately that player can't log back in til next week due to real life obligations. By then the POS is out of fuel and open to attack.

Even if it's just one player that is inconvenienced like that, the whole idea of 'Armageddon Day' becomes nullified. I sincerely think that most players will not want their game play disrupted by this 'Armageddon Day'.

Sorry to point all this stuff out but if you really want to go on a 24 hr shooting spree, better go jump on the test sever.

A very dumb idea.

For example players might jump their caps and supercaps into Amarr, or Jita if the systems become 0.0 for a day.

Make an Armgeddon day on Singularity and you do what you want, but this as far away from TQ as possible.

My 10cents

If we assume the no consequence route (TQ does a roll back).

The Pros

Everyone will participate with all ships
Empire ppl will get a taste of null-sec life
I believe it will be alot more fun - ship replacement will not be a issue (you can fly and lose it all)
The BIGGEST plus is that CCP can do LIVE TQ stress testing !!!!

The Cons
Everyone will participate with all ships - it will be a fiasco
Empire ppl will get a taste of null-sec life or may not even log in (too attached to their pixels)
CCP could have a corrupt backup and may NOT be able to roll-back, Many tears would ensue
The server cluster may not be able to handle it and BSOD would be the order of the day.

I would love it