Live Events Discussion

There is allways TiDi if hundrets of players all jump into the same system...


CCP, thank you very much for this event. It was my first and i liked it :)

Good job guys :)

I think its funny how you low/null sec corps are gloating. Had CCP waited for the 2,000 pilots on the way to join the OP, you wouldnt have stud a chance, but the nodes couldnt handle the amount of pilots (which CCP knew would be high). I still don't know why they would put a staging location 23 jumps away with the amount of tidi there was. To me thats just madness. We all fully intended to lose our ships, just not this way. The game was so slow it was unplayable. CCP had pilots asking them to wait and they just ignored them as half of peoples fleets were missing.

Why didn't they just call the event ''High sec vs Low/Null sec''? At least people would had know what they were getting themselves in to.

All this turned out to be was really bad communication from CCP and they have damaged their game because of it .

You guys in null/low, the game wouldnt run without the people in high sec yet you slag them off!

I do think the EVE community is the most resiliant community of all. You seem to take so much crap from CCP, then shake their hands after.

All that this has shown is their lack of respect for their community, They haven't even appoligized. I think the community in this game is the best out of any MMO I have played. dont shake CCPs hand for something they got wrong.

This is happening in incursion community after it lost ~200 cheap ships (and ~4 hours of time)

Excellent, this should help reduce TiDi in future events as well

all i can say is:

to the people from hisec pissed off at the fact their FC bailed or went awol b4 the fight causing mass confusion / paranoia, sometimes these things happen. There are typically tell tale signs of a fleet being run by someone not competent enough and you should look to this experience as something to learn from.

yes i know it was an advertised CCP event, and yes in that sense theres a level of expectation there, but like all things in life, theyre subject to being screwwed with.

Has anyone thought that maybe this high level command desertion was actually the plan all along to make capsuleers mad at whichever major faction was apparently spearheading this? just a thought.

most of what happened (including the camp) was exasperated by the fact you were lead into an active multi-alliance warzone. nullsec blocs rarely take part in live events to this extent because typically its not near an active campaign area. That and generally it doesnt interest us much, but when its coming right through staging systems, you can bet ur ass we'll be putting up a fleet to kill stuff. be it stuff sided with pirates or empire factions, its all the same to us!

Was looking forward to this event, glad IRL events prevented me from showing up now lol. I had no idea what to expect I was going to use my prized CNR. (I'm a fairly new noob, only 10m SP)

Lucky escape I guess. What actually happened? Any empire fighting at all? Or just null sec players having a field day?

I think the problem is that most people didn't know what was going on, where they were going or what they were doing until they got there. There are several things CCP could have done to make this work, not the least of which would be to create a separate, instanced area that was "jumped" into, or having Imperial ships clear out the gate camps, or any number of ways other games have demonstrated excellent event handling. Probably the worst thing would be to ask hisec players to jump on after work, tell them at the last minute that they were going to nullsec, and then **** off.

That doesn't make those hisec players who showed up not knowing what to expect hate their empires or CONCORD, it makes them angry at CCP. If they'd wanted to make players angry at their empires or CONCORD, they should have gotten them to the event target area, then betrayed them once they got there. From what I'm reading, this whole thing was an administrative screw-up on CCP's end.

Unless they just didn't want anyone participating in events anymore. I can already tell that the reduction in turnout for the next event will be significant.

This was my first major fleet action - even within EVE Uni as I'd been training skills until I realized I could do something semi-useful.
I knew that my ship was gonna be a throwaway, and after doing mostly PvE stuff I knew that I was going to get podded and prepared as such. Fact was, even though it was a turkey shoot and I got blapped in the end, I did have a laugh when it got to the 'fish in a barrel' point and everything onscreen was lazors, smartbombs and the sound of death. I even managed to get a lot of shots off and did work as EWAR before my Maller bit the dust, despite staying at 10% structure for a good 20 mins. Nullsec was fun!

Main point though, is that this wasn't meant to be about nullsec, it was about a storyline event that apparently was over before my fleet even got on station (I was in the Meves fleet). Our livestreamer/scout told us things were cleaned up and the station was looted whilst we were still a good 4 jumps away, before the Goons snuffed him out.
The organization, especially getting the involved parties on station was very poor, I've barely started in this game, and I do intend to attend more live events, maybe even cover them, but this was a fail when it came to what the whole thing was about in the first place, and more a case of 'We have 200 people and insurance policies, might as well make use of them!'

Indeed. Grow up summerboy. Then go to school and learn to read. For the person you quoted the biggest problem is the lack of any communication from CCP. I thought it was stupid as well, because there was no normal communication. To use twitter, while having your own application to communicate is dumm.

Hmmm.... my thought on this whole kerfuffle......

On the event itself:

Expected lots of PvP

expected ship to go boom and die

expected tidi in travel

Did not expect:

very little to no communication, coming either via completely spammed local chat or twitter

to be told "go X system for the event" only to be subsequantly told "now go to y system, 23 jumps away" and then driven into the most obvious bottleneck in eve straight through the most dangerous part of nullsec where most of nullsec was waiting. (whether they had been forewarned... who knows)

Good Side:
had a nice chat with corp mates.

overall rating: the event itself sucked massively.

on what i did afterwards:

Roamed Doril after the event was over, and enjoyed exploring it. a somewhat thanks to all the nullsec guys who either saw or passed by me and didnt shoot me or anything. Really enjoyed exploring somewhere i dont really get to go to. Got spooked by the massive swarm of apocalypse navy issues that warped to near the gate about 30 secs after i jumped in.

irony of it: went through another gate..... got camped. oh well. cheap ship, easily replaced.

overall verdict: had fun in nullsec.

and goons..... well they were just being goons.