EVE General Discussion

I've never seen a game development company utterly mess up something like this. It's either malevolent or complete incompetence.

It was a story-based PvE event changed to PvP last minute (so people brought PvE ships), then the location changed last minute, then the entire group let straight into the lions den. Even the Twitch streamers were questioning the legitimacy of this encounter.

We were told by the event leaders (yellow text) to go into Doril. It was all a setup from the very beginning. The actual event leaders said "Ok now JUMP!" (into Doril) and tell people in the event to go through the gate KNOWING they will all die on the other side b/c TiDi was so horrible.

This wasnt an event. This was shameful. We certainly cannot trust these events ever again. Terrible way to launch an expansion.

CCP did say that everyone would likely die..... quit bitching its eve, HTFU or go home

Oh no CCP killed muh super pimped mission ship they were out to get me setup setup!! :tinfoil:

It's almost as if you stupid publords don't know that you shouldn't undock anything you can't afford to lose, if you had all been a little less awful maybe you wouldn't have been slaughtered by razor of all people.

INB4 statement from CCP apologizing for the mix up, saying they are putting live events on hold while they come up with a sound strategy for them (that they promise to run passed the CSM) , then shut up about tthe issue and say nothing for the next several months (ref ToSgate, somer blink promo, somer blink scorps, somer blink RMT) .

OFFICIAL RAZOR ALLIANCE RESPONSE TO THESE SHOCKING REVELATIONS:

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I had my suspicions about CCP's plan when they announced the gathering for people who wanted to play on the pirate side of things.

Once the destination was set to null by the FC's it was pretty obvious what was going to happen.

They'd have been more successful if they'd chosen a system a lot closer to Ihal for the initial gathering. Sarum Prim was so many jumps that probably half the original number never even made it out of high-sec before it was common knowledge what was going on.

This was my first experience with TiDi, and it was quite interesting learning what is and isn't affected by it.

I also learned to never go into low/null without a scram/disruptor fit. The one engagement I got into I lost because I couldn't keep the guy from warping out.

Overall it was a nice event, but it does seem like it was a big "**** you" from CCP to high-sec, that's for sure.

At the very least it could have been more organized. The execution of the prank was really poorly done.

Your talking about a PVP event. I know how to PVP :) i have no issues with it. This was pitched as a PVE event which was supposed to have multi empire support. What it turned into is the Dev's telling a large H.S Fleet to essentially split up and head into L.S. Once told to jump then disappeared! The State support wasn't even a shuttle lol

With any MMO if you join a Dev lead player event with no info of whats going on you follow them not wanting to miss out. Especially on a launch coming up to a expansion. This was just a mess. If the aim was to get people to see and experience the new content then the event failed. Most people didn't get their.

If this was a PVP event i still would have been their but half the fleet would not have. This turned into a turkey shoot. I was one of the last standing with the first fleet jump but cant do anything 1 vs 200 lol

This event went sour from the start. The HS faction was told that the objectives were secret and that we had to follow empire (CCP)directions to find the objective. We were then from the start placed in two rally points, then all send to a separate rally point, and then moved again.

The problem with this was most / all the nodes along the went wen to time dilation which got worse as the fleet moved, meaning the first fleets that moved went many times faster than the next fleets that moved. This problem was exacerbated by the fact the directions to players came over twitter and not in game, causing further split of the HS forces.

As the multiple HS fleets approached the second staging areas the fleets that were still 10-20 jumps away attempted to tell the closer FCs to hold place. The fleets initially moved 1 jump towards the final objective then held. However a CCP dev then intervened in game told everyone to jump because there was only a small force on the other side.

The HS fleets that were present were then in a position of listening to their FCs or listening to a CCP Dev on what to do. Unlike the NS/LS groups the HS fleets didnt know our FC's from anyone else and figured the Dev was telling us to jump as part of the event. This lead to the initial massacre.

The second set of fleets which I was in then started hearing reports of ENTIRE FLEETS of HS members dying with little to no kills inflicted causing mass confusion in the ranks, desertions of fleet (including my FC), and an eventual decision to hold in place until more direction or plans could be conceived.

This problem started with poor communication from CCP event leaders, and a strangely timed intervention by a CCP dev ordering HS fleets into a battle as if they were our FCs. That combined with what was mentioned previously in this thread of the NS location to attack led to this debacle.

I am sure a well organized NS fleet would have still beat the disorganized HS fleet in a battle, but this wasnt a battle we were told about, this was an ambush that CCP lead us into.

Probly been pointed out already but the new destination was our home system with razor's one jump away and we all actually had much better things to be doing than trying to wage a war with our staging sys in 10% tidi.
-edit, and yeah no idea why they felt the need to bring you guys a) to the middle of the warzone where we're having 1-2-3 thousand person fights daily, and b) not reinforce any of the nodes.

This was not pitched as a pve event.


Once formed up the destination was to a highsec sys boundering a low-sec system.
After that the destination was through low-sec to a null-sec system.
The next destination was null-sec.

There was an invitation to help the ''pirates'' by forming in null-sec syndicate .




There was enough time to get that brain working ....


This is eve , you are expected to use that thing in your head .. not follow someone blindly.