Live Events Discussion

Just called to turn off my water because this spring of tears is going to be flowing for a while.

Well, I'm sorry to say that it was poorly done. Creating such events are hard, especially in a free environment like eve online. And I believe that's where CCP failed to forseen what could go on.

Essentially, when choice is given to the players, you just try to draw some basic lines then implement on what's going on. The first FAIL was the [Sarum Prime -> Ihal] travel that just locked out most of the people willing to attend the event.

The second issue was to push into a nullsec area with absolutly no planning or fallback plan. If one way doesn't work (and I believe it did not), then try something else. I mean, really, would the Empires stay still if one badass fleet entered their border with no announcement what so ever? They should have taken into account what they always tell us: eve is real, people do stuff and care about it. So of course the Empires can't do whatever they want anymore, they have to forge alliances with the new powers. They can't just "ask" publicly capsuleers to join, because there are a lot of people that doesn't like them. At all. If they want to get support, they have to know where to knock.
A second point of view on this issue is that some people doesn't care about the lore and the event and just wanna fight. And that's the sandbox in all its glory: you can't control everything in a sandbox. And that's also because of that very fact that the eve players likes this game and invest in it in various ways: warrior, diplomats, leaders, ... I believe that if CCP want to do live event, they need real players to take care of them.

Other than that, I can't say because I was busy in Sendaya shooting at suspects. But I heard the Empire FC did some bad calls. Like traveling to a nullsec system instead to bridge in. I mean, really, doing that and telling everybody where we were going a day before is the same thing. You don't do a surprise attack like that. We are already trained to react fast, and on top of that everybody already knew that there were something brewing.

In conclusion of my flawed insight, all I have to say is: either you play the game or you don't. Toying around to introduce a new feature is kinda pointless.

Who's talking about anyone's PvP skills? I didn't say anything about skills.

Dude One, who has less than 200 kills to his name called Dude Two who has over 4,000 kills a "carebear".

Forget about "skill", K:D ratios, efficiency, fleet sizes and all of that bullsh!t.

Just let that sink in.

It's hilarious that people who would never willing enter these systems on any other day because they are dangerous are upset that CCP didn't somehow make them not dangerous for the event.

Although the original news announcement about the event did not call it a PVP event the later one asking for capsuleers to fight for the pirates should have been a pretty bloody big red flag for anyone who thought it was going to be PVE.

CCP should not have taken any actions to make travelling to Null artificially safe, and rightfully they didn't. Five seconds after reaching the initial staging area in Meves it was obvious that the TIDI would be horrible. For the High sec jumps, set the autopilot and come back later. Or scan down a wormhole and look for a shortcut. Or go through other systems, a detour through an extra 5 systems would have been much faster due to the lack of TIDI in those systems.

The most important point though is that the random fleets that formed up still had someone leading them. That person is responsible for organizing and controlling the fleet. If your fleet jumped through to Low sec with half its members scattered across six systems and no scouting then take it up with the FC who organized the fleet. It is their fault, not CCP.

The entire event from the High sec side was a clusterfuck but not due to CCP. The fault lies entirely upon the players and their lack of co-ordination. If you want to run solo through a PVP event and survive then fly a bloody stealth bomber / recon cruiser / cloaky tech 3.

I can't hear anything you just said since this was NPC nullsec.

What'd you say bro? What?

Yes sorry, I revised my post but not thoroughly enough. That part slipped. (I'm going to correct that.)

10 percent at time sits like 1 percent man you came on a good day to a small fight hurry back :)

in past ccp turns on their guard fleets anyways

I know that you think your sh-t smells like candy and you would like people to eat and enjoy it as much as you do, but let's be honest. CCP railroaded the event they setup and literally sent you a line of carebears to kill.

You enjoyed it because your job was simple, sit at 100, blow up whatever comes in. Now that might be fearful if you were alone, or maybe with 3 or 4 guys, but the 150 to 200 + sitting at optimal, watching people trickle in at a gate you bubbled to hell and back, and they have no way of getting to ya...

The developers did what most nullsec corps do, they implanted a spy, setup a trap, and whelped the target. Cept the target was highsec, the spy was CCP, and they used their own made-up event to .. Well lord who the hell knows what they were doing.

If this was setup by razor, fine, goons, fine, n3, fine. This was setup by CCP, and people followed the game developers. Poorly executed, Badly performed, 0 communication and the bulk of the community lost trust in the company because they lead the people into what can only be determined to be a trap (or as you may call it, typical Thursday in null).

In the end, the camp was fine. The majority of the community following CCP had no damn clue what was going to go on, well cept for ya I suppose.

Eitherway, it is what it is.

What the community wants to know is what the f-ck it was suppose to be.

Death by fire, a role playing event, a intro to nullsec, tears and people screaming that there leaving, a tidi test?... Because that was no live event.

Tidi sucks xD If that is the normal NullSec Thuesday... No wonder most of you are just dumb F1 Monkeys :-P

I don't care if my ship gets blown up by a gate camp in Null, most HighSec dwellers deserved it and the tears in this thread are delicious , but it sucks if you need 1 hour for 5 systems just to get there :-P