Live Events Discussion

This. +1

I really do not understand what was the point of the event. Was it for PVPers or for carebears? For releplayers? For new players or vets?

I joined one of the CCP events few years ago. We traveled few jumps reading some event chat in local hinting some opposition from empire (it was Guristas event). Finally we left hisec and event ended in lowsec. CCP left gang leaving FC position empty so we took the lead, warped everyone to planet to avoid guns and slaughtered all hi sec carebears in their faction fit Ravens. It was fun to us, not so much for them. No tidi and fleet was like 100-150 people so mostly no lag.

Yesterday we formed alliance fleet in Sarum Prime only to get info through Twitter (sic!) that we should move 23 jumps in tidi to another staging point. We chose lowsec route (still 16 jumps) to avoid congestion with hisec players. Unfortunately none thought about reinforcing systems on route so we had 10% tidi all the way.

When we arrived at losec border we got intel about large camp on the other side of gate. Large bubbles, sniping fleet at position, usual nullsec stuff. I jumped into such fight many times before but in properly organized and fit fleet. Our fleet was organized but as a fun event it was more or less random "kitchen sink" fleet.

Our FC smartly decided that we should have some fun despite CCP efforts to ruin the evening and we got some nice fights at station and gates in lowsec.

So what's the problem you ask? I had my fun after all.

Problem is I don't need to wait for CCP to get in fleet if I am alliance player. I do it almost every day. And when I do I know the purpose of it and I have some control over it. I think from the alliance player point of few this event was complete waste of time. Except maybe for people looting fields in Doril.

From carebear point of view it's even worse. They did not see capital ships, they didn't have even slight chance to shoot anything, they died from alpha in a bubble after travelling for hours in slowmo.

Few good advices for CCP:
- make events more often so few people will attend them
- make several events at the same time to split people around EVE
- if you make event for carebears stay in hisec
- if you want carebears to shoot something bring CCP ships, titans and capitals in hisec are nice targets to shoot
- if you make events for nullsec players... don't. Every nullsec event will end in massive clusterfuck with bubbled gates and fleets in position long before you jump into the system. We have it without your help.

Yall did go there like sheeps.
Stupidly thinking CCP will lead the flood of sheeps like their Sheperd.
Oooops, red cro...wtf? Red skulls?
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Seriously now. What did you guys think? Harry Forever killed the Goons, unified Hisec, and now walks on water direction CCP event to gather wonderfull goodies from NPC wrecks, in some nullblock backyard, wich block btw did run crying when they saw the glory or the Hisec Publord Swarm arising trough the gate into Doril?
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CCP knew what will happen. I bet they had a good laugh. So did we.

I once read that the Brave Collective is a place where newbs can learn EVE.

based on this, I'd guess that must be another entity.

I have absolutely no doubt about this. It's probably payback for all the moaning about CCP giving out free IWatch Scorpions to SOMER

I just want to understand something:

What does "you know this even is not for highsec noobs only?" with the fact that there was only 1 side who was shooting with no single resistance from the other side?

Nullsec "noobs" who fought in that "glorious" gate fight were sinking in their own happiness tears because they "won" on the "noobs carebears who came from highsec thinking that event is for them only!!!"...

NO YOU ARE WRONG, because everyone was expecting to die, but not in this fuckup on the gate, it is like the thing when you fit an insta-lock nado and sit killing every noobship in a starter system and say: "WOW LOOK AT MY KILL BOARD!".

And yeah, don't tell me welcome to null or pvp... I know both.

orly?
"I live in lowsec and I love PvP - My sec status is near enough -10, and I went to FD- and 8J fully expecting to die - so please don't say I'm a highsec carebear just crying here."
This really made my day.

Welcome to null.

Welcome to PVP.

Oh you baddie...

Like lambs to the slaughter.

I am actually not regretting missing this event, from the way it was handled, my time in Nullsec was actually enjoyable, especially during the fighting between the CFC and IT Alliance.

The last thing I wanted to bear witness to was a hopeless slaughter, Better to have goodfights than curbstomps in my opinion.