Live Events Discussion

Well the fact of the matter is you'll see me out in Lowsec almost every night - from Black Rise down to Bleak Lands, out in a solo ship or as part of a small gang. I lived in Catch and Provi during one of the many wars - I lived in Curse for a while. Hell on another character I was even in Groon and lived in Syndicate when Pyrion Flax was FC.

I'm not PvP adverse, nor am I naive to the fact that there would be camps and blobs and that I would definitely die - these spaceships are only pixels.

My issue is there was NO communication or organisation from CCP, and the whole thing seemed like a setup so that goons could have a good laugh at the expense of the poor noobs in highsec.

If this was a lore event that CCP wanted everyone to join in they would have organised it in lowsec - no bubbles, only instalock camps which are fine - you have a chance of escaping them, and at least the gate guns would have given the noobs a chance.

Instead they basically funnelled everyone into goon space and sat back at their party and had a laugh.

GOD RAZOR STOP BEING SO SMUG OKAY YOU BIG MEAN NULLBEARS GOSH


But for real, I think Razor and anyone else smugging around here is just doing it because of the tears. The delicious, delicious tears.

You missed out " and sat back at their party and had a laugh while watching the carnage on their big screens and projectors from the Mad_Ani stream".

Got that intel from Twitter...seems to be the best source of it these days in EVE Online.

It is worth noting that quite a few people in my fleet logged once the extent of the stuff up became obvious and went and fetched their null sec toons. (The idea that the game consists of two totally distinct groups, cool PvPers versus useless carebears is silly as many people have alts in both high and null)

The main concerns I have come across have nothing to do with dieing as most people did not get close enough to the action to actually die.

Major issues:

1. the initial change of location was ONLY anounced on twitter and many people including FCs thought this was more likely a twitter hack as nothing was said in game till much later.

2. Placing the original "fake" stage points next to major hubs meant the few rare in game CCP announcements were buried amongst spam as the hub spammers had moved over from Amarr and Dodi.

3. The very late confirmation of the event being predominantly PvP meant many people were stuck with ratting/incursion fits and could not leave their original "fake" staging system to swap to something more suitable without being locked out

4. Sending large fleets 30 jumps meant TIDI followed the fleets. For most of us it was impossible to cover the distance before the event got declared as over. Dieing was not an issue very few people got close enough to have the chance to die.

5. The long travel left FCs with a choice of either keeping fleet together and exasperating the TIDI or letting everyone travel in own time breaking up the fleet and making it hard to stay organised,


Overall though the main issue for my group had nothing to do with dieing in null ... it was the fact it was almost impossible to get there in the first place. (As stated earlier quite a few logged out and grabbed their goon or other null characters)

You not showing up to Fanfest?

Well, gimme your ticket. I'll rep you properly by closing my eyes and running headfirst into an ice sculpture, and then find the nearest manager to tell them that my head's cold.

In my hell, there'd be virgins.

I didn't take part in this event because of the time, and I'm glad I didn't.

To me it's glaringly obvious that CCP basically set up thousands of players to be the helpless victims of the largest gank in the history of EVE.

This is going to backfire badly on CCP.

People call it "fun"
Beeing slaughtered is no fun for most people. What did YOU expected from the HighsecCarebears? If you -after 22 sites- still are unable understand that the fewst "cries" about the fact THAT they did die instead HOW they died i guess its pointless to argue anyway.

People did expect fun. Something MEANINGFULL. Something special. Every highsec-carebear can go to a low/nullsec gatecamp and die there, thats nothing special.

Thanks for telling me the obvious! I really did not know nullsec means zero security!, and it had literally no security.

1 isk will be transferred to you as a pay for this great service you are doing by telling people that was a nullsec!



No point of talking anymore...

o7

I almost made it to the first losec entrance before the event was declared over.
Jumping 20 systems at 10% TiDi is so much fun.

CCP, it would have been nice to know beforehand that...

• this was a PVP/0.0 event. (So one could have brought a clean clone and a cheap ship from the beginning.)
• the real staging point was Ihal. (Could have saved 1-2 hours of pointless travel.)