Live Events Discussion

This "misunderstanding" statement is just like that still unresolved situation where one of your GMs declared that we could be banned for impersonating ourselves. Then another GM had to come along and "clear up one little misunderstanding" of the playerbase in a transparent overruling of the first GM; link. Once again, there is no misunderstanding on our part; it's you at CCP that doesn't understand. CCP should be very thankful that their product is so unique because your arrogance and lack of communication would be extremely bad if you had any viable competitors.

That would have made the hours of warping and utter confusion worth it, especially for a noob like me who has never even seen a titan in the game let alone been bridged into a fleet battle by one. On the other hand I have blundered into many gate camps, and they were never fun, not even the first time... especially not the first time.

We should have been given more information, why didn't they just tell us we would be going to nul a few hours before the event started, the more experienced pilots could have given us newer players a heads up on what to expect there, and what type of ships to bring. The local and event channels should have been full of fleet adverts, fitting doctrines and information direct from ccp about what exactly was happening. Instead it was full of conflicting information and people wondering what the hell was going on, and with no input from games masters or any officials we were left wondering if the information was legit or just wumming.

NPC navies could have provided support in the form of titans which high sec alliances don't have access to, for example when a fleet (run by a proper eve fleet commander, not some ccp desk jockey) got a few hundred members a titan could have been provided to bridge them into the system at the appointed time. In faction warfare adhoc fleets of disparate people with varying skills are formed up regularly for roams etc, fleet commanders tell us what type of ships they want and there is usually a role even low sp characters can fill. Those fleets are a good laugh even when they end in disaster... this thing was anything but fun. No doubt we were never going to be a match for nulsec alliances, but it could have been a good experience for everyone involved, and really peaked a lot of peoples interest in large fleet warfare. The load could have been spread out across multiple systems to keep TiDi at a minimum outside the system where the actual event was happening. What we got was thousands of uninformed, and unprepared pubbies funneled into nulsec gate camps to be humiliated. If it had been done properly I would have went with the fleet got popped, immediately re shipped and tried to find another fleet so i could get back into it, instead of a few hundred kills nul seccers might have had thousands of kills and almost everyone would have been happy.

LOL at nullnoobs.. You carebear in nullsec anomalies even more then highsec players, be honest about it

I for my part, am angry at CCP not at that FUBAR gatecamp with sniping drones asigned monkeys :)

What was the point of that event?
Where was the content?
Why should all the highsec players help Empires forces?

Good job CCP and good job CFC blue donut.
And nullbears, dont lie to yourself that you do this everyday, cause nullsec is dead and you know it..
All i see are empty systems, lots of them. If a neutral shows in local you just dock up in station or hide in POS.

Im glad i unsubed all my 3 accounts. Im burned out and dissapointed
All i say is "Keep up the awoxing CCP. EA will gladly make EVE a FREE to PLAY game"


KILL LOCAL FROM ALL SYSTEMS!

Goodbye at STAR CITIZEN :)

P.S.:
For the haters.. i dont give a flying F*** about any of your posts and if you think i do, then watch this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hfYJsQAhl0

Hands up, which idiots lost SP from not updating their clones?

And who brought their shiny ratting ships out?

No sympathy for the chumps, they saw the low sec warning and continued.

Bad plan on CCPs part having everyone go through so many systems.

How many alts do you have in the CFC?

You are correct I intended on saying MWD...so many acronymns its easy to get turned round :P an error in posting :D

Just to clarify you don't NEED a twitter account to view tweets posted by eve devs. They are fully public viewed just as this website is. The fact that you have no idea of it is irrelevant. After all if we follow your logic then this website is not NEEDED to play a game either, it (like twitter) is a means of disseminating useful news and information. Only a tweet is far much faster to deliver than posting on a web site.



Twitter is a universal means of viewing information. Having 4-5 official streams up only serves to confuse the population as to which is which and what they need to watch. Instead they could all view one site and read a short 160 character message to get the information. I would rather them not have streamed this, having multiple streams going is a bad idea. You may tune into the stream AFTER the message was stated and not know still. At least a tweet is in black and white text and people can read as they come to the site, instant information.

CCP, really??

1. carebears wouldn't even have the capability of setting up their overviews as to know who is friendly and who is shooting them
2. TiDi warping 25 jumps..... why?

Advice:

1. actively lead the fleets with NPC toons
2. . have supers and caps, even if nothing else, as a distraction for the 0.0 people and use them to shoot any enemy caps that drop in (for the lols)
3. use titans to bridge cabears into 0.0

But above all, tell carebears what alliances are defending the enemy system so they can at very least set standings to shoot appropriate people..

They will all die anyway, but at least it will not be soo terrible. Entertainment is being part of a fight and the longer you survive, the more fun it is. What happened was anti-fun and completely opposite of how Luminaire event was planned and executed.

Maybe CCP should start with mining events of 6 - 12 people and work there way up from there.

I mean it's apparent they can't organize anything of any real size.

I second this and I think it's a very precise description. After two hours of being fooled around I got popped and went off. Waited out my timer and logged off to do something that at least felt meaningful.
If I had a chance to actually FIGHT, I would've taken another ship and gone back.

Also, CCP_Goliath: to be honest I don't think you're making it any better. The comments so far have been a blatant praise on the least informative or representative post in the bunch, and some cookie dropped here to say "hey we're reading".
Nice and well, but there have been some pretty bad accusations against CCP for this event and I for one would really love to see what the fart was in your minds - lambs to the slaughter seems more and more appropriate the more i read on.
As mentioned, I am pretty much ready to be humiliated by players who actually have the same chances I have and show to be better; much less ready to be the fool for people I pay.
Much beyond the "lesson learnt" post, I want CCP to state right out why the worked the event like they did and what goal did it serve. And if the **** up is as big as it looks, apologies would be in order. I for one will respect a "we botched it sorry" much more than a "well it wasn't that bad" or any other marketing attempt.

Don't get me wrong - you've got a great game and CCP is doing better than any game company I've had the misfortune to deal with (Cryptic gets the prize for the most incompetent, imbecile, annoying one).
But this... has been annoying.