Live Events Discussion

Can't blame you, it's not your fault that some people can't read or put 3 latest reports on community.eveonline.com together.

I think you might like the irony that this was run right after New Player Training Session that had combat basics as its theme. In the end of it new players were encouraged to join in the event, with CCP Eterne telling that 90% would probably survive it. I suppose he had inkling that the event would end before the new players would get to low/null.

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I went with the blob from Meves.

It was really poor, and my take on it is that CCP missed a chance to get people (from all of Eve) excited about the new content in Rubicon.

Some critical mistakes / suggestions:

1. Starting in High Sec - and then moving to a staging point still in High Sec while we suffer 10% TiDi is nothing but a demonstration of how bad the game is when lots of players actually want to be in the same system.

2. Communication - the Orders/ Aims / Objectives of each fleet were not set out - Some guy in local in yellow saying 'go here' is crud (especially after he gets podkilled or lost half way to desination) - Make a channel with orders/commands text from the Event actors etc only - dont let people talk in that channel so communication is clear [If you dont want to do voice comms].

3. Allowing players to actually see the new content (event site) - Using either a wormhole or jump bridge and then perhaps a minute or 5 cease fire in the target location (ghost site or whatever so people can see the new content) before letting all hell break lose at least would make people welping stuff feel like they had seen something worthwhile.

There were many more minor issues, but those are the main ones.

I lost a Navy Omen and knew i would - I have no issue with that. The issue I have is that the event (and some previous events I've been to) was a complete waste of time - didn't get to see anything in the Ghost Site I warped into before being instapopped - didn't have any idea of what we were supposed to be doing other than 'head here' commands coralling us in for a turkey shoot. All the while taking up 3-4 hours of my play time.

I can understand all the rage of those folks new to the game or events especially - it really was a terrible experience for the majority when they probablty had high hopes of a 'Rubicon' teaser event . After 8 years playing I didn't expect much to be honest, but was still left disappointed. Cheers.

As usual, NullSec circle-jerks en masse while missing the point entirely ^_^


The idea of a collision between HighSec and NullSec players and npcs is an interesting premise, albeit a daunting one!

The idea of hundreds of players arriving in a staging system, on time, and traveling for hours to find that the event ended long before they could arrive? C'mon guys, really.

I prefer constructive criticism, so off the top of my head:

1) For events of this scale, treat time-dilation as an inevitability, not a possibility. To me, there is no shame in acknowledging reasonable technical limitations.

2) If the nodes can't be reinforced in time for something like this, consider distributing the load. Pirate factions are dispersed throughout New Eden - had this scenario played out in 4 - 6 different locations, with varied mixes of Empire and Pirate npcs at each, I think it could have been really great. More like a coordinated Interpol takedown operation, less like 2000 Jack Bauers charging into Mogadishu with a handgun and no cell service.

3) Never, EVER, change the venue an hour before the party. Nothing good will come of it.


That's my 2 Isk anyway. I appreciate the intent, the process just needs to be examined! More planning, less improve!

All the same, thanks for your efforts CCP!

Lotta love in this thread.

Correct me if I'm wrong but wasn't Rubicon the beginning of breaking away ties from the factions?

*Looks at calendar....yep, Rubicon comes out in a week or so.*

*Looks at the NPC Actor actions and saw how they hung the players out to dry*

One would think that those kooky viking devs were setting the factions up for some hostility.

Go figure.

Nice fun killing off the Concord defenders slowboating through lowsec for them to never arrive at their destination. Some pretty good kills/massacres to be had.

However, from a story point of view, this was utter crap and CCP should feel very bad about it. Nothing story-relevant happened or was allowed to happen because of CCP's inability to let only appropriate people know about what was going to happen. Hanging a lantern on such a story-driven event is just a big invitation sign for CFC and other 00-densities to mess up the Event. Moreover, not reinforcing the route to the destinations and letting people travel dozens of jumps in highest Tidi is a thing that CCP should have avoided. Amarr was population capped with only 1,000 people in local, for example. This is unacceptable. Again: CCP should feel bad for this major wastage of time and for deliberately feeding players to stupid other players who have no intention to allow good gameplay.

-1 for this.

Still, it comes in handy when you've got to post a pic of those fries you ate on the fringe of Andromeda.

well they almost did it... they want people to move to low/null and a lot came to the event... shame tough they forgot to close the gates :)