Live Events Discussion

The explosion was the sound of trust forever disappearing, Due to the Playerbase being CCPd

Word on the street is that CCP self-destructed the structures and left before the capulseers could meaningfully interact with them. Whether this was done out of boredom, because their workday was over, or they just wanted to get to the party upstairs, your guess is as good as mine.

The ghost site installations were very well defended. The defenders had time to get everyone (and their research) off of the installation, after which they scuttled it to prevent it from eventually being taken. It's exactly what I'd have done in their shoes.

WTF have you been the last 36hrs? We were CCPd and that's what matters the most right now. On a side note I'd like to see how the "event story" pans out but I think CCP might be a little bit busy right now...hopefully not FC'ing any fleets or getting their teams CCPd while we await a response.

It would seem that the hate is related to your thread, so it's not really being hijacked.

CCP promised an "Event" to the players. But instead of an event the players that joined were "CCPd". "Events" are supposed to be pieces of storyline delivered in game. The Idea is to experience it instead of just read it. However this "event" was not delivered. Instead of a storyline event, there was just a mass funneling of non-pvp pilots into the open arms of organized (organized enough) pvp-exclusive groups. If you've never pvped before you have no idea what to expect or what to do. With a CCP sponsored event I'd assume the majority of pilots felt like they'd have at least a little bit of support. But of course that was a misconception. The tidi of course would just be the icing on the cake.

The promised "Event" did not happen. The lore would have been just as, if not more, successfully delivered with an addition to a wiki page instead. And I may be wrong, but I highly doubt that many if any of the pvp entities that "sided with the pirates" knew or cared about the story. Had no ping gone out i'm sure everything would have ended up exactly the same anyways. There was really no chance for this to have ended up differently anyways, but based on the Tweet sent out it was obviously intentional. And of course with the tidi there was never a chance to make it in time for the storyline event in the first place, even without all the slaughtering.

All that CCP was successful in achieving was:
1. Having pvp entities fight non-pvp individuals.
2. Causing players to lose faith in in-game events.
3. Getting players to realize that not only are other players out to kill/grief/scam them, but so is CCP.

Of course this is all in regards to a storyline event. The fact that all the pilots got CCPd is of course in and of itself an event.

If they really wanted to have a good pvp event they should of just had the 2 high sec groups meet somewhere and fight each other. Would have been just a great big FFA and maybe high sec pilots could get a taste for blood. Instead they just got shown how easy they are to squash and will probably be even more pvp adverse.

Players interested in the lore did not get time to get to the Event before CCP terminated the event. The only people actually at the event sites were a few cloaky people watching random PvP, Null Sec entities, Pirates and a couple of live streamers.
All the high sec/event fleets were still battling their way through TiDi when CCP called the event over, & self destructed the structures.

Unfortunately there is not much likelihood of finding out much, the players coming from hisec were either slaughtered or delayed in TIDI until the event was terminated.
It appears from the nullsec dwellers who were already in system that the pirates self destructed.
Your only hope may be some cloaky person may come forward, as it seems everyone in null was too busy taking advantage of the amazing gift they had been given to take any notice.

My speculation and from watching the EVE Vision Road Map would be that the rubicon moment is us building our own stargates or systems and not contracting but expanding New Eden.

I'd like to correct the Serpentis side of things.

The Serpentis Vindicator wing, led by Launette Vylier I believe, was completely destroyed. In the end, seems the field was held mostly by CFC forces that chose to preserve the facility and give Serpentis time to evacuate.

That said it was very much fun!

Or you could read the Test Server thread on Ghost sites, the Dev blogs covering them, and know exactly what Ghost sites are actually going to be....
Sorry, but that's just plain lazy on your part to not already know about ghost sites.
The lore side, different matter, but the actual functions of ghost sites have been public for weeks.