Live Events Discussion

My work is done here .. please lock the thread

Thank you to all who participated

The official "response" can be found here: Dev Blog: Operation Spectre - Event Breakdown and FAQ

Yeah. Nothing but ass-covering, excuse making, and standard boiler-plate space-filling nonsense. The only time I've heard more ass-covering was during election season.

Viva la AURORA.

Except for the minor detail that it was corrupt to the core, they did some really cool things. Oftentimes, they were just small scale events that if you happened to be in the constellation, you'd hear about and get to interact with them. Like all good things, however, it came to an end, in part because people kept tipping off their friends when there would be loot available.

Still, AURORA is missed. It added a really nice dimension that, albeit in limited quantities, made the world feel more alive, rather than a static thing that only reacted when players poked at it.

Next event of this sort could easily be made more fair by using single-ended exploration gates to launch fleets into the target system, since landing point are random it at least gives each entering fleet a chance to get organized and offer a defence.

Another simple solution is to have empire stealth boats cloaked in the target system (as would be the case in any pre-planned op I would think). These would then jump fleets in to safe spots to stage assaults from.

I think this would be far more entertaining for the null-sec folks too, would present more of a challenge. If I had turned to the Null side I would have been so bored sitting there shooting sitting targets (the Farce was indeed strong in this op).

Next event needs to be planned properly. This is effectively an attack on Null space and as such needs to be organized with specific strategic goals, at least some kind of ingress and egress plans, formal fleets for command and control etc. It would be better for fleets (or at least fleet commanders) to register up to a comms chat channel to receive orders rather than rely on twitter and such.

This event was supposed to introduce hi-sec folks to null-sec existence, but being wiped out at a single gate will just put people off. There was no freedom of combat, no chance at a real fight. Had the hi-sec people seen that people would have been jumping up and down for the next op and empire/null wars would ensue pretty rapidly.

Missed opportunity for me but I hope they run future events and take into account the constructive comments from everyone here.

Holy **** people are mad.

CCP clearly did something right.

I like to point out it was the ISD representative above who necro'd this thread.

So did CCP ever figure out that live events fail?

This is nothing. Last week an ISD 'cleaned' and reopened a thread in MD that had been closed for nine months!



I have come to the conclusion that the ISDs exist in a different temporal continuum to the rest of us.

I mean ... nine months? Seriously?

The problem you run into when it is a volunteer, is that a lot of people aren't interested unless CCP is attached to it somehow, as what CCP does is Canon, and if they don't screw up too badly it is also a sign that what you as a player are getting into when you respond to a CCP event is something that has a certain level of quality. The rest is often filtered out and ignored by players.
So even if the events creator is a volunteer, they need to be given credibility through a CCP tag, or seal of approval of sorts. It needs to be 'official'.