Live Events Discussion

The rewards are very high and seemingly out of bound. But got to keep two things in mind. RP wise it's the Caldari Navy having enough of the Provist tainting their image (they were heavily infiltrated by them during Heth's rule, and were one of the provist powerhouses)
This bounty is not about profitability, or recouping losses. It's about making a statement: *Betray the Caldari Navy, and you'll get chased to the ends of the universe, no planet, no station, no ship or organisation, nowhere will be safe for those who betray us!*

Second, the Caldari Navy owns Jita 4-4, and so can lay claim on the (substantional ) income from trade-taxes. That's one hell of a passive income for the Navy, can surely fund some outrageous stuff!

Also, the finalized report on todays Provist manhunt: Dragonaur Tsatei Uppas meets his end at Samanuni

FTFY

Actually Logi get flagged in highsec due to the agro mechanics even if they have already started a limited engagement with the same targets. So Logi pilots might as well not turn up to any of the highsec events unless they are turning up en mass (Ala a null bloc fleet since no-one else gets Logi en mass). Since they will be shot by everyone on grid pretty much.
It's sad when Low sec is actually safer for logi in an event than high sec.

It's almost like the null entities have built up a life of their own which simply makes them unmatchable. Every major null entity that has gone down in the last five years has gone down to internal sabotage. Or 'bugs' which look very much like internal sabotage to the rest of us.

However if you bother reading the complaints it is not about PL 'winning'. It is about CCP setting up a massive prize pool in an environment where it's well known that one of the existing super powers will game the system to ensure they get the lions share of the prize pool, in a total departure from their previous live events policy of not giving rewards on live events.

The prize pool here is far larger than the time they spawned officer mod dropping NPC's, that one agency grabbed. And the same thing is happening again. A massive prize pool set up in such a way that the system can be gamed. And you are surprised people are upset over the fact it's gameable and that only the existing super powers have the capacity to game it?

Oh seriously this again? I've talked to alot of people concerning the event, and honestly what happens so far lies within expectations. Any time a Live Event is announced with a time in advance (and lowsec) one of the nullblocs dominates it.

It's not because they game the system, but simply because they have the manpower, organisation & experience to organize & maintain a fleet in an aggressive environment. Either you can be bitter that a more organized force wins, or you can see & find a way to overcome them. It's not impossible, it happened before but to overcome them, you need numbers and a core fleet that's organized.

Last bit, of all the nullsec powers, I'm glad it's PL intervening, at least they do some light consistent RP (even tho their intentions of claiming all PLEX is tight there from the bat, they at least spin it with *Oh no! I lost control over the fleet!*) They also keep the smacktalk & gloating to a minimum, keeps it fun for all involved.

So they should keep these events in highsec? Because if they put it anywhere in null it's going to "happen" to be near a nullsec power. Better PL then Goons I guess.

not really.

Life Event should be slightly different:
1) targets should be small and fast to kill ships. Let them be expensive if you want but small and fast to kill - no need to form big fleets
2) make search for target wider - not 1 system but the whole region. Again: there will be no real purpose for big fleets here, just real MANHUNT

Just storyline idea from by butt:
Some meany secret agent have stolen something really secret and bad (like super-puper unisex underwear). This presents big threat to all of us so we need to kill him.
1 week of rumor mongering where this agent went and what is he planning to do with this underwear.
And after this week all we got that 'he is planning to meet with some consumer at some celestial (asteroid belts included) in region XXXX'. Go find and kill!

VIOLA! Many people can go and hunt him. And there will be no real reason to make big organized fleets.

Make this special item always droppable (no chance to be destroyed) and put some mark on person who has it in cargohold. And you get real party for everyone involved.

The 2nd one was a highsec event and i can assure you i did not see the PL presence the low-sec one had.

Also the PL guy who snatched the pod is a guy i have seen roaming in low-sec SOLO mostly so it probably has more to do with him being smart enough to fit something that has a really fast lock and once he shot the carrier one time exclude everything from the overview except pods.This way he would have a verry high chance of getting the pod first.At least that would be how i'd do it.

Also since it was high-sec you could also say it would be unfair as e-uni or RvB has a huge presence there so could easily walk off with the prizes.

But then why use logic when you can just generalise.


I do agree on the part that the rewards are too high but on the other hand i couldn't care less about it .It is what it is and not like the amount will shift any 'balance' in the game.

I want bigger prizes. 20 titans for final blow! (+ SP to fly them all to lvl 5)

If it's lowsec then anyone can and will shoot everyone.

If you don't feel like loosing your ship and possibly your pod then don't go to the low-sec events.