Out of Game Events and Gatherings

I was just about to ask if this was going down this year! See ya there!

Had a great time! Thank you for setting this up!

Also got a chance to meet both DMC and Rain, it was a pleasure to meet you both and all the other EVE players

Stories and pictures ploz!

Good stuff, had a great time and was a pleasure meeting everyone. Didn't get to chat with Mittani or (ex-)CCP Sreegs, but maybe next time. In any case, everyone I met had an interesting story.

There were some pictures being taken but sadly, I wasn't one of the people taking pictures.

First of all I'd like to thank CCP for hosting this event, definitely a good way to meet other Eve players. It was good to see familiar faces there, people / character names I know from past California Eve Meets.

It was especially great meeting new people there. Some of the character names I recognized from the game / forums and a few players even recognized my character name. Always a good thing when that happens.

What's really cool is I even met some female Eve players there. Yes indeed, real live breathing female players in Eve.



However I gotta say I was kinda disappointed due to a couple of things.

This Event was advertised as 'Open Bar' which was actually only for certain types of Beer and Wine. Don't get me wrong, there was indeed a full bar there, just wasn't an open bar and the free Beer and Wine quickly ran out. The price for Mixed Drinks was expensive due to the location and the venue itself was just an average neighborhood type bar and grill.

Granted it did have a small private reception room attached but that quickly got over crowded, had poor ventilation and the music volume was too loud making communication very difficult.

In fact when the back room was opened up for us to enter, a group of people sat down at one of the tables and had their drinks spilled due to the table pedestal rocking / being off balanced. When it happened, I quickly shouted out "It's not a party unless drinks are spilled" to which one of the players at the table responded "It's official, it's now a party" amid other comments of 'being cut off' and 'lightweight', etc.

Be that as it may, I still enjoyed myself since it allowed me to meet quite a few other Eve Players. As such, I plan on attending other future CCP events as well. Just need correct info and a venue that can accommodate +100, m'kay.





DMC