In-Game Events and Gatherings

Looks like it went well guys. Shame I couldn't be there because of college. Hope you all had fun, and Congratz to the Champion.

BTW what was the CCP Prize :)

Well i didn't win any prizes and i still want to thank the organizers for the huge amount of time they had to put in to this. And not even be eligible for prizes!

You make eve EVE.

o7

If anyone has any video content from their perspective regarding the event to be posted to youtube etc. If you could send me the links we are compiling a historical record of the event.



After looking at the feedback that was filled out in my feedback form as well as talking to a few people in the Theomachy The Event channel. A few things that will be resolved and handled prior to the next event.

Too Many Troll fits- I thought they would be mostly destroyed but in reality people found them, and got out of them so they simply piled up as we brought in more ships(I might have been guilty of dropping 3 of the RR Mallers) Sorry Marlona.

We had around 250-300 troll ships out of the entire batch, which on paper is not alot but when they aren't destroyed they will pile up and mess up our ratios so I am going to reduce how many we have in the future. This will also include the troll loot cans that were available.

Too many Bubbles - The bubbles purpose was to keep people from just warping around in pods all event(though that happened anyway). They simply lost their power against the larger groups as tacticals were made(we might address that next time to make it so you can't avoid fights so easily.

We will tone down the amount of bubbles at beacons in the future

Risk vs Reward Balance - It was pointed out to me that a troll fit ship was found inside a bubble, that was most likely an oversight on our part as we were rushing to get the arena setup from 15:00 up until you guys got into system.

In the future if a ship is in a bubble or a loot can is in a bubble, its going to actually be worth it and not garbage.

Refitting Options - There were currently 2 ways to refit your ships without finding a mobile depot, the Refitting POS that LG owned that was at the Supply Depot beacon, but since there were bubbles there, it was a risky location to go to. Or players didn't realize they could use the SMAs. The second option was a carrier that was very late in getting there, the pilot was a LG person and that was probably not well explained either.

In the future, instead of keeping it secret, we will make it more obvious what refitting options the players have, otherwise it makes all the 215 loot containers I put in the arena worthless.

Overview Clutter - The amount of ejected ships in the arena, mobile bubbles and loot cans where for the players to use but due to eve mechanics we are limited to what we can do.

So going forward due to limited ways to resolve the issue AND make it fun for everyone. We will spread out the ships. Instead of the starting ships in the Proving Grounds + the ones at the other beacons. We will deploy as many ships as we have players but they will be evenly spread around the entire arena. I am hoping that CCP will add a un piloted ship filter for the Overview but one can only dream.

Scripted Events - It was apparent to the events team that the majority of the players ignored the scripted events with the exception of the Hidden Overseer and the Random Dramiel roaming the arena.

After some discussion with some of the participants, it was clear that they thought in most cases they were either not worth the reward(cause the rewards were secret) or they were traps by the Hunters. The hunters themselves were actually told to avoid any beacon with a scripted event. This was never told to the players so we will make sure its well known in some fashion or another. Unfortunately some Hunters were actually sighted at the scripted events anyway. So our job will be to make them a bit more transparent without completely spoiling it.

The Rules changing/Rules being more clear - The on grid bookmarks was initially allowed but then changed during the event to reduce the effect of the large groups.

The fact the rules were changing in that way was not declared by any of the staff. It was also commented that some of the rules were not fully explained or some people were still lost. We will try to get the rules more explained to players when they register.

The Large Blobs -This was the most common issue with Theomachy. This was expected to happen, but what was not expected was how many and how mobile they would be.

Going forward, the hunter team is going to ignore smaller groups and lone pilots will be utterly left alone, unless the lone wolf engages the Hunter then its fair game. We will have more resources dedicated to dealing with larger groups like we had originally said we would but the mobility was causing a bit of an issue. Brave might notice that we had a bunch of warp ins on them, our referee prober was re-directed towards probing out the tactical pings you guys were using.

This is not the final list of feedback we have gotten from Theomachy, but like I might have said, we have done this event twice in the past and each time I have re-iterated on rules/mechanics and such to reduce issues. The 5 min no pod rule was added after one of our guys in the first event was podded in 2minutes of the event starting. All constructive criticism is received and I will be looking at it and updating the event to adapt. If you have any comments or suggestions that was not raised in the Theomachy feedback form, feel free to send me evemail.

I know I said this event will be yearly, we are most likely going to have the event closer than that so we can avoid it being as close to the AT as it is. That might have caused problems with participation as well.


See you all at the next one and remember the Overseers are always watching.

Here's a press release that summarizes the event:

http://www.theomachy.com/#report

If you would like a PDF version of this report, please contact me:

joe@repercussus.com

Yeah that will be definitely fixed, no more WCS.

Jayne Fillon, I watched the entire Brave perspective stream and I heard you say alot you guys think you were ruining the event. We told you to use everything you could find, and you used our own troll fits against us, for that I have to say good job. Some players might have been annoyed with the blob but you guys were extremely well organized.

I wasn't the one watching the streams, so I don't know precisely how the information was found out, but in the middle of the event I was receiving updates about what the overseers were doing. We knew that one of the overseer Tengus (Sindel, I think?) was following our fleet almost exclusively. As far as I know, the information that was being relayed to me came from a text convo that was displayed on the stream, not over voice comms. I wasn't the one watching the streams, and I still haven't seen them even now, but I can tell you the information that I was receiving was very accurate and helped us avoid overseer death on multiple occasions. That's not even mentioning the free intel about what was going on elsewhere in the system at the other beacons.

Sounds like the info was coming from twitch chats (Not mine, as I was moderating it) and those aren't visible on everyone's stream if you were watching from the theomachy.com/stream/ page.

I was also in a tengu and I was following you guys (half-assed attempts honestly, i was looking for fights, we all were) so it could have been either one of us. Meh.. that'll be dealt with next time. :)

Contract 1 - Ship with cargohold full of faction ammo!

Contract 2 - T2 fit you lost not 5 days ago! (I used this, upped what wasn't t2 to meta 4 and dropped in t2 versions of em as well)

The next theomachy will have your cruise Geddon also the leaderboard did not get finished unfortunately