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Where Did The CA-1 Implant Redemption Offer Go?
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Ptraci
3 R Corporation
#41 - 2011-12-06 19:53:58 UTC
Endeavour Starfleet wrote:
Pretty damn cruel of CCP to take it away from us who werent in station to deliver this.



Don't talk to me about cruel, I'm still trying to shift this load of melted snowballs from 2005.
Ana Vyr
Vyral Technologies
#42 - 2011-12-06 20:10:54 UTC
Why not just have these things automatically applied to the station where a pilot's medical clone is located once past the expiry date?
Ptraci
3 R Corporation
#43 - 2011-12-06 20:51:06 UTC
Ana Vyr wrote:
Why not just have these things automatically applied to the station where a pilot's medical clone is located once past the expiry date?


Because it's a gift for ACTIVE players only. CCP chose the definition of active to be people who logged in during the promo period and clicked the button. I mean it's their game, they can do that. Also gift horse, mouth, etc.
Ulstan
State Protectorate
Caldari State
#44 - 2011-12-06 21:09:37 UTC
Ana Vyr wrote:
Why not just have these things automatically applied to the station where a pilot's medical clone is located once past the expiry date?


That would make far too much sense.

Log in, gift appears at clone station. I know people who haven't been through this before always miss the redeem icon.
Shag Sheep
#45 - 2011-12-08 03:54:16 UTC
I saw the redeem option on all my characters when I logged them in. Thinking it was no different than plex, I figured I'd leave the button alone until I was in a convenient location and had decided what I wanted to do with them.

Having read this after finding the option missing, I have to wonder what the hell they were thinking. I'd have been far happier not to have received the "gift" option at all. better that than to have it, then with no warning or indication of there being limitation, having it disappear.

I thought they wanted more players in the game. Not just more players wondering WTF it's all about. ;P
Tyberius Franklin
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#46 - 2011-12-08 04:03:02 UTC
Shag Sheep wrote:
I saw the redeem option on all my characters when I logged them in. Thinking it was no different than plex, I figured I'd leave the button alone until I was in a convenient location and had decided what I wanted to do with them.

Having read this after finding the option missing, I have to wonder what the hell they were thinking. I'd have been far happier not to have received the "gift" option at all. better that than to have it, then with no warning or indication of there being limitation, having it disappear.

I thought they wanted more players in the game. Not just more players wondering WTF it's all about. ;P


Was there any such notification on all the prior gifts? I know they stated the dates on the Dev blog, but that was done on other offers as well. I can't remember the time limits for the others. Was this one shorter?
Maxpie
MUSE LLP
#47 - 2011-12-08 04:25:41 UTC
I missed it too. That's what I get for living in a WH I guess. If I'd have known it was going to disappear, I'd have popped out to pick it up. Ah well, that's life Sad

No good deed goes unpunished
Marcus Harikari
#48 - 2011-12-08 04:27:29 UTC
LOL @ all the losers who saw it, but didn't redeem it. YOU LOSE!!!111oneone
Shag Sheep
#49 - 2011-12-08 04:30:57 UTC  |  Edited by: Shag Sheep
I'm a reasonably new player.

When I read about the dates of the gift offer elsewhere, I took it to mean anyone who logged in over that time got the item. As in it's yours, just choose the time and place for delivery. The redeem button (going by previous plex experience) was my indication that I had the item. the rest was merely a formality.

The guys who think up these things must just think differently than the average person. Hell, they are the ones with the idea that encouraging the greifing of new players is an awesome business plan. I guess it kinda makes sense they'd have a gift system like this.

Them there be some mighty good drugs you guys are on Big smile
Surge Roth
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#50 - 2011-12-08 05:15:09 UTC
on one of my ships, this implant made it where i didn't need a reactor control to fit a mwd. So, I'm enjoying the gift.
rodyas
Tie Fighters Inc
#51 - 2011-12-08 06:00:50 UTC
Its nice reading this thread, turned this normal and everyone has it gift to a rare one. And it feels nice having a rare gift not everyone has.

Signature removed for inappropriate language - CCP Eterne
Lillith Davaham
Doomheim
#52 - 2011-12-10 15:28:49 UTC
Started Eve around end of Apocrypha and every expansion onward just sucked.
Put up with it as a carebear and when CCP needed that cash injection, i ponied up USD200 for the PLEX package.

Didn't want to redeem my CA-1 implant hoping it would stay there.
Didn't want to redeem ANYTHING and end up like this guy.

And now an item that WAS mine magically disappears...
I now have the freedom to ***** about how sucky the Crucible expansion is.
Lucien Visteen
Imperial Academy
Amarr Empire
#53 - 2011-12-10 15:55:10 UTC
Endeavour Starfleet wrote:
Pretty damn cruel of CCP to take it away from us who werent in station to deliver this.

Whatever don't offer me anymore BS CCP if you are just going to take it away instead of doing the right thing of stacking it. Spend your time doing somthing better AKA fixing AFK cloaking.


I don't remeber that offer being for one person spesifically. That you didn't get to log in during the time the offer was active is not CCP's fault.

However I have heard that you might get said item anyway if you file a petition. If you say politely that you was on vacation and did not have time to log on during that timeperiod they might be lenient and give it to you

The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.
Hauling Hal
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#54 - 2011-12-10 19:09:37 UTC  |  Edited by: Hauling Hal
I was in a wormhole when I read on the characater select screen that the implanmt offer had an expiry date. I tried to redeem it immediately, but was told that I had to be in station to redeem it, so I left the wormhole, flew to a station and redeemed it. Am I doing it wrong?
Martyr Theos
The NecroMonger Faith
#55 - 2011-12-10 19:21:39 UTC
Myrdraeus Keaunt wrote:
Pixxie Twilight wrote:

I've gotten gifts in a similar way in other games, but they don't go away. It was my plan to just let them accumulate like prezzies in a Christmas stocking. Unfortunately, it's dangerous to bring preconceptions to Eve from other games. :o


No other EvE gift I know of has expired in a week either.


QFT !
Borun Tal
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#56 - 2011-12-10 19:49:45 UTC
Endeavour Starfleet wrote:
Spend your time doing somthing better AKA fixing AFK cloaking.


No need to fix what ain't broken...
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