EVE General Discussion

Unfortunitly I just missed the event, The Xmas tree had to be decorated :]

Heres a possible idea for limiting ship size to allow a more even player field to incourage new players.

Could it be possible to orgininze the CCP fleet inside a dead space complex/area that requires the use of an acceleration gate that limits ship size?

I was earlier part of the RvB Ganked night destroyer fleet, looks like they got totally whiped of the field at the CCP event by steatlh bombers :I even so young players if they join a fun corp can take part in these events.

only place I know of is cornered rat software's wwii online, they have regular "kill a rat" events including free "I killed a rat T-shirts" to the victors.

plus they frequent the forums regularly and are a much smaller staff

Because every player in the rank and file of major alliances each has their own tech moon amirite? The mere entrance into null gives us all untold wealth beyond the empire carebears' wildest dreams and we're totally hoarding it from everyone who doesn't want to die in a fire to the bubble camps that are set up on EVERY GATE in null.

Also all the loot that the few players were lucky enough to grab was instantly handed over to their respective alliance leader who used it to pay his rent.

Get a grip.

No! You don't understand, it should work like this - CCP fleet enters highsec(preferable OPs home system), shoots someone, CONCORD, OP loots plexes

So use an unpopular entry point. If you're too lazy to find a way in, of course you don't get to play.

There could be an easy solution to the concord issue, would it be that difficult to do an 'EvE vs CCP' wardec for the duration?



No risk, no reward. Also those 2 little frigs or cruisers would be instantly blobbed by everyone in the first hisec system on a gate, and then we'd have to hear you whine about how they didn't choose YOUR system to spawn in, and CCP is excluding the Caldari hisec in favor of Amarr, or some other such crap.

If you want to play with the big fleets, you get to come out to where we are. And I'd much rather have the devs actually, you know, doing their jobs and using these fleets as in-house training into what is right and wrong about null PVP rather than pander to the unwashed horde. (protip: that's you)

Yeah you would think the poster had more brains, I mean this alt is only 2 days old so I must clearly be uninformed...

Haha awesome =)

Heads up though if you know you're entering a system that might potentially be really laggy turn all of you graphics down, turn effects off and turn brackets off in your overview settings.

Not aimed at anyone in particular. General historical observations on employee participation in MMOs, and EVE in particular. If you are a current player, you may wish to skip this post entirely.
/TLDR: I am better than you because you are all stupid and CCP is ignoring their past and throwing caution to the wind.

I am reminded of the "mining laser2 Scenario"
Polaris frigate is blown up
...and drops a mining laser with stats. "corresponding to tech level 5,"
...which is then picked up by a player,
...who refuses to return it,
...forcing company in charge to compromise,
...by offering trade for a T2 Mining laser BPO,
...creating further problems when player tells rest of community,
...forcing company in charge to admit they gave,
...ANOTHER BPO to someone else, "to make it even."

The above story is shrouded by the opaque veil of history, but I was reminded of it when I first read about CCP deciding to visit their game. My initial thoughts were positive.

By taking part in an official capacity, CCP may score points with the community, learn more about their product, build a stronger team, and so on. The way it is being done is a big risk however. In general terms, GM participation in their own persistent MMO is subject to accusations of bias and favouritism, and should be avoided completely. Hiring "actors," to play NPCs and developing the tools for them is probably better in the long run (see also, COSMOS and incursion mechanics.)

It is also worth noting, that the formation of the Council of Stellar Management (CSM,) was in large part prompted by accusations of cheating by a database administrator. As I recall, he spawned an interdictor BPO for himself, got found out by players, who in turn broke the law when they broke into fellow community members' private forums. This event effectively re-booted the "OMG! Alliance So-and-so is full of GMs"-meme.

I understand why CCP may want to do this as a team building exercise, but its not exactly "playing the game" now is it. Without play being dictated by having to overcome the death penalty (having to spend time getting isk to get new gear,) the whole thing is meaningless and belongs on a test server - this is probably the one thing that always ruins "GM participation," in most persistent worlds.

I just cannot help having a "baaaaad feeling about this..." whenever I see a GM drop juicy gear because the potential for rage is so high.

Also. It is common knowledge that we already have all the developers in the alliance. We also have the "Guldske I" gang warfare module which increases the rate of faction spawns, and so on, and so forth...

Mass events are one of the worst game ideas ever, UO used to have them and it was the same old ****, lag fest and only a few get to participate.

I guess these guys live in isolation somewhere near the north pole, so they keep repeating mistakes everyone elese made 10 years ago.

They probably still wear neon clothing from the 80s too.

our primary mission was to destroy it, so I guess you could say we cared