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The Shadow of Serpentis event, miscommunication and autism apparently.

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TinkerHell
Nocturnal Romance
Cynosural Field Theory.
#21 - 2016-08-18 14:15:23 UTC
lol that sucks, but i am surprised you didnt see it coming. I tried to do the event but after getting the copper can i gave up as the rewards just sucked and figured the top 10 would go the same way...The whole thing wasnt thought out well and the build price on the dread was just lol (and still is).

450 hours is only about 180b-225b running lvl5 missions Lol

I lost an 880b offer on my silver magnate that now recieves offers for 50b thanks to one of CCPs events. So welcome to the Salt club.
Discordia Duenna
Perkone
Caldari State
#22 - 2016-08-18 14:26:06 UTC
TinkerHell wrote:
lol that sucks, but i am surprised you didnt see it coming. I tried to do the event but after getting the copper can i gave up as the rewards just sucked and figured the top 10 would go the same way...The whole thing wasnt thought out well and the build price on the dread was just lol (and still is).

450 hours is only about 180b-225b running lvl5 missions Lol

I lost an 880b offer on my silver magnate that now recieves offers for 50b thanks to one of CCPs events. So welcome to the Salt club.


Still that's 50b for a frigate. I wish I could say it was just salty, it it's way way beyond that.
TinkerHell
Nocturnal Romance
Cynosural Field Theory.
#23 - 2016-08-18 14:29:16 UTC
I paid more than 50b for that frigate :P

Your bpc still has some value when its released. You will be able to get at least 5b for it!!!

Sorry for your loss.
Coralas
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#24 - 2016-08-18 14:31:02 UTC
TinkerHell wrote:
I paid more than 50b for that frigate :P

Your bpc still has some value when its released. You will be able to get at least 5b for it!!!

Sorry for your loss.


There was a period of time you could have sold the frigate for its old value.
Discordia Duenna
Perkone
Caldari State
#25 - 2016-08-18 14:33:42 UTC
TinkerHell wrote:
I paid more than 50b for that frigate :P

Your bpc still has some value when its released. You will be able to get at least 5b for it!!!

Sorry for your loss.



It isn't just my loss, it's my corpmates time too. I'd understand if it were a hauler that got ganked carrying all out loots, or a re-release of something like the Magnate. This was meant to be a serious reward for the first time these ships would enter eve and whilst I appreciate your comparison to the magnate, it would be more comparable if you'd been screwed over before receiving a magnate at all.
Doc Fury
Furious Enterprises
#26 - 2016-08-18 14:35:33 UTC
Not sure what people were expecting, CCP has been phoning it in for a long time.

Eventually there will be an apology of sorts (probably on Reddit) where CCP will declare how successful the event was with some statistics thrown in, and that they have been scrambling to get things out to the winners.



Hands up, who of you really thought the prizes were going to remain unique for any meaningful amount of time?

☼

There's a million angry citizens looking down their tubes..at me.
Discordia Duenna
Perkone
Caldari State
#27 - 2016-08-18 14:36:55 UTC
Doc Fury wrote:
Not sure what people were expecting, CCP has been phoning it in for a long time.

Eventually there will be an apology of sorts (probably on Reddit) where CCP will declare how successful the event was with some statistics thrown in, and that they have been scrambling to get things out to the winners.



Hands up, who of you really thought the prizes were going to remain unique for any meaningful amount of time?



A couple of months at least, heck even a couple of weeks of having our rewards prior to SISI would have been good, but as it stands we don't even have the bpc yet :D
TinkerHell
Nocturnal Romance
Cynosural Field Theory.
#28 - 2016-08-18 14:39:13 UTC  |  Edited by: TinkerHell
Coralas wrote:
TinkerHell wrote:
I paid more than 50b for that frigate :P

Your bpc still has some value when its released. You will be able to get at least 5b for it!!!

Sorry for your loss.


There was a period of time you could have sold the frigate for its old value.



Yes. I just had no warning that an event could spawn at any moment which instantly devalues that item, which they had tried re-releasing before but were met with unholy rage and backtracked saying they wouldnt re-release and made new ship prizes for that competition instead but clearly i needed to invest in more crystal balls. This thread isnt for that. Stop trying to mine me for my Salt.

Maybe CCP will change their ways and find a way to make the prizes seem a bit better now they have put a price on the item before even giving it to the winners, but as history has proven to me. They wont.

Discordia Duenna wrote:
It isn't just my loss, it's my corpmates time too. I'd understand if it were a hauler that got ganked carrying all out loots, or a re-release of something like the Magnate. This was meant to be a serious reward for the first time these ships would enter eve and whilst I appreciate your comparison to the magnate, it would be more comparable if you'd been screwed over before receiving a magnate at all.


That is true. Hopefully your corpmates recover from the burnout. Our corp had a loss after we got ishukone scorps given to us for a charity tournament and then found out blink had been handed out free ones in secret also :) Maybe they will still release the bpc before others get it, so if you build the ship you can still sell it as first of its kind? :) Revenants had value that way for a while..

CCP and events just dont have a good track record for me. Do TEBs units do anything yet?
Linus Gorp
Ministry of Propaganda and Morale
#29 - 2016-08-18 14:46:30 UTC
Rawthorm wrote:
I may be making things up, but I swear CCP had an events team once upon a time.

That was during a time when we actually had quality events. Then they got fired.

When you don't know the difference between there, their, and they're, you come across as being so uneducated that your viewpoint can be safely dismissed. The literate is unlikely to learn much from the illiterate.
Doc Fury
Furious Enterprises
#30 - 2016-08-18 14:57:30 UTC
Discordia Duenna wrote:
Doc Fury wrote:
Not sure what people were expecting, CCP has been phoning it in for a long time.

Eventually there will be an apology of sorts (probably on Reddit) where CCP will declare how successful the event was with some statistics thrown in, and that they have been scrambling to get things out to the winners.



Hands up, who of you really thought the prizes were going to remain unique for any meaningful amount of time?



A couple of months at least, heck even a couple of weeks of having our rewards prior to SISI would have been good, but as it stands we don't even have the bpc yet :D



Silly rabbit, CCP cannot monetize these items sufficiently or rapidly enough if there are only 10 of them in-game for more than a minute.





☼

There's a million angry citizens looking down their tubes..at me.
Dirty Forum Alt
Forum Alts Anonymous
#31 - 2016-08-18 15:01:02 UTC
Doc Fury wrote:
Discordia Duenna wrote:
A couple of months at least, heck even a couple of weeks of having our rewards prior to SISI would have been good, but as it stands we don't even have the bpc yet :D

Silly rabbit, CCP cannot monetize these items sufficiently or rapidly enough if there are only 10 of them in-game for more than a minute.

Maybe CCP can release a new 15 year anniversary collectors edition that comes w/ every limited edition ship/item in the game just to monetize them all a little harder...And then just drop the collectors edition bit and sell the in-game items for a year or so....



Also the "official" answer is going to be that SiSi doesn't count - you still get an "exclusive" reward in the "real" game...at least for a little while.... Just FYI.

The dead swans lay in the stagnant pool. They lay. They rotted. They turned Around occasionally. Bits of flesh dropped off them from Time to time. And sank into the pool's mire. They also smelt a great deal.

Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings (Sussex)
Discordia Duenna
Perkone
Caldari State
#32 - 2016-08-18 15:15:31 UTC
Dirty Forum Alt wrote:
Doc Fury wrote:
Discordia Duenna wrote:
A couple of months at least, heck even a couple of weeks of having our rewards prior to SISI would have been good, but as it stands we don't even have the bpc yet :D

Silly rabbit, CCP cannot monetize these items sufficiently or rapidly enough if there are only 10 of them in-game for more than a minute.

Maybe CCP can release a new 15 year anniversary collectors edition that comes w/ every limited edition ship/item in the game just to monetize them all a little harder...And then just drop the collectors edition bit and sell the in-game items for a year or so....



Also the "official" answer is going to be that SiSi doesn't count - you still get an "exclusive" reward in the "real" game...at least for a little while.... Just FYI.


Except we don't, because we don't have it.
Dirty Forum Alt
Forum Alts Anonymous
#33 - 2016-08-18 15:18:01 UTC
Discordia Duenna wrote:
Except we don't, because we don't have it.
That is merely a matter of Coming Soon(tm)...


I'm not saying you are wrong about anything you've said - I'm just giving you the official CCP answer, sad and unsatisfying though it may be.

The dead swans lay in the stagnant pool. They lay. They rotted. They turned Around occasionally. Bits of flesh dropped off them from Time to time. And sank into the pool's mire. They also smelt a great deal.

Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings (Sussex)
Shae Tadaruwa
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#34 - 2016-08-18 15:19:52 UTC
Good write up OP.

Didn't need the TL;DR. It was well written enough that reading it right through was entertaining.

I have never understood why CCP are so bad at running events, or following through on commitments. Overall development of the game seems to be well managed now, but project management for events still seems to have lots of problems. Hopefully CCP sort that out.

I hope they get you your prizes too and you do have a period of exclusivity so you can make good ISK for all that effort.

Dracvlad - "...Your intel is free intel, all you do is pay for it..." && "...If you warp on the same path as a cloaked ship, you'll make a bookmark at exactly the same spot as the cloaky camper..."
Discordia Duenna
Perkone
Caldari State
#35 - 2016-08-18 15:35:06 UTC
Shae Tadaruwa wrote:
Good write up OP.

Didn't need the TL;DR. It was well written enough that reading it right through was entertaining.

I have never understood why CCP are so bad at running events, or following through on commitments. Overall development of the game seems to be well managed now, but project management for events still seems to have lots of problems. Hopefully CCP sort that out.

I hope they get you your prizes too and you do have a period of exclusivity so you can make good ISK for all that effort.


Thank you very much! I am happy to make CCP the offer to run their events for them :)
Solecist Project
#36 - 2016-08-18 15:54:05 UTC  |  Edited by: Solecist Project
Someone might suggest posting this in Test Server FeedBack instead of here,
because there devs will read it and most likely reply.

So someone might also suggest that you report your thread and have it moved there,
because quite frankly your issue seems to be connected to something on the test server.

I can assure you devs read it there.

That ringing in your ears you're experiencing right now is the last gasping breathe of a dying inner ear as it got thoroughly PULVERISED by the point roaring over your head at supersonic speeds. - Tippia
Sexy Cakes
Have A Seat
#37 - 2016-08-18 15:58:41 UTC
Sounds like the bulk of the shaft that you took up the backside is the BPC's being on Sisi before you even got yours. Easy enough to fix if CCP gives a sh!t. Good luck and I hope they do the right thing.

Not today spaghetti.
maximus sotar
Kenshin.
Fraternity.
#38 - 2016-08-18 16:17:36 UTC
Dear CCP,

I respectfully ask, that the on e called Discordia Duenna, be granted full access to his/her prize, as per the conditional terms of her engagement.

I hope that this request is met with the full potency it deserves and that the person in question is awarded their prize in full, in due time.

Best Regards

Maxi Pad
Eternus8lux8lucis
Guardians of the Gate
RAZOR Alliance
#39 - 2016-08-18 16:20:11 UTC
You didnt spend 450 hours TRYING to get a BPC.... There was one event to kill 20 guards that netted 1K points, you only needed 50 of such, so 1000 guards killed total, to get the gold package.

No, you spent 450 hours trying to get to number one and burned out yourself and your corp in doing so. All in the name of profit in the end, you even said so yourself you ONLY did it for the reward because NORMALLY you dont play for isk/hr but fun.Roll

I feel ZERO sympathy for you in this venture. And btw I just spent the better part of an hour on SISI looking up the LP rewards and ROFLMFAO!!!!!! You are going to HATE yourself even more, prepare for utter disappointment and heartbreak.Twisted

You drank the koolaid on this one.

CCP did the exact opposite as the Revenants btw if anyones wondering.Lol

Have you heard anything I've said?

You said it's all circling the drain, the whole universe. Right?

That's right.

Had to end sometime.
Discordia Duenna
Perkone
Caldari State
#40 - 2016-08-18 16:27:54 UTC
Eternus8lux8lucis wrote:
You didnt spend 450 hours TRYING to get a BPC.... There was one event to kill 20 guards that netted 1K points, you only needed 50 of such, so 1000 guards killed total, to get the gold package.

No, you spent 450 hours trying to get to number one and burned out yourself and your corp in doing so. All in the name of profit in the end, you even said so yourself you ONLY did it for the reward because NORMALLY you dont play for isk/hr but fun.Roll

I feel ZERO sympathy for you in this venture. And btw I just spent the better part of an hour on SISI looking up the LP rewards and ROFLMFAO!!!!!! You are going to HATE yourself even more, prepare for utter disappointment and heartbreak.Twisted

You drank the koolaid on this one.

CCP did the exact opposite as the Revenants btw if anyones wondering.Lol


Thankyou for your patronage. The flaws in your post are too many to begin to even start, the main one being the douchebaggery, it's so strong that you must struggle to form meaningful relationships, with that knowledge, I know I am already far richer than you sir.