EVE General Discussion

So I described you, who sits on the other side of the medal with no achievements to talk about?
Okay, well, good you realized. Envy is really bad, you should spend time reflecting on that.

None of this is about achievements.

It's about a player who put too much time into a thing that most of us who PVE in this game knew from the start wasn't worth it, who then feels cheated because he hasn't gotten his reward (in a game where it has always taken a long time for the developers to hand out rewards) and because that reward might become available in other ways (ie he's just like the not-smart people who horded gekcos "because CCP said they wouldn't make anymore!!!").

When informed that his problems are entirely self-inflicted because of his entirely unreasonable worldview and some really bad expectations, the OP responds with nonsense about social change and whatnot. This is why people like the OP will suffer these self inflicted wounds forever, they spend loads of time complaining about what others (CCP in this case) do instead of taking the tiny fraction of time to concluded that they missed something and should probably not repeat that mistake again.

I stopped replying to the OP as soon as he started spouting that "changing people's lives" BS, you can't talk sense to a crusader, because the crusade is how they judge themselves (so asking them to see a different perspective is asking them to question themselves, a non-starter if ever there was one).

THEY MADE MORE GECKOS?

Quite the post. Not a crusade, just trying to redress the communicational errors that CCP has made, it isn't just me that's annoyed by this. You tie some really unconnected points together to make your statement here. You want me to just walk away jaded like you are, I get it. I'm not you.

I am not actually privy to information on how long rewards take to be distributed, maybe you are, in which case surely you know how long this has taken in the past, now that would be helpful. If you don't know and have just said this to make your point, then shame on you.

Self-inflicted wounds...hmmm...I'm sure we all have some of those. I won't be running an event like this in eve again, to the best of my knowledge, but I did enjoy it. I have learned from all my mistakes in life. If you knew the event wasn't worth it, then why are you letting CCP continue to make "not worth it events". The last time I checked, CCP actually does listen to it's playerbase, sure it can take ages and ages, but they get there in the end and certainly not because of people giving up on issues they have with mechanics or features. I just can't share this defeatist attitude.

I'm not sure why you feel cheated, or like there's not exclusivity to the prizes because they've been released on to Singularity.

Singularity is a test environment that has absolutely no bearing on the live gameplay environment in terms of people "getting things first".

Every single item that goes into the live game environment you play in first goes to staging on CHAOS, then to Singularity, before being deployed to Tranquility. These blueprints are no different. You haven't "lost exclusivity" on your prizes. You'll still have them in advance of everyone else, and trust me, with the blueprints that are coming, they'll be VERY valuable.

Generally when we finish an event, the prizes are handed out on or around the next release, which is typically within 4-6 weeks after the event ends with the previous release.

In this instance, the blueprints are due to be given out next week, once they've been specially authored for the winners, actually earlier than the usual time frame that we would issue prizes in.

These are the first blueprints, and will be created manually outside any of our automated loot drop or LP rewards systems, so they have to be created manually by a game designer before being put into the redeeming system, or dropped into winner's hangars, also manually.

Our game designers are generally incredibly busy, so this type of work gets added to their tasks for their current sprint. Sprints last two weeks. It's coming up on two weeks since the last release.

The blueprints will be out there in the hands of the winners next week, no worries.

Thank you for your concise response CCP Falcon, very much appreciated. I would hope that you could include these details in the small print before future events go live perhaps?

Thank you again for addressing this issue and I hope you can avoid it in the future, the up in the air feeling is a little disconcerting.

Cheers

DD

I missed those events, got a linky to what they were like? Also Bring back WiS??? :P

This is an incredibly kind response for a childish outburst. Seriously if I were you I would ban-hammer just for being annoying and crying about how the person has been ripped off when he/she hasn't. Mad props for having the resolve to not go off on people.

It is a kind response, maybe he is being sensitive to the very real amount of time invested by participants. As for comments about this being a childish outburst. I challenge you to invest this much time in something and be greeted by silence at the end of your time.

I don't think my post was childish at all, if that were the case, then surely I should have led with a childish response rather than a report of my most excellent experience running the event. You waited for a CCP response before even posting. Man up.

Sounds like ME 10 TE 20 BPCs.

Anyways, CCP Falcon, it's still questionable design that these faction capitals cost abonormous amounts of ressources instead of getting the Revenant treat of having rare BPCs. I welcome new items for LP stores, but let's be rational, you'd do better adding pirate faction item BPCs to LP stores and make the capital BPCs drops from those factions' capital rats.