In-Game Events and Gatherings

So far the only impressive thing about this is its total lack of organization.

Events late not a little late like 5 hours late.
EU people probably wont get a chance at anything.

Pretty slow, but looks legit

Had tons of fun! Best part was cansplosions, worst part was the FFA for omega pilots in the venture duel. Aslo, there was a lot of time that nothing was going on :(

Overall it was awesome!! Thank you Santa Spirit and all your helpers!!

This event was really fun!
Great prizes, gifts, fights, races and lots of laughs talking to so much nice people over there.
Will be there next Christmas for sure!

If i can point one thing to make it better it'll be more people to help/organize...
It's a lot of stuff to take there on this events.

Congrats Santa Spirit and all other that have put work to get this amazing event done.

Congrats! o7


CCP Please... We need Citadel Festival Launchers for this kind of events ;)

Thanks for the input, it is appreciated and you are right, we were running a little behind today, there was a RL issue that arose right at the last minute and I had to tend to it, so instead of 17:00 getting the alphas ready, it was almost 19:00 before i was able to do so after that, things went pretty much to the original "time-frame", just a later start.
also, the elves kept the presents flowing pretty well in between times, so I am appreciative of their assistance.

Thanks again for the feedback and Merry Christmas.
o/
Santa

Thank you to Santa Spirit, all of Santa's helpers and all the people and corps who donated their time and assets to making this such a great event.

I, personally, went there to enjoy the banter and fun to be had in local chat and to watch the joy that was being spread around with the gift giving and the events.

I missed some of the beginning, but I caught several hours of the event and enjoyed chatting with folks in local quite a bit. It has been many years since I was part of one of these player hosted events and it was great to see so many pilots having a good time.

We go to a different system every year, we started in Minmatar space the first time, and have changed faction's space each time, I and my helpers understand that there's always going to be someone who ends up with a bit of a headache, but next year someone else will have the headache, and the year after that it will be someone else, ect ect.
We could find an area maybe that's "neutral to everyone" (Concord space maybe)? if we look hard enough, but in doing so, we would open ourselves (and the folks who help haul things for the event) up to being setup for ganks, decs and other nefarious schemes, so we practice what we hope are good security practices and always hope that as few folks as possible are affected, but we know some still will be.

o/
Merry Christmas in any case
Santa

Thank you, and yes, XL festival launchers would be great...

So I was online for about 8 hours and only got to be part the conga but here are some pics of me leading a Gallante Shuttle conga around the Fortizar. About 50 ships in the line by the end! Think most of the events happened when I went to bed.

Merry Christmas and thanks to the team for the organisation.

Shuttle Conga from the front (I was the leader!) - http://imgur.com/A3Sbfdp
Shuttle Conga from the front (I was the leader!) - http://imgur.com/w120s3U
Fireworks and Fortizar - http://imgur.com/DJMeyBI

I respect all involved in the making of this event but just one criticism. I was in that system for about 5 hours and not much really happened in that time. I realise it was a long event, but maybe next time you could do things a bit more often rather than have large periods of time with nothing going on.

Thank you to whoever opened the Christmas riddle channel. That was a lot of fun.

I know the person who is Santa Spirit in real life, and I can tell you that he would likely not say anything about some of the comments unless he wanted/needed to make a point, I on the other hand have absolutely no qualms whatsoever saying what I think.

Santa Spirit took more than a day off from his job and spent a ton of his game time since October to make final preparations and to host the event, in fact, he was there from 7:00 am his time, until he said good night in local and thanked people for coming, that was around 15 hours at his computer with the exception of the real life issue that pulled him away for almost 2 hours.

The first time he did this, he and a few friends donated their time and assets to the event, the second time was the same, the third time, CCP helped out some as did other players who donated isks and/or ships, the 4th time and this most recent one had CCP and many players giving to the event.

Each and every time there have been folks who complained about one thing or another, each and every event had it's share of grinches who for the most part entirely miss the whole point of the event.

This year, there was someone complaining that Alphas didn't stand a chance against omegas, ect ect ect, yet, there were several "Alpha" toons there that were born as far back as 2005. That person further went on to make statements regarding implants and skills, yet, I personally doubt they are aware that if an omega account goes alpha and has implants in their head at the time, those implants stay in.
Aside from spouting rhetoric out of their rear end, they offered no way to do a check and balance to ensure "fairness"... Would they have expected Santa and his helpers to require API keys to see who has what, how about the omega toon who just started and paid for a subscription?, should they be considered an Alpha instead just so someone's panties wouldn't be in a bunch?
How about the person who didn't read the forum post for the event time and then complained that things were over when they finally got there, should the entire event have been delayed even further because someone went to bed or someone didn't show up at all and their spot had to be filled from local just so there would be some sport?

How about the Gallente Pilot who complained that there were too many other Gallente pilots who had signed up and there wasn't a spot for them in the battle because they were Gallente.... I guess Santa and crew were to blame because lots of people decide to be Gallente and they stole the other pilot's chance to join in?

Oh and I loved the one about "by the time i got a ship to do the scanning, the item had already been found" really, that's Santa's fault too i guess. I mean, no one is expected to actually be prepared for an event when they come to it are they?

I saw things going on the whole time I was there, I never saw no huge lapses in things aside from the time that was taken to get the battle pilots setup and battling, this is without even factoring in the pilots themselves chatting, laughing and talking while the two guys were setting up the fleets. (the one guy had to ask them multiple times to hold the chatter while he got the fleet setup)

Anyway, this is just what I saw and how I view it, I appreciate Santa's efforts (and everyone who helped & donated) and his restraint because i would have told some of the folks where to get off the bus if I were him.

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Celly