EVE General Discussion

I remember it, Which is why what you typed was silly. It amounted to "I have an evil plan to profit from this, now let's make sure it's totally noticeable!".

It's like all this people proclaiming that the Fighter Squadron nerf MUST be some secret plan to get people to buy more plex or something. It's like people haven't had a good conspiracy for a while so everything that happens must be some conspiracy instead of just being what it is.

CCP gave out some imaginary pixel spaceships they said they were going to give out. End of story.

No, you're just not understanding what happened here, but forming an opinion anyway. You can get up to speed here.

The people who got hundreds, did so because they had massed accounts to take advantage of an exploit. This decision rewarded that exploit.

Sure, CCP can do as they like. But that doesn't remove the consequences of their actions. The players can do as they like as well. Guess who's an alpha clone next month? This guy. Along with many others.

If you want to continue to subscribe to a game with fundamentally broken mechanics, compounded by devs making bad decisions willy nilly, and ISD locking any threads they don't like while posting as faithful apologists, feel free.

EVE is a game that's played in the long-term. Playing a game where your development is planned a year at a time, requires faith that the team at the wheel isn't going botch things every time they touch it. If I were a shareholder, after this week I'd move for a no confidence vote.

The issue isn't the ships, nor is it a problem that Fanfest attendees got an early taste. The problem is the fact that CCP knowns damn well that anything they hand out at Fanfest has a super high value at first and that they decided to knowingly give ships to hundreds of accounts belonging to the same person. Just the act of giving highly valuable items to accounts that aren't even subscribed is completely mind boggling.

There are people currently out there who exploited Alpha clones to such a state that they have already cashed in billions, if not trillions of ISK thanks to this monumental f*ckup. Does it inject ISK into the economy? No. Is it fair? No. No-one complaining about Fanfest attendees getting a gift that happens to be worth a few hundred million or a billion. What happened here is that one person was given so many 'rare' ships that they got a cash injection of close to a trillion ISK as a direct result of CCP's actions.

If CCP refuses to see how this is a problem, god help us all.

So yes, put some effort into fixing this and

1. Remove all CONCORD ships that were given out from the game.

2. Revert every single transaction that involved one of those ships.

3. Then give them out again, once per ticket. As it should have been done in the first place.

4. And if that makes them 'too rare' just seed them into the game via alternative means.

But the situation as it currently stands is completely unacceptable.

Thx for making me understand what salt feels like. I needed this experience in my life.

It doesn't much matter whether it was a faucet or a tidal wave. The economy is flooded.

And the isk isn't redistributed, it's further consolidated, because these are the same people who just raked in billions by selling their exploited sp. And the more they exploited that, the more ships they just got.

Its not an exploit, CCP have OFFICIALLY stated that people would get a package of ships per account registered to the email that purchased the tickets

The exploit was the ghost training.

Which was why they had all the accounts.

Which was why they got so many ships.

After previously stating "In celebration of the 20th Anniversary of CCP Games, attendees will also be able to get their hands on decommissioned CONCORD vessels as part of Fanfest ticket packages this year.

Every purchase of a Fanfest 2017 ticket will include the issue of a CONCORD Pacifier class frigate, and those who purchase their tickets before January 1st 2017 will also be able to get their hands on a decommissioned Enforcer class CONCORD cruiser."

The operative word being Ticket Package, no mention of per account held. Literally throwing 100's of ships at people which are currently trading at over 1b isk each, just a wekk after coming out with theres too much isk ingame, being held by too few players smacks of utter stupidity and no thinking going into the impact of their decisions.

No one said having multiple accounts was against the rules... I get the sense that reading is hard for you.

And beside that, CCP did not say per account. They said per ticket. You can read it yourself here... or can you?

Satisfying as it is to throw that in the faces of everyone who defended it in this thread, a "reprimand" is hardly adequate to address the impact it had on the game. And it only serves to encourage players to take maximum advantage of future exploits before they're officially declared as such - common sense be damned.