In-Game Events and Gatherings

Hulkageddon is a Joke. I mean, I can appreciate the concept and like when there are large-scale player-created events. But Hulkageddon is getting old.

There are really three problems with it. Two major, one minor.

First, the minor problem: It is old and not very original. It really needs some changing up to keep it interesting. But this is a minor issue.

The major issues are this:
1) Gankers abound and pretty much kill hulks all the time, everywhere. So you would be very hard pressed to find things to be all that differrent during Hulkageddon than before it started. So this really makes it feel like a non-event. Good miners are used to always being on the lookout for ganks. Now, this could be at least partly remedied except for the second major issue:

2) Hulkageddon is scheduled for too long a period. Four weeks is far too long. Now, there's no real sense of urgency for anyone participating. A participant can figure, "well, I have a whole month, so I'll just get around to ganking whenever it is convenient" - which spreads it out and dilutes it to the point that, even if there were increased activity over regular ganking (see issue 1 above), it will be diluted over 4 weeks so as to be drowned out by the bankground noise of regular ganking.

If the event were concentrated - over a single weekend, or say 4 days at most, then it would feed a sense of urgency and would really be noticable. Sort of like the burn Jita event - which is for a day or so at most - looking at the kill list, it is definitely noticeable.

As it stands, though, Hulkgeddon is a tired, old thing, spread out over too long a time, such that I doubt anyone will notice much difference from the 24/7 gankfest that is normal Eve mining.

I like this idea... Carebears setting traps... the hunter becomes the hunted!

Sadly though I dont see it happing cause carebears dont PVP :(

BUTTTTT if someone can make it happen I would be happy to supply myself to the cause :)

So if I understand you correctly, You do not believe that the hype and especially prizes offer will give no incentive to the gankers to dtep it up for the month of hulkageddon?

You do realize that there are prizes offered that the gankers will be competing for. I agree that it is to long of a time period but anyone who actually wants a prize will need to be active the whole month if they really want to compete.

From the stats I have seen over the past few years the ganking of miners is usually 10x higher during HULKAGEDDON than any other month. There are many players that do not normally participate ganking but do come out for HULKAGEDDON. It is true that dedicated gankers go all year round but even they step it up during HULKAGEDDON.

Perhaps you are just trying to down play the event to convince more miners to drop their guard and become easier targets.

Agreed,1 month is too long.My 2 hulk pilots timed out yesterday and my orca pilot here has about 11 days.So,thats your 3 accounts and soon to be all 3 of mine,theres gotta be countless others quitting subs for the next month or maybe even longer just so some yahoos can go give the peaceful miner grief..makes alot of sense doesn't it?Anyway,I deal with it every year as do all of you I know its coming so I deal with it.I just wanted to say something about it this year,lol...

Fly safe,
Led Floyd

Add my husbands 3 accounts to the unsub list. He is mostly an industrialist miner and decided its too much a headache to deal with so reinstalled everquest on his computer. I will continue to run lvl 4s with my accounts for the duration but if my husband does't return, I will leave as well. Guild Wars 2 beta was fun and the game will be out soon enough. When the gankers have no one left to gank, they will quit too as they are too big of cowards for real pvp.

Indeed, GW2 is a huge lure for Yellowbraids. Alas, the monk class is gone.

Though, I think it is a fair point to say that CCP has to provide the miners/traders with better protections in high sec if they want to keep subs. Though, I understand that the devs like this kind of thing, player driven events, in moderate amounts. The constant lack of any moderation seems to be a problem from my point of view as a player just getting into the game.

Basically, CCP has to realize that the fine line between "cool" and "wtf" is well past crossed when it comes to the Goons and gankers in general for many of the new miners. The devs sitting back and telling the miners to suck it up is not the way to keep new players.

This hulkageddon is very nice for the little children who doesn`t have any job and live at home with mom and daddy and have enough time to play. But the player who has job and family and he/she try to chill a bit its NOT a funny game
And plz tell me where is the fair ratio if u lose an exhumer witch cost is 350M+ and who killed me they lost a 2-3M cost destroyers. And its happening in high sec system.
My problem is 350 > 2-3
So we want better tank or better defending. if i lose 350M the attackers also should lose NEARLY the same cost. So not the same and not higher but not just 2-3-50M. The point is the HIGH SECURITY SYSTEM! Yeah its "very high" when 2 destroyer kill u

If everything will be the same this hulkakeddon is just an emogeddon with emoswarm and emoholy union.