Out of Game Events and Gatherings

Utterly fantastic night, cheers guys. Watching CCP Unifex smiling with a Guiness in each hand while his ear got bent about POS's yet again and the openess of all the other staff / devs was awesome.

To all the guys I chatted to outside while grabbing a breath of fresh air, muchos gracias ^_^

oh, and side note to CCP Staff / devs, next time, I will be bringing a box of 200 smokes after the amount that got "borrowed"

Same time next month eh CCP? *lol*, no seriously, make it a semi-regular thing

Cheers all, Blue (that idiot in the NFL Top)

I had a great time. What a great group of people. This is my 4th time in Newcastle and every time I come here I love it more and more.

Thanks for all the borrowed smokes

Shame about the weather but we had one very dedicated player come last night. That brings a new meaning to HTFU for sure.
He came all the way from Hong Kong, took a taxi from London, had it wait outside, got all our autographs and bought one of the EVE banners for 120 pounds or so.

We will be looking into repeating this in the future. At least in one years time during GameHorizon 2013 but probably sooner.

Thank you all for a great evening.

Cheers,
CCP Tyr

o/ Damn good night.
Hi to the ppl i saw there and completely forgot their names due to being ever so slightly drunk.

Cheer to the FA guys for having a damn good chat with them.

Big Hi to CCP Unifex for being awesome.
And the lovely CCP lady that kept giving me free drinks tokens and a Dust tshirt.

Thanks ever so much CCP and players for a great night. Hope to do something like this again because as a new player it was really good to learn so much from some of the more experienced players that I was talking to. Especially the no so bitter vet who has 7 years under his belt. Everyone there was really great.

Was also rather good talking to a couple of the DUST 514 devs and they manage to answer all of my questions to a great level of knowledge and detail so thanks to those guys and girl for that. My soul purpose of buying a PS3 right now is for that game.

See you all next time, Ratchet (the long haired 19 year old with the blonde fringe)

Couldn't make it in in the end, got stuck trying to get in through Gateshead, then the buses stopped and the Metro was screwed. By the time I got home my shoes were full of water, my jacket was about twenty times heavier having soaked up about 8 litres (and no I'm not kidding) of water and I felt like ****. For some reason I thought it was being run over 2 nights, so I figured if I didn't get there last night I could have gone tonight instead. Fail reading comprehension ftl :( Was really hoping to get a nice Dust514 T-shirt as well.

Had an awesome night thank you to everyone at CCP for making it happen, its a shame others couldn't make it, I suggest having another night to make up for it haha.

Many thanks for to the couple of lovely chaps who gave me a lift to and from, awell as putting up with my half drunken rabbling and demands for a toilet break on the way home.
Apparently ford fiesta's make great boats as we braved the oceans on the A194 in order to get there, after some pretty dodgy directions from me after we found the A19 gridlocked.

A great night, and yes Tyr, I was there for that dedicated fan who promptly pulled out approximately 200 quid when told "well we could give you one but you'd have to pay for us to replace it"

I stand by my comment that you guys seriously need to fix the online store, or maybe I'm just being an idiot with it, who knows.

Many thanks to the devs for an outstanding evening filled with laughs, good times, and free drinks a-plenty.

Also met a group of nice pilots (including 2 PL, who knew PL could be nice?) and was fortunate enough to not bump into any bees, as I felt that podding them I.R.L would of been a service to the EvE community.

All in all, despite the biblical weather, a great night all around and looking forward to the next one.

Im not sure many pictures were taken. I don't recall seeing many people taking pictures. I taken my camera with me, but like the idiot I am, I kind of accidently left it at my hotel and forgot to bring it with me. (Bit like those moments in a huge fleet fight where you go reship, and kind of forget to bring ammo with you)

Well I would like to say a big thanks to CCP for putting on this event on, it was good to meet the team and other players. Free beer is alway welcome shame about the deluge, I think we would have had a far bigger turn out if Newcastle had not been so flooded.

BTW who is moderator of the "north east england chill" channel, just we should set up a mailing list so we can organise fleets in IRL pub meets.