Live Events Discussion

Thanks! Good news all round!

No idea how much work it would be but what about one new C3 with no moons but dozens (hundreds if possible) of highsec and lowsec entry points?

This wouldn't exclude anyone since you could relatively easily find an entrance. For extra points, make the signatures 100% or at least very easy to resolve.

K-space adventurers would usually get mauled on the entry hole by wormholers but the enormous number of sigs that would appear inside the system would make camping impractical.

When [insert plot point here] is finished set the static back to a normal C3 type. Or why not leave it in place? A voluntary high risk PvP space easily accessible from high sec would be great!

It's actually not even necessary to make a huge live event. Anyone remember the hole Locus numbering system idea? This puzzle hasn't even been touched it way too long. And it still drives me up the walls. Project Compass is dead in the water.

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I've been very interested in wormholes because of the changes in Odyssey, hell the idea was "this is our odyssey" it's about exploration. I'm kinda confused if the AJ project is even "running". I can't get a clear answer, I'd hate to start spending hours trying to figure out a pattern to the wormhole Locus information and just have the devs go: "Oh, hey you know we're not doing anything with that and it's just some numbers."

Are these still lore based or are we not renaming systems to avoid real world events. Where does the RP line end?

I understand that the focus is going to go with the current story line. With Caldari Prime event (which really needed to happen) I was super stoked to hear that. I can't wait for the next event and the next chapter in the eve lore.

I just really love the story of wormholes and am so ready to start exploring the deeper story behind them, I just don't even know if there's dev support behind it.

\o/ I don't know where I go from here.

That makes it sound like the AJ project was a large RP run between the players and the devs. Interesting but I'm sad it ended

Actually it was all in the hands of one Dev who left years ago. So the remaining Devs have no more idea what was going on behind the scenes than any of the most involved players do. And they may have made wrong assumptions and the Dev never corrected them.

I dont know how many of you remember the last series of 'WH Live events" but they serve as perfect examples of why the current GM s are trying to hard to make it "big" and "easily acessible". As small, hard to join ones DEFINATELY come across as playing favorites, even if that was not the intention.

In case you dont know what I am referring several years aago we had 3(that I know of) special live events that we had in WH space, 2 of them happened in Aperture Harmonic's class 6, and the third some tiny russian farming corp.

1. An amarr fleet was seen in their C6 at an anomaly, they showed up on D scan and even spoke in local, this was meant to represent the amarr going in and getting the tech needed for Dust soldiers. For whatever reason AHARM didnt act on it and the event yielded no interesting interaction.

2. A helios belonging to one of the famous "missing" researchers was found in AHARM's class 6, abandoned, inside of it was a datacore containing Jovian tech and a log of her exploits and what she learned from the sleepers before she joined the sleeper society by digitalizing her soul. AHARM blew it up. nothing useful gained.

3. A Spatial rift opened up right at a POS ( on grid) containing a "jumpable" spatial rift, the russians being carebears panicced and logged off. Nothing of value was gained.

Now in the aftermath of all 3 of these many WH players expressed dissatisfaction, not only did the events yield nothing, but the vast majority of us didnt even have the chance to join in if we wanted, and the fact that 2 of them happened to the same corp led people to believe that CCP was playing favorites with AHARM.

In addition i suspect the planning and execution of these events required a good amount of planning on CCP"s behalf, and to see their work end up fruitless AND unappreciated surely didnt inspire them to continue.

that is why it is imperative that any WH live event is acessible to those who want to come, AND seems fairly balanced to all involved.

I like w-space a lot and spent some time in there on another character. So, I am keen on this. Here is my idea, feel free to destroy it and tell me how stupid I am.

Live event occurs in both W-space and k-space.
A particular faction begins to deploy ships in a large number of w-space environments in order to get ready to control and dominate w-space. For practical purposes, lets say small fleets 5-10 pilots within 10-20 systems of faction ships are randomly deployed in C-3-4-5 systems (number of ships and systems are just my arbitrary guess).
Once these fleets are discovered (combat probing required) and destroyed (maybe some faction mods in there for incentive), the main fleet (staging in some low sec system) pops cyno and attempts to attack another fleet rather than invading w-space (since those plans can no long work due to the destroyed w-space fleets).
Thus, we have a bunch of small fleets that need to be destroyed in w-space and can involve anyone who wants to get in there and find those fleets.
After which, we have an epic battle in low or null with a large invading fleet.

I am not that great at story telling and RPing, so someone can fill in the details as needed.

The reason I like this idea is because it combines the exploration kind of live event similar to the sister's photo contest (this time exclusively in w-space) with the traditional big battle low-sec event.

So, thoughts?

No loot pinatas, but you know the recent DevCaravan had it in the cargoholds of those 3 CONCORD BS that were there.