In-Game Events and Gatherings

Isn't it fun to have a totally objective viewpoint to a situation?

I found out about this thread/contest about 20 minutes ago.

I started into it, against PL and for your 'cause'.

After 20 pages of whining and tears from your members, I am 100% onboard with CCP on this one. Their contest, their rules, and they are not ******* accountable to you for any of it. YOU made the mistake of thinking padding your killboard with that **** would count, YOU made the mistake of not getting 'real kills' to back up your stats.

You know what I see when I look at the CCP devkills I got in the last event? Non-events. Woohoo, I managed to press f1 on something the developers were kind enough to bring for me to press f1 at...or wait, are you somehow special for being the ones who got to shoot into the monkey-barrel this time??


'YOU' refers to URINE

IF you actually read the thread, you'd know CCP were roaming in fleets and actively engaging AND killing people (you know, as you do in low-sec). They didn't welp, and they fought pretty damn hard, and yes we went after them both times (us and a bunch of other people).

The exception is a lot of nonsense, as you can bet your noob corp behind they did NOT exclude any of the various frigs/dessies and other stuff people got through redeeming (i.e. not valid by their new rules adjustment). If someone had taken out an AT ship into this event (it only being once after all) and it got killed ,that would have been a lot of ISK value, and equally disallowed by their new rule.

They did the calculations, they saw our smug in this thread and made a call, because they're only human after all and thought it would prob be pretty lulz. Good troll CCP there, and at the same time they handed the whole thing to PL. They probably thought (one can't read minds) that this way it would be more representable of whomever did more low sec killing. In which case, they might consider not to do it on the same day as when someone is about to create a POS shootout scenario in the same arena.

So yes, calling CCP out on the derp there, but you can have your own opinion et all.

I DONT KNOW WHAT WE ARE YELLING ABOOOOUT!!!

Still here, eh? You know it's mother's day right?


You are hallucinating. AT ships have a market value, and are only acquired through ingame means by manufacturing from a blueprint.

I could agree on the oversight etc, but they didn't leave it out AND they took out fight-ready fleets to go and brawl in low-sec (again, AS YOU DO in low sec) so they were well into the spirit of it. It's perfectly logical when those two are combined that people will go after it thinking 'these guys will be worth a lot of ISK', and that CCP wanted to add some hard but juicy fights.

After all, they surely didn't intend a nullsec style static object shootout with 1000s of people, because that is not fun and not lowsec. Mind you, not fun for the 1000s that kept traffic control going and welped into the meatgrinder. I'll happilly, again, give you lot props for doing it that way, it's the best approach.

I'd rather call the decision to put the comp on the same time as the rifters event an oversight, because they obviously failed to see the kind of fight it would generate, and that SC kills will always draw in bigger nullsec guys.

We had a lot of fun on the day, and I think we had a valid reason to think we'd won (and just like you we like a bit of smug). We've had our foot in our mouths for 20 pages over that one, but that doesn't mean we like to keep asking CCP 'why da ****?\ and the only answer we've gotten so far is some c&b story about 'NOT PLAYER GEN'D'. v0v

Like I said above, I would agree with you on the point, were it not for the second that they actively went out to get into the fray and get some scores added. Maybe they didn't realise how much impact it would have, and I'm fairly certain they didn't like the smug in here. Unlike us, CCP Devs can change rules to backfire the smug :)


E: @noobcorp guy, it's not motherday in the UK that was march but thanks we had a nice lunch out anyway. Snakes have a value too, and like the blueprint some dev haxed them into existence. The actually in-game valued items alone is what we were counting, auroras can not exist for all I care since they're at 0.

What would have been so ******* difficult about saying:

Thanks for the event CCP, I've sent feedback to your event co-ordinators regarding what I consider poor planning on the part of the event devs.

Kudos to PL for taking the title, and to everyone who participated.

/thread

HEY WTF DID U GET THE PIC OF RY RY....(inquiring about the guy in the middle)

Do we look like quiet and shy people to you? We like our smug, and when someone, even CCP dudes, goes and adds random rules that completely change the numbers on a whim; well damn sure we'll call em out in a threadnought. Personally I don't mind the PL smug or the little infights between our members and theirs, that's ex-gf stuff.

So yes, that's why ;)

E: and btw, the Fozzie trolling posts and the way the rule change was conveyed had a lot of CCP smug and lulz in it. Hence why I said I think our smugfest beforehand had a part in it.

yeah changing the rules and completely changing the outcome as a result is a non-issue


lol dignity
if i wanted to do something dignified it sure as sh*t wouldn't be playing a nerd spaceship game on the internet

Don't get so distracted over the number.

I can almost guarantee that any more events of this nature will have a more specific ruleset to deal with the devspawned items that are normally not so easily caught and destroyed or even seen ingame.