EVE General Discussion

So people got socket punched and forced to log off in space with aggression timers, then people couldn't log in. Then they took down the server and rebooted, but still certain people couldn't log in, so they took it back down.

This being the case, why didn't CCP just reset Tranq to the previous downtime? I ask because in that interim where certain people still couldn't log in, and even before when only certain people were being kicked and locked out, alot of stuff happened. Ships were exploded, pods lost, structures destroyed, reinforcement timers ticked away, towers went offline.

Normally, this would be business as usual being Eve, **** happens. However when the **** only happens because people aren't physically capable of logging in to defend their ****, while other people are somehow magically able to log in to destroy it, it raises questions.

I know CCP has stated they're talking about compensation, but physical compensation means little when compared to reinforcement timers, and the fact that it will take DAYS of time to take back what was lost; days I could be spending farming or whatever.

Given all that, it seems like the most reasonable thing to do would have been to reset the server to the previous downtime, but that didn't happen. Why didn't that happen? That would be fair and it would hurt NOBODY, whereas letting stuff go on hurts alot of people and is wholly unfair. Perhaps if the problem were localized on the customer's end, I could understand, but it wasn't. The problem was on CCP's end, and therefore could not have been remediated by anything I could have done.

I think a reasonable compensation would be a 1-Day PLEX card. One per account. If isk is important, sell it, if time is important, use it, if collecting is important, save it forever.

If events like this happen in the future, pass out more 1-Day cards (unless it starts happening regularly...).

So, someone griefed the entire Eve Online community. Since sociopathic behavior is encouraged in Eve, then this is perfectly acceptable, right?

for all the people thanking ccp it seems to me that your overlooking something,,,

the launcher for us english speakers was in russian...

a ddos attack wouldnt affect the launcher on your local computer, unless the launcher was trying to
use bit torrent type connections to distribute ccp software,

so what kind of thanks does ccp deserve wen the apparent stealing of your bandwidth is uncovered..


-imm

Is it just my imagination or has anybody else´s skilling been "frozen" too?

Shut up

I would just like to offer my sincere thanks to all the employees at CCP who sacrificed their weekend to fix the issues spawning from the DDoS attack. You guys do a bang up job, and dont get nearly the credit you all deserve.
I would also like to apologize in advance for the certain percentage of the playerbase who feel its necessary to demand compensation. Frankly it was out of line for those demands to be made while you guys were knee deep in server trying to get things running again. In my honest opinion, no compensation is due. So once again I apologize for that contingent of players who will 'New Topic' bomb the forums with entitled whine threads.

To show my good faith and how sincere I am about the thank you, I will refrain from trolling on the forum today.

Dont get used to it.

Thanks again, UaE.

Oh, it was a DDoS attack? I thought they had brought the servers down so the GMs could haul all the Ice away from the belts and hide it.

Great job CCP. While it was a shame the servers were down, it was fun to linger at EVE radio and get the various conspiracy theories... ("The servers are down because you are all bad people and touch yourself at night. Stop doing that!")

What was SiSi up? were you playing on that server?

TQ was down and unable to connect for most of the weekend for me. And the exefile.exe in the bin folder did not get around it. That is how I have logged in all the time since the new launcher was released. I only use the launcher for patching.

CCP, With this being the last weekend before Odyssey I had planed on spending the entire weekend, or at least as much time as I could ICE mining. I am sure many others were doing the same. All four of my accounts were in the belts mining went the servers went down. i was not able to reconnect until this morning just before the normal sever down time. Semi AFK mining as I do when mining ICE in high sec, I would done at least 12 hours of mining over the weekend with an 4 account fleet of 3 Macks and an ORCA.

My intention was to mine enough ICE for POS fuel to survive until things leveled out after the expansion. Not the expansion is coming tomorrow, and I have no ICE. not your problem but mine, I will survive, but any compensation would be greatly appreciated.

I do not in any way Blame CCP for this, such an attack is not something you can see coming, or prepare for. if you had addressed the issues that gave them the needed hole to pull this off before it happened, they would have just found another hole.

But you may want to wake up, and consider what the possible reasons behind this attack may have been. this may just be the paranoid conspiracy theorist in me, But I do not want to see all the time I have spent developing my characters in EVE go down the tubes. I hate starting fresh in a new game. Especially when I have been playing for several years.

There are many many players not at all happy about some of the changes coming with Odyssey. CCP's only answer to these complaints is suck it up and adapt.

Well it would seem to me somebody with the skills to do something about it, did not like that reply. maybe this had nothing to do with it, but if that is the case it may not be over. Obviously someone with the skills and knowledge needed, was ignorant enough to pull off this attack. I do not believe that the fact it was the last weekend before Odyssey was a coincidence.
Someone who has rage quit over Odyssey may be behind this.

If someone was frustrated enough with the ignorance shown by CCP to player concerns over the coming changes to not only quit the game, but has the skills to lash out at CCP in this manner, this may not be over. i really hope CCP did a good job patching those holes this weekend.

I'll Drink a Coffee to that, well said! =0)