EVE General Discussion

Winter expansion announcement: T2 lotteries are coming back! Now hosted by somerblink!
I like where this is going.

Wow, CCP decision making CAN get worse; I would have said not possible but seems they have supernatural ability at fail.

As I wrote in the other thread, this is just stupid.

Are we about to enter a new era of :CCP: and :awesome:?

I have to repeat myself. CCP, this idea is so unnecessary. Plz focus on other more important topics. I think you're causing much rage with that action. Leave it as it is. The Guardian-Vexor would lose its "Holy Grail" Status and the Gold Magnate his legend.

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Do this and you irreparably damage something core to EVE that I hold very dear.

Please do not re-release legendary ships on a whim like that, for any reason, ever.
Part of the appeal of EVE is the fact things are finite.

The Gold Magnate may have been destroyed, but it is immortal, its story is engraved in the collective memory of EVE. Stories like that are part of the game. Re-releasing uniques diminishes their value in more than one way.

Reintroducing a ship of such status is a grave insult to both the winner of the ship back then, and the person who went out and died in it.

I feel the same way about the guardian-vexors.

And I'm not even going to begin about handing such extremely valuable items to a third party.

Idiotic. There is no other word to describe it.

If you want to hand out unique ships, create unique ships to hand out. Don't ruin the uniqueness of ships already in the game, even if they're so unique they've been lost forever. In fact, “lost forever” is the best reason to not do so since there is no legendary status that will ever beat that and since no game will ever offer the same.

Give Somer some Bronze Magnates and Steward Vexors if you have to, but let the historical ships be historical.

We don't need petty goods we already get advanced notice of every change a good couple months before everyone else

Ten years ago, there was an event considerably more interesting than this one. At this event, the Gold and Silver magnates were given out. Please don't undermine the efforts of those players who won these ships, and the history that goes with them, by giving them out in a lottery. It's probably the worst distribution method because it requires no special skills or talents. Besides, if you go back to what happened in 2003, almost ten years to the day, you'll find that CCP's communication then indicated that the Gold Magnate was a one-of-a-kind. Since then, several pieces of communication have indicated that no more would be released.

Why is it that some CCP employees have no sense of the history of the game? Nor are they aware of the significance which certain players and groups have created around events that took place in the past or objects in the game world? Further, why must events be so bland as to involve winning what would probably rank in the top 5 of the most expensive ships in Eve simply by entering your name in a pot?

I'm looking for a GVEX over a year now, however I am NOT supporting THAT way of getting one! CCP, bad idea!

Turning EVE History into dust is a very bad idea.
Those ships were and are rarities and must remain as such.
I for one am not at all happy with what is going down with re-introducing these ships.
No CCP, please, be honest and stay true to EVE.