EVE General Discussion

Dis gun be gud.

well they did say that..



so yea

your right, lets take this man seriously.

CCP, stop rebalancing, right now, its a waste of time. if people dont use a ship, then just delete it, otherwise its just wasting server space and pixels.

Manifest. We don't want instant answers, we want correct and honest answers. No need to rush or put in personal time, if there had been a post much earlier saying "we acknowledge this issue and we'll give this all some thought and get back to you", perhaps even done in a more informal manner things wouldn't have gotten out of control as it did.

So now that we know it's on CCP's to-do list I'm sure the majority of us will be happy to wait for the outcome.

Thanks for recognising players' concern

The following is a repost -

Suggestion: Such 'thanks' items given out by CCP to community figures are blueprints, and the BPO and the item created are not exchangable between accounts. Because the battleship blueprint (for example) has a material cost (the cost of an ishukone scorp would be a normal scorp), it is not unfair to use it in battle, and because they're not tradeable, it's not the significant ISK and market advantage the Scorpions given to SOMER (and others) represent. If the blueprint is a BPO, these ships needn't even be hangar queens, and the recipients can fly around in them without fear of losing them (any more than a normal scorp), which I think would be great. Obviously such items would have the same stats as the regular ones.

It's basically giving them the unique colour to fly around. CCP could create and give out as many 'thanks' items as they wish without any hassle. It's a little anti-EVE to have untradable items, but I feel it's more anti-EVE to give away items that have a great ISK value, especially in secret, as the secrecy gives those players unique and unfair market knowledge of the trade of valuable items.

e: whatever happens, the fairest way to give gifts is either to do it openly or to make them untradeable

No, they don't really care about you, they care about the company's survival. If you break down the claims in the OP you will see they blame such fault on CCP staff being "on vacation". In other words they are trying to claim that some wayward rogue or unauthorized event happened while in fact that reeks of bogus and backpedaling. The truth is most likely that they thought they could get away with it, but the somer blink recipients leaked that they received the ships even after being told by CCP and Somer to be discrete. After they realized how fudged they were by screwing up so bad, they are now trying to do some damage control and claim that they were on vacation, as if to imply they would have NEVER done or let such a thing happen otherwise.

I'm going to have to come out and say that standardized gifting for community fansites, services, and the like could be a solution. A clearly stated set of criteria and well defined list of gift options for meeting certain criteria could be produced.

No. You are dumb.


Thank you for reply CCP Manifest, but i will continue being skeptic and think that you will either ignore it, or justify it, or drag it long enough for people to forget about (until next incident at least).

You clowns are some bold, ignorant, and mouthy people. This crap Faction Scorpion "ordeal" is a non-issue. The only issue I see here is that a bunch of whiny "entitled" children seem to think that Eve Online, a game popular for being unfair, should be fair. You kids need to step away from your computer for a minute and remember that CCP is not your company. You pay to play the game, and they aren't required to coddle you. The fact that they listen to you on some things is a perk of a decent company. If you don't like their game, leave.

You won't, ofcourse, because most of you scrubs are just full of hot air and mad about your "poor, pitiful pixel world". Get over it.

I'll try and explain it for you as best I can. First of all, you're using a fairly ridiculous metaphor.

CCP is a video game development company. They are not the operational staff of an extremely expensive and dangerous nuclear power plant.

This is a controversy about allegedly unfair gifting of virtual world items to members of a community gambling site. This is not a critical vulnerability to the company and game. It is not something to recall people from their legally guaranteed vacation time spent with their families. It is not a reason for anybody to demand CCP give up time with their wives husband and children so they apply ointment to somebody's sense of entitlement. It is NOT a reason to demand to know when CCP employees will be taking their vacation time.

There is legitimate cause for concern with the way some things were handled in this. Your questions and concerns will be answered in due time, after they have been thoroughly investigated, discussed, and vetted internally within CCP. When CCP is ready to communicate a formal response, you'll get it.

Until then, please stop acting like a petulant customer.

EDIT: For the record, IDGAD, it is practically impossible to provide an answer and solution that everybody will be satisfied, since 'everybody' does not agree or hold the same opinion on the matter.