Live Events Discussion

Ok, live the lore, harvest the tearz.
Wouldn't it have been more fun for you if there were more tearz though?

They couldn't even deliver an efficient awox. If (in character) you paid the navy commanders, you deserve a rebate!

Nasty carebear stuck in TiDi lagz cants campz him.. Sendz mor!!

Got to be honest most nullsqwark is more can I haz cheezburger than cool.

But I must admit you do it much much better and believably than most. You play at the RP character well rather than being unable to do Anything else.

You see the humour and fun in it.


Fancy coming to the light side?

I do but damn those threads deliver on too many levels to just run off.

And heck no, I stay where the cookies are. There's plenty of player-generated lore. Nullsec wars come to mind, everyone who's been through a few campaigns has a story to tell about at least one really bad and one truly awesome. With the empires being basically a lowsec "sov" ping-pong justified by centuries-old grudge match (it's not like any of the empires are starved for resources and need to take the others out for the sake of their continued existence...) the NPC nations just get dull.

Unlike the day-to-day exploits, treachery, backstabbing, frontstabbing and politics of players.

Where's the monument to commemorate the first titan built by ASCN? Where's the wreck of Shrike's Avatar, the first actively piloted titan destroyed in the history of New Eden? Something to commemorate TEST's "final" stand and charge during the siege of 6VDT? (the war was over by then. They showed up in the name of all that is fun.)

Many players won't care about an NPC because they're taught, through other MMOs and games in general, they can't be as awesome/affect the lore like NPCs do. What we need is a wreck field around the Mara stargate and a beacon that will tell someone the story of m0o. Show a player what another player can do in EVE.

This, all this, above. Trii's comments have been both for and against the complaints but I can fully get behind the snips above and commend her on those points above.

Because tears are an important element of our culture. "Getting" them out of someone prompts the need to "link them" and share with the rest of community. Tears are a common reaction to loss and to being hurt. Their appearance is often associated with dealing a morale blow to your enemy, and causing them to flow can be a measure of proficiency. Memorable tears can also add to the experience of events.

Tears have a social aspect too. For instance, this event will forever be remembered as the one time we fought in a battle that spawned a fifty-page tears thread. There's no coming back from that - whether it was CCPs fault, our fleets or combinations of both people were mad at - tears were had, we enjoyed them.

So off the subject of tears and on to the lore...

Thing with "events" like this is that it actually strangely reflects reality. Rushing to play catch-up with your fleet in 10% TiDi happens, incompetent fleet commanders happen - and mistakes of competent ones do too. Very often a null grunt does fly blind and isn't aware of his destination. Hell, at least people in 8V- knew what they were shooting - with 0.0 you may never actually know if that tower you lost your ship reinforcing was a valuable R64 or some scrubmoon you hit just to deny income.

Sometimes you burn everything not blue to the ground and wave your alliance flag, then maybe swing your **** a little while screaming "HEY LOOK WE'RE AWESOME WE HAS SOV!". Sometimes you watch your reinforcing fleet enter warp, a cyno go up and a bunch of RnK battleships bridge in, smartbombs on, obliterating your lovely friends in seconds.

A few times TiDi will allow you to catch up to your engagement zone and participate in the battle. Other times, your staging system will be put in 10% and your allies will lose a Titan before you can bridge to save it.

The event had organizational problems and someone put it wisely in another post - deserved a buildup where there wasn't one (or maybe there was, and I just didn't pay attention.) but some posts and calls to unsub over essentially a CCP-induced fleetwelp are just way overkill so I'm mostly biased towards "HTFU, bad things happen in space every day."

**** just happens so I do actually believe that the incompetence of actor FC's was fully intentional. Was it astonishingly great event that got us all to attend like say, Burn Jita? No. Was it superbad? No. It was pretty normal day of fleet ops, with the twist of "hey, let's punch CONCORD in the spacehorse and have a blast. We'll probably die, but you'll be able to say 'I was there' so you can bring a snowflake ship."

(Cue a Machariel flying with Zealot fleet. And despite the pilot's repeated attempts to get it killed, it lived to welp another day.)

I think the most people can expect from CCP is "we'll try to do better next time" along with a devblog detailing "what went wrong in their mind."

In their core, they're pretty much a lot of our adorable, benevolent ruthless vikings. Them being good to you isn't them bringing gifts, it's them not smacking you with an axe or stabbing with a large, pointy stick.

I believe there were tears after Caldari Prime too, that the event was rigged and people didn't get to play a major role (also system cap prevented some from participating). One thing they could go for is smaller events, but those don't generate as much publicity and are rarely those "I was there" moments.

Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

I love that, got to be the quote of the week.

Apparently an announcement soon.

Good news .

The topic has long moved on from this.
This is simply an ad hominem troll.

We've moved on from that now other posters proposed better suggestions. So we left that behind.

Titan would have been awesome to see. I Would have loved that

Implying that it would be possible for you lot to cry harder than you already are.

I've never seen such a pathetic bunch of mewling infants in my life. How have you managed to remain so genuinely butthurt about this over a week later?

That's not rhetorical. I'm asking you, personally, to explain your complete inability to put this inconsequential event into a sane perspective and then move on with your life.



Yes, that's perfectly clear. The OP has been not-raging about this, incessantly, for a week and a half now.

Also, nobody is upset about losing their ships, which is why the server should be rolled back to before they lost their ships.

It's like Occupy Wall Street moved to Eve and somehow found a way to make their message even less unified.

A good idea would be to stop pretending like CCP stole your identity, kicked your dog, slept with your sister, drank the last of your beer, and then DUI'd your car off of a bridge.

The mere fact that you ever thought that, hey, perhaps everything in the ******* game should be rolled back to compensate for the fact that an event went mildly off the rails makes it painfully apparent that you're pretty much the lord of the entitlement bears.