Are Events done, CCP?

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That’s what I don’t get.

A lot of things in Eve are GOOD. They just need a few tweaks.

The recent events were more complex, had room for more activities (FFS killing / mining / hacking, pick your choice). Had more items that could be produced, those items were more balanced than previously. You could as many “boss kills” per hours as the other previous events (I’m not kidding), so you had access to the same activity. Just more choice.

I just don’t get how people can complain about the events being factually just better than the previous ones. Sure the polar dwarves had a lot more DPS so was not fit for newbros alone. Guess what? I did it in a stealth bomber. In an enyo. In a machariel. It was much more fun than the previous events were you just had to use your gila.
I’ve seen people complain that the polar dwarves event was bad. What was their criteria about a good or bad event ? This one gave us choice, rewards for playing in teams, good rewards, difficulty if choose to.

It was objectively a good event. Just better in every aspect to the old ones.

The resource wars was a very good idea. It’s difficult if you do it casually, it’s simply better when you do it in team. The only issue is the raw ISK cost of the rewards and the volume of the packages. This makes RW a no-go on arrival. It’s just a simple fix to be done to make it attractive again.

The previous event was a no-go on arrival. the volume of the ore make it completely not worth mining it, as mining and making the accelerators would result in lower SP gain than an injector paid with the same mining time on standard ores.
CCP screw up twice in this event. First when they made the original mistake of the required ore quantity. Second when they did not listen to people saying it was a mistake. Their lack of acknowledging their mistake is the biggest one.

The event was screwed not because it was badly designed ; it was screwed because CCP did not update the event when players exposed the mistakes that had to be fixed.
What was really infuriating is them not even answering to people during the event, and instead keeping advertising for this shitty event (mail, launcher).
I don’t even remember what that event was about. All I remember is there was a deadly failure that CCP chose to not correct.
It broke my trust in CCP delivering correct events. I don’t even care about their “invasion” events (well a bit since I traveled in it). CCP did not correctly apologize for their lack of maintenance in the events they did and encouraged us to do.
I am waiting for CCP to take measures to be able to correct this kind of issues fast instead of creating new content that will be doomed with this same issue. Maintenance of the project is a part of the delivery, in any correct IT company.
I am expecting CCP to FIX RW instead of dishing them out. I am expecting CCP to fix the prevent event and re launch it, fixed, so people can give a correct opinion on a non-willingly failed event.
Anything else they propose as an “event” is bullsh¡t in my eyes (and it hurts).

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They seem not to be prepared for anything else than small tweaks. Combine this with a lack of understanding about the player driven economy, and of course the general sentiment to not listen what people say, but look at the actual participation numbers.

I only dimly remember the dwarf event, but the one thing I remember was the genius decision to restrict the camera view angle. Only somebody never played the game before can come up with such a stupid idea.

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That was removed after 2 days IIRC. And indeed it sucked, as much as it sucks in abysses.

The white dwarf was sporting high-DPS moruds ships, with a 3-room complexs in each escalation, ability to warp directly (so non-deadspace), one room for mining gas or ore, one room for fighting battleships, and one room for hacking cans.

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So this is just, basically, a butthurt issue over some imagined ‘slight’ by CCP ?

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Are you even trying to communicate ?

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All of this. Yes.

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CCP tried it and made them progressively worse, so becareful what you ask for.

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  • login for SP
  • cerebral accelerators for faster SP
  • shoot NPC’s for SP

Disappointed.

  • no game items as rewards; not even Agency boosters.
  • cerebral accelerator direct gifts, not player made
  • uses existing Triglavian content
  • no limited-time combat or mining sites
    • wasted opportunity to tie into the “blackout” event;
      Players doing enough of X could be helping the SCC with supplies of QE 4-HE resupply (mining track), disrupting Triglavians as they attack the supply (PvE track). Players wanting more “blackout” could help Trigs by blowing up QE 4-HE supply dumps.
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I had the same thoughts. I think this confirms that CCP has indeed given up on Events as we’ve had them.

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