Event Feedback - Guardian's Gala 2019

With PLEX, CCP earns more than with a sub, thank you on behalf of CCP for making this great decision.

Well he did say it was FAKE NEWS ! :rofl:

I have to say that event was awesome! It got a lot of people involved and a lot of MTUs got killed and it generated a lot, atleast in my area, of PVP for box thief and mtu attackers. Probably the best one so far.

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I’m not sure I’d go that far about paying with plex vs sub, but I do know for 100% that going alpha only and becoming a drain on the system instead of paying with anything works.

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This might be the first day that I had no problems with the Guardian’s Gala…

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I donoe, but I never heard of it until this video. Now I have it bookmarked and will visit it on regular basis, lotsa great funny stuff on there, good of him to let us know.

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As the event is over, what can we learn from this?

What has CCP put in place to avoid a repetition of the debacle?

I for one think that having prefabricated accelerators availabe from the agency reward system is immensely more desirable than newbro unfriendly BPC’s. :+1:

If for some reason CCP is intending to now adopt a ungenerous policy concerning the accelerators, something akin to that chap that likes popping all the baloons at kids parties, perhaps (providing the event task system works correctly) have them as higher tier rewards, or even dare I say it, make the one/s rewarded from the agency soulbound to curtail the saturation?

@ccp_sledgehammer Communication is key, keep us in the loop and work with us. It’s easyer to be forgiving if we can see the picture.

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We are having a retrospective on the event next week. If I am allowed to share any takeaways from it, I will.

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Make sure you pick up some antacids and headache meds prior to the meeting.
Plan to have some needed bar time afterwards.
Always start with a positive!: “Everyone loved those new firework designs.!”

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I think this will be one of those rare retrospectives where everyone is on the same page.

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Same page as in: “our playerbase underappreciated the hard work we put into last event, there was nothing wrong with it!”?

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Very much not that.

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Don’t count me on the “everyone” there. fireworks are obnoxious and should not be allowed in places like Jita, since they’re only used to cause lag on some computers to take advantage precissely of that -_-

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That’s an issue of where they are allowed to be used; the DESIGN of the fireworks themselves was well done.

Sheesh, there’s always one, isn’t there?..

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There was this fantastic Icelandic Street Food place around laekjargata. More than happy for you to share that with me :smiley:

Fireworks are “…only used to cause lag on some computers to take advantage precisely of that.” Eh, what? There may be a few players that are trying something like that, but I doubt it’s true of most.

I spent several hours in Jita around Christmas burning through over 100 million isk worth of fireworks for the sheer fun of it. Lots of pretty sights and sounds to celebrate the holidays with my fellow capsuleers.

Guardian’s Gala 2019 is a Shame Gala 2019.
In every apsect.

999’s post.

#stopguardiansgala

Someone, make it 1000’s post.

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Here you go, 1000th, is this a threadnought now ?

and…

Hope the meeting goes as well as could reasonably be expected and no-one gets sacked.

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@CCP_Sledgehammer -

We all love ya’, and all the work that goes into Events. You all have created something players care deeply about; if they didn’t care, they wouldn’t gripe.

For what it’s worth, I’m in the on-going process of writing up a fresh perspective that contains little to no whining, and little to no repetition of what other players have expressed.

It won’t be any kind of 'I think you should do this" doc; instead it will be sharing a mental framework I’ve developed over the years that can help teams ask the right questions of themselves when designing things such as this.

I’m working to get it finished, and will pass it on to the CSM folks over in their forum, hopefully in time for your retrospective. (I realize I’m just one player in a sea of many, but I hope you’ll recognize the unique perspective in my write-up along with the positive tone, and perhaps consider some of the ideas expressed.)

It can’t be repeated enough; the Event team is appreciated along with all the hard work you do. Please keep events coming.

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If there is one thing you guys should remember is that the point of those events is to encourage interactions among players, the event sites are good places to attract players and have them collide into each other.

Now, of course for that to happen in low-sec or other zones, and not just in High-Sec, you NEED to make the rewards better in those zones, the other events did it, I have ZERO idea why you guys threw away everything those events did right.

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