GM Week 2026 - Call for Questions!

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My previous question may have been too technical for this format, so I’ll restate it more directly.
Has CCP ever evaluated the long‑term impact of null‑sec territorial stagnation on overall game health, especially reduced conflict frequency, declining strategic mobility, and the consolidation of power into a few stable blocs? If so, are there any internal discussions about introducing mechanics that naturally destabilize entrenched regions over time?

Seconded !

I saw some of the things in the Meme’s section and it was frankly vile

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@GM_Goat what happened??

too bad you can’t do that in ship skinr

Does the GM’s and PX teams play eve for fun? No offense and no judgment meant by the question. I’m curious if they enjoy playing the game, or if their daily support work for Eve makes them tired of the game and they prefer to rather do something else in their spare time. (Kinda like the example of some people working at a chocolate factory for years starting to dislike chocolates)

Was it playing Eve that made you decide to become GM’s? Or was it something else?

In the current active GM/PX team, which is the longest (number of years) that a team member has been part of the team?

Of the current GM/PX teams, which is the earliest date that anyone has started playing Eve?

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Indeed I hope all of them enjoy playing Eve. It would be good. :+1:

I’m just worried how young they look in that photo… :upside_down_face: :laughing: :rofl:

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Home Alone: Thirsty For More?

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Did you know… Entomologist who study cockroaches often develop allergies to them, and then suspiciously also become allergic to most brands of pre-ground/instant coffee.

I’m not saying GM/PX staff (or other game devs) become allergic to their game but your coffee might be upwards to 10% cockroaches.

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Maybe they are more allergic to Quafe instead. :thinking:

:eyes: :psyccp: :ccpguard:

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Interesting about the entomologists. I did not know about it. What you said makes sense , because the smell from all the stuff the cockroaches drop is quite bad and contains allergens. I can well imagine how long exposure to it can be detrimental.

About the coffee… very funny… and worrying… but also true to some extent. I don’t know the figures for each country, but I do know health and safety regulations allow food to contain a certain percentage of foreign material and insects. It is sometimes a bad surprise to see behind the scenes where food is made, or processed and packaged… and can put a person off certain brands.

Eve might also contains upwards of 10% of bugs I think. :laughing: And now we might have some stronger v3 bugs being added… I’m ever hopeful bugs will get fixed. Sometimes I’m disappointed for years by known bugs being left ‘intact’. Other times pleasantly surprised with fixes.

Which brings up questions for @GM_Goat - What would be the 3 bugs in Eve that GM’s would like fixed the most? It would be interesting to know from a GM’s viewpoint which bugs interfere with their work, or annoy them the most.

And which real life bugs (insects) do GM’s hate the most? :melting_face:

I’ve studied entomology, but I don’t drink coffee, so i don’t care if it is part cockroach :laughing:

no, it is more like 70% bugs, 20% troublesome companies, and 10% good gameplay

not sure, cockroaches could be their favorite or least favorite, they can be destroyed but they are also the most OP ship in the game.

Well the best coffee is actually excrement - coffee cherries partially digested and pooped out by mammals. Coffee is life in all its forms.

But I second hearing questions from the GM’s as part of this process.

Quick question, what are the GMs going to be doing during OnlyCans events? Does it involve hot poses over big cans? Or am I confusing the event with a different website? Not that I go to that kind of website. Honest!

Anyway, just wanted to know about OnlyCans, o7.

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Some questions about the GM/PX team.

Which GM/PX team name (not their real name) is the hardest to pronounce for the rest of the team?

Who has the longest team name?

Why is there no “GM Giraffe”?

Which team member drinks the most coffee? And how many cups per day? (Thanks to @igRaVeN and @Kuroda_Toshio for making me think of this question. Giggles)

How many GM/PX team member have “World’s Greatest …” coffee or tea mugs at work?

Which team member has the wildest hair style?

Which team member has the best sense of humor?

Do any of the GM/PX team members squeeze a toothpaste tube from the middle?

Would the GM/PX team want to play scrabble or sentence unscramble with the Eve players? … If you give a list of the first 2 letters of all the GM/PX team names. (for GM Goat it would be “G” and “O”) See how many scrabble words can be formed using the list. And what is the most creative sentence that can be unscrambled by using a minimum of 80% or more of the list. (Please no AI or software tools - use some brainpower to make it fair)

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Some questions out of curiosity.

Which agent mission requires the most resets? (I know GM’s sometimes have to reset agent missions, but I’m not sure if they have access to any statistics about it.)

Which agent mission is responsible for the most NPC vs Player ship losses? (Again, not sure if GM’s have access to this information)

What is the strangest or funniest reasons people have given when asking for reimbursements? (This one might overlap with @Gerard_Amatin 's question about funny stories)

How often do cats or doggos get blamed when asking for reimbursement? (I have seen chat windows go crazy when someone goes AFK and their cat jumps/walks around on the keyboard… LOL, I can just imagine what will happen if a ship is in space at the time.)

What is the cheapest item/ship that someone asked to be reimbursed? The most expensive? And what is the weirdest item(s) that anyone wanted reimbursed?

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May 17, 2024 17:32:06 My account was blocked by one of your employees for seven days, actually nine days, because you did not give me access to my account until 2024.05.26 4:00 (the account was paid as well as was paid for additional training of one character and cerebral accelerator +12 bought from you in the store, and a lot of other things that disappeared through your fault) for the fact that the character “Rigaraz Khashour”, and there is no such thing and was not on my account, in some chat wrote that at the moment to engage in trade is not profitable.
Blocking the account to anyone for expressing his opinion that trading in the game is not profitable is absurd and is arbitrary on your part.
It is doubly arbitrary to block my account, from which nothing was done at all, and could not be done because it was not even in the game at that moment.
The arbitrariness of your employees has caused me significant losses, as well as damage to your reputation.

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