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Thresh Avery
Best Path Inc. Atlas Alliance
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Posted - 2010.04.18 22:52:00 -
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Now that i have your attention (mainly CCP's) i'd like to ask about faction ships.
Before Dominion, CCP allowed players to redeem a batch of 10 of every faction ship in the game for the sake of testing them out prior to an impending balance change and overhaul of the ship stats. It was a nice touch, also fun, and they've continued to do it since then with supercaps and now the planetary modules for Tyrannis.
My question is, if CCP have proved it's possible to easily drop faction ships into the game for players to test with, please would you be able to do it again for the purposes of alliance tournament practicing?
It's a well-known fact that most (if not all) alliances practice their setups meticulously on the test server to work out what will be most effective for the tournament, but as it's a mirror of the live server and few people actively use it there's no outlet for more faction ships, so it boils down to us running from region to region on the day of the mirror to grab whatever we can and spend days hauling it all to one location.
I know this sort of thing gets questioned each year, but surely as there's a script in place already it shouldn't be much to ask for the devs to run it again next test server downtime.
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Kristrina Belaure
Caldari Cosmic Cimmerians C0NVICTED
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Posted - 2010.04.19 03:00:00 -
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I believe that closer to last years tournament, CCP allowed members of the alliances in it to request faction ship spawns for the sake of testing team fitting layouts.
Either that or my brains engaged fantasy mode again
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Goberth Ludwig
eXceed Inc. HYDRA RELOADED
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Posted - 2010.04.19 06:16:00 -
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Originally by: Kristrina Belaure I believe that closer to last years tournament, CCP allowed members of the alliances in it to request faction ship spawns for the sake of testing team fitting layouts.
Either that or my brains engaged fantasy mode again
they didnt hand out any last year
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darius mclever
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Posted - 2010.04.19 15:19:00 -
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Originally by: Kristrina Belaure I believe that closer to last years tournament, CCP allowed members of the alliances in it to request faction ship spawns for the sake of testing team fitting layouts.
Either that or my brains engaged fantasy mode again
the sisi rules say differently. you got to buy them of contracts after a mirror.
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CCP Claw
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Posted - 2010.04.19 15:56:00 -
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I requested to do this specifically on SiSi two tournaments ago because of the extremely short time between rules announcement and the start of the tournament meaning people would have no prep time. It was a one time deal.
The rules for ships were announced far in advance for T7 and T8 hence why there has been no such handing out of ships.
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Mr Rive
Black Omega Security Pandemic Legion
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Posted - 2010.04.19 17:48:00 -
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Edited by: Mr Rive on 19/04/2010 17:49:47
Originally by: CCP Claw I requested to do this specifically on SiSi two tournaments ago because of the extremely short time between rules announcement and the start of the tournament meaning people would have no prep time. It was a one time deal.
The rules for ships were announced far in advance for T7 and T8 hence why there has been no such handing out of ships.
This is indeed the case, however, you mirrored the server two days ago, so the alliances that have stockpiled ships, have now lost them. I understand that you have to remain unbiased, but now we have no faction ships to test with, even though we spent hours collecting them all.
Surely it isn't unfair to replace the ships we lost by the mirror? I actually had a test scheduled for today, but as we have no ships to test with, after logging on to the test server, and finding all our ships gone, I now have to cancel the test.
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Viper ShizzIe
Habitual Euthanasia Dystopia Alliance
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Posted - 2010.04.19 18:41:00 -
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Originally by: Mr Rive Edited by: Mr Rive on 19/04/2010 17:49:47
Originally by: CCP Claw I requested to do this specifically on SiSi two tournaments ago because of the extremely short time between rules announcement and the start of the tournament meaning people would have no prep time. It was a one time deal.
The rules for ships were announced far in advance for T7 and T8 hence why there has been no such handing out of ships.
This is indeed the case, however, you mirrored the server two days ago, so the alliances that have stockpiled ships, have now lost them. I understand that you have to remain unbiased, but now we have no faction ships to test with, even though we spent hours collecting them all.
Surely it isn't unfair to replace the ships we lost by the mirror? I actually had a test scheduled for today, but as we have no ships to test with, after logging on to the test server, and finding all our ships gone, I now have to cancel the test.
Boy that sure is a sad story, I'd be happy to loan you any faction ships that you need on sisi.
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Goberth Ludwig
eXceed Inc. HYDRA RELOADED
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Posted - 2010.04.19 20:19:00 -
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- Gob
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Vaal Erit
Science and Trade Institute
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Posted - 2010.04.20 08:39:00 -
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Originally by: Mr Rive I understand that you have to remain unbiased...
This is where you should have ended with a period and hit "post reply", not whine and cry about how they should completely change the rules, just for you. Get over yourself.
Originally by: Jim Raynor EVE needs danger, EVE needs risks, EVE needs combat, even piracy, without these things, the game stagnates to a trivial game centering around bloating your wallet with no purpose. |
Ohne
Minmatar Sniggerdly Pandemic Legion
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Posted - 2010.04.20 14:08:00 -
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You guys seem angry.
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Ituralde
Stimulus Rote Kapelle
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Posted - 2010.04.20 21:03:00 -
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Whiney PL failure aside, this is still a Test server. It would make a good deal of sense for us not to go through a bunch of gimmicks to get stuff we need to test ingame stuff.
At least for the alliances involved in the tourney with slots (some of us don't know if we've even been given a slot yet) - could we get some access to faction gear? That's only 64 alliances, and a quick script and a contract to the executor of each alliance could probably do the trick. Just say 1000 of everything faction.
Either that, or give us a crapton of LPs on sisi we can use to purchase the it in bulk and bring it to our testing sites. Even that would be awesome and we'd love you longtime etc.
Please? I promise you it will make the tourney more exciting. _____________________________ Fear is the mind-killer.
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