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Good dev resources going to waste :-(

This explains nothing. nor does the blog post.

I am excited to see this, keep it up mates.

Is this the thread times for stuff might appear in? For those of us who often play at off peak times we aren't likely to spot any Dev run build up, so probably need a more direct hint about when we need to get up at crazy hours to take part.

Is it possible that our reactions on these events will reflect in future expansions and chronicles?

For example if we keep helping pirate factions, will it be possible in some future expansion that some pirate factions develop an imba ship or wpn(because of the stolen technology) which it will be introduced in the game and which might help em to take an important part in faction sov warfare?

are we talking about an event,
or is this angel incursions?

Just so long as it isnt about the goon freighter ganks(entertaining to read about at first now though eh kinda boring) im fine with it

Ushra'Khan did its part and moblized military aid to the affected populace, a JF load of medical supplies, wheat etc.
Just what the hell ARE these angels looking for???

in any case we stand ready

How long are they going to last this time? IIRC Everyone gets all excited about Live Events for a few months, and then suddenly they disappear never to be heard from again (or at least, not for a year or two!).

Do you think you've found a good balance as to how often to run them so that they remain fresh and exciting?

No i was referring to the fact that the majority of threads ive seen lately were about frieghter ganks so this is a welcome relief...
Also i remeber those caravans... got on about five killmails with a single bomb...it was nice

Well hopefully this year i can get off work early enough to join the defense fleet instead of picking off stragglers, speaking of which 3 days advance notice would be great...

Maybe if CCP could run specific events and let interested alliances know before hand? or atleast drop a hint, these events would get alot more people attending.

Edit.
It's a suggestion not a Critisicm by the way, looked over what i said and looked kinda dickish :)

don't go low-sec, you'll be ***** quick...

What is this? I don't even...

Maybe someone could explain, in plain English, what is going on here?

Indeed! How exciting and mysterious!

Actually it does explain a fair bit if you read between the lines (or just the lines )

Too cryptic, didnt read? - Live Events are back

all for live events but seriously these things need to be hosted in Low Sec so that everyone has the option to join either side.

I.E you can either fight the NPCs and kill them for some rewards or you can pirate and kill players who choose bad ships to bring to these events and take what they drop.

Also CCP make these events as hard as you possibly can i want to see some real risk involved in this

Would like to see the DEVs out in T3s in the caravan, fitted to the max obv.

@Affinity Dat Hat

...I'll be in my bunk

Will there be any shout outs to previous live events such as Arek'Jaalan?

Gues it's that time again to promote EVE Online at a convention; GDC Online.

Nice to showcase actual eve gameplay during those slots only, wish live events had a more perminant smell to it

Is this a "lets grind incursions together" kind of thing?

Great to see LIVE EVENTS make a welcome return!

I got heavily involved in using our Agency system to defend the Republic against the Sansha Incursion events and our new agency system (PANDORA) has already come into effect with the new storyline (aid to Oddelulf).

I thrive on this sort of thing and it would be great to see the 'Background story' RP element of EvE continue to kick in and the EvE State take shape. This is the perfect opportunity for the player-base to get involved where their participation could cause storylines to fork off into different patterns

be kinda cool to see a ccp fleet mixed in with sansha fleet going on a small roam

This was a fairly nice thing to find with my birthday tomorrow. Evidently, CCP adores me and gives me birthday gifts.

I'm curious as to routes of interaction for these events. I have a fairly staunchly pro-Sansha's Nation character that I used to support the National fleets in a lot of the live events in the past; Vaun is much more of a trader and industrialist, though. Will it be possible to interact with these events without being there shooting away?

I absolutely understand if there's not. I mean, in a setting where for a lot of capsuleers Might Makes Right, preferring to attack people economically can sometimes be a weak approach. :P

Actually, these "wastes" are some of the best meta and are what set EvE apart as a different, unique and worth playing game!



Edit:

Did I say how infinitely, poetically awesome is the blog picture?

What will the average blood to alcohol content be for devs during these events.

One other hand what will this ratio for players at these events

Just what we need, events. Let me guess what will happen.

CCP Event Dev1> Lets go run an event.
CCP Event Dev2>Sure, What shall we do.
CCP Event Dev1>Lets blow something up
CCP Event Dev2>Wow, what a great idea, you are a genious, no one will guess we are going to blow **** up.
CCP Event Dev1>Thanks, we did some brainstorming, had a meeting and it just came to me, Lets blow something up.
CCP Event Dev1>We must not tell anyone in game about it, I want it to be a surprise.
CCP Event Dev2>Wise move, we wont tell a soul, well apart from Goons.
CCP Event Dev1>Of course, we have to tell our Corp, cos we need help with this.
CCP Event Dev2>So whats the plan?
CCP Event Dev1>We get a titan into empire and blow **** up.
CCP Event Dev1>Then the Goons come in and blow the mother f***** up. Loot the prize uber rare BPO and Goons save the day.
CCP Event Dev2>You think we will get away with it, should we not give another corp / alliance the chance to win?
CCP Event Dev1>We have never done that before, why change?
CCP Event Dev2>OK, lets roll. We need a rebrand. Pretend its all new rather than same old ****.
CCP Event Dev1>With all the staff working on Dust all we can offer is Same Old **** and more broken promises.
CCP Event Dev2>We been getting away with it for years. The events on Dust will be better, console players are dumber than Eve players.

CCP Event Dev1. Roll on Dust. Goodbye Eve.

Same old **** I fear. Waste of dev time.

I hope you devs don't get the idea that I was trying to troll the caldari event that happened a little while ago, today D: I came there was a member of Ushra'Khan, the Tribal Liberation Force, and a gallente/minmatar loyalist at heart, seeking to disrupt Caldari defense operations how ever I could.

This resulted in me tricking the caldari actor character into undocking from the station in his pod, so that I could give him a drake, which he had lost earlier in the action. I said I couldn't dock because I was GCC'd... he said thanks, undocked, and got podded.

Also, all my talk about taking that fedo to the vet and freeing the animals was not troll-talk, either :( Both Sebastien and myself IRL are vegans and all for animal rights! And shooting fedos is bad. Also, Caldari experimenting on animals is bad, and Sebastien supports the Guristas who were freeing them from their pens. But doesn't support so much the fact that they now have to eat those slaver hounds in order to survive in the wilderness :P

Any way, it was a fun event! All of them have been, and I'm looking forward to seeing how they develop. Please don't label me a troll :(

I am assuming that the crew will be rotating in and out of the events. with only a couple running the event at any one time.

I also assume
-> that these devs have other tasks they are working on,
->These events also is a means for the devs to interact with the players,
->There only a couple devs using automated tools to help them run these events
-> Not everyone will want to participate but those who do will have a deeper experience in eve because of it and spread the news of Eve's Awesomeness to the world.
-->Like Worm holes these events are optional you don't a have to do them if you don't want to.

I am very happy to see live events back again, EVE's setting is one of its biggest attractions to me so this sort of thing has been sorely missed!

My only comment is to encourage the team to keep on posting news reports and in IGS threads covering the events that are run, and to try to run events fairly often outside of what I assume to be Reykjavik office hours. Many players just won't get the opportunity to join in at that time of day.

I suggest getting Hilmar to cough up for some overtime, this stuff adds value to the game and provokes player generated content. ;)

I hope you devs don't get the idea that I was trying to troll the caldari event that happened a little while ago, today D: I came there was a member of Ushra'Khan, the Tribal Liberation Force, and a gallente/minmatar loyalist at heart, seeking to disrupt Caldari defense operations how ever I could.

This resulted in me tricking the caldari actor character into undocking from the station in his pod, so that I could give him a drake, which he had lost earlier in the action. I said I couldn't dock because I was GCC'd... he said thanks, undocked, and got podded.

Also, all my talk about taking that fedo to the vet and freeing the animals was not troll-talk, either :( Both Sebastien and myself IRL are vegans and all for animal rights! And shooting fedos is bad. Also, Caldari experimenting on animals is bad, and Sebastien supports the Guristas who were freeing them from their pens. But doesn't support so much the fact that they now have to eat those slaver hounds in order to survive in the wilderness :P

Any way, it was a fun event! All of them have been, and I'm looking forward to seeing how they develop. Please don't label me a troll :(

I think it's CCP:Goliath

This is all well and good...but can I officially help the angels **** and pillage those disgusting and backward matari?

I am assuming that the crew will be rotating in and out of the events. with only a couple running the event at any one time.

I also assume
-> that these devs have other tasks they are working on,
->These events also is a means for the devs to interact with the players,
->There only a couple devs using automated tools to help them run these events
-> Not everyone will want to participate but those who do will have a deeper experience in eve because of it and spread the news of Eve's Awesomeness to the world.
-->Like Worm holes these events are optional you don't a have to do them if you don't want to.

I read it all. Still have no idea if these 'live events' are something a single individual (from an unallied corp) can participate in, especially if said individuals are relatively new to EVE.

I wish there were live events held for new players, which would draw us even more into the game and thereby get us talking about how great the game is to ...anyone who will listen.
More prospective subs for you guys, imho.

Live events are awesome. We're having a blast and my brother already got some nice footage out of it.

Just remember to only fly what you can afford to lose I've already seen some rather pimped out T3's go down.

i know you guys were just trying to be funny with the illuminati picture but in the future i would recommend doing some homework before putting an image up like that going forward...

i would err on the caution that: "could this be offensive?"

if the answer is maybe?

then go with something else...

illuminati a thin veil to anti semitism


much thanks and keep up the good work super excited for live events


MeBiatch.

Great to see live events back. Oh and everything is ok unless you start on ginger people, we have no soul and can see in the dark too. Beware.

I think it would be cool and useful if you could give people like Kiras Okoro (The Guristas Pirates guy who said they were showing up at Ohkunen) some sort of Dev like tag so we could jump to their posts in the forums and would set them apart for everyone else.

Unless your running these things in all ******* timezones just stop right now

Why does information in eve always have to come cloaked and invisible?

completely out of context example:

I'm a massive long-time vet, yet I have NO IDEA how to do incursions, there's no NPC that can direct me to them, I can see the sites in space and warp to them but I have no idea what I'm going to find, will they vaporise a frigate? a HAC? a battleships? how many players do I need? Why do I have to study a website guide/wiki before being able to play content?

I have zero idea what this blog is about, or how/if/when I as a player could become involved in this stuff.

PS, it's really confusing to post this as a dev-blog (OOC), then talk in-character, then link a random OOC jpg, with OOC references, then give out vital important information hidden in a 7page forum thread (I had no idea about the multiple twitter accounts and various other resources for this lore info).

You guys really need to pick IC/OOC and stick to one, I'm just confused and from that have no interest in getting involved, which is a great shame as I used to love RP in eve.

I don't think it is just aggrevation, it's puzzlement over why you don't advertise the content you produce and how easy it's to remain ignorant of it even if it would be something you're interested in. It's not that the info doesn't exist anywhere, but that if you're not already part of the little inner circle where the info circulates, you're likely to miss it entirely. You really need to think of ways to concentrate all relevant info in one location, that is easy to access both in and out of game and give it regular exposure, so yourplayers, new and old, can't remain ignorant of it's existence.

"Live events" was dead during the last couple of events it needed to be used more.

CCP Goliath you could also mention that there is a "Live Events" chat channel in-game, it'sa place to be if you are interested in live events.

Quick note on this "inner circle" though - the Live Events in game chat channel is open to everyone and I recommend joining it if you have interest in this sort of thing.

kk I'll check my channel link then becouse the "live events" channel that was used for incursions had no activity.

"Live Events" has the christmas caravan MOD and nothing about the new events.

Its currently ran by the players that is good but it needs dev control so its not out of date all the time.

The channel has a standing membership of 50 adding 40 people is not a big improvement

Hay devs while I like the return of the live events but is there a chance that I could get involved in the planning side of thses events or even run an event like this.

In game events run by a group of players or something like that.

Just an idea as devs can get swamped around deployment time...

Not realy the same thing.

The players don't have the resources to spawn x, y or z granted this comes from having the title DEV.

As an example say I wanted to be part of an event in jita but on the NPC pirate side this as it is from what I understand is impossible.
Now say I want to spawn more support because of the insane number of pilots attending this again is impossible.

This is the level of player interaction I would love to see I duno you could do a scheem like the ISD recruitment but for live events i'm prity sure you would get alot of support.

I would love to play as a pirate NPC pilot calling in more NPC's to support the ever growing event.

There are many ideas floating around in my head some off the wall maybe this is one such idea that is just never going to work Idea submited regardless.

And there are also many players who use twitter, facebook, and/or watch superbowl.

CCP Goliath is not saying that these are the only venues that will be used to disseminate Live Events info. They will be used in addition to the existing Devblogs, Live Events channel, and forums.

The Devs don't want to give anyone a heads up that isn't in their in-game circle of friends. This is just another way to reward their buddies. Like giving BOB all those BPO's and stuff back in the day. It's a transparent way they can give fat loots to their buddies in front of everyone and make it look legit. That is why they won't make live events public for everyone.

As a player who back when the Sansha Incursions were first starting up tried diving into the RP (being an old school table-top RPer), ended up joining the Sansha player side, saw the Devs who at the time were doing things draw this player base in, make some vague promises, then turn around and completely burn them... I'd like to have some sort of idea is this going to be something that players who enjoy being part of the pirate factions for RP purposes would actually see some real support over?

Also, the Event flag you originally linked has only 1 Dev post followed by trolling and then is locked indefinately... did I miss a post to a different thread somewhere? If so, could you repost it in reply to this?

PS: If I come across abit unclear, I'm up rather late for me, going through abit of insomnia, please ask for clarifications if needed.

*hates hates hates forums* umm... the flag was the one linked somewhere near the beginning of all of this and mentioned as being a place to monitor for when events would happen.... *sucks at finding things on forums (sorry)*

As for support, well, for a brief time period, the Devs during the Sansha Inc live events were including the Sansha players as members of the invading force, having even made promises to figure out a way to flag them as part of the event so that not only did the NPCs not shoot at them, but possibly even set it up so that they could fire back at the other players shooting at the NPCs even though it was in HS, and there were even some rumors that perhaps there might eventually develop a way to actually join the NPC pirate faction corps (though that last part was strictly rumor mill)

In short, I'm (p)fishing abit here, to see what you have in mind to keep this from being what last time I was involved in these things went from starting out with all sorts of promises to a pretty dead fish.

Yes, it was the links in that post you linked, and when I clicked on the one at the top with a flag on it, though, there was nothing in it... or should I be looking for a different link on the destination site?

Ok, so I should watch it for new posts by the Devs then, is it listed by most recent at the top, or oldest at the top?