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Nebulai
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Posted - 2005.07.14 12:53:00 -
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Hi all,
I thought IĘd spend some time to explain some changes we've recently made to Aurora and how things work in general.
Up until recently, Aurora was made up of the following ranks;
o) Events Actor
o) Events Producer
Actors were primarily responsible for acting in Events and this was the entry point into Aurora. Producers are the guys who create content for EVE, in terms of conceptualisation of Events and seeing them through to completion.
We've recently modified the structure so that everyone is now an Events Producer. What this means is that they are all able to generate events for execution in EVE. They act in each others events to fill up the positions that Actors used to take.
Other recent changes are that Events do not have to be designed so that everyone can take part. Events can now be aimed at specific people, specific Corporations or Alliances only. This allows specific people, or groups of people to involve themselves much more within EVE.
Major NPC's can also interact on the forums, these can be identified by the silver tag underneath their names when posting.
Questions;
o) Does Aurora do Prime Fiction?
We use a tiered system for Events Producers. These are (simplified for the forums)
Tier I - None Prime Fiction entities
Tier II - Minor involvement of Prime Fiction characters
Tier III - Direct Prime Fiction characters, corporations and events
New producers to the program start at Tier I and work up as knowledge and understanding of EVE's history and fiction is demonstrated. Tier I events can be moulded into Prime Fiction if the need arises (Tetrimon being a classic example of this happening)
o) Can I join Aurora?
Aurora recruits in batches as the need arises for new producers, if you wish to submit (or update) your application please visit the ISD link on the left hand bar.
o) I don't want to be in Aurora, but I have ideas for events?
You can submit your thoughts/ideas to [email protected] and they will be forwarded onto the producers for consideration.
For previous information on Events please click here
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Nebulai
Vice-Admiral Events Team
Interstellar Services Department
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Omber Zombie
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Posted - 2005.07.14 14:00:00 -
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just like to say GJ guys and the changes should keep things interesting 
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Tyrrax Thorrk
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Posted - 2005.07.14 17:37:00 -
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<3 for DigitalCommunist
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Manny Barilow
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Posted - 2005.07.14 18:57:00 -
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If all actors are now producers, does this mean that you *must* submit events to be part of Aurora, if so, what would happen to a fictional producer who does not have the time to write new events, but still wants to be active acting in other producers events?
would an Aurora producer be "fired" for not producing?
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Sabaoth
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Posted - 2005.07.16 01:23:00 -
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For members that just do not have the time to produce events but still want to be an active member in Aurora we offer them the old Actor role as it is less time consuming.
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Sabaoth
Aurora Captain
The Aurora Project
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Graelyn
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Posted - 2005.07.16 12:56:00 -
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Edited by: Graelyn on 16/07/2005 12:58:46
Should RPers even try?
I've been told that due to 'conflicts of interest' or somesuch, RPers have pretty much ensured they will never be a part of AURORA.
I don't fully believe the person who made this statement, is it true?
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Tyrrax Thorrk
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Posted - 2005.07.16 16:22:00 -
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Sounds absurd to me seeing as all aurora are pretty much required to be roleplayers.
Why even bother asking 
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Khaldorn Murino
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Posted - 2005.07.17 11:32:00 -
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Sounds absurd to me too, everyones going to have conflicts of interest, Roleplayer or not. But its just a game. Aurora's job is to make it more fun non?
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"Whenever I hear any one arguing for slavery I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally." - Unknown Warrior
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Graelyn
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Posted - 2005.07.17 14:11:00 -
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It's not an accusation, just trying to confirm something I heard from a not-that-reliable source.
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Nebulai
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Posted - 2005.07.19 18:14:00 -
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Not quite sure where you heard that but its not true, people who are strong RP wise are the exact sort of people we are looking for.
Having the ability to imagine, create and execute your own entities boils down to a large part of producing within EVE
Any further questions just hollar 
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Nebulai
Vice-Admiral Events Team
Interstellar Services Department
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Nauta Starbane
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Posted - 2005.07.20 02:58:00 -
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Edited by: Nauta Starbane on 20/07/2005 02:59:05
1. Has their been any discussion of addressing the issue of people attacking event actors in high-sec without reprisals?
I took part in last night's event where once again it almost ended before it started due to gankers in Du Annes. Several of us were forced to sacrifice our ships to CONCORD to save the event ship, which thankfully we did by taking out the tackler. The loss was worth it to us to thwart the criminals, but many felt we shouldn't have been put in that position in the first place.
2. Moreover, I'd love to see a marked increase in actors and events. AURORA really does make a HUGE impact in the immerison level of EVE, and the more you do it and the more people can participate, the better this game will be. In other words, I love what you do, so do it more!
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Graelyn
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Posted - 2005.07.20 20:22:00 -
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Thx Neb. 
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Blydchyld
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Posted - 2005.07.28 14:54:00 -
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Edited by: Blydchyld on 28/07/2005 14:56:16
I wanted to take the time to thank Aurora and all the good work that they do.
Thanks for spending hours upon hours of your own time working on events for us players, thanks for keeping your cool while other players do there best to ruin them and thanks for continuing to run events while the likes of.. well lets call them spoil sports.
Nebulai, a question for you, If i was taking part in a event and having fun, another player then tries to disrupt that event for whatever reason they have and ruin my fun and the fun of many others. Surely this is a form of disruption maybe classed as greifing, would this constitute as a acceptable reason to raise a greif petition against another player as they are interupting my game?
As it stands no one can do anything anbout the likes of these pilots and frankly as a player ive had a guts full of them.
Im sure that the people who do this have a genuine retort, along the lines of 'we play this game as well and we pay as well so dont tell us what to do' etc etc. Well my answer to that is i pay too.
Nebulai please pass your thanks on to your lads and when can we see some Titans in combat with you guys?
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Nebulai
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Posted - 2005.07.28 19:41:00 -
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Thanks for the praise, i've passed it on.
To answer your questions regarding abuse, a new policy has been drawn up (Check here) to resolve this.
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Nebulai
Vice-Admiral Events Team
Interstellar Services Department
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Luance DeAngeluotti
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Posted - 2005.07.28 21:00:00 -
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 Originally by: Nebulai
Not quite sure where you heard that but its not true, people who are strong RP wise are the exact sort of people we are looking for.
Having the ability to imagine, create and execute your own entities boils down to a large part of producing within EVE
That sounds great :)
But I have a question regarding on how this is going to work.
You also mentioned that:
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Events can now be aimed at specific people, specific Corporations or Alliances only.
So if I apply as a director of a Gallente RP corporation will this mean, that my character will be able to generate events for the Gallente RP community or even only for my corporation?
We are recruiting
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DigitalCommunist
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Posted - 2005.07.28 22:24:00 -
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Edited by: DigitalCommunist on 28/07/2005 22:24:56
I assume all the "smarties" like Blydchyld making reference to event wrecking, and using words like "ban", and "griefing" are really talking about Finite Horizon, but don't have the nads to say it. Oh well, I'm not worried that a bunch of sore losers are upset they got schooled by pirates. If we were really out there to ruin events, we wouldn't be roleplaying or participating we'd be trying to stop them from occurring at all, and so far CCP has acknowledged this.
These new changes will probably make events better, as I pointed out to Nebulai when I suggested them, pending competence from individual EP of course. Still a lot more that can be done, and that should be done to make events really fun in this game. Hopefully getting there won't require people to get all emotional.
FZN for SEP tbh \o/
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Astarte Nosferatu
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Posted - 2005.07.29 11:23:00 -
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The Blood Raider community will largely make it's own events and RP after Aurora's betrayel with the release of Cold War.
Don't count on us anymore to execute your hauling missions and unrewarding tasks.
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Graelyn
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Posted - 2005.07.29 14:32:00 -
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Heh, ok. I should hope you aren't speaking for all the Blood Raider RP corporations (Crimson Guard, Blood Inquisition etc.) who have sacrificed so much to continue thier RP with the Sani Sabik.
Not your average Amarrian Loyalist....
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Blydchyld
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Posted - 2005.07.29 15:01:00 -
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Edited by: Blydchyld on 29/07/2005 15:00:55
Thanks Nebulai, i guess thats a yes.
I know this should go in the suggestions forum but can we have a /block filter for the forum, will help me as i wont have to read 'smartie pants' postings.
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Kehmor
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Posted - 2005.07.29 16:49:00 -
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Originally by: Graelyn
Heh, ok. I should hope you aren't speaking for all the Blood Raider RP corporations (Crimson Guard, Blood Inquisition etc.) who have sacrificed so much to continue thier RP with the Sani Sabik.
she certainly isnt speaking for me
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Maya Rkell
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Posted - 2005.07.31 20:21:00 -
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If you REALLY want to end a lot of the grief surrounding events...
While concord/gate guns should not of course fire on ships which attack event vessels, players who attack event vessels should be flagged as attackable by other players for say 5 minutes.
This will allow effective defence of event ships. (And remove silly situations like when I, (at the time a U'K member) killed event pilots in bestowers doing a Amarr hauling mission several times (we thought it was an arms convoy. It was a tritanium covoy. Oh well :) ), but the players escorting them were unable to assist)
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Khaldorn Murino
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Posted - 2005.08.02 14:22:00 -
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I would have thought criminal flagging would be the most sensible solution.
That way the pirates can act the pirates, but they also have to deal with the repercussions of their actions. At the moment, Vice and Discy have the safety buffer of in game restrictions on reprisal actions againsts attackers of convoys.
Even better, would be to make more interesting events than protect the convoy, attack the convoy.
And whats to stop some event actors warping in to help deal with the 'attackers'. There are so many ways to deal with this, to incorporate it into events, to make events funky it really is not true.
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Graelyn
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Posted - 2005.08.04 06:57:00 -
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Well, with any event team, your main design decisions stem from the tools you have to manipulate the environment. I fondly remember the tricks me and my team would pull in NWN to trick the players and the software....
However, working within the confines of your tools can be limiting. In NWN you could upgrade your tools, change scripts, and such to ensure you had what you need. In an MMO framework this is very difficult.....
Here's hoping CCP takes some steps to make things easier for those out there trying to utilize the very limited tools availible.....
Not your average Amarrian Loyalist....
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Tyrrax Thorrk
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Posted - 2005.08.25 16:06:00 -
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Since you guys are making changes 'n all, how about doubling or tripling the number of producers 
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Lady Charybdia
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Posted - 2005.08.26 18:41:00 -
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I think those that enjoy RPing are some of the best sort of players for creating events, granted those that arent that bothered about RP can come up with great ideas, just roleplayers tend to have a better grasp (more experience). |
Brechan Skene
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Posted - 2005.08.28 03:04:00 -
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To whom it concerns,
So you have made rules that prevent outsiders from interefering with events. That is so nice. But what happens if say an anti-pirate player turns up to a pirate held event. Can said pilot try to RP( ) the scenario and prevent the crime occurring ()or will the 'Dev hand of God' reach down and nerf his/her attempt to enforce the law on the pirates for the point of the event to continue. Can I get an answer from the Devs or person in charge of the events to give me an answer. I have not yet been involved in an event yet but if I was in that situation I would like to assist the attacked vessel and would not be impressed if I was nerfed so that some players get their kicks out of completteing an organised event. Also if I was a pirate I would like to to interfere with the so called 'good guys' event so that their plans can be prevented. I do not want to have the 'Dev hand of god' telling me what to do so that an event can take place. It sort of takes the ability of choice away from the players, which is bad mmmkay.
Brechan Skene
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Vin Hellsing
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Posted - 2005.09.19 22:03:00 -
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I really wouldn't know that, mate. But all this talk about events have been really interesting - I'm certainly wanting to get involved. :3
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Asura Delecti
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Posted - 2005.09.23 16:15:00 -
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Originally by: Vin Hellsing
I really wouldn't know that, mate. But all this talk about events have been really interesting - I'm certainly wanting to get involved. :3
As am I.
I've been an RP gamer for quite some time, and didn't think such a thing existed in EVE. Can someone perhaps post a link with guidelines/details of how such things are orchestrated here, please?
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Graelyn
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Posted - 2005.09.27 17:12:00 -
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Originally by: Asura Delecti
Originally by: Vin Hellsing
I really wouldn't know that, mate. But all this talk about events have been really interesting - I'm certainly wanting to get involved. :3
As am I.
I've been an RP gamer for quite some time, and didn't think such a thing existed in EVE. Can someone perhaps post a link with guidelines/details of how such things are orchestrated here, please?
Not sure what to tell you, I'm afraid.  I've been looking for literally years now.
Not your average Amarrian Loyalist....
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Amos Sommers
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Posted - 2005.10.03 21:53:00 -
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At some point in time this year I was invited for an interview. I completed the interview with a positive response, but due to real-life problems, I could not join the program. Would it be possible to be re-interviewed? |
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