I get the fact that this game is based in Iceland and on their time frame. I get the fact that server nodes can only handle so many people. Hell I dont even care if the whole thing was scripted. But why was this a one time thing? Why couldnt the titan respawn and be destroyed once every 4-6 hours all weekend? More people would be able to see the event. I dont know if the majority of others disagree with me then I guess Im just the odd man out.

(( Live events create the backstory for eve and dust. Titans are super expensive, and well, the factions dont really have the amount of cash that the null sec alliances do. Pretending they do and spawning multiple titans would seriously impact lore, as well as who would captain all the titans? Its not like a faction is going to trust just anyone to do it... ))

Fair points. But I'm not saying that it should always happen or that it should be a new Titan every time. It would not hurt the lore, in my opinion atleast, to kill the same Titan all weekend for an event then have the lore say it was killed once and move on from there.

It would, because it could only die once. The Titanic didn't sink twice - only once.

Firstly, you don't get suspension of disbelief.

Second, wow. That's...wow.

Okay lemme break this down for you. A live event for people to enjoy is not like the SINKING OF THE TITANIC. Because that's a tragedy where thousands of people died. It's more comparable to watching James Cameron's Titanic. Because that's entertainment.

You don't show a movie only once. And lots of people voluntarily watch a given movie multiple times. Sometimes twice in one opening weekend. Get it?

To OP: From what I understand CCP wasn't flipping a switch and letting AI controlled boats go at each other, so I would just let it go. Maybe in the future they'll wisen up and set up a live event to repeat.

Firstly, you don't get suspension of disbelief.

Second, wow. That's...wow.

Okay lemme break this down for you. A live event for people to enjoy is not like the SINKING OF THE TITANIC. Because that's a tragedy where thousands of people died. It's more comparable to watching James Cameron's Titanic. Because that's entertainment.

You don't show a movie only once. And lots of people voluntarily watch a given movie multiple times. Sometimes twice in one opening weekend. Get it?

To OP: From what I understand CCP wasn't flipping a switch and letting AI controlled boats go at each other, so I would just let it go. Maybe in the future they'll wisen up and set up a live event to repeat.

My question to all of this is why there is people playing in this game that do not have to pay to do it as the rest of us have to.

A live event for people to enjoy is not like the SINKING OF THE TITANIC. Because that's a tragedy where thousands of people died.

You do realize the irony here, right? Do you even know what the crew of the Shiigeru was?

We won't. EVE is a living universe that has consequences - things happen once.

You missed the entire part where I compared an entertaining event to an entertaining event, while you compared an entertaining event to a tragedy? And I explained why that's a bad comparison? Good lord.

Im not one of those guys thats gonna moan about this forever. I would have liked to see the event yes but CCP did what they thought was best for their game. Thanks everyone for answering my question with minimal flaming.

Do you realise the irony here? Comparing a live event to the world's worst maritime tragedy is wrong... but comparing it to a movie based on said tragedy is not only acceptable, it's entertaining? :P

The solution to maintaining the unique aspect is to go with something along the lines of your last suggestion: timezone rotation.

Attending all the events can be very predictable and quite consumerist. However it's refreshing to attend some events and then read about others. Much like in the real world. You'll rarely pick up a newspaper and say "I was there" to every article.. You won't even read every article. And that is the type of experience CCP is trying to create with their virtual world. :)

I get the fact that this game is based in Iceland and on their time frame. I get the fact that server nodes can only handle so many people. Hell I dont even care if the whole thing was scripted. But why was this a one time thing? Why couldnt the titan respawn and be destroyed once every 4-6 hours all weekend? More people would be able to see the event. I dont know if the majority of others disagree with me then I guess Im just the odd man out.

We won't. EVE is a living universe that has consequences - things happen once.

Entertainment being entertaining, a mystifying concept. And you still don't understand how suspension of disbelief can apply to a repeating event.

Here's a smiley for you too XD

How many times has Zor died?

CCP Goliath, you need to have a bit more imagination.
The Caldari could have had several replacement Titans ready. After one drops, the replacement shows up. Different ship name, maybe the same captain. The Feds would announce to the player "Intel has indicated there are a total of 6 Titans, and they all need to be destroyed to free Caldari Prime". Now the task for the Gallente is to destroy them all, in a specified time frame. If CCP did that:

If the Gallente were a little slow the event would end with a Titan in orbit, and the Caldari would have won.
Even so you would still get the crashed Titan landscape for Dust.
The event would have persisted alot longer and more players would have had a chance at it.

How many times has Zor died?

CCP Goliath, you need to have a bit more imagination.
The Caldari could have had several replacement Titans ready. After one drops, the replacement shows up. Different ship name, maybe the same captain. The Feds would announce to the player "Intel has indicated there are a total of 6 Titans, and they all need to be destroyed to free Caldari Prime". Now the task for the Gallente is to destroy them all, in a specified time frame. If CCP did that:

If the Gallente were a little slow the event would end with a Titan in orbit, and the Caldari would have won.
Even so you would still get the crashed Titan landscape for Dust.
The event would have persisted alot longer and more players would have had a chance at it.

Hell I dont even care if the whole thing was scripted.

On the subject of Zor.

He's a capsuleer. not a very good one... seems he hasn't trained up his core skills
but still... he can keep comming back because he's one of them pirate capsuleers

(the handwave here comes in the fact that he somehow warps his pod out before it appears on the overview.)

as for 'repeating live events' .... it boils down to the difference between the LE-incursions and the AI ones.

The LE ones were a lot more fun.

We won't. EVE is a living universe that has consequences - things happen once.