I have to echo CCP Goliath's points here.

While it's all well and good to say "if you don't have this resource or tool, just create it", sadly that's simply not possible. It means pulling our programmers, who already work flat out and do an awesome job, away from other vital projects in order to work for us.

I'm no game development genius, but I have an extremely strong background in project management from my former field of work, and its simply just not feasible given our release schedule.

People are also forgetting that Live Events aren't simply a case of "bring a few ships to a location and shoot things" or "bring a few ships to a wormhole and shoot things".

Live Events are there to support storyline. During the run up to the Incursion expansion, the focus was very much on Sansha's Nation and wormholes, because that's where the storyline narrative was centered to provide logic and reasoning for Incursions in terms of backstory.

Now, we've moved away from w-space for the time being and we're focused on advancing the storylines of the four core empires.

Live Events will always follow the ongoing storyline narrative, it's not just a case of "oh, lets have a live event here this week, it'll be cool". Whether it be a massive firefight, or a simple sighting of a political figure, or maybe a speech with no combat involved, then the direction of New Eden's storyline will always dictate the layout and format of Live Events.

While the ideas put out here are great, and we can't thank you enough for the enthusiasm you guys are showing, even something that you guys see as simple as creating a single tool or feature that may be used for 10-20 seconds in an event to bridge people into a system needs a massive amount of resources.

In a perfect world, I'd love to have every tool we could possibly think of available to us, but right now it's just not feasible given how hard our game designers and content developers are already pushing to make sure that both EVE and DUST evolve the way they should.