If they were tackled and dying when the server went down, like yours were, then you should be gifted the kills IMO!

In my company when we f*ck up in epic magnitude like this we normally kiss our costumers ass a lot and them make a lessons learn and write a document that we deliver to our costumer explaining in details what we did wrong and what we will do to prevent the mistake from happening again, ever.

For the kissing ass part, CCP can put a special edition ship in my hangar, thanks in advance. Something new and rare thanks.

For the document part I will wait for a dev blog.

"The Legionnaires send their regards" - CCP "Roose Bolton" Dolan, shortly before pulling the servers down and stabbing the Kings of the North through the heart with his developer dagger.

Cool then lets talk about the 10+ CFC supercarriers that were saved from the server crashing. Also the multiple fleets of subs and caps CFC-side. Not to mention, that SBU we were going to kill but server crashed and it went through and reinforced a key system.

Kinda sucks when it happens to ya doesn't it?

Well I lost an Incursus because I went for a roam when the system was taken offline. Do I get to whine now?

But seriously guys, we all make mistakes. Luckily most of us don't get angry Internet space ship mobs when we do. I'm sure you will find another occasion for an epic fight soon and I'm also sure that next time CCP is going to be *WAY* more careful.

They're going to do exactly what they did to those CFC dreads we had tackled the other week.

again if that's for real then you should have the kills!

the goon tears are worth 10x what we lost

No, it doesn't.

This thread helps gather all the stuff in one place so it can be conveniently brushed aside with a few random posts that will be requoted to no effect.

wasn't it ccp policy never to intervene in cap fights for fear of not being neutral

well I think that policy went out the window tonight

again if that's for real then you should have the kills!

At least our tears are reimbursed.

If CFC had the same amount of participation in the actual game as they do in this thread; they would have won the Fountain war by now.

You are completely wrong here though. In regards to the "other week". CCP had an emergency shutdown due to something going on in eve away from the fight. They gave everyone 10 minutes to get safe and took the servers down. If the servers had come back online in 2 or 3 minutes, our dreads would have still be aggressed and would have been killed.

In this case the server shut down like a downtime. All aggression clear, bubbles clear, everyone vanished from local unless they login. Big difference.

Let it go, man.

wasn't it ccp policy never to intervene in cap fights for fear of not being neutral

well I think that policy went out the window tonight

This was put into play at 22:14 UTC, however due to an error in communication, all systems including Z9PP-H itself were moved from the node, which caused everyone who was in the system and was involved in the ongoing fleet fight to be disconnected from Tranquility.

As has already been said, Mad AniGÇÖs Twitch stream had over 5000 people watching including a number of CCP staff. The popularity of the steam got it onto the front page of Twitch and there were lots of people saying they would re-sub or sign up because they were really impressed by the scale of the fight.

I suspect it was the attention this was getting out of game that prompted CCP to try to improve performance. They should have just left it alone and made more effort to re-enforce nodes as these fights start to escalate in the future.

At the time the node went down, the Test Rohk fleets were dying like flies and server performance was picking up. With the TEST battleships out of the way all those carrier and dreads would have been next. CFC fleets were being constantly re-enforced so make no mistake, those caps were dead.

In my view CCP meddled with things to improve the spectacle for the twitch viewers and as a result prevented a truly great battle from playing out. ItGÇÖs now going down in Eve history for the wrong reasons. Such a shame :-)

Just my opnion of course.

How do multiple people combine to make that mistake? If it was the mistake of just one person, what are his prior connections to corporations/alliances ingame? Why was this change not double checked before the node was remapped?

How can this mistake be made? Why should we trust you -- AT ALL -- that this will not happen again?

Will there be compensation or penalties ingame for the parties involved?

If it really was an intentionally incorrect entry -- er, I mean typo -- of the system name, how do you not have autocompletion or input correctness checking, like say a popular mapping tool that is in my signature?

Will internal affairs be involved in investigating this incident?

what im trying to say is that no matter how you paint this my friends you're still losing fountain haha