Just FYI, there was more than "ONE EVIL FLEET OF NULLSEC MAD SLAUGHETERERS HARVESTING HISECCER KILLMAILS" (tm), perhaps the initial onslaught was done primarily by Razor alliance, but later on a full-scaled battle between nullsec powers broke out at the gate, and resulted in destruction of 3 capital ships and loads of battleships, not to mention the smaller vessels.

If the event was better coordinated, it could have been a great experience for the new players, giving them indeed a taste of pros and cons of the nullsec warfare (yes, TiDi, lag and 300+ enemy blobs are our common life, but so are sweet, sweet killmails, seeing capital ships melt under your fire and so on). So I can imagine people's frustration at CCP and it in fact makes me frustrated too, because instead of providing fresh and eager blood to our nullsec it caused many people to turn their backs on the null and come back to their silent loathing of the "EBUL ZERO ZERO EMPIRES" while mining veldspar.

So if I may suggest something - CCP, next time ask your CSM contacts who are the right persons to talk to in the nullsec powers, ask them for support. Some may ignore the call, some may react in a completely adverse way, but I am sure there will be nullsec players and forces happy to assisst you - just to annoy other nullsec forces, if not for anything else.

Oh you silly self entitled fool. I bet you hate anyone playing the game in any other way than the way you play it.

Tell me, will the next AT event be held in space that anyone can **** on the proceedings? How does the AT "theme park" event fit into your view of what CCP does/doesn't provide?

I don't do Live Events, but I can fully appreciate the disappointment expressed by those that did take part.

1- All previous events were done in heavy TIDI, why were you expecting something different now is beyond me. Yes moving 20 jumps in TIDI is bad, but without distributing the people through many systems, the event in no way could've handled more than 2000 people.

3- As for leadership, CCP never said they were commanding the fleets, it is actually impossible. They just set up a fleet for the remnants of the EVE players that are too anti social that they couldn't find a spot in one of the numerous fleets that were going up, fleets with some leadership and most importantly comms.

4- CCP jobs has always been, not to actually provide content, but to provide the "tools" to actually create that content, which they did very adequately. There was a lot of fights to be had and if you failed to capitalize on that is on you.

This event was clearly in line with what EVE is about, a cold harsh player driven (not CCP driven) universe. The real game is in dangerous space and not in high security space. The high sec players should be and are irrelevant in the shaping of the universe. You want to do your level 4 missions all day, fine go ahead, but don't come whining when you realize you are actually the lowest denominator in EVE.

Thank you CCP and the devs especially for taking the time to making this, and showing a group of players a facet of EVE they didn't know existed, and hopefully you can create more events like this in the future.

3- As for leadership, CCP never said they were commanding the fleets

6- It was very clear from the beginning that this was a pirate oriented event, seriously you didn't think that it was going to be staged in null? If you can't afford to lose it (even your ****** pod) don't undock.

It seems to me this event was very poorly organized.
Ganked puts high sec dwellers into 0.0 every weekend and it's great fun for all parties involved. CCP helped enable the flight of a 1000 rifters. There are a lot of people would jump to help CCP organize a massive RP-ish fight by providing scouts, fc's, voice, prizes and advice.
But I agree with Jester, saying that CCP dropped the ball and dropped it badly.

Most pilots just ended in TiDi hell trying to get from some point in space someone had posted from some other channel or Twitter to the various channels that were supposed to be being used to co-ordinate an all Emperical Navy forces and capsuleer strike force.

Everyone I flew with was in something they could afford to lose and had JC'd into blank clones as most people know this. Don't come across as being 1337 and crap-posting just to feel superior.

The forum rage is about the lack of information on the event and during the event (if we can even still call it that). It's mostly not about the losses but about the information, formation and how that information was delivered etc.

These kind of "events" are generated every single day in eve from pilots just getting together. We don't need CCP to gear that kind of content, we do that already. This was touted as being something of epic proportions and all it was was an example of a lot of people being messed about.

Words don't fail you. You've failed yourself.

Harden the **** up.

And I laugh at your killboard.

Not telling them that the final objective was in Curse until we were almost at ihal was a bad idea

most people are acting like that was known from the get go. It wasn't.

CCP knew what will happen. I bet they had a good laugh. So did we.

I have absolutely no doubt about this. It's probably payback for all the moaning about CCP giving out free IWatch Scorpions to SOMER

And yeah, don't tell me welcome to null or pvp... I know both.

orly?
"I live in lowsec and I love PvP - My sec status is near enough -10, and I went to FD- and 8J fully expecting to die - so please don't say I'm a highsec carebear just crying here."
This really made my day.

Who is this kid from ******* SMA (lol) with terrible killboard record? Why are you acting so tough now?