feeding people activity is not a good thing. get out, join a corporation, go on roams, find targets, shoot targets. activity breeds activity, and sitting in station waiting for a broadcast about a fake carrier being deployed would only hurt the game.

the main reason most of the player come to eve is the big fights

Get out of HS, p!s$ off locals, you'll get your big fights.

Awesome! Another "Harry formula" post!

Formula goes thus:
1) Post dumb idea
2) insult anyone who says anything against it
3) goto 2

Seriously though Harry, if you want big fleet fights go and join a corp or alliance that has big fleet fights. It's not that hard. However, experience has taught me that you're not after a solution to your problems, you're after what you want because you want it so I really only expect 2) as usual.

i agree that incursions are a pain in the arse to get into. id like some more group orientated hi-sec content. it doesnt even have to pay anywhere near what incursion runners get.

But random carrier spawns here and there is not going to be the big battles i think ud expect. People see the big fights in the news involving Null sec. Then they join the game and mull about aimlessly in hi-sec, where ppl rarely play together.

why? When Incursions have big carriers and mad isks in them, and they dnt start big fights. why would this carrier start big fights?

i am most curious when i think that all major fights are started by someone screwing up...not NPC's lol.

with big fights in regards of the carrier event, I mean PVE, 500+ people fighting the NPC carriers

you need to present new players what eve does best, big fights, it does not matter if it is PVE at the start, its just important they see those 500 ships shooting something, they need to get clue about what eve is about... this would just be a starting point

at the moment they login and nothing is happening, they just shoot a rat or do some missions, all other stuff is not accessible, at least not easy enough

the game does not show beginners what it can do, most of them leave, never getting a basic feeling about what the game is able to provide

with those carrier events they get a much better feeling what eve can be, and they could have that with their ibis 1 hour into the game, just to see what its about...

you don't get the point as usual, and i wont join your mining fleets, this is about fights dude

with big fights in regards of the carrier event, I mean PVE, 500+ people fighting the NPC carriers

nullsec has no big fights either

cos Tidi

and grrr goons

Note that there is a carrier to kill in the new player SOE Blood Stained Stars Epic Arc by the way. Disappointingly for a lot of new players its somewhat empty of loot when you do finally kill it.

How is that any different from a big incursion? Rather than running these events with 500 players, why not take the same 500 players and invade ur neighbours? Make them defend their stuff or lose it.

Hi-sec players might show interest in these events. unless of course it somehow leads to PvP, then they'll avoid it like the plague. What do u think incursions would be like if u went suspect for entering a site or shooting an incursion rat? Because thats what ur idea is. Its not going to be like a high profile dev-lead event that took months to plan and is part of the eve back story. They wont be mini-battles for caldari.

if ur bored get some friends, go out and shoot something.

nullsec has no big fights either, I mean not frequent enough not big enough, those carrier fights could be a starter, or for the time waiting until something really big is happening like BR... nullsec is 90% of the time extremely boring

you need to be able to login and have something going on, however most of the time nothing is happening... frequent npc carrier events would change that and bring people together, out of that the rest of the game could evolve much better I think

We had a 4 hour fight with about 350 pilots only a few jumps away from where you are currently living ( assuming you are still in geminate?) on sunday.
We had similar ones but not as long but with 200 or so pilots several times in the last week.
We arrange these fights by hitting xxdeath /pets assets and then turning up to timers that suit us.
They are far bigger than us so it is tricky to win and provides us with great entertainment even when we lose.
We also find many smaller fights every day.
Often within a few jumps of where you are cloaked currently.
Have you considered afk cloaking in BWF? it is a few jumps from you and people visit throughout the day looking for fights.

because those 500 players don't have to be in a fleet, therefore its much easier to join the fight... it has nothing to do with going suspect, you ever killed a rat and did go suspect? guess not...

you also don't seem to understand that I'm grown up, joining a fleet or a corp with you kids is something impossible for me... there needs to be more ways to join fights without joining your coms and stuff, honestly you guys would anoy the **** out of me

most of the gamers out there are like me, they just won't tell you

Big fight equals to TIDI which CCP cannot provide ressources for ALL the time.

I went to those carrier event and I had a fight or 2 in 1000+ player when we got hotdrop by a carrier blob (we even had carriers) but it was awesome because it is not everyday you get those fights.

If you were to get carrier kill every hour. I would get bored quickly and probably a lot of other people as well. They are looking for small fight that can escalate into BR-5RB or Asakai. But they are not looking to get HS free carrier kill (we saw that with the Super of the Caldari navy)

I think that we need to get the incursion opened to new players with a cruiser en below spawn only. It would give newbies with a fun way to get a group and still participate into those incursions until they are with the right skills to pilot a Vindicator or a Machariel or a Logistic ship. They would be able to still do something fun at their level.

Big fight is not the solution.

Want it ? Go null sec and train for a capital ship. Then wait. Eve is all about waiting for the right oportunities....

If five hundred randoms show up to attack some NPCs in dangerous space with no co-ordination whatsoever, what do you think is going to happen to them when some remotely co-ordinated PVP group shows up?

Clearly ganking AFK ratters gives you a wonderful insight into these things.

Now, what do your five hundred people who aren't even fleeted, much less co-ordinated do when Rooks and Kings, Pandemic Legion or one of the other groups who are actually good at the game show up with an actual fleet?

Just Want to point this out Large fight Are only epic becuase they dont happen all the time if you were able to get in to a fight with 1k+ players every 6hour or so then large fight will begin to be something no one give a f about becuase they Are so comment

I really don't see this working the way you expect it to.

At best an organised group would pop and loot the NPC before anyone else got to it and at worst I suspect it would probably be used as a lure that would allow organised groups to harvest easy kills. Either way I doubt it would do much to aid new player retention.