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EP Aine ISD AURORA Interstellar Services Department	Posted - 2006.09.19 20:05:00 - [1] Quote: New Emperor? Gallente Elections? Idara - Large events like these are completely the realm of CCP. AURORA may be tasked to support them, but the Devs drive the storylines on anything relating to the four Empires. Quote: How often do you have events (big or small)? Kilo - It varies greatly depending on what the various producers have going on. Generally I'd say there is at least an event running somewhere in EVE every couple of days minimum. If there are a number of arcs running at the same time, that figure might be as high as 3-4 a day (usually weekends) but that would be unusual. AURORA has been on a large recruiting drive for several months now, so we have many more actors and producers now than we have had in the past. It follows then that events should become more frequent as these new producers get their wings. Still, remember that EVE is a big place, so running into events can still be rare. Quote: How about a little more frequency, and a litte more knowldege of where/when... Helpless - As above, the new influx of actors and producers will increase frequency in due time. We generally don't widely broadcast location and timing of events purely from a logistics standpoint. Having a very large number of players show up for an event can be difficult for the producer to manage and bad for the gameplay in general (lag, crashes, etc.) On occasion, if a given group of players is involved in an arc, the producer in charge will arrange times and places with that group to further the arc.


EP Aine ISD AURORA Interstellar Services Department	Posted - 2006.09.19 20:21:00 - [2] Originally by: Elsebeth Rhiannon Is there a way to contact the event NPCs after event, or between events for longer term thingies? ... e.g. a feed to a particular email address or nifty GM tool? Elsebeth - we can also be reached via [email protected]. Mails sent to that address are read by Nebulai and the other senior members of AURORA and directed out to producers if appropriate. ----------- Aine Tier 2 Events Producer AURORA


EP Aine ISD AURORA Interstellar Services Department	Posted - 2006.09.19 22:06:00 - [3] Originally by: Rodj Blake Edited by: Rodj Blake on 19/09/2006 22:04:34Just to clarify things, am I right in thinking that the delay in getting a new Emperor and President is down to CCP and not Aurora? CCP controls the progress and timing of both these events. AURORA has no control over either. ----------- Aine Tier 2 Events Producer AURORA


EP Aine ISD AURORA Interstellar Services Department	Posted - 2006.09.19 23:49:00 - [4] Originally by: Omber Zombie Sorry to sound a little harsh here, but I believe at last years fanfest Neb mentioned that the Gallente Elections were being handed over to you guys from CCP control. I can't find the post atm, but it was mentioned somewhere here too. In the spirit of being helpful - is this the post you're referring to? Unfortunately that is old data. It's true that AURORA had hands on the elections at one point, but that is no longer true. I don't know the details (and even if I did I wouldn't be able to say) but the fact is that we do not at this time have any control or say over the progress of the elections, the emperor, the insorium arc or any other large-scale "racial" event. Believe me when I say that everyone in AURORA is interested in seeing these arcs turn out, as much or more so than the rest of the playerbase. Regrettably, we aren't any different from you in this - we're all waiting to see what will happen. It could change tomorrow, but at this time this is the situation. ----------- Aine Tier 2 Events Producer AURORA


EP Aine ISD AURORA Interstellar Services Department	Posted - 2006.09.20 17:21:00 - [5] Originally by: Revan Neferis I know for sure that Sani Sabik for example, since Omir vanished there is no Aurora at all interacting with "us". Well - that specific case would be because AURORA doesn't have control over the Blood Raiders. We can't interact with you from that perspective (i.e. members of that faction). Not to say we can't or wouldn't work with you in another way, but the Blooders are off the table atm. ----------- Aine Tier 2 Events Producer AURORA


EP Aine ISD AURORA Interstellar Services Department	Posted - 2006.09.20 22:52:00 - [6] Not to mention - remember also that AURORA is a volunteer organization made up of EVE players specifically. Not only do we have work, school, family, sleep and all the other things other folk have that distract from EVE-diction - the vast majority of us also have commitments on our EVE player characters in addition to AURORA duties. Corp ops, alliance blobs, mining parties and everything else also leach away time from most AURORA actors and producers. ----------- Aine Tier 2 Events Producer AURORA


EP Aine ISD AURORA Interstellar Services Department	Posted - 2006.09.21 13:27:00 - [7] Originally by: Ifni What I suggest is that there be a player submission option, similar to the Interstellar Correspondant's news submission, to allow players involved with story arcs, to potentially alter the impending direction of various arcs, behind the scenes. [email protected] If you've got an idea, something cool you want to propose, some angle on an arc that's progressing or pretty much anything else - send it there. Neb and the leads read it and if it's relevant and decent they send it out for the rest of us to consider. No promises that everything sent in will be acted upon - producers have our own ideas for arcs in progress that may not jive with some suggestions, and frankly not all submitted ideas are either workable or interesting to produce. Speaking for myself only however, I tried as much as I could to incorporate player requests and suggestions into the arc that I ran recently. ----------- Aine Tier 2 Events Producer AURORA


EP Aine ISD AURORA Interstellar Services Department	Posted - 2006.09.23 19:17:00 - [8] Originally by: Wolfgang Jager 1) Attackability of Aurora actors. Yeah - that's a problem from our side as well. It gives us an extra thing to take into account beyond the normal. We also have to account for the fact that players attacking players in high sec leads to bad things as well. I think that improvements to the gang logic to allow mutual defence is on our wishlist, but realistically we're going to have to work within the system as it exists for a while I think. Swapping attackability from character to character is even more problematic though, as there is no visible flag that tells you which actors are safe to shoot and which ones aren't. We really don't want to get to the point where players have to second-guess whether shooting an actor will result in their death. Originally by: Wolfgang Jager 2) Working with people in events Hmm - not sure what I can say here. Sometimes an actor might be playing a stubborn / inexperienced / incompetent character or the actor might genuinely be inexperienced in that scenario. AURORA recruits from all player types (Industrialists, pirates, fleet commanders, etc) and experience levels (only in EVE for a few months to people that were in beta). The demands of a story might not allow us to constantly operate in our "comfort zones" (which is incidentaly one of the coolest things about acting - I've been exposed to more diverse things as an actor than I ever would have as a player). Originally by: Wolfgang Jager 3) Rewards - I have a couple of concerns here. One is simply that Aurora event coordinators should have the ability to apply standing changes. We actually do have that ability, and we're starting to use it more frequently. A couple of events with standing changes that come to mind are the Stacmon incident (sec status changes) and the InoTech arc (Caldari Navy standings changes). It's somewhat labour intensive to do it though, so if it's mostly members of the same corp we'll often adjust corp standings rather than the standings of every individual member present (not to mention that will usually make more sense IC). Originally by: Wolfgang Jager Secondly, a better understanding of what levels of reward are appropriate. Rewards are the thing I find hardest to judge. Especially since every players concept of a fair reward is different. Some would rather have less ISK / module rewards and more standings / "soft" rewards (like the ability to call in a favour from an NPC entity). Others want a reward exactly equal to what they would have earned if they ran missions or mined for the duration of the event. Still others don't want any reward beyond being part of an event. We tend to bounce ideas off each other for sanity checks, and we're always willing to listen to what the playerbase regards as "fair" in terms of rewards. Remember our mail address. Originally by: Wolfgang Jager 4) Situational awareness: Again tough to comment on, especially since hindsight is 20/20. Sometimes the producer is stuck logisically (i.e. there is no other way but to drive a freighter through Jita at primetime) or is trying to maximise the number of players "touched" by the event. Other times it might be the inexperience factor (either as a player or as a producer), or something overlooked in planning, or simply a mistake (we are human afterall). We do try to bounce ideas off each other to catch the possible problems, but sometimes things just take on a life of their own . Thanks for the thanks BTW - it's nice to have your work appreciated. We do this stuff mainly for your entertainment afterall. ----------- Aine Tier 2 Events Producer AURORA


EP Aine ISD AURORA Interstellar Services Department	Posted - 2006.09.25 20:06:00 - [9] Originally by: Saibotek How about a Suggestion..? Automated Mining Operation Intervention.. we all know what it is. /me grins. You're not the first to suggest a little judicious belt-cleaning. When it comes right down to it though, AURORA can't even begin to justify an event focusing on that particular element for a couple of reasons: 1) If we got it wrong in the slightest (bad intel, over-eager actors or whatever) - we're now griefing legit customers of CCP. For that reason alone we'd never consider an event of this type. If we were sure beyond a shadow of a doubt that some automated hijinks were going down then why would bother eventing? It would be an open and shut GM petition and the accounts in question would be banned. 2) Remember that everything AURORA does is in-character. This means that we'd need to come up with an in-character reason why an event is targetting specific miners. From an in-game perspective, every logged in account is an individual within the EVE cluster. Our characters don't know what a "macro-miner" is so there's no way to persecute them specifically. The EVE GM's are here to enforce the out-of-game rules and regulations made by CCP. They do a fine job as it is, we don't need to crowd them. Now the idea of having an invasion of low sec by a pirate faction, requiring a large-scale response to reinforce the faction navy / CONCORD. That has some legs to it. Hmmm.... ----------- Aine Tier 2 Events Producer AURORA

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