Really, is it just me or are the drops from this last event completely over the top?

First off: Most none 0.0 entities can't put together a fleet to engage the CCP fleet before PL or the like drop in.

Secondly: The loot inside these CCP ships is completely over the top, I'm all for free stuff, but a potential 7b in loot? Really?

Suggestions:
1) Maybe for your future CCP events if you're doing a huge fleet just 1 plex in each or something, at the moment with that amount of potential loot the likes of PL/NC. will make an effort to get to these events just for the isk (Looks more than a super carriers worth was dropped there, or enough isk to field a fleet of tengus or w/e).

2) If you want to stick with the huge loot theme, then for the love of everyone who is not in a huge 0.0 alliance, just make several smaller groups go to different destinations, at least that way they would be more easily engage-able by the average high-sec/low-sec entity.


Just putting this in before you do this yet again with an over the top fleet with over the top loot. At which stage you'll start getting a lot of resentment from everyone who isn't PL. Maybe next time I'll go along in an arty bs just to snipe the wrecks before rich 0.0 can get richer yo.

Yeah good idea they should spawn in highsec so that if you shoot them you get instantly concorded

Whens the last time someone complained that characters in the starting zones for a traditional MMO couldn't raid or take part in high-level events?
Because that is exactly what you're doing.

You're calling all of highsec and lowsec a starting zone? You're calling well over half the player base the starting zone?

CCP takes pride in the fact that there is no single "end game" in Eve. To try and say otherwise (i.e. that 0.0 is the only end game) is completely missing the point of this game.

To exclude every single "end game" but 0.0 doesn't seem like a particularly viable strategy to me. Especially when that single "end game" is the most spoilt.

Absolutely.

Let me put it this way.

In nullsec, you do whatever the F you want. Absolute freedom. Lowsec, you have freedom with consequences and limits. Highsec is so watered down that its missing half of what makes EVE the game it is.

Try actually exploring the galaxy, getting out of your comfort zone, and you will very rapidly begin to realize that highsec is a starting zone packed to the brim with new players and manbabies.

You're calling all of highsec and lowsec a starting zone? You're calling well over half the player base the starting zone?

CCP takes pride in the fact that there is no single "end game" in Eve. To try and say otherwise (i.e. that 0.0 is the only end game) is completely missing the point of this game.

To exclude every single "end game" but 0.0 doesn't seem like a particularly viable strategy to me. Especially when that single "end game" is the most spoilt.

Absolutely.

Let me put it this way.

In nullsec, you do whatever the F you want. Absolute freedom. Lowsec, you have freedom with consequences and limits. Highsec is so watered down that its missing half of what makes EVE the game it is.

Try actually exploring the galaxy, getting out of your comfort zone, and you will very rapidly begin to realize that highsec is a starting zone packed to the brim with new players and manbabies.

the tinfoil in the events channel was hilarious

"CCP should just give the loot to PL instead of wasting our time ((("
"THE EVENT WAS RIGGED"

It was rigged, in the sense that CCP threw the fight. They shot up the nascent defense fleet and asked them to stand off, then shot at each other near the end, just before the final engagement.

I think the defense fleet idea needs some more thought. Perhaps an escort fleet that counters attackers from afar rather then trying to get close to CCP and defending them.

I do understand CCP is probably going to run a different sort of event later on today. Hopefully in a different location. I think they did a good job with this event. If they keep switching it up that should go a long way towards evening things out. They idea of separate smaller fleets simultaneously is an interesting one.

Thanks for a more level headed reply.

I've been outlaw for longer than your character's even existed. I've fought in 0.0 under a couple of different entities.

I can honestly say I've explored the galaxy and moved out of my comfort zone in eve several times.

I'm going to have to get CCP Soundwave to give me a BPO for tinfoilhats. I'll be filthy rich.

Were the T2 gang link drops BPOs? It shows on the kill board as such.

Although a wider array of live events would indeed be a good thing, I do not see how you can complain about missing out on one in particular.

That is what makes live events in EVE unique in the first place, they are not content that everyone and their grandmother can get involved in just because they want to. You have to in the right place at the right time in order to participate, and you will be interacting with other players if you are involved.

If you choose to play the game living in the risk free zone; spending your time hording ISK instead of making friends and gaining influence, then you are going to be at an extreme disadvantage against other players when you do want to get involved in events such as these.

Then you would understand how simplistic the mechanics of highsec are compared to the rest of EVE. It is a starting zone, through and through - there is little opportunity for real profit outside market manipulation, and nearly all of the risk-reward gameplay that is so fundamental to EVE is simply absent. Also, I would highly recommend you don't use relative age as a judge of knowledge or character, because this certainly wasn't my first character, and your initial post reeks of ignorance, be it willful or due to being new.

A lot of the CCP dev alts are in those 0.0 entities you speak of so it's not much of a surprise (a bunch of them came out and said they were in goons)

These type of things come down to alliance morale maintenance, to keep members logging in. Not for us "pubies" as they call us.

Its really just CCP having a little fun and stirring the pot in Nullsec. As is, there is not much warfare over resources, because most of the alliances have settled down into their homes. This is obviously not the case everywhere, but I'd be willing to bet that CCP is trying to create a highly valuable, unpredictable resource that is juicy enough (T2 BPOs) to get alliances that tolerate each other to start fighting over them when they see opportunity.