The Grand Heist is now live on Tranquility, and with it, a week-long Daily Login Gifts! In addition, all four of New Eden’s major empires had agreed to a 50% market-wide broker’s fee reduction, and a 50% sales tax reduction that will last for the next three months.
Please use this thread to discuss the Grand Heist with fellow Pilots. Have fun!
You are pretty bad at this. I said I represent everybody. I said that I talked to a lot of people who are happy with the free isk. I said those people matter more than people on the forums who don’t play the game.
Three separate statements. And whether you like it or not, I represent you. There are 10 CSM members, the electorate is the entire game, we represent the entire game.
I see other points of view constantly. Seeing, hearing, understanding - all parts of my job. Agreeing with - not necessarily a part of my job.
There are plenty of other space games, plenty of other MMOs, and at least two major space MMOs. When I say resilient, I mean it - EVE players stick with this game through good times and bad, and the data proves it. And it’s not because there’s nothing else to play. Most of us play other games some times, but we always come back to EVE.
Because they were saying that two years ago before they imposed scarcity on the game, the velocity of isk and the money supply in the game have been steadily dropping for those two years, and CCP has recently announced that the economy is where they wanted it to be so they can start turning the faucets back on.
This would be a legitimate gripe if they were actually selling something. They’re giving this stuff away for free.
I didn’t blame the players for being annoyed. I correctly predicted that they would be annoyed. It was a relatively easy prediction, because those of you who are mad here are always mad. And, for the record, I told them multiple times not to do this - I thought it smelled desperate and if they had to do it to tie it to undocking, not just logging in. That being said, I don’t think it’s the worst thing they’ve done this month so I’m not bent out of shape about it, and I acknowledge it’s popular. But we all know, if there’s one thing folks on the forums like to do, it’s complain.
You, for example - I think if I ever read you say something positive about EVE, it would be the first time.
The good thing is that both of those things exist in the game.
There have been no big player thefts since Citadels?
It is still free - it’s being handed out to people who have to do nothing but log in to claim it. That it’s only going to paying customers doesn’t make it “not free.” I don’t pay my subscription to get it, I pay my subscription to play the game. They handed me free stuff for doing something I already do.
Elite Dangerous, Star Citizen, are the obvious ones. Plenty of people who play EVE have played those as well.
I love the fact that you think I praise everything CCP does, when I am actively one of the biggest critics and I tell them my criticism directly to their faces every week.
Even ignoring Judgement Day, read this one: Revenge Seven Years in the Making Leads to Eve's Most Expensive Heist Ever - INN
Just want to chime in and say that players have indeed been finding the keys, and the first few reserve bank heists have taken place.
There were a few updates to the ESS Key sites, reducing the reset timer, and adding more clear text for when certain gates are unlocked.
I mean, there are a ton. This game has great stories.
I can’t read the whole 2011 story, because the website you linked it from doesn’t work anymore. It won’t go past the first part.
And no, I’m pulling up stories I’m familiar with that are larger.
Well said.
and if you do not like Briscs take on things feel free to engage me. BUT understand that I have a similar frame of mind. I will listen, pass along well reasoned arguments, but not rants and ill considered suggestions.
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Hello, everyone,
We have identified an issue affecting the acceleration gate in the second room that caused some of the SCC key sites in Lowsec to be much harder to complete than intended. This problem has been hotfixed today, 30 July at 12:00 UTC, and we expect all SCC sites that are warped to after this time to be working correctly. We are in the process of determining if any sites were warped to in during the first hour after downtime and will redistribute these as required.
Thanks for submitting bug reports for the last few days. These have been vital in identifying why only some players have been unable to complete the sites while others successfully obtained the ESS Reserve Bank keys.
We continue to monitor the metrics on our end, but do let us know if you encounter any more issues with the SCC sites. Cheers!
Very true. Does not stop me from trying, though
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Honestly depends upon the reception I get in the initial contact. Did I ask the right person? Is it possible? Is it on their radar already?
I keep my notes and try to keep track of what has been accomplished, failed, or outright denied.
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I accept criticism all the time. It’s the name calling and other nonsense that has no place. Like, for instance, accusing me of being a troll because I disagree with you or others.
LOL, no I wasn’t. I hated the thing from the beginning and was one of the most vocal against it.
I read it - it strikes me as pretty much a standard corp heist, made difficult only by wormhole mechanics in getting folks in and the stuff out. I think the story of how INIT killed Fort Knocks is far more interesting than this story, but I do appreciate that both of them can still happen in this game. I disagree with the contention that this type of event couldn’t happen anymore. People still steal things from POSes, and we’ve seen all kinds of crazy things happen with structures being flipped, the abandoned structure mechanic that’s resulted in crazy loot pinatas (I was part of one of those myself just a few month ago) and all kinds of other cool stuff you’ll never see in another game.
They are both space sandbox MMOs, albeit one is done and the other isn’t.
I hope that’s explicit enough for you. If you want to know more, go try them out, or see ZhaoMin’s post above (although he disagrees with me that these games are similar enough to EVE to have them try them out.
Bottom line - if you’re having fun with EVE, keep playing. If you aren’t, try to get back to having fun. I don’t think coming here to the forums and being negative is going to suddenly make EVE fun for you again, though.
The only people I dismiss out of hand are people like you, who constantly jump on everything I say and start screaming.
I don’t have to do any of that, sorry. That’s not part of my job.
I’m sure the three people you were talking to are all not big fans of mine. If you’d like, you can come check out my twitch show with a thousand people watching tomorrow and ask them how they feel about me.
I post here because these are the official forums, there are plenty of people who do play who post here, and I have an obligation to be visible and make sure they understand I’m available if they need me. It’s something I campaign about, so I do it. It’s part of my job to maintain a discourse with the community.
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