(12-17-2018, 01:24 AM)DarkTails Wrote: The London event didn't heave rule-breaking interference, so no matter how you want to see it, it's not the same situation.

(12-17-2018, 02:04 AM)Markam Wrote: Let's be honest, both sides of the argument have valid points, and the poll count is fairly even (okay, its a bit on the redo side). No matter what decision is taken there will be annoyed people, I voted for a redo to be honest, but I think there are other options. Also, I think it is important to take the lessons learned from the first two events to improve the quality of events, and I for one would like to share my appreciation for the effort being made for these events, the alternative would be much easier a path for them to take (just let the devs do as they will with regards to the story).

As for this event, we can either follow the poll result and simply redo the event. Or, we can call it a draw, and edit the text of the GRN victory result so its a bit more Council favored.

i.e, Both destroyed but Council retains control of the system and a different council Battleship shows up in a defensive posture & the system is secured by Council, though the threat to IDF is diminished somewhat.

Or possibly as a third option, we can forget the event ever took place, and simply let the devs decide the course of the story.

As for future events, I suggest that a draw condition is set in advance, with conditions for its use, such as a close victory for either side or as is the case for the first two events, unforeseen circumstances causing one side to be favored.

Also, for those who are calling for Blue message events, I think this shows a lack of imagination. I think with the combined minds on discovery we can think of something better.

Edit:
One thing I would like to suggest is that events be mirrored when possible to avoid defender/attacker bias. For example in the running the gauntlet event, the attackers were clearly at an advantage in such a scenario, so a similar event should be done with the sides flipped.

(12-17-2018, 02:42 AM)Markam Wrote: As someone who mostly plays(played) Bretonia, I feel your frustration in terms of story development, if you were to go by player count the BAF would have sacked both New Tokyo and New Paris both by now, but it is as it is.

I do believe that faction leaders get a say in the story to a certain extent, and infocards for each house are I think heavily written by those factions. Though of course its hard to believe that Bretonia would agree to the absolute unfounded drubbing it has constantly had to endure.

If I were to go into a rant about these current story line affecting events, I would say, where were these events up to now? Why didn't the York/Southampton defeat get decided through PvPRoleplay? How about the fall of Leeds? The list goes on.

But that is all done with now, and we can only hope that we are given a fair chance at deciding the story, this is our chance and we shouldn't blow it by making current devs lives hard, most of the former devs who set this in motion are no longer here after all.

(12-17-2018, 12:36 AM)Thunderer Wrote: I can't bother to read all the posts in this thread, but I've heard that someone claimed that whoever was on the Arles played dirty.

As it might already be obvious to some, I was on the Arles. I didn't play dirty (intentionally), but that NEMP explosion reduced my FPS rate to 1. At least, whenever I looked at the remaining cloud. So I aimed to get as far as possible from the cloud so I'd have more FPS, not because I wanted to hide. There were Council ships near me constantly anyways, so hiding wouldn't work no matter if I wanted it to or not, though I don't know why there were so few Council ships attacking me at first. I guess it wasn't only me having the FPS lag.

At one point I "abused" the EK bug that is caused by bumping. I didn't do it intentionally. By routine, while facing another battleship from point blank, I constantly reverse while having EK on so I would turn faster and thus defend my blindspot. If I am rammed, I can stop the EK by holding the reverse button. However, my computer's reaction was slowed down considerably if the NEMP cloud happened to be on my screen, so getting out of EK took a longer time. I think that the event should be repeated, because this indeed didn't seem fair to me. Even if it can be argued that it was fair, it was definitely not enjoyable, at least for the time the NEMP cloud was on my screen. Can't do anything with 1 FPS.

By the way, has anyone noticed my allusions with RPing a Contre-Amiral who was called Philippe Braudel, in the system which contains the nebula called Mer Mediteranée?