Admin Feedback Thread 2.0

[Alley]

Whislt I wholeheartedly appreciate the effort put into the anomaly mini-events, I have to raise an eyebrow at the bubble-like nature of them.

Just a while ago, an anomaly event happened in Omicron Delta and myself and several other Core ships went to go investigate. When we got there, we saw a couple Order ships, and the area was quickly filling up with third parties. I don't need to go into depth on our RP, but anomalies that could be alien in nature or hold significant scientific, economical or military potential are basically our MO. If we then see a couple of our mortal enemies hovering around it in front of us, this rings alarm bells. Especially if it's all happening in our backyard. So as you can imagine, the approach we would take would be to flush the zone of hostiles before trying to establish control of the situation.

So to be told by the console that we're prohibited from doing that and have to sit and watch just feels very immersion breaking. Maybe the intent is to raise maximum participation and ensure everyone gets a piece of the pie and so the event follows a structure; but isn't the point of roleplay interactions to be spontaneous and dynamic? Overriding RP in a live roleplay environment for something like this just feels weird.

Say Wild/Nomads turned up, would they just be expected to sit idly by whilst a bunch of humans mess with what could potentially be a remnant of DK?

Granted, I don't know if things changed later on as I had to log off. But for these kinds of events do we just have to forgo our RP or what? The concept of that feels a little weird.

First off, the Wild and Nomad players are fully aware not to show up as hostiles in events (exception being Cultist events) unless it's been planned. When that happens, it's because it's been previously worked out with them in order to:
1 : Ensure they survive more than 60 seconds
2 : Get some fun out of it

This is why the wild player that tagged along has not actively acted as a hostile vessel.

Second, I feel like it is a strange statement coming from someone that not so long ago was preaching we (players) need to do everything we can to generate activity. When you're immediatly said the thing is going to be very dangerous, I don't think it's really that far stretched to consider players can enter a temporary truce in order to overcome a greater foe. I am more troubled you took the initiative to start shooting people without even bothering to ask me if that was okay. It's not the first time there are events like these that ask people to team up for the duration of the event in order for everyone to be able to play and let them resume normal operations once it's considered over.

The Core players have perfectly fulfilled what was expected of them and as far as I know followed their RP. When an Order player started threatening the survival of the group, they firmly warned him and destroyed him when he refused to cooperate. That is perfectly in line with the protection of the exploration group. When the group managed to return to Delta, the Core players immediatly started to secure and demand all nomad remains, which is exactly what I expected them to do. They executed everything perfectly and I did not even need to PM them once.

It is personally my expectation to allow people with ZOI allowance to participate in the event with what they have in the region, as very few people happen to have ships belonging to nearly all factions in order to account for all possible variations. Killing that Order player meant you denied him his right to participate simply because he didn't bring something else, without pausing for a moment to think that, perhaps, it happens he doesn't own a Core ship.

Would have been nice to be able to participate, instead of without a deadline, the jumphole just closes 2.6k in front of my ship before I could use it. Not to mention the consistently poor timing for North American players. Hope people had fun in there.

The event has happened three hours earlier than the previous one in order to give a chance to Aus/NZ players to participate. I do my best to shuffle event times around within my capabilities but it is not possible for me to start a 1h30 long event at 3.00am.

As for the reason it closed in front of you, that's really bad luck and you should have PM'd me and we would have worked it out. All players with the appropriate ZOI were offered beams to FP 11 to join the event. The event started 15 minutes after its announcement and the jump hole stayed stable for another 15 minutes afterwards. That was more or less a 30 minutes window to join. The jump hole closed because it was planned to happen as they reached the second anomaly to cause the players to be stranded.

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Alley was right.