[Official Event] - The Red Spring [Sat. Mar. 23rd 1800-2100]

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I suggest the next time there are stakes involved, the event should be slot-based again. Telling people mid-event to switch characters while people logged to reach certain goals for their factions is unreasonable.

As much as I hate to limit participation which will invariably happen with adding slots (some people only want to fly their faction) I'm inclined to agree. A simpler way to do it would be to simply tell people we will be enforcing some kind of balance ahead of time so they know to expect staff members telling them to switch in advance.

No, that's not simpler, because you assume that people are suddenly willing to support the goals of another faction. It also assumes that people have ships on more than one participating sides. You either do slot-based events with pre-registered people, potentially asking for people to sign up ships for the opposing sides, if they are okay with it, or you do unslotted respawn events with no stakes and just for fun. You also can't tell people during the event to switch because all you could do would be arbitrarily pointing at certain people and tell them to do so, which would cause them to complain for aforementioned reasons as well as "why me and not that guy?"

Please, we have a long history of people having hosted events. I even wrote a guide that explains how to do it and why deviating from the proposed steps is a bad idea. Discovery has no crowd-control ingame, and if we saw one thing yesterday in that horribly organized event, then that people either didn't see any ingame announcements because of 32572894572389 things happening on screen and the chatbox being filled with blues, local/system RP as well as the group chats while most people were busy dodging at least one person's shots, missiles getting slung around, mines everywhere, caps left and right, caps had to deal with three hostile developer IFF ships that dragged fire onto them by having a targeting rectangle close to the enemy, many players were complaining about FPS issues from all the ships present + effects firework by the giant shield bubble. CDs, missiles, torpedos and flaks were infuriatingly unreliable, and I assume not only RHA/Coalition were also in voice chats, taking even more sensory attention. Expecting people to have eyes on everything in extremely crowded situations is unreasonable.

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