[Official Event] Heavy Rain

[Eternal.Journey]

Thanks everyone for participating, hope you had fun. We did a bit of experimenting with two things:

1. Splitting the objectives, to avoid a giant 40v40 furball with unplayable fps. Do you like this, or you prefer everyone clashing in 1 big battle?
2. Raising the stakes by putting canon bases on the line. Hakodate got blown up, Cairo and Capetown softened up for the Nomads to destroy next week.

I’d like to know what the general feedback regarding the two is. Obviously we still cannot fully let players dictate canon lore with their non canon ships and no good way to account for skill, but with enough staff supervision and story planning there’s potential for more future events being higher stakes than a fully pre-determined outcome.

Alright, Feedback time.

In regards to the first point. I think with maybe a little better execution, this could be an epic thing for future events. I felt that both sides had elements of getting slaughtered by the opponents, for instance, The Core in Zeta massacred the Order fight and capped the PoB in like 30 minutes flat, Kusari side was mostly overwhelmed by Order Forces in Mu, partly due to having to come through from Tohoku as KOI/[KNF] Caps/snubs, and partly due to the pobs being right on top of Carthage (unlike Zeta, where such pobs were 12k towards Capetown). Dynamic forces and fights is a pretty sweet concept, right up until they end up being a group bailing on one side simply to all crush the other. Maybe a refinement in this area could be justified, as I have no doubt that day one put off alot of people as far as general experience goes.

The second point I feel is also a great idea, but it also should be used for more than just lost assets. I consider it to be a good thing that we can have an affect on the game environment and its surroundings. Am I sad Kusari side lost the Hakodate? Yes, of course I am. It is a good staging midpoint between Tohoku and Mu. Did it need to happen? In all likelihoods, yes. There was alot on the line for the Order, Two key bases, so there had to be some form of deficit on us for each of the other sides. Whether it can be done to exercise some other options too, like expansion/loss of ZoI in a system, or gain/loss of assets, or even something simple and small as a gain in a specific commodity (maybe a cheaper buy-in on a specific item tied to IDs, much like buying OF ID's is tied to first owning the ID already?).

I feel there needs to be some tweaks to events like these. Balancing was a bit of an issue, and it made a huge difference. Numerous counts of unbalanced fighting was noticed, and at several points it was rather unfun for particular people who either got hung out to dry by their allies, or had to cope with overwhelming odds against them. I also believe that this will only be plausible in certain scenarios, such as this one, where there is little in the way of Player to Player grudges to show and be a part of the fight. I believe that there will come a time where this will be on the table, and we will see a remarkably one-sided experience for certain sides in certain situations.

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