CCP is looking forward to the Council of Stellar Management assaulting the in-game economy’s center, the Jita trade hub, in which players plan to “Burn Jita” down as the 30-day ban on the former and controversial boss of the organization, Alexander “The Mittani” Gianturco ends.
We don’t play EVE Online, and don’t really understand a lot of this, but it sound absolutely mental.
According to CCP, many players are worried the assault will hurt the game’s economy, but as some 14,000 odd Mittani’s Goonswarm alliance Thrashers start prepping for war, CCCP is busy popping popcorn.
“I tell you what, it’s going to be fucking brilliant,” EVE senior producer Jon Lander told Eurogamer. “Absolutely brilliant. There was one bug [the 'bookmark escaping agro bug'] in the game that meant that if they do the things they’re going to do, they could have escaped the in-game consequences. So we fixed that bug about three weeks ago. And they went, okay.
“They’re going to do exactly what you’re able to do in the game, and people will have to roll with it. It’ll be great.
“Last night I got an email – Jita was at 2100. Time dilation kicked in at 15 per cent. And there were people just watching the shit that was going down. It was brilliant. It was absolutely great.
“We want people to be able to do this. If Goonswarm want to do it, we want them to do it and we want them to have a great time doing it.”
Lead game designer Kristoffer Touborg said player-driven events such as this are what makes EVE different than your average MMO, and it’s CCP’s policy to sit back and watch it all unfold.
“It’s what makes Eve a really good game,” he said. “Do you want to play a 15 minute match of Call of Duty that you won’t remember the next day, or do you want to spend four months manufacturing 14,000 Thrashers to do this? It’s just so big and awesome.
“The people they’re going to hurt now are people who have quite a lot of security. There’s not a lot of turnaround on ships and goods in Empire. I think it might be healthy if we lose a lot of this industrial power, if they have to go back and save up for their ships again and be a part of the cycle of life everyone else is a part of.
“I don’t like complete security, and I do like when a large group of players who live in complete security have that pulled away temporarily. It’s going to be healthy.”
CCP prepared for the event by switching out servers and beefing up the kits.
Again, we understand none of this, but we’ll let you know how it all turns out.
Source: VG247
