Okay, so I'll take a shot at answering this...
Putting aside IC reasoning for several moments - that's an entirely separate matter, and as you say rather more understandable - I think there are two major reasons why you might feel like you are picking up on some OOC annoyance as well.
The first is that, as people have commented on, your post raises the ugly specters of favoritism and ingame monopolies, two things that -really- rile the community up. As major issues that both doomed the previous live events team (AURORA, see above) and that are hotly debated even among the non-RP community (see: debates on the Tech monopolies, t20 incident, etc) people may very well be feeling a sort of automatic rejection of something that has lead to a lot of OOC, even OOG drama in the past.
The second has some to do with the first, but is somewhat different: Frankly, many RPers do not wish to have goonswarm intrude on our territory. Yes, we know you are vastly powerful, both economically and militarily. Yes, we know you can flood an entire region with people in a way we cannot. Yes, we know you have oodles of supercaps already, etc...
In short, yes, we know the CFC are more objectively capable than us. Frankly, however, we don't need to be reminded - considering the recent discussion on NPC kill numbers, I think it is clear that while the RP community understands that Goons are powerful, it rubs us the wrong way when it is thrown in our faces that we cannot match the (to us) faceless, mindless, zerg-ey hordes of nullsec. Furthermore, your post could be read as suggesting that this makes Goons somehow "more deserving" of special gear than actual community members, which brings us back to point one.
On the subject of favoritism: as long as CCP has any sort of live events team that has any meaningful interaction with the players, that is going to show up. Silas is throwing a party. Cool. Falcon, I'm assuming, is going to be attending as the Blood Raider actor. Suppose CTCS, a sani sabik corp with a much longer history throws a party and no actor attends. That's CCP's fault for getting involved. Either treat everyone equally or don't get involved at all. If the live events team is not willing to even make the slightest comment on my thread saying, "No, subsection 123.324a of the Assembly Charter prevents the transfer of any ships or technology to third parties for any reason. We're still willing to pay out bounties for the destruction of Nation ships and hope you will take advantage of that" (That took me all of five seconds to make up and I don't even work for CCCP.) then they need to be examined closely by IA. Either RP and interact with everyone that wants to RP, or don't interact at all. The only favoritism I've seen so far is from live events to the old boys club of RP. Falcon hangs out in the Summit and OOC and Red's District and a few other places. I suspect that will prove to be a huge mistake. I wasn't playing when AURORA was around. I heard about it, though, from the community members. And the same mistakes that I heard AURORA made, CCP is making even now.
So, Goons made a fuss about AURORA. Suppose that a goon talked to IA about someone from the live events team breaking certain internal rules. Suppose IA agreed and the live events team was transferred to the mail room. Who's fault would that bee? (there's a joke there, see it?) Goons, or IA or the people that broke the rules to begin with?
As far as Tech. That's CCP game design. Don't blame goons for CCP's inability to balance a game on the meta level. (Dear Fozzie, keep it up with the ships!) CCP has yet to do anything right in nullsec. The anom nerf, moon mining, dominion sov mechanics and the proposed ignoring of POSes are some of the worst ideas coming out of CCP since Tonyg wrote TEA.
T20: absolutely nothing done in secret is a good thing. When I played WoW, the guild I was in had a Blizzard executive in it. Not just a dev or a GM, but an executive. A few times, he messed with the loot tables to make an orange drop. In WoW, that's one thing. An legendary or two is not going to make any difference to the game. On a single shared server, where the only thing that matters is my ability to wage war and spread hate and discontent, that would matter. This is a PVP game. T20 acted in secret, and tried to change the very nature of the game. It would have been as if out Bliz exec had adjusted the boss's HP to one and made him unkillable to everyone else in the game for a few months while we farmed him.
"[M]any RPers do not wish to have goonswarm intrude on our territory." I would see nothing but good things happening to the RP community if Goons started RPing en mass. I have a couple of things in the works that I hope will bring more goons into RP. Hell, if I can get Mittens and no one else, I'll declare victory. All aspects in Eve should be open to all. Period. For certain members of the current RP community to feel themselves gatekeepers to the world of EVE RP is wrong on so many levels. I don't want to see the RP community destroyed, so I would beg everyone, with tears in my eyes, not to go down this path. Set a seat at the table for everyone that wants to join the feast.
"Furthermore, your post could be read as suggesting that this makes Goons somehow "more deserving" of special gear than actual community members, which brings us back to point one."
Simple economics. How big is the RP community. How big is just the GSF, not the CFC? (my proposal was not a goon one, per se, rather a coalition one.) If you are Hilmar, looking at your budget figures, which group would you say is more important to the bottom line? Which group can, literally, destroy the game. (Goons don't want to. If Goons wanted to, it would have happened after Mittani was temp-banned.) We all pay the same :15 bux: a month for this terrible internet spaceship game. Does that make goons more deserving? Maybe, maybe not. That's CCP's call. Does that mean that goons should not be ignored by live events (if Goons want to get involved) simply because our backstage post count is not as high as others? Absolutely. Again, let me reiterate. I knew when I was typing up that post, OOCly, that it was never, ever going to happen. Even if I sent Hilmar nude pics.
