First off, Esna's not misinformed. He was referring to a previous Federation Day, just like others have several times before him in this thread.
The current live events team weren't even active the previous Federation Day, which means it has precisely zero relevance to this conversation.
Second: The reason there was an SOE actor at the Federation Day event is because the person who organized the event explicitly asked for an SOE actor.
That's not what they told me.
Furthermore, the Live Events team has more people on it than are able to participate with proper speaking roles. If someone who is responsible for one or more actors is not available at the time of the event you're planning, that's your problem, not theirs. The person responsible for the Fed actors likely wasn't available that day due to having a real life outside of the office, and the person(s) responsible for the Amarr and SOE ones were.
Incorrect.
As stated before, if only one of the people who is authorized to 'play' the part of an actor in answering mails or showing up to events - CCP-hosted or not - is available, then the onus is on your end to try and find a time that works for the actor(s) you want to appear, not to throw a fit when the people who are available show up to events scheduled when they're available just because they're not your event.
Again you fail to understand that this is only about "who turned up at
my event" (which you're misrepresenting anyway since Federation Day wasn't arranged by me) in as much as an example of why the "live event actors don't turn up at player-run events because it could make CCP appear biased" was a good idea.
AURORA's problem was not favoritism toward a specific faction based on story arcs or events. It was people inside it cheating and giving information about the events to other parties that allowed them to be 'pushed' to those volunteers' player-characters' benefit.
... and those parties were almost always Amarrians. Next time you back up one of my points, please do so in a less round-about manner.
Furthermore, your apparent position that live events and player events are (or should be) wholly separate from one another is not a good precedent to set in a world where we're supposed to be able to cause ripples, not just react to ones caused by CCP.
a. That's alright, the current state of the roleplay community honestly makes me pretty happy that our influence on the prime fiction is limited.
b. The game can't be endlessly reactive to our actions. There's simply not enough devs or mechanical flexibility.
The Amarrians have had absolutely NO live events since last year, and that's questionable at best considering that the only event I can think of actually involved Blood Raiders faffing about in highsec and then moving on to Oyonata where they got smashed in (there was a minor thing for people collecting Navy tags for the Blood Raider actors as well, but no actual 'event' behind it afaik). On the other hand, the Caldari have had this huge arc with the destabilization of Heth's Provist regime and its fall to the CEP, they also shared the Caldari Prime arc with the Gallente, who shared the Midular/Colelie arc with the Minmatar, who finally had the Tribal Council (or whatever it is) set back up after 5 years. Even several of the pirate factions have had small arcs as part of the Dust 514 connection.
So the Amarrians have had basically no attention from the Events team since it got put back together again, and somehow it's not cool for them to have a couple actors show up for about half an hour at an event put on by one of the oldest corporations in the game for their 10th anniversary, which, by the way, they left so that the person (or persons) playing them could go show up to the Federation Day event that was scheduled at the same time?
Everything you're saying here amounts to "it's alright for CCP to break their own internal rules if it's for the benefit of
X organisation because I don't personally feel they're getting enough love," which is an excellent example of the reason CCP put this rule into practice in the first place and a brilliant argument as to why the answer to your question is a definitive "no."
I'm not even really a member of the Amarrian RP subcommunity and I think that's a crock of shit.
Well that's is, as ever, your right.
Oh, it's Andreus's well-known dislike of amarr players again, seeing pro-amarrian things everywhere.
vOv
There are actually a lot of Amarrian roleplayers I intensely enjoy the company of, several of whom were at the EVE meet last Saturday, and what's
even better is that a lot of them share my opinions about the current crop of Amarrian roleplayers. It may come as a surprise, but just because I don't happen to be friends with you, it doesn't mean I dislike all Amarrians.
