CCP Dropbear Wrote:As an example, one of the recent and ongoing events involves gathering ~30b of materials to build a research outpost in Eram. The even larger goal behind this is to, put simply, make other players aware of the storyline, and maybe even start to care about it. Srs bsns. Hopefully one of those replies answers your question. 
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er... what event? =s
Back when I played WoW, they opened one instance (An'Qiraj) only after the whole server collected some shitload of items - both Horde and Alliance cooperating etc.. A'J is quite close <.<
* Kata Amentis goes off to readup
ah, miss this entirely... ooops
You haven't missed much. I stopped paying any attention when their desire to be inclusive stretched my suspension of disbelief beyond breaking point. IC it's 'Oh that mixed bag of crazies buiding a doomsday weapon of some kind - hmm must make sure I have no assets in Eram.' OOC it's 'whatever - bored now'
I stopped paying any and all attention both IC and OOC when I read half the stuff being spouted by entirely clueless people who want to be the next Eva/Drake/Ghost...and Daniel © is entirely obsessed with that stuff...
TL;DR - What a mess...