Think of the event this way though: Things, just like in EVE, will not always happen exactly when you want them to happen. It is living and breathing world and it is a single shard universe. Sometimes you have to be in the right place in the right time to experience something unique and live to tell the tale to others.

I missed a lot of amazing EVE battles myself and yet I get chills just from listening to the stories my friends tell me later and vice versa. But you will have so many things to experience that you simply will not be able to get in all of them unless you simply don't sleep at all :) And I know some of you are even capable of doing that.

But rest assured that you will make an impact in New Eden. Because you are here to do that.

Do you think that Mordu's Legion is going to wait for some "Real life" to line up with people so they can participate? EVE Events are the same, they run for short time and only those that really want to join - join. Others will have to see the result. But you will probably participate in a few. I am fine with missing an event, and that makes stronger and versatile community of various players owning other things and being unique and in 10 years you will have people that have cool weapons back from closed beta and people that have items back from that one event that happened once, or just contributed to a RP story that used to happen back then. And CCP seems to have very limited tools to organize these events so maybe you can't even make mercenary battle where you can choose side right now? And yet they do events for us. And I appreciate that.

Hey guys, we appreciate the feedback here and everywhere else. We're quite happy with the turnout even though there are obviously some kinks/hurdles to overcome.

1) We know you can't pick which side to join at the moment. It's a bit of a pain, but our backend currently doesn't have the capability to do it properly, though we're looking into ways to get around that.
2) The problem with the corps switching away from the Templaris Dragonaurs and Mordu's Legion were unexpected and we're looking into ways to keep that from happening. In case it occurs in the future, we'll be sure to clearly identify who is supposed to be the attacked and who is supposed to be the defender.
3) THIS event did not have any specific reward tied to it, but we might be giving some extra rewards out for future battles. My lips are sealed about what they might be.
4) You're not only affecting the EVE storyline, you're affecting the DUST storyline as well. If you don't care about that, fair enough. But for those who do, trust me, your actions were noticed (and will be reflected).
5) We currently have to put all these events into the system manually, which means we need a GM sitting there putting in new contracts as battles end. This is obviously suboptimal, but is part of the reason the length of the events are restricted for now. We've got some crazy people in the Live Events team, however, so we've got plans to cover additional timezones and get some extended events going.