Eve online - nnnnoooooooooooooooo!!
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Tonsko said:
TheCaseAce said:
Yep, it is a lot like a massively multiplayer Elite.
In fact, I ended up being involved in a 700 man mash up last night! There I was, minding my own business, ratting in nullsec, aware that my alliance was forming up for an op a couple of systems over. I wasn't interested, as I'm now down to 2 million isk due to a recent purchase of a battleship 
. That's wayyyy under the breadline!So, I ran out of ammo and had a full hold, and then became aware that the alliance fleet had left the home system and were hanging around another, because of intel coming in of huge fleets forming a few systems away. These fleets turned out to be between where I was and my home station. So, in the interests of self preservation I hooked up with my alliance fleet, feeling a little nervous as I was in a cruiser fitted for ratting rather than PvP, and th eonly ammo I had left was loaded in my weapons!
So the intel came in, there was a fleet of Goons and a fleet of AAA and a fleet of BoB plus a few other alliances spoiling for a rumble. [Backstory:The NC had bascailly wardec'd the whole of Curse in the first week of Jan, making it clear they wanted AAA out of there. AAA were not budging, and released a propaganda pic of 17 (!) titans all ready for a right tear-up]. Intel on fleet movements started to flow - then in the space of about 2 minutes it all went to hell. Goons engaged AAA and BoB in Jamunda on gate to 1P. We jumped into 1P and sat on the Jamunda gate. We didn't have to wait long. The Goons started well, and realised that things were begining to turn - and jumped into 1P where we and the rest of the AAA fleet were. We were kind of stuck in the middle, our FC started calling primaries, and we got stuck in. Then more ships arrived an it got silly, so we got the hell out.
So in long, it is a *hell* of a multiplayer version of Elite.
Edited by Tonsko on Saturday 10th January 15:08
ShadownINja said:
If you like reading up Eve Online campaigns, there's one on the net about how one of the biggest corps was taken down in a year long espionage campaign. The amount of preparation involved and what happened in the end made it sound like something out of a Hollywood blockbuster.
Which one? (lol) The involvement of the guy with the Imperial Apoc? (been a while since a i played name escapes me)Eve does eat your spare time like moths eat forgotten Christmas jumpers but it is fun. I have been playing nearly 3 years now and I still love it. After a brief break last year I went back to the pirate corp. I joined at the end of 07, early 08 Infinitus Odium "INFOD".
If you want a look at how large fleet fights get take a look at this Old Video its old, and to those who have never seen Eve before, all those ships you see are player controlled, none are NPC.
Matt.
If you want a look at how large fleet fights get take a look at this Old Video its old, and to those who have never seen Eve before, all those ships you see are player controlled, none are NPC.
Matt.
Tonsko said:
Oh yeh, man that was awesome! They had people places at every corp store - they got cleaned out. They lost something in the order of 30 billion, and the target player got captured, so maybe 2 years of game time or something down the swanny!
Two years of isk making maybe but you don't loose your skill points if you are podded, unless your clone isn't upto date, even then you don't loose all of them.tank slapper said:
The scam you were talking about was done by the Guiding Hand Social Club, who are somewhat notorious because of it. There have been much bigger scams since, but that one was particularly well executed and at the time was involved a very large sums of isk.
Links fixed, and epic tale of planning and espionage there, I doth my cap to GHSC for that scam.Matt
Edited by matmoxon on Sunday 11th January 22:05
Edited by matmoxon on Sunday 11th January 22:05
matmoxon said:
Two years of isk making maybe but you don't loose your skill points if you are podded, unless your clone isn't upto date, even then you don't loose all of them.
Agreed, but they captured her before she could regen in the cloning vats. Her corpse is in someone's hangar - which means no re-spawn. In fact, it was the main point of the contract!PC Gamer said:
'Nicole' was the go-code for a hit that took ten months of infiltration to set up. By 6am it was over. Every Ubiqua Seraph office in the galaxy was raided, the contents of every shared hangar - not to mention their corporate coffers - gone. Mirial's prize ship was annihilated, her escape pod nuked and her vacuum-frozen corpse sucked into the cargo bay of a Guiding Hand Social Club vessel.
The simultaneous ambush and galaxy-wide hangar theft inflicted financial damage upwards of 30 billion ISK - $16,500 US dollars at IGE.com's prices. The value of the stolen assets utterly dwarfed the original fee for the job. And yet the only item the Guiding Hand's anonymous client requested for himself was the cold, dead body of the target. It's safe to say this was personal.
http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?i...The simultaneous ambush and galaxy-wide hangar theft inflicted financial damage upwards of 30 billion ISK - $16,500 US dollars at IGE.com's prices. The value of the stolen assets utterly dwarfed the original fee for the job. And yet the only item the Guiding Hand's anonymous client requested for himself was the cold, dead body of the target. It's safe to say this was personal.
Edited by Tonsko on Sunday 11th January 23:38
Tonsko said:
Agreed, but they captured her before she could regen in the cloning vats. Her corpse is in someone's hangar - which means no re-spawn. In fact, it was the main point of the contract!
It doesn't work like that. If you get podded, you respawn where your medical clone is based. If you have your clone up to date you just renew it (which can cost quite a bit for lots of SP), but if you don't you lose skill points. They get taken from the largest skill you most recently trained, so can be very bad if that happens to be carrier 5 or something equally long.A corpse is left behind when you are podded, but that doesn't prevent you from respawning.
Edited by tank slapper on Sunday 11th January 23:38
ShadownINja said:
That video is good. Wouldn't mind being part of that but it'd take ages to get to such a level.
Nah, you can be useful in big fleet fights even as a fresh newbie in a frigate.. You can "tackle" a ship to make it unable to warp away, and provided you don't get killed (a harder task than it sounds, battleships and larger find it hard to hit small frigates) you might delay it enough for your friendly gang to blow it up.
Edited by john_p on Monday 12th January 00:15
So there I was, in my shiny new battlecruiser, a Hurricane, its sleek arrowhead hull gleaming in the harsh eternal sunlight. I'd just spent 32 million on this baby, nearly broke the bank, and I've been itching to try it. Got chance the other morning but had some errands to run so only got a bit of flying in. Took it out last night with a different fitting to try.
I was in the middle of dealing with some Sansha pirates when it came, when I looked to my left. Hey! The local system HUD was flashing away quietly. There's 2 reds in the system! How long have they been there? How am I doing? 0% shield, 50% armour, with reppers going like the clappers - nothing to worry about - but definitely not a situation to be entering hostilities with an enemy pilot! Are they near me? Yes! There's one! s
t, he's 35K away. Gogogogogo! Warp! warp! The 'cane slowly ground round to point at my chosen safe spot when I heard those gloriously calm tones, "Warp drive active", and nearly breathed a sigh of relief. Then the warp engines whined, coughed and died. A message sparked up on my HUD - "There is interference with the warp. Warp drive shutting down". st. That means I've been tackled. The enemy had got close enough to fire up his warp disruption generators. Right, keep calm, I can get out of this. What ship is he in? Aaah, a Zealot. Hell those things are nasty, I've got to run. Engage Micro Warp drive... get out of range of his disruptors..."Your capacitor is empty." Helplessly, I stared at my HUD as the Sansha Lord patiently lasered away my armour, layer by layer, joined now by an Eradication Alliance chancer, obviously not able to believe his luck to find a sworn enemy Ushra'Khan in open space and vulnerable, away from the safety of his brothers. In structure! 90%! 20%! BOOM! Right, now's my chance. The ship has disintegrated around me, the debris might cloud his targetting...get the pod in warp before he locks meeeeee....
The next thing I saw as I stepped out of the cloning vats, dripping goo on the pilot interface, was a lovely email from the insurance company, telling me that although I wasn't insured, they've kindly refunded half the cost of the battlecruiser...I've got some spare plugins lying around somehwere...
I was in the middle of dealing with some Sansha pirates when it came, when I looked to my left. Hey! The local system HUD was flashing away quietly. There's 2 reds in the system! How long have they been there? How am I doing? 0% shield, 50% armour, with reppers going like the clappers - nothing to worry about - but definitely not a situation to be entering hostilities with an enemy pilot! Are they near me? Yes! There's one! s
t, he's 35K away. Gogogogogo! Warp! warp! The 'cane slowly ground round to point at my chosen safe spot when I heard those gloriously calm tones, "Warp drive active", and nearly breathed a sigh of relief. Then the warp engines whined, coughed and died. A message sparked up on my HUD - "There is interference with the warp. Warp drive shutting down". st. That means I've been tackled. The enemy had got close enough to fire up his warp disruption generators. Right, keep calm, I can get out of this. What ship is he in? Aaah, a Zealot. Hell those things are nasty, I've got to run. Engage Micro Warp drive... get out of range of his disruptors..."Your capacitor is empty." Helplessly, I stared at my HUD as the Sansha Lord patiently lasered away my armour, layer by layer, joined now by an Eradication Alliance chancer, obviously not able to believe his luck to find a sworn enemy Ushra'Khan in open space and vulnerable, away from the safety of his brothers. In structure! 90%! 20%! BOOM! Right, now's my chance. The ship has disintegrated around me, the debris might cloud his targetting...get the pod in warp before he locks meeeeee....The next thing I saw as I stepped out of the cloning vats, dripping goo on the pilot interface, was a lovely email from the insurance company, telling me that although I wasn't insured, they've kindly refunded half the cost of the battlecruiser...I've got some spare plugins lying around somehwere...
Edited by Tonsko on Monday 12th January 12:03
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