EVE Online - Catch All & new meat check-in

kyrieee wrote:
krev82 wrote:

I'm not sure how often it occurs but as a caution isk/item giveaways can result in being flagged and even banned for rmt, quite possibly all existing accounts and any future accounts you might make until sorted out.

You really don't need to worry about that.

Yea, I hadn't mentioned this earlier, but this really isn't that much of a concern in EVE.

AnimeJ wrote:

...I actually don't know the origins of calling the Ferox a 14" penis(I think it's from failheap/scrapheap)...

It was from the original scrapheap challenge. Calmdown had a set of filters board-wide. The Ferox one was the only thing to stick. It has since gone onto meme status...

Has anyone tried the planet command stuff yet? Would it be viable to do on a fresh character? worthwhile?

I'm trying to decide which starter pack to grab now that they have many differing options including one with lava planet command .

Planetary interaction? Depending on where you're at, it can be a nice bit of passive income, not exceptionally time intensive.

Can somebody please send me the password to the GWJ chat channel? Last night I somehow screwed up the client and had to reset the entire UI.

Thanks!

MacBrave wrote:

Can somebody please send me the password to the GWJ chat channel? Last night I somehow screwed up the client and had to reset the entire UI.

Thanks!

'gwjeve' - it's at the start of the thread.

I'm back but of course I had to pick the day that eve is under heavy ddos :/

Does anyone know what to do with the insignias gained from pve missions? From what I've read the datacenters should have npcs asking for them but the few datacenters I've seen don't seem to (granted I'm not sure what to look for once there).

Which ones, the military ones ? From memory, you can cash some of them in for an improvement in your sec status, but I seem to remember that's only in low sec or null. Others are required for purchases from the LP store.

Data Centers.

Due to the number of tags needed, its best to gather them first, then go get the mission that needs them. Being an older character with good security rating and faction standings, I just toss them up on the market for ISK.

Raising security rating with tags

Blimey - the battle of B-R5RB is turning into the bloodiest yet. Current scores on the doors have PL losing 13 titans to CFC/Russians 6.

And this must be by far the biggest single ship killmail for a long time

https://zkillboard.com/detail/36240896/

164 billion ISK - at current exchange rates, that equates to about £2,500 (or $4,000) of space pixels just for that ship. I think that if ever there was an excuse for a ragequit, then that would be it.

That battle is so beautiful...

fstarta wrote:

That battle is so beautiful...

Beautiful like a Bob Ross painting. because like a painting it doesn't move.

TiDi is a disgusting mess.

Elycion wrote:
fstarta wrote:

That battle is so beautiful...

Beautiful like a Bob Ross painting. because like a painting it doesn't move.

TiDi is a disgusting mess. :(

TiDi may be a mess, but it's better than the servers melting down.

Final tally ended up being 75 Titans, and counting all ships about 10 trillion ISK or somewhere around $330,000. That's an order of magnitude larger than any previous battle in EVE's 11 year history! Quite ridiculous.

Old corpie of mine got himself on 21 Titan killmails. As he put it, 'my killboard is going to be green forever'.

Holy crap.... Love to hear about stuff like this. Wish I had the time to play.

Time dilation was at 10% and there were about 3000 in local - set your drones to autofire and check every hour or so while you get on with something else.

EVE's Giant Space Battle Is Getting A Memorial: "Titanomachy"

I don't play EVE but I saw this story. Did any one participate?

EVE Online will erect a memorial to the 21-hour, all-out space battle that spanned Monday and Tuesday, commemorating the loss of 75 Titans—the largest ship in the spacefaring MMO. The total damage done may translate to more than $300,000 in real money, but it is the loss of the Titans that defines the Battle of B-R5RB.

To put it in perspective, the previous record for most Titans lost in a battle was 12, which had happened twice. "The winning side alone had lost more Titans that in any battle seen before," CCP writes in this official recap of the battle and its aftermath. "The losing side had lost more Titans than anyone had previously thought possible."

Why are Titans such a big deal, aside from being, well, big? They "take thousands of man hours to produce, take months to train to fly, and are capable of fitting massive doomsday weapons that obliterate lesser ships with a single volley." The defeat of a Titan is a major event in an EVE battle, and a significant setback to the alliance that loses one. In this case, Clusterf*ck Coalition and its Russian Coalition allies lost 16 and won. The N3 Coalition and Pandemic Legion lost 59.

Thus the plans for "Titanomachy." Work already has begun on the memorial by CCP designers using Titan wreck models introduced in the game's most recent update. Titanomachy "will be placed around the seventh planet in the B-R5RB solar system and be 'off grid' from the station. Thereafter, any player who plays EVE can make the dangerous pilgrimage there and marvel at the scope of destruction."

The attention given to the size of the battle and the financial losses incurred have almost obscured a key detail about any battle: who the hell won. In this case, CFC and the Russian Coalition prevailed decisively, massive payback for the stinging defeat N3 and Pandemic handed them a little more than a week ago.

The battle raged for so long it was stopped by daily server maintenance downtime, but by then Pandemic and N3 were limping out of the system in retreat.

A video of the battle as it was kicking off

So CCP won, are they the ones who initially owned the sector and missed the Station payment, or the ones who took advantage of the situation and invaded?

Also, what are the current estimates on the amount of loot and salvage left in that system for CCP to harvest, was this a profitable battle or a Pyrrhic Victory?

If it was a Pyrrhic Victory (or a profitable one that will take time to process that salvage into war machines) are CCP now in a vulnerable state with their loss of 16 Titans and I'm sure hundreds of other excellent craft? Is some third party gearing up for war? What about the losers? Do they have further assets and territory that they will now be unable to hold after such a brutal defeat?

So CCP won, are they the ones who initially owned the sector and missed the Station payment, or the ones who took advantage of the situation and invaded?

Also, what are the current estimates on the amount of loot and salvage left in that system for CCP to harvest, was this a profitable battle or a Pyrrhic Victory?

If it was a Pyrrhic Victory (or a profitable one that will take time to process that salvage into war machines) are CCP now in a vulnerable state with their loss of 16 Titans and I'm sure hundreds of other excellent craft? Is some third party gearing up for war? What about the losers? Do they have further assets and territory that they will now be unable to hold after such a brutal defeat?

Yonder, its CFC (Clusterf*ck Coalition), not CCP (they make and run the game). CFC invaded, they didn't own sovereignty over the system previously. The salvage is nice, but its not significant. Yes, hundreds of capital ships were lost (carriers, dreadnaughts, etc). Titans are super-capitals, the far more common battleships & cruisers & frigates are sub-capitals - they deliberately held sub-caps out of the fight to avoid crippling the servers, to get the best chances for titan kills.

What you aren't seeing is the scale of the sides involved. Yes, trillions of ISK worth of ships were lost, but the players number in the thousands on each side, far more than were present during the fight. Its not exactly business as usual, but the material losses are far from crippling for either side. Time will tell if it has a negative impact on the morale for PL & N3 (breaking the morale is what normally kills organizations in Eve), but at this stage I doubt it.

To try to give a bit of scope, I personally own about 8 billion in ships, gear and materials, with another 2 billion in cash. I'm just a solo player, who hasn't spent much time in a corporation during my handful of years in Eve, and I've never been a member of an alliance or coalition. There are probably hundreds of players in CFC or PL/N3 that cover my worth out of petty cash and not really notice the expense.

I got to explain this recent large battle to some of the folks I work with today.

CCP's Dev Blog write-up, excellent job on getting the information together in one place in a format that should be understandable by any gamer. And most non-gamers, for that matter.

LtWarhound wrote:

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What you aren't seeing is the scale of the sides involved. Yes, trillions of ISK worth of ships were lost, but the players number in the thousands on each side, far more than were present during the fight...

This. There were smaller fights raging in most of the surrounding solar systems. Reinforcements being blockaded on both sides, opportunistic 3rd parties targeting stragglers and smaller fleet fights between all of them.

I wasn't on for this battle, but I was at work listening in on the fleet on the CFC side(mobile mumble! yeah!)

Just a caution in case anyone else has an ati gpu;

Lost about 70m in ship and equipment to a display driver crash during an otherwise very survivable lvl3 mission :/ thankfully it wasn't pvp or I'd certainly have been podded too. Looks like it's a known problem with the current ati driver and the temporary solution is to disable AA until patch (looks to be Monday).

More repercussions from B-R5RB; Time Dilation in the newbie systems.

AnimeJ wrote:

More repercussions from B-R5RB; Time Dilation in the newbie systems.

Too many new players is a nice problem to have.