EVE General Discussion

no bubbles and doomsdays in low-sec. if this fight had happened in 0.0 the death toll would have been higher.


And how many of the supers in the pipeline do not have a pilot already waiting for them? How many production lines are sitting idly just waiting for a customer?

(the answer is: none)

You are right that monetary loss is not such a massive issue but you miss that supercap production is a real bottleneck.

If you use the next titan that rolls off the production lines to reimburse one of the pilots who lost theirs today, then some other titan pilot will have to be pushed back one slot in the queue.

The end result is one less titan for the coalition unless they expand their production lines (and even if they did decide to do that the effect would only be visible 3 months down the road).

Basically...yawn.

Sad to say, since I was hoping for massive mayhem, but the fundamental flaws in the game mechanics/ capabilities of CCP's servers were exposed yet again.

I am not saying that given the amount of ships on the node that anything but a supercomputer capable of modeling weather or a nuclear explosion could have handled the load.

Far from it. I think CCP has done a great job designing software/ hardware to model the millions of calculations to simulate a battle between so many objects.

But look at the final tally.
According to goon's Pravda, between the 2 sides, 89 caps and 9 supercaps were destroyed. (those numbers will certainly added to, though I doubt by much)

In the overall context of the order of battle, whoop dee do.

Last I heard, 168 supercaps engaged, for who knows how many hours, and a total of 9 went down.
What is that, 6%?

And precisely how long does it take either side to recover?
If PL lost a total of 1, maybe 2 supercaps, a few days to get back to full strength?
How many supercaps are in the pipeline right now in null sec?

Null sec wil try to spin this as creating content.
Guess what null sec. Some battles in high sec or wormholes are far more epic in percentage of total assets a corp/alliance commits than this tiff, requiring far more skill and guts than jumping into a system, and running Jita orders on an alt while sitting in a TiDi'ed system.

I watched the live feed provided by PL.
Sorry, nothing epic about that, just slow and boring.

Sure, a trillion ISK may have been destroyed.
And you guys replace that with a weekend of ratting and moon goo.

CCP, learn from this.
You want to make battles epic and memorable?
Make supercaps something impressive again.
If you won't nerf hull sec income, then increase the cost of supercaps 10 or 20 fold, so when one goes down it means something.
Also, start charging huge fees (in the form of isotope costs), based on mass, when cynoing into a system.
Make it hugely costly, even by blue null standards, to cyno in 100 supercaps.

Then suddenly, playing Supercap Blob Online becomes a thing of the past, and maybe you won't have quite so many pilots in a system killing the node.

.. death to all super caps.

Are you living under a Rock?
3 Titans more than half a dozen SC´s, 40 dreads, 50 carriers...

Are you living under a Rock?
3 Titans more than half a dozen SC´s, 40 dreads, 50 carriers...

But look at the final tally.
According to goon's Pravda, between the 2 sides, 89 caps and 9 supercaps were destroyed. (those numbers will certainly added to, though I doubt by much)

In the overall context of the order of battle, whoop dee do.

Last I heard, 168 supercaps engaged, for who knows how many hours, and a total of 9 went down.
What is that, 6%?

Considering how much people go on about not caring about us they sure do spend a lot of time posting threads about us