EVE General Discussion

http://themittani.com/news/asakai-aftermath-all-over-cobalt-moon

I wrote an article, see? You should go read it.

One thing that didn't make it into the article as it was out of scope:

CCP, there really needs to be a way to reinforce a node on the fly. I was told by one employee that node reinforcement can only be done at downtime. This needs to be fixed. The best part of this whole fight was the unplanned "oh holy poo-poo." Then Everyone-like 10% of logged in players-came. No timer, no objective just a giant fight. Best fun that I have ever had in Eve.

Alizabeth, staff writer themittani.com

I think every single person in 0.0 space might be 10% of the total logged-in players at any given time. Lets say 1000 people showed up, or even 2000, with anywhere from 40-50k players logged in.

But more on topic, it's mainly a hardware problem, not software. In order to do what you want, they'd have to 'reinforce' every single system in game in case someone decided to fight in one. Not only would they need to buy new hardware, but there would be so much needed that they'd need to construct a new building to keep it all in.

As much as the fight was probably the best in quite some time, you are basicly asking them to rewrite probably most of the code to the game engine because once in a blue moon, some one make a misstake which cause an escalation of engagement followed by a counter escalation followed by the beggest dogpiling ever because everyone and thier mother want to be on a KM involving killing goons.

It probably involve additionnal blade buffer to re-route the systems on the node where the battle is taking palce so they can be sent on another unit. This would most likely require setting on "pause" everything in the affected system (either the one where the fight is happening or the others on teh same node) to create an exact snapshot of everything in there then applying it to a fresh instance on a free blade before resuming everything. This resume only lasting a fraction of second and stoping again to fix any problem caused by the first stop because of people chaging session during that time to and from any ststem that was on that node previously. Then we can actaully start back the action.

I know jack all about hardware and programming. I would hope, though, there could be something to allow unplanned emergent gameplay to happen without it taking thirty minutes for me to refit for triage.

Unlikely they will upgrade the hardware after a single fight like that. Have a few more and they might consider it.

Ohh, I'm excited! I'm gonna run right over there.....Oh wait.

Sorry, reading propaganda from the hivemind gives me gas...I'll have to pass......

that is precisely what happened in asakai

In the future, an FC is going to see an opportunity to drop on someone and they are going to get denied by the Skyteam since the node is unreinforced. That decision would be completely correct on their part. No one is going to risk supercapitals on a regular node again.

What that means is, effectively, meeting engagements will not happen in Eve, again-at least on this scale. Subcapital fleets will continue to do their own thing, but those almost never make the news. Meeting engagements, for those that are not up with military terminology, is a battle which neither side prepared for; it just kind of happens. A good example would be the battle of Gettysburg in the American Civil War. That battle essentially broke the back of General Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. They are interesting for a few reasons: no battlefield prep, often intelligence is incomplete or nonexistent, they force the commander to think on his feat. All of these can contribute to spectacular losses or victories. Without meeting engagements in Eve, every article from here on out is going to be X was coming out of reinforce. Side A formed up at whatever time. Side B at whatever time. They jumped in system and had a fight. That, I find boring.

From a player's perspective, this fight was amazing (and I say that having lost my carrier). I got the jabber ping and jumped right in, started to heal broadcasts, neut primaries, cycle drones as they took damage and so on. The events were unfolding in front of me, rather than have been posted in the war room a few days in advance. I didn't know how many ships we had, unlike in Tribute where ops would be canceled if Intel reported that we didn't have enough. (Oddly enough, that really didn't happen.) There is a saying that the USMC used at Wake Island (which we lost) and Tarawa (which we won): "Issue in doubt." For a long while there, the issue was in doubt and that made for good, fun, exciting game play. That's why this fight is going to be remembered and not some timer in Tribute.

I like reading themittani.com and no im not a fanboi sheep.

Its like reading those stories on Intergalactic Summit, and having people on theMittani.com try far too hard to copy the style thats been old for almost 3 years now.

Sometimes for lolz I even compare articles, just to amuse myself of how obsessed some people are and what they would do just to post something 'readable'. Ofc I am not speaking about the OP here, he much like every other 'features editor' on theMittani likes to mimic the the guy at the top, which in this case would be Mittani.

I think anytime anyone gives any compliments to an article on theMittani.com for the writing styles, they should immediately give credit to the old writers in IGS, its a shame Mittani himself never did this, he out of all people should know why plagiarism is bad, being an ex-paralegal and all

i doubt any of our writers read IGS and we don't have internal style guidelines

nice trolling attempt though