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Sakura Nihil
Faded Light
#1 - 2013-03-14 21:01:45 UTC
Is it just me, or have all the live events lately involved freighters? First the Guristas extraction, then Home Guard blowing up those two KK ones, now the refugee freighter fleeing into the Fed.

I mean, I get that a lot of action in the State at the moment revolves around civilians, who in turn tend not to crew warships. I get that. A little variety would be nice, though.



Also, can the US TZ get some love once in awhile? I keep getting home after events wrap up, and I'm on the East Coast. Pirate

Poor Californians.

Glory

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CCP Falcon
#2 - 2013-03-14 22:16:19 UTC

When you need to transfer a lot of stuff, generally you use a freighter. Smile

In terms of US timezone events, there are a few on the schedule and there have been a few in the past. Right now we're very much in the process of practicing how we plan and work live events. There have been a few live events on the schedule that were very late euro/early US, and there are a few more still to come.

In the same respect, we recognize the need for more and are working toward it once we're a little more practiced in how to run these things Big smile

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Nevyn Auscent
Broke Sauce
#3 - 2013-03-14 23:14:02 UTC
My complaint with freighters is that they are very hard to defend. You (Being any attacker, could be CCP, Goons, or the normal crew depending which way around) can just pile alpha onto them in a classic gank manner. Or just sheer DPS since they don't have decent resists (comapred to a properly fitted ship) so repping them against heavy DPS is going to be very hard to start with.
So we in general need a better toolset to protect a single target ship. Simply piling reps onto the ship and praying they don't have enough alpha to ignore your reps really isn't an ideal method.
Evi Polevhia
Phoenix Naval Operations
Phoenix Naval Systems
#4 - 2013-03-14 23:53:25 UTC  |  Edited by: Evi Polevhia
A positive side though to Freighters is how slow they are. Due to some confusion about where the LE was taking place at today and where the Freighter was, by the time there was concrete information a number of people were 7-10 jumps away and had to chase after it. Yet....it's a freighter! So there was oppertunity to move to intercept/assist. While I do not think anyone managed to catch up to the Freighter specifically, many people arrived in Algogille in time to see and take part in the Event. For those who missed it, this is a transcript I managed to catch. Auvier Bauvon being head of the Federal forces and commanding the State forces.

Also, couple other things about the event. From an outside perspective I think this went over well. There were a couple Caldari Milita who tried to join the fight but quickly found the response from Federation sentries. However that is a problem that will be unavoidable as long as events are in High. Which, considering the alternative is having it in low and having 300 null sec people cyno in, I think is a decent trade off. At least on occasion.

(Maybe force an Incursion to spawn in a constellation where you are going to do a Lowsec live event to cyno jam? :) Just a thought.)

I think over all people are pretty ok with the outcome of the event. Not only were the Caldari decidedly in the legal wrong, but also tactical wrong when they sorta parked their ships right up a dozen Navy Mega's blasters.
Malkshurr
Alter Ego Inc.
#5 - 2013-03-15 07:18:33 UTC
Nalha Saldana
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#6 - 2013-03-15 09:33:15 UTC
A minmatar moving op should involve 100 mammoths, would be a sight as well :3
MainDrain
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#7 - 2013-03-15 09:59:41 UTC
In real life wars and troop evacs they have used cruise liners to move personal around the world. Why not repurpose that gallente cruise ship you see in the odd missions (i assume it isnt actually a flyable ship at the moment so i realise work would have to be done to get it into this state, but the model etc already exists)

This ship could have a polaris skill requirement, meaning that nobody else could ever fly it, and you could tweak the show info tab to be classified allowing you to tweak the stats of the ship

Work would be required by other departments to make this happen, but if they put it in place sooner rather than later surely the benefits will out weigh the time required
CCP Eterne
C C P
C C P Alliance
#8 - 2013-03-15 10:51:54 UTC
Nalha Saldana wrote:
A minmatar moving op should involve 100 mammoths, would be a sight as well :3


WTB 100 people to fly Mammoths.

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Buhhdust Princess
Mind Games.
#9 - 2013-03-15 11:22:34 UTC
CCP Eterne wrote:
Nalha Saldana wrote:
A minmatar moving op should involve 100 mammoths, would be a sight as well :3


WTB 100 people to fly Mammoths.


You have my 7 mammoth alts.
MainDrain
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#10 - 2013-03-15 11:23:38 UTC
CCP Eterne wrote:
Nalha Saldana wrote:
A minmatar moving op should involve 100 mammoths, would be a sight as well :3


WTB 100 people to fly Mammoths.


Could it not be done using thin clients, after all i assume you would need them all, or a group of them, to do a set task of move from A to B.

If not possible, ill volunteer me x 3
Vlad Cetes
Original Sinners
Pandemic Legion
#11 - 2013-03-15 17:26:53 UTC
Why not a Deep Space Transport?

Good resists and a pretty massive cargohold if fit with all expanders and rigged. Mastadon & Bustard especially since you can shield EHP tank them & use all your lows + rigs for expanders.
Tharin Malkyre
Knights of the Ouroboros
#12 - 2013-03-15 18:28:23 UTC
CCP Eterne wrote:
WTB 100 people to fly Mammoths.
The KOTOU Mammoth Teddy Bear is at your disposal. Bear
Nalha Saldana
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#13 - 2013-03-15 23:32:21 UTC
CCP Eterne wrote:
Nalha Saldana wrote:
A minmatar moving op should involve 100 mammoths, would be a sight as well :3


WTB 100 people to fly Mammoths.


How about handing out useless goods and ask people to move it to some low/null systems as a event? Pick a incursion destination so its cyno jammed and watch them run ^^
Sakura Nihil
Faded Light
#14 - 2013-03-16 02:27:45 UTC  |  Edited by: Sakura Nihil
MainDrain wrote:
CCP Eterne wrote:
Nalha Saldana wrote:
A minmatar moving op should involve 100 mammoths, would be a sight as well :3


WTB 100 people to fly Mammoths.


Could it not be done using thin clients, after all i assume you would need them all, or a group of them, to do a set task of move from A to B.

If not possible, ill volunteer me x 3

He beat me to the punch, but yes - wouldn't that allow the creation and control of convoys by devs?

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Shade Alidiana
PROSPERO Corporation
#15 - 2013-03-17 01:32:56 UTC
Count me in.. Got a mammoth as well.
CCP Goliath
C C P
C C P Alliance
#16 - 2013-03-18 21:15:46 UTC
Thinclients are not something we would consider using for an event on TQ. They are a testing tool and are fragile.

We have used DSTs in one or two events before. Different ships help with different pacing of events. As has been pointed out above, freighters tend to give people the chance to "catch up" which is nice. Creating new ships isn't something we can do solely for the events team at the moment.

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Jassmin Joy
Pulling The Plug
PURPLE HELMETED WARRIORS
#17 - 2013-03-19 09:31:29 UTC
Buhhdust Princess wrote:
CCP Eterne wrote:
Nalha Saldana wrote:
A minmatar moving op should involve 100 mammoths, would be a sight as well :3


WTB 100 people to fly Mammoths.


You have my 7 mammoth alts.


And my Axe!

wait...no, wrong MMO.
Buhhdust Princess
Mind Games.
#18 - 2013-03-19 10:50:44 UTC
I would've given them my axe.

But i use it to slice bread for my sandwiches.
Katran Luftschreck
Royal Ammatar Engineering Corps
#19 - 2013-03-20 18:11:40 UTC
CCP Eterne wrote:
WTB 100 people to fly Mammoths.


Why, is there some rule that says CCP themselves can't use bot programs?

http://youtu.be/t0q2F8NsYQ0
Powers Sa
#20 - 2013-03-21 01:22:35 UTC
Hi I gank freighters, will they have the Dev QA hardeners fit?

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