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Guys why are you even doing TiDi fights?
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LUMINOUS SPIRIT
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#1 - 2014-01-18 23:43:08 UTC
I dont understand why would someone kill their perfectly-good afternoon to sit in a ship all day long in HED- and never even fire a shot due to CCP incompetence?

I mean, you guys dont do anything in these blob fests... You jump in, and your client freezes up for 10 hours. Then you wake up in a fresh clone. Thats it.

So, someone tell me, why do you guys join these stupid CTAs that are going to result in TiDi and a wasted afternoon? Just, I dont know, log off, play as an alt in RvB, whatever... But several thousand people just wasting their afternoon, i dont understand this.

Personally, I would NEVER join a CTA that has even a hint of TiDi. I guess thats why I live in wormholes, away from this stuff...
Abdiel Kavash
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#2 - 2014-01-18 23:44:15 UTC
Because it is needed to take and/or defend space.
LUMINOUS SPIRIT
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#3 - 2014-01-18 23:46:17 UTC
Abdiel Kavash wrote:
Because it is needed to take and/or defend space.


But you do know that whichever fleet is on grid first, wins, cause they have the grid pre-loaded. so, if youre late, why bother coming?
Sid Crash
#4 - 2014-01-18 23:46:54 UTC
Because they're cattle dreaming of being a wolf.
Abdiel Kavash
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#5 - 2014-01-18 23:48:54 UTC  |  Edited by: Abdiel Kavash
If we don't come, there is zero chance. If we come, at best there is a chance of turning the fight around, at worst we can deal serious damage to the enemy.

If the fight was as clearly decided beforehand as the forums claim, nobody sane would order a fleet to jump in. Truth is, it's way more complicated than just "jump in, blackscreen, die".

In fact, curiously, with no TiDi or with weaker server nodes, when crashes were almost guaranteed, people wouldn't commit to the scale of fights they do today and wouldn't experience as bad performance.
willy Amatin
Doomheim
#6 - 2014-01-19 02:48:47 UTC
Because of SOV is always the answer
Dorian Wylde
Imperial Academy
Amarr Empire
#7 - 2014-01-19 03:01:03 UTC
TiDi is not crashing and lockups. Those are the issues that TiDi prevents. Educate yourself before coming to the forums to whine and look foolish.
Seven Koskanaiken
Shadow Legions.
SONS of BANE
#8 - 2014-01-19 03:06:13 UTC  |  Edited by: Seven Koskanaiken
Because of the rules of the game called Eve Online.

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Kimmi Chan
Tastes Like Purple
#9 - 2014-01-19 03:30:32 UTC
Seven Koskanaiken wrote:
Because of the rules of the game called Eve Online.

Eve Rubicon: There's No Leaving System


Eve Rubicon: There's No Turning Back (unless it's to pick some dumbass deployable structure that you dropped into space).

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Angry Mustache
KarmaFleet
Goonswarm Federation
#10 - 2014-01-19 03:34:16 UTC
If you lose, you lose all your space.

If you win, and keep your space, and might take someone else's space.

You lose 100% of the fights you don't take.



On a side note, the space you spent 8 hours straight fighting for makes you less isk than highsec.

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Kryptik Kai
Pandemic Horde Inc.
Pandemic Horde
#11 - 2014-01-19 03:52:25 UTC
Because everyone enjoys having a pretty wallpaper on their screen while they read a book?

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John XIII
The Carnifex Corp
#12 - 2014-01-19 04:36:27 UTC
Because everytime we do the 1337 monkeys on kugu furiously throw **** at each other. It's a little sad seeing them get all worked up but damn if it isn't p.entertaining.

+1 for the next one.

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Pix Severus
Empty You
#13 - 2014-01-19 04:55:28 UTC
I don't see how spending time with friends makes it a "wasted afternoon".

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Lipbite
Express Hauler
#14 - 2014-01-19 06:18:27 UTC
Because everything else is even more boring.
Baron Chauman
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#15 - 2014-01-19 06:23:09 UTC
Because N3 needs killing.

And I have dreams of the mythical blue donut.
Rattman
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#16 - 2014-01-19 07:03:05 UTC
Abdiel Kavash wrote:
Because it is needed to take and/or defend space.



This guy nailed it, they bring a blob you have to bring a blob to either attack or defend. I was in hed-gp, its a very much love hate, hate the tidi, but love being there in a big battle
MonkeyMagic Thiesant
24th Imperial Crusade
Amarr Empire
#17 - 2014-01-19 07:09:59 UTC
Abdiel Kavash wrote:
Because it is needed to take and/or defend space.



And, serious question here, no trolling ......... is that really worth the insane tedium, the frustration of these types of fights?


Eve's sov system seems like a race to the bottom - whoever is more willing to waste more of their life on this unbelievably boring mechanic emerges the "winner".


Abolish all sov, npcnull everywhere, make the game a better place.
Leigh Akiga
Kuhri Innovations
#18 - 2014-01-19 07:14:26 UTC
Side A wants to attack/take a system so they shooty all the necessary stuff and the current system boils down to ONE FINAL TIMER this is it!

Side A loads the system hours beforehand with 500 carriers, 200 supers, 100 dreads and 50 titans

Side B looks at it and says: Welp, I guess we gotta bring everything we got

Loud noises and hamsters ensue
March rabbit
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#19 - 2014-01-19 07:28:26 UTC
some people mine in Eve Online.
some people PvP.
some people do market, lvl4s, ...

and some of Eve players prefer to make blobs, overload nodes, get TiDi and then whine on forums.

These are just different playstyles

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Eduard Khil XD
Doomheim
#20 - 2014-01-19 07:52:45 UTC  |  Edited by: Eduard Khil XD
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