EVE General Discussion

Every other thread about it in the past few days has just been an incoherent whine thread about how them and their 20 friends are quiting. Anyone mind explaining what this is all about?

Read this: ARticle on EN24

May also want to check the other articles on EN24, they have pretty concise writeups of the battle. Might also check themittani.com for a little bias towards the other side.

http://kotaku.com/eve-onlines-two-biggest-factions-had-an-enormous-battl-1504584086

**** went down, CFC frowned, RUSRUS got shot down.

Pl/N3 sent a 500 archon, 70 titan, 200 ish supercarrier fleet (numbers might be off but in that ballpark) about 900 people total. and went to a timer 4 hours before it was due to start so that they would have loaded grid giving them an advantage if too many people showwed up to stop them.
Russians and CFC gathered together 700 dreads plus countless supers/titan so finally kill the PL/N3 super fleet.
knowing that the system would be strained by so many people they decided to send in 1000 Domi's and to have them oaunch sentries BEFORE cynoing in the cap fleet onto the same grid as the PL/N3 lot.
The additiion of 1000 domis and there 5000 sentries meant that the dreads cynoing in took hours if they arrived at all and many were killed beofre they loaded grid and with no modules active.
Hundreds died.
the domis did nothing but make the problem worse and also die.
If they had just been happy with a 2:1 advantage in a cap fight then it could well have been the greatest fight in eve history.
instead the extra 1000 superfluous pilots tipped the servers over the edge and so CFC want to blame CCP for the stupidity of trying to force so many drone boats into 1 place.

and solar wants to quit eve now

as an outsider observer who enjoys reading the forums about all I've been able to ascertain thus far is summed up basically as:

"i'm sad about stuff."

if there is some greater implication behind it all, well, i'm sure it will come to light in due time.

Seriously though changing Sov so it isn't everyone pilling into one system at once would be nice.

Like an ESS but the polar opposite.

Oh, wait. I forgot.

Goon tears, best tears.

Yea, something like this would be more interesting than the garbage that is in place.

People would have to actually use the systems to hold them.

Some guys attacked a system and theres some things you have to do but it all comes down to one final timer. So they loaded all their stuff into the system right after downtime and sat there for hours saying "come at us bro."

Then the defenders formed up all their stuff- CCP was live monitoring the event and even hotswapped a node to help alleviate stress in the formup system- then they jumped in.....

......

Thats what happened- all the defenders capitals got stuck in jump tunnels for hours even though they appeared on grid and were targetable. Pretty much the only thing that was working was titan doomsdays.

It was a turkeyshoot and the defenders lost over 300 dreadnoughts without being able to fight back.