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Dev Blog: The Bloodbath of B-R5RB, Gaming’s Most Destructive Battle

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Jake Rivers
New Planetary Order
#41 - 2014-01-29 20:46:07 UTC
Outstanding battle, wish I was there, I did enjoy watching it on the twitch feeds.

Great write up, nice to see some solid numbers on all those explosions.

Senex Legio
Zappity
New Eden Tank Testing Services
#42 - 2014-01-29 20:51:07 UTC
So... how much trit was exploded and how long would it take someone to mine it?

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Ms Michigan
Aviation Professionals for EVE
#43 - 2014-01-29 20:52:39 UTC
First things first....

CCP Dolan - this is one of the BEST DEV BLOGS I have ever read. WELL DONE.

Seriously, well written, dumbed down for newbs and interested players, but also filled with read between the lines and dig deeper for us Vets. It took me almost 1.5 hours to read all the links but it was WELL worth it.

Kudos! Please make all Dev blogs like this. : )


Second - The links to the pictures and the graph porn were Awesome! I am not the biggest Goonswarm fan, but there video started it off right. I know everyone screams "Death to all Supers," but the supers had their day (PROPERLY I MIGHT ADD) and so did sub caps fighting to control the entrance to B-R.

I think this was an EPIC fight.

Kudos to the CFC and to PL (despite the "loss") - EVERYONE won. I loved reading about this and all my guys are super geeked up about our decision to move to Null-sec.

Cheers!

Great stuff!

/Ms Michigan
Weaselior
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#44 - 2014-01-29 20:53:40 UTC
Landuin Couronne wrote:
A long time ago in the Eve galaxy in another life, I had trained Caldari capital ships (it was the only Battleship skill I had at V). I find it interesting though that no Caldari Titans were present. I'd be curious to see what the numbers would be on racial types for the other capital ships.

leviathans were there, just none died

Head of the Goonswarm Economic Warfare Cabal Pubbie Management and Exploitation Division.
Espae
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#45 - 2014-01-29 20:56:41 UTC
Ms Michigan
Aviation Professionals for EVE
#46 - 2014-01-29 21:02:52 UTC
Well for those that didn't see this post on www.themittani.com

https://twitter.com/CCP_Diagoras/status/207507436150603776

This was awhile back, so at least we have some number to work off.

Again awesome fight. Good job all. Great popcorn stuff!

o7
Gilbaron
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#47 - 2014-01-29 21:39:05 UTC
Weaselior wrote:
Landuin Couronne wrote:
A long time ago in the Eve galaxy in another life, I had trained Caldari capital ships (it was the only Battleship skill I had at V). I find it interesting though that no Caldari Titans were present. I'd be curious to see what the numbers would be on racial types for the other capital ships.

leviathans were there, just none died



levis were actually quite important. without the presence of levis and ragnaroks the titans would probably have chosen a different fit, allowing them to survive more doomsdays from the Avatars and Erebuses
Weaselior
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#48 - 2014-01-29 21:54:40 UTC
Gilbaron wrote:
Weaselior wrote:
Landuin Couronne wrote:
A long time ago in the Eve galaxy in another life, I had trained Caldari capital ships (it was the only Battleship skill I had at V). I find it interesting though that no Caldari Titans were present. I'd be curious to see what the numbers would be on racial types for the other capital ships.

leviathans were there, just none died



levis were actually quite important. without the presence of levis and ragnaroks the titans would probably have chosen a different fit, allowing them to survive more doomsdays from the Avatars and Erebuses

the advantages of never having had a tracking titan doctrine :v:

Head of the Goonswarm Economic Warfare Cabal Pubbie Management and Exploitation Division.
James Amril-Kesh
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#49 - 2014-01-29 22:06:29 UTC
Soldarius wrote:
I have heard it said that the number of lost titans in B-R was about 10% of the pre-engagement total.

I doubt it was even 5%.

Enjoying the rain today? ;)
Gilbaron
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#50 - 2014-01-29 22:07:36 UTC  |  Edited by: Gilbaron
werent rags the best tracking titans ?

btw: my corp lost our third ragnarok today. the only other corp that managed to loose three is 4S from goonswarm. but if we count sala camerons rag loss from yesterday on our side (he already had the titan when he left us for PL) we are leading with four \o/
Holznar'ar Eoner
Takamo
#51 - 2014-01-29 22:08:43 UTC
Great write-up! Belongs with the reports furnished by the Alliances.

Awesome. Just awesome.
Inspiration
#52 - 2014-01-29 22:08:54 UTC  |  Edited by: Inspiration
If this battle seems to prove anything to me, it's that downtime is a problem in need for a solution.

Find a way to limit downtime to maybe twice a week for maintenance (if needed at all). Modify current downtime jobs to run in the background while the server is running. An obvious one is belt growth, but there will be many more no doubt.

Interrupting battles with DT does affect the outcome of conflicts, sometimes this is who wins, other times it will be how much is lost. The current maintenance mechanics (DT) are breaking the sandbox...every day...year after year!

Fix it...soon!

I am serious!

Arec Bardwin
#53 - 2014-01-29 22:19:50 UTC
Beautiful.

Anyone from CCP care to estimate how much the press coverage of this battle is worth in hard $$$ ? I'm guessing there will be an influx of new players after this.
Gilbaron
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#54 - 2014-01-29 22:21:27 UTC
Soldarius wrote:
I have heard it said that the number of lost titans in B-R was about 10% of the pre-engagement total.


https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=65469

we had 847 two years ago, (with a new one being build every day in 2011)

if we carry forward with those numbers (i'm doing some simplifications here) another 730 have been born since then. that makes 1577 total, or 1600 to simplify things a bit.


IF , and only if those numbers are close to being correct the CFC/RusRus side lost about 1% of all titans in the game and the N3PL side lost about 4%. Thats a total of 5% of all titans lost (once again, massively simplified numbers)

The next step would be to think about how many of the active titan pilots currently part one of the major coalitions ingame have lost a titan in B-R. i guess we are somewhere between 10 and 20% there. PL claimed they lost about 25% of their active titans, NCdot probably lost the same, others have lost considerable less.
Gilbaron
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#55 - 2014-01-29 22:24:37 UTC  |  Edited by: Gilbaron
Arec Bardwin wrote:
Beautiful.

Anyone from CCP care to estimate how much the press coverage of this battle is worth in hard $$$ ? I'm guessing there will be an influx of new players after this.


B-R already made it on a bunch of major non-gaming media websites (including US Foxnews, UK BBC and GER DER SPIEGEL) and will make it on a bunch more. This is worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.
James Amril-Kesh
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#56 - 2014-01-29 22:32:12 UTC
Gilbaron wrote:
the only other corp that managed to loose three is 4S from razer.

I've never heard of this corp.

Enjoying the rain today? ;)
Sabriz Adoudel
Move along there is nothing here
#57 - 2014-01-29 22:38:39 UTC
Death to all supercapitals.

Especially when they die in such a glorious way as this.

I support the New Order and CODE. alliance. www.minerbumping.com
Gilbaron
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#58 - 2014-01-29 22:41:23 UTC
James Amril-Kesh wrote:
Gilbaron wrote:
the only other corp that managed to loose three is 4S from razer.

I've never heard of this corp.



ooops, i kinda missed you switched over. you were still in MM when you lost the rags and i could only remember you going to razor. corrected.
Kubiq
State War Academy
Caldari State
#59 - 2014-01-29 22:42:09 UTC
Very nice write up sir Dolan +1
mynnna
State War Academy
Caldari State
#60 - 2014-01-29 22:43:48 UTC
Marlona Sky wrote:
I think we all should take a moment and salute the super capital heros of N3PL for jumping into that blood bath outnumbered 2:1.

o7

Only EUTZ. USTZ supers clearly cowarded out and didn't jump. How else do you explain the lack of a USTZ bump in numbers? Twisted

Member of the Goonswarm Economic Warfare Cabal