My EVE

At some points we have probably overextended this, and the initial prizepool were alot smaller as well. But on the other hand. I really want this to be big since it is Aldap's way of saying goodbye to the many solo pilots out there.

However I do not think that the large prizepool is one of the main concerns regarding the low amount of submissions. Great solofights are hard to come by and many people out there want their fight to be perfect before they submit it. And many have had the illusion that this requires a fight at super high level that only the top of the top manages to achieve. Sure, the high prizepool might have driven it in that direction, but I think the high standard that is demanded here at My EVE has a role in it as well. Likewise, people want it to be really great since people like Garmon will be judging it. Having a lower prizepool could maybe lower the high expectations, but then we might as well lose people on the other end. The people who invest alot (expensive ships, implants, links and such) would need some great prizes to motivate them as well.

The One Man Crew project is somethign that I really want to happen again. And I have already made alot of thoughts about how to improve it. Especially on how to reach out and make more people engage in it. We might use some of the leftover isk from here, but I intend to raise some isk again. The future OMC will still depend on the success of this one, so no matter what, then we have to commit on the first one.

And one more thing. This contest is larger than what you think. We have reached out to hundreds of pilots. Few contests in EVE, that requires so much from each participants, achieves that. Our main problem is still the fact that great solo fights are hard to come by and getting them can be very taxing on the participants.

I don't think the prizes put people off. I think just getting good fights are. And the one video thing. Now that is relaxed i think there should be more. I know i will be submitting end of next week and believe me i am not so good.

The other problem with fraping a fight is when you watch it again you see sooo many mistakes.

That's not a problem, it's a great learning tool...

you would get more videos if you let the people just upload it to youtube and submit the link... keep it simple

So i finally got some solo footage. Man it was way harder than i thought it was.

Anyway, the upshot is that i had a fight that i eventually lost because i was stupid. I tried to tracking disrupt a condor! forgot to deploy drones, and of course i couldn't track him. I would have tanked the damage till i ran out of paste. I tried slingshot out of disrupter range, but i think he had links. I died...

BUT i reshipped and came back for another fight. This time i remembered drones, but he was too fast anyway. My missiles still didn't really work. But the fight went better and i got another frigate that was there. I got away.

So a cruiser for one 2M frigate. Not great. But the improvement and in the spirit of the comp (ie give it a go), i would like to submit that as one fight?

BTW i look really bad in this. I have much more respect for FC than i already had. They think of a lot of details i just forgot when solo, mostly because i was thinking of other things.

Additionally isn't the point to create an amalgamation of the footage collected before uploading it all collectively to YouTube?

I seem to remember something about not releasing the footage before the OMC video is out as being a requirement for the footage to be counted or am I mistaken about that?

great event but...

these are almost for only old char

like me under 1 year are really hard to fight if you make next event can you make a sp bonus?

p.s rekina ... is the judge..? i thought gonrin will become judge :p

I have 18M SP now and its unfocused. But in all seriousness, young characters can absolutely be good at this. Just like an older character has to die a lot to learn, so with a young one.

Just give it a go. It will make you a better pilot at the very least.

I suppose I should get around to uploading and submitting those 2 extra fights I've been sitting on for over a month. And perhaps one more weekend of roaming before the deadline. Even though it is statistically very likely it will simply end in me being blobbed. Again.

Simple raw/unedited formats please. Send your explanation text along with the upload URL in the evemail, then Miz can ensure any onscreen text, music etc is consistent.