Live Events Discussion

Yes, that's correct. Someone else will get the battleship damage prize.

No, we like complaining. We want free/easy no risk PLEX.

Joke, man. It was a joke. And 50 billion isn't that much.... Wait, isn't that roughly the amount it costs to build a Titan?

I have never read one of your blogs before and my interest peaked by your seemly naive attitude in your forum post.
Interest waned quickly from here There is nothing "offguard" about knowing something is going to happen.
Try - many including yours truly were caught in the trap we thought may be there going on experience from the last event.

I had to laugh at the "stop complaining and do something about it".. Best laugh I've had in a time. If a 100 man fleet of PL, Goons or any of the other major alliances decides they are going to "run" an event, there is no way even 1000 highsec players is going to stop them. You will as shown have small groups able to succeed in nabbing some of the prize pool but overall, victory goes to the well organised, dominating force.
Now, had Goons bridged in a fleet capable of engaging PL instead of the Harpy fleet the whole event could have become something to remember. Instead it was a gank fest that will be forgotten quickly, with PL able to add to funds for a new Titan to replace another of those lost in B-R. Next stage of the event should see them hit the mark and start building; Come on Goons, do you really want to just -"give"- PL another titan?


Well done Gorgon Empire;
While I take my hat off to the Gorgon Empire gang, I am curious as to whether the bounty will at least cover the cost of losses. If nothing else you guys have given PL strategists a headache, they now have to work out a counter to make sure it doesn't happen again

- A little over 1000 in system, 527 kills, over 90% of which are destroyers or frigates. It seems those willing to "risk all" to attend these events are wising up and only taking cheap throw away ships.
Sort of says - Why bother trying, we know the outcome but will go to watch it happen.

NB; CCP if you want to run events in lowsec and have them at least "seem" to be something worth attending. Cyno jams, stop the well organised alliances simply dominating the field by titan bridging. I have no problem with PL, Goons, BL or any of the other major alliances attending the events but for goodness sake don't hand it to them on a plate.
They want to attend, let them fly in by gates, the same way everyone else has to get there. Leveling the playing field; if a group from highsec get into the system 1st and camp gates, make it so the big organised fleets have to risk something by having to jump through a gate to engage them not just use a titan to ensure best outcome.

Yo let's real-talk here because you're a bit ill-informed, or just making **** up in hopes fewer people show up to the events so you have a better chance of getting that sweet sweet prize money.


PL has a history of showing up to Eve events regardless of the prize-pool. The last event in lowsec had a reward of a flag flying on CCP HQ, and we won that one pretty handily. Nobody in PL gives a **** about the PLEX, it's not a lot of money and the individuals that happen to win prizes just keep it for themselves. Brothers of Tangra, our renting alliance - the largest such alliance in Eve, rakes in of 2 Trillion isk a month. This event would equate to about three days of rental income.

If we wanted to win the PLEX prize, we'd show up with each class of ship to score damage, then cyno in supers to clear the caps off field in about 20 seconds. The event would be over after about 2 minutes, and local would probably get to about 150. That is obviously not the case, as the PL fleet (which was able to clear the field several times) never tried to kill the caps until the caps obviously turned off their hardeners and stopped repping. I imagine they probably wanted to go home.

Titan bridges. We live in BPK - some SEVEN titan bridges away from Okagaiken. I think CFC had to take 5 gates to get to Okagaiken and maybe 10 to Akkio. Nobody who showed up, not a single person, took Titan bridges. So you can scream "titan bridges" until your face turns blue, but it didn't happen (and it's actually really inefficient to take titan bridges across several regions, sorry to ruin the talking point).

At the end of the day we put 10 billion isk worth of ships on the field, supported by 9 logistics, and invited neutrals into our fleet so long as they followed our hilarious RP angle of saving the outlaw pilots. One of the neutrals actually scooped the corpse and seemingly had a jolly good time, and another one joined fleet and tried to tackle me for some reason. The rest were mostly in destroyers, interceptors, or stealth bombers that didn't do much of anything.

If you're a lone dude traveling to lowsec by yourself hoping to win 40 PLEX solo, then I've got some bad news for you. If you want to play the "boohoo PL are meanies" card, then that's fine but at least have the decency to come up with /good/ lies to spread.


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As expected a member of PL completely took out of context what was said but that's ok.. Didn't expect anything less.

My point was, nobody is in a position to compete with PL or Goons or the like, EXCEPT PL, Goons and the like.

95% of the ships in system were destroyers or smaller, so yes simply the fact PL decided to turn in a pimp battleship fleet to scoop as many killmails (forget the plex, PL don't "need" it. But as shown will take it so no-one else can) as possible is not at all a surprise.
Difference here is, to an outsider it seems, PL turned up chasing bounties, Goons turned up chasing killmails.

PL boasting about their ability to dominate an event to have a flag flying outside CCP vs primarily disorganized highsec players.. Really??

The PL are meanies card?? LOL you really don't want to go outside, those flimsy tickets will blow away.

Attendance numbers would seem to confirm - people are not as interested in lowsec events as CCP would hope.
If the current format of lowsec events remains the same, before long, PL could well end up on the field alone.

With over 1000 pilots in local for an hour, the stats you yourself quoted would beg to differ.

Yes, from the killmail. It looks like you switched ships in this case, so you showed up as an Apocalypse Navy Issue.

So you're saying there were even more pilots who came to this event in total, say 1500? Got it. That's certainly more than made it to the high-sec round before that one was over. Sounds like a pretty good turnout to me.

And if the ship was completely absent from the killmail? This char did at least 100k damage in a Fleet Typhoon to Uehuma Inikias (enough to get the top battleship prize), but for some reason the killmail didnt even show me shooting it. Can support this with logs, and I'm sure the actor flying the Chimera can confirm this as well.