EVE General Discussion

There is a quit game button, you know.

Perhaps James forgot that this is just a rare ship, not limited-edition one. The more of them will get built in time (and killed), the less special the stories behind killing them will sound.
Ironically, it reminds me about ccp's sansha-themed event, because some people complained in the same manner that hi-sec carebears were able to get themselves on supercarriers killmails, obviously when supercarrier killmail was "a thing".
The Revenant was legit, not created by dev-hacks, and it's up to players that own them to decide what to do with them. Group of players decided to promote their site by sacrificing one, so defenders of "true experience" just have to get over with it.

It's good to know that if you can congratulate yourself on absolutely nothing by using yellow font and launching sassy salon-girl attacks at someone's character while simultaneously having no idea what you are talking about and apparently not caring either.

Furthermore, defending CCP's amusing history of back and forth flip-flop decision making to keep players subscribing only further merits player backlash in cases such as the one currently being discussed. You accuse me of living in a fairy world meanwhile you try to rationalize the entire spectrum of bugs, lies, and disgruntled bittervets as some saturday morning cartoon "Icelandic Justice! ". In fact trying to take that statement seriously made me chuckle and hope that you're actually just a brilliant troll. Or you're a bad troll. A troll either way.

There are, according to zKillboard, only about ten of these flying around. These kills will remain very rare and far between, and each one will be special of its own accord - that is, excluding those who frivolously "donate" theirs to dumb events.


The event was, however, created by dev hacks.

With above comments in mind, don't forget what the puprose of the Revenant kill was. It was part of a promotional campaign to put the eve gambling site Eve-Bet on the charts. They can do with the isk what they want, just as Goonswarm got the numbers to do whatever they want (for both, up to certain limits ofc )

Such acts are not that rare, carriers & sometimes supercarriers do meet their end at regular intervals in various staged events, usually in the form of *Come kill my capital ship!*. Have a look at the Ingame event forum & check out the first page, usually has a capital ship kill getting advertised.
These events tend to attract plenty of attention, if not for the capital kill, it sure does attract people who enjoy shooting other people.

This event attracted more attention, because it had a rare supercarrier as focal point to kill, add to it that CCP backed it up, and you get stuff like this, unbearable TiDi. Alot of the poeple knew it would happen, they still went anyway. Seriously, the moment the target system NIsuwa got announced, TiDi struck various systems across EvE, including Jita & Amarr simply on account of sheer number of ships undocking! That should have been a warning!

I do admit, TiDi battles are horrible to be part of, specially if you're new to it all. I had the 'luck' that the Revenant carrier arrived on the grid I was on, watching the fleet & TiDi buildup on grid from a first row perspective. Glad I was just reporting on the event, because just shooting in that mess would been an achievement.

Does it cheapen the experience of killing capitals (and rare ships)? Yes
Is it content creation? Yes

Not all content creation has to enrich Eve's lore & background (wether it is NPC or player lore) Albeit my preference does go out to those that do. I still rank this event higher then some of the other content creations that involve ganking defenseless ships for sport.
To elaborate, I'm fine with ships getting ganked for profit, or if the ganking operation is of such scale it obviously includes effort (burn jita) But merely getting awarded for killing the most miners? Then I rather see events like this, where actual risk is involved. Ganking miners holds barely any risk, because the ship you use is already incalculated to get lost by concord & nobody will oppose you, Risk free Pvp yay!

Oh, what's this in my breakfast platter?

(takes a sip)

Mmmh, PvP tears! Tasty!

Hi Ladies and Gents,

Firstly, on behalf of Eve-bet.com, thankyou to everyone who participated in the Event. There was Tidi, Tears and in the end, a dead Revenant.

Also, thankyou for being patient with us while we see what can be done about the Kill Mail. We want to give some time to CCP to see if they can do anything. However, with 4800+ people in local...we're firmly in the experimental and the record books!

The pod mail was generated, and 5 PLEX have already been contracted to Manic M1ner for getting the final blow. We have 45 more PLEX that we will be giving out. At this stage, the Revenant KM has not been generated. Absolute worst case, we have the combat logs from the event (over 35000 lines), and we will generate some fair method of giving out the remaining 45 PLEX. I am not sure what that will be, but the process will be completely transparent.


Thankyou again for participating.


Cheers,
Eve-Bet One

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who cares?

Maybe this will discourage people from doing public events, as they are stupid and suck regions dry for a ti-di farce.

I'd be more impressed with the winner of a frigate 1v1 than a guy who killed a "public event" super.

... waves hands back and forth... 'Don't lick frogs again. There's no such thing as giant turds in space'.

The ship was moved into an incursion system by devs, and correct me if I'm wrong but wasn't it also placed in station?

My assumption on the latter is based on them having done exactly that before, with Marlona Sky's Nyx.