Warfare & Tactics

I think the person in question used to use a merlin to rack up battleclinic points, scooping it up whenever he was losing. Bumping a carrier off station is easier said than done. Plus, you know, you'd need to organise a fairly reasonable gang to kill a carrier. If you were obsessive about it i guess you could do something like that. The easiest solution to that kind of garbage is to avoid the 1 out of 10,000 systems that those kinds of people base in.

You're not living up to your sig quote with this post at least.

1) The system with the most stations is Nonni, with 22. Amamake has few moons compared to other systems (21). Bosboger has 96, Auga 78 etc.

2) There is no low-sec pipe that ends in Amamake, as the whole make/dal/siseide/auga/lantorn/vard cluster is interconnected, and it's this connection that is part of the allure of make, which you also hint to yourself, so making your low-sec pipe argument even more odd.

3) It's far away from being in the middle of Empire, it's in the lower right hand quadrant by quite a long way. The middle of empire space is right around Dodixie (thanks in part because of the huge expanse of amarr lowsec in the lower left quadrant). Someone did a "middle of all eve" post back a few years ago and found out that it was 3 jumps from Jita, might have been before Drone regions were added though.

4) The reason you see a PL statue on the Osoggur gate has nothing to do with their recent deployment, which was basically a home coming. Way before Heretic and The United sat in Amamake Sniggerdly was there, camping the gate. It is very much the land of Pandemic Legion.

As for the real reasons for Amamake being the #1 on the all time kills list (best dev blog and related thread of all time) is a mix of some of the other points you threw together.

It's the low-sec entry on the shortest route autopilot route from Rens to Amarr & Dodixie, and cuts the travel time to both by over a half, hence many people braved the Osoggur gate, which gave rise to pirates. Since it was located within a cluster of interconnected systems and close to a market hub it provided good spawning grounds for warfare, and via agglomeration other combatants came to the system. Later CCP included it in the FW area and voila we have a system buzzing with activity. The other low-sec systems on Diagoras #10 list have similar backstories (Tama, Rancer, Egghelende, Old Man Star).

The reasons people like Amamake are many and I won't list them as they've been covered already. That being said I know for sure if you come in and ask for a 1v1 a Heretic will likely take you up on it and the rest of us will not intervene.

Amamake is busy because it is well known as PvP zone and so fleets move through multiple times a day looking for a fight, so if you're looking to take them up on it Amamake is the place to be. For a while PL liked to send in supercaps to frig fights at top belt but that seems to have dried up now for the most part.

If you're interested in frigate 1v1s I can guarantee there will be some the first friday of the new year. First friday of every month is frigfry friday in Amamake. Heretic Army sets up a channel for the event where you can look for a 1v1 prior to even entering the system if you like. Bring something bigger if you like but for the purposes of the event's success you can look forward to being swarmed if you don't bring a frigate hull of some description.

One day, you will get a girlfriend, and then we will lose the beauty of forum kings like you telling everyone which system has the most stations. Because it matters.

CCP does not say what you should do in EVE, it gives only possibilities to do something.

Low/High sec border system.
More stations than anyone could ever want.
Big enough to be have spots that are "off-scan".
In jump range of a good bit of both null and low sec space.
Included in FW area.

The top one is probably what started Amak off in the beginning and the other reinforced the trend over time.

I agree, but I also know CCP is in a rough position; the playerbase largely wouldn't accept instanced PvP (with some missions/plexes being the exception) and any mechanic that compelled players to fight could be flipped to compel them to fight massively outnumbered/over-shipped. At least, that's what I would do, repeatedly push the "EJECT" button on stations and force people to welp their ****** fleets into me.

Amamake is a FW hub and there is a noob pvp corp based out of there that camps the gates and EW blobbing lone guys in a frigate and such. Better fights to be had in Hevrice with The Tuskers IMO.

Come to Hevrice if you want quality small scale fights, particularly in frigates, around about 20:00 - 24:00 is when we're most active.

Amamake is the hotspot that it is for the reasons everybody else mentioned before me as well as the fact that it has Pator Tech School, and noobs swing by there for good deals on skillbooks. noobtrap! Plus, they might think Amamake is a cute name. Amamake some carebears cry, bronies! Hah, pun.