EVE General Discussion

Are RnK still a thing?

Nothing new on their YouTube channel for 7 months.

There were couple of good articles about RnK including Lord M interview. Confirmed more to come in a view of changes in game mechanics. Didn't check myself but they might be on sisi testing those cuase you know they come up only when it's polished to the perfectness.

Big respect to RnK.

RnK are in w-space at the moment and occasionally gank some stuff there with their Vindicator fleet.
Not sure if they plan to make a video of that - pretty much every w-space PvP corp does essentially the same thing.
They don't give fights however.

Clarion Call 3 is what motivated me to start playing Eve, become a logibro and go into w-space - would have been totally awesome to eventually fight them there (I even named my triage Archon after Agent Xer0), but when they rolled into us they just logged off.
Well, I guess you should never meet your heroes...

They look pretty inactive to me:

https://i.imgur.com/h91xdnF.png

We're still around, although it remains to be seen whether we'll ever go back to hunting every day with a cyno on every gate.

It's worth keeping in mind that most of the entities we once fought are either gone or changed beyond recognition in their personnel. The core of our group, however, is almost unchanged. One consequence of this is the difference in the time available in one's thirties as opposed to one's twenties. All we can try and ensure is that when people die, they still die well.

And there will be new things this summer.



Indeed, I hopefully still have a campaign left in me. But as regards mechanics: I think stories drive people, more than gameplay mechanics, killboards or anything like that. Whether a specific gameplay style is empowered by patch changes isn't really important to us and makes us no more or less likely to use it. We rarely follow preordained paths. In fact, the 'coalition era' was all the more fun for its extremity, since n+1 is a challenge as old as warfare. And the future will hold new solutions to old problems.

Whether the next era of Eve will need weapons like pipebombing remains to be seen. We do still have a few toys in the testing facilities. Although, as mentioned elsewhere, I realised I probably took the pipebombing a little far when our key Serenity player, Fulcrum, went to Australia to study. On the first day there was the usual "Hello, this is me!" session, which appears to be a mainstay for addicts and students the world over. Our fellow made the mistake of saying he was in RnK and the lecturer (Test Teacher Best Teacher) flatly proclaimed that he'd been "pipebombed twice". With no further explanation offered, the rest of the students now think he's a terrorist from a paramilitary group.

I'm Irish....Yeah

This alliance name in a devoutly Roman Catholic county isnt exactly fun

I like RnK.

I would watch that just to hear Lord Maldoro's voice and you know you would too.

Thanks for replying LordM.

I must admit, I've used the RnK videos (along with Big Miker's) to try to convince my RL friends to play EVE because they are so well put together, graphically stunning (1080p FTW) and the commentary helps explain away what is otherwise just clicking buttons in space... online.

I posted this thread off the back of returning to EVE and seeing the "This Is EVE 2014" video from CCP. Pipe-bombing got a fair bit of air time, and it made me wonder if any more videos had been made by yourselves.

Here's to Clarion Call 5... right?

Very true words spoken there. And I hope that you may find inspiration for more campaigns in the future.