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What happens to ships in PVP combat during downtime?
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L1ghts
ZOMG DOT
#1 - 2016-01-24 08:46:13 UTC
So, here's a scenario I was thinking of. !!! WARMING !!! AUTISM !!!

If I were to notice downtime was in 10 minutes, and I decided to yolo a super into a small frig fleet; for the lols. During those 7-10 minutes I didn't die. Downtime starts as scheduled and everyone is offline.

What would I expect when I logged back in? Is the super in the POS, or warping to the grid i was just at, as if i logged off, and logged back in.

I couldn't find anything online. I assume the second scenario.

This had me thinking as I recently saw a video of some guys rushing to kill ships before downtime.
Scipio Artelius
Weaponised Vegemite
Flying Dangerous
#2 - 2016-01-24 09:02:36 UTC
You will emergency warp back to where you were when you logged off.
Eternus8lux8lucis
Guardians of the Gate
RAZOR Alliance
#3 - 2016-01-24 09:08:04 UTC
The thing with this is youll all come back to where you were after dt, but only IF you log in. If you, as the super, dont log in and no one sits on that spot waiting forever youre fine. If you log in before anyone else does and warp off youre also fine.

This is why people rush to kill others before dt because the chances of killing them after is slim. They just dont log in for a week, people get bored of waiting, and they get away.

Have you heard anything I've said?

You said it's all circling the drain, the whole universe. Right?

That's right.

Had to end sometime.
Max Fubarticus
K Diamond Holding LTD.
Bullets Bombs and Blondes
#4 - 2016-01-24 17:27:32 UTC
And here I thought that everyone warped to a magical kingdom with smiling unicorns and dancing leprechauns.

Boy was I wrong!

Max

Civil discourse is uniquely human. After all, when is the last time a pride of lions and a herd of water buffalo negotiated SOV over a watering hole? Never. Someone either gets their ass kicked or eaten. At the end of the day someone holds SOV.
Ralph King-Griffin
New Eden Tech Support
#5 - 2016-01-24 17:50:44 UTC
Leprechauns are real, there all down in Kerry.

Murderers of Negotiable Motivations

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L1ghts
ZOMG DOT
#6 - 2016-01-24 20:43:03 UTC
Eternus8lux8lucis wrote:
The thing with this is youll all come back to where you were after dt, but only IF you log in. If you, as the super, dont log in and no one sits on that spot waiting forever youre fine. If you log in before anyone else does and warp off youre also fine.

This is why people rush to kill others before dt because the chances of killing them after is slim. They just dont log in for a week, people get bored of waiting, and they get away.


Yeah, this is what I was thinking. Flying around in your alliance staging system seems.... Fun.

Thanks. <3
Max Fubarticus
K Diamond Holding LTD.
Bullets Bombs and Blondes
#7 - 2016-01-25 02:36:36 UTC
Ralph King-Griffin wrote:
Leprechauns are real, there all down in Kerry.



Yeah, so I heard. I missed the exit Sad

Max

Civil discourse is uniquely human. After all, when is the last time a pride of lions and a herd of water buffalo negotiated SOV over a watering hole? Never. Someone either gets their ass kicked or eaten. At the end of the day someone holds SOV.
Myrradah
Apotheosis of Caledvwich
#8 - 2016-01-25 22:35:04 UTC  |  Edited by: Myrradah
Just plant an alt there with a point or a Heavy Dictor etc.

You get about 5 seconds of someone logging in before they are actually in game. You will see them log in if you add them to the watch list.

You see them log in, you log in the alt. you warp faster than a Super cap and will land with plenty of time to tackle etc.

Then cyno in your friends and kill em....

its simple.
Substantia Nigra
Polaris Rising
Goonswarm Federation
#9 - 2016-01-26 03:01:16 UTC
In an eve where legends were real …
In an eve where great collections of huge ships would merge to fight and kill hundreds-of-thousands of RL-dollar value in space pixels …
In an eve where things such as Asaki, B-R, 6VDT, and the several ‘great wars’ were even possible …
In that, largely forgotten, eve we would see battlefields bubbled for hundreds of km and camped for weeks after an epic battle. The vanquished, especially their larger ship pilots, would be excluded from game for quite a long time as logging on into that mire of hostile embedded bubbles was guaranteed death. The losers would also mount fleets to try and clear the camped battle field for a short time so some of their brothers could login relatively safely and escape. Eventually the victors would lose interest as the new post-battle kills dwindled to a mere occasional trickle, and the fight would become a part of our history.

In eve today, yeah, it’s mostly what those other helpful folk say.

I guess I am almost a 'vet' by now. Hopefully not too bitter and managing to help more than I hinder. I build and sell many things, including large collections of bookmarks.