EVE General Discussion

I don't see this event as something ccp needs to respond to. But I do think it is a game changer to some degree. As a trade person, I and my associated corps have had to perform a serious re-assessment of how our trade is handled and navigational proceedures associated with it. Maybe this is a good thing. It sure hasn't been boring. I suppose if I had lost a capital ship I'd be howling along with the rest, but I remain calm. It's probably fair to say that many of us have been too complacent about trade hubs for too long. I have also visualized of a variation on the Goon gank formula that could be short-term terrifying for hi-sec trade. In all probability, Goon has thought of it too. Going forward, I see a couple of things happening. Depending on how Goon wishes to
behave for their next act, I see increased pressure for the developements of spot markets. (Think Arab Oil Embargo) This would be hugely beneficial to traders in response to the Jita blockade. But it wouldn't stop the Goons, just diminish the impact. I could be wrong; human nature is hard to predict. But I do see a some major changes to trade on the horizon.

When you put all of your eggs in one basket and call it Jita, you make yourself vulnerable.

Now perhaps you see why people have been repeatedly stating that developing multiple regional markets is important, even if it means making travel more difficult to encourage them.

Krixtal blew his load early, as has been pointed out at some length. Here's some real numbers as well as mails for record kills and so on for you to peruse.

All information came from this page on eve-kill. Ship filters made it easier.

Things that make these numbers probably low: Eve-kill underestimates ship prices. I corrected freighter and jump freighter hull values for this, which is why you'll see they don't match below, but didn't bother with cargo except in certain cases. I also assumed that every kill scored had at least one pilot from GSF on it, and I'm sure that there are a handful of smaller kills that were TEST only or Razor only or whatever.

So! On to the numbers!

Total Destruction: 518.47 Billion Isk

By class?

Jump Freighters: 140.7 Billion, 14 kills. Average value: 10.05 Billion
Most valuable kill: http://www.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=13190958

Freighters: 258.445 Billion, 57 kills. Average value: 4.534 Billion
Most valuable kill: http://eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=13225358

Tech 1 Industrials: 15.308 billion, 97 kills. Average value: 157.8m
Most valuable kill: http://www.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=13211762

Note that this category includes noctii or noctum or whatever.

Tech 2 Industrials: 12.399 billion, 25 kills. Average value: 495.9m
Most valuable kill: http://www.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=13190591

Exhumers: 8.84 billion, 26 kills. Average value: 340 million.
Most valuable kill: http://eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=13217357

Just a note to any aspiring Hulkageddon pilot - a solo catalyst can easily take down a normal hulk and even when they start tanking, three overheated catalysts is enough to kill them regardless of the tank, or so I'm told. The loot dropped by even a normal hulk, much less one like our MVK here, can pay for your ships alone, and when combined with a 100m isk prize per ten hulks destroyed, you'll be compensated quite handsomely for harvesting the tears of the carebears that are destroying our game. So pilots, go forth and die (while killing)

So, what did this cost us? Like kills, I'm sure these are low, since no doubt some people didn't bother posting losses to Eve-Kill. Best I can do, so sue me.

Thrashers
Thrashers (Fatal Ascension): 132
Thrashers (Fidelas Constans): 35
Thrashers (Test Alliance Please Ignore): 195
Thrashers (SpaceMonkey's Alliance): 47
Thrashers (Executive Outcomes): 6
Thrashers (Gentlemen's Agreement): 39
Thrashers (Goonswarm Federation): 661
Thrashers (Get Off My Lawn): 20
Thrashers (RAZOR Alliance): 23
Thrashers (Total): 1158
Reimbursement cost (GSF Only): 6.61 billion
Reimbursement Cost (TEST, 5m/hull): 975m
Cost (Everyone else, 5m/hull): 1.51b
Thrasher Total: 9.095B

Tornados
Tornados (Fatal Ascension): 59
Tornados (Fidelas Constans): 7
Tornados (Test Alliance Please Ignore): 224
Tornados (SpaceMonkey's Alliance): 23
Tornados (Executive Outcomes): 8
Tornados (Goonswarm Federation): 967
Tornados (Gentlemen's Agreement): 22
Tornados (Get Off My Lawn): 2
Tornados (RAZOR Alliance): 22
Tornados (Total): 1334
Reimbursement Cost (GSF Only): 116.04B
Reimbursement Cost (TEST, 90m/hull): 20.16B
Everyone else (Assuming 110m hull cost): 13.73B
Tornado Total: 149.93B

Battleships
I made a few generous assumptions on battleships, specifically that they were all lost to concord after smartbombing. Why else would we have them out?
Battleships (Fatal Ascension): 12
Battleships (BLACK-MARK): 2
Battleships (Fidelas Constans): 4
Battleships (Test Alliance Please Ignore): 24
Battleships (SpaceMonkey's Alliance): 5
Battleships (Executive Outcomes): 1
Battleships (Goonswarm Federation): 149
Battleships (Gentlemen's Agreement): 2
Battleships (Get Off My Lawn): 1
Battleships (RAZOR Alliance): 2
Battleships (Total): 202
Reimbursement Cost (GSF Only): 17.88B
Everyone Else (assuming average hull cost of 100m): 5.3B
Total: 23.18B

GRAND TOTAL SPENT: 182.205B

And how exactly are they destroying your game?

Shoot! I knew that I forgot to include the link for maximum troll factor.


Oh hey its the guy too dumb to realize he was being picked on after the second kill.

And in other news EVE GUP last 18 months:

200 Trillion.

C.

you're one of those "bad at math" morlocks, i see

oogily boogily big number more fearsome

I remember the night of April 26th (about 7:00 PM PDT), I had some minerals to sell in Jita. And then being surprised by the time dilation factor. I made it to a station to dock, sell my stuff and depart. I was heading to my other base and had initiated a jump. As I was aligning and preparing to warp, I noticed some kind of beam hitting my ship, not a weapon, but I thought it might have been some kind of scan. About 3 seconds later, I warped.

I had no idea Burn Jita started early and I guess I'm lucky to have gotten out then. But I didn't go near there for a while, I merely continued to mine and stockpile my ore and minerals until I could fly in.

Fear not, you're safe now! Reimbursements for burn jita and thus burn jita itself officially ended at 23:59 on the 29th.