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Oh, why not?

To be completely honest that obnoxious, lag infested blob fest in Asakai is nothing to brag about. So even if we disregard single digit frame rates, and minutes required to activate modulus, this was hardly quality PvP content (with exception of some smart tackling and smart bomb usage by FW people early in the fight), most of it was just rush to dog pile and killmail whore. Only reason people are excited about it is because of novelty, but disregarding that it is just as bad, if not worse, content then structure grinding.

Hint 4 CCP, if you want to promote some good PvP content there is much better material out here, RnK for example.

When RnK uses Triage Archon everybody loves it, when we roll Triage Archons in fleets it is: "****ing blobbers". GF

We do promote the RnK videos all the time on social media :)

*cough, cough*

*steps in and turns on jerk-o-matic*



In the last days since I activated a PLEX, I've logged in for two hours, mostly to tinker with my avatar.

Go figure how much !!excited!! i am about whatever the nullsec attention whores did this last weekend. I am seriously thinking about buying one year of subscription in advance just to keep myself informed.

*disengages jerk-o-matic and goes play Planetside 2, aka DUST 514 Lite*

I thought about that, too, while reading the blog.
And I think the most likely scenario to ever do that would be to enable 0% TiDi. That is possible and does exactly what we want - put the server on hold for a bit. Ideally you want to show a notification first to warn everyone on the impending pause.
Now the tricky part.. moving it, while paused, to the reinforced node.. and making something so the client still thinks he is connected.
Gods, the server guys propably are in pain just from reading this ...

Eve writes the best stories in the MMO universe.

The incident in Asakai is a great demonstration of an adjustment to Titan bridges I have been talking about for over a year.

Titans should have go though the bridge they create. Ether at the end of the cycle or when the Cyno ship is destroyed.

This changes the Bridge from a tactical weapon to a strategic weapon. Fielding the Titan to attack some pilots knocking over a small POS is not a worthy target to send a Titan too. (Yes the situation in Asakai was an error.) That means that you would not have used the Titan to bridge. Instead the attacking fleet would move from gate to gate, providing more opportunity to encounter more players/gangs/fleets. It would remove the "Direct to fight from POS" problem that Titan bridges create.

This still leaves the Bridges available in more strategic situations where fielding the Titan makes sense. Players that are willing to put the Titan at risk in less important situations would still be able to do so. In the end Eve would have more fights like this and New Eden would be better for it.

Someone told me 'open your map, it makes things faster' while I was in Asakai. It actually did too, but my map was configured with 'ships destroyed in 24 hours' and there was just a VAST red spotch around Poinen. My first thought was, oh dear, we broke the Eve stats, it thinks we're in Poinen and that there's 17,000 ships dead. LOL CCP you silly fail devs........

Now I just feel sorry for RvB that their thunder was, if not stolen, at least shared with an impromptu squabble in Asakai.

IMO this is actually a good thing, it enables more players to actually take part in such events. So EVE with TiDi is better for it than without