EVE Online

[Alcibiades]

Destroyers are a good progression.  Just make sure you're training up the support skills as well.  Bigger isn't always better, a mistake most people make and one I made myself when I first started.

[besuchov]

Nice kill!

What's your alliance do again?

The alliance Im in, The Intiative Mercenaries, is sort training\casual alliance for The Initative., member of HBC. PVP focused alliance. My corp is a very small swedish corp, that hangs out in NPC delve and joins INIT-fleets everyonce in a while.

[Arvoreen]

Ah, a fellow member of the HBC.  Nice...I'm currently in Star Frontiers corporation, part of THORN alliance.  Now if I can only find time to log in and do more than change what skill I'm training

[Syt]

Well, I've already stopped playing. While I did enjoy my time with the game, I felt that on a typical working day where I maybe have an hour or two of playing time, I couldn't get much done in that time frame (missions, mining, exploration etc.).

[Berkut]

Started playing again, and got into a nice High Sec corp that is doing a lot of low sec PvP and wormhole stuff. Associated with a decent sized alliance that lives out of a C5 wornhole, so looking forward to trying that...

Right now I just spent about 250 million ISK on a fleet of frigate-cruiser T1 ships to fit our for PvP. I am going to learn low sec PvP if it kills me. I expect to have many, many losses.

[Alcibiades]

Badass man, I've spent the last 3 years in lowsec, best place to be.


Let me know if you plan to leeroy around the Huola-Kourm-Auga area in minmatar lowsec.   



Hope to be back playing a bit in January.....  school/holidays/moving has given me zero computer time 

[CountDeMoney]

Rubicon has certainly opened up a lot of possibilities for high sec carebearing.

[Alcibiades]

I haven't really logged on in the past month, but there was a huge battle between PL and the CFC(goons).

59 PL titans and 16 CFC titans went down, also 329 dreads and 132 carriers.    End tally was 10 trillion in isk, or $200,000 in cash.   

[Berkut]

That is epic.

Was it an arranged fight?

[Alcibiades]

That is epic.

Was it an arranged fight?

No, Nulli forgot to pay rent on one of their stations/systems which made it vulnerable.  Since it was a PL staging system/station they were very invested in it. 

[Arvoreen]

http://community.eveonline.com/news/dev-blogs/the-bloodbath-of-b-r5rb

11 TRILLION ISK lost, 75 Titans destroyed!

[Berkut]

I am just kind of stunned at the amount of coordination it takes from something like this.

Not just controlling the fight, but controlling the fight around the fight - all the secondary battles going on as people try to reinforce, catch those trying to get away, etc., etc.

Freaking amazing.

[Alcibiades]

Well 100% TIDI helps a lot.

[Syt]

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014/01/30/eve-onlines-largest-battle-to-be-marked-by-ship-graveyard/

Earlier this week, EVE Online's largest ever ship battle took place between two of the game's player-run factions. Around $300,000 worth of internet spaceships was destroyed. An EVE Online dev blog tells the story of the battle, breaks down the stats, and announces that the Bloodbath of B-R5RB will be commemorated in-game by a field of derelict ships.

The battle began when someone forgot to check the auto-renew box on their sovereignty payment, causing a region of space to slip out from one faction's control and another to try to claim it. By the end of the battle some 12 hours later, 75 Titans had been destroyed, and goods worth around 11 million ISK turned into spacedust. It's that latter figure which can be converted into roughly $300,000, via EVE Online's PLEX system.

Of those 75 Titans, 59 of them were lost by the N3/PL faction. That makes CFC/DTF the clear winners of the battle. This graph sums it up pretty well.

A graph.

The memorial CCP are building to commemorate the battle will be a kind of graveyard, with destroyed, derelict ships floating in space for all to visit. It's a fitting way to mark the battle, and in keeping with EVE Online's efforts to give player's actions real significance. The graveyard should be added during scheduled maintenance on January 31st.

There are a bunch more screenshots, graphs and links to reports through at the EVE devblog. Or just watch this astonishing footage from a neutral observer during the fight.

[DontSayBanana]

I gotta admit, I've always found the premise of EVE interesting, but I just can't justify getting into a paid-sub MMO with that kind of time sink.