Posted on 01/30/2014 11:05:53 AM PST by 1rudeboy
Edited on 01/30/2014 11:07:20 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
One week after this monstrous galactic throwdown in EVE Online, the sci-fi MMO is the scene of another humongous space battle—and it's all because of a missed bill payment.
Because this is EVE, the intrigue leading up to one of these rumbles is often more entertaining than the fight itself—especially when it gets so large that time itself has to slow down to account for all the ships in the area of operation. According to an email EVE Online sent out today, more than eight Titans—these are the real bad mofos of the EVE fleet, capable of equipping a superlaser—have already been destroyed in the Battle of System B-R5RB. The belligerents are, once again, the N3 Coalition and the Cluster**** Coalition (CFC), with other alliances assisting both sides.
What touched off this battle? A missed bill payment, basically.
"Earlier today an alliance in the N3 coalition missed a bill payment for the system where Pandemic Legion is staging and storing their fleets," writes EVE. "This missed bill caused sovereignty to drop across the system leaving the station vulnerable to capture. Seizing the opportunity, the CFC (Goonswarm Federation, Razor Alliance, Black Legion and the Initiative) and Russian Coalition (Solar Fleet, Darkness of Despair and Against ALL Authorities) captured the station."
You might remember that CFC got its collective ass handed to it back on Jan. 18, when it decided to tangle with Pandemic Legion's "Wrecking Ball" fleet down yonder in System HED-GP. N3/Pandemic sent aforesaid Wrecking Ball into B-R5RB to retake the station, although at a smaller strength. CFC brought in "a large contingent of Dominixes, Dreadnaughts and Titans," and decided it was time to play the Feud!
Here is my favorite part of the email: "The fight is ongoing with both sides banking on their European, and soon North American, players returning from work to bolster their forces."
You can follow it all in this Twitch livestream but I warn you, those who say EVE is like playing a spreadsheet won't be proven wrong here. With time dilation in high gear, this is not so visually arresting—except for the hilarious news crawl. (Noting, as of press time, more than 2 trillion ISK in materiel loss).
It'll be left to the victors to write history and when they do, we hope they do it with style.
For the uninitiated:
A tenant owed back rent (for a station). The owner came to collect. The tenant decided they wanted to try to change the lock on the apartment (a space-based sovereignty unit), and the owner decided to come in and try to forcibly change the lock themselves.
The owner brought his buddies, the tenant brought his, a war broke out.
My thoughts exactly, except with tape holding the glasses together.
I miss good old Quake1 capture the flag. 8 red guys vs 8 blue guys,a grappling hook that you could also use to hook into an opponent, rocket launchers, nail guns, knocking guys into lava, low ping bastards, those were the good old days.
Jedi Outcast. Force-choke someone. Force-push them off into the lava. Much fun.
EVE is a whole ‘nuther aphorism though...
I just can't bring myself to be looking over my shoulder every 5 seconds.
I remember one I used to play back in the BBS days.. think it was called Trade wars, or something like that.. ANSII maps and all ;)
DooM, Redneck Rampage.. serial connection.. good to go ;-)
(Piles even more stuff in Arcades inventory for complaining)
http://www.tradewarsrising.com/ is the current generation of the game. Hated logging on and finding myself in a POD and going back to my sector finding all my Level 6 Transwarp planets gone. Loved playing Evil
Wow! Bookmarked to check up on that one :)
Curious about the 2002 TM though, I was playing it back in the early-mid ‘90s (?!).. (only ansii though..), same game?
Trade Wars was ported off BBS platforms to TWGS which runs on windows platforms. http://www.oregonsouth.com/ice9/ has games you can play. Just select Telnet and your transported back to the 1990’s
(Speaks in best fake Aussie accent...)
“That’s not a tank...THIS is a TANK!”
http://i931.photobucket.com/albums/ad151/NormLenhart/Doesnotapprove.jpg
imagine a shi in a video game being worth $5500 real dollars. crazy
Yea it does seem nuts. But then, anything has a dollar value if people are willing to exchange money over it.
In a way, it it any different from a time share? Seems like a crazy statement until you think about it.
Well I played everything 0.0 wormhole Carebear manufacturer. My issue was that the fighting you did was not that exciting even in big battle. You knew right off how the battle was going to go and you did it anyway. It more was about espionage...
That is War Thunder!
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