Metagaming in EVE - Page 39

I had sincerely hoped to begin today's update with a dose of 'lol merchi' comedy and the announcement that their incompetence had cost them 25 billion isk. It was the perfect setup. They tried to deploy an outpost yesterday before downtime, but forgot to bring the fuel; downtime hits as they're frantically scrabbling to get the missing bits from Jita, and the servers close. An egg, floating vulnerable and undefended in 1-2JP4 for the next 23 hours; hundreds of man hours of work, many billions of isk, easy to destroy with a pre-downtime fleet.

Unfortunately for our sadistic pleasure, our enemies are even more incompetent than Merchi, didn't notice the outpost, and the egg hatched a new station at downtime. Welp!

Ok, maybe I lied, maybe the egg wasn't completely defenseless.

That about sets the theme for hostile activity yesterday: there was essentially no organized resistance. GKC tried to form up but gave up when they couldn't muster more than 55 guys. -A- spent the entire day freaking out about a hypothetical CVA invasion of Catch. You think I mash the broadcast butan a lot? Wait until you see Thug when he feels threatened.

We blew up everything on yesterday's pos.jpg with the exception of one Tormentum small tower, which they managed to rep/restront while we were blowing up the MKD tower. Romulans showed up in eurotime sieging a KIA pos or something, but we chased them off and they logged out rather than fight us.

In US TZ, I fruitlessly camped the A2-V27 gate with Zastrow for three hours and saw no hostiles at all while Imperian said '**** it, I'm bored' in that german accent of his, then downed a HUN Reloaded jammer in 0-WT2D because hey, why not.

6:30 eve regroup, DBRB et all finished the purge of MKD, and since downtime Imperian has been chewing on more towers; there's a couple of early-morning tower killmails to be had for those in the mood, but it's not worth broadcasting about due to the lack of hostiles.

OK, just to clarify things in this debate about "old" Goon space. All Detorid POS belong to a corp inside Goonswarm called "Goonfleel". Has almost same ticker as Goonfleet (LWTAX <-> IWTAX), hence the confusion this creates for some. It has 6 members, all of which are XIX alts. This is UaxDeath's alt corp inside Goonswarm. He created it and had all Detorid stations transferred to it from Goonfleet when he realized a month or so ago that Atlas might go for it once we had secured Omist. Thus he upheld the 2 sov 4's (now only 1 sov4 left, 77s), securing the region from small attacks and tower spams.

Today the count towards sov4 in the MD- constellation was also reset by another 4 weeks, since we took down the single tower in H-F securing 51% system coverage in the constellation.

Some fighting went down in HZF today. XIX had 2 towers coming out of reinforced close to each other in the 77s constellation, and we formed up to kill them as usual. XIX took us a bit by surprise though, we had somehow missed they a jumpbridge leading into HZF from 77s, so when RA support arrived to help them they all simply bridged through into HZF past our bubble camps and 4 Titans in local. Oh well.

XIX having 3:1 BS numbers to Atlas, they were flexible and quickly went to work on our newly acquired gold mine. We started out by warping 2 Titans there to scare them off, but sadly they were well maneuvered and had several regroup points around the POS making it difficult to bubble and DD them. So we decided to warp in carriers on the edge of the forcefield instead, which proved to be more than they could handle. We spider tanked their DPS and repped POS meanwhile, forcing them to warp off without being able to put it into reinforced.

We then waited for their next move. Their POS was out of reinforced, but they had made no attempt to rep it yet. We start to check for new towers at this point. And right we were, 4 new towers unaccounted for in system. We decide 'balls deep' tactic is best for this kind of job, so we went in with dreads and carriers on their anchoring POS to kill it. We get ready to warp in on the second tower, being in a bit of a hurry now to finish the towers off before XIX is able to stront them. We warp capitals in on the second tower. As we siege, hostile BS and support land close range on us. One of our Phoenixes quickly gets primaried, and as he is in 30% armor or so our sling finally gets ready and we warp in 2 Titans and all our dictors on the hostile fleet. First Titan lands like 15sec before our second titan, and his DD destroys our bubbles on the hostiles that survived first DD, thus we didn't catch as many as we could have.

The two DD's were pretty much the end of a long day for Atlas, and hostiles bridged out of system afterwards and went home. We killed the remaining 2 towers that had been anchored, 1 was online but had not been stronted. After that we killed 2 more towers in 0-g, making it a total of 14 large towers killed today for Atlas. KB end result in HZF:

http://atlas-alliance.com/killboard/?a=kill_related&kll_id=78688

Detorid before DT: 4 XIX towers were killed in the 77s sov4 constellation without any resistance. PL also relocated another capital fleet to Curse yesterday. So this weekend might get hot again, one can always hope for more action as the last couple of days has been mostly POS mopping up of the 100+ towers XIX have in this region.

On June 03 2009 06:37 BeJe77 wrote:
@number1gog, it is possible to chill in a cov-ops and observe fights. But they are boring/very laggy on the 400+ scale. If you do go that route, you could write articles for www.eve-tribune.com and get paid for it, if your article is good that is ...

But like mentioned there are so many other things that are a lot more fun, but if that is your goal, it is definitely possible to do.

There's very little to report in this war update because hostiles stood by and did nothing whatsoever as we blew up approximately 12 towers in various systems since the last update. Keeping the Querious Spam Tracker accurate is going to be difficult at this pace.

For about thirty seconds a BeachBoys titan was tackled in KFIE, then the hictor holding the point was jammed and it warped off.

On the strategic level, in addition to us killing a buttload of towers, we kited the 5V- R64 into a 20:00ish timer on Friday. Not the best kite, but early enough that we can get a substantial US TZ turnout for some ~good fights~.

Today, RKZ is having yet another "Big Two Week Offensive." Let's make sure we're here with enough force to render it as impotent as the last one.

In failure cascade news, Skunk-Works lost a fifth member corp, Aeon of Strife. With 64 members that's a fairly substantial percentage loss for an already-screwed pet.

On June 05 2009 07:20 wswordsmen wrote:

lol, you would think alliances would fuel a tower before going to the next one to prevent something like this from happening. That way they might be slowed down, but you don't lose so much so fast.

On June 05 2009 21:59 Avius wrote:
Posted it into the EVE Corporation thread, but since we're talking about H74 atm, I figured I'd drop the screenshot into this thread, too.

This is how H74 looked like: