Bloodiest battle in MMO history causes a quarter million dollars in loss

[eljefefx]

Based on my limited knowledge of the situation, probably not happening. As I recall, the presumption before was that N3/PL had the stronger force and would win in a straight upfight against CFC, but the opposite happened. Whether or not N3/PL could've stemmed the tide with more time, who knows. At any rate, likely would be more expensive to try to counter attack given the losses sustained already.

Didn't know you played. PL took a huge hit, somewhere around 4Trillion ISK worth of ships. The renter empire will help feed some of that lost money back into the alliance wallet but it will take time. Also, the problem on the PL side was two fold. B-R is a dead end pipe system with only one gate, so with forces camping the other side they were effectively cut off from outside aid unless it had the ability to Cyno in. Hell, OZ3C-G only has two gates into it, making camping even better. It was a risk staging out of there. Also, for whatever reason the PL FC who took over called a primary switch and went after Sort Dragon. In the time it took for them to bring his Titan down, CFC forces had already taken out 4 PL Titans.

[GTO Assassin]

Silly questions, but a) can you die and b) if you can what happens if you do? You just rejoin different username?

Scooter

[sergechronos]

Didn't know you played. PL took a huge hit, somewhere around 4Trillion ISK worth of ships. The renter empire will help feed some of that lost money back into the alliance wallet but it will take time. Also, the problem on the PL side was two fold. B-R is a dead end pipe system with only one gate, so with forces camping the other side they were effectively cut off from outside aid unless it had the ability to Cyno in. Hell, OZ3C-G only has two gates into it, making camping even better. It was a risk staging out of there. Also, for whatever reason the PL FC who took over called a primary switch and went after Sort Dragon. In the time it took for them to bring his Titan down, CFC forces had already taken out 4 PL Titans.

I played briefly, but moved to TN not long after and data limits on internet + MMOs don't go well together. I have other friends in real life who play though so I've been chatting with them about it. I think PL has made the right call to get assets and get out of the war. I mean honestly, with all those assets tied up, how much could they have contributed to the war effort anyway? I still maintain that even with more time and some magical way to regroup, N3/PL had no chance (and still don't.) Worst possible move that could be made would be dipping into reserves to replace the Titans and launching a counter attack, losing reserves would be crippling. Better to try to stick with the stale mate/smaller engagements and rebuild. At any rate, this may be the beginning of the end, who knows.

Once I get MSI to RMA this graphics card I may give it a try again, at least for a free trial period. Running this system on integrated graphics is maddening just for school work for now, I don't even want to think about trying to game on it. Not a position financially to afford to get involved with an MMO anyhow, so it'd be short term return anyhow.

[IPD]

the consequences will never be the same.

[green-lantern]

I keep thinking of trying this game, I'm just afraid I really won't get anything done anymore.

[sergechronos]

Pretty much exactly how it'll go Paul

[eljefefx]

Silly questions, but a) can you die and b) if you can what happens if you do? You just rejoin different username?

A) Yes you can die.
B) Your clone is activated at the station you chose for it. If you didn't update your clone, you could lose several days worth of skills, meaning you may lose the ability to fly certain ships or use certain equipment. Not to mention the ship you were in is gone and if your pod was destroyed any implants you had are now gone.

Permanently.

Here is an example of a person whose Pod was killed.

https://www.pandemic-legion.com/kill....php?id=718461

That is a very basic set of implants and even then they ran about 120 Million ISK. Now all of that is gone.
Scooter

I keep thinking of trying this game, I'm just afraid I really won't get anything done anymore.

Pretty much exactly how it'll go Paul

Oh it's not that bad. I didn't play for almost two weeks up until a few days ago. It's all about time management, because no one forces you to log in.

[sergechronos]

Dopamine forces you to log in

At any rate, no EVE for Paul till he either fixes his trans, or tells me when Wayne is coming through so I can bribe him to look at the trans.

I did get an RMA approval for my graphics card from MSI at least, but they said it'll take them like a month to get it done and get me my replacement. So no EVE for a while for me unfortunately

[Alex3000gt]

My people!

[eljefefx]

Space nerds, fucker.

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