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Not sure if you guys are keeping up on various events in game, but certain alliances are having fun with NPCs. Taken from the news feed that appears when you log in:

sansha's nation forces move on angel cartel territory
reported by Peirene | 2006.01.20 12:42:18 | NEW
A few days ago Ascendant Frontier (ASCN) forces, on behalf of the Angel Cartel, destroyed a Sansha's Nation exploratory force in TR07-S. Sansha's Nation forces, commanded by Frazier Eachann, attempted to establish a foothold in the area using a Mobile Starbase structure as a forward base.

Their forces consisted of 3 Revelation-class Dreadnoughts and 24 Nightmare-class Battleships. These ships moved into TR07-S and proceeded to deploy an Starbase near a moon in the system. They were met on the battlefield by an equally impressive ASCN force, which Ascendant forces included 4 Dreadnought-class vessels. The Archangels fielded a Naglfar-class Dreadnought, to aid their allies.

The ASCN forces marshalled nearby, an hour after the call had gone out. Their fleet of 164 waited for the order to attack. With an initial positioning of the ASCN fleet 400km above the well-armed Starbase, they soon warped into point blank combat range and fierce barrages between the two opposing fleets commenced. Initially Sansha's took the upper hand, but Ascendant's sheer force of numbers turned the tide of the battle, resulting in total loss for the Sansha's fleet. The final toll for Ascendant was 2 Amarr-class Dreadnoughts and approximately 20 battleships. With the field cleared of hostile ships the Ascendant fleet turned its attention to clearing the POS structure removing the last evidence of Sansha's presence.

The Cartel diplomat Xavier Khun has been previously spotted with the Ascendant Frontier alliance. Rumour has it that the two forces have been involved with each other for the past two months. Previous Cartel/Ascendant co-operations have not been publicly acknowledged until now, the appearance of Xavier Khun himself as pilot of a Naglfar dreadnaught in the strike-force confirming the relationship between the Angel Cartel and ASCN.

With the improving relations between the Ascendant Frontier alliance and Angel Cartel it seems the Angel Cartel felt it would be an opportunity for Ascendant to prove their friendship. Leader of Ascendant Cyvok had this to say, "ASCN has committed itself to helping the Cartel whenever we are called upon or given information". Speaking to Cyvok after the monumental battle, he had this to say, "This was a real opportunity to show our worth to the Cartel and earn some respect on the battlefield from both the Cartel and Sansha."

The implacable remnants of the Nation were characteristically silent, despite numerous attempts to get their comments on the battle, or their move into the Cartel's territory.
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it was an aweful LAG fest.

Warping 400km above the POS was thought to reduce the LAG of loading overviews etc, it helped alittle bit, but as soon a nearly 200 ships stated to open fire, the system almost ground to a hault.

Lucky i wasnt targetted, but did move out of range ~80km half way through, i did turn back and stopped 20km away from one of the Sansha Revelations. i think i mentioned that a while back. Doh, brain starts to work. :):)
 
Yes it was an event.
But

CCP Dev & ISD dont talk to each other by the looks of it.
Or
they didnt expect a 160 strong Fleet turn up in responce to the threat.
 
Lostcorpse said:
this sounds like a CCP event? if it was did they not dedicate a part of the cluster to this mission?
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When Serpentis Nation attacked NOL-M9 it was fine with the first engangement outside the station. But then there was a battle at the gate. There were 3 fleets iirc warping in at differnt times, so most didn't load and was a 30 second delay on module activation.

So with it including in game Corporations on the ISD side I don't think CCP know exactly where its going to happen themselves.
 
sorry, the point i was making was that the target in this case was a POS, which is stationary and presumably set up in advanced. Which some part of CCP must have know about. as big bigsteve said sounds like they dont talk much.

mybe the new amd 64's will do the trick eh? :)
 
Lostcorpse said:
sorry, the point i was making was that the target in this case was a POS, which is stationary and presumably set up in advanced. Which some part of CCP must have know about. as big bigsteve said sounds like they dont talk much.
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It wasn't just a POS, there was a large number of Sanshas in ships as well who were dotted about.

It was actually quite amusing. I don't think I'm giving anything away by saying that ASCN intelligence spotted the POS as it was being set up and we mustered a large force very quickly only to be told by the GMs 'erm, can you hang on a bit guys because we're not ready for you'.

We're just too damn efficient :)

K.
 
Feek said:
It wasn't just a POS, there was a large number of Sanshas in ships as well who were dotted about.

It was actually quite amusing. I don't think I'm giving anything away by saying that ASCN intelligence spotted the POS as it was being set up and we mustered a large force very quickly only to be told by the GMs 'erm, can you hang on a bit guys because we're not ready for you'.

We're just too damn efficient :)

K.
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Brilliant :D
 
To add insult to injury we had a couple of covert-ops pilots watching them setting up the POS, who reported back that it took 3 attempts for them to get the POS set up correctly.
 
Lostcorpse said:
Can i ask what your resists were? and your hardens T2? Domi for the win indeed best tanking in game i've seen so far, for tanking and dmage output.
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I had exp/therm/kin t1 hardeners, the rest of my tank is uber and undisclosed ;)
 
I spotted a Burn Eden pilot in RL the other day. How did I know it was someone from BE? Well he's so proud that he's got the only t3 mods in existance in Eve that he's got custom number plates.



I tried to catch him up but he got away from me :) :D :D

K.
 
Woohoo party time!

2006.01.22 22:18
Mentally Unstable Enterprises has declared war on Digital Fury Corporation.
After 24 hours fighting can legally occur between those involved.

Now this is going to be fun :)
 
Hmm.

They must have members here, because they're going through the corps/alliances on here :P.

It'll only be fun if you go looking for them in Empire, they won't come to 0.0!
 
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