As all of you know, Eve is 10 years old today and there were a couple of events that happened over the weekend to mark to occasion. After giving up on my plan to wardec carebears because they kept on hiding in stations, I headed to
Jovainnon to participate in the Tusker's FFA.
I merrily undocked from Jita and head to Jovainnon, and I warped to one of the belts in my Tristain.
I launched my drones and tell them to shoot people, but my targets somehow manage to outpace them. I did manage to get on a few killmails, but I eventually decided my Tristain was useless and I let it die. I reshipped into free frigates provided by the Tuskers, and had some close fights where I overheated errything.
I also did some completely suicidal things, such as burning towards a Thrasher and dying in a couple of volleys to it.
Of course there were a few people who showed up to try to ruin the event, such as this Cynabal gang. They succeeded in making a few people ragequit (tgl3) and getting a few kills on ships that were free in the first place.
But then I found my favourite ship of the night, a railgun Merlin that was able to
practically solo another Merlin with 90% shields remaining.
Then at 21:00, Tuskers began to give out dessies.
I then lost several more ships, and by the time I got bored the battlefield looked like this.
Thanks to the Tuskers for organising this, it was great fun.
The next major event was the 'Flight of a Thousand Rifters', where one pilot, Marlona Sky, would undock a Nyx moved into a station by CCP and let it be killed by players. Then name of the event was actually slightly incorrect, a more appropriate name would be 'Flight of Two Thousand and Five Hundred Spaceships', since that is what local peaked at before CCP closed the system shortly after the Nyx undocked.
I didn't actually want to shoot the Nyx, so I got my Arty Thrasher and started blapping suspects at 0 m/s.
I distinctly remember killing many a pod, but none of them have appeared on any killboard yet for some reason.
The fight raged on at 10% TiDi for around 2 hours, which would be equvilant to 12 minutes if there was no TiDi. Many carebears, who had no experience of TiDi outside of Jita, whined about it and left the system.They also whined about PL, who were repping the Nyx and eventually caused it to self destruct. Everyone began to leave, and although it was a fairly fun event I preferred the FFA. I also ensured that my killboard will remain green for the next few years, which can't be a bad thing. Thanks to Marlona Sky for organising the event and sacrificing the Nyx, and to CCP for preventing it from becoming a massive clusterfuck.
Tuskers FFA Battle Report
Flight of a Thousand Rifters Battle Report
