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AgentHawk
The Exit Plan Test Alliance Please Ignore
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Posted - 2014.11.23 03:15:50 -
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Presented and ran by TEST Alliance Please Ignore, we invite any and all teams, and indeed any and all teams are welcome, to come scrimmage with us!
Starting up practices can never be too early or too late, and internal practices may not always yield enough people to run full teams. Practicing with other teams not only opens your mind to the possibilities of other comps that you would never normally think of, but also to a whole new skill level and team tactics that you can work to achieve!
But enough with the preamble:
When? Every Saturday on SISI @ 1700 EVE time (UTC; Handy Time Zone Tool) for about 2 hours. 1700 may be flexible a couple hours up or down, depending on feed back in this thread, but generally this was a good time for everyone last year. We Plan to do this every weekend with or without practice partners
**NOTE: Practices will start on the 6th of December (2 weeks from today), to accommodate those who have Turkey Day next week**
Where? S-U8A4 VI - Moon 1 - Ishukone Corporation Factory (<------ the seeded station aka bottom station)
This system is about 9 jumps from the moveme pvp system. Arena and warp in bookmarks are available on public contracts in the system. Please use one per corp and put them in your corp bookmarks folder, not your personal one :)
Communication Channels For now, I will be the liaison between the TEST Team and all of you. Please infer all questions or concerns you have to me by EVE Mail **NOT** through SISI, but rather through Tranquility. Alternatively, if you happen to have a TEST spy alt and you wish to burn it you may contact me via TEST Jabber via the same nick.
We require at least a handful of your team (does not need to be everyone) to be in a general chat channel for coordination, a public channel, called: SISI Scrims. Things like "TEST is taking team A beacons" will be said here and such.
Additionally, I will ask the team captain (or someone your team appoints) to x up to be invited to a captains channel for a more private venue.
FC, What Do I Need To Know?- Show up with at least 12 people and queue up with us or another team to fight.
- You and your team are responsible for your own doctrines and building your own ships.
- We will always use the most up to date point system and for whatever tournaments (NEO, SCL, AT) start date is the earliest. Right now, with no announcement for NEO or SCL, thats ATXIII with the AT rules and point system from August.
- We highly suggest that you build ships in bulk before practice starts, enough for 2 or more consecutive 'welps' without having to rebuild any ships. We cannot stress this enough.
- Generally be patient. Sometimes you may be waiting at the area for 10-15 minutes for the other team (or vice versa) if they are switching comps or having trouble with fittings and fitting skills.
- Typically we run matches with no bans. However, we may discuss bans via the undisclosed captains channel given enough time before a match up.
- Count down starts in local with something like "30, 20, 10, 5, 4, etc."
- You may call a match whenever you want by typing "calling it" in either local or sisi scrims, however local is more visible and readily viewed. After a match is called please respect that and don't continue shooting things :( It really just wastes everyone's time. GF's in local is not considered a stop to a match.
- After a match, the field can get pretty dirty. Typically the winning team is the one to stay behind and shoot wrecks and drones with some help from any surviving members of the other team.
- You can hope to see 5-7 matches when both teams have ships built and are quick with switching comps. However, there were a few days where we could only get 2-3 matches done in 2 hours. We would like to avoid that, too.
I hope I was able to cover everything while keeping this relatively short, I know how the EVE community loves tl;dr's :v
Signed, AgentHawk of the Exit Plan, Full Corporation Member of TEST Alliance Please Ignore; a SOV holding alliance in Catch, New Eden, Space. |
Melvin Coulter
Rubella Solaris Test Alliance Please Ignore
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Posted - 2014.11.23 03:21:14 -
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yes please much fun.
Move along!
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Shimozu Shinta
Northstar Cabal Tactical Narcotics Team
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Posted - 2014.11.24 15:46:23 -
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This sounds like it could be a lot of fun, as well as a good way to get people back into the mindset of the tournament sooner. I'll talk to our team and see if there's interest. Thank you for taking initiative to organize these opportunities. |
Tzuko1
FREE GATES Nulli Secunda
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Posted - 2014.11.24 21:57:44 -
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A bit too early isnt it ? |
AgentHawk
The Exit Plan Test Alliance Please Ignore
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Posted - 2014.11.25 03:11:55 -
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Tzuko1 wrote:A bit too early isnt it ?
For the AT sure, but we hope NEO will arrive in the few months after the new year and to a lesser extent SCL somewhere in there.
And unfortunately its futile to speculate what point changes will occur or even if NEO and SCL happen (rip) so we may as well just use current points for the tournament that we know will come next. |
Tzuko1
FREE GATES Nulli Secunda
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Posted - 2014.11.26 01:05:00 -
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AgentHawk wrote:Tzuko1 wrote:A bit too early isnt it ? For the AT sure, but we hope NEO will arrive in the few months after the new year and to a lesser extent SCL somewhere in there. And unfortunately its futile to speculate what point changes will occur or even if NEO and SCL happen (rip) so we may as well just use current points for the tournament that we know will come next.
Organising NEO and fanfest in the same time is unlikely. And after fanfest its AT time again. They not even answering those NEO calling out topics. |
Soldarius
Deadman W0nderland The 99 Percent
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Posted - 2014.11.26 18:04:39 -
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Confirming that TEST does a great job of running this. Having practice partners from outside alliances was invaluable to our success in AT XII. Please bring the pew.
http://youtu.be/YVkUvmDQ3HY
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AgentHawk
The Exit Plan Test Alliance Please Ignore
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Posted - 2014.12.10 22:24:51 -
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*bump*
this is still happening every saturday at 1700!
for everyone who has already shown up or shown interest, we thank you! |
suicide
The Exit Plan Test Alliance Please Ignore
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Posted - 2014.12.11 17:59:40 -
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If you are an individual pilot or small group of pilots interested in this practice, send me an EVE-mail.
We are putting together a casual team to practice against. |
AgentHawk
The Exit Plan Test Alliance Please Ignore
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Posted - 2014.12.20 18:22:51 -
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HEY!
First off, TY for those people who have come to meet us at 1700 on a saturday!
Secondly, for the holiday we are taking about a 2 week break starting TODAY, I'm not sure exactly when TEST will come back in the new year, but yall are free to use the arena bookmarks for your own needs at any time as always
Look to this post for updates!
P.S. sorry, I forgot contracts run out after a max of 2 weeks so the team today was sorta stiffed on the warp in points so we got a late start : / I'll definitely be keeping up on renewing them in the future until CCP give celestial beacons for us again
o7m8 |
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suicide
The Exit Plan Test Alliance Please Ignore
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Posted - 2015.01.06 21:04:11 -
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Practices begin again this Saturday at 1700!
If you are organizing a full team let AgentHawk know you are coming. He can sort you out.
If you are a small group or a single pilot just show up and we will put you on a team and you can see what it is like. If you have a comp you want to fly then build it in advance and have some substitutions available if the team has less than 12 pilots.
Hope to see you there! |
AgentHawk
The Exit Plan Test Alliance Please Ignore
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Posted - 2015.01.09 17:38:22 -
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suicide wrote:Practices begin again this Saturday at 1700!
If you are organizing a full team let AgentHawk know you are coming. He can sort you out.
If you are a small group or a single pilot just show up and we will put you on a team and you can see what it is like. If you have a comp you want to fly then build it in advance and have some substitutions available if the team has less than 12 pilots.
Hope to see you there!
so much this^^
as stated practices for TEST are happening again this saturday!
for our first week back im keeping it casual, but if you still wanna show up in full force we will meet you gladly! |
AgentHawk
The Exit Plan Test Alliance Please Ignore
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Posted - 2015.01.31 01:58:52 -
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just chiming in about t3 dessies, which will be considered 4 points for now, updated OP with the information a well |
Bob Shaftoes
TURN LEFT The Camel Empire
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Posted - 2015.02.01 18:03:21 -
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AgentHawk wrote:just chiming in about t3 dessies, which will be considered 4 points for now, updated OP with the information a well
There's pretty much zero chance tactical dessies will be anything less than 5 points in the AT. It may even be a case that they put them on par with cruisers and make them 6
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Greygal
Redemption Road Affirmative.
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Posted - 2015.02.02 20:54:08 -
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Confirming that last year's Open Practices organized by Test Alliance were very well organized and managed, terrific fun, and REALLY helpful, especially to small teams. I'm thrilled to find out ya'll are doing it again this year!
Affirmative likely will start attending them after Fanfest, as it's just too early for us to start work on the tournament right now (in other words, some of my guys are still burned out from last year's tournament )
Have you poked Fozzie yet about spawning some arenas for you? I bet if you ask him sweetly, he'll spawn some arena beacons :)
Regarding the NEO, I would not expect a NEO this year.
CCP Gargant was a guest on the EveDownUnder radio show in early January, and he said that they were rethinking the NEO and that it was unlikely to happen this year. This was said live on-the-air so I'm not speaking out of turn, here Of course, things could change, but that is the latest info I'm aware of. Recording of the show should be found on EveDownUnder's website at http://www.netgameradio.com (although when I last checked, Otto and Bam were a bit behind uploading the recordings, so may not be there quite yet, and I'm too lazy to check right now). (Gargant also sang the theme song from Frozen on this particular episode, and wow, he's got a terrific singing voice! That's at https://soundcloud.com/joel-falknau/ccp-gargant-let-it-go )
My guess is the new T3 destroyers to be valued at 5 or 6 points. If they are valued at the same point level as regular T1 destroyers, we'll never see a Thrasher in the arena again.
Many thanks in advance for Test Alliance organizing these super-awesome Open Practices again!
What you do for yourself dies with you, what you do for others is immortal.
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AgentHawk
The Exit Plan Test Alliance Please Ignore
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Posted - 2015.02.05 00:56:42 -
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Greygal wrote:Have you poked Fozzie yet about spawning some arenas for you? I bet if you ask him sweetly, he'll spawn some arena beacons :)
he seems to be ignoring me~
but on the topic of arenas, there is another one that was made last week with MMJU's in place by one of our practice partners.many of my team and i have the warp in's for those BM's however i do not know if they are distributing them to other people or how they will, or are, if they are at all
now to the real reason im posting here
**NEW PRACTICE TIME: 1900 EvE** **NEW PRACTICE TIME: 1900 EvE** **NEW PRACTICE TIME: 1900 EvE**
will update OP as well |
AgentHawk
The Exit Plan Test Alliance Please Ignore
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Posted - 2015.02.05 01:04:08 -
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Bob Shaftoes wrote:AgentHawk wrote:just chiming in about t3 dessies, which will be considered 4 points for now, updated OP with the information a well There's pretty much zero chance tactical dessies will be anything less than 5 points in the AT. It may even be a case that they put them on par with cruisers and make them 6
we are putting them at 4 points to encourage their use in our comps and hopefully other teams' comps so we get some practice against them, basically
and they are pretty much on par with AF's in terms of tank and dps and speed, its only caveat being its superior fitting room, generally, as well as the use of 3 rig slots unhindered by faction and/or T2 restrictions |
Greygal
Redemption Road Affirmative.
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Posted - 2015.02.05 01:12:05 -
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LOVE the change to 19:00! Might just have to poke our heads in there before Fanfest :)
What you do for yourself dies with you, what you do for others is immortal.
Free weekly public roams & monthly NewBro new player roams!
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AgentHawk
The Exit Plan Test Alliance Please Ignore
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Posted - 2015.02.13 16:12:28 -
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quick update!
we (TEST) are canceling our practice for the american holiday, valentines day, tomorrow
i wish you all a great weekend and apologies for the late cancellation!
teams are still welcome to use the fields provided, i will put up more contacts for the TEST field soon
also we are moving the t3 dessies up to 6 points as discussed in last weeks practice |
AgentHawk
The Exit Plan Test Alliance Please Ignore
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Posted - 2015.02.13 16:13:15 -
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[redacted] |
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AgentHawk
The Exit Plan Test Alliance Please Ignore
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Posted - 2015.02.19 17:08:48 -
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BUMP
TEST coming to practice this saurday, do not miss out on your chances to fight teams! |
suicide
The Exit Plan Test Alliance Please Ignore
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Posted - 2015.02.19 17:19:01 -
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There has been a mirror, so you will need to patch and move and build ships and stuff again.
Don't miss your chance to fight TEST, the second best AT practice partner in EVE! |
Greygal
Redemption Road Affirmative.
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Posted - 2015.02.20 22:06:08 -
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Love these practices and greatly appreciate Test organizing them!
Looking forward to more explosions with ya'll tomorrow ;)
What you do for yourself dies with you, what you do for others is immortal.
Free weekly public roams & monthly NewBro new player roams!
Visit Redemption Road or join mailing list REDEMPTION ROAMS for information
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suicide
The Exit Plan Test Alliance Please Ignore
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Posted - 2015.02.22 15:11:48 -
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We had 3 almost full teams and a good number of fights, so thanks to those who showed up.
More teams means faster matches and less waiting. For best results prepare for 5-6 matches with pre-built ships, and some substitutions if you don't get 12 people.
Same time next week! |
Bei ArtJay
Yarrdy YaRr YARRR
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Posted - 2015.02.23 14:13:26 -
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Hey guys are you still using ATXII rules? Any thoughts about switching to rules/points (excluding 5 man limit of course) of the worlds collide format?
Just doing some theorycrafting before I try and bring a team down :) |
suicide
The Exit Plan Test Alliance Please Ignore
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Posted - 2015.02.25 14:07:56 -
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We are using the ATXII rules yes. Using the different point values and T1 drones is interesting, but we are not going to be prepared for that by Saturday.
My opinion was that the lack of energy transfers was due to the low points / pilots of the tournament. You can't break tinkers with that little DPS. Also the T1 drones only is likely an attempt to balance the obvious issues with drone ships being more powerful. The AT13 rules will likely be modified depending on how those changes play and stuff. |
Bei ArtJay
Questionable Ethics. Ministry of Inappropriate Footwork
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Posted - 2015.02.26 11:43:53 -
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Cool, will stick to ATXII rules for now (although I really DO hope they bring back no cap transfers for AXIII because tinker matches are so damn boring) try and bring a team down soon (maybe not this week but the following), sounds fun!
Bei |
suicide
The Exit Plan Test Alliance Please Ignore
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Posted - 2015.02.27 03:07:16 -
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Tinkers aren't too bad, they are actually kinda entertaining to try to break. It will be interesting to see what CCP throws at us this year with the rules and points and such. And how much those T3 statistical tweaks will change things.
PSA
There is a big SISI launcher change so you will need to launch it a few times for it to update. It could take a while. |
AgentHawk
The Exit Plan Test Alliance Please Ignore
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Posted - 2015.03.17 01:14:25 -
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BUMP
PLEASE NOTE THE NEW TIME OF 1800 eve time (http://everytimezone.com/#2015-3-16,360,cn3) TO COMPENSATE FOR THE HOUR SHIFT WHICH MOST OF THE WORLD DOES!
any issues pls PM or reply here |
suicide
The Exit Plan Test Alliance Please Ignore
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Posted - 2015.04.01 23:49:09 -
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We could really use some spawned arenas in our practice system if anyone knows a friendly CCP type person who can do such a thing. 3 or 4 would be fantastic, thank you. Also if you have some sort of arena or match-making software we can do a bunch of testing on it every Saturday.
Practice last week was amazing. If you are a new team coming this Saturday (1800 EVE) then let AgentHawk know so that we can make another arena if needed. We had 80+ in local and 6 teams which is pretty amazing and the competition is getting stronger all the time. Matches start as soon as 2 teams are ready and last as long as there are people wanting to do matches.
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