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Lazarus Telraven
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Goonswarm Federation
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Posted - 2012.05.10 16:11:00 -
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This year is going to be even bloodier then last year with 12 ships allowed onto the field, up two from last years 10 ship limit!
Its going to be awesome. |
Lazarus Telraven
Amok.
Goonswarm Federation
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Posted - 2012.05.10 20:40:00 -
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Cannery Canoule wrote:Bacchanalian wrote:It's a shame that for yet another year we'll have a commentator who has taken such long extended breaks from the game (and can't tell the difference between pulse and beam harbingers). Kil2 must have made some really good friends in Reykjavik.
More fresh faces in general would be nice, honestly. He's been actively pvping for the last several months. He hosts a podcast where he discusses small gang pvp every two weeks and he has been uploading pvp commentaries to his youtube channel. Out of all the commentators chosen he's probably the most in touch with the scale at which the fights in the AT take place. I guess you're looking for commentators that don't have a clue because then you'd be able to relate?
The cool thing about the alliance tournament is that in many aspects it is completely different then the normal everyday PVP that you see on TQ. The teams spend months preparing for this and come up with custom strategies and ship compositions.
I've been working on my facial expressions for the past few days to see if I could match shadoo but I dont think my eyebrows are physically capable of extending that far!
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Lazarus Telraven
Amok.
Goonswarm Federation
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Posted - 2012.05.11 03:14:00 -
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Zastrow wrote:Let's say that you have an alliance of the minimum size to even have a full team: 12. That's LESS THAN 1 PLEX PER PILOT. And its refunded if you don't get in. If anything it'll create somewhat of a barrier to stupid gimmick alliances applying.
Zastrow has a good point in that 5 billion isk isn't that much isk these days especially when you look at the number of people it takes to field a tournament team, have the members kick in a plex or two each.
The entry last year i believe was ~2billion isk which set the bar far to low, this change is a good change. |
Lazarus Telraven
Amok.
Goonswarm Federation
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Posted - 2012.05.11 03:36:00 -
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Maraner wrote:Well Goons have money to burn Jita with..... the point I'm making is that CCP is asking people to pay for a chance to fight in the tournament. I've no doubt that we will have no issues getting 10 Plex to enable us to take part in the auction, but how much is it likely to cost to buy a slot?
Can anyone remember how much last years slots went for?
You also have to remember that with the cutting of B/C teams means that there will be many more spots open to other teams. And in my opinion it will cause the auction prices to be much lower then last year. |
Lazarus Telraven
Amok.
Goonswarm Federation
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Posted - 2012.05.11 17:35:00 -
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Tosh Lines wrote:"hey guys, we want each team that wants to play to pay $175 USD for the privillege, it's ok though, we've got a great way of disguising it. btw get premium stream for just 3 plex, get your limited edition ingame "I watched EveTV" T-shirt for 2 plex - check www.plex.com inbetween bouts for more outstanding offers" Hi CCP, I play your game therefore it's your business duty to extract absolutely every single dime possible from me. Don't worry about broken mechanics, carrier/orca docking for example, you can fix those in 2018, it'd only take 5 minutes anyway so really no point doing it now.
CCP has been completely up front about the reasons they switched to plex and it makes 100% sense for them to do this, 1. The AT needs to be Self-sustaining 2. Players can still use ISK to gain entry 3. Previously the tournament entry fee was to low for the amount of isk currently in the game and moving it to PLEX increased the entry cost as well as helped them take care of #1.
In RL sporting events the venues charge an admittance fee or they charge vendors a fee to help cover the costs of the event but in the 10 years of EVE ONLINE the AT has remained free for anyone wanting to watch the action. So why change that when the application fees needed to be raised anyways and 99% of the teams will be using ISK to buy the plex off of the JITA market.
As many have said in this thread 5Billion ISK is nothing in regards to outfitting a tournament team when you start looking at your ships/hardwirings/skillbooks etc
All of the rule changes were needed and some more then others are going to make this tournament even better then those in the past. Just to list my two favorite is the raise of the ship limit from 3 of the same ship to 4 and max number of participants on the field at a given time from 10 to 12 is going to be INCREDIBLE. I expect some bloody bloody fights with how the points have been tweaked and the addition of the T3 Battlecruisers and new modules to this event!
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Lazarus Telraven
Amok.
Goonswarm Federation
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Posted - 2012.05.11 18:23:00 -
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Tosh Lines wrote:You've misunderstood Lazarus.
It's the artificial inflation of PLEX prices by CCP that is growing wearysome.
600 PLEXes disappearing from market in one swoop will keep PLEX artificially high and there will be plenty more "offers" at regular intervals keeping them high. It's not about the cost for tournament entry, I don't care if CCP want to charge $175 by the back door for it. Don't like it don't enter. What I don't like is them shifting it also into inflated PLEX prices
This makes it more attractive to those who wish to $=>ISK. Something I've never agreed with in the first place and now it's littered with madcap schemes and offers.
Meanwhile relatively simple things that need fixing are completely ignored.
The Orca thing I mentioned kinda ruins low sec, people camp in Tech3s ontop of an orca. If they don't like their odds they just dock in the orca and have it jump safely into highsec where it cannot be attacked, except by suicide squad. It's totally safe, protects expensive ships and skill loss. I wouldn't be surprised if CCP don't even know what I'm talking about, but I'm damned sure they can correctly tell me the price of Plex in Jita down to the 2 decimal places.
600 Plex being taken from the market is actually a relatively small number, if you look at the market data (i have not looked at it recently) but a month or so ago it was near 2k plex being traded per day. A lot of PLEX are being moved through the market on a daily basis so 600 PLEX might spike the price for a day or two but the price wont sustain at that rate as its not a constant demand.
However on the subject of the orca exploit have you tried sending in a bug report about it or filing an exploit petition, a lot of the times an issue may be cited on the forums but unless there is a bug reported filed on it then it wont get added to the "To Do list." Its like if you are at work and something breaks be it the copy machine or a computer etc.. what do you do? you call file a ticket/work order for it so that there is a log/record that people can go by to take the necessary actions to get things fixed. And one of the potential problems with the storing a ship mid combat is that whilst it effects things in lowsec it happens on an even larger scale in null-sec with carriers/rorquals/titans etc. But my best advice is submit a bug report for it and see what the Devs have to say :)
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Lazarus Telraven
Amok.
Goonswarm Federation
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Posted - 2012.05.11 18:41:00 -
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Tosh Lines wrote:Lazarus Telraven wrote:But my best advice is submit a bug report for it and see what the Devs have to say :)
Last bug report I made it was literally 4 months before it was even looked at, response was that it wasn't a bug but infact a suggestion and I should make a post in the ideas forum instead. I'll make a BR and report back my findings in september.
Great :) i am intrigued to find out what they have to say about it because in Null Sec you will see carrier blobs supported by Tech3 cruisers for tackle storing and reboarding their ships when they get primaried and since the ship is stored it renders the target taking no damage and the only way to stop it is to smartbomb/kill the POD before they can get into a new ship.
edit: also keep in mind with all of the new features/modules/etc coming out with inferno soon that a lot of CCPs time is going into making sure they have the kinks worked out of those so i wouldn't expect to much immediately but i dont see it being 4 months! |
Lazarus Telraven
Amok.
Goonswarm Federation
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Posted - 2012.05.12 16:36:00 -
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This is eve you cannot base activity off a single characters killboard, I am an FC for the CFC and when I am FCing i dont get on any killmails because im doing more important things like not getting my fleet killed. I also have 4+ accounts that my kills are split across.
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