Originally by: Lady Spank

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Well now we have the other issue... People that wish to do fleet ops should get organised to facilitate such activity.

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Originally by: Feligast

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Edited by: Feligast on 28/07/2011 21:30:16
At the risk of making windjammer smug as hell, the more I've read of this, my comment was somewhat elitist and misinformed. Been too long since I've been in highsec for any great length of time. I retract my LOL @, and beg forgiveness from this thread.

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Originally by: Lady Spank

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How about forming a corporation of like-minded individuals with a common interest in downing tools (mission boats) and heading out whenever a live event, or incursion crops up? There are corps that do exactly this and I don't see anything but reports of awesome events and nice Incursion income from them.

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This is the equivalent of having the World Cup hosted in a location and a time unknown to the rest of the world until the kick off and expecting people that want to participate to drop everything in the hopes they can reach it before its over.

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Originally by: Mandrid Mandragoran

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I was hauling minerals between Palas and Amarr in my Bestower when I noticed something very odd while traveling through Gidali. Sanshas on the gate. Lots of them. It was a Live Event - the first I've ever seen. Exciting, for sure. I promptly jumped one system over to hop into my Abaddon and joined a local fleet that was forming.

It took nearly 30 minutes for the fleet to finish oragnizing. We were a sizable fleet, 70 pilots strong, some which had come from upwards of 30 jumps distant. Logi pilots had set up chains and watch lists. The local PvE DPS had refit for incursions (EHP, Omni resists, DPS). Last minute advice was being handed out, fittings analyzed, anchors set, as we scrambled to organize while we gathered on both sides of Gidali.

Battle comms was called. Reports were still coming in of lone battleships being chased down and popped by the Sahshas as they jumped into Gidali and to their doom. The order was given - fleet undock, jump to Gidali, assemble on Planet 1.

A torrent of ships spews from the station, a steady stream warping across the system, continuous gate fire propelling our fleet to Gidali. The gate on the other side is cluttered with wreckage. We ignore it, and burn to Planet 1. The fleet assembles, all 70 ships, the logi chain cris-crossing the fleet like a game of cat's cradle gone awry. Modules on every ship, prepped and ready for combat, illuminate the scene in a pulsating glow. We are ready for this.

But we were met only with silence. The wormholes that the Sanshas had been invading through had disappeared. Scavengers were finishing picking at the wreckage on the gates. It could not have been more than 45-60 minutes since the event had begun, and already, without even being able to participate, it was over.

We waited for another 15 minutes. The hope and excitement that had been so high in the fleet only minutes before had been entirely snuffed out. There was no anger though. Only sadness. The fleet was called. Our pilots drifted away, back to the drudgery that seemed even more pale than it did only an hour ago.

We've been had. We've been robbed.

CCP, Slave Nakri29, if you're reading this, please know that it is quite cruel to toy with us like that. It is a major party foul to call a live event and then bail out before the guests arrive.

~ Mandrid

Main thread here:
http://www.eveonline.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=1558165

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