Not to mention the fact that they came in staggered, in groups, and engaged several seconds apart. This is a very bad idea regardless of situation when you're attempting a suicide gank.

Vae: I think most RP-ers would conclude from the news item that the ship would be VERY hard, if not impossible to kill. It's an OOC comment wrapped in an IC sentence.

The issue with theorycrafting like this is that we're restricted to fitting stock T1 and T2 base meta level modules so that we don't inject massive amounts of ISK into the economy via the dropping of high end loot in the event that actors are killed. Even basic faction gear is off the table for this reason.

I do agree with your sentiment though, and you're putting a well balanced and reasonable argument that will be taken into account going forward

That and the pesky accusations of "favoritism" that could come along with it from people who might remember some of the older events. But yeah like I edited in - it's a reasonable stance.

Andski, he had those QA shield hardeners. We brought enough DPS to rock through that armor fit, but it wasn't meant to be.

I know nothing about coding, but perhaps there might be scope for players to self-flag for events? Essentially, players take on the event flag in order to interact with the event actor (well, in a way that involves F1 to F8). They become engageable by anyone else with the event flag active. This would give the defenders an opportunity to scout out who was really dangerous and who was just a bystander and act pre-emptively.

No, we are saying that when you show up to troll a live event, don't claim to be role playing when you showed up to do nothing but troll.

Maybe it's time for 'Remote Shield Extender'

Sufficient ships were brought to to gank a 500kEHP target. And in any future event like this, that level of gankage can be expected to show up again. Every single time. Which means without CCP using Devhax of some sort, the outcome is already known. Its a cutscene.