Hello.

I was just wondering, what scale fights do you think are the most fun in EVE?
What are the most competitive (EG: one side can't just win by escalating by overwhelming numbers)?

Has the limit on that greatly increased over the years? Are we at the point now that we several hundred capital ships on each side to have an interesting fight, where one side doesn't just escalate and blow the other out of the water?

Is the strength of the EVE infrastructure now not strong enough to reach this limit,
IE: as soon as both sides muster all of their powers, the nodes can no longer handle it and a crash happens?

If so, what are possible solutions to allow armadas to have competitive battles?

Is this part of the reason that our current bloc wars have so many people on each side?

Numbers and force always trump tactics and finesse.

Quantity has a quality of it's own.

I cringed.

Hold on boobies, with fewer people though, isn't there a large chance of an escalation?


EG: I'm the CEO of a 100 man corp, we have a fleet of 50 people against a similar sized group.

However, our enemies batphone a larger group and suddenly we are annihilated by a massive force.

Is the only counter to this to ensure that your own force is so massive that your enemy is not able to outnumber you significantly?

Is this part of the reason that our current bloc wars have so many people on each side?

Players blame CCP for the crashes, when it's the nature of the players themselves that is causing it. Sure, people say it's CCPs fault because they designed the game this way, but still comes down to the players choosing whether or not to do it.

the general idea is at a certain point when a ships shields or armor is taking damage, some of that energy is utilized by the ship to repair itself. At low levels, perhaps a dozen ships worth of damage that energy is negligible, perhaps providing 2% repair boosts but as the level rises the % rises.

So assigning 500 drones to one person and shooting one ship while everyone sits around would likely do 51% damage and 49% repair boost while assigning 50 drones would do 98% in damage and only 2% would be taken as energy to boost repairs.

Amazing. How do you think of this stuff?

terrible blobbers

no

there's a limit to how large you need to be, because above some amount the server will not handle it. so there's no need to match some group that has 10,000 pilots because they can't even cram half of that into a system. In fact, being able to put about 2000+ will keep you safe as an equal 2000 will be already making the best reinforced and tidied server suffer.

if it's a surprise and there's no reinforced node the bar is much lower, however you really want to be able to reach the bar for the most important fights on stations etc. Like a 6vdt event, about 4700 combined...

With about 500 archons and 200 supercarriers and 50 titans (add a hundred or so interceptors) you should be good to defend against 10000 blobbers.

My favorite fights are 3v3 or 5v5 etc. small scale requires faster decisions than carrier blobs with sentries in 10% TIDI. Hell, I got owned by an Ishtar 4v1. I think fun PVP happens in situations like that. We got owned, but we had a blast doing it

It's an experience in its own. Tidi sucks and sometimes the large fights aren't all that fun (often they are, though) but in the end it's still pretty cool to be a part of something that actually has broader-reaching implications for the game.

What would those broad reaching implications be? You get a pretty dot on a map in space and your alliance's name in a caption on the top of the screen...

For the majority of people the implications are nill.

One day they'll wise up and actually make it detrimental to dogpile your enemy. Until then don't expect different results from doing the same thing.

ccp nerf friends please

It's an experience in its own. Tidi sucks and sometimes the large fights aren't all that fun (often they are, though) but in the end it's still pretty cool to be a part of something that actually has broader-reaching implications for the game.

Hello.

I was just wondering, what scale fights do you think are the most fun in EVE?
What are the most competitive (EG: one side can't just win by escalating by overwhelming numbers)?

Has the limit on that greatly increased over the years? Are we at the point now that we several hundred capital ships on each side to have an interesting fight, where one side doesn't just escalate and blow the other out of the water?

Is the strength of the EVE infrastructure now not strong enough to reach this limit,
IE: as soon as both sides muster all of their powers, the nodes can no longer handle it and a crash happens?

If so, what are possible solutions to allow armadas to have competitive battles?

What would those broad reaching implications be? You get a pretty dot on a map in space and your alliance's name in a caption on the top of the screen...

For the majority of people the implications are nill.

What would those broad reaching implications be? You get a pretty dot on a map in space and your alliance's name in a caption on the top of the screen...

For the majority of people the implications are nill.