Not to call bullshit on your event, but -

• Can we get verification from CCP that they are actually sponsoring this event?
• Can we get verification from SOMER blink that they are sponsoring this event?
• Is there a third party like Chribba that can confirm these prizes actually exist?
• Why is your mailing list and chat channel little more than a placeholder?
• Why does the corporation "Ludus Gallicus" not exist?
• Why does registration require an API key at all?
• Why is this being held on SiSi instead of TQ?

This will not work for Steam users how can we participate without messing with our TQ client ?

there are no previous winners because noone has ever done this.. and for the minimum requirements... If you have a pulse and and an eve account just do it. Try to have fun, learn from your mistakes and dont think about getting prices. Watch 'em run amuck, catch 'em as they fall, never know your luck when there's a free for all.

edit: i approve of this kind of product. Having it on sisi on a reinforced node with a limited number of pilots sounds like a huge improvment over the ghost site debacle. I'm excited for 4 hours of pew even if i have to watch it via stream.
btw why not jove space?

I was just reading the rules again and one thing that came to mind was docking. It seems we'll be starting docked in-system. And, this is NPC null, so the station is open to all as far as I know.

Will we be able to dock during the event? And, if so, can we make/use dock/undock bookmarks? (if yes, can we do it before the event? i.e. should I make bms now in preparation?)

I was thinking that if we get loot (modules, implants) in space, we'd likely need to dock to make use of them. Also, docking for repairs is generally something people might want to do.

But, docking also makes us safe and thus would allow one to stay alive in the event without risk (bad). I assume you'd want to prevent this somehow.

Maybe it will all become clear once things get started.

Any word on if the test server will be reset before the event?

My question is related to the types of ships that will all over the battlefield. For example i don't have t2 large autos yet. so would the battleships all be t2 fitted?

How will this work? Clearly some ppl are going to be able to fly more stuff. Power to them, but it would be nice if the ship name or something would give an indication of how its fit.

Or we could just go for it and hope like hell we have something we can shoot with

What are the rules for implants?

Good question.

I had a lot of fun. But wanted to perhaps give a suggestion? The feedback form didn't have a box for that :D

In the end it was just a "run away" game of gtfo everywhere you landed, and mostly from overseers, more or less ignoring anyone else. I was hoping for a more balls deep PvP thing.

I had 2 ideas that may help for that either independently or together. Both are to encourage more PvP between players and let overseers take a back seat.

1). Have a hard time limit. At that time everyone alive gets the prizes pooled and evenly distributed. Overseers don't really get involved unless agressed.

If the difference between 1st and 2nd prize are big enough, and i think it was. I think the most kith and kin group will be killing each other left right and center. And groups will be very active in killing other groups, since there is a lot to be gained by getting rid of others. Even your own team mates.

2). Have 2 sets of leaderboards. Last man standing. And a "most kills" or "most kill points" leaderboard.

The details could shift the emphasis. For example points could be distributed to all on the killmail thereby discouraging larger groups.


Anyway, just a thought but I guess it depends on what the emphasis is. Really appreciate the hard work that goes into things like this.

Well since the event is over I'll share my half of this. I was the FC for (I think) the largest group of players during Theomachy. Our combined Spectre/Brave group had 44 people to begin with, which was probably a little bit excessive. Anyway, we were able to hold down one of the ship caches very early, and pod a large number of players almost immediately while denying useful ships to everyone else. This gave us a HUGE advantage early on. If you hadn't put SO MANY ships in one place, we would never have gained such a large initial advantage. Almost our entire 40 man fleet got into a hodgepodge of cruisers and battlecruisers almost immediately, with three exequrors and a nestor. Yeah, we weren't going to die. Moral of that story: spread out the ship more.... a lot more

Lastly, and this is kinda the funny part that you guys didn't pick up on - want to know how we knew you were hunting us? Because you were streaming it. All of it. We had two guys watching the various streams reporting where the overseers and hunters were at almost all times. When you focused on us, we would split up into two or three various groups until we'd shaken your tail, and then form back up as a group. Wasn't easy, no, but once we got the hang of it we were pretty much golden and free of harassment. When overseers started podding, we no longer had to fight the players ourselves, so we just took the cowards way out and reshipped into stabbed MWD frigates. Moral of that story, don't put stabs on any of the ships, force players to kill players, and don't discuss who/when/how you're hunting on live stream.

IIRC we got 17 people into the top 30, but no one in the top 10.