EVE Search - I want ISK Titan Smash! 3rd January 2015

Mochalatte wrote:

This was my first event of this nature. Besides being fair weather EVE player for many years I wanted to step up and try this type of challenge.

I had to figure out how to do this. being as RvB was advertising they had fleet for this I joined naturally. This process for me, was a total mess. After 2 hours of xing up, I still didn't have an invite. FC's (bless them) were having a difficult go at managing their surprised 500+ people trying to spam x's. It was a ******* mess. You could tell things were in total disarray, Fc's were baffled what to do with the numbers.. I think they though "maybe a fleet".. way too many people.. also hence the uncoordinated fleet even under good fc's.

2 1/2 hours later I still had no invite and fleets were full and not talking to each other. As someone that is noobish, I gave up and went on my own. I sat on coms to gain intel as where I'm supposed to be or where the titan would be. I would try to get a fleet invite another hour later will no avail. Did I mention how messy it was? Different coms, coms filling up.. people raging about no invites. it was a MESS.

I decided to go on my own, I got to the staging system @ 18:56 and started to get franctic and gather intel as to not miss the kill. They stated the event had started, but still didn't see titan for another 25 minutes around 19:30 on field. I think Spectre fleet came in nearly an hour late? Those 9 jumps, must of been brutal 9not really it was just a ******* mess).

I warp into the crowd in a frig and target the titan, it's maybe 95% shields. I start to get targeted and warped off. Rinse and repeat this 100 times. I get off coms as it just confusing, they switched coms 2-3 times to deal with numbers and even used dif coms for different spectre fleets (ouch). it was so terrible I decided to get my info from a small gang in system I met in the iwantisk channel. I took a few shots at the titan always being targeted as I landed.. now I a noobie ship I'm surprised, but I deal with it. It after all is titan.

So the titan is not even being touched 2 hours into the event.. iwanted to see who was fighting. I notice three big groups napocs, machs, and this huge logi/harpy/tech III fleet.. I was in awe. I start to target things to see what I happening and maybe get on a few "whored" mails. It was slow going with a few fleets warping off after 1-2 hours of slugging it out.

What I learn from intel though.. is that one of the big fleets and the most organized was the "defensive" fleet. I thought to myself.. that's cool someone decided to take the role of good guy and rep this titan. That was not the case, this defensive fleet I learned was actually the hosts. Well that makes it interesting I thought.

I liked the event even with the **** fest that went on, but how it ended was terrible.

The defense fleet killed the titan, the people hosting the event, are taking the kill for themselves. Intel starts to drown in as I watch the live twitch feed. The titan pilot is not unbias, it's the same fleets pilot. He is actually in the gang boosting them 100%. How are they reshipping without having to warp.. how did they get set up so well to defend the titan. Then it became clear with intel again.. They knew about or at least their fc's knew about the location and how to defend weeks ahead of time.

I think this would of been fine, it added a lot of good conent.it made me work to be on that kill, even if in the end it was with a noobship. I think it added flavor to the event.. but there was this greed behind it. It wasn't good enough they killed people left and right (those not allied with them), that they held the field. They decided to that they would kill the titan themselves and reap the rewards. I think the only reason the titan died was iwantisk spoke up and told them it had to die.. or it wouldn't of died imo. This was said on twitch..

To top it off, if it was just for GF's or lulz. The pilot himself before the kill refit the titan with civ mods. To them this was "going to be funny". That was not funny, no one besides them thought it was ..lol .It was a big screw you to those many of us that came and spent 6 hours. that is not the spirit of this event. The way the hosts behaved was not the spirit of this event, it just wasn't.

Why don't you hear more from people? On this forum or tied to their char in game. Well it's EVE, you would belittle them and berate them because they "just don't get EVE". What I currently see is the same members of SC, SO,DT that are swarming the thread with "it went great". You won't see many unhappy as you would tear them apart with your cool-eve-forum guy persona.

***TL/DR I had fun at this event and it gave me a real glimpse of what it would be like trying to ***** on titan mail in null. As it was more of a tactical job to get the hit on titan, but not let timer run out (tidi made this easier). In and out warps, and all that good stuff.

However I do understand some people position on the way it went and there seemed like a process and event not thought out. I would of given these eve_nt guys many rules of conduct before just letting them lose. I think they did what they thought they should do, had weeks to plan and they did just that. Were they told not too? Where they told what was expected?