Yakov Draken
Minmatar
Fun Inc
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Posted - 2007.03.30 22:06:00 -
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 Originally by: nistro666
Edited by: nistro666 on 30/03/2007 18:53:40
We all knew that pos was going to die, there could have been no other outcome, pick any pos in EVE that is coming out of reinforced mode and attack it with that many Dreadnoughts and no amount of defenders will be able to keep it alive, it's going to die, end of story.
This commonly held assumption is silly. There was no guareentee of a kill. With massive lag, people crashing, a huge defending fleet to kill dreads plus rep pos it was quite possible the attackers could have failed horribly. With the system capped at 700 if the defenders had had a few more then the attack would obviously have failed as not enough attacker could have got in. If more attacking dreads had crashed/lagged out Bob and allies would have achieved the greatest victory in the history of Eve.
On the 700 cap it would seem the defenders didn't know about these either, despite claims otherwise, as surely they would have just stuck 700 in system and it is the end of the attack. ]
Does anyone else spot the obvious problem if the 700 rule is standard? If you want to defend a pos coming out of reinforced 700 nub ships should do the job. This can't be right? 
So it would seem that the attackers pulled off a lucky one and Bob et al missed a golden opportunity. If the Bob side had put a few more ships into the system then the attackers would have been killed for nothing. So it would seem that despite all the conspiracies Bob was unaware of this loophole.
I would like to hope that the 700 cap is not the norm but a GM's response to a specific situation. If it is standard it is so broken it is crazy. However if it was a one off then its still really messed up and sooooo open to abuse. Those cheering it from the pro-Bob side would do well to acknowledge that this is a can of worms and leaves the future of major poss assaults firmly in the GM's hands - where they should not be. Like people say there is a major problem in how alliance warfare is supposed to work.
Kudos to both sides on an epic battle.
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