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Sophal
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Posted - 2007.05.03 21:05:00 -
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Basically...Whats a blob? I hear the term on the forums and it's something people don't like. Care to explaine?
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Asestorian
Minmatar
Sebiestor tribe
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Posted - 2007.05.03 21:09:00 -
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It's basically a large group of players, normally close to 100 or 200, form up together for a fight vs the other 100 players. When they all warp together, they end up in a big blob, which is convenient as it means that everyone has a similar range to the target, and means they can lay down their concentrated firepower around a radius of almost 200km from the edge of the blob.
People don't normally like blobs though. Lag and almost instant death if you are getting shot makes people unhappy.
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Sophal
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Posted - 2007.05.03 21:27:00 -
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 Originally by: Asestorian
It's basically a large group of players, normally close to 100 or 200, form up together for a fight vs the other 100 players. When they all warp together, they end up in a big blob, which is convenient as it means that everyone has a similar range to the target, and means they can lay down their concentrated firepower around a radius of almost 200km from the edge of the blob.
People don't normally like blobs though. Lag and almost instant death if you are getting shot makes people unhappy.
So in reading the dev posts on the Development forums.
Blob-Slaying Tools
Do you hate blobs? We hate blobs. WeÆre working on some cool ways of countering them. We think theyÆre good. We think you might too. Also, there may be explosions.
How do you think they will combat this?
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Nitemare111
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Posted - 2007.05.04 00:25:00 -
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Edited by: Nitemare111 on 04/05/2007 00:21:39
Let's hope the devs make the blob fix entertaining, at least.
Something like a 30% to 50% chance that any ship arriving in a blob on a gate will explode. Nothing like a string of 25m isk fire*****ers going off.
Or tracking goes nuts if you're in a blob, and you might shoot the ship right next to you, even if you're locked on someone 200km away.
edit- Okay, C-R-A-C-K is starred out?
Heh, I can see all kinds of possibilities here.
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Micia
Minmatar
Thrace Inc
Ushra'Khan
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Posted - 2007.05.04 03:09:00 -
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I think the devs mentioned the introduction of ranged weapons & modules, with an area-of-effect radius.
I suppose that would convince pilots to spread apart a lot more, but I'm not so sure about bringing less pilots in general.
I'm interested to see what else the devs are considering.
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Corwain
Gallente
Zero Team
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Posted - 2007.05.04 03:52:00 -
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Of course to someone that is flying solo a small gang of 15-20 people is a blob.
IMO basically if the list of people shooting you gets truncated on the killmail-that's a blob.
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Ralara
Caldari
Lilandri Foundation
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Posted - 2007.05.04 12:39:00 -
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This is a "Blob"
Apparently that ... thing top-centre is 200 ships :D
I'm a corp thief. And remember, I only do it because I like your robot.
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Aioa
Planetary Assault Systems
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Posted - 2007.05.04 12:50:00 -
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Edited by: Aioa on 04/05/2007 12:48:37
Blob = any group of ships larger in number than the group you are currently in.
;-)
Edit: I suppose the name came from the old days when the map would show the pilots in space data almost in real-time, and you could watch this big red blob of doom make its way across the cluster.
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Tankerbell
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Posted - 2007.05.15 22:40:00 -
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My guess is that a modified equation using the "explosion radius" stat on missiles will be used to inflict damage to nearby ships much like a smartbomb. I am interested to know if they plan to include friendly fire into this equation.
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Nilit
Minmatar
Evolution
Band of Brothers
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Posted - 2007.05.16 06:29:00 -
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Long time ago (2+ years I think) .. torpedoes had an area effect damage on impact.
Radius was 5 or 10 km I think.
It was taken away at some point.
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DarkFenix
Caldari
Pilots Of Honour
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Posted - 2007.05.16 09:54:00 -
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IIRC torp damage radius was only 500m, and there is a new class of missile being added for stealth bombers with a blast radius of 15km. Normal missiles with splash damage simply makes them impossible to use in empire.
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Nilit
Minmatar
Evolution
Band of Brothers
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Posted - 2007.05.16 11:49:00 -
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Hm interesting, but what is that good for ?
Fleet battle in bomber :
* launch 1 splash missle in the middle on nme blob
* warp out
* sit back and continuosly click refresh on the killboard 
Mleh.
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Ben Booley
Mutually Assured Distraction
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Posted - 2007.05.16 14:00:00 -
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A blob is any group of people bigger than the group you're currently in, as some people like to define it.
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Max Godsnottlingson
Amarr
Freelancing Corp
Confederation of Independent Corporations
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Posted - 2007.05.17 11:42:00 -
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To the OP. Just as a side note, the term 'Blob' came about from the use of 'Show active pilots in space' filter on the map. In any system where you had a number of pilots in space you get a yellow/green blob (I'm colour blind so not sure which colour exactly) centred on the system, hence the term.
As well as the current problems of mega blobs crashing servers. Blobs in low and 0.0 cause people problems as they are in effect a flag to say "Look, lots of targets here." for the pirates to chase down. So you will find a lot of people will try to avoid blobbed systems, or causing a blob by having too many people in a low sec or 0.0 system
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