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I last played EVE circa 2005, but I have kept friends from those days who still play and so I hear a lot about it still. Jumping a fleet of thousands into a sy
by Jenk 5y ago
I last played EVE circa 2005, but I have kept friends from those days who still play and so I hear a lot about it still.
Jumping a fleet of thousands into a system with already thousands in waiting, seeing nothing but a black screen for 20 minutes, then finally you're back in your clone station.
Yeah, so much fun.
"Massive fleet battles" became "Massive fleets waiting either side of a gate smacktalking each other into jumping first"
I was there for the first Titan launch (and loss, ASCN v BOB) and the corp I was a member of launched the first Mothership.
Both losses were down to meta-gaming - the titan was lost because a BOB pilot had infiltrated ASCN's teamspeak server, and the mothership loss was because the pilot desync'd. We even had video proof of the pilot being "safely in another system" still receiving damage from enemy pilots that were 4 jumps away but CCP said the incident was "too important to reverse" which was bullshit, they just didn't have the capability to do so.
EVE:Online is a tale of selling meta-gaming and "You can be a cunt"-ship, with a side-game of spaceships.
- mcguire 5y agoYeah. "...the fight started after a single player controlling a space station in the N3/PL-controlled star system B-R5RB accidentally failed to make a scheduled in-game routine maintenance payment, which made the star system open to capture."
- PhantomGremlin 5y agoBoth losses were down to meta-gaming - the titan was lost because a BOB pilot had infiltrated ASCN's teamspeak server I've never played, so I could be completely misunderstanding, but how is this different from the countless spies and double agents in the real world? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_spies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_spies Was what happened against some "rules"?
- Jenk 5y agoCyvok wasn't even logged in when the titan was lost. The teamspeak infiltration played the part of listening to when he was going to logout of the game, then just as his titan warped off someone (undercover as an ASCN pilot) used a smartbomb to trigger his aggression timeout. So yeah, it's definitely meta gaming and morally a gray area.