Time for a Friday catch-up post, this time focused on EVE Online.. with a few items I won’t roll together a post for yet feel I should mention.
- Pandemic Legion Escapes!
The bubble camp in failed to hold back an organized breakout in UALX-3.
The location of the camp
After several days of feeding TEST and the Legacy Coalition dreadnoughts and subcaps, the fleet trapped by the initial Keepstar fight in UALX-3 finally got its act together. A subcap force cleared the area early on the 25th, allowing most of the capital force to log in and jump out, denying TEST further easy kills. The full story, complete with video, is up over at INN.
Of course, over on Reddit, where TEST and Brave had been smugging hard in /r/eve, the tables turned as the formerly trapped returned the favor with a savage mocking of their own, made all the worse by the /r/eve moderators being on strike and only removing TOS violating posts, as opposed to their usual effort to trim back repeats and low effort bad posting.
- More Keepstars In Peril
The war continues. While the Legacy Coalition was sitting at their camp to try and keep the northern fleet from being a fleet in being, the Imperium moved back north and resumed its grind against the foes up there. One Keepstar went down without a fight last night (more on that in another post) and one is set for its final timer later today.
- New Referral Program
This has been in place since early in the month, but I thought I would mention it here. I stuck it in the position where you put the weakest item on your list, which is to say neither first nor last.
Earlier this month CCP announced an updated/changed/new referral/recruitment program, the details of which are here. Structured like an event for The Agency, you can accrue better rewards by recruiting more people to the game, including special ship SKINs.
Are you recruited or have you been recruited?
All of this hit with the usual damp squib effect for which CCP can be famous. The forum thread about it accrued a long series of “fix my thing!’ posts and other complaints about the game, not one of them new. The video released to push recruiting also had its detractors. It certainly didn’t feature much of the game, with the whole thing feeling more like a Farmer’s Insurance ad.
The old recruitment links have been migrated to the new system, though I am not sure that will help me. I’ve had a recruitment link up at the bottom of the side bar over on EVE Online Pictures for more than five years, have had people click it and tell me they have subscribed, and have never received any reward or notification. So my own reaction to the program was cool as well.
- Alliance Tournament Starts Tomorrow
The annual Alliance Tournament kicks off tomorrow, speaking of things to which my reaction has always been a bit chilly.
Episode XVI – EVE NT Takes Over
I tend to be a purist about EVE Online. In my world view, everything that affects the game happens within the game on the single server which we all share. So an e-sports event, with a set of arbitrary rules, which only certain elites can join in on, that takes place outside of the game, and which rewards the winners with PLEX and special ships that come back into the game, is contrary to the spirit of the game in my view.
Also, EVE Online is difficult to watch on a stream if you want to get a good sense of what is really happening and the volunteer commentators… can vary in quality. Not everybody can be Elise Randolph or Jin’taan’s tie.
But some of the kids seem to like it and certain groups pretty much fold up shop to concentrate on it every year. I am surprised there is a war on currently, as I have no doubt key people are fully invested in it.
Anyway, the first rounds of the Alliance Tournament start tomorrow. There is a detailed Dev Blog up about the event, with links out to all the information you need. There is also a site setup where you can see all of the pending matches and make your own predictions, and INN has a post up with the prize ships and a last minute rule change. The matches themselves will be streamed on the CCP Twitch channel throughout the weekend.
While CCP is providing the prizes as usual, this year also marks the handing over of the running of the Alliance Tournament to the staff at EVE NT, who will be streaming the event from their studio.
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