This week saw the non-aligned AUTZ null sec alliance Tactical Supremacy give up on its free range lifestyle of the last five years and joined The Initiative.
Put on ice for now
The stated reason was a lack of content for its members. The move shores up The Initiative’s AUTZ presence, allowing them to work more effectively around the clock.
There were also town hall meetings for NCDot and Pandemic Horde, with the former being pretty down to earth and the latter trying to find something to keep the war going. In furtherance of keeping the war going, PAPI has formed a high sec SIG to gank Goons and anybody suspected of being Goons, including the new player training group KarmaFleet University. Gobbins also told his members to stop using the term “contained” when referring to the Imperium’s situation in 1DQ because it becomes a propaganda victory for Goons every time they kill something outside of that constellation.
One Year Ago
It has been a year. One year ago today the non-invasion pact between the Imperium and Legacy coalition officially lapsed and the war began.
Two days before the start I was still fiddling with stuff in my hangar and wondering what was to come.
When the day hit there were moves/counter moves including the rushed PAPI Keepstar drop in FAT-6P.
And the first of my Monday summary posts went up about the events of day one of the war. I did not intend for them to be a regular thing, but here we are a year later.
Delve Front
For another week this map fragment, first posted on May 2nd, accurately describes the state of the war in Delve.
O-EIMK Constellation – July 4, 2021
Otherwise is was a week of skirmishes, shenanigans, and avoidance. One of the highlights of the week is summed up in this video from John Hartley, and Imperium FC.
Still, despite the situation in the constellation remaining unchanged, looking at the Delve campaign stats for the week the level of skirmishing saw more than twice as many ships and capsules destroyed when it came to total numbers and almost twice in ISK value.
Delve Campaign – Week 52
If you go to the report and change the view to show by ship types you can see the dreads that PAPI lost before that video above along with a few other expensive assets they lost.
Other Theaters
Esoteria is done for the Imperium now while Legacy and FI.RE are pushing on the Imperium holdings in Feythabolis.
I had wondered last week if Red Alliance would come to some sort of agreement with their fellow Russians, and perhaps they did, but Legacy still wants them out it seems. Red Alliance is down two ihubs and their other four are at risk, along with their holdings in Impass.
Feythabolis – July 4, 2021
It also looks like there is some TCU cleanup going on in the region (orange highlighted systems that otherwise have no ihub in this view.)
In Catch Legacy pushed further into the region from Querious, taking eight more ihubs from Imperium member Dracarys.
Catch – July 4,2021
Looking at the ADMs, Dracarys has been active in these systems. We will see if Legacy keeps pushing into the region.
My Participation
As with the past few weeks I went on a few small ops, but nothing very exciting. The biggest op was probably a Cormorant fleet called by Tom Flood to escort Jirai Grepher on his birthday op. For their birthday, Jirai decided to gate a Naglfar dreadnought into T5ZI, PAPI’s staging system, to see how long he would last. We went along to give him a bit of cover.
Into T5ZI
Jirai got a few kills before a PAPI Ragnarok hit him with a doomsday… PAPI undocked a titan… blotting him out. I got on a few kills as well before my Cormorant got splashed. That added one more to my list of losses, though the op qualified for SRP so I got the ISK to buy a new Corm.
My war losses so far:
- Ares interceptor – 18
- Malediction interceptor – 7
- Drake battle cruiser – 7
- Atron entosis frigate – 6
- Cormorant destroyer – 5
- Purifier stealth bomber – 5
- Crusader interceptor – 5
- Rokh battleship – 5
- Scimitar T2 logi – 5
- Ferox battle cruiser – 4
- Jackdaw destroyer – 4
- Guardian T2 logi – 2
- Scalpel T2 logi frigate – 2
- Scythe T1 logi – 1
- Raven battleship – 1
- Crucifier ECM frigate – 1
- Gnosis battlecruiser – 1
- Bifrost command destroyer – 1
- Hurricane battle cruiser – 1
- Sigil entosis industrial – 1
- Mobile Small Warp Disruptor I – 1
Other Items
CCP announced some graphic updates that are available on the test server that are supposed to make space bright and more colorful. I’ve been around long enough to remember the graphic updates that were aimed at making some areas of space darker and less colorful.
Then there is the PCU. I have been tracking the top weekly player count during the war, which usually occurs on Sunday. (I note when it is a different day.) The decline in the PCU has been noted by many and seems to be something of a perfect storm of conditions. First, there is the coming of summer, which people always say heralds a decline, except when it doesn’t. Then there is the end of pandemic restrictions many places, which has led to a surge of people eager go somewhere, anywhere, the hell away from home. My wife noticed over the last week or so that luggage sections at various stores were almost completely shopped out.
Need a bag? Not going to find one here!
The war is not helping. Stalemate and stagnation hasn’t given people a reason to log in. CCP’s economic starvation plan is piled on top of that. It has made things more expensive so far, and capitals almost irreplaceable for some, so people are becoming more risk adverse.
And then there is the outrage at the pop-up ad that CCP has introduced to the game to encourage people to buy PLEX has encouraged a pile of people to say they are quitting.
Use your credit card to finance your revenge!
Add in a holiday week… yesterday was US Independence day… and this past week had the lowest weekly peak concurrent user count of the war so far. The Blackout was a big worry back in the day because daily PCUs were down around 25K. That is up from where we are now most days of the week. The question is, when will this bottom out and begin to recover?
- Day 1 – 38,838
- Week 1 – 37,034
- Week 2 – 34,799
- Week 3 – 34,692
- Week 4 – 35,583
- Week 5 – 35,479
- Week 6 – 34,974
- Week 7 – 38,299
- Week 8 – 35,650
- Week 9 – 35,075
- Week 10 – 35,812
- Week 11 – 35,165
- Week 12 – 36,671
- Week 13 – 35,618
- Week 14 – 39,681
- Week 15 – 40,359
- Week 16 – 36,642
- Week 17 – 37,695
- Week 18 – 36,632
- Week 19 – 35,816 (Saturday)
- Week 20 – 37,628 (Saturday)
- Week 21 – 34,888
- Week 22 – 33,264
- Week 23 – 33,149
- Week 24 – 32,807 (Saturday)
- Week 25 – 31,611
- Week 26 – 39,667 (Saturday)
- Week 27 – 34,989 (Saturday)
- Week 28 – 34,713
- Week 29 – 35,996
- Week 30 – 38,323
- Week 31 – 38,167
- Week 32 – 37,259
- Week 33 – 35,886 (Saturday)
- Week 34 – 35,626
- Week 35 – 35,379
- Week 36 – 35,085
- Week 37 – 34,394
- Week 38 – 36,319
- Week 39 – 35,597 (Saturday)
- Week 40 – 35,384 (Saturday)
- Week 41 – 33,708
- Week 42 – 33,521
- Week 43 – 33,731
- Week 44 – 33,742 (Saturday)
- Week 45 – 33,758
- Week 46 – 31,768
- Week 47 – 29,898
- Week 48 – 31,462 (Monday)
- Week 49 – 27,914
- Week 50 – 26,045
- Week 51 – 25,661
- Week 52 – 24,262
Related
- INN – World War Bee: Week 52
- INN – Horde’s Town Hall – June 27
- INN – Containment Breach: Grand Theft Astra
- INN – Booshed in the Blender
- INN – TIKLE Merged into The Initiative
- INN – World War Bee: One Year of War
- Reddit – Ongoing activity metrics for WWB #11
- Reddit – Comparing EVE and Steam player activity
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