Know your enemy: The Altruist

I got a link from my friend to a blog named The Altruist by Azual Skoll. He has written an extensive overview of the different ships, their abilities and fitting schemes in the context of PvP in his Know Your Enemy series.

This is a good resource for anyone like me who hasn't got much PvP experience and is not yet familiar with all the different kinds of ships there are in EVE. He also explains the rationale behind different fittings, for example I think I now understand how using shield or armor tanking shifts the focus of application of the ships in combat situation. Go check it out.

New year's EVE at Umokka

Yesterday I travelled to Umokka system in Lonetrek to participate in the new year's eve party which was organized by Daggaroth from the New Eden Radio. I had trained Small Energy Turret I just so I could fit a party boat for myself. I put eight small lasers with frequency crystals of different colors to Catalyst and added an afterburner for speed and a capacitor flux coil to keep my lasers working through the night. Hence was Party Boat MMXII born.

When I arrived at Umokka there were about 500 players in the system. Last year there were same number of participants in total so I expected only few hundred players more. How wrong was I... I started placing my Small Secure Containers between the wall of containers already there and the station. The containers were used as targets for lasers, smartbombs or whatever people wanted to use as fireworks.

As midnight (EVE time) drew closer the amount of players in local rose steadily and soon we had 1000 capsuleers in the same system. This started to show as increasing lag. My client also crashed three times during the event, but curiously only at the start of the event. Maybe CCP boosted their server capacity for Umokka or something? I don't know.

At around midnight, when the fireworks really started, we had reached whopping 1800 players. From other people I heard that one of the server nodes had crashed. However, it didn't affect me. I was only experiencing heavy lag, but no more crashes.

During the event DJ Daggaroth hosted the party from New Eden Radio, playing music and commenting on the happenings in Umokka. There was also a raffle where one could win PLEX (donated by CCP) and the new Tier 3 cruisers among other things. Apparently the amount of ISK gathered reached 4bil which made my chances of winning somewhere around 1/666 or 0,0015. Chances shmances, I did not win anything. Congratulations for those who did.

I frapsed the whole event and spent eight hours editing the video today. I hope you enjoy it. Happy new year to everyone!