Fleet Battle
Apr. 23rd, 2006 02:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kathygnomeSo how did Kathy spend her saturday afternoon?
Why in an enormous fleet battle.
I've been playing this game Eve Online for quite some time. It's a space combat and trading game. If people ever played Elite, it's rather like massive multiplayer Elite. I've sort of kept the game at arms length. For one thing, only 6% of players are women, which is really low even by the standards of gaming. Also, I've just never hooked up with the right corporation. I had a fantastic transport company at one point, but it was all Europeans and I only saw them on weekends. And the real joy of this is the way the player controlled corporations and alliances run the game, control territory and economy. I could always see this potential for something huge, but I just never got involved.
So a few weeks ago the bug bit me again and I joined a training corporation for PVP fighting, which I've never done before. And I've had a few runs into lawless space (0.0 in the terms of the game) to kill NPC pirates. And that was fun, since we ended up dodging PC pirates to get home. And we have a little frigate dueling thing going. But friday a note appearance in alliance and corporate mail to get ready for something big. And this was it. Exactly what I'd always seen in other people's writeups of Eve. An enormous space battle, with four different fleets, three different sides, and I guess based on our fleet of over 100, probably between 300 and 400 ships all counted.
I was in a little frigate (smallest ship in the game) doing what's called tackling. Head in at the main target and hit it with a little widget that jams its warp engines so it can't get away. I heard the target over Ventrillo. I found it quickly, hit the icon to home in on it, hit the microwarp drive, and started to lock. It takes me about five seconds to lock a target and my ship didn't quite last that long. Which is more or less the life of a tackler. I floated around and took some screenshots and then got killed a few more times by blockades trying to get back to the battle.
Oh, we won!
This is my ship, an incursus, the fleet behind me is my alliance. In this shot we're aligning to a gate so we can warp together. I'm actually in the middle of the fleet, you just can't see all the ships in front of me.
This is our fleet in mid-jump, where we are bunched up.
Here we are waiting at a jump gate (the big structure in lower left) waiting for a scout to check the next system before we jump.
And here's the battle in all it's glory. Purple and blue are friendly (I'm in NBSI Academy, NBSI stands for not blue shoot it) and red are the "goonfleet" (literally the corps are Goonfleet and Goonwaffe). The little uncolored are drones.
Why in an enormous fleet battle.
I've been playing this game Eve Online for quite some time. It's a space combat and trading game. If people ever played Elite, it's rather like massive multiplayer Elite. I've sort of kept the game at arms length. For one thing, only 6% of players are women, which is really low even by the standards of gaming. Also, I've just never hooked up with the right corporation. I had a fantastic transport company at one point, but it was all Europeans and I only saw them on weekends. And the real joy of this is the way the player controlled corporations and alliances run the game, control territory and economy. I could always see this potential for something huge, but I just never got involved.
So a few weeks ago the bug bit me again and I joined a training corporation for PVP fighting, which I've never done before. And I've had a few runs into lawless space (0.0 in the terms of the game) to kill NPC pirates. And that was fun, since we ended up dodging PC pirates to get home. And we have a little frigate dueling thing going. But friday a note appearance in alliance and corporate mail to get ready for something big. And this was it. Exactly what I'd always seen in other people's writeups of Eve. An enormous space battle, with four different fleets, three different sides, and I guess based on our fleet of over 100, probably between 300 and 400 ships all counted.
I was in a little frigate (smallest ship in the game) doing what's called tackling. Head in at the main target and hit it with a little widget that jams its warp engines so it can't get away. I heard the target over Ventrillo. I found it quickly, hit the icon to home in on it, hit the microwarp drive, and started to lock. It takes me about five seconds to lock a target and my ship didn't quite last that long. Which is more or less the life of a tackler. I floated around and took some screenshots and then got killed a few more times by blockades trying to get back to the battle.
Oh, we won!
This is my ship, an incursus, the fleet behind me is my alliance. In this shot we're aligning to a gate so we can warp together. I'm actually in the middle of the fleet, you just can't see all the ships in front of me.
This is our fleet in mid-jump, where we are bunched up.
Here we are waiting at a jump gate (the big structure in lower left) waiting for a scout to check the next system before we jump.
And here's the battle in all it's glory. Purple and blue are friendly (I'm in NBSI Academy, NBSI stands for not blue shoot it) and red are the "goonfleet" (literally the corps are Goonfleet and Goonwaffe). The little uncolored are drones.
