From VO Role Playing forums here:
http://www.vendetta-online.com/x/msgboard/7/10728
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There will be an Ultimate/Planned Capital Ship Battle (8) Saturday, June 25, 2005, at 7pm GMT. Use Daylight Saving Time (where applicable) to translate the time. We will be using Scenario 1 for this battle.

The final rules can be found here:
http://www.vendetta-online.com/x/msgboard/7/10404

There are going to be some changes for the battle this Saturday.

19:00 GMT All cap ships will spawn at their ready positions:
(I don’t know exact locations but they will be spawned 1 sector away from Sedina B8)
NO ATTACKING ANY CAP SHIP BEFORE IT REACHES SEDINA B8

19:20 GMT Cap ships will start moving toward Sedina B8. When the cap ships jump to B8 the battle will start. I will announce the start of the battle on chan 205 and 100.

Please use 205 for event chat and leave 100 for general chat

One MAJOR change will happen for this Saturdays battle, I don’t think I will be able to participate. I made real world plans that I can’t get out of (even if I wanted to), so I won’t be able to be the event coordinator of this battle. I’m looking for volunteers to be the event coordinator for this battle and maybe a couple of future battles. I would prefer if this person is not a pirate :) and is basically trustworthy and at least liked, respected and trusted by most players (like me :). I guide would be perfect for this. Volunteer’s please post below. I will login to the game so I will have a log of the event. So I should be able to post times here.

I will also not be leading the Itani nation for this next battle. Someone will be picked before the battle on Saturday. If LeberMac is available he will be the new Supreme Commander of the Itani nation at least for the next battle. Please volunteer on the Itani Alliance message boards here: http://www.itanialliance.com/forums/index.php

Please be sure you are all on time. With the changes we should be able to start the battle at 7:20 pm gmt. I would like to start as close to that time as possible. You should arrive at 7 pm GMT though. Remember you need to register with your nation leader to participate

Remember you must register with your nation leader before the start of the battle. Only those players that register will be awarded Combat XP and money.

Serco and UIT (especially Serco) make sure you have a leader in place by 7pm GMT. Hopefully at your Cap ship’s spawning position. Since the battle will start earlier I need you to organize quickly. I will disqualify any team that doesn’t have a leader by 7:10pm GMT.

I once again want to thank the developers and guides for their help. Without them we wouldn’t have a game at all.

As always your suggestions, comments and opinions are welcome.

JB

PS. All donations to the prize fund are welcome. Just see me in game to donate.

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To Guides and Developers: Like I said before these ongoing battles are impossible to have without your help and support. There were no guides on during the last battle at all. Thankfully Michael showed up to spawn the cap ships, but he was away for most of the battle. The Itani ship went into the start of the battle with 81%. I’m not sure if it spawned that way or was attacked before the battle began. If someone was online before the ships jumped we could have corrected that problem.

We need someone online to help out during the whole 2+ hour battle. Please do me a favor and deside amongust yourself who will be be able to support and help out during the next couple of battles. I know you are all busy people, but this is IMMPOSIBLE without you.

(And I’m not blaming Micheal. I appreciate him doing what he could. If he didn’t show up I would have had to cancel.)

I can't commit to anything due to an impending life event. I've passed your request on via our own forum.

Thank you FM. I hoped you would. :)

(BTW? i don't mean to whine about this every week, but i do need you guys :)

JB

I doubt I'll participate again because the promised XP and $$$ were not distributed. At least I didn't get any, and I was the one who actually blew up the Itani Capital ship.

It's bad to promise things and then not deliver.

Jacob, you are absolutely right about that. I lost my connection to the internet during the last battle. I was able to transfer 1.5 million to Michael before I got disconnected. I thought he gave out the prize money and XP, I guess he didn’t, but since I wasn’t online I only know things up to the time I got thrown out.

As you know there we also no guides online and Michael was only online checking in every 20 min or so.

I guess I should stop having the battles, it seems like no one interested any more. I think new player are still interested but without the Guides a battle like this can’t happen.

I’ll cancel this battle and maybe schedule one in a couple of weeks if the guides don’t get back to me.

And Jacob if you see me in game I will give you some cash. I can’t give out combat XP though, sorry. I do like to keep my word, but there are limits to what I can and can’t do :(

JB

I'm really sorry Jakob- I flaked- totally forgot :(

I did pass out money at the time, and I just added the 500xp to everyone I have in my list (the UIT who participated):

Vasol Halel
Lahmi
The Noid
Three-Oh-8
QCP46
Nerde Verde
Phaserlight
Pixel the great
Hoax

If anyone should be in this list that wasn't, let me know (michael@guildsoftware.com).

Also.. as penance ;) I'll commit to being there for the battle- I'll try to be more-or-less constantly watching chat and I'll award money and xp if thats part of this battle. I'm spending a LOT of time here at work and my girlfriend would prefer it if my weekends weren't taken up too, so this will likely be my last saturday online for a while.

Thanks a lot Michael! Seriously devs, don't burn yourselves out. We all really appreciate how much work you put into this game.

So I think we’re ready for the next battle.

Michael is going to be the Official event coordinator for this battle. He’ll say “START” when all 3 cap ships reach B8. (Feel free to engage when the 3 ships enter B8 though, even if he doesn’t shout start)

There’s only 1 real rule though: “No attacking cap ships or their defenders before the battle starts”.

Remember you must register with your nation leader before the battle starts. Nation leaders please message Michael in game with how many registered users you have when the battle starts.

The prize money will be given to the nation leaders to hand out. And listen for an announcement from Michael on where to go for the combat XP. It might be B8 or it might be the cap ships start location. Make sure you are on chan 205. All announcements will at least be made there.

The battle will end when at least 2 ships are dead. Michael will announce the end of the battle and tell everyone where to regroup.

I will be logged in for the battle so I can get a log of the battle. And I’ll post times after the battle. Make sure someone announces when each cap ship dies on 205.

As always your suggestions, comments and opinions are welcome.

JB

The UIT ship was the last left. I'm sorry that I never saw any post to 205. The Itani ship died under mysterious circumstances, for it was winning and when I came back it was gone and a bunch of bots were leaving. Somebody else also made it sound as if it was wingbuged. The serco ship may have been also, but it would have died soon anyway. If the battle still counts, I'd like to thank myself (Pixel the Great) and my comrade Bus Tour for our victory despite great odds.

The Serco ship wasn't wingbugged, it was close to death.

Thanks you nuthou5e for clearing that up. I only said it because somebody made it sound like it might have been and the last drop was larger than earlier ones.

Yeah, we won and I didn't expect that. Unfortunately I wasn't in B8 when Itani and Serco ships went boom, so I'm not sure what exactly finished them off... Anyway, thanks for support Pixel, I wish other UIT citizens cared to participate. :)

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BusTour

I’m sorry again. I wasn’t able to log in and get a log of the last battle. I have no idea what happened.

I think I’m going to postpone the next couple of battles. I think we all need time to regroup and rest up before the next battle. I also don’t want to plan a battle I can’t get to.

From what I heard the itani ship was wingbugged, but the serco ship died normally. And the UIT won again :(

I hope everyone received prize money and combat xp. If not please post below. Also post any information about the last battle.

If you haven’t logged in since Saturday’s battle and still have your errors.log file please also post any relevevent information below.

JB

Not that I care but I was both Serco and Uit in that battle and received nothing from the guide/devs as far as xp or otherwise.

I would like to apologize for accidentally wing bug'ing the Sola (though the devs really just need to fix it). I was merely attempting to get under the turrets fire and got stuck tumbling along the hull of the HAC and then it went boom. Hope that didn't rain on too many peoples parade, or hopes of victory. Next time, attack the serco vessel instead of the UIT and there shouldn't be a problem.

Micheal was supposed to handle the XP and prize money. I guess we again had failire to communicate.

In future i will be the event coordinator of the battle and i will make sure all registered players get thier prizes.

Again sorry I wasn't there.

JB

There was no failure in communication, JB. Bustour was the UIT leader (though this was never really officially stated), and someone said they'd be Itani commander about 15 seconds before the ships warped into b8. The sercos never chose one. Afterwards Bustour and I met in an empty sector and he said that he and pixel the great were the only uit who participated. As Pixel had already logged off (this was maybe a minute after the Serco ship blew), I gave Bus 500xp and 25k credits. Was this not in accordance with the rules you laid out, JB?

Sorry again. (I’m full of apologizing today and the last week).

Michael is right. Only those who register with there leader get a prize. And each Nation must pick a leader BEFORE the battle.

Michael did follow the rules and was a superb event coordinator. Since he didn’t post results (I know I said I would try to but couldn’t) There was some confusion.

For future battles please remember (I know I say it enough) you must register with your nation leader before the battle. And if a team doesn’t have a nation leader the entire team is disqualified. I hope that is clear for future battles.

JB

I think I was the one that finally volunteered for Itani leader and I wasn't sure what to do when I was leader. Go kill things was the general strtegy for this round. Since our ship was wingbugged, I didn't think there was any reward to give out, so I went on my merry way after the last cap ship was dead.

I think the players for the Itani were:
Ghostieboy
myself
and 4 others that are going to have to either speak up or I'll remember later.

The reason I left was to post the results on the board, I know that the Serco ship died at roughly 3:40pm board time or 1:40pm pacific, because I was watching.

Additionaly, Momerath42, is there a way for me to get the reward for this battle and possibly the previous one as well?