There will be an Ultimate/Planned Capital Ship Battle (9) (The Return of BLAK Battle) Saturday, July 2, 2005, at 7pm GMT. Use Daylight Saving Time (where applicable) to translate the time. We will be using Scenario 1 for this battle.

NO RULES. Ok I’ll say it again NO RULES. Do what ever you want. I won’t be coordinating this event (because there is no need too). Fight anyway you want. Attack any ship you want and team up with anyone you want. Also no prizes at all for this battle. Just have fun.

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)

19:20 GMT Cap ships will start moving toward Sedina B8. When the cap ships jump to B8 the battle will start.

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.

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

I want to give a special thanks to Yoda. This was actually his idea. He says chaos is good, let’s see if he’s right.

As always your suggestions, comments and opinions are welcome.

JB

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To Guides and Developers: Can someone post the date and time to the Guide forums. I just need someone to spawn the cap ships, and if you want to you can leave.

And as always I'll be there and ready to be on your side, for a price. :D

I see no point in offering your services, Borb, if there's no sides, no objective, and ultimately, no winners in this next battle.

This is gonna be great, but also very expensive, and since I won't be on most of this week, I won't be able to make enough cash to offset the huge cost this battle will run me. Mmmm... maybe I'll just trade this saturday and listen to the fight on Channel 100...

I always get pwned in these battles, now its gonna be worse, dang.

/me opens a can of spam...

ABout the time... IS it 7:00 GMT acording to the game or 7:00 GMT acorrding to real time?

they both should be the same. GMT is GMT everywhere or should be :)

JB

if you type /time in game you'll get GMT.

I like to think of it as (Game Meeting Time). If we use GMT everyone has a personal clock built right into the game so we will all be on the same clock.

I'd like to report that I had and awesome time! I killed an aweful lot of people, I also got killed an aweful lot of times. It rocked! CHAOS RULES! I used a missle rag, which I feel bad about, but not really that bad.

Can't wait for the next one!

-tm

Haha that was great I won with my little pink moth. (well ok the other tanis helped alittle bit, but I did most of the work.)

I hate chores. Of COURSE mom picks that exact time to ruin my life.
I missed most of the action, but before we started, I gave Borb some finantal aid, and he helped us Itani win!

Thanks Borb, sorry I didn't get to participate much.

Same here, right after the game started I had to empty the dishwasher.

My only regret is not being able to land a single shot on Shape, but there's always a next time.

When I DID get a chance to play, Shape almost nabbed me(who, by the way, I have never got a shot off at), and then Lin underhandedly swarms me. There was so much lag and not 'nuf FPS. Well, I hope battles get interesting later, these seem realy routine.

These battles ARE really starting to get boring, and nothing ever changes, the three ships spiral inwards onto each other, almost humping each other at times, shooting their beams till one ships turrets are gone, then the other two gang up on it and then, once that ship moves away or is destroyed the other two duke it out. As far as player participation, your either in a turret till they run out, or your flying soo far way from the caps as to not get picked off by a beam turret in three hits, or your running bombing runs in a moth (which is the only ship that can withstand the beams well) and then they are all gone (HAC) and everyone disappears. The combat between defending intercepters and bombers is sparse at best, with serco turnout the worst, UIT the best and the itani usually winning or coming in second. Only reason most show IMO is to get that little bit of guide XP, which was not offered this last battle. Nothing but a waist of money and time. Hope the devs are getting their precious combat data, since this is all still just a beta test, how disapointing this all is.

I totally agree with you johnhawl218. The battles are really getting boring, very boring. That’s why I haven't really participated in the last few battles.

I originally started planning the battles so everyone could have some experience with the new cap ships. In the beginning they were being spawned at random times an no one knew when they would be active. I achieved the goal of making sure that there is at least one time a week that all players can come and join a battle.

I think participation is down because it does get old very fast, especially with the beam cannons. You can't really do PvP if you have to stay +1000 meters away. It is also summer now. Less people want to stay inside for hours on their computers.

I’m going to change to scenario 2 for the next battle that should add a little more strategy to the battles. But it will take longer to kill the cap ships. Look for a post from me later today or tomorrow.

JB

So… did I miss the post or is there not going to be a Planned Cap Ship Battle (10) this weekend? Just checking.

Sorry people. I was sick most of the week. Couldn't plan the battle. Scince this is my first time at a computer in 3 days i don't think it would be fair to plan a battle for 2 hours from now.

Number 10 will be done next week.

JB