The winners and participants are:

Wolvenhaven with 123 rescues
Denji Royhu with 93 rescues
Rin Ganborro with 75 rescues
Growlor with 56 rescues
Strat with 30 rescues
draugath with 28 rescues
ARF_01 with 28 rescues
Nahin Lor with 24 rescues
Wing Attack Plan-R with 14 rescues
Obsidian with 10 rescues
Alloh UIT with 9 rescues
Greenwall with 3 rescues
slime with 3 rescues
Niki with 3 rescues
Chocolateer with 2 rescues
Espionage
Phaserlight
peytros
Emy
momerath42
TheRedSpy
Lisa201
Interstellar
Mecha Touriaus
XGaryG
RedScar
Axiom
To Mynch
Xandar Tol

Thanks to everyone who played and I hope you all had a good time!

Everyone who participated will receive an Event Participation Token item in their inventory before the end of the weekend. It should appear either in your active ship or in a station storage.

Thanks, Ray. It was fun, even though I had no idea what I was doing. Heh.

/Rin Ganborro/s|rescues|hostages|

Yeah, it was just a little confusing.

I liked how all the bots made a beeline for the player tridents, and the players went after those, leaving the NPC trident floating in empty unguarded and unhostile space so that I could capture hostages safely. That was very considerate of them. :)

I think maybe there should have been a way to reward the people who were doing combat against the bots as well as the rewards for the rescuers/hostage-takers.

Also, doing this in an asteroid field would probably have been a better idea, because once we undocked from the trident we could just immediately warp out. That means that there was very little opportunity for anybody to shoot me down and rescue the hostages, unless they wanted to risk their faction standings by shooting me as I delivered them to the station.

For that matter, I was delivering my "hostages" to the same locations that the rescuers were. Maybe there should have been a Corvus capital ship in another sector for the pirates to be delivering the hostages to. (Unaligned would be better, but then it would shoot everybody automatically, I think, unless you did magic dev stuff to make its turrets ignore registered pirate participants.)

Anyway, it was good fun and I enjoyed it. TheRedSpy helped deliver ten of the hostages credited to me (which I think were the ones that Nahin or Growlor dropped when I killed them, not sure), so I'm going to give him a proportionate piece of my prize money.

Great event, very surprising and well thought... and VERY FUN!

Really, we should adopt that Idea I proposed in Minerwars events, and make opposing factions on events also, like Pizza/Rin says, rats wanted to take hostages, not save people...

This event was so fun that we could have a few more, no longer surprise rules, but scheduled multiplayer missions, one to rescue/defend damaged ship, another to attack said ship... and add the hive to confusion, few bots, or a full queen court entered sector and caused the situation.

To said event, rescues should go to station X, Y and hostages taken to station Z, or another cappie parked nearby, grouped with rat party.

I think were the ones that Nahin...

:x

lol yeah Interstellar was total botbait there for a while. Every single hog in the sector was just following him creepily like the non-shooty teradons do to connies in Deneb.

I'm running a variation of the same event on Sunday afternoon (well, afternoon for me).

So you can be prepared this time.

I only regret that I was unable to pirate ray while he was carrying this second event's trophies.