Posted 29 January 2014 - 08:39 AM
I've been trying to make sense of what went on yesterday but the best I can make out is someone forgot to pay a bill, shit hit the fan, big fight, lots of titans go boom, PL lost.
Fair summary?
p.s. Aren't I supposed to have lounge access as a bittervet? 
Posted 29 January 2014 - 09:26 AM
Some sov dropped.
Then CFC/RUS RUS dropped some ships.
Then N3/PL dropped more ships.
Ships started dropping left right and centre.
Ships exploded for about 20 hours.
At the end, it seems that 75 titans died, plus a smattering (>300) caps and some supers. Tally according to CCP is CFC/RUS killed 59 titans belonging to N3/PL while N3/PL killed only 16 belonging to CFC/RUS.
Personally, I'm expecting the smug in VFK to reach critical mass within a few days, causing a singularity (or smugularity if you like) that will drag the entire galaxy into a black hole the size of a pinhead, ending Eve as we know it. WTS hangar contents.
Posted 29 January 2014 - 09:55 AM
Also, 75 titans = roughly 200k USD or something, i believe.
Posted 29 January 2014 - 10:22 AM
Posted 29 January 2014 - 03:27 PM
Personally, I'm expecting the smug in VFK to reach critical mass within a few days, causing a singularity (or smugularity if you like) that will drag the entire galaxy into a black hole the size of a pinhead, ending Eve as we know it. WTS hangar contents.
Very lol insight
Posted 29 January 2014 - 06:25 PM
CCP released a dev blog about the battle: http://community.eve...bath-of-b-r5rb/
11 Trillion in assets destroyed. at $15 USD / 500m isk, that's equivalent to ~$330,000 USD in losses (although we can't convert EvE assets back to real life currency...)
Posted 30 January 2014 - 03:59 AM
What is the wider picture? Who gives a rat's ass about the system?
Posted 30 January 2014 - 04:06 AM
What is the wider picture? Who gives a rat's ass about the system?
Apparently it was the main staging system for N3/PL coalition's current war operations, that's why.
So, strategic setback and station full of expensive war materiel.
ADDED: B-R5RB was the staging system of Pandemic Legion. The station was filled with hundreds of billions, or more, of ISK worth of war material and if the RUS/CFC coalitions could capture the station, the material inside would be inaccessible to Pandemic Legion.
Posted 30 January 2014 - 05:49 PM
BTW, PL made a deal with CFC, will get rights to evac their trapped assets in B-R (they will have done a lot of it by now) under condition they will pull out of the war and leave N3 to fend for itself. PL will go back to defend their renter space from Black Legion. and rebuilding, N3 will probably evac their space asap.
Edit: As for the lead-up: After CFC crushed TEST and old HoneyBadger Coalition, they recognized that N3 and PL were a threat to their long term survival. They managed to get Russian alliances + Black Legion to attack N3, drawing PL in to help N3, and then deployed themselves to help Rus + BL.
The war had pretty much grounded to a halt when CFC and PL worked out the b0tlords accord, basically protecting eachothers space and related income (moons, renters, CSAAs), after which CFC felt free to actually use their own (super)cap fleet. The first encounter has in HED- a couple of days before where CFC mostly used dreads, and it went badly for them because of the module lag all their caps + subcaps caused, giving the slower cycling doomday of titans the advantage. CFC learned from it and adjusted better then N3/PL did in B-R by reducing their subcaps to a minimum and using their supers much better, going directly after N3/PL supers instead of dreads. That and superior supercap numbers in EU tz ended up winning them the fight
Posted 30 January 2014 - 06:46 PM
This is almost exactly what happened:
PL/N3 played the role of the Blackhawk alliance trying to protect their system.
Russians (with CFC) played the role of the Russians, wtfbbqpwning the PL/N3 super/capital fleet (although at a hefty price)
End of the day losses:
Titan's destroyed 75 destroyed (RUS & CFC lost 16 while PL & N3 lost 59)
Supercarriers: 13 destroyed
Dreads 370 destroyed.
Carriers 123 destroyed
11 Trillion isk in assets destroyed.
Posted 31 January 2014 - 05:34 PM
As a somewhat amusing aside to this whole event, the cost of supercap holding alts has dropped.
Trit up, large T1 guns up, supercap holding alts down, all from one (epic) fight - got to love the eve economy 
Edit - JF alts are up in price, as are JFs. Quelle surprise 
Posted 31 January 2014 - 08:01 PM
How do the big alliances move trit these days? I thought they used to buy modules or scrap and then refine it in SOV space for manufacture.
Posted 31 January 2014 - 08:21 PM
AFAIK it's still compression via T1 1400mm Arty or bastion mods.
Posted 31 January 2014 - 09:29 PM
As a somewhat amusing aside to this whole event, the cost of supercap holding alts has dropped.
Trit up, large T1 guns up, supercap holding alts down, all from one (epic) fight - got to love the eve economy
Edit - JF alts are up in price, as are JFs. Quelle surprise
The movement hasn't been as dramatic as initial reaction suggested - trit spiked early and is still up ofc but not by that much. At first it looked like I might need to pause production for a bit until prices stabilized, but they did so quickly enough that I bought my next batch of minerals yesterday.
425mm Railgun 1s as well.
Yup, that's what I use. Market price on them is irrelevant because anyone serious about it compresses their own minerals.
