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Eve Online just posted this yummy trailer on the Eve Online youtube channel check it out.

Alliance Tournament Live Stream

Alliance Tournament Live Stream. Check the alliance tournament forum topic for discussion, schedules and rules and such. Enjoy your weekend.

Watch live video from CCP on www.twitch.tv

Explaining Fleet Battle

After the Battle in B-R5 I thought it might be a good idea to feature some good youtube videos explaining fleet combat. The Rooks and Kings channel has some of the greatest videos on null sec combat and fleet combat. If you're new to the game these are some definite must see videos. They give you a feel and a taste of what its like to be playing the game not just watching trailers. I will post a couple below but you can find their youtube channel here.

 And just for kicks I will post their B-R5 battle footage too.

Battle of B-R5RB News Links and Videos

I get a lot of traffic after these big battles so I just wanted to post some links if people are looking for news or videos of the battle in B-R5RB.

The reports are just starting to come in I will post a few of the major articles below. Youtube videos are starting to pour in and I am sure more and more will be posted as the week continues.

DevBlog: The Bloodbath of B-R5RB, Gaming’s Most Destructive Battle Ever

TMC - Largest Virtual Battle Ever
TMC - Breaking Massive Supercap Fight in B-R5
TMC - B-R5RB The Biggest Battle in All of Eve

EN24 - Kirith Kodachi It was Only a Matter of Time
EN24 - Monday Bloody Monday

We will end with a quick quote from the Bloody Monday article on EN24

"At the end of the day the cost for this battle across all fronts was in the trillions (close to 7 or higher) which translates to over 11,666 PLEX—roughly $233,000 USD, which is ~349,980 days of game time."

6VDT, Battle Report Links. You heard about Eve from who, the news?

Good Morning, good morning people settle down. Alright first ups quick links below about the battle what happened, who was there, why it happened. Videos below that and if your a new bro your probably looking for this Eve Online Subscriptions and Specials.

Eveonline.com - Battle for 6VDT-H - Summary and Numbers
EveNews24 - 6VDT-H – The Biggest Battle in EVE History Ends the War in Fountain
Mittani.com - 6VDT: The CFC Battle Report

Video Links: First video is the best, the others are pretty much raw footage.

EVE Online - Largest battle ever in 6VDT - 4000+ players

6VDT-H Titan kill

Deployment Successful Day 011: 6VDT-H HELL CAMP; RAW and LIVE RECORDED FOOTAGE SHORTER | Eve Online

Hope everyone is enjoying their summer vacations. I know I am. I will probably be back in a couple weeks I have been working with video capture software and hope to get a youtube channel rolling here before to long. Anyway stay out of trouble and fly safe out there.

Losses

My second ship down. I have been subscribed in game for about 8 months now. I lost my second ship yesterday. I was out making my rounds picking up my PI goods from customs offices in this little pepsi can of ship, the Badger . Most of my PI operations are out in low sec. I was warping to the customs office in orbit around the planet when someone knocked on my back door.  I took off to go see who it was and came back a couple minutes later.

Some guy in a frigate was just closing in and locking me up as I sat down. I attempted to warp to a gate but he flipped on a scram. I didn't feel like waiting around for his little lasers to pop my big floating brick of a cargo ship so I ejected and headed for the gate in capsule.

Not a big deal really, kind of fun actually. Its been forever out in low sec that anyone has taken their time to track me down and shoot at me. Both the ships I have lost to other players have been in that same system. The first time I lost a ship I had just trained up my retriever skills last year. I wanted to see what low sec ores I could bring in. I was fighting rats on the belt and mining when I went pop.

My First Duel using the New Dueling System

Yesterday I was flying out of the trade station in Dodixe when someone requested a duel. I was in my Atron that I use to fly around check out other markets and thought why not. So I accepted the Duel and we went at. I have never pvped in Eve Online  I've only been playing for 3 months or so.

The other guy was flying a destroyer I just hit approach and let my guns do the rest. He claims he didn't have any tank fit on his ship but he popped pretty quick. After that he claimed he had a ton of extra gear he was trying to get rid of. So I told him I was good for another round. After ten or twenty minutes he came flying out with a Corax fitted with rocket launchers. He ate through my shields in seconds and I popped pretty quick. It was fun and sparked my pvp interests.

The Battle of Caldari Prime

I hope your excited about this one. The Battle for Caldari Prime kicks off at 13:00 EST Friday Mar. 22. The live feed will be up at www.twitch.tv/ccp. This is the first major event in what is claimed to be the first of many large scale events, which I assume is leading up to Dust 514 launch.

The first thing to report is that the Luminaire system is going to be essentially a free kill zone once the event starts. Check out this news feed or forum post. Luminaire is a 1.0 security space but I think it is going to be more on the level of war status and you can shoot and be shot at. Below screen shot was taken this morning about an hour before the event kicked off. Local was already bubbling.

The themittani.com had some leaked coverage of the event on the Dust 514 side of things. Several special maps had been prepared for the event and had been accessed on live servers several days before the event. Check out that article here.

To read more about the role playing and the story behind The Battle of Caldari Prime, check out the  ccp devblog post.

Happy Hunting during the Battle of Caldari Prime.

Update: I think if I understand this news report correct CONCORD will still be active in the system but people with low sec status will be able to enter the system. Also system population set to 1000, well a hour before the event it was at a 1000 I hope they increase it at least a little.

Update: Global suspect flags given to all pilots in Luminaire system news feed.

Update: This video trailer showed up the week after the Battle of CP.

The Gate to get in system 5 minutes before start of event.

Live feed screen shots of the event from www.twitch.tv/ccp.

The Art of War in Eve Online

Ok, first before you watch this you should know that the Mittani is the leader of a massive alliance in Eve Online called the Goonswarm Federation. Keep in mind these "tactics" have been used by him and also against him. Keep a keen perspective and take this one for whats its worth. Its an interesting look into the bigger picture that is Alliance Warfare. (Note: I can't confirm this was even made by the Mittani.)

Bumping AFK Miniers

First a quick background of the last year. When solo mining, before August last year, you had to mining using jet cans if you were solo. You would fill up your inventory with minerals and then transfer them to your jet can then pick them up with your industrial ship and ship them to where ever. After August last year all the mining ships cargo holds were increased so mining ships have a larger ore hold where all the ore goes now so you don't usually have to dump everything into space containers to mine for extended periods of time. This practice was known as can flipping, it was a way to make piss miners off or harass them or just to steal their stuff.

Now a days mining ships have such a large ore hold you can literately sit afk on the belt and mine asteroids. So a bunch of people thought it would be funny to start pushing people away from the belts if their afk. In fact a guy by the name of James 315 has a massive organized group of players that run around harassing miners some afk some not. Anyway check out all of there mobo jumbo at minerbumping.com. I would deal with miner bumpers and the like the same way I would can flippers, ignore them move on and go have fun somewhere else.

The vid above is just some shots of people messing around bumping afk miners. Keep in mind this video was released long before minerbumping.com or the "New Order" so its nothing new.

Video of the Week: Battle of Asakai

Ok I don't know who you are or what your doing reading this but one thing is for sure if you have heard of Eve Online you need to watch this video.

Over the weekend a massive battle ensued in the Asakai system. The local system reached over 2700 players at the peak of the fighting.

The game Devs have posted all sorts of stats on the battle. Battle of Asakai Devblog Stats