Aideron Robotics Guristas Event Aftermath

Video from Enemy's viewpoint.

So last night we had another special event for Aideron Robotics where we undocked in Fliet with a Guristas themed fleet supported by two Chimera carriers (including your humble author). We had a backbone of Rattlesnakes and Gilas supported by Guristas skinned Ferox and Cormorants, along with Scorpions and miscellaneous other ships. Here are some pretty images:

Ultimately there was a lot of fleets around, a friendly Gal Mil fleet, a hostile Cal Mil fleet, Overload Everything, Psychotic Tendencies, Spectre Fleet, EVE Uni, .... if I missed you shout in the comments and I'll edit the post! 

Our fleet capped at 55 pilot and we were overpowered by enemies in Navy Armageddons, Absolutions, Guardians, and two triage Archons (hopefully bought from Ninveah Enterprises!). It was not a long fight and I was last Aideron on field as the Psychotic Tendencies fleet repped me for a while to control the grid and perhaps the killmail. Seeing what they were doing, I offered shield reps in local and gave them a boost before I died. 

We mostly had a good time and learned a lot about where we need to improve to hold our own against the big players in the neighbourhood. Thanks to everyone who came out and contributed to the carnage.

The Downside of the Single Shard

There is a big live event happening right now as I write this in Eve. An unprecedented event where all four empires are attacking the pirate factions in Syndicate and Curse regions. Part of the lead up to Rubicon, you see. Very exciting.

Except I'm at work. Like almost always during live events put on by CCP. The reason for this is quite simple and can be illustrated by this graph from Eve Offline:

This graph for the past 24 hours is similar to almost every day of Tranquility's logged in numbers: it peaks around early evening for Western Europe and late evening for Eastern Europe, a lower plateau where the handoff to the North American timezones log in, and the lowest point when its prime in the western Pacific region. In order to have the event attract the most participants, and to facilitate the live actors from CCP who are in that Western Euro time frame, the events happen right on that peak of the graph. While most of the North American playerbase is still in work or class.

We've complained about this before and asked for more events to be run out of the Atlanta office but still we get no love. This is another artifact of the single shard and while most of them are positives this one falls into the negative camp.

I guess the only answer is to get more North and South American players and shift that peak on that graph!