As most of you are no doubt aware, many CCP employees were slaughtered in the Tama system yesterday in an unprecedented Live Event announced that same day. 71 members of the CCP in-game alliance took part and were (except for a handful of cowards who warped their capsules out!) eventually sent back to our home system of Polaris in need of new clones.
Our goal was to mobilize a sizeable fleet of devs that would be tough enough to not be wiped out in minutes, but eventually we hoped to attract enough attention to be overpowered and killed. We wanted to give people a fight to remember and we hope we did just that.
In total, CCP destroyed 430 capsuleer vessels belonging to 316 different characters. Included in this are three characters who were accidentally pod killed by the CCP horde, all of which have been reimbursed their losses (fun fact: One of them was Darius III of the CSM). To quote the infamous TomB, the pod he destroyed was because of “Lag!”. Sure, Tom…we all believe you .
In total, 2,009 ship/capsule losses were recorded in the Tama system yesterday, a rather considerable jump from the daily average of just 56 per day from the November 1st to November 22nd period.
CCP lost the following ship types in the engagement:
Capsule
Apocalypse Navy Issue
Vindicator
Guardian
Bhaalgorn
Machariel
Damnation
Raven Navy Issue
Nightmare
Dominix Navy Issue
Gallente Shuttle
Broadsword
Caldari Shuttle
The totals for ship losses in the system seem to suggest that CCP employees have a strange tendency for firing upon rookie frigates when they see them, though many larger ships were also destroyed:
Kills total
Killed by CCP
Rookie ship
Frigate
Battlecruiser
Battleship
Cruiser
Stealth Bomber
Interceptor
Destroyer
Assault Ship
Covert Ops
Force Recon Ship
Heavy Assault Ship
Logistics
Strategic Cruiser
Capsule
Shuttle
Industrial
Interdictor
Combat Recon Ship
Command Ship
Transport Ship
Electronic Attack Ship
Heavy Interdictor
Total
Lots of assorted parties joined the fray once word got out. The majority of ships destroyed were destroyed by characters who were not a member of any alliance, with CCP (thankfully!) coming in at the top spot for the alliances.
Not in an alliance
C C P Alliance
Pandemic Legion
Important Internet Spaceship League
Goonswarm Federation
Only For Fun
Test Alliance Please Ignore
Northern Coalition.
Tactical Narcotics Team
RvB - RED Federation
Other
Our congratulations to the players who made it on to the list of top 25 killers in Tama yesterday, alongside eight developers. This list excludes capsules, rookie ships and shuttles that were killed (because come on, that’s not really sporting, is it chaps).
CCP GingerDude
CCP Klumpur
Space Chi
Sekh Ondaari
Jack bubu
Beastoria
Joe Public
CCP TomB
CCP Soulless
Margido
CCP Diagoras
MhG29L
Jirad TiSalver
Blood r4ge
The United NPCs of Tama
CCP Space Cadet
DeVoT1oN
Mang0o
CCP Zirnitra
Murtific
CCP Sreegs
Gallactica
James Damar
Mijstor Jedann
DarkXale
Additional props to Beastoria for landing the final blow on four CCP ships, with Fattymcbutterpants (a name which had the CCP fleet unified in laughter when called out as primary on EVE voice) and another character who should probably be renamed, both achieving three final blows each. We’re also happy to report that whilst NPCs did indeed manage to destroy 13 ships in Tama yesterday, no CCP ships were lost to NPCs. And that's despite CCP Sreeg’s Nanobot Accelerator rigged buffer tank.
After the last CCP pilot was blasted full of holes and sent on his merry way via the clone express, players kept fighting in the system for almost four hours.
We had our backend tool construct a word cloud from the biggest thread discussing the event, and judging by that, fun was had.
Many thanks to everyone who took part and had fun with us, all of us here at CCP who were able to be there had an absolute blast. I’m certain that this is far from being the last time a fleet is spotted leaving Polaris.
If you have any tips or feedback for us for future events, or want to make fun of our fits, please visit the comments thread for this blog.
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Our goal was to mobilize a sizeable fleet of devs that would be tough enough to not be wiped out in minutes, but eventually we hoped to attract enough attention to be overpowered and killed. We wanted to give people a fight to remember and we hope we did just that.
In total, CCP destroyed 430 capsuleer vessels belonging to 316 different characters. Included in this are three characters who were accidentally pod killed by the CCP horde, all of which have been reimbursed their losses (fun fact: One of them was Darius III of the CSM). To quote the infamous TomB, the pod he destroyed was because of “Lag!”. Sure, Tom…we all believe you .
In total, 2,009 ship/capsule losses were recorded in the Tama system yesterday, a rather considerable jump from the daily average of just 56 per day from the November 1st to November 22nd period.
CCP lost the following ship types in the engagement:
Capsule
59
Apocalypse Navy Issue
27
Vindicator
10
Guardian
9
Bhaalgorn
8
Machariel
6
Damnation
3
Raven Navy Issue
3
Nightmare
2
Dominix Navy Issue
2
Gallente Shuttle
1
Broadsword
1
Caldari Shuttle
1
The totals for ship losses in the system seem to suggest that CCP employees have a strange tendency for firing upon rookie frigates when they see them, though many larger ships were also destroyed:
Kills total
Killed by CCP
Rookie ship
468
98
Frigate
330
73
Battlecruiser
163
63
Battleship
166
56
Cruiser
93
32
Stealth Bomber
112
25
Interceptor
64
14
Destroyer
51
13
Assault Ship
44
13
Covert Ops
47
6
Force Recon Ship
16
6
Heavy Assault Ship
12
6
Logistics
15
5
Strategic Cruiser
6
5
Capsule
363
3
Shuttle
27
3
Industrial
8
2
Interdictor
6
2
Combat Recon Ship
3
2
Command Ship
5
1
Transport Ship
3
1
Electronic Attack Ship
5
Heavy Interdictor
2
Total
2009
429
Lots of assorted parties joined the fray once word got out. The majority of ships destroyed were destroyed by characters who were not a member of any alliance, with CCP (thankfully!) coming in at the top spot for the alliances.
Not in an alliance
727
C C P Alliance
429
Pandemic Legion
419
Important Internet Spaceship League
85
Goonswarm Federation
50
Only For Fun
40
Test Alliance Please Ignore
34
Northern Coalition.
31
Tactical Narcotics Team
21
RvB - RED Federation
18
Other
155
Our congratulations to the players who made it on to the list of top 25 killers in Tama yesterday, alongside eight developers. This list excludes capsules, rookie ships and shuttles that were killed (because come on, that’s not really sporting, is it chaps).
CCP GingerDude
37
CCP Klumpur
35
Space Chi
33
Sekh Ondaari
32
Jack bubu
24
Beastoria
21
Joe Public
21
CCP TomB
20
CCP Soulless
20
Margido
16
CCP Diagoras
16
MhG29L
16
Jirad TiSalver
16
Blood r4ge
16
The United NPCs of Tama
13
CCP Space Cadet
13
DeVoT1oN
13
Mang0o
12
CCP Zirnitra
12
Murtific
11
CCP Sreegs
11
Gallactica
11
James Damar
11
Mijstor Jedann
10
DarkXale
10
Additional props to Beastoria for landing the final blow on four CCP ships, with Fattymcbutterpants (a name which had the CCP fleet unified in laughter when called out as primary on EVE voice) and another character who should probably be renamed, both achieving three final blows each. We’re also happy to report that whilst NPCs did indeed manage to destroy 13 ships in Tama yesterday, no CCP ships were lost to NPCs. And that's despite CCP Sreeg’s Nanobot Accelerator rigged buffer tank.
After the last CCP pilot was blasted full of holes and sent on his merry way via the clone express, players kept fighting in the system for almost four hours.
We had our backend tool construct a word cloud from the biggest thread discussing the event, and judging by that, fun was had.
Many thanks to everyone who took part and had fun with us, all of us here at CCP who were able to be there had an absolute blast. I’m certain that this is far from being the last time a fleet is spotted leaving Polaris.
If you have any tips or feedback for us for future events, or want to make fun of our fits, please visit the comments thread for this blog.
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