[Poll] Rerun event: Clash of the Titans

[Enkidu]

I can't bother to read all the posts in this thread, but I've heard that someone claimed that whoever was on the Arles played dirty.

As it might already be obvious to some, I was on the Arles. I didn't play dirty (intentionally), but that NEMP explosion reduced my FPS rate to 1. At least, whenever I looked at the remaining cloud. So I aimed to get as far as possible from the cloud so I'd have more FPS, not because I wanted to hide. There were Council ships near me constantly anyways, so hiding wouldn't work no matter if I wanted it to or not, though I don't know why there were so few Council ships attacking me at first. I guess it wasn't only me having the FPS lag.

At one point I "abused" the EK bug that is caused by bumping. I didn't do it intentionally. By routine, while facing another battleship from point blank, I constantly reverse while having EK on so I would turn faster and thus defend my blindspot. If I am rammed, I can stop the EK by holding the reverse button. However, my computer's reaction was slowed down considerably if the NEMP cloud happened to be on my screen, so getting out of EK took a longer time. I think that the event should be repeated, because this indeed didn't seem fair to me. Even if it can be argued that it was fair, it was definitely not enjoyable, at least for the time the NEMP cloud was on my screen. Can't do anything with 1 FPS.

By the way, has anyone noticed my allusions with RPing a Contre-Amiral who was called Philippe Braudel, in the system which contains the nebula called Mer Mediteranée?

Thanks for the response, Thunderer.


I wasn't accusing you of playing unfairly, and that certainly was a good reason to move. You must have moved quite far as a council BS with a battleship scanner couldn't even find you on sensor range from the position of the primary fight. There was quite heavy chat confusion. I flew my ship all the way to the gas giant in cruise, past the gate, headed towards the cloud, and spent 8 mins trying to acquire you.

It certainly did create a disparity between how the players responded to the actions of the Oblique and the Arles, however, as the Oblique never moved relative to the detonations.


I feel like it should be rerun so we have a way of gauging the event without any unknowns at play.

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