event cancelled

[Darius]

Connecticut has been used both by admins (Connor and Garret, most notably) as well as players (1st|; 46th|, etc.) for events. It's great for simulating battles and it does get the point across, being an arena. No firm roleplay justification is needed either, as simply quoting "Admin [Name] decided to set up wargames to check the fleet's fighting abilities." is more than sufficient.

If however the goal is to make people to log in the game during such simulations, then I suggest doing it on a smaller scale, by only allowing fighters and bombers. That would still not be ideal (there's many ways to interpret allies/partners shooting each other's ships), but it would be easy to shrug off from a roleplay standpoint. It could also incentive people to actually hop on and play further if some rewards were to be given at the end, preferably in the form of snub codenames or sci data (credits we all already have billions laying around as dust collectors).