[Official Event] The Alsace Passage - 2 Mar, 20:00 - 22:00 UTC

[Proselyte]

... RNC-Burghausen cannot be destroyed ...

This reminds me of the Pennsylvania event where majority of the playerbase logged as Zoners. And the Liberty flagship got beamed coz people focused it down and it almost died. Then it later came back and killed the Zoner flagship becoz that was the scripted outcome.

Speaking as a participant of said event who also made exactly this connection upon reading, bear in mind that much of the discontent regarding the Alma not being destroyed came from a mismatch of expectations between the event creator and the playerbase.

The event runners did not intend to let the fate of a significant, storied ship like the Alma be decided in one battle on the grace of who logged what, and were trying to frame the event as a delaying action with an inevitable withdrawal by the Zoner defenders, but with a chance to set themselves up favorably for the future conflict.

From the player/gameplay perspective though, Liberty could not win the field (despite doing good damage to the transports, the actual objective) and their battleship got trounced (until saved by GM wizardry), so it was expected that that would reflect the roleplay outcome of the event - perhaps reasonably, perhaps not, given that the Pennsylvania Zoners in-lore should be totally outmatched by the Liberty Navy in a conventional brawl. Strongest house in Sirius and all that.

This here reflects that the prior incident was learned from: they are clarifying, up front, the event bomber I run just for this occasion isn't going to permanently kill the Kaiser of Rheinland. But you can still enjoy the ride of embarrassing him by killing his diplomats and making him show up to Gallia in a busted jalopy.