[Official Event] Short Circuit

[Perfect Gentleman]

Description of the event in a nutshell.



For people who doesn't see the text, I'll send the logs instead:

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[15.03.2025 18:27:00] AIX-099: LOL I STILL DOESN'T SEE WHOM ROME IS FIGHTING WITH

That was for 2 minutes long before I getting died by idk whom (I just didn't seen who was shooting me). I don't know how to play this, given that neither my torpedoes nor my CDs are hitting the target.

That's literally Short Circuit

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[Barrier]

I have temporarily disabled the Core NPC drops. If that doesn't improve performance, we'll consider disabling NPCs for tomorrow.

[JadeTornado]

@Barrier I can't log my AI VHF acquired through the restart after a single death.

upd: solved, thanks

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In a live role playing environment, you are not owed or mandated to be given a duel. Fights develop differently every time and people have varying degree of time to log on their hands or have their own plans.

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[NBK]

I had fun (and a lot of money), though something can be done indeed.

1. Respawn points: Livadiya for Core/Zoners, Citadella for Corsairs, POB Mars somewhere in B7(?) for Auxo/AI.
2. Disable NPC in the system for time of event.
3. Would also be good to see Livadiya becoming hostile or at least undockable for Corsairs/Auxo/AI for the time of event.
4. ~AI/Auxo completely cooperating with Corsairs against Core .... might lead to poor quality tommorow, unsure.

Thanks for organising, Barrier!

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[Barrier]

I had fun (and a lot of money), though something can be done indeed.

1. Respawn points: Livadiya for Core/Zoners, Citadella for Corsairs, POB Mars somewhere in B7(?) for Auxo/AI.
2. Disable NPC in the system for time of event.
3. Would also be good to see Livadiya becoming hostile or at least undockable for Corsairs/Auxo/AI for the time of event.
4. ~AI/Auxo completely cooperating with Corsairs against Core .... might lead to poor quality tommorow, unsure.

Thanks for organising, Barrier!

1. People have already been using these respawn points. The only addition I made is the Mars pob on the other side of Gammu.
2. @Aingar has deployed a fix which should prevent extensive cargo drops from the suiciding. We'll monitor things further for now.
3 & 4. Why do you think so? Aka what are some issues with this?

[NBK]

I had fun (and a lot of money), though something can be done indeed.

1. Respawn points: Livadiya for Core/Zoners, Citadella for Corsairs, POB Mars somewhere in B7(?) for Auxo/AI.
2. Disable NPC in the system for time of event.
3. Would also be good to see Livadiya becoming hostile or at least undockable for Corsairs/Auxo/AI for the time of event.
4. ~AI/Auxo completely cooperating with Corsairs against Core .... might lead to poor quality tommorow, unsure.

Thanks for organising, Barrier!

1. People have already been using these respawn points. The only addition I made is the Mars pob on the other side of Gammu.
2. @Aingar has deployed a fix which should prevent extensive cargo drops from the suiciding. We'll monitor things further for now.
3 & 4. Why do you think so? Aka what are some issues with this?

Had time engaging Sairs and vise versa right under Livadiya + AI cruisers going to restock there, that just will increase chaos tommorow, though of course might be just free kills for Core - noone can know. (BTW making AI rep red to Core would also help since of extensive amount of white nicknames confusing people). While about cooperating that`s was really clear that today Auxo/Sairs were just literally helping each other, like playing a one side united against Core, I am probably sure that Core can just handle that anyway, that`s rather atmosphere issue.

Mars POB won`t stay right in front of Gammu tommorow right? Or what the starting positions of everyone will be? Like if we just gonna fight in front of Gammu it blocks AI/Auxo to restock(since combat docking will occur on Mars POB)/respawn properly or people gonna be focused right after undock also encouraging AI/Auxo to use Sairs` bases, literally again making their cooperation against Core inevitable, or I missed some point where it shouldn`t be a 3 way?

Like basically making for each side something like a green zone out of a front to gather a new wave or restock always works good in such events.

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LIBERTY THROUGH THE POWER

INFORMATION, RECRUITMENT, INTERNAL COMMUNICATION,
FEEDBACK.

[Barrier]

Had time engaging Sairs and vise versa right under Livadiya + AI cruisers going to restock there, that just will increase chaos tommorow, though of course might be just free kills for Core - noone can know. (BTW making AI rep red to Core would also help since of extensive amount of white nicknames confusing people). While about cooperating that`s was really clear that today Auxo/Sairs were just literally helping each other, like playing a one side united against Core, I am probably sure that Core can just handle that anyway, that`s rather atmosphere issue.

Mars POB won`t stay right in front of Gammu tommorow right? Or what the starting positions of everyone will be? Like if we just gonna fight in front of Gammu it blocks AI/Auxo to restock(since combat docking will occur on Mars POB)/respawn properly or people gonna be focused right after undock also encouraging AI/Auxo to use Sairs` bases, literally again making their cooperation against Core inevitable, or I missed some point where it shouldn`t be a 3 way?

Like basically making for each side something like a green zone out of a front to gather a new wave or restock always works good in such events.

This is clearer, thanks.

Keep in mind that tomorrow, staff are controlling the event ships (except for the Phoenix SRP), so players best fly with them if they wanna keep them alive. That should solve the issue of where the fights will happen.

Regarding restocking, there's nothing preventing people from doing it. But of course, if you do it in view of other people you were just fighting, you're PVP dead. We already warned people not to re-engage too quickly after dying, so people will hopefully pay attention to the respawn timer. The Mars POB will stay where it is, yeah. Remember, while you probably can't restock on Gammu or Mars, you also don't really wanna fly the whole distance back to Livadia or Ciutadella and miss a fight. Keep in mind also that this is symmetrical: Core and AI are spawning near Gammu, Zoners and Corsairs at opposite ends of the system. This is pretty much as ideal of a set-up for an event as you can hope, and the rest is just "player RNG".

How players choose to "ally" is part of this player RNG. If I see certain sides being created with an uneven fight set-up as a result, I'll be modifying respawn timers accordingly. As you may have noticed, we have very rarely created engagement rules for events. How people choose to rp the situation is up to them, within reason. And Auxo allying with Corsairs against the Core seems reasonable to me. It's one of those things that is left to the players exactly because I don't want to tell them how to play. I just outline the scenario, and have people interact with it to the best of their understanding. If you think something people do falls within rule 1.1.1, make your case in a report and staff will discuss it.

[The_Godslayer]

Since Core is gathering at Lividia apparently, can the event respawn for the Core AI be moved to Lividia? Getting jumped on undock because the Mars is right there is fine for me, but probably not for your average player.

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[James Greed]

The Mars also lacks certain ammo types, like light missiles. Plus, it won't auto restock you since its a pob. I've seen plenty people undock basically dry.

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Greedback

[Barrier]

The Mars also lacks certain ammo types, like light missiles. Plus, it won't auto restock you since its a pob. I've seen plenty people undock basically dry.

We should be able to allow people to /conn from there to restock. If not, I will manually add the rest of the standard supplies.
EDIT: use /rearm when on the Mars POB.