Whoa, whoa. Hold on there. Think some clearing up needs to be done. I guess somebody might've mistaken me flitting about like a caffeinated bumblebee for an attack, but I wasn't shooting. To be fair to all concerned, it was a pretty confusing scene. Some of us - like me - assumed it was sorta a mini-oorp zone where a temporary truce was in place. Prizes would be handed out, then everybody would leave the system or something, at which point normal interactions would resume.
Others thought that normal interactions were to resume with the death of the contest ship - which many treated as a sort of infested battleship or some other threat to Sirius as a whole - and acted on that. I didn't get many screenies because I lagged out before I could scroll up in the convo window, but I have the log. Messages in group chat are marked with parenthesis, though I probably missed a few. Note: when I said "Who first?" I was still just zipping around and not shooting, but starting to realize people had itchy trigger fingers with so much red around.
It was a fairly confusing situation. I don't really think it's fair to pin the blame solely on the QCP. Everybody had an itchy trigger finger, and I don't think anybody was quite sure what to do.
Death: [Admin]Agmens.Contest was killed by a hostile vessel.
(QCP|Sir.Arnold.Rimmer: Holy Hell!)
(QCP|Martin.Barclay.: Haha, figures!)
QCP|"Deadmeat".Dobson: She's down! Now, for the mop-up
[TAZ]Lou.Salome: Oh, it's gone
(QCP|Abrasive: Correction, jumping now!)
QCP|Sir.Arnold.Rimmer: Eh?
ICMG[SL07D]Obsidian: RogER: nooo!
=CR=Ares[44th]: Nice gathering !
[AFA]Free.Rice: Back to the pit!
(QCP|Marty.Mindery: WHAT IS GOING ON!?)
(QCP|Martin.Barclay.: Who first?)
(QCP|Sir.Arnold.Rimmer: Let the rabble scram.)
(QCP|Sir.Arnold.Rimmer: Shut up, Mindery!)
Malcolm.Rees: Die Import ship !
[|]Raiju.Tomodachi: kIlling enemies of Kusari!
Saerieve: Well, Now that its over, Shall we get back to business ?
(QCP|"Deadmeat".Dobson: Shall we take on the KNF?)
Death: Psyvil was put out of action by Neo_Fiend (Gun).
(QCP|Fortunatus:Wright: Should do really)
(QCP|Sir.Arnold.Rimmer: Only if they shoot first, we're out numbered heavily.)
(QCP|Sir.Jack.Fraser: I need to know where you are?)
[TAZ]Lou.Salome: Back to Baffin
[KNF]IKN-Boke: I want me a privateer..
At this point, I'm told the KNF gunboat (Boke) opened fire on Rimmer. If he hadn't, though, somebody else probably would've - in the future, might be a good idea for whoever's flying the contest ship to tell everybody to hold their fire until the prizes are handed out to help prevent such confusion, and allow the winner(s) to collect their goodies unmolested.
[Admin]Agmen: Bloody good....
(QCP|Sir.Arnold.Rimmer: Head to 4/C and go up.)
(QCP|Sir.Arnold.Rimmer: And keep going up.)
(QCP|Fortunatus:Wright: They're gonna shoot first)
(QCP|Abrasive: Scatter if you have to, hit trader sorts.)
Saerieve: I'll take a piece of a Colonial, ya know!
[AFA]Free.Rice: Is it still alive?!
QCP|"Deadmeat".Dobson: Nice job lads, showing these noodle-munchers how it's doen.
=CR=Ares[44th]: Time to watch a bit.
Akira.Kobayashi: Let's take the trash out before we leave
QCP|Sir.Arnold.Rimmer: Oi!
ICMG[SL07D]Obsidian: Roger: where is it?
(QCP|Sir.Arnold.Rimmer: Get that Boke.)
=CR=Ares[44th]: Go eat something.
[Admin]Agmen: It's dead....
QCP|"Deadmeat".Dobson: The boke is firing. All groups, fire.
Malcolm.Rees: I hear the voice of a mighty spirit
(QCP|Sir.Arnold.Rimmer: I need help...)
(QCP|Sir.Arnold.Rimmer: They decided to shoot.)
(QCP|Fortunatus:Wright: Inbound)
QCP|Marty.Mindery: We all do.
(QCP|Martin.Barclay.: Who's shooting at you?)
[AFA]Free.Rice: Are you forgetting something? the pilot is right there!
(QCP|Abrasive: Evade contact if we have to.)
(QCP|Marty.Mindery: En-route.)
[Admin]Agmen: Saerieve - you may approach...
=CR=Ares[44th]: Go teams !
]bd[Chib: Where may it be headed next?
=CR=Ares[44th]: Who wants to make some bets ?
Death: rojo suffered a self inflicted catastrophic decompression.
Death: Bigmuff was killed by a hostile vessel.
(QCP|Sir.Arnold.Rimmer: Fighter on me.)
Saerieve: ummm ...
[|]General-Yarr: For Kusari and goodies!
(QCP|"Deadmeat".Dobson: Come on boys, take down that gunboat)
[AFA]Free.Rice: wait a second...what are those?!
(QCP|Sir.Jack.Fraser: closing)
[AFA]Free.Rice: Defilers?!
QCP|Sir.Jack.Fraser: moving to support ships
CONSOLE: Contest ship is dead
QCP|Sir.Jack.Fraser: attacking enemy targets, weapons hot...
=CR=Ares[44th]: Nice show.
QCP|Abrasive: Stop right there!
CONSOLE: I'll be handing out some goodies....
[TAZ]Lou.Salome: Something wrong?
Death: QCP|Sir.Arnold.Rimmer has suffered a self-administered loadout error (Missile/Torpedo).
[Admin]Agmen: Free rice, you may approach
QCP|Sir.Arnold.Rimmer: Gah!
(QCP|"Deadmeat".Dobson: rimmer!!!)
Death: [KNF]IKN-Boke was put out of action by QCP|Sir.Arnold.Rimmer (Missile/Torpedo).
(QCP|Marty.Mindery: Dammit!)
(QCP|Sir.Arnold.Rimmer: I wasn't even in range for that...)
QCP|Abrasive: There's fees here!
(QCP|"Deadmeat".Dobson: RIMMER!)
=CR=Ares[44th]: This is a massacre.
(QCP|"Deadmeat".Dobson: GENERAL YARR)
Death: K.C._Cavaliere was put out of action by Maleficar (Gun).
[TAZ]Lou.Salome: for what?
[KNF]IKN-Boke: lagged right into my pod..Kanpai!
(QCP|Marty.Mindery: I WILL DELIVER SWIFT VENGEANCE!)
QCP|Abrasive: The right to fly here. Road tax.
QCP|"Deadmeat".Dobson: you're next Yarr
(QCP|Sir.Arnold.Rimmer: For Queen Carina!)
At this point, I scored a SNAC hit on Yarr...and it proceeded to get crazy laggy. Everybody suddenly being several K away, then instantly all around me, and back again. I couldn't hit anything, or be hit, and my chat messages weren't registering. So I decided to RP it off as massive weapons system interference due to the strange ship, and cruise away from the furball...cuz if I'm lagging that badly, I've got no business trying to fight. I'd just frustrate anybody trying to target me, and none of my hits were registering. A few lines of text suddenly came through:
[AFA]Free.Rice: thank you honourable one
[TAZ]Lou.Salome: Nah, that's ridiculous
[Admin]Agmen: Akira, you may approach
[TAZ]Lou.Salome: Nobody tells me where I fly unless I'm breaking any laws
And then, with nobody within scanner range, I F1'd out of the lagfest.
EDIT: I wasn't at the Delta event, so I dunno if the participants and spectators had the same volatile mix of reactions, or if they were told it might be a bad idea to start fisticuffs before goodies were distributed.
' Wrote:Of course, any in game RP consequences if you go into a sector where you're not allowed are on you - so if the contest ship shows up in Liberty and you bring your Rheinland bomber in - good luck. No ID violations may occur when seeking the contest ship (for example, that means no BHG| Caps if the contest ship shows up in Gamma or in house space).
Do not take my comment as criticism of the QCP. On the contrary - I was quite pleased and amused that someone would do exactly what they did - band together to take out a common foe, even if it was me - and then revert back to what they should have been doing.
I think in Delta everyone just sat around for a bit catching their breath because of how big the fleets were there - that and when someone bumped the prize ship after being told not to do so, the prize ship reacted... violently.... :P
While you're shooting at the prize ship - please feel free to be a band of brothers. Once it's done - well, if you want to stand there and look at the other guys and go, wow, what did we do - that's fine. And if you want to start going - hey, why is my BAF sitting next to this KNF in OUR territory now that the threat is gone and decide to pull the trigger on him - go right ahead, too.
I'm heading for work now - I'll be home and in game sometime after 6 pm my time. (US, EST - GMT -4).
(11-21-2013, 12:53 PM)Jihadjoe Wrote: Oh god... The end of days... Agmen agreed with me.
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