tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8930529650384824164.post4210996500848956349..comments2023-05-07T08:36:04.125-06:00Comments on Merchant Monarchy: Death Race 2014 - Starts Monday Jan 20thMoxNixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12407914481361718041noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8930529650384824164.post-12267969840971911692014-01-17T05:56:24.589-06:002014-01-17T05:56:24.589-06:00Yup, I was thinking it might encourage some BB fle...Yup, I was thinking it might encourage some BB fleets to head for goon space. Imagine the chaos competent fleets of stealth bombers camping mittanigrad would cause. =)MoxNixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12407914481361718041noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8930529650384824164.post-74125445287049732332014-01-17T05:32:39.184-06:002014-01-17T05:32:39.184-06:00Hmmm, it would give FC's incentive to run a ro...Hmmm, it would give FC's incentive to run a roam from EC- to VFK to score some kills. <br />A Brave Newbies fleet for example could rack up quite a score since I am pretty sure goons would undock for the promise of a fleet fight.Raziel Walkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02545370350482232205noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8930529650384824164.post-27467826730164390782014-01-17T05:26:28.764-06:002014-01-17T05:26:28.764-06:00Also I expect some will have a fleet helping them ...Also I expect some will have a fleet helping them get the kills. That's another reason for the killing blow requirement. So we don't have 5 people with identical scores winning the contest.<br /><br />I might run a similar contest later where you just have to be on the killmail to claim a kill. It'd be interesting to see how that affects the turnout and it'd certainly make it easier to get high scores.MoxNixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12407914481361718041noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8930529650384824164.post-58710505251783206492014-01-17T05:19:26.901-06:002014-01-17T05:19:26.901-06:00Yup, that's one reason for the final blow requ...Yup, that's one reason for the final blow requirement, but the main reason is to make sure they cause some disruption in goon space and don't just camp a gate or gank goons in hisec.<br /><br />Some probably will, but if it's really obvious that's what they did, their scores will get tossed out.<br /><br />Advertising so far has been linking the article in local chat sporadically. I have thought about putting a link up in comments on one of gg's lemmings posts and on reddit too but I'm not sure if I want to do that. I'm sure it would generate more interest but I'd kind of like to see how much interest there is without anything like that. Especially if others decide to link it on their own. A reddit link would do wonders no doubt.<br /><br />I'm not too worried about turnout this time. Even if it's poor, 5 people will make some easy money and the word will spread from that for the future. Most players don't know who I am and will probably be skeptical if it's for real or not until after the winners of the first event get paid.<br /><br />MoxNixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12407914481361718041noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8930529650384824164.post-63603654596890578932014-01-17T04:29:42.936-06:002014-01-17T04:29:42.936-06:00If it wasn't for the kill/final blow requireme...If it wasn't for the kill/final blow requirement it would be easy to score 23 points :)<br /><br />1. Get some ships in Torrinos. Jump to EC- and attempt to blap something before dying. <br />2. Reship and travel to VFK within an hour.<br />3. Try to kill something in VFK. For best effort get some scouts in system to assist with the kill but making sure you get the final blow.<br /><br />I wonder if any goon/cfc members will use out of corp alts to try and score, possibly sacrifing some cheap tech1 fast tackle frigates of their own to score some points.<br />Kill your CFC/goon main in fast tackle frigates a few times, this is not that expensive. Do this a reasonable amount of times within a few hours time. Score 30-40 points.<br />Depending on how many serious participants that manage to kill some valuable ships it's possible to end up in the top 5 and earn back your investment.<br /><br />How are you advertising this? Getting Gevlon Goblin to link to your challenge could reach more potential participants and might ensure more goons in space to act as viable targets. Or goons will respond by docking up and providing less targets. <br />It doesn't really matter though. Any response will allow you or Gevlon to pull out the opportunity cost argument or how an insignificant amount of players can force the biggest corporation in EVE to respond.Raziel Walkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02545370350482232205noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8930529650384824164.post-49990249680298115142014-01-16T14:05:45.088-06:002014-01-16T14:05:45.088-06:00If they're in goonswarm federation they count,...If they're in goonswarm federation they count, if not they don't count.MoxNixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12407914481361718041noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8930529650384824164.post-18636016885663857792014-01-16T13:08:50.556-06:002014-01-16T13:08:50.556-06:00mox.. when u say goon are including their pets as ...mox.. when u say goon are including their pets as well like co2..gents..etc.?Jasperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03529453992743165845noreply@blogger.com