EVEalopalous [ALOPA], a lottery organization, recently organised a fun T1 frigate race laced with a bit of manhunt in stations.
A grand total of 17.7 billion ISK was handed out to the first 10 pilots (of the total 60) that completed the event which were distributed as follows:
First place: Suzi Q Isimazu (10 billion ISK)
Second place: Crynsos Cealion (5 billion ISK)
Third place: AstralPsyco (2 billion ISK)
Fourth to tenth place: 100 million ISK each
Participants had to meet in Itamo and the race required 74 jumps through low security space. Checkpoints were distributed and controlled by means of locating or trading with certain characters which had to be located throughout the stations of target systems. Participants were allowed to enlist friends to camp gates or locate contacts in stations and there are estimations of almost 25% of all participants being destroyed by smartbombing battleships in Rancer and Kinakka.
The race started at 23:42 EVE time on the 18th of February and the winner crossed the line approximately an hour later at 00:48 on the 19th.
Here is the full story from the point of view of the second place winner, Crynsos Cealion:
Aside from a bit of a starting delay due to some organizational overload, or maybe just to give people some more waiting time to get in-place (at the official starting time we had only like 20 participants, when we started it was closer to 40) it was a quite interesting race, even if the routes were potentially a bit too long and more checkpoints would have been nice.
Most participants were present in the T1 interceptor ships, especially Atrons and Slashers which proved to be quite a good choice and my team was also using them preferably, most people were intelligent enough to fit speed mods and warp core rigs primarily, as was later noticed when everyone at the front truly raced head-to-head, with only lag and reaction time making a difference between who first jumped a gate.
The race started from and was started with a load of fireworks by the organizer’s helper STRAYDOG1, who announced the first waypoint that was of all places, where we had to find a certain Essence RIivera in one of the stations and finish an empty trade with her so it logs the waypoint as completed. Each waypoint character was meanwhile spamming the next target info in local.
Due to Rancer being currently under the influence of an incursion, the gates were devoid of smartbombers and the route there was rather uneventful.
As the route to Rancer was rather short, we asked our alliance members to give us a hand and locate the relevant race agent, but they didn’t make it in time so my team just split up and found the agent quickly enough in Rancer VI – Moon 3 – Federal Freight Storage.
There we quickly finished the trade and went on to find in Korasen at Korasen V – Moon 5 where we were told to burn 100 km into a random direction to fulfill the waypoint.
To ensure this long burn was fine, I overheated my MWD almost to the point of burning out and bookmarked a spot that was probably more like 150 – 200 km from the warp-in, which also costed me a bit of time that gave the others time to catch up.
At the time I came into Korasen only as the permanent first of the race (and member of my team) was there as well as the relevant race agent – when I left local went up to about 15 already showing that while I was ahead, the difference was not that much.
Our next waypoint was to be Egbinger, the current home of RnK as we later noticed (luckily without smartbombs around), where we were supposed to find the next agent that was kayaman theshit in a random station again.
This time the burn was around 30 jumps so we had plenty of time for our alliance mates to locate the agent in time, but we still had no second of time to spare, seeing as Gob Lox, who ultimately became 4th, was close behind me and other team members reported the same about some other participants.
Although the way was long and went through the better part of 3 empires, it was rather uneventful aside from a lone megathron trying to smartbomb us at the earlier half of this route without much effect, although we also noticed that Negative Ten. in Rancer were trying to organize themselves again as a few Rokhs appeared there and tried to smartbomb us, although they didn’t really get anyone at that time from what I was told.
At this point I have to thank a member of my team who noticed early that removing Rancer off our Avoidance list was a good idea due to it saving us 1 or 2 jumps, which ultimately mattered more than the few deaths we suffered there in the end.
Using the help of our alliance members my team quickly located the relevant team member in the Egbinger XI – Moon 3 – CBD Corporation Storage station, where we again finished an empty trade so it logged to the wallet journal of the agent and went on find the final agent back in Itamo, STRAYDOG1 as the initial organizer’s alt / helper.
This final race was once again going through where the local pirates were properly set up this time with Arazus trying to point people and a good amount of Rokhs that smartbombed about the slower half of my team and a sizeable amount of other participants.
My personal part of the final race was a very close head-to-head run with me being right behind Suzi and Gob Lox tailing me as well, each of us with maybe a second or two of difference.
This went on towards Itamo, where we were informed by our alliance that the last agent was at Itamo VIII – Moon 13 – Core Complexion Inc. Factory, where Suzi and then myself quickly went to finish the final empty trade with the organizer and mark ourselves as the first and second winner.
Gob Lox actually slightly overcame me across the last 4 jumps due to lag and reaction speed being on his side, but the public locator channel he used to get his target was sadly not fast enough to gain him the final location before we got there, although we still earned himself a fine 100 million ISK via the 4th place.
At the end, there was some confusion over me potentially not properly finishing the 100 km burn at Korasen, although a private chat and a screenshot made by the local agent quickly cleared this up although I also provided my bookmark from there to the organizer.
All in all it was a very fun and fast race with some good competition, although the bulk of the participants seemed to lag behind one or two waypoints, which was easy to see via the many questions about what to do in the racing chat.
Intelligence gathering, sharing and good fitting certainly made quite a difference there although we were clearly not the only ones who managed to do that well, as the close competition showed us.
The Atron fit that earned him 5 billion ISK was:
[Atron, EVEalopalous]
‘Halcyon’ Core Equalizer I
‘Halcyon’ Core Equalizer I
‘Halcyon’ Core Equalizer I
Medium Ancillary Shield Booster, Cap Booster 50
1MN Afterburner II
Limited 1MN Microwarpdrive I
150mm Light AutoCannon II, Barrage S
150mm Light AutoCannon II, Barrage S
125mm Gatling AutoCannon II, Barrage S
[empty high slot]
Small Hyperspatial Velocity Optimizer I
Small Hyperspatial Velocity Optimizer I
Small Hyperspatial Velocity Optimizer I
We look forward to hearing about more community events.
-Darius
I can say ..
I was there.
I was close to Crynsos for the first part of the race and probably 1-2 seconds ahead after the Burn-MWD-Burn run in Korasen.
Moving through Rancer, I was unlucky enough to be smartbombed.
I was podded.
I reshipped in Ualkin for a combat-fitted Nano Shield Rifter. With my hearth thundering in my brain I moved as fast as possible to the next waypoint, using risky tactics to try to gain any seconds more.
And then, it was the last leg of the race, moving as fast as possible. Lak'ca and Sean were close to me (I had no warp speed rigs and I had to hope that Nanofiber II was enough to outrun them).
When I docked, I was thinking we lost the race. But then.. the first reports…
I'm in the TOP TEN? .. Amazing!
I would like to say a big thank you to all the COA members for showing me how much a real coalition of trusted friends can achieve.
Fly recklessy,
Getix Kain
Should have just hearthed back to Ironforge, made sure you got all ur speed enchantments at the Auction House and gryphoned it back to the mid point location.
Stuff like this just another thing making Eve so great!
Man that sounds like you guys had fun. I like to see this kind of emergent content.
Can you imagine some kind of "Tour de EVE"? The political wrangling and logistics of it would probably end it before it started. It wouldn't be so much about speed as much as just getting there over the long haul since your going to get shot up pretty good during the race and it would have to be limited to frigs and maybe even no cloakies to make things interesting.
I know, I know stupid idea. But I can dream.
Great job to those who organised this event, though I have to say PLEASE DO IT AGAIN
The idea of events like this taking place brings a new angle to the world of eve, what next pitstop's, Formula 1/Nascar or even better "Death Race" in eve.
Again good job guys and keep it up.
what about the sov maps!!!
Couldn't finished reading it .. If I saw the word Billions instead of Billion one more time my brain would reboot ..
So "Due to Rancer being currently under the influence of an incursion, the gates were devoid of smartbombers and the route there was rather uneventful" yet "there are estimations of almost 25% of all pilots being destroyed by smartbombing battleships in Rancer and Kinakka."?
Please take into consideration that:
-The fastest pilot needed about an hour to complete the race. The situation can change in a system within one hour.
-The estimations were made by checking killboards, while the "perception" of Rancer being empty comes solely from Crynsos Cealion. That's how he found the system…but other participants were not so lucky.
"This final race was once again going through -MISSING WORD- where the local pirates were properly set up this time with Arazus trying to point people and a good amount of Rokhs that smartbombed about the slower half of my team and a sizeable amount of other participants."
This was actually meant to say Rancer but due to the mail being too long due to linking systems and thelike in-mail for convenience (which apparently made the mail too complex to send), I had to delete some linked words and re-type them, seems I missed this one.
Me and my team found Rancer completely devoid of gatecamps the first time we went in to find the first agent, but as more people went through I assume the traffic was noticed and thus camps were set up, which as mentioned catched a good deal of people during the following we times we crossed Rancer.
Usually in lo/NULL Incursions you get Sansha NPCrats that make gatecamps difficult. Rancer was the Staging system so I'd have expectitto be a bit weaker then VG,assaults or HQ's though
Sometimes gates are empty, at other times already cleared by players. During the event there was nothing but a few Sansha frigates there and that wasn't quite enough to bother us speedy racing frigates.
Seriously evenews are now running ad campaigns for this retarded piece of shit scam site that spams locals and other chat channel with their fucking annoying links all the time.
Everyone spamming that link needs to be account banned for say a month. Should get the message through. Also ban the maker for coming up with the idea of a referral link. What a fucking retarded piece of shit moron.
(Yes, this is rage – I really REALLY dislike these spamming idiots)
You can hate them if you want. Evenews24 is not running ads or has any kind of commercial relationship with Evealopalous, nor I had heard of them until now.
I don't know the circumstances of their spamming or whatever: we just got word of the race, I thought it was a great idea, and Crynsos’ point of view made it a pretty interesting read.
As you might remember, we love community events and players creating original content, so I went ahead and published it.
If you start your own lottery/betting/scamming/whatever business and make something as cool as this race, be sure we will be willing to publish it. And no, we won’t try to extort ISK from you beforehand.
That's the spirit of the site: we want your cool stories.
Spend time in public channels or in trade hubs and you will know the site…… I just hope at least 10% of the people i petitioned for spam got an account ban and I hope the maker got a ban as well for the multitude of petitions I've made on him.
I don't need scum like that in Eve and I'm sorely disappointed you did not do ANY sort of research before publishing this "Awesome race sponsored by a spammer / scammer site". Sorry, but you fail. I really like Evenews24, but this piece pissed me off.
Very awesome race!
I don't believe its a scam site. They give so much isk out its hard to believe.
Spam, maybe, but that is the choice of the users themselves. I know they have tried controlling spam but its really on CCP to control that.
Controlling spam would be easy: Get rid of the referral link shit.
Do that and I might stop raging – then again, Eve is all about rage so meh, would become slightly boring
I have been with the site since the beginning and now I am a banker and help process withdrawls and all I can say is, I love it. All you have to do to get away from the spam is well don't sit in jita or a trade hub all day long and play the real game perhaps. join our channel in the game its called EVEalopalous. we have all sorts of other giveaways in there all the time.
And to Darius;
Awesome article man, we had lots of fun hosting the race.
As I said, I liked the race, I liked the rules, I liked the wonderful piece contributed by Crynsos when I EvE-mailed him, and that's about it.
Listen, I know Local spam is tiresome and boring. But there's nothing you can do about it, other than block their bots/workers. But that doesn't mean I have to refrain from publishing an interesting read because the event organizer uses spamming methods.
In fact, should a Jita Local scam spammer manage to get a good scam going and made a fortune, I'd probably grant him an interview because it's CONTENT.
What I want to say is this:
1) I am truly sorry that you despise Evealopalous, but the race was good and worthy of an article.
2) Evenews24 does not have (or ever had) a relationship with this lottery corporation.
3) We did not request, discuss, accept or get any Isk, credit or favors from Evealopalous.
Basically, I am an editor, I digged the story, and went with it. Just like that.
What's so hard to right click the spammers and block? Simple to do, you do it to all the spammers in Jita with scammed links/contracts. I don't believe Eva is a scam site at all, what makes you think it is?
As for Darius, great publish and read. I wasn't able to make it to the race but looks like there was a lot of fun stuff happening and lets not forget adrenaline, gotta love it! =]
Think about it.
They are basically charging a lot less than blink and you actually risk loosing your money or risk winning a TON of money I love it, then again i'm a fan of risk and hell for the low price of 10k a ticket i'm bloody hooked!
Prizes*
Evealopalous is an RMT money laundering site. It's nice to finally see those evealopalous RMT spammers finally banned ingame.