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EN24 Podcast, ep.04 – Fanfest and New Sov

March 16, 2015

“EVE Online News from EN24’s” podcast releases their fourth podcast. EN24 writers examine the Sovereignty Changes in this special edition hour long discussion. Then some discussions on FanFest, where both EN24 staffers, Tiberius and Bobmon, will be among the thousands of EVE players going to Iceland. And finally, a close up look at Mail Lite’s 600 Billion ISK Heist story that was picked up by real life press.


Panel:

EVENEWS24 Podcast, Newsroom Edition, Discussions on New Sov Mechanics.

0:00 Newsroom Edition
1:20 Introductions – Tiberius going to Fan Fest, awaiting Brave Newbie Council campaign results
3:00 Mail Lite – “Daddy” interrupted
3:20 Bobmon – Going to FanFest, awaiting CSM campaign results
4:00 Mail Lite – On a low-sec holiday
5:10 Honorable Pirates
7:10 Rixx Javix, example of good pirate
7:35 New idea for a corp
8:00 Matterall – Joined DICE, the good side of top tier corps
8:40 LadyScarlet
9:05 New Sov Mechanics
10:15 Goals of Sov Changes – Tiberius
10:45    1. Fights are fun
11:05    2. Clear up the process, understanding
11:35    3. Eliminate Blobbing
12:05    4. Reduce effort to take empty space
12:50    5. Occupancy leads to defensive bonuses
13:30    6. Spread fights out
12:40    7. System should be adaptable
15:00 Revenant event – server load issues
15:30 Stoned players in warp tunnels
15:45 Servers can’t keep up with population growth
16:30 Mechanics – Matterall
16:45    – No more shooting structures
17:00     – Independent structures
17:05    –  Prime time
17:20    – Capture events
18:10    – Freeport Stations
18:40 The comedy of Freeports
19:20     – Small gangs targeting Freeports
20:15     – Occupancy Defenses
21:10     – Entosis Link
21:30 Putting it all together – Mail Lite
21:40 Walk-through typical Sov event
23:00 Updates since announcemnts – Matterall
23:30 CCP Fozzie on “EVE Down Under Interview”
23:40 CCP Fozzie “Dev post on EVE forums”
23:50    – Military control is key
24:15    – Ship docrine variety
25:25    – Entosis links should be simple and understandable
24:40 Overall Goals – lower barriers of entry
26:00 Discussion on Community Reaction
27:30 Harassment system
28:45 Sov Mindset changes – smaller empires?
31:30 Attackers and Defenders. advantages
32:00 New Structures. fortifications?
33:10 Timers
33:45 Defender Burnout
35:00 Downtime as a strategy
35:40 Primetime window
37:40 Alliances won’t attack anymore
38:40 Without economic incentives, wars stopped
39:00 The big wars of old
40:00 Discussion of Sov Value
41:50 Owning is it’s own reward
42:30 Supercapital and big production
43:20 Discussion on Supercapitals
44:45 The real problem with supers today
48:45 Capitals not risked = null-sec is stuck
49:00 Supers as true fleet carriers
51:30 Discussion on “No Local”
53:00 Wormhole vs Null-sec play style
54:00 Structures as intelligence devices
55:50 Discussion on “No Fleet Warp”
58:00 Reform on leader command
58:30 Going to FanFest – Bobmon and Tiberius
59:30 Tiberius – First FanFest
1:01:00 Special FanFest Beer
1:01:50 Pub Crawl flags no more
1:02:50 Star Trek Story
1:03:00 Matterall is not the famous movie star, Henry Cavill
1:03:30 Star Trek vs EVE “SUBMISSION: BATTLE REPORT – STAR TREK VS EVE ONLINE – A TALE OF TWO PARTIES…
1:04:00 Meeting EVE players
1:04:20 “How many PL shirts have you got Bob?”
1:04:50 600 Billion Heist story hits RL press “Vanguard Frontiers: 600 Billion ISK Heist
1:06:00 EN24 broke the story
1:06:30 50,000 hits and sourced by other sites
1:08:30 Good sources: Non Erata and Ladygrey
1:09:45 Thanks and sign-off
1:10:30 Rhea Expansion Theme

 

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