This month there has been an ever increasing number of super capitals losses spread across the entirety of New Eden, including both Lowsec and Nullsec in a variety of different situations. As all of you are no doubt aware by now I have been attempting to keep up to date with all current losses at present and shall do so for the future. The opinions on the writing of these types of articles seem to be varied with some detailing them as “not important enough to matter” and others who find it interesting to see all individual methods that they have taken place.
Last month I stated in this article that 9 supers and 3 titans, including the one titan which the post related to and this subsequent Revenant, were destroyed, reaching an estimated total of 684 Billion ISK. This is the equivalent of approximately 855 plexes, reaching a higher value than the ISK heist of 600 Billion ISK detailed on this post.
If we move forward to the present month of March, there has been 7 titans and 17 supers destroyed with an estimated total of 1.22 Trillion ISK (1221 Billion) effectively doubling the value from the previous month and reaching 1527 plexes.
When we compare the months to determine their most expensive and cheapest losses we see the following;
February (Most Expensive) – Revenant worth 150 Billion ISK lost by Ingeneer of Prelium Ultima who died to Pandemic Legion after being caught following constantly assigning fighters to his Archon, which was dubbed Skynetting and has now been removed from Eve following the Scylla patch.
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February (Cheapest) – Nyx worth 22 Billion ISK lost by Vlaxius Nym of Shadow of xXDEATHXx who died to Sleeper Social Club after trying to save a friend in a Golem. (Although the article was published in March.)
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March (Most Expensive) – Avatar worth 119 Billion ISK lost by Jean Leaner of Nulli Secunda who died to Pandemic Legion after deciding to doomsday a random carrier.
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March (Cheapest) – Nyx worth 22 Billion ISK lost by Sgt Spoonie of Erebus Rising who died to the #REKKINGCREW of Pandemic Legion after jumping into system without onlining his POS as planned and simply got caught.
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The common denominator in these posts is that Pandemic Legion is involved for the majority. They are well known as capable capital pilots who tend to work without any blues other than that of Northern Coalition [NC] and a few additionals as required. The other major entity involved in super-capital killing is RoCkEt X who leads the aforementioned #REKKINGCREW who have stacked up 4 kills this month and 3 last month compared to Snuffed Out who have 3 this month and only 1 in February.
There are a multitude of reasons as to why the super-capital seems to be dying on an ever increasing basis. One of the main reasons is the changes to jump drive use that came into effect with the Phoebe patch, forcing the use of gates and waiting times before an emergency exit cyno could be used. In the last week alone we have had 11 super-capitals and 2 titans destroyed for a total of 517 Billion ISK putting it at a 3rd of the total amount destroyed in such a short space of time.
No matter what ship it is that has been destroyed there is always a specific set of circumstances that, if they had not been in place, could have resulted in a different outcome. For the most part alot of this is generated by pilots not thinking clearly in certain circumstances such as; jumping into system with unknown alts in local, warping to the aid of a friend and getting caught in the process, over confidence and plain bad luck.
Even with all of the above information one of the simple reasons for so many dying is that there is now an abundance of them in space and in use. The chances of slip ups occurring has no doubt been exacerbated by the lack of ease at which required support can now be called in. The future is still uncertain for super-capitals and titans alike as there is much debate with regards to the changes coming to New Eden following the proposed sov alterations from CCP which hinted at super carriers themselves being used as a fleet booster.
For a list of all recent super capital losses check here and be sure to check back to see all the upcoming reports for the super-capital losses to come!
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