Shadow of Cerberus
Public => EVE World News => Thema gestartet von: Aura am April 16, 2013, 04:10:48 Vormittag
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Kill of the Week: Burn a spy
Number of dead super-caps last week: 4
The week started in complicated fashion with this Nyx kill. I find southern politics to be almost incomprehensible at the best of times. EVE News 24 has the story on this kill, but it's going to be a challenge for anyone but a native southern Russian to understand all the players involved. ;-) Short version: Darkside alliance was on a small gang roam when they got word of a tackled carrier. That tackled carrier, some bat-phones, and a complicated string of events later leads to a dead Nyx. From the best I can understand, it was part of an escalation that went horribly wrong...
Later that same day in Black Rise, the first titan of the week went down, this Leviathan. Cause of death? The meta game. This one was much simpler. There's a pretty good video of this one to show that the Drunk 'n' Disorderly guys that killed it had the password of the POS where the titan was and were listening in on the pilot's comms. That was a bit of a trend this week, as we'll soon see...
EDIT (15/Apr/2013): TMC has an article briefly covering both the Leviathan and Nyx above.
Next to die was this terribly fit Wyvern, also in Black Rise. I don't have any firm details on this one, so I'd appreciate it if anyone who does tell the story in comments. If the chatter on this one is to be believed, though, this Wyvern was near a station. The pilot himself had dropped out of his corp only a few minutes before the super died, and a claimed translation of what he's saying in Local as he goes down is that this isn't even his account... That points to some kind of badly-handled character transfer, plus a new player completely unaware that supers can't dock. Whoops!
And that brings me to the crown jewel of this week's super kills and also this week's KOTW, this Ragnarok. This one is covered by both EN24 and TMC, but the best most straight-forward coverage is probably on the Failheap Challenge Syndicate thread, written by one of the people allied with the titan pilot. Cause of death? Once again, the meta game. It's hard to know when to burn a spy you have in an enemy alliance. Sometimes, you burn the spy to pull off a massive corp theft. Sometimes, you burn the spy after he accumulates enough power to disband your enemy's alliance. But sometimes, you burn the spy to get a fun kill-mail and that's essentially what happened here. The spy in question warped to a cloaked titan in open space, dropped from the titan's fleet, joined a fleet of titan destroyers, landed on cloaked titan, bumped cloaked titan, lit cyno.
There's lots more detail, but it's ably covered in the various articles about this kill. I'm not the biggest fan of UsurperDOT, but they got themselves a nice kill with this one!
Honorable mention? Sometimes, you burn a spy to kill a corp-mate's particularly shiny Vindicator... That was one of two shiny Vindicators that went down this week; the latter turned a Lost Obsession tactical victory into a massive ISK war loss. I also would be remiss if I didn't throw props out to Emizeko Chai who this week landed final blow on not one, not two, but three jump freighters this week. Nice job!
A pretty busy week, all in all, though of course not as busy as I would have liked...
Source: Kill of the Week: Burn a spy (http://jestertrek.blogspot.com/2013/04/kill-of-week-burn-spy.html)