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Public => EVE World News => Thema gestartet von: Aura am September 05, 2013, 04:00:47 Nachmittag
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Kill of the Week: RIP Jump Freighters
Gonna keep this post simple this week.
I didn't do a KOTW post this past Monday owing to it being my travel day to the CSM summer summit. However, nothing much was lost. Let's start with the supers where things were particularly quiet...
Number of dead super-caps the week of August 19: 1
Only one dead super week before the summer summit, this Nyx crushed by a sub-cap fleet 140 strong. The initial tackle fleet was only 11 guys, and the Nyx was spotted at the mouth of a wormhole in Outer Passage with three carriers and a small enemy sub-cap fleet. The initial fleet -- Ministry of Inappropriate Footwork -- apparently didn't have any reliable means of tackling the Nyx but they were able to call in a nearby Verge of Collapse fleet. In the meantime, they kept bumping it around; the bubble goes up about ten minutes later. The resulting video, while long, is a lovely demonstration on how to keep a super tackled until your DPS arrives.
Number of dead super-caps last week: 0
And summit week -- so far as I can tell -- featured no super kills.
However, an honorary super was killed last week. Heard you heard of a Tarya? It's the new Odyssey 1.1 name of a Badger II, now retroactively applied to this ship killed in Jita with a good portion of a super-carrier fitting on board. Those passive hardeners, incidentally, have become all the rage among sov super-carriers and are quite useful when a hundred neuting Tempests or Geddons come calling.
But that's really it. As I mentioned in the junk drawer post, the last couple of weeks of August are quieting back down with fewer major assets being moved around. There were some entertaining ganks -- this Vindi, for instance. And TMC highlighted an entertainingly bad Nemesis fit. For KOTW, though, I think I'm going to go with this pair of Moroses:
http://eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=19446963
http://eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=19446961
Apparently, Red Alliance are enjoying themselves in w-space, or at least they're entertaining the locals... ;-)
But no, the real story lately are the enormous number of jump freighter kills. In the two weeks of this particular reporting period, 48 JFs have died. And you can trust me when I say that's an unusual number. The normal number in a one-week period is about a quarter that. Now there are a lot of deployments happening right now and that, I'm sure, is accounting for the higher than average count of JF deaths. No fewer than five major alliances -- TEST, SOLAR, Black Legion, -A-, and Tribal Band -- are moving around right now as well as a host of more minor ones. So, we've got a lot of chess pieces moving around.
And a lot of those pieces are moving around in jump freighters. Let's hope it's the prelude to some big wars and some interesting kills, shall we?
Source: Kill of the Week: RIP Jump Freighters (http://jestertrek.blogspot.com/2013/09/kill-of-week-rip-jump-freighters.html)