Terena Darkeen
Amarr Quam Singulari Force Of Evil
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Posted - 2009.03.16 20:23:00 -
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Hello everyone and thanks for visiting my thread on the CCP Challenge.
I'll quickly introduce how this video came about and then explain a little about the CCP Challenge.
Introduction Roughly a month ago I split up with my (now ex) girlfriend. We'd been together for roughly a year or so and we split up for various different reasons.
So being the spiteful lady that she is, she decided to let herself into my house and steal my laptop computer (I presume my housemate let her in). This laptop actually belonged to work and it ended up with a totally avoidable criminal investigation. Anyway;
Whilst in posession of my laptop, she used my work email (set up through outlook) to reset my facebook, MSN and Eve online account passwords. Deface the first two and just lock me out of the last. I managed to regain access to my facebook and MSN, have them restored however due to CCP's complete lack of customer support, a fortnight down the line my accounts are STILL suspended.
The Challenge So, Apocrypha came out this week and I suggested to my new housemate (an old eve player) that we make a couple of trial accounts and have a bit of a emss about. With the release of the box set stating that EVE's "Award winning PVP Environment" values "Tactics over Skill points" we decided to put that to the test.
Could two new trial players really immerse themselves in the eve-online PVP experience straight out of the box?
Logging on for the first time it seems that the rookie help channel and newbcorp channel are awash with comments such as "No one can PVP when they first start playing" and "Every good PVPer has a cashcow behind them" - Those are actual quotes.
Well I'm pleased to say we have completed the video.
Our objectives were to:
- Become self sufficient, not have to rely on anyone but ourselves for isk to PVP
- Successfully PVP as soloers and as a duo in a range of scenarios
- Gain notoriety for our characters within our target region.
- Lock horns with much older players.
- Test CCP's theory for new characters
Now, I don't want to give too much away as to the results of this test. But please enjoy the video which is a satirical look at the options available to new pilots and the capabilities what only a 200k skillpoints or so can achieve.
Eve Files: http://dl.eve-files.com/media/0903/TheCCPTest_divx_mp3.avi
Notes: - This thread is posted on behalf of my corpmate who has asked I create this thread. Please see first paragraph! - This video is not a direct attack on CVA however their space was chosen as it presented best opportunity for us. - All events in this video actually happened.
Please enjoy the video and all comments welcome :)
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Terena Darkeen
Amarr Quam Singulari Force Of Evil
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Posted - 2009.03.17 03:16:00 -
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Edited by: Terena Darkeen on 17/03/2009 03:17:19 Teschan says:
"Thanks for the feedback so far;
This video was created to demonstrate the possibility and either prove or disprove a large selling point for this game upon its boxset launch.
The fact that both Kel Gunrunner and I have been playing this game for a long time and are hopefully knowledgeable or familiar enough with EVE's combat mechanics, hopefully proves the statement that planning and tactics can overcome skillpoint limitations.
True character "Skill" or "PVP Experience" is almost impossible to quantify. Try to think of this video less as "Let's see how well WE do", and instead think of it as "This actually IS possible"
I hope that clears up any issues you have over the motivations for the video."
Sadoo, make sure you have the divx codec installed on your computer - available at www.divx.com
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