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A question about EVE news
neonwire
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I have been playing the 14 day trial for about a week now and so far I'm pretty impressed with it. It seems to offer everything that all the others mmos dont have......namely the ability to influence the game world.
I was reading a recent article that appeared in the EVE Insider titled "Battle in Southern Corridor" that was posted on 26 July and reported by ISD Magnus Baltheus. The battle it described sounded totally awesome, involving a bunch of Titans and 450 pilots.
Now I realise that this may sound like an utterly daft question as I am very new to this game but was all of that purely instigated by players or was it some kind of scripted event? I'm assuming it was all players as the forces referred to all appear to be player corporations. I just find the fact that a battle can occur in this game and it actually gets reported like a real news event to be rather gob smacking! Is Magnus Baltheus an actual in game news reporter or is it all just made up?
Sorry if I sound completely naive but its just that I havent seen players taking part in the "storyline" of a game to this level before. I'm sure its all been done before in other games of course but this article just fused my neural bio-mind with excitement!
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ISD reporters are very real. Most corporations in EvE that are doing somthing worthwhile can invite them to witness certain events unfold (such as the one you read about).
And yes most battles taking place nowaday in 0.0 are player vs player, not scripted events.
Wow thats brilliant! Thanks for confirming that for me. I should have started playing this game ages ago rather than wasting my time with all the other crap thats floating about.
There is however a slight problem though. I just got so excited that I ruptured my bowels and now need to go and change my pants. Ah well.
Do the news reporters actually turn up in their own ships?
Yup .. they have their own frigs (crazy resists and no guns) but i forgot how they`re called
*Edit* - Polaris they`re called
Oh my god! Thats bloody amazing!
damn it! There goes that bowel problem again!!
They are cloaked and mostly not visible in local, too.
Most stuff they report is stuff from interviews, though. The really interesting battles often get reported in forums like scrapheap or Eve-Gbbs
Yep, there really are epic battles like that, I was in a support role earlier this year in a 175 ship fleet which was backing up a battle between about 65 capital ships. The carnage was tremendous with numerous carriers and dreads destroyed (about 20 as I recall) while the support fleets were relatively unscathed.
That is the cool thing about EVE, there's usually an epic battle going on somewhere just about every day.... come join the fun.
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In a small factional warfare fleet i was in the other day we had an ISD reporter with us, very cool.