Our industrial division kindly donated 50 Drakes to the alliance with the insistence that they be whelped on some foolishness. I added a handful of Ospreys I had lying around and we had ourselves a theme roam. For reasons unknown to me
CVA have us set as "
Kill On Sight" making destination number one obvious -
Providence. I took a bunch of screenshots over the course of the roam but one of our Interceptor pilots was filming the whole thing and spliced together the Providence incursion while I slept.
With various people having to head off we went back to hisec for refreshments before discussing where we would go next. Nobody had any bright ideas so instead we started looking for hotspots of activity in the in-game universe map. While that was being trawled we set off in the general direction of
Barleguet, home of Brave Newbies Inc. They seem to be a fun bunch always up for a fight so if we were going to dispose of all these surviving Drakes somewhere it would be a certainty that they would help do just that. En route to Barleguet our scouts discovered a hive of activity in
Aulbres. It appeared to be a massive frigate fight was happening so all we could do was fly right in and give them something bigger to shoot at.
And shoot us they did.
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| Primary is, um, shoot things... |
All in all it was a really fun night. The only problem we had of the evening was the form-up time of just after midnight. This confused a whole load of people who took "Just after Midnight on Sunday" to mean "Sunday night". This meant people were going to be 24 hours late. Oh well, next time we know better. Thanks to the scouts, logi and of course the FC for making this a fun night. I love it when my alliance gets together and does stuff. This is what makes us more than just a gaggle of corps who happen to fly under the same banner without actually knowing each other.
Never form up fleets at midnight? That's when the midnight bomber bombs.
ReplyDeleteSaturday evening 23:50 sounds so much better.
Indeed. When the time was announced I posted this in my alliance forums:
Delete"Just to clarify, you mean one minute after 23:59 on the 30th of November? I spent many days mopping up customer complaints about planned outages when they thought 00:00 came at the end of the day rather than the start. So much so we moved all maintenance to begin at 23:00."
There was some humour about it actually starting at 00:01 on Sunday, but changing it like that seems to have been the undoing. Still, we had 30 people. That's a pretty sizeable fleet in my books.