Talking in Stations

This week on Talking in Stations, Harvey Skywarker dubs the war in the south The Trinosaur War, wherein TEST alliance and Legacy Coalition are engaged against a myriad of enemies. Pandemic Legion has officially joined the fight over Immensea by moving a massive fleet of supercarriers, titans, and force auxiliaries down to Tenerfis to join Fraternity and Holy League against Legacy Coalition. On the other side of the map in Eha, The Bloc – a Caldari Militia corporation – successfully defended a fortizar with NC again Gallante Militia.

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This week on Talking in Stations we have a monumental fight over a Fraternity Fortizar in LK1K-5. What does this mean in the struggle between Legacy Coalition, Winter Coalition and Trumpy? We also go ‘down under’ to review what was announced there by CCP Fozzie including looks at the replacement for the last of the POS modules, as well as anchorables for displaying alliance banners and custom stargates.

Fight of LK1K-5

New Features, EVE Development

Soundtrack: Instrumental – “But Not Tonight” (Depeche Mode)

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fight battle Summary by TanaisNL on Reddit

This week on Talking in Stations, we look down South – in the region of Immensea – where there have been some strategic alliance movements. We will talk with Vily from TEST and Garst Tyrell from Triumvirate. Are these activities the opening shots to something much bigger? In our second half, we look at the diversity of CSM 2018 and what it means for the soul of Eve. Is Eve missing out on opportunities for player engagement and interaction because most of the CSM candidates are very homogeneous in their thinking?

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This week on Talking in Stations we are going to look at the comeback of Circle of Two with Da Winci. Then we’ll discuss the unfolding drama between the Eve Online and Star Citizen communities with Jibrish. We’ll take a look at the CSM election results with Suitonia and with the player one old chat log away from the CSM, Tikktokk. Rounding out today’s show to give us this week’s News of the Universe we have Hugh Caswakk.

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The election results are in for CSM13. The council of stellar management, CSM for short, has concluded with a live-streamed broadcast of the winners. Voting tallies were released a day later.

This is the 13th time in 10 years that players of EVE online have elected a select group of representatives to be their voice at the table with CCP, the makers of EVE online, plan new features for the game.

Thirty thousand votes were cast for 48 candidates. Ten of those candidates become full CSM members. Seven of the 10 were incumbent CSM members. Of the three new arrivals, all were from null-sec.

Large null-sec alliances now have eight of the ten seats on CSM, half of those were from a single alliance – Goonswarm. Goonswarm is by far the largest Alliance in EVE when measured by players count. They have over 30,000 characters. That is more than second and third place combined, Pandemic Horde, TEST alliance, respectively.

Of the ten CSM, all but one consider themselves active player versus player combatants. Absent from CSM were players that specialized in specific playstyles – faction war, wormholes, exploration, small-scale production, mining, small corporations, solo or casual playing.

The worry for some players is that representation is not balanced, those with specific playstyles will either take a back seat or be satisfied with proxy representation from null-sec delegates.

On this episode of CONVERSTATIONS, we’ll talk to winners and losers of CSM. First, we’ll hear from Commander Aze who has unsuccessfully campaigned for a seat at the table for five years. We’ll also hear from New CSM Member Killah Bee, along with Lady Scarlet, a veteran EVE diplomat that put Killah Bee at the top of several alliance ballots.

Lumio en Tilavine weighs his odds on taking Tenal away from Pandemic Legion. Lumio was made famous by relentlessly resisting the overwhelming force of PL during their invasion of Providence. “YOU DIDNT HEARD THE LAST” of Lumio! Was one of his mantras. (more…)

This week on Talking in Stations we will be talking with ProGodLegend with Test Alliance Please Ignore as the clear winner of the conquest for stations. We will be looking back at the takeover of Pandemic Legion sovereignty in Providence with TEST FC Farmstink and the tale of Lumio Tilavine – the ‘hero’ of Providence. The legendary corp Ushra’Khan receives a permanent monument in space in their ancestral home of 9UY and Harvey Skywalker comes on to discuss his article ‘The Sack of Providence’ and what’s next for Pandemic Legion.

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Hello, this is Matterall from the fan-created EVE Online podcast called, “Talking in Stations.” At TIS we like to bring you the most important news of the week, straight from news-makers themselves. For over two years TIS has covered EVE Online relentlessly, giving you the best insight into modern day EVE. But it is not enough. Thanks to our financial supporters on Patreon, we are able to bring you more.

The following is the first in a series of short episodes called “Conversations.” Each conversation will focus on a single aspect of EVE Online. We’ll talk to everyone; from experts that have logged for over 15 years to those that follow EVE’s fascinating player-created stories, but don’t play it themselves.

In this segment, we talk about attacking and defending conquerable areas of space. EVE Online takes place in a cluster of solar systems called New Eden. The cluster is mostly ruled by a few Empires (controlled by non-player entities). Beyond the control of these empires, lies Outlaw-space. These regions are roughly 1/3 of the game’s map and can be conquered and settled by players.

The security rating of these outlaw regions is 0.0 which players used to name the area, calling it “Zero Zero” space. The recent generation evolved the name to “null-sec” space – in other words, no security, except that which players provide other players.

The sovereignty system has changed three times in 15 years. The original system was based on claiming the majority of moons in a single system by anchoring and onlinging Player owned Stations next to them. The POSes looked like towers with force fields. Powerful corporations used the fire-power of dreadnoughts to siege the towers. Alliances of these corporations could easily overpower their smaller rivals.

2009 the system was changed with the Dominion Expansion. Dominion sov, as it was called, changed the system from moon control to Territorial control units that claimed and the entire system without the labor and resources of multiple towers. It took some years before players learned how to make Dominion sov miserable for their opponents.

In 2015 sovereignty was changed again to satisfy player outcry. The node-based sov system was introduced in the Aegis sov expansion. This system was also known as Fozzie sov based on the name of the developer that explained the system to players – CCP Fozzie. The sov system is controversial.

Here are two expert players, one from wormholes and another from small-gang combat. As they discuss the pros and cons of sov mechanics.

The original song is “But Not Tonight” by Depeche Mode released in 1986 on the Black Celebration LP.

TIS recording was borrowed and slightly edited from Modular State “Depeche Mode’s But Not Tonight (Some sounds from Alan Wilders Emax setup were used)”.  Alan Wilder was the lead keyboardist and studio polisher for DM. He auctioned off his old DM gear and this musician used it to recreate classic DM songs. That is the version we used with slight modifications.

David Matterall: The song is special to me, it was something I played in my car (on cassette!) when first moved to “the city” (San Francisco). It reminds me of the fascination huge building and all the promise of excitement a city could offer. I grew up in a rural area. The song represents entering the massive metropolis with the intention of succeeding there.

Years later I moved to Los Angeles to work in the film industry, and I lived in and around Hollywood neighborhoods and downtown LA. That was 1993. The official video was filmed in these areas, you can see the streets as I saw them when I arrived. Today Hollywood is a much different place, but this video reminds me of what it was like long ago.

When I created Talking In Stations I decided if I was going to make a show it would be something that was small and personal. The song that inspired me as a young man to move to the big city was the right song to talk about playing a virtual world – just being a small part of a much larger world.

Many people have said, “Don’t ever change that the music!” Now, with over 3,000 listeners, we never will. It’s part of TIS.

This week on Talking in Stations, we look at the end of the roadmap for stations and outposts as they have finished their final transition into faction fortizars.  We will look at the winners of the station grab and where years of loot will be sent via asset-safety. Our newest host, Artimus Albosa from Mercenary Coalition tells of the joint push of Northern Coalition and Mercenary Coalition into Querious and how they had hoped to affect the war in the North.  Finally, Suitonia and Mistwarden bring us their guides to running the new abyssal space and what the new Triglavian ships bring to the pvp pilots of Eve.

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