Yeah that's what people thought, and it's ok, next time we do that.

I just wanted it to be an "American" rodeo, where you ride the bull and not kill it.

That'd be cool, I'm very use to -10 standing, but then that's off topic, and it's more towards griping about having lack of targets because they allied up the server rather then lack of balance.

Actually saha brings a lot of good points to the forefront. Good stuff saha excellent point about the mining bit. Indeed, why ask for more when you can mine in safety 12+ hours a day. There's a balance, and when you're saying beta is boring, it likely means more corps should be on beta.

Like usual when you disagree it's for some "bad" reason.

Beta is fairly well balanced, the decoder drops, tech drops from the good spawns there are fairly good, and the kernels 4th star plus are well worth it. We farm beta consistently and get some nice tech and gear there, while not living under the roof of a target outpost.

Let's repost some highlights here that accurately summarize points/counterpoints:

The last poster really hits it. Given I roam your lands, I'd say you're using your land far less then norhoop does, yet still asking for more. I can't believe you'd ask this with the way noralgis grows on beta. You should have a solid line of t2 mechs up on the market which would give you further money.

I'm quite sorry but you took the land, you wanted it, others are using beta land a lot more then you are, so start using it. Get ready to loose some bots.

Edit: Keep it relevant and civil please. - DEV Calvin

You're a corp that has access to resources to make heavy mechs, and you're giving advice on how much resources should be able to make a small assault bot? Don't you find that ironic?

You're kind of looking at costs from a group that has owned, lived, harvested beta for awhile. While on the other hand smaller/newer corps don't have said access, so why should they be penalized for using light bots to raid your island?

That being said, we don't even know what the amounts will be, but let's hope it's not like a mech in costs.

Hi,
  This event took off with dev mancs helping. This is one of the first events I've done in conjunction with the developers and it turned out MUCH BETTER then I'd hope! It was very fun to do. It was our first time doing it, so this post will serve to report the results how it went, and then I'll follow with some short cons/pros:

Summary:
We had the following people in attendance( Roughly 15 people observers/participants )

Teams WITH SURVIVAL TIME:
alex(CHAOS) & Mara Kaid ( 62nd ) : 4:42
Kanogi (62nd ) & Inda ( HUN ) 12:15 *** 2nd place
Selmak to ra ( GITS ) & alena ( AET ) 3:43
WARUX & SAHA (ATG) & (M2S ) 18:24 <-- winner.
Responsor (62nd) & Dev Mancs ( DEV ) 7:04

What happened:
Well contestants brought out 2 assaults tanked fit, and were to sit in an arena that was terraformed by the developers. In this arena wave after wave of spawn would come at them. The spawns comming were of mixed colors of 3. Here is the spawn order as we saw fit:

1st spawn:
3 RGB lights / 1 ewar

2nd spawn: 2 minutes later
3 RGB assaults ( RGB = red/green/blue )

3rd spawn: 2 mins
3 more RGB lights

4th spawn: 2mins
1 HEAVY MECH

5th spawn: 2 mind
3 more RGB assaults

6th spawn:
3+ more heavy mechs

ULTIMATE SPAWN:
3 observers...

It was a blast watching people use the cover, the trees and bouncing aggro in order to tank the monsters. All bots were replaces by the users. We had open coms.

My team did ok for moving around. Kanogi's team did very well and lasted several moments. Dev Mancs team did very well staying awhile. ATG and M2S's team lasted very long utilizing the wasps and something else hahaha..

I took pictures:

http://i446.photobucket.com/albums/qq18 … rodeo1.jpg
http://i446.photobucket.com/albums/qq18 … rodeo2.jpg
http://i446.photobucket.com/albums/qq18 … rodeo3.jpg
http://i446.photobucket.com/albums/qq18 … rodeo4.jpg

In some you'll see the observer spawns and such!

The devs actually made a nice arena, and I encourage people to come, this was t1 fitted assaults and lower. The dev team had just t1 fits.

We will do this again, but require more people to move around instead of standing still.

Winner was Warux and SAHA congratulations, with KANOGI and INDA runner up.

Thanks to dev mancs for doing this, and I hope the developers will do more events and work to help add dynamic content to the game that isn't pre-programmed in.

Thanks all, we will try to do this again sometime soon!

NEXT WEEK IS HERSHFEILD BATTLE ROYAL SEE POST!

***NOTES(Stuff I forget to mention that is fun)***
One of the participants didn't have a teammate and dev mancs helped him.
The arena monsters would agro the contestants a lot OOPS.
sometimes the spawns were redone several times to aggro the rodeo guys
Europeans have different view of what rodeo is.

Now are starting to see a setting where newer players, and younger corporations can get in some kind of bot and be competitive in a raiding style/fighting without having to skill for a mech.

This change has added a variety to the gang mix that will allow more players to x up in alliances and pvp. With more people able to pvp, more will play the game and enjoy it on a level they may not have been able to before. More people playing without having to grind weeks/months for a competitive game brings in more people to have fun and try out pvp.

More targets on a similar playing level = more fun for all.

Clearly the assaults wont dominate the scene, old builds are still viable, lemon's tank is still doable, just not as powerful as it was before. Heck even the new skill should and will help, he still has the old build ( as if that wasn't good enough still ). All the gangs we had still exist.

Back on topic:

With this change it's my belief that pvp is heading in a direction that ALL members can enjoy. Newer and older. If the direction of the pvp is made so that only older people can fight, it's kind of not fun for newer players. Scaring off newer players, makes your game dry up. Why do only newer players go towards tacklers? Why can't they get in assaults and sneak/blow stuff up. Now they can. This change separates perpetuum from eve. We never saw guys getting in covert ops ships in day 4.. this is great!

no problem guys glad to help you out. Want more  corps in game.

Up on market 7 at 5 mil! Enjoy!

http://i446.photobucket.com/albums/qq18 … oodjob.jpg

Grats to my corpmates.