169: Press F for Alliance Tournament

“Kinda feels like people going through the motions…”

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The Alliance Tournament is no more?

-Suff vs Lowsec: Heimatar and Bleaklands assault highlights their strategic growth over the years

-The stakes get dramatically raised in the south east as Legacy and DRF join forces against Skillurself and FRT. Inactivity and pressure from Scalding Pass’ Laughing Buddha coalition cause Scourge. to collapse into Skill Urself, merging All The Wars.

-BURN JITA2019!!! Over 200bil claimed as day 1 comes to a close as we record this episode

166: We Back

“Laeva…teinn? tainn? teenn?”

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-Vacation highlights
-Hard Knocks knocked out of their home WH by Imperium
-TRI move op gets ambushed by Imperium and other setbacks relocating north
-Operation Snowblind breaks the game
-Laeve, now in Shadow Cartel, tells us about the view from atop Low Sec Mountain
-Speaking of, TEST takes a massive cap loss in lowsec. Artimus goes beyond the headlines to break down the strategic considerations that sparked this fight
-TRI’s eviction sets off Scalding Pass powder keg

161: 40 Forts to Freedom

“What do you get when you remove the danger and the randomness? Highsec.”

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-Peace in our time! GOTG and Fraternity surrender to Imperial Legacy drawing a conclusion, or at least an extended pause, to the northern and southern fronts of EVE’s largest war.

Major balance patch incoming: 500MN HIC changes and controversy, ECM reworked: what’s strong now?, the future of the combat interceptor line

-Artimus has an epic fight in lowsec

144: Be Kind, Refine

To be fair, it’s decaff coffee

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The cast returns to discuss all things Lifeblood. Also we discuss the time FCON was still alive.

-gigX *handedly* wins our latest poll

-Lifeblood beyond the patchnotes; what are new market realities in EVE?

-MC takes contract against TRI in the South

-The Culture cedes Fountain to The Imperium

-An “update” on the PL/Provi/TEST “war”

-Host Highlights: Alek breeds, Jin wins a fight, and Artimus saves a Nyx in need