Oil Rig Field Trip II

[PINKY]

The second organized Rig Field Trip for new (and some old) Entropia residents took place today, and I went along to see what it was all about.
This event was once again organized by Mikah and her Terra Verde society, with a little help from some other well known characters.
The basic idea of these trips is to give some new players a chance to visit the fabled oil rig, which without help can be very difficult due to some pretty large Atrox and a number of players who hang out there killing anyone who comes near.
In this case, a little shortcut was done, and a wormhole was opened linking Camp Phoenix and the Oil Rig together for instant travel. This is a lot easier than it sounds, and the Terra Verde society and friends have been planning this for weeks.
Firstly, four players were found capable of producing wormholes: Dale (aka Phil) and Freyr from SWaN, Nisse from SR HQ and Redstar from NBK Elite. Next, a team to take down (or at least challenge) the oil rig PK’ers was put together, lead by Eps from BlackAngels HQ (of Port Atlantis Mall fame).

After this, three teams of Atrox hunters were assembled to protect the field trippers from certain death; these were lead by Arokh & Loc from Terra Verde and Ion from Calypso Desert Rangers.

The teams start to gather at Nymph

Read the full story here

[PINKY]

In addition to everyone in Terra Verde, help was also provided by Xantonia and Viking from Rabbids, and Alice from Rising Potentials, to name but a few.


After weeks of organizing, the day of the trip was finally upon us…

The teams slip up either side of the river

While two wormhole areas were being set up on either side of the river north of Camp Phoenix, the three hunting teams set off into the PvP2 area to start slaying the Atrox. I accompanied the PK team on their run to the rig so I could see all the action. Upon arriving however, it was all very civilized and no one was killing each other.










Meanwhile, back at Camp Phoenix the OJ’s started entering the first wormhole.









Out of the blue at the Oil Rig, one of the Entropia Guides showed up to explain that lag issues were affecting the OJ’s ability to enter the wormholes that were being opened…

This didn’t stop the Mindtropians from opening wormhole after wormhole to give the folks back at Phoenix every possible opportunity to get through the lag issues and arrive safely at the rig.

At one point I think they even accidently created a complete loop, setting off from Phoenix popping out of the end of it at the rig right into another heading back to Phoenix!

Eventually people started to filter through and soon there was quite a population at the rig. Then, as warned to all the participants in advance of the trip, the carnage started. The PK’ers at the rig opened fire on the incoming travellers.
Eps and his team leapt into action, and just in time, Nicole from Shaolin arrived to help and war broke out at the rig!

[PINKY]

The death toll was massive, each side killing the other over and over.

Once dead, travel back to the rig was instant as our intrepid wormhole makers by this point had established themselves at the revival outpost south of PvP2 and opened the portals over and over again…

It was only a matter of time before Akoz from Shaolin arrived, probably realizing his ATH killing spree record was under threat. He broke out his mighty Legendary War Axe and started cutting through people like they were butter. Although he fell himself several times, he killed enough to ensure his record remained safe.

Amazingly, all my begging and pleading about not shooting the press seemed to have worked up to this point and I remained alive. I wasn't even wearing any armor and was feeling quiet cocky, so went for a casual stroll over to Nicole and Eps who were fighting for their lives when Bang! Straight in the back! I dropped on the spot, and while I was really close to Eps and Nicole, they didn’t even notice! Some protection they were!
Who was my killer I hear you all ask, eager to take vengeance on my behalf… Gunzy! You little sod!

Just you wait until
I am uber!

[Zabler]

Great report Pinky

[Urso]

It was so much fun .

but laggy

[DanielleYourMom]

Yaaayy!!
What a FANTASTIC coverage of the much anticipated event, PinkY!!

I loved the read, very thorough & well detailed!
I'm so very glad you got to go and relay the fun to us here, since myself & many others missed out on the action

Well thought out article and what a fun event that must have been!
Big HUGE +rep pinky!
Loved the article!

Hugz to all those who helped arrange the event & also to the wormholers ... good to see such fantastic people still do exist!

[Mice]

This was a very well and nice organized event. I was asked to join the anti-pker crew some weeks ago but didnt since I wasnt sure I would be online. When I later realized I could join the event I decided to stay out of any side and just try to pK as many as possible on either side.

But the stability and capcity of the MA servers and whatever runs the netcode acted like assumed, LAG was horrible, everyone rubberbanding and running in the same spot for 5 min. I am so pissed at MAs incapacity to fix these issues, its been the same EVERY event with more then 60+ green dots on radar : Every LG phase, Every robot event, The Axe event etc etc.... I dont understand why they dont put all their effort into fixing this, since its the MAIN problem of EU, it almost seems like they enjoy the lag and extra decay and ammo spent thats the result for us.

[RobVee]

Although the lag was horrible, I enjoyed this historical event!

Thanks guys!

[dilly]

Great report Pinky That was a brilliant night, a night to remember, although i owned numerous times mainly by pornstar i dont come to the rig for oil, i come to waste ME tping back their time after time. The PK was fun, but i shamefully admit i took down a few noobs Great night, maby it will happen again soon

[ano]

Great event <as posted in t'other topic> - i'm even in one of the pics!

Thanks for bringing it to life for all those who didn't attend pinky. (although judging by the rubber banding everyone who's ever created an account ever was at CP lol)