Gisleres – Last week, reports indicated a fleet of pilots engaged and destroyed a Triglavian “World Ark” serving as the culmination of a multi-week PVE campaign, part of EVE Online’s free-to-play “Invasion” expansion. In a fleet consisting of forty-nine pilots, the triangular “World Ark” was dispatched by shield-tanked combat vessels. Video records show that fleet comms went from quiet anticipation to jovial exclamations when the “World Ark” finally revealed its loot: Agency Boosters!
“The loot we obtained was beyond our wildest expectations,” said pilot Vantaanya, who, according to the Intergalactic Summit, was the Fleet Commander for the operation, “The salvage wasn’t really worth anything but there was more than enough ‘Hardshell,’ ‘Overclocker,’ and ‘Pyrolancea’ to make up for the less than 200 DED LP and 1.5m ISK we got for forty minutes of shooting. All in all, I think we got five of each ‘Dose I.’”
The “Agency” boosters are extremely popular and provide numerous and significant bonuses for pilots seeking an edge in combat. The fifteen total ‘Dose I’ boosters from the World Ark are the first boosters to enter the market since the last Agency event. Market speculators in Jita and Amarr have been worried about the lack of “Agency” events to produce the boosters, but their fears have been allayed with the discovery that the “World Ark” drops the boosters as loot. Further speculation is that the more powerful “Doses” drop at a lower rate than the “Dose I’s,” implying that the “World Ark” that was destroyed was analogous to a standard DED rat dropping an “Overseer’s Personal Effects” and nothing else.
CCP Sledgehammer, who has been closely monitoring the launch of “EVE: Invasion,” seemed relieved. “This was our most ambitious Agency event to date and there were fears that between Agency 2.0 and the new Triglavian mechanics, that we wouldn’t be able to show ‘Invasion’ in its true final form: the next step in development for Agency-type events. Of course, it’s not an Agency event without the proper loot and I am thankful to all of the players who tackled ‘Invasion’ wholeheartedly to solve the mystery of the Triglavians. The clues were there from the beginning: Three Agency boosters and the Triglavians are based around three’s.”
The EVE World Tour: Toronto celebrations featured accolades to the many capsuleers who investigated the Triglavians since they were first revealed over a year ago, including the Arataka Research Consortium, independent player researchers, lore enthusiasts, and all of the pilots who thought “Invasion” would bring additional end-game PVE. Reports from the convention venues shared that instead of offering the ubiquitous “Quafe” as a soft-drink at the World Tour location, in celebration of the destruction of the World Ark, energy drinks rebranded as Agency boosters were supplied to event goers.
