This plan was conceived a couple of months ago by @litefoot. It was supposed to be a simple local ops. Well, supposed..
How it started off
After SBLA was released, a random topic pop up in the local chat room saying that we SHOULD do a starburst. The AMAZING plan we had was to max out the 4 mod slots with SBLA and then shooting out "SHIT" links all around TPY. We randomly picked one and from that day onwards, we started farming the keys whenever possible and let it grow in one of my MUFG capsule. Plan was made, plan was changed, and day by day, the keys grew. Finally when the time is right, we decided to execute this plan and invited everyone we can.
Interesting fact: On the day itself, a total of 95 keys was collected inside the MUFG capsule. Not a single one of them was mass farmed by any one of us. We just made detours here and there to collect them.
OPS Silence
@CalicoCat was the earliest to arrive, by about an hour. And because of that, I have to drag myself out of my bed. Protip: Being too late is bad. Being too early is not that good either. Alright, jokes aside, I still went down to Macdonald to find him and enjoy some lovely air-con.
Slowly, agents started streaming in bit by bit. One table, two table, suddenly we occupied one corner of the restaurant. It's amazing to see such a huge turn up.
OPS
Once everyone arrived, we dragged out the ICs and do a briefing plus passing of keys. Next we head over to the anchor of the starburst to hack a few more keys just in case there's retaliation from the ENLs. Once everyone is ready, we move out to our location and prepare ourselves.
Phase 1 (Starburst)
At 1.32am, @GreySm0ke gave the call to start ops. @ahzpek jarvised the anchor and started the 1 hour countdown. Right after that, links started flying towards the anchor. The whole thing lasted for about 10 min.
Phase 2 (Jellyfish)
At 1.47am, we started Phase 2. The idea is to link up the perimeter so it will look like a jellyfish. This is rather problematic as majority of the agents aren't local players and borders are rather hard to identify on the ground. This took quite awhile before we get it done.
Phase 3 (Ice Cream Cone)
Ground Team
@ShadoWyfm
@reflecto
@Felicitous
@laphard
@AvaCarter
@SlippersBoy
@elkie
@Carsiao
@diamana
@MANDOLA
@stingerx
@Sharkzy
@FlurryBlue
@casino89
@halette
@ahzpek
@MichaelTwj
@CalicoCat
Special thanks to our two visiting Hong Kong agents
@JeffMo and @KuzKent
Intel
@GreySm0ke
number of frogs we MIGHT annoyed : At least one i guess?
number of smurf we MIGHT annoyed : This stats is getting useless after a while huh...
Even after we JARVIS that anchor, there's a ghost field lingering about for another 24 hours. 7th month, ghost field, coincidence? Hmmm....
How it started off
After SBLA was released, a random topic pop up in the local chat room saying that we SHOULD do a starburst. The AMAZING plan we had was to max out the 4 mod slots with SBLA and then shooting out "SHIT" links all around TPY. We randomly picked one and from that day onwards, we started farming the keys whenever possible and let it grow in one of my MUFG capsule. Plan was made, plan was changed, and day by day, the keys grew. Finally when the time is right, we decided to execute this plan and invited everyone we can.
Interesting fact: On the day itself, a total of 95 keys was collected inside the MUFG capsule. Not a single one of them was mass farmed by any one of us. We just made detours here and there to collect them.
OPS Silence
@CalicoCat was the earliest to arrive, by about an hour. And because of that, I have to drag myself out of my bed. Protip: Being too late is bad. Being too early is not that good either. Alright, jokes aside, I still went down to Macdonald to find him and enjoy some lovely air-con.
Slowly, agents started streaming in bit by bit. One table, two table, suddenly we occupied one corner of the restaurant. It's amazing to see such a huge turn up.
OPS
Once everyone arrived, we dragged out the ICs and do a briefing plus passing of keys. Next we head over to the anchor of the starburst to hack a few more keys just in case there's retaliation from the ENLs. Once everyone is ready, we move out to our location and prepare ourselves.
Phase 1 (Starburst)
At 1.32am, @GreySm0ke gave the call to start ops. @ahzpek jarvised the anchor and started the 1 hour countdown. Right after that, links started flying towards the anchor. The whole thing lasted for about 10 min.
It looks real pretty on the ground
Phase 2 (Jellyfish)
At 1.47am, we started Phase 2. The idea is to link up the perimeter so it will look like a jellyfish. This is rather problematic as majority of the agents aren't local players and borders are rather hard to identify on the ground. This took quite awhile before we get it done.
Close enough i guess?
In the mean time, our poor anchor guardian is getting attacked.
Phase 3 (Ice Cream Cone)
This phase is hampered by blocking links. Teams who finished early got sent over to clear them. Next we get another car to go down to the last anchor with pre-farm keys to do the finishing touch. Thanks god @ShadoWyfm noticed that there's 12 keys and get @Felicitous to throw in a SBLA.
And with that, at 2.34am, marks the end of our ~1 hr Starburst Ops!!
And with that, at 2.34am, marks the end of our ~1 hr Starburst Ops!!
That will be 96 links in total.
We did say it's an ice cream, but it look more like a Location Pin instead.
That's all? No "SHIT"?
Sadly, with the North side of Toa Payoh getting fielded up by us, no "SHIT" link can be done. However, something "SHIT" did happen.
@GreySm0ke reported that the net AP gain by smashing that anchor would be roughly 57k. 57K?! That means we must JARVIS as quickly as possible so that no easy AP would be given to anyone! That being said, it still took us about 15 min before we JARVIS it. Then this happen..
So apparently @Ozyrel was on the way, trying to get that easy AP. However, he was literally late by 1 minute. I really feel sorry that he took the effort to come all the way down and not getting much in the end.
Epilogue
One of the reason why this ops is so successful is because of the overwhelming manpower we had. Really appreciate the help we got from those who took the time to come down and make AMAZING plan of ours a reality.
For the two Hong Kong agents, didn't manage to converse much with you guys because I know nuts about Cantonese language. But I still hope that you guys did enjoy this ops.
Ground Team
@ShadoWyfm
@reflecto
@Felicitous
@laphard
@AvaCarter
@SlippersBoy
@elkie
@Carsiao
@diamana
@MANDOLA
@stingerx
@Sharkzy
@FlurryBlue
@casino89
@halette
@ahzpek
@MichaelTwj
@CalicoCat
Special thanks to our two visiting Hong Kong agents
@JeffMo and @KuzKent
Intel
@GreySm0ke
number of frogs we MIGHT annoyed : At least one i guess?
number of smurf we MIGHT annoyed : This stats is getting useless after a while huh...
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