# Eve Alley Cat **URL:** \ **Category:** In Game Events\ **Created:** [June 1, 2020, 6:31pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/eve-alley-cat/245850 "2020-06-01T18:31:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![elissa\_ferman](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/elissa_ferman/32/293657_2.png) [@elissa\_ferman](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/elissa_ferman)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2020, 6:31pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/eve-alley-cat/245850/1 "2020-06-01T18:31:24Z")
I am working on a idea and want to get feedback: I want to organize a ‘alley cat’ like a race over new eden. Every one participating has to pick up 4 different, beforehand unknown things form 4 beforehand unknown stations. Every Player has to chip in a registration fee, of say 100mio isk and the first one to bring all 4 of those things to the desto wins the pot. The things have to be obtained from a personally issued contract at these stations and the contracts will be upped on request, wile the even is running. Non participating players can hunt down targets at any time. Fleets can acompany players etc. What do you think about this one? 😉 Maybe this is a good idea and we can have a bit of fun this way. Best case: a big brawl. ---
**Author:** ![Sere\_O\_Asis](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/sere_o_asis/32/374997_2.png) [@Sere\_O\_Asis](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Sere_O_Asis)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2020, 10:36pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/eve-alley-cat/245850/2 "2020-06-01T22:36:16Z")
I’ve done this. Races are lots of fun, and contracts were what I used. It started in highsec, and had a shortcut option to go through low, and finished in highsec. All the racers decided to use the lowsec route. We had security (to prevent ganks) at the start and finish; but that was my choice. One of the participants brought fireworks, to celebrate afterward. It was a great idea. Fireworks just seemed to finish the event off in style. I offered prizes, for the top three finishers. I didn’t charge entry fees, as it was an event put together by me, for my corp (at the time). I did choose to send out a series of promotional “emails” to hype the event, and tried to make the emails humorous and engaging. I had the entrants contract the pickup items back to me at the finish station, just so there was an official record as to who actually finished first. This was fortuitous in my race because the winner and second place were separated by literally seconds. The whole event ran about an hour; but, the party afterwards extended that somewhat. We did use comms, and had our version of “color commentary” as the race unfolded. I also did an after-event writeup, at the urging of my CEO. I don’t know if you intend to have the start and finish be at the same station. I didn’t do that. So, to facilitate “hosting the event” I had a jump clone at the finish station, so I could be there to hand out the prizes. Organizing something like this for the first time is a lot of work. I’ve helped organize other events, and I suggest you have at least one or two others to help organize and promote your race. Done right, I think you could actually make money at something like this, if you were willing to put in the effort. The most nerve wracking thing for me was not knowing exactly how many people would actually participate. Pilots will want to participate; but, “real life” comes first and that will heavily impact the participation, or lack thereof. Be flexible in hosting, and try to instill that in the participants, too. My first event, had a series of unexpected/unanticipated side actions; the most notable of which was an Amarr faction war miltiaman trying to shakedown our event securityman for ransom isk…as the racers were…racing; and, it culminated in scaring the the residents of the finish system into leaving the system. One of the final race participants overheard them (the “residents”) in “local” in an adjoining system trying to figure out just exactly what all these “weird” pilots were suddenly doing in “their” system. It had never occurred to me to advertise the race in either the starting system or the finish system. The starting system was a busy, well populated system, so having a bunch a guys from a single corp show up presented no problems whatsoever. The finish system was isolated, with a very low resident population; and apparently the vacated residents felt we (as in my corp) might be on a “ganking spree” and up and left when we started showing up in numbers in “their system”. It was a prudent move; but the “overheard” convo in “local” provided lots of hilarity for the racers and partiers and, of course, I as hostess tried to capitalize on this and milk it for all the humor I could. That’s what I mean by flexible. Seize your opportunities and make hay while the sun shines. I think all the little incidents, like the miltiaman asking for ransom, added to the race. It gave it color, life, and gave everyone, who was there, funny stories to tell afterwards. ---
**Author:** ![elissa\_ferman](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/elissa_ferman/32/293657_2.png) [@elissa\_ferman](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/elissa_ferman)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2020, 9:34pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/eve-alley-cat/245850/3 "2020-06-02T21:34:10Z")
Thanks for your input. All noted ---
**Author:** ![Yberta\_Molk](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/yberta_molk/32/273039_2.png) [@Yberta\_Molk](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Yberta_Molk)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2020, 9:50pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/eve-alley-cat/245850/4 "2020-06-20T21:50:27Z")
This sounds interesting. Only a few mins ago I found this post … > [@\[VRAC\] Federation Day Grand Prix](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/vrac-federation-day-grand-prix/244512): > > Greetings everyone, Venture Racing will host a celebratory race at Federation Day in honour of the signing of the Federation charter and in the spirit of the intrepid Gallente that sculpted the Federation into what it is today, Venture Racing will host a Grand Prix that will reward the fastest and bravest racing pilot! Federation day will be on the 20th of June, and among the other festivities Venture Racing will host the race around 20:30 New Eden Standard Time. Now, we can’t have a race wit… Wish I’d known about it earlier ☹ I’d also vaguely wondered if it were possible to do a treasure hunt. ---
**Author:** ![Malin\_Hanssen](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/malin_hanssen/32/369078_2.png) [@Malin\_Hanssen](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Malin_Hanssen)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2020, 10:00pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/eve-alley-cat/245850/5 "2020-06-20T22:00:39Z")
Turns out it is… with considerable effort. Though with the new bookmark system, we cannot make container 1 hold the bookmark with location for container2 to make a proper breadcrumb trail to follow. So I had to be creative… ---
**Author:** ![Yberta\_Molk](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/yberta_molk/32/273039_2.png) [@Yberta\_Molk](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Yberta_Molk)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2020, 10:26pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/eve-alley-cat/245850/6 "2020-06-20T22:26:19Z")
Yeah sorry I meant now that BMs in containers were not a thing any more. I was thinking on the lines of using a burner Purifier (cheap one will do over 6k clicks) to make out of the way bookmarks then leaving a corvette there renamed with the clue. Contestants would have to use combat probes and/or dscan to progress. Ship name max is only 20 letters tho iirc so not a lot of scope on the clues. EDIT: Doh! Could just use mobile depots I spose, not sure what the name limit is tho. ---
**Author:** ![Malin\_Hanssen](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/malin_hanssen/32/369078_2.png) [@Malin\_Hanssen](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Malin_Hanssen)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2020, 11:12pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/eve-alley-cat/245850/7 "2020-06-20T23:12:10Z")
PM if you want details on how it was ran. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/3X/4/1/41ec4921cbaca7a6f9ea556e7cc20018461eae5e.png) [@system](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2020, 11:12pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/eve-alley-cat/245850/8 "2020-09-18T23:12:25Z")
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