Well, Eve is down again. Of course CCP claims it's everyone's personal anti-virus programs or people's routers going bonkers. Yeah lord knows that when you're playing a game, you often get booted and are not able to log in because your anti-virus or router magically stopped allowing connections via the needed ports. Yeah. Ok. Sure.
So that gives me some time to get started on our latest story. You know how in our previous stories, people always say, "Nexa takes stuff out of context" or "Nexa creatively edits chatlogs to make herself and TRAPS look better"? Sometimes they just call me a liar outright. I've always said I cannot make this crap up if I tried.
This story will illustrate a prime example of both ends of the spectrum. We will go from wacked out smack talking corps who are in their own little world to an alliance who show what good sportsmanship is all about.
I stumbled across a POS in high sec with a ton of labs and like 2 small guns on it owned by an alt corp. The alt corp had a main in a small to mid-sized alliance. I waited a few days and noticed the alt hasn't been on, at least not during my play times.
So I put in a war dec. I figured maybe we might score an easy POS kill, or maybe the alliance would absorb the alt corp and let us try our hand in some alliance action. As the title states, if you dec the alts, they will come.....
So the war dec goes through and the hours slowly go by. Our cov ops alts check the POS. Everything looks normal, no changes have been made. So far so good.
I think he added a few guns to the POS at some point. To be honest a lot of this occurred ages ago and it's sorta hard to keep it all in my head. I believe we managed to put it into reinforced mode. Of course since the alt logged in, he tossed a shitload of stronium into it and added a few more guns.
No biggie. We should be able to handle that. Our plans were stymied though when the Black Scope Alliance scooped up the alt corp into their loving arms in an effort to save the dying POS.
I say stymied because they showed up in force. They were able to stave off the POS's demise, if only for a brief time. :)
Of course with them absorbing the alts, it transfers our war to them. They seemed to be made up of mostly Aussies, mission runners, miners and also with a POS in 0.0 out in Pure Blind. So I expected some decent pvp action, I mean if you're a 0.0 corp, you better have some type of defensive capability, right?
You know how I love posting those crazy chat logs provided by our enemies, right? Unfortunately they failed to provide us with any such smack. Their alt was a bit mouthy when we dec'd him but the alliance as a whole seemed quite stable and quite civil at all times. Fortunately they did provide us with plenty of pvp, to the point we kept them dec'd for about 8 weeks.
So we build up a enemy roster in our address books and set out to hunt them. It never ceases to amaze me that people apparently could care less about the war. I mean, they don't bother to scout, they don't bother to stop mining in a busy system, they just go on playing Eve without a care in the world.
Maybe because TRAPS has constant wars, I am used to looking over my shoulder and expecting the worst at all times. However even with the war on for weeks, people are content to mine afk. I caught one guy in his barge with my Domi. He was afk getting a drink.
2008.01.05 05:47:00
Victim: Tui 1
Alliance: Black Scope Project
Corp: Southern Light Entertainment
Destroyed: Retriever
System: Oipo
Security: 0.8
Damage Taken: 2776
Involved parties:
Name: Nexa Necis (laid the final blow)
Security: 1.9
Alliance: NONE
Corp: The Really Awesome Players
Ship: Dominix
One of my favorite things is when the guy you just killed buys the loot right back from you.
He was a good sport about it too. Even when I caught his Drake....
I don't normally accept ransoms from war targets for their ships, unless of course it's a insane amount of cash, but 5 million ISK is nothing. much prefer to have a killmail over 5mil ISK any day.
I felt bad for one of their guys Cyphor85. He ended up losing 7 Drakes, a frig, a dessy and 4 pods. I remember one night I popped him...
2007.12.18 06:19:00
Victim: Cyphor85
Alliance: Black Scope Project
Corp: Southern Light Entertainment
Destroyed: Drake
System: Haajinen
Security: 0.8
Damage Taken: 16185
Involved parties:
Name: Nexa Necis (laid the final blow)
Security: 1.8
Then almost 24 hours later in the exact same spot....
2007.12.19 06:56:00
Victim: Cyphor85
Alliance: Black Scope Project
Corp: Southern Light Entertainment
Destroyed: Drake
System: Haajinen
Security: 0.8
Damage Taken: 16961
Involved parties:
Name: Nexa Necis (laid the final blow)
Security: 1.8
Again, still a good sport about it.....
I mean this guy just couldn't win. Even if he was in a mission we would snag him. Once again showing he is a good sport with a sense of humor.
Even when they would bunch up in a gang and go hunting he would die graciously. The other members also were grand sportsmen as well.
We caught them one time where it was 2 Drakes, 1 Caracal and a Myrm vs my Domi and a corpmates Hurricane. The Caracal got away but I managed to down both Drakes and the Myrm.
All along through the war they all seemed to be keeping with the spirit of things. Naming their ships funny names and such. Once again poor Cyphor bites the dust.
As you can see though, it doesn't help them win the fight. But it works for getting a good laugh.
You know how miners especially seem to get very upset when you blow them up? Even their miners maintained an even keel during our encounters.
This guy had taken his hauling alt out of the alliance but unwisely decided to keep himself in it. He seemed to enjoy the TRAPS experience though.
There was one time where I thought one of their members pulled a logoffski, but this is one case where I will give them the benefit of the doubt because in every other instance we caught them, they put up a great fight.
One of their guys, Capt. Azaria was always flying an Astarte. We managed to snag him one time and pop him. Then a few weeks later he showed up again. I think he was en route to help of of his friends we had just killed. My alt spotted him 2 jumps out. He was safespotted and MWD'ing to keep out of range of faction police. Apparently he was KOS in this region.
So I aligned my covops alt up in line with his orbit. I knew I had to land right on top of him because he would easily MWD away if I ended up at 15k or so. I timed it perfectly.
A week later I see them bunching up in a system and gradually start logging out or splitting up. The good Captain decided to safe spot and fly in a random direction. Once again the covops alt does his thing and gets to where I can land right on top of him even with him moving as I warped the 50au to his spot. Notice the name of his ship?
As soon as I jumped in, he crashed and logged out. I was a little disappointed. I decided to stay put hoping it was just a crash and not a log out for the night kinda thing. Sure enough, he logged back in and promptly engaged my Domi. It was 1vs1 for quite a bit because my corpmates were so far away. Even without them it would've been close but I am pretty sure I would've won out. Still, it was a great fight.
Of the 60k damage he absorbed I did 95% of that damage, but still you can see it was close, but he had 1 cap booster left and I had 4. Great fight to be sure.
I have to give props to another one of their pilots, Alexei Morgenstern. This guy was always up for fighting, even when outnumbered. He even had a few prearranged 1vs1's with us which were honored by his alliance and as always TRAPS as well. He is a mean Huginn pilot as well. He even risked engaging my Domi and a corpmate in a Hurricane 2vs1.
Unfortunately for him, I had refit since the last I saw him and was able to pull off a well executed execution.
He definitely knows how to fly all the ships he pilots and they are very lucky to have such a good guy on their side.
There was one funny time where a few of them and a few of us mixed it up a bit and they came out on top. But somehow they made a newb mistake after the fight. One of them decided to loot one of the wrecks which was 50k off the station.
I was watching with the alt and was going to warp in and snag him on the wreck, then all of a sudden, WHAMMO!
I've no clue what the heck he did but whatever it was, Concord took a disliking to it and showed him the error of his ways.
I must say, part of being a good pilot is to understand people and pick up on things. There are a lot of minutia when it comes to pvp at times. Like when one of them was chasing my Domi in his stabbed up Executioner. I could read him very well. I knew exactly what he was doing. I practically knew what he was doing before he even did it. How on Earth do you lose a stabbed up Executioner to a fat ass Dominix is beyond me, but obviously, my plan worked.
After a while though several of them quit the alliance and formed new corps. I think a few corps left the alliance as well. Then most of the active players sat in their 0.0 section of space. Which is sometimes tough for us to get to. Mainly because we have so few active players but also to, other corps hate us and we're fairly well known so lots of anti-pies or other pirates would love to spoil our fun and blob us and what not.
For example, we dec'd some random industry corp that had a shitload of labs at a POS with no guns. So once the war starts he ended up putting like 7 or 8 guns up. We downed em no problem, but since it was a large tower it took ages to get into reinforced. Unfortunately our Jap enemies, the Izanagi alliance stepped in to help them. They are a macro/pharmer protectorate. Why do I say that you say? Well, lets see. We dec'd a few pharmer corps, you know the ones with 4mo old pilots flying CNR's filled with billions of officer gear, odd names like "JSDHSJSDHSJHJSDHSJK" and they never answer in local/private convos, running missions 23/7 non-stop, never ganged always alone, with odd contracts selling 1 veldspar for 1bil ISK to help launder money. Yeah those kinds of corps. The second we dec the corp, they jump into the alliance. Odd how that works.
Corps located nowhere near their base of operations somehow get accepted into the alliance the minute a TRAPS dec goes out. When you look at the main players in the alliance, their contract history is insane. Hundreds and hundreds of faction mods for sale from loyalty point stores. Mind you, I am not talking like 6 or 10 at a time. I am talking 50 to 100 at a time.
So the Izanagi guys saw the bunch of us in system and decided to help out the pharmer corp. They brought a shitload of people, up to 30-40 at a time to rep the shields. The problem was we couldn't make a dent in them, they would just rep each other, then swap to a combat ship once they had aggro. Believe me, you can't pop an Osprey with 3 people hammering it when he's repped by 15 other Ospreys and 5 Logistics ships, nevermind trying to kill a Command Ship with that same support.
I encourage any pirate or anti-pharmer corps to dec that alliance. You will be guaranteed some crazy fights. They're pretty good pvp-wise and bring a lot to the table. They're a bit much for us to handle. Look at this screenie of them helping rep the POS.....
So you see what we're up against sometimes. If only we had someone to fight our battles for us! DANG! Then we would pwnz0r! Oh well, we manage fairly well all things considered.
The war against Black Scope went on for nearly 2 months. I just couldn't let it stop because there were always plenty of targets and several of them were always willing to throw down.
One night in Umokka I was trying to fight one of them. Of course they wouldn't do anything. Undock, redock over and over. He calls out a warning, but he messes up and puts it in local.
Of course 2vs1 wasn't enough. I managed to pop one of them. Then he got a new ship and called in another friend to help. It was 2 Raven's and a Ferox vs my Domi. I almost had the Ferox. He warped out in structure. 2 stabs FTW!
At the 2 month mark, targets were non-existent. I think most all went and holed up in 0.0 or took a break and trained a long skill. It's always fun to look at my address book at the start of a war. Lots and lots of people on at all times. Then 7 weeks later, 4 people on, almost always docked. Then once the war ends, tons of people on at all times again. :)
So it just goes to show you, I can't make this stuff up. It has to actually happen. I have no bad words to say about Black Scope whatsoever. They gave me no ammo to use in my favor for my stories. Unlike some previous opponents who just go on and on and all I do is give them all the rope they need to hang themselves. I would've enjoyed some shenanigans to make this section a bit funnier, but when you're fighting people who are cool, respectful and fun, you don't get any wacky chat.
I know you guys love smack talk stories though. So I do have a few for your enjoyment! First a quick intermission. We had a person join TRAPS, Sofia Roseburn. They left shortly after joining and proceeded to denounce us as lame and all that stuff. I don't really remember them all that much except that the other players in corp said Sofia was a whiner and if you didn't do what they wanted when they wanted, they would shit kittens and log off.
One night we were camping several war targets and Sofia got pissed because no one would come help them with someone who got aggro due to can flipping or something. We were like 18 jumps out and on an op. Several people emailed me asking me to boot them. Thankfully they quit and joined some "merc" corp.
The funny part is we ended up getting dec'd by the merc corp. I think it was Taurus Inc. Shortly before getting dec'd by them I was in a off broadway system all alone. I noticed "Sofia Roseburn's Buzzard" on scan. What a fucking n00blet. 1. Self named ships are dumb, 2. It's especially dumb when it a covops ship, 3. It's parked in a "safespot" well within scan range.
Fortunately for me, I have several covop alts who are never far off. Unfortunately for me, none of my alts fly Buzzards. So a quick call to our friends in REPO and we had one of their covops alts en route to snag it for me.
Newb mistake 4. Leaving it fully fitted.....
God bless n00bs like that. 20mil ISK in my pocket all for the cost of a single probe. Easy money.
In between hunting people I like to offer very bad advice to people in local. I wonder how many people actually believe me?
One my guys asked if we could dec the Majesta Empire alliance fo fun. So I am more than happy to oblige our member's requests and put the dec in. Unfortunately most of em we're way far away from where we normally hang, most of them in 0.0 so there wasn't a lot of action to be had.
Though one guy was in the same area as Black Scope, so I ran a locate on him and got into position on the gate. He warped in and immediately decloaks. "Aw shit!" I think to myself. He's in a Nighthawk. I don't know if I can break it's tank solo since I am fitted for a hard tank, and even if I can win, he could probably tank long enough to get back to the gate and jump through.
Instead what happens amazes me. He immediately decloaked and proceeded to just sit there. He wasn't on autopilot because my alt followed him several jumps, he warped to 0 every time. I have no clue what happened.
I even managed to pod him. I scored over 80mil in loot off him which was nice. Then, 30 minutes later he passes through the system with me. I had since switch to a Taranis. He was in a shuttle. He warped to 0 at my gate and I popped and podded him again!
I have no clue what the hell he was doing or thinking. I am willing to guess he lost some nice implants too. I just wish that Nighthawk had better loot.
That war didn't last long though. We ended up running into a string of foul mouthed smack talkers, all of whom thought they were above the law. Of course it's ok for them to tell me to go fuck myself for taking a bookmark out of their jetcan, but when I declare war on them, it seems they feel it's unwarranted and completely unfair.
One night I am off to low sec to search for new friends. Of course it's completely empty, so I decide to try can flipping since it's been ages since I have done it last. I find a guy and his alt mining, I go to the can, and there's a bookmark in it. I take it and sit there. They do nothing to me. Instead, he opts for smack talk.
Of course, being the tard that he is, he has no clue how long it takes for the war dec to go into effect, even though I told him it takes 24 hours. The next day I get an email from him....
2008.01.08 07:44
So wheres that wardec you so boldly threatened my corp with??????
Now to me, that sounds like someone who is looking forward to a scrap, no? I respond back letting him know exactly how long it takes.
2008.01.09 01:14
so let me get this straight,
You come int a system and attempt to steal from us.
So my m8 tells you to bugger off and you wardec my corp.
Seems like you have a very backward view on life .
Either that or youre holding on too tight
seems like you have to pick on a new corp and cant handle anything bigger than yourselves
Ah yes, the old, "Go pick on someone your own size and who wants to pvp" line of reasoning. One would think, if you see a pirate, telling them to get fucked in the ass after they steal a measly bookmark, you want to have war and you want pvp. If you don't want war, then you would likely keep quiet or move or dock up for a few.
Of course once the war goes through and he dies once, he immediately quits corp. So brave!
Of course the rest of his corp want nothing to him and they jump ship. They live by the creed, "When the going gets tough, the bears get going".
He even created a new corp a few weeks later and I dropped him a message that a new war was incoming and he immediately quit it and joined an NPC corp.
It never ceases to amaze me that people are like that. One day one of my players who's from another planet so I don't ever get to play when he's on because I have no clue what time zone he's in, but it sure ain't mine. He's a can flipper master. He is constantly getting people to fight him this way. So many that he's the top guy on our KB. Mainly because he manages to kill mining BS's with his Taranis so it gives him like 100 points per kill hehe.
One day he flips some cans belong to some carebears. He was in a Myrmidon. The guy came back in a beam Armageddon complete with a large shield booster AND armor repper along with a dose of ECM and some missiles. Of course he has no chance against my guy's Myrm and starts dropping like a rock. So in order to save his ship, he opts for the predictable, yet woefully ineffective technique of logoffski.
After the fight out come the threats and demands....
synk101 >if i can get all my loot back and a insurence bill of 100 mill. if not i am sorry but we will war dec you and we will also be getting our allies BRUCE BOB & UK1 to war dec you to
ROFL! So even though BRUCE and BOB are enemies, they are going to drop everything and unite as one because TRAPS popped some corp's Armageddon that is in no way affiliated with either BOB, BRUCE or UK1? SWEETNESS! 3 alliances should prove to be a fair challenge for us.
Unfortunately I think he was making it all up. Can you believe that!? I can. I am sure you can too. :) Of course once the war goes out, I get emails from various members of their corp asking about it. For some reason they can't fathom why we would dec them after they threaten us and demand a ransom from us.
2008.01.16 16:40
Thank you for your time today and I will ponder what you said as the day goes on, but I do have one question for you? You said that your reason for going to war was because of our member's ransom request. Is not the act of declaring war on that member's corp and then asking for isk, asking for ransom?
What he fails to realize is that our threats are real. Not just drivel or false promises made under the pretense of intimidation.
I respond back to him....
2008.01.17 03:58
It sure is. The main difference is we don't put out idle threats and name drop in a lame attempt to scare people.
We let our weapons do the talking.
Instantly he resorts to personal insults and attacks against my character. Mind you all we did was flip a can with ore then stick around to fight outnumbered and outgunned. They are the ones who opted to lob insults, threats and ransom demands at us, figuring we would cave in and capitulate to their intimidation.
2008.01.17 12:40
Are you 14? Because I would expect better rhetoric from a CEO. "We let our weapons do the talking." ? If that isn't a "bold lame attempt to scare" then nothing is. The result is that you have not succeeded in accomplishing anything and in the end I promise you that this will prove to be a loss for you and your corp.
I love when people predict we will lose. I never predict that type of shit. Why? Because I am well aware anything can happen in this game. I never underestimate or overestimate any of my enemies. The only promises I can make and keep are that we will war dec you and we will keep it on you for weeks or months. I can't say we will win or lose. I just don't know.
Let's take a look at Dragoon Corp, shall we?
54 people. Not too bad. Could be fun. Especially if they're all smack talkers. One of my corpmates started laughing and I asked what was so funny. He said, "Holy shit, look at their corp bio. It's completely insane!" Sure enough, it was out there. I mean first off, the smack talker is their recruitment officer. Not a smart move. Then you read that bio and it screams, "PLEASE FUCK WITH US!".
Is that insane or what? Of course their CEO doesn't clue any of the members in about the war dec or about the surrender option. I will never understand that. I mean you're running a company, should you not include the members in on a decision that also affects them? One would think so. I mean even if you don't include them in on the decision part, at least keep them fully updated about the who/what/where/why part of things.
Instead, I get random convos from various members asking the same shit over and over. "Why you dec us? Who smack talked? When will the war end? Can we surrender?" and other questions that really would have no need to be asked if their CEO had any decent communication skills.
Once the war kicks in, I set out to find some targets. First up, an Incursus vs my Taranis.
Next up, their lame CEO in his Stealth Bomber.
Right after that I had a very close fight against one of them in a Wolf.
A little while later I get out my Dominix and go hunting. I stumble across a gang of them and all of them scatter except one Drake pilot who thought a cloak would save him.
I decloaked him of course. First he claims that he decloaked from attempting to warp away, then he claims I decloaked him. He can't make up his mind.
As goofy as this Camel Poot guy is, he actually seems to have a grasp on how the game works politics-wise, obviously not ship fitting-wise. Still he convoes me and starts asking about the war. I fill him in and he agrees that it was stupid of his friend to threaten us with alliances they have nothing to do with.
So I asked them for 250mil since the Geddon pilot said he had 10 Armageddons left over so he didn't care that we popped one of his fleet. So 250mil seemed like a fair price. 5mil per member really, very fair I'd say.
He claims they don't have 250mil and his corp are being retarded and wont pay. He says he is willing to take one for the team and put up his own cash to save the corp. Quite a nice guy. Too bad he's surrounded by smack talking morons.
I decide to cut him a break.
[ 2008.01.18 17:11:21 ] camel poot > how much do you want cause i only got 150mil if i sell all my stuff
[ 2008.01.18 17:12:06 ] Nexa Necis > tell ya what, ill be nice, and do 150mil on the condition your corp makes a post on the CAOD forums apologizing to us
[ 2008.01.18 17:12:36 ] camel poot > ok i dont know who to do that tell me and i will do it
[ 2008.01.18 17:12:50 ] camel poot > but first i need to go sell my ship :((
He's never heard of the Eve forums. So I have to walk him through it all. Of course he made the post but it was barely readable. He didn't mention any names or any backstory so the mods locked it immediately because it looked like someone was replying to a post and hit "new topic" instead.
I let him know he can trust me to let him take care of business...
[ 2008.01.18 17:14:43 ] Nexa Necis > the second the money is in my account or the corps account i will immediately retract the war, provided the post is made too
[ 2008.01.18 17:15:17 ] camel poot > kk im going to sell my ships first may i undock to go sell em
[ 2008.01.18 17:15:26 ] Nexa Necis > yes
[ 2008.01.18 17:15:28 ] Nexa Necis > one sec
[ 2008.01.18 17:15:31 ] Nexa Necis > lemme tell the corp
[ 2008.01.18 17:15:37 ] camel poot > im in my pod
[ 2008.01.18 17:16:03 ] Nexa Necis > no worries
[ 2008.01.18 17:16:09 ] Nexa Necis > you wont be attacked
He decides to be smart and invite the smack talking members into the chat to make them aware of what is going on. He tries to keep it civil and tries to make his corpmates understand you cant just threaten people and not expect any retaliation.
[ 2008.01.18 17:24:54 ] alphaboj > what are the terms?
[ 2008.01.18 17:25:21 ] Nexa Necis > camel is paying 150mil, and will post an apology on the CAOD forum to TRAPS
[ 2008.01.18 17:26:35 ] alphaboj > if camel wants to do that then it's his call............... i offered to avoid this with an apology from synk for the original email but you wouldn't accept that and as far as I'm concerned we tried to do what was right ........ on the other hand your
[ 2008.01.18 17:27:22 ] alphaboj > player was not honorable in the original deed and therefore synk was not fully or lonely responsible for his emotional reaction
[ 2008.01.18 17:28:11 ] Nexa Necis > well again, our opinions differ
[ 2008.01.18 17:28:40 ] camel poot > ok stop it alpha listen to nexa
[ 2008.01.18 17:29:19 ] alphaboj > differences of opinion are good and healthy, but there is responsibility on both sides regardless of opinion
[ 2008.01.18 17:29:38 ] Nexa Necis > as i said
[ 2008.01.18 17:29:42 ] Nexa Necis > im aware my guy stole or
[ 2008.01.18 17:29:45 ] Nexa Necis > its what we do
[ 2008.01.18 17:29:47 ] Nexa Necis > were pirates
[ 2008.01.18 17:29:52 ] Nexa Necis > your guy came back to fight
[ 2008.01.18 17:29:55 ] Nexa Necis > fair enough
[ 2008.01.18 17:29:58 ] Nexa Necis > he had a bigger ship even
[ 2008.01.18 17:30:00 ] Nexa Necis > fair enough
[ 2008.01.18 17:30:09 ] alphaboj > agreed
[ 2008.01.18 17:30:16 ] Nexa Necis > he fought, he was losing, he tried to log out to save himself which didnt work
[ 2008.01.18 17:30:19 ] Nexa Necis > he died
[ 2008.01.18 17:30:35 ] alphaboj > but to declare war on our corp for that action is not admirable
[ 2008.01.18 17:30:37 ] Nexa Necis > then he logged back in and went into a 20 minute smack talk tirade in local
[ 2008.01.18 17:30:39 ] camel poot > his pc lagged and froze
[ 2008.01.18 17:30:50 ] Nexa Necis > regardless
[ 2008.01.18 17:30:55 ] Nexa Necis > after smack talking
[ 2008.01.18 17:31:01 ] Nexa Necis > he emails me with ransom demands
[ 2008.01.18 17:31:19 ] Nexa Necis > if you ransom somone, you have to expect possible retaliation
[ 2008.01.18 17:31:22 ] alphaboj > but you can't disregard only the circumstances you choose nexa .........
[ 2008.01.18 17:31:47 ] camel poot > alpha nexa didnt choose em synk did
[ 2008.01.18 17:31:50 ] Nexa Necis > if synk won the fight, and said "gf" we wouldnt be here
[ 2008.01.18 17:31:53 ] alphaboj > you are ransoming us now .......so how is one action worse than the other?
[ 2008.01.18 17:32:01 ] Nexa Necis > if synk lost and said "gf" or said nothing we wouldnt be here
[ 2008.01.18 17:32:22 ] Nexa Necis > i never said ransoming was bad
[ 2008.01.18 17:32:28 ] Synk101 > hello nexa the message i sent you i really diddnt meen to make it sound like a ransom im sorry:(
[ 2008.01.18 17:32:42 ] Nexa Necis > i said it was an action that could have consequences
[ 2008.01.18 17:32:46 ] alphaboj > your here nexa because your current war was wrapping up...... and synk was in the wrong place at the wrong time
[ 2008.01.18 17:32:54 ] Nexa Necis > no sorry
[ 2008.01.18 17:32:58 ] Nexa Necis > look at our killboard
[ 2008.01.18 17:33:05 ] Nexa Necis > look at the pilot who killed synk
[ 2008.01.18 17:33:09 ] Nexa Necis > he kills people daily
[ 2008.01.18 17:33:10 ] camel poot > well synk ur actions are making me poor but im doing it for the good of the corp
[ 2008.01.18 17:33:16 ] Nexa Necis > they never smack talk him
[ 2008.01.18 17:33:39 ] Nexa Necis > he even lost 100+ mil ship and we didnt war dec the corp, they fought fair and square qwith no smack talk or threats
[ 2008.01.18 17:33:40 ] Synk101 > i diddnt log off my comp shut down and like i sed if we would faught and i still had lost i would not of cared i was just really angry how i got killed wen i was not on n it was a new ship n i just started running my mouth:(
[ 2008.01.18 17:33:59 ] Nexa Necis > but you said yourself synk, you have lots of apocs laying aroujnd
[ 2008.01.18 17:34:05 ] Synk101 > i was angry and i appologise
[ 2008.01.18 17:34:24 ] camel poot > and synk nexa is going to give you a site to aplogize in the forums and i have to aswell
[ 2008.01.18 17:34:35 ] Synk101 > no ino it was the fact of your pilot just started tekin the mik etc
[ 2008.01.18 17:35:33 ] Synk101 > but i do appologise for running my mouth
[ 2008.01.18 17:35:41 ] Nexa Necis > understood
[ 2008.01.18 17:36:13 ] Nexa Necis > understand that eve is a game of consquences, just because you dont like them doesnt mean they are not a possibility
They ask, like most corps do, how do they know we're not scamming them. He still doesn't get the whole action/reaction thing of life.
[ 2008.01.18 17:37:19 ] alphaboj > nexa ...... how do we know that you won't be back next week for more isk?
[ 2008.01.18 17:37:49 ] Nexa Necis > dishonoring ransoms is bad for business
[ 2008.01.18 17:37:55 ] Nexa Necis > you dishonor 1 and no one will pay you
[ 2008.01.18 17:38:34 ] alphaboj > so you will steal ore from a can ...........but not millions of isk from a corp?
[ 2008.01.18 17:38:58 ] alphaboj > i'm sorry but where is the honor in any of those?
[ 2008.01.18 17:39:10 ] Nexa Necis > youre not separating one from the other alpha
[ 2008.01.18 17:39:27 ] Nexa Necis > our guy stole, thats fine, he runs the risk of getting killed, thats only fair
[ 2008.01.18 17:39:38 ] Nexa Necis > if you war decd us for that, thats is fair and expected
[ 2008.01.18 17:39:59 ] Nexa Necis > however after that happened, synk ran his mouth and sent me a ransom demand
[ 2008.01.18 17:40:04 ] Nexa Necis > now its my turn to react
Then one of the funniest things ends up happening. The guy doesn't have 150mil liquid, so he has to sell some shit to make the ISK. He has only 1 item he can sell and there are no decent buy orders anywhere close to us. So I have him undock his unfitted Rokh with the agreement we will not pod him but we will pop the ship so he can cash in the insurance policy.
[ 2008.01.18 17:40:06 ] camel poot > nexa i want my rokh to go down with some houner plz iv taken everything off so she is bear
[ 2008.01.18 17:40:12 ] Nexa Necis > sure no worries
[ 2008.01.18 17:40:35 ] camel poot > ok im jumping in now
[ 2008.01.18 17:40:43 ] Nexa Necis > we wont pod you either so dont stress getting the pod out
i love u baby
[ 2008.01.18 17:41:56 ] camel poot > bye bye
[ 2008.01.18 17:42:22 ] camel poot > :(((
[ 2008.01.18 17:42:26 ] Nexa Necis > well camel will make the post then, he will be seen as a man of his word
[ 2008.01.18 17:42:39 ] Nexa Necis > im genuinely impressed with his behavior and sportsmanship
As goofy and newby as Camel was, he was genuinely a pretty nice guy. Easy to talk to and definitely aware of how to look at the big picture of Eve. I told him to read up on the forums, learn to fit a ship properly and think about creating his own corp. He had no problems stepping up to take care of his teammates without hesitation. That's a good quality to have for sure.
Well that's it for our latest installment. I hope you guys like it. Get ready for the next story. It's gonna be another epic tale of carebears and anti-pirates caught in their mess of bullshit. This one will have alliance action, low sec goodness, and some of the funniest smack talk from "upstanding carebear protecting anti-pirates" that you have ever seen.
They even go so far as to admit that smack talk is one of their greatest weapons. I look at it as one of their greatest faults. It makes you look retarded when you smack talk someone for something then turn around and do it yourself non-stop. Shows you have no sportsmanship, no character, no class. Would you believe they're directly affiliated with CVA? Yep, CVA. Eve's most prolific protectors of carebear's who like to steal, smack talk, insult and sexually harass others. The same ones who allow safe havens for pharmers to make ISK to sell to the public.
Yes the next story will be grand I say!
Of course with them absorbing the alts, it transfers our war to them. They seemed to be made up of mostly Aussies, mission runners, miners and also with a POS in 0.0 out in Pure Blind. So I expected some decent pvp action, I mean if you're a 0.0 corp, you better have some type of defensive capability, right?
You know how I love posting those crazy chat logs provided by our enemies, right? Unfortunately they failed to provide us with any such smack. Their alt was a bit mouthy when we dec'd him but the alliance as a whole seemed quite stable and quite civil at all times. Fortunately they did provide us with plenty of pvp, to the point we kept them dec'd for about 8 weeks.
So we build up a enemy roster in our address books and set out to hunt them. It never ceases to amaze me that people apparently could care less about the war. I mean, they don't bother to scout, they don't bother to stop mining in a busy system, they just go on playing Eve without a care in the world.
Maybe because TRAPS has constant wars, I am used to looking over my shoulder and expecting the worst at all times. However even with the war on for weeks, people are content to mine afk. I caught one guy in his barge with my Domi. He was afk getting a drink.
2008.01.05 05:47:00
Victim: Tui 1
Alliance: Black Scope Project
Corp: Southern Light Entertainment
Destroyed: Retriever
System: Oipo
Security: 0.8
Damage Taken: 2776
Involved parties:
Name: Nexa Necis (laid the final blow)
Security: 1.9
Alliance: NONE
Corp: The Really Awesome Players
Ship: Dominix
One of my favorite things is when the guy you just killed buys the loot right back from you.
He was a good sport about it too. Even when I caught his Drake....
I don't normally accept ransoms from war targets for their ships, unless of course it's a insane amount of cash, but 5 million ISK is nothing. much prefer to have a killmail over 5mil ISK any day.
I felt bad for one of their guys Cyphor85. He ended up losing 7 Drakes, a frig, a dessy and 4 pods. I remember one night I popped him...
2007.12.18 06:19:00
Victim: Cyphor85
Alliance: Black Scope Project
Corp: Southern Light Entertainment
Destroyed: Drake
System: Haajinen
Security: 0.8
Damage Taken: 16185
Involved parties:
Name: Nexa Necis (laid the final blow)
Security: 1.8
Then almost 24 hours later in the exact same spot....
2007.12.19 06:56:00
Victim: Cyphor85
Alliance: Black Scope Project
Corp: Southern Light Entertainment
Destroyed: Drake
System: Haajinen
Security: 0.8
Damage Taken: 16961
Involved parties:
Name: Nexa Necis (laid the final blow)
Security: 1.8
Again, still a good sport about it.....
I mean this guy just couldn't win. Even if he was in a mission we would snag him. Once again showing he is a good sport with a sense of humor.
Even when they would bunch up in a gang and go hunting he would die graciously. The other members also were grand sportsmen as well.
We caught them one time where it was 2 Drakes, 1 Caracal and a Myrm vs my Domi and a corpmates Hurricane. The Caracal got away but I managed to down both Drakes and the Myrm.
All along through the war they all seemed to be keeping with the spirit of things. Naming their ships funny names and such. Once again poor Cyphor bites the dust.
As you can see though, it doesn't help them win the fight. But it works for getting a good laugh.
You know how miners especially seem to get very upset when you blow them up? Even their miners maintained an even keel during our encounters.
This guy had taken his hauling alt out of the alliance but unwisely decided to keep himself in it. He seemed to enjoy the TRAPS experience though.
There was one time where I thought one of their members pulled a logoffski, but this is one case where I will give them the benefit of the doubt because in every other instance we caught them, they put up a great fight.
One of their guys, Capt. Azaria was always flying an Astarte. We managed to snag him one time and pop him. Then a few weeks later he showed up again. I think he was en route to help of of his friends we had just killed. My alt spotted him 2 jumps out. He was safespotted and MWD'ing to keep out of range of faction police. Apparently he was KOS in this region.
So I aligned my covops alt up in line with his orbit. I knew I had to land right on top of him because he would easily MWD away if I ended up at 15k or so. I timed it perfectly.
A week later I see them bunching up in a system and gradually start logging out or splitting up. The good Captain decided to safe spot and fly in a random direction. Once again the covops alt does his thing and gets to where I can land right on top of him even with him moving as I warped the 50au to his spot. Notice the name of his ship?
As soon as I jumped in, he crashed and logged out. I was a little disappointed. I decided to stay put hoping it was just a crash and not a log out for the night kinda thing. Sure enough, he logged back in and promptly engaged my Domi. It was 1vs1 for quite a bit because my corpmates were so far away. Even without them it would've been close but I am pretty sure I would've won out. Still, it was a great fight.
Of the 60k damage he absorbed I did 95% of that damage, but still you can see it was close, but he had 1 cap booster left and I had 4. Great fight to be sure.
I have to give props to another one of their pilots, Alexei Morgenstern. This guy was always up for fighting, even when outnumbered. He even had a few prearranged 1vs1's with us which were honored by his alliance and as always TRAPS as well. He is a mean Huginn pilot as well. He even risked engaging my Domi and a corpmate in a Hurricane 2vs1.
Unfortunately for him, I had refit since the last I saw him and was able to pull off a well executed execution.
He definitely knows how to fly all the ships he pilots and they are very lucky to have such a good guy on their side.
There was one funny time where a few of them and a few of us mixed it up a bit and they came out on top. But somehow they made a newb mistake after the fight. One of them decided to loot one of the wrecks which was 50k off the station.
I was watching with the alt and was going to warp in and snag him on the wreck, then all of a sudden, WHAMMO!
I've no clue what the heck he did but whatever it was, Concord took a disliking to it and showed him the error of his ways.
I must say, part of being a good pilot is to understand people and pick up on things. There are a lot of minutia when it comes to pvp at times. Like when one of them was chasing my Domi in his stabbed up Executioner. I could read him very well. I knew exactly what he was doing. I practically knew what he was doing before he even did it. How on Earth do you lose a stabbed up Executioner to a fat ass Dominix is beyond me, but obviously, my plan worked.
After a while though several of them quit the alliance and formed new corps. I think a few corps left the alliance as well. Then most of the active players sat in their 0.0 section of space. Which is sometimes tough for us to get to. Mainly because we have so few active players but also to, other corps hate us and we're fairly well known so lots of anti-pies or other pirates would love to spoil our fun and blob us and what not.
For example, we dec'd some random industry corp that had a shitload of labs at a POS with no guns. So once the war starts he ended up putting like 7 or 8 guns up. We downed em no problem, but since it was a large tower it took ages to get into reinforced. Unfortunately our Jap enemies, the Izanagi alliance stepped in to help them. They are a macro/pharmer protectorate. Why do I say that you say? Well, lets see. We dec'd a few pharmer corps, you know the ones with 4mo old pilots flying CNR's filled with billions of officer gear, odd names like "JSDHSJSDHSJHJSDHSJK" and they never answer in local/private convos, running missions 23/7 non-stop, never ganged always alone, with odd contracts selling 1 veldspar for 1bil ISK to help launder money. Yeah those kinds of corps. The second we dec the corp, they jump into the alliance. Odd how that works.
Corps located nowhere near their base of operations somehow get accepted into the alliance the minute a TRAPS dec goes out. When you look at the main players in the alliance, their contract history is insane. Hundreds and hundreds of faction mods for sale from loyalty point stores. Mind you, I am not talking like 6 or 10 at a time. I am talking 50 to 100 at a time.
So the Izanagi guys saw the bunch of us in system and decided to help out the pharmer corp. They brought a shitload of people, up to 30-40 at a time to rep the shields. The problem was we couldn't make a dent in them, they would just rep each other, then swap to a combat ship once they had aggro. Believe me, you can't pop an Osprey with 3 people hammering it when he's repped by 15 other Ospreys and 5 Logistics ships, nevermind trying to kill a Command Ship with that same support.
I encourage any pirate or anti-pharmer corps to dec that alliance. You will be guaranteed some crazy fights. They're pretty good pvp-wise and bring a lot to the table. They're a bit much for us to handle. Look at this screenie of them helping rep the POS.....
So you see what we're up against sometimes. If only we had someone to fight our battles for us! DANG! Then we would pwnz0r! Oh well, we manage fairly well all things considered.
The war against Black Scope went on for nearly 2 months. I just couldn't let it stop because there were always plenty of targets and several of them were always willing to throw down.
One night in Umokka I was trying to fight one of them. Of course they wouldn't do anything. Undock, redock over and over. He calls out a warning, but he messes up and puts it in local.
Of course 2vs1 wasn't enough. I managed to pop one of them. Then he got a new ship and called in another friend to help. It was 2 Raven's and a Ferox vs my Domi. I almost had the Ferox. He warped out in structure. 2 stabs FTW!
At the 2 month mark, targets were non-existent. I think most all went and holed up in 0.0 or took a break and trained a long skill. It's always fun to look at my address book at the start of a war. Lots and lots of people on at all times. Then 7 weeks later, 4 people on, almost always docked. Then once the war ends, tons of people on at all times again. :)
So it just goes to show you, I can't make this stuff up. It has to actually happen. I have no bad words to say about Black Scope whatsoever. They gave me no ammo to use in my favor for my stories. Unlike some previous opponents who just go on and on and all I do is give them all the rope they need to hang themselves. I would've enjoyed some shenanigans to make this section a bit funnier, but when you're fighting people who are cool, respectful and fun, you don't get any wacky chat.
I know you guys love smack talk stories though. So I do have a few for your enjoyment! First a quick intermission. We had a person join TRAPS, Sofia Roseburn. They left shortly after joining and proceeded to denounce us as lame and all that stuff. I don't really remember them all that much except that the other players in corp said Sofia was a whiner and if you didn't do what they wanted when they wanted, they would shit kittens and log off.
One night we were camping several war targets and Sofia got pissed because no one would come help them with someone who got aggro due to can flipping or something. We were like 18 jumps out and on an op. Several people emailed me asking me to boot them. Thankfully they quit and joined some "merc" corp.
The funny part is we ended up getting dec'd by the merc corp. I think it was Taurus Inc. Shortly before getting dec'd by them I was in a off broadway system all alone. I noticed "Sofia Roseburn's Buzzard" on scan. What a fucking n00blet. 1. Self named ships are dumb, 2. It's especially dumb when it a covops ship, 3. It's parked in a "safespot" well within scan range.
Fortunately for me, I have several covop alts who are never far off. Unfortunately for me, none of my alts fly Buzzards. So a quick call to our friends in REPO and we had one of their covops alts en route to snag it for me.
Newb mistake 4. Leaving it fully fitted.....
God bless n00bs like that. 20mil ISK in my pocket all for the cost of a single probe. Easy money.
In between hunting people I like to offer very bad advice to people in local. I wonder how many people actually believe me?
One my guys asked if we could dec the Majesta Empire alliance fo fun. So I am more than happy to oblige our member's requests and put the dec in. Unfortunately most of em we're way far away from where we normally hang, most of them in 0.0 so there wasn't a lot of action to be had.
Though one guy was in the same area as Black Scope, so I ran a locate on him and got into position on the gate. He warped in and immediately decloaks. "Aw shit!" I think to myself. He's in a Nighthawk. I don't know if I can break it's tank solo since I am fitted for a hard tank, and even if I can win, he could probably tank long enough to get back to the gate and jump through.
Instead what happens amazes me. He immediately decloaked and proceeded to just sit there. He wasn't on autopilot because my alt followed him several jumps, he warped to 0 every time. I have no clue what happened.
I even managed to pod him. I scored over 80mil in loot off him which was nice. Then, 30 minutes later he passes through the system with me. I had since switch to a Taranis. He was in a shuttle. He warped to 0 at my gate and I popped and podded him again!
I have no clue what the hell he was doing or thinking. I am willing to guess he lost some nice implants too. I just wish that Nighthawk had better loot.
That war didn't last long though. We ended up running into a string of foul mouthed smack talkers, all of whom thought they were above the law. Of course it's ok for them to tell me to go fuck myself for taking a bookmark out of their jetcan, but when I declare war on them, it seems they feel it's unwarranted and completely unfair.
One night I am off to low sec to search for new friends. Of course it's completely empty, so I decide to try can flipping since it's been ages since I have done it last. I find a guy and his alt mining, I go to the can, and there's a bookmark in it. I take it and sit there. They do nothing to me. Instead, he opts for smack talk.
Of course, being the tard that he is, he has no clue how long it takes for the war dec to go into effect, even though I told him it takes 24 hours. The next day I get an email from him....
2008.01.08 07:44
So wheres that wardec you so boldly threatened my corp with??????
Now to me, that sounds like someone who is looking forward to a scrap, no? I respond back letting him know exactly how long it takes.
2008.01.09 01:14
so let me get this straight,
You come int a system and attempt to steal from us.
So my m8 tells you to bugger off and you wardec my corp.
Seems like you have a very backward view on life .
Either that or youre holding on too tight
seems like you have to pick on a new corp and cant handle anything bigger than yourselves
Ah yes, the old, "Go pick on someone your own size and who wants to pvp" line of reasoning. One would think, if you see a pirate, telling them to get fucked in the ass after they steal a measly bookmark, you want to have war and you want pvp. If you don't want war, then you would likely keep quiet or move or dock up for a few.
Of course once the war goes through and he dies once, he immediately quits corp. So brave!
Of course the rest of his corp want nothing to him and they jump ship. They live by the creed, "When the going gets tough, the bears get going".
He even created a new corp a few weeks later and I dropped him a message that a new war was incoming and he immediately quit it and joined an NPC corp.
It never ceases to amaze me that people are like that. One day one of my players who's from another planet so I don't ever get to play when he's on because I have no clue what time zone he's in, but it sure ain't mine. He's a can flipper master. He is constantly getting people to fight him this way. So many that he's the top guy on our KB. Mainly because he manages to kill mining BS's with his Taranis so it gives him like 100 points per kill hehe.
One day he flips some cans belong to some carebears. He was in a Myrmidon. The guy came back in a beam Armageddon complete with a large shield booster AND armor repper along with a dose of ECM and some missiles. Of course he has no chance against my guy's Myrm and starts dropping like a rock. So in order to save his ship, he opts for the predictable, yet woefully ineffective technique of logoffski.
After the fight out come the threats and demands....
synk101 >if i can get all my loot back and a insurence bill of 100 mill. if not i am sorry but we will war dec you and we will also be getting our allies BRUCE BOB & UK1 to war dec you to
ROFL! So even though BRUCE and BOB are enemies, they are going to drop everything and unite as one because TRAPS popped some corp's Armageddon that is in no way affiliated with either BOB, BRUCE or UK1? SWEETNESS! 3 alliances should prove to be a fair challenge for us.
Unfortunately I think he was making it all up. Can you believe that!? I can. I am sure you can too. :) Of course once the war goes out, I get emails from various members of their corp asking about it. For some reason they can't fathom why we would dec them after they threaten us and demand a ransom from us.
2008.01.16 16:40
Thank you for your time today and I will ponder what you said as the day goes on, but I do have one question for you? You said that your reason for going to war was because of our member's ransom request. Is not the act of declaring war on that member's corp and then asking for isk, asking for ransom?
What he fails to realize is that our threats are real. Not just drivel or false promises made under the pretense of intimidation.
I respond back to him....
2008.01.17 03:58
It sure is. The main difference is we don't put out idle threats and name drop in a lame attempt to scare people.
We let our weapons do the talking.
Instantly he resorts to personal insults and attacks against my character. Mind you all we did was flip a can with ore then stick around to fight outnumbered and outgunned. They are the ones who opted to lob insults, threats and ransom demands at us, figuring we would cave in and capitulate to their intimidation.
2008.01.17 12:40
Are you 14? Because I would expect better rhetoric from a CEO. "We let our weapons do the talking." ? If that isn't a "bold lame attempt to scare" then nothing is. The result is that you have not succeeded in accomplishing anything and in the end I promise you that this will prove to be a loss for you and your corp.
I love when people predict we will lose. I never predict that type of shit. Why? Because I am well aware anything can happen in this game. I never underestimate or overestimate any of my enemies. The only promises I can make and keep are that we will war dec you and we will keep it on you for weeks or months. I can't say we will win or lose. I just don't know.
Let's take a look at Dragoon Corp, shall we?
54 people. Not too bad. Could be fun. Especially if they're all smack talkers. One of my corpmates started laughing and I asked what was so funny. He said, "Holy shit, look at their corp bio. It's completely insane!" Sure enough, it was out there. I mean first off, the smack talker is their recruitment officer. Not a smart move. Then you read that bio and it screams, "PLEASE FUCK WITH US!".
Is that insane or what? Of course their CEO doesn't clue any of the members in about the war dec or about the surrender option. I will never understand that. I mean you're running a company, should you not include the members in on a decision that also affects them? One would think so. I mean even if you don't include them in on the decision part, at least keep them fully updated about the who/what/where/why part of things.
Instead, I get random convos from various members asking the same shit over and over. "Why you dec us? Who smack talked? When will the war end? Can we surrender?" and other questions that really would have no need to be asked if their CEO had any decent communication skills.
Once the war kicks in, I set out to find some targets. First up, an Incursus vs my Taranis.
Next up, their lame CEO in his Stealth Bomber.
Right after that I had a very close fight against one of them in a Wolf.
A little while later I get out my Dominix and go hunting. I stumble across a gang of them and all of them scatter except one Drake pilot who thought a cloak would save him.
I decloaked him of course. First he claims that he decloaked from attempting to warp away, then he claims I decloaked him. He can't make up his mind.
As goofy as this Camel Poot guy is, he actually seems to have a grasp on how the game works politics-wise, obviously not ship fitting-wise. Still he convoes me and starts asking about the war. I fill him in and he agrees that it was stupid of his friend to threaten us with alliances they have nothing to do with.
So I asked them for 250mil since the Geddon pilot said he had 10 Armageddons left over so he didn't care that we popped one of his fleet. So 250mil seemed like a fair price. 5mil per member really, very fair I'd say.
He claims they don't have 250mil and his corp are being retarded and wont pay. He says he is willing to take one for the team and put up his own cash to save the corp. Quite a nice guy. Too bad he's surrounded by smack talking morons.
I decide to cut him a break.
[ 2008.01.18 17:11:21 ] camel poot > how much do you want cause i only got 150mil if i sell all my stuff
[ 2008.01.18 17:12:06 ] Nexa Necis > tell ya what, ill be nice, and do 150mil on the condition your corp makes a post on the CAOD forums apologizing to us
[ 2008.01.18 17:12:36 ] camel poot > ok i dont know who to do that tell me and i will do it
[ 2008.01.18 17:12:50 ] camel poot > but first i need to go sell my ship :((
He's never heard of the Eve forums. So I have to walk him through it all. Of course he made the post but it was barely readable. He didn't mention any names or any backstory so the mods locked it immediately because it looked like someone was replying to a post and hit "new topic" instead.
I let him know he can trust me to let him take care of business...
[ 2008.01.18 17:14:43 ] Nexa Necis > the second the money is in my account or the corps account i will immediately retract the war, provided the post is made too
[ 2008.01.18 17:15:17 ] camel poot > kk im going to sell my ships first may i undock to go sell em
[ 2008.01.18 17:15:26 ] Nexa Necis > yes
[ 2008.01.18 17:15:28 ] Nexa Necis > one sec
[ 2008.01.18 17:15:31 ] Nexa Necis > lemme tell the corp
[ 2008.01.18 17:15:37 ] camel poot > im in my pod
[ 2008.01.18 17:16:03 ] Nexa Necis > no worries
[ 2008.01.18 17:16:09 ] Nexa Necis > you wont be attacked
He decides to be smart and invite the smack talking members into the chat to make them aware of what is going on. He tries to keep it civil and tries to make his corpmates understand you cant just threaten people and not expect any retaliation.
[ 2008.01.18 17:24:54 ] alphaboj > what are the terms?
[ 2008.01.18 17:25:21 ] Nexa Necis > camel is paying 150mil, and will post an apology on the CAOD forum to TRAPS
[ 2008.01.18 17:26:35 ] alphaboj > if camel wants to do that then it's his call............... i offered to avoid this with an apology from synk for the original email but you wouldn't accept that and as far as I'm concerned we tried to do what was right ........ on the other hand your
[ 2008.01.18 17:27:22 ] alphaboj > player was not honorable in the original deed and therefore synk was not fully or lonely responsible for his emotional reaction
[ 2008.01.18 17:28:11 ] Nexa Necis > well again, our opinions differ
[ 2008.01.18 17:28:40 ] camel poot > ok stop it alpha listen to nexa
[ 2008.01.18 17:29:19 ] alphaboj > differences of opinion are good and healthy, but there is responsibility on both sides regardless of opinion
[ 2008.01.18 17:29:38 ] Nexa Necis > as i said
[ 2008.01.18 17:29:42 ] Nexa Necis > im aware my guy stole or
[ 2008.01.18 17:29:45 ] Nexa Necis > its what we do
[ 2008.01.18 17:29:47 ] Nexa Necis > were pirates
[ 2008.01.18 17:29:52 ] Nexa Necis > your guy came back to fight
[ 2008.01.18 17:29:55 ] Nexa Necis > fair enough
[ 2008.01.18 17:29:58 ] Nexa Necis > he had a bigger ship even
[ 2008.01.18 17:30:00 ] Nexa Necis > fair enough
[ 2008.01.18 17:30:09 ] alphaboj > agreed
[ 2008.01.18 17:30:16 ] Nexa Necis > he fought, he was losing, he tried to log out to save himself which didnt work
[ 2008.01.18 17:30:19 ] Nexa Necis > he died
[ 2008.01.18 17:30:35 ] alphaboj > but to declare war on our corp for that action is not admirable
[ 2008.01.18 17:30:37 ] Nexa Necis > then he logged back in and went into a 20 minute smack talk tirade in local
[ 2008.01.18 17:30:39 ] camel poot > his pc lagged and froze
[ 2008.01.18 17:30:50 ] Nexa Necis > regardless
[ 2008.01.18 17:30:55 ] Nexa Necis > after smack talking
[ 2008.01.18 17:31:01 ] Nexa Necis > he emails me with ransom demands
[ 2008.01.18 17:31:19 ] Nexa Necis > if you ransom somone, you have to expect possible retaliation
[ 2008.01.18 17:31:22 ] alphaboj > but you can't disregard only the circumstances you choose nexa .........
[ 2008.01.18 17:31:47 ] camel poot > alpha nexa didnt choose em synk did
[ 2008.01.18 17:31:50 ] Nexa Necis > if synk won the fight, and said "gf" we wouldnt be here
[ 2008.01.18 17:31:53 ] alphaboj > you are ransoming us now .......so how is one action worse than the other?
[ 2008.01.18 17:32:01 ] Nexa Necis > if synk lost and said "gf" or said nothing we wouldnt be here
[ 2008.01.18 17:32:22 ] Nexa Necis > i never said ransoming was bad
[ 2008.01.18 17:32:28 ] Synk101 > hello nexa the message i sent you i really diddnt meen to make it sound like a ransom im sorry:(
[ 2008.01.18 17:32:42 ] Nexa Necis > i said it was an action that could have consequences
[ 2008.01.18 17:32:46 ] alphaboj > your here nexa because your current war was wrapping up...... and synk was in the wrong place at the wrong time
[ 2008.01.18 17:32:54 ] Nexa Necis > no sorry
[ 2008.01.18 17:32:58 ] Nexa Necis > look at our killboard
[ 2008.01.18 17:33:05 ] Nexa Necis > look at the pilot who killed synk
[ 2008.01.18 17:33:09 ] Nexa Necis > he kills people daily
[ 2008.01.18 17:33:10 ] camel poot > well synk ur actions are making me poor but im doing it for the good of the corp
[ 2008.01.18 17:33:16 ] Nexa Necis > they never smack talk him
[ 2008.01.18 17:33:39 ] Nexa Necis > he even lost 100+ mil ship and we didnt war dec the corp, they fought fair and square qwith no smack talk or threats
[ 2008.01.18 17:33:40 ] Synk101 > i diddnt log off my comp shut down and like i sed if we would faught and i still had lost i would not of cared i was just really angry how i got killed wen i was not on n it was a new ship n i just started running my mouth:(
[ 2008.01.18 17:33:59 ] Nexa Necis > but you said yourself synk, you have lots of apocs laying aroujnd
[ 2008.01.18 17:34:05 ] Synk101 > i was angry and i appologise
[ 2008.01.18 17:34:24 ] camel poot > and synk nexa is going to give you a site to aplogize in the forums and i have to aswell
[ 2008.01.18 17:34:35 ] Synk101 > no ino it was the fact of your pilot just started tekin the mik etc
[ 2008.01.18 17:35:33 ] Synk101 > but i do appologise for running my mouth
[ 2008.01.18 17:35:41 ] Nexa Necis > understood
[ 2008.01.18 17:36:13 ] Nexa Necis > understand that eve is a game of consquences, just because you dont like them doesnt mean they are not a possibility
They ask, like most corps do, how do they know we're not scamming them. He still doesn't get the whole action/reaction thing of life.
[ 2008.01.18 17:37:19 ] alphaboj > nexa ...... how do we know that you won't be back next week for more isk?
[ 2008.01.18 17:37:49 ] Nexa Necis > dishonoring ransoms is bad for business
[ 2008.01.18 17:37:55 ] Nexa Necis > you dishonor 1 and no one will pay you
[ 2008.01.18 17:38:34 ] alphaboj > so you will steal ore from a can ...........but not millions of isk from a corp?
[ 2008.01.18 17:38:58 ] alphaboj > i'm sorry but where is the honor in any of those?
[ 2008.01.18 17:39:10 ] Nexa Necis > youre not separating one from the other alpha
[ 2008.01.18 17:39:27 ] Nexa Necis > our guy stole, thats fine, he runs the risk of getting killed, thats only fair
[ 2008.01.18 17:39:38 ] Nexa Necis > if you war decd us for that, thats is fair and expected
[ 2008.01.18 17:39:59 ] Nexa Necis > however after that happened, synk ran his mouth and sent me a ransom demand
[ 2008.01.18 17:40:04 ] Nexa Necis > now its my turn to react
Then one of the funniest things ends up happening. The guy doesn't have 150mil liquid, so he has to sell some shit to make the ISK. He has only 1 item he can sell and there are no decent buy orders anywhere close to us. So I have him undock his unfitted Rokh with the agreement we will not pod him but we will pop the ship so he can cash in the insurance policy.
[ 2008.01.18 17:40:06 ] camel poot > nexa i want my rokh to go down with some houner plz iv taken everything off so she is bear
[ 2008.01.18 17:40:12 ] Nexa Necis > sure no worries
[ 2008.01.18 17:40:35 ] camel poot > ok im jumping in now
[ 2008.01.18 17:40:43 ] Nexa Necis > we wont pod you either so dont stress getting the pod out
i love u baby
[ 2008.01.18 17:41:56 ] camel poot > bye bye
[ 2008.01.18 17:42:22 ] camel poot > :(((
[ 2008.01.18 17:42:26 ] Nexa Necis > well camel will make the post then, he will be seen as a man of his word
[ 2008.01.18 17:42:39 ] Nexa Necis > im genuinely impressed with his behavior and sportsmanship
As goofy and newby as Camel was, he was genuinely a pretty nice guy. Easy to talk to and definitely aware of how to look at the big picture of Eve. I told him to read up on the forums, learn to fit a ship properly and think about creating his own corp. He had no problems stepping up to take care of his teammates without hesitation. That's a good quality to have for sure.
Well that's it for our latest installment. I hope you guys like it. Get ready for the next story. It's gonna be another epic tale of carebears and anti-pirates caught in their mess of bullshit. This one will have alliance action, low sec goodness, and some of the funniest smack talk from "upstanding carebear protecting anti-pirates" that you have ever seen.
They even go so far as to admit that smack talk is one of their greatest weapons. I look at it as one of their greatest faults. It makes you look retarded when you smack talk someone for something then turn around and do it yourself non-stop. Shows you have no sportsmanship, no character, no class. Would you believe they're directly affiliated with CVA? Yep, CVA. Eve's most prolific protectors of carebear's who like to steal, smack talk, insult and sexually harass others. The same ones who allow safe havens for pharmers to make ISK to sell to the public.
Yes the next story will be grand I say!17 Comments
Death's Embrace·
HeHe. Good to hear some nice folks out there still. As I said in game Nexa/freaky, I love reading your material. I can't wait until the next one comes out!
PKlavins·
Very nice story :) Can't wait for the next one... :D
(oh yea, i saw you guys got another dec from friends of CCCP, and you are killing them nicely ;) makes me wish I was ingame still...)
Sammell·
Good work, and I read that corp bio awhile ago and thought that was just asking for it glad to see someone followed through on them. If you ever need a hand with those CCCP hooligans I'm in.
Ant·
Nice read
But nexa, be aware that that there ARE ppl that will ransom you and than pop and pod you just for the kicks.
It's sad that a lot of people simply won't pay ransoms anymore, 'cause they've been scammed in the past.
flashfresh·
Great read Nexa. That Camel Poot guy is wasted on a corp that he is in.
Roll on the next installment.
Flashfresh
wargallow·
Hey.
Enjoy your post.
I was thinking, if you want a bunch of targets you can try Hrober and Hrokkur and the surrounding systems.
There is an Anti-Pirate allaince called Blue Sun Trust.
Like most carebears, it's ok for them to gank you 7 vs 2 but not the other way around! LOL.
Still they so big and badass that they all dock when a known pirate flys through their system!
DaJokr·
As much fun as it is reading the smack, sure is nice to see there still some good CEO material. Kudo's to the story, and i tp my hat to Camel for being level headed and looking out for his mates. Thats one guy I'd be honored to fly with :)
Alia Xi·
Excellent read Nexa, I really enjoyed it.. packed with action, screenshots and a bit of smack to boot!
Camel sounds like a great guy and had the balls to stand up and make a tough call when his CEO didn't!
Looking forward to your next post.
Good hunting
Alia
morby·
Black Scope.
in relation to my mistake->
Zigfor was docked at that station, we had a small gang consisting of alexi (myrmidon), myself (hurricaine), deathminds (tristan)x3 .. alexi and i waited outside of system while deathmind tried to entice zigfor out, Im pretty sure zig knew we were about but he came out anyway showing traps don't always blob like some people claim.
zig undocked in a HAF and engaged the 3 tristans, i droped in on the fight in my hurri as the last tristan droped into structure and dispatched the assult frigate (snaked the kill from deathmind), alexei trailed me by about another 10seconds and caught zigfor's pod before he could redock.
at this point we were trying to cleanup the wrecks when we had a loot thief, possibly the "impairer" pictured in photo me thinks. Being ganged with deathmind i made the mistake of thinking he would agro to me too..(same alliance but not same corp) without checking i fired and got fucked up for it.
Hence i coped shit for shooting random bystanders from alot of alliance members
also enjoyed the fight with ming, yukkie ,gerraine vs myself and tui1
In relation to the pos at the start when we were informed of the wardeck by the ceo responsible he was immediatly told to add defences to the pos which he failed to do. We were then forced to bring the alt corp into the alliance once traps put the pos into reinforced.
we defended it out of reinforced, repped it back up to full shields which took friggin hours.
Brought in more strontium and weapons to add to the pos. But the ceo responsible for the alt corp basicaly failed to log in for a week and a half i think it ended up being. So we had no access to be able to do anything.
I removed the corp from the alliance thus allowing the wardeck to drop off it. Thinking traps might just stick to us and not bother to rewardeck the alt corp.... WRONG....
24hours later i saw the wardecked go in on it.
we continued to gaurd it for afew more days from memory before the group ceo decision was made to let it go as a lost cause.
Would have to say TRAPS are very good at what they do by way of empire wardecks, well organised exellent use of alts & cloaked alts and very patient.
As for those that cry about traps never engaging unless in thier favour.
What person wouldn't dock up when they were outnumbered or attack when they had better numbers? sounds like common sense to me.
chewit79·
that was a great read
and a good time for me as a member of black scope
i learn`t alot as a relativly newb player
and i have to thank TRAPS for giving me a time during the war
Hex·
I enjoyed fighting against you guys, no smack (except from the deathmind family :)) and decent fights.
Just surprised that you seldom mounted counterattacks although you had the numbers on your side. If you had, we surely would have been more hardpressed to continue the war.
It felt that the corps in the alliance mostly were by themselves and that you didnt stick together as an alliance. Those times you did - you kept us on our toes. :)
Fly safe
/Hex
Dark Water·
nice read :) .. but i did not notice anything about what happened around auvergne.. or about the little bombers that kept watching you lol .. but that is that it was a lot of fun and changed a lot if things. you sure showed my corp a thing or two you have a good one
freaky·
I'm not too sure what you mean. Are you meaning when you popped me or when we popped you?
I am also not understanding the bombers reference.
TBH the main reason you snagged me was because for some reason only 1 of you showed up on my overview. Well 2 actually, the Osprey or Moa I popped and the Hype.
Good fight though.
B·
That Dragoon Corp "contract" was hilarious. Not only was it completely an asshole setup, it's also utterly, utterly nonenforceable. Not to mention the spelling of whomever wrote it is atrocious. I'd pay money to see the look on the GM's face when they get a petition about persecuting that contract.
Sukari_Rith·
Hehe I always did like Mister Poot, genuinely a good guy, and a polite victim. Glad to see others have had positive interactions with him.
Always enjoy reading your stories Nexa, and I think that you have made quite a few people famous/infamous through them. Honestly they should be paying you for the publicity.
Fly Dangerous
-Sukari
Sam Gallezzo·
You writting is captivating and captures the spirit of the game.
Zigfor·
Morby, Thanks for the compliment. Haven't played in a while, and was nice to come back and read about the fun. I knew I was in for a tough fight. Thought I could eep out, but y'all got me. I laughed so ahrd after that... great fun.