Crime & Punishment

Also, as spank said, your all greedy incursion fags and I also like how Darius has ninja'd into command of this incursion griefing considering last time I checked it was krissada that initially set it up

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I called a conference tonight with some of the luminaries from the larger incursion channels. I was glad that the people involved in the conference took their time to speak with me, and you have my thanks. I learned a little bit and also got some good pointers and the guys had awesome ideas and broad viewpoints. Hats off to BTL for a very productive and informative meeting.

We were ready to stop killing the Motherships. The 'demands' made involved no ISK, no threats,and no ultimatums whatsoever. ( I did pander to get personal bribes of course!) All that was required was they participate in a group chat. Unfortunately negotiations have fallen through and TDF has caused us to continue our campaign.

TDF left the talks, while BTL was willing to participate. Given that BLT was willing to talk, and TDF was not, I will be directing my gankers and griefers to focus on TDF targets when possible. While I have no issue with the players who utilize TDF to find fleets, their leadership is solely responsible for the continued 'early' termination of hisec incursions.

To the players in TDF: Your leadership has failed you. They are the sole reason we will continue killing the Moms. If not for their arrogance, you would be able to shortly return to less, or even no interruption in your ability to run incursions 23/7 Had your leaders simply spent 30 minutes in a conference-this thread would have been to announce my withdrawal of support for 'illegal' fleets.

Incursion runners: If you are cross-trained with ability to fly shield and armor ships, I suggest you roll with BTL when possible as we are targeting TDF whenever possible. We still have 15 + logi characters who aren't blacklisted in TDF channel and whose corp histories are not affiliated with Brick, Skunks or Lead Farmers. At some point you may be in a fleet and just not get reps. This action will be aimed at depleting the ship reimbursement fund and causing as many problems in TDF fleets as possible.

To the players who are in BTL: It is a shame that TDF wouldnt talk and you are going to suffer the losses of incursions because of their transgressions. The BTL leadership represented you well and genuinely looked out for your interests. They were spot on and deserve my, and your thanks. Shame it didnt work out. We look forward to contesting the Moms soon.

check this out bro: "exploit a game mechanic." think about that phrase for a second, and think about what other neat things you could claim are "exploiting a game mechanic."
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buying npc goods in one station and moving them to another station to sell for a profit is exploiting a game mechanic
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Why did brick squad even start killing MOM early?

we made you guys no harm so why bother us in crappy BS like this?

I'll bite on this one.

While you're trying to be clever being pedantic and quoting dictionary definitions one of your examples is actually quite apt. Buying and selling NPC goods is not exploiting an (unintended) game mechanic. However there used to particular NPC items that were disproportionately valued (and tricks you could use to get large quantities of them avoiding regular auto-price hikes). The value of these trade routes was unintended, and eventually the value of the NPC buy/sell orders was adjusted to bring it into line.

The "mechanic" that is being exploited in incursions is the unlimited respawn of incursion combat sites, not anything related to actually running the sites themselves. I doubt that you'll find a "user story" for incursions that has them taking them to 90% completion and then grinding them until they expire on CCP's whiteboard. It's not unreasonable to expect that they'll have to now do something to bring the balance back either by taking this new story into account, or by making it ineffective.

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