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Lifetime Kills 26,757 / Losses 7,226
1,979.95 bill ISK 682.80 bill
93,848.20 Points 34,202.80
225,583,065.00 Damage 115,379,455.00
300 Kills This week 54 Losses

Rank history - top 10k entities only Jan '12Feb '12Mar '12100200300
« R.u.S.H (166) 167 (168) Decadence.

It's Been A Job Well Done From Everyone In A4D

Looking For Change

Want To Log On And Find Players Actually Online

Want To Live In An Area That's Rich With Targets

Are You Needing More From EVE ?

Well Ladies And Gents A4D Has Been Recruiting Quality Pilots

Not For Sov , Not For Greed , Just Making The Corp A Place For The Quality Combat Minded Pilot To Call Home

One Thing , Curse Is A Hard Place To Live , Not For The Faint Hearted , Must Have 30 MIL SP , Self Sufficient And Able To

Fly Logi

Contact Myself For The EU TZ

Sygma Or Bullmastiff For The USA / Others

Shout out to A4D from the guys next door.

The main problem with not playing as often is that I get rusty. Rust is never a good thing, sometimes it makes you stay in system a few minutes longer, makes you not pay attention to the FC, or even do stupid things.

The worst part about my rustyness, I tend not to write in here about my conquests. Last night wasn't much of a conquest verses, I got into a situation, that i knew nothing about...helping a friend defend a god forsaken POS...I don't know how to do such things. I will go about saying this. I don't give a flying leap about POS's...and I shant be defending one again.

They had one too many...
http://www.appetite4destruction.net/killboard/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=30443

So I have been out for on holiday…before that I was just too lazy to log in. This is the week that I actually log in and play. To be honest, I am a 75 kill a month player. I don’t have the time to invest in being a 150+ kill a month player. I could do it, but I would have to sit on a gate and anyone that knows me knows that I hate gate camping.

I am not holding it against anyone that does, I just don’t personally enjoy it. In fact, three of my best guys truly enjoy sitting on bubbles. I can listen to them kill for hours, but I dread participating. Personally I prefer 5 on 5 brawls…but I will do a Logistic gang or roam.

Last night was interesting, a couple of us volunteered to shoot a POCO…and to be honest, I don’t even know what the hell a POCO is, but someone said we may get a fight…so I ran. Unfortunately it never happened. They slung a few bombs at us, but I guess they weren’t into fighting.

I don’t like fighting that group anyway, they tend to fly with 9000+ ECM drones and a fist full of racial specific Scorpions. It’s actually rather douchey…. I am not saying I haven’t jammed the bejesus out of others before, its just not a staple in the A4D combat repertoire. Usually if we bring Falcons, its an alt.

On another note, I went away from game for five days and the corp. was self sufficient. I love this corp., I can go for a few days and it not implode.

It was nice getting to play again after being on Vacation for the past week or so. My trigger finger had been getting itchy and I simply needed to kill something. Our blue asked us for some backup and we sent a few guys over to help.

As per usual, by the time we arrive the fight was over and there wasn’t so much as a pod to kill. So we merged our gangs and warped to the RMOC gate. This is where it gets a bit weird. There was a small BC gang in RMOC jumping into our fleet. This group is blue to the group that our gang had just fought.

I think they got the memo late because they really didn’t know they were jumping into a gang twice as deadly as theirs. Our gang consisted of multiple scimitars and 12 battle cruisers. The numbers were lopsided in our favor, but we didn’t complain. Most of the time we engage that group we are outnumbered…it was refreshing. We ended up popping their Claymore and a Hurricane. The rest of their fleet bailed.

We were all dressed up and had no place to go so we decided to visit the Brushie Brushie Brushie guys in D87. Its not that we have anything against them…but they are always there and may have enough on hand to actually fight. We jumped into VOL-MI around the same time a AAA fleet jumped in. They had 5 Logistics and 50% more dps, so we decided not to bother with them. Wisely we took a pass.

Our scout jumped in to K-B to find there was no one in local. So we advanced to the D87 gate. There we jumped in a Drake(I know, obvious bait), after a few seconds he warped to the out gate, and we jumped in 3 more Drakes….also warping them to the out gate. You could tell in local that they were reshipping. They had went from frigates to bc and battleships.

Our bait gang was on our out gate and was 20AU away. As expected, they came in to fight, They brought a few BC and a Blaster Domi. Although our group was warp scramble challenged, we did manage to point the battleship and kill it…missing out on a few other kills. I had landed 25k away from a hurricane and had him locked, but was out of range. I clicked overheat as he warped out. DAMN IT.

Unfortunately we lost the drake before our Scimitars could rep him. We lost a T2 fitted Drake and killed a Dominix. Although the outcome was not necessarily what we wanted, the bait was well executed. None of us expected a high DPS Dominix with Neutron Blasters.

Thanks goes out to Eve Animal Control for letting us tag along. Those were some much needed kills.

Looking for active intelligent pilots !

Can you fly solo as well as part of team ?

Fly logistics ?

Like to dish out the pain

Head our way gents , the cursed part of eve is waiting

Shout out to A4D from the guys next door.

I made it up early enough to head out on my morning mini roam. It’s just quick tour around Curse to see what trouble I can get into. My entire route is simple. I head toward RMOC, then to Hemin, Jorund, Doril, Utopia, Hemin, YKE, AAM, K-Q. It is a short and sweet route that yields me at least 1-2 targets per trip.

This time of day is mostly Russian players, everyone else in Europe is working. The Russian contingent is usually ready to pvp after they finish their daily identity fraud, hacking, scamming, or daily general exploitation of the Eula. Yes, I find in general that Russians are just one step above Somali Pirates.

So anyway, while I play lame duck waiting on this player…randomcrapbagRUS to engage me. And so the fight begins. My coercer of doom vs. his Thrasher of less doom. I could have warped off, but I wanted him in range, so I aligned until he finally has a point on me and starts to fire. I overheated and opened up with scorch. I hit armor about the time he hits 30% shields.

He starts to close range, so I switch to Multi-frequency…but he aligns and gets out to 11k, I have to switch back to Scorch. I start hitting him again on full overheat, and he warps with 10% shields. Even though I had 20% armor damage, that is where my ship starts to shine. No kill for me. I guess he had get back to his day job of fraud and identity theft.

Balance

Earlier last week I had to defend our stand on 85% efficiency. While this number isn’t the best indicator of a good pilot it is all we have as a baseline number. In Basketball they want to know if people can play above the rim…which means jump really high. In American Football they want to know your 40 time…or how quick you can run 40 meters. In Hockey…hell I don’t know what Hockey players do.

These numbers are not everything there is to know about a player. The intangibles are the other half of the equation. Unfortunately, there is no baseline for intangibles…we need to rely on something…and that something is efficiency. To me a player with a 99% efficiency is just as bad as someone with 30% efficiency.

The 99%er never takes chances, and always wants someone to tell them what and how do something. The 30% takes too many chances and dies most of the time…in a nutshell either stupid or careless. A while back our magic number was an individual efficiency of 80%. This number on paper doesn’t sound too bad…but when it includes other gang members, the corp. efficiency suffers.

We found that the 80% on average made A4D’s efficiency overall around 70%. Since we pack hunt, if we fail…we all fail. So we decided to change the number to 85%. This number is incredibly easy to obtain, but in terms of the corp. efficiency, we are slaughtering everything. We found that if we have 1 or 2 players flying like idiots we all suffer. In efficiency and credibility.

Since this change in philosophy, we have went over 80% as a corp. two months straight for the first time since 2008, we have killed 1000 more ships this month than we did at any time prior to 2012. In essence we are a corp. of killers. We may not be the best, but not many corps have shot up 75 spots on Battleclinic in the last 6 months.

We are doing this by sheer volume of kills, we do not shoot POS’s(typically). We simply kill everyone we think we can kill. I am proud of this group and even more proud that I am the CEO. By the way…still holding at 94%. Not bad for a working schmuck that with limited time. Kills: 4670 Losses: 337 I may have as many kills as my buddies sc0rps or Svetlanna but I am working on it.