Alliance & Corporation Recruitment Center

I had a chance to hang out with the new guy Rebel Mojo yesterday, we talked about what is going on in his part of the world, the differences between where he lives and where I live. All and all it was a lot of fun. So this was our frigate hunting experience.

We traveled to Hemin to see if the local residents wanted to play….and that was a no. That particular group does not undock without 2x+ members. Its not that I dislike them, I just think they smack way too much for winning fights they should win. Anyway, no frigates around to shoot.

We moved over to Utopia and once again, nothing. I decided against hitting Doril as there are usually way too many interdictors around with backup…so we went toward Litom. Our next stop was KDF. I warped to the station, and nothing…went to each gate…nothing again. I stuck around as long as I was comfortable that they weren’t undocking.

Our next trip in the loop was over to GJO to visit Rookie Empire. Once again nothing really to fight. There was a Tornado that wanted to play but being in a T1 destroyer….no thanks. As much as I stuck around for them to amass a frigate or two, they were too busy in their Angel Hubs to bother with.

Next up was a visit to Legio…usually they undock. Most of all they undock with a LOT. I was hoping to do the usual and draw a frigate out of the station. What do you think undocked? Naga. That is the last thing I really wanted to undock, so we floated around system to see if they would undock anything….nope.

Next we went to 0sht, but noticed the 3B scout in there, so we avoided the gate camp that they usually set up in D87. We moved on then to visit Waterboard, but ran into a Dominix, Drake, Typhoon…even more ships we couldn’t kill. Nice.

We headed on home after that. Mondays suck

Nah, I was out two days ago when no one else was on. Found out that Brosefs got kicked off the Love Boat. They ask if I wanted to join them in a fight against the Hemin guys. I was like hmm why not. I mean they were in Harbs and I was in a frig, so I wasn't gonna get a kill that way. So I said why not. I played bait in a drake and brought Brosefs from doril to the gate from other side. I got jammed and lost scram on the naga but meh got 3 others. So last night again nothing was going on. FS and wrg were about and we had like 5 people, and thought Brosefs were bringing 4 guys. I thought well we had enough that if we went full damage, high damage ammo overheated, then we cvould out damage their 2 logi. As it happened, Brosefs brought one harb and we ate ****. On the flip side, we were able to almost break 50% eff with 4 less damage dealers than the hemin guys plus their logi, so hats off to my brothers. But the call to zero was from me thinking we had another 2k dps. Live and learn.

To answer the question, we are only blue to Eve animal control, although Brosefs have been downgraded to neut just because colors are identifiers to us only. We help the under dog in any case around curse. We shoot RED, ORANGE, NEUT and smart a&& blues. So dont feel we are picking on you just because we are shooting you. We will gladly help you take another carrier down.

BULL
A4D forever baby

There are many things you should never ask in life. For instance I should have never have asked my wife if she could stop wearing my winter shirts…I only said they made her look a little portly. Oooops. I should have never asked the policeman if he had anything better to do. Oooops. And most of all I should never ask my corp. if they need anything from Jita.

As many of you know if you read my posts, I don’t have time much to play. My Co-CEO is busy in life and my good buddy plex is out on Maternity leave, and a couple of the other Logistical geniuses are out and about playing soldier. Damn government screwing up my game. Why do I tell you this? Because I didn’t kill CRAP today.

But I have a treat for you, instead of telling you I spent all freaking night in a carrier and a jump freighter, I dug up some of my unpublished blog from December of 2008. This was a private blog, so I mention more names that I should but after 4 years I am sure the statute of limitations has passed. In this blog I wrote everything in lower case. Don’t judge.

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DECEMBER 2 2008 07:53
laziness; it has been my middle name as of late. although i do seem to exercise a lot, i have been too tired to venture out beyond my own private Idaho. the ironic thing is that we have been getting some massively nasty gangs going. it starts out with 2-3 of us camping a gate for $hits and giggles and then someone says those magic words. “are there any gangs?”

oh god, there goes the flood gates. i typically say...well yea, there are a few of us gate camping this gate, but we are just mucking around...they say “cool, be right there” eventually we go from an interceptor, rapier, and a stealth bomber to a full fledged 16 man fleet. its rather impressive.

to make a long story short, last night i logged in late probably about 9:30 pm eastern time zone. i had went out for dinner with my kung fu brother and had a couple beers. i was relaxed and ready to chat with some of my eve brothers. to this day i consider eve a chat room where i get to blow stuff up...:P

anyway, my buddy Johnny f said you just missed an agony gang pass through. i asked the usual questions....how many? ship types? do we have a gang going? and of course i got the standard responses...a lot, don’t know, and no. so i attempted to get the usual suspects together to kill random ships coming through any gate in system(unsuccessfully). i typically camp a gate when i am too tired or don’t have enough time to do a roam.

then the intel channel starts flashing. there was the agony gang...on its return trip home. they were running with a fairly well balanced gang. 2-3 bs, 2-3 bc, 2 logistics, and some cruisers and frigates. all and all a well balanced gang. not one you wanted to tangle with if you have a makeshift gang of 2-3 guys....so i let them pass. i did shoot at a Rokh with my stealth bomber...and was doing pretty good damage until he actually hit me and i warped away...ha-ha.

i went back to station to get my rapier, i wanted to keep an eye on this group. mostly to see if i could muster up the right amount of ships to slaughter it. when i undocked a b.l.a.c.k. alliance gang came up on the intel channel. so i flew over to the gate where they would be jumping in...they had a smaller shipped gang, 3 vagabonds, 2 vexors, falcon, blackbird, arbitrator, 4 assault frigates, 2-3 interceptors, plus whatever. i think they had 17 overall...i don’t remember.

of course i pulled my typical tactic, i pointed them toward the gang they were obviously chasing. as always they played dumb...which is not difficult for a black gang to do so. anyway, i was only trying to buy time. i was not sure if i could muster enough people to fight them, but i knew i could kill stragglers and pods(i like to kill things obviously).

well, i started throwing fleet invites in alliance, being the one man tony robbins i am, i managed to scrape together 15 guys for some uber carnage. i made the mistake of calling for damage and everyone showed up heavy...which is cool, you can never have enough damage. we had 8 battle cruisers and around 6 cruisers.

this was acceptable considering we didn’t know if this b.l.a.c.k. gang and that agony gang were working together...if that were the case then we were out gunned...and outmanned. what ended up happening is that the b.l.a.c.k. gang killed quite a few of the agony gang...they cleaned up the loot...and they went back home.

home however was the route that we were blocking. the b.l.a.c.k. gang jumped into our battle cruiser fleet and we started calling targets. all and all it was an even fight. we had more firepower, they had more ships...they fled from our gang and we ended up killing 7 albeit loosing 3. i think we lost on isk, but we won on ships. we held the field and managed to loot, but it was not enough to pay for the zealot, vagabond and interdictor.

though it was a short fight, it was fun. unfortunately we were stuck with big ships that couldn’t web or scramble...most of them got away. anything slow simply died. a few minutes went by and we got intel that agony now had a gate camp up on the rmoc gate in hemin. they had a scout in rmoc so we couldn’t just jump our fleet in without them running like the rick james beeeatches they are.

we decided to bait them as best we could. we knew we had a rapier as a scout in hemin...he was to be our tackler. the plan was for me and laz to jump into rmoc, and warp to hemin gate in our super tanked drakes. the agony gang we knew had 3 battleships on station, a ferox, destroyer, 2 merlins. we knew they had falcons earlier so we weren’t going to take any chances...we had TONS of backup.
Part 1

I have a question about something that doesn't add up to me.

If you only accept pilots with 80% kb efficiency, how does this result in your corp having a 62% kb efficiency?

In my opinion there can be only three reasons for this:

1. The 80% thing is just recruitment thread propaganda to make it seem you have higher standards and ability than actually is the case.

2. Your tactics and FCs result in people performing worse at pvp after they join your corp than before they were in your corp.

3. Your old original members have such a low efficiency that having new people with high efficiency is not enough to counter act their losses.

I would be interested in hearing more about this from you guys, because from your original post on this thread it seemed to me as if this was a very high skilled corp and I was a little disappointed and let-down after I saw your killboard.

Shout out to A4D from the guys next door.

WAIT WAIT. i just looked you up. I was trying to get to the battle clinic but your name kept jumping up as a forgotten realms elf god. LOL YOU F@G.

Disregard the WOW player. Go cast a spell homo

Due to the success we have been having over the past few months, we have attracted some really good pilots of late. Most of these new guys have been European and thus our Euro time zone has been having some really kick ass gangs of late. During a weekend, most of the guys from across the pond just join in, listen and do what they are told…In essence we can mass up some really good fleets when needed.

Most everyone who has read my posts lately, know that we have been running some Logi fleets. Sometimes new A4D members and Logistics don’t mix. One guy would do something different here, another guy would do something different there…sometimes a gang will wipe because expectations aren’t met. This isn’t one of those times.

We saw the Darkside gang coming a few jumps out. The command was made to reship. They had 6 Oracles, 3 Scimitars, Drake, Huginn, and Lachesis. (Backup: 1 Oracle Backup, 1 Falcon). We had Machariel, 4 Drakes, Scorpion Navy Issue (no EM), 1 Tornado, and 3 Basilisk. They jumped into us, and the fight started.

Our cap chain was up, but we were having issues repping Truis. For some reason, all three Basilisks tried to rep him but he simply went too fast. It could have been the ECM drones from their two cruisers, but I feel we were probably just too late or lagged. Either way we were down a Tornado.

We called for the smart bombs to be fitted, killing all ECM drones on the Basilisks. Targets were called, and we took down an Oracle, then a second. They started moving away. Cy tried to chase one and got out of our range so we couldn’t help him. So Cy went down, and reshipped (bless his heart). Their Drake was tackled and since it was their FC, they called for the Oracles to come in closer.

The Drake got out of our web challenged groups range, and third oracle got too close. We managed to knock the third one down when they warped off. All and all I was a fairly evenly matched gang. Cheers for Darkside for pulling Cy off gang, It was fun flying against you guys. Class all the way.

3B eh? I think I like it, just glad its not Tripple B!

4 Fights

Due to being fairly new to flying with Logistics, we decided that the Basilisks were the easiest to run. We have a bunch of Guardians, and Scimitars, but this when you have limited numbers…the Basi is a no brainer.

Fight 1
Gang one was our friends from Darkside. They came through in a gang slightly smaller than the one they had yesterday. I don’t think they were as prepared for this fight as they were the prior day.

We were a little low on DPS, but our FC was doing fairly well with switching targets, they only made one mistake and that was AB fitting their sole scimitar. We managed to get a web and point on him and that was our only kill. They were a little too fast for us, but we did not take any losses. I can live with that. KILLS 1 LOSSES 0

Fight 2
The second gang was a gang with no logistics but a ton of DPS, they had 11 Hurricanes, 1 Falcon, 1 Claymore, Couple tackle. We didn’t have much DPS; we arrived with 3 Basilisks, Raven, Tempest, Hurricane, 2 Drake, and Cerberus. Overall we had the advantage again even though they had us on DPS.

They put their ECM drones on one of our Atridies, so it was just Sygma repairing Omar. I overheated repairers, and but Omar was starting to break. We called for the smart bombs to clear their ECM drones and once that was done, Atridies managed to get his cap chain backup. With all 8 Reps on Omar, we pulled him out at 10% Shields. It was a really fun fight. KILLS 8 LOSSES 0

Fight 3
We got a little cocky, we saw a 3 Megathron gang with 4 Onerios. Although we had an idea to neut one out and kill the second…we couldn’t manage enough DPS to pull it off. Besides, the signature radius of an Onerios is too small. It was a tactic that I was not overly comfortable with and probably something we should try on the test server before we do that again. KILLS 0 LOSSES 3

Fight 4
Darkside brought back 4 Scimitars, 12 Oracles, 2 Huginns, 1 Lachesis. We had 5 of 11 afk. We docked back up, and lived to see another day. KILLS 0 LOSSES 0

Since this fight, we have had 5 more killable gangs roll through…we are all afk. DAMN IT. Lol

How would you know? You can't hit the dock button fast enough lately.