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The killing... The bloodshed...

My god, we got a lot of kills this month. We completely smashed our "kills" record, almost smashed our "losses" record and completely annihilated our "top killers" record. The month of February saw some extremely fierce fighting which quite often escalated into enormous super capital battles that thrust Local past 2000 and categorically proved that TiDi works. There have been victories, defeats, welps (600 drakes lost in 1 fight lol) but more than anything there has been the kind of exhilaration and excitement one normally only dreams about. No wonder ENL-I has a low turnover rate; who wants to leave after being part of a 1000 man battle on their first day in corp?

We are absolutely dominating the PvP side of the game. Within TEST we have been second on the killboard each full month since being in the alliance and February was certainly no exception. It is also worth noting that we are second only to Dreddit who has almost 3000 members. These are some particular highlights which fill me full of glee:

- 2596 Kills, 735 of which were Battlecruisers, 190 Battleships, 121 T3 Cruisers, 8 Carriers and 6 Supercarriers, for a total of 432 BILLION isk damage
- 2nd TEST killboard, link here: https://kb.pleaseignore.com/?a=alliance_detail&view=corp_kills&all_id=499&m=2&y=2012
- 6 of the top 10 killers for February in TEST were ENL-I, see this image: http://i42.tinypic.com/azbdr7.png
- Made it to TEST all time killers, 8th place, in just 4 months
- 1.3 BILLION isk payed out in PvP prizes, including 500 Million to new member Major Niall for finishing top on TEST top 10 killers for Feb
- Top 6 pilots over 300 kills, top 4 pilots over 400 kills, top 2 pilots over 600 kills, top pilot over 700 kills


The sweet spot was reaching the very last day of February with no super kills thus far, only to wake up and check our killboard to see 6 super kills of Pandemic Legion and NCDot. ENL-I scrambled to put people into fleet with zero notice and travelled 30 odd jumps across the universe to help AAA. Outstanding!


Besides all that

We merged with a corp you may have heard of, Northern Grit Shifters, bringing over a healthy number of active pilots. This has put our corp number to over 250 now. Our Mentor Team is doing a fantastic job which means our new recruits are set up and ready to roll within their first day of joining.

We are still working on our "Houses", as mentioned previously, and putting the infrastructure into place to get them off the ground. It's taking a lot of work and our managers are working flat out, especially our web admins who are setting up the Wiki site which will be invaluable to our Houses. We're not rushing, we want to make sure everything is right but before long our Houses will be fully operational and providing even more content to our members.

As always we're always after new officers and managers and more people step up each day to help lighten the burden. Our industrial side is also being given a new lease of life with the need for Dreadnoughts pushing our indies into a frenzy. This coupled with the new ENL-I Dread Initiative means more of our members are getting into capital ships than ever before. The initiative sees the racial Dread skillbook, normally costing 90 Million isk, being given to those ready for it for free. We are also discounting corp built dreadnoughts by 250 Million isk too. TEST has its own incentives, offering free modules to those new into a Dread. This amounts to well over 500 Million isk put towards a members new Dread. Not bad, huh?


The future!!!!

We have some exciting announcements to make over the coming months which pertain to our future direction, but for now I'll be keeping quiet on those. Suffice to say we want to continue growing bigger and stronger whilst reinforcing our corp culture and identity. We will be doing everything we can, such as introducing Houses, to ensure our culture and identity remains as strong as ever. We're working hard on increasing corp related activities, both indy and pvp, and working even harder on giving our members more incentives and rewards.

I'd like to end with this: Major Niall has only been in ENL-I a month and in that month he managed to become February's Top Killer with 666 kills in the entire TEST alliance. He bagged himself 500 Million isk for this fact alone and has won much more from our weekly prizes too. This is testament not only to ENL-I's prowess on the battlefield but also to the Mentor Team for ensuring Niall got up and running in no time, and for the corp culture to encourage people like Niall into fleets without the need for CTA's or threats. So, a big round of applause to Niall and the rest of our Top 10 Feb pvpers!

Lord, more PvP stories?

So in one week we have over 700 kills. Quite a lot, no? In one week we have over 5 of our top10 past 200 kills and all 10 of our top10 over 100 kills. In one week. This is of course an incredible number and is testament to not just the quality and activity of ENL-I but also of the environment we live in, i.e. TEST Alliance and the CFC. I'm going to list some of my highlights for this past week:

- Lots of AHAC roams: AHACS are fun, 120+ AHACS is hella-fun
- Tier 3 Sniper Gangs: Alpha'ing BC's from 100km away? Check!
- ENL-I FC led Alliance roams: We currently have 3 Alliance FC's, 1 of whom was recently promoted to Skirmish Commander
- Small gang corp roams: We have more ENL-I non-Alliance FC's who have been taking out lots of small corp roams
- The Battle for C-J6 - The Fall of Insomother: ENL-I were a part of this historical battle

Ok so let's go into some more detail. We don't just run one type of fleet doctrine here in ENL-I/TEST, we run several and they cater for all tastes. There's the standard Alpha Fleet (Maels) and we also now run a Perma-MWD Drake doctrine too. On top of this we run regular AHAC roams and have begun using those awesome sniping tier 3's too. My Oracle does 850 DPS and can shoot out to 200km. ENL-I FC's have been very active this week with everything from large Alliance ops to small 5 man corp roams. Our SRP means all ships not covered by Alliance SRP are reimbursable so budding FC's have more encouragement to go out and get welped.

Something which I am glad we were a part of however was the recent battle of C-J6. Let me explain the significance of this system - Many years ago Red Alliance were pushed back by hostile forces to this system and it became their "last stand", so to speak. At the same time Goonswarm was in its infancy and hated by the majority of EVE and had suffered many back stabs which had forced them to abandoned their dream of 0.0 sov space. Red Alliance for whatever reason took Goonswarm in and allowed them to live in C-J6 alongside them and, together, they managed to push back and beat the attacking hostiles and go on to conquer several regions together. GSF and RA aren't exactly best buddies anymore but when news of C-J6 being on its final timer came in The Mittani decided to send this historical system to Goons and RA off in style, and so we formed up 3 full Drake fleets and travelled across the entire universe.

The fight was incredible. I have had a lot of respect for AAA for a while now and in this battle they shown exactly why they've steamrolled the south. AAA and friends had over 1000 subcaps, with supers on standby, and they managed to beat our few Drake fleets and all other resistance before dropping supers in, forcing PL/NCDot to flee, and taking the station. They used their bombing fleets in spectacular fashion and in one run decimated the Drake fleet I was on resulting in the few survivors withdrawing from the system. This was a well deserved victory for AAA and I'm proud to say ENL-I was there for this history making event.


ENL-I Updates

There's lots happening in ENL-I, as usual. For starters we're now up to almost 280 members; even during our quietest periods we still get up to 20 people online. We are currently working on some our out of game infrastructure to keep our culture and identity strong, such as:

- New website portal: This will be where http://www.ENL-I.com points to, preview here http://www.ENL-I.com/home/ - It'll be Wordpress based and I'll be able to blog regularly on it to keep everyone informed with what we're doing.
- Wiki beginning to take shape: http://wiki.ENL-I.com - We'll be using this for all kinds of things, from general information for prospective recruits to community pages for our Houses.
- Tons of improvements to our forum.

I am also pleased to announce that our ENL-I Academy corporation has been established and we are currently working on its infrastructure. We are working on some promotional videos and we intend to advertise our presence on Sci-Fi related forums to bring new people into the game, and to ENL-I. We'll have a structured approach with training plans ensuring those who join our Academy fly the ships we want them to fly. It'll be similar to E-Uni in some respects but will be purely focused on PvP and the transition to nullsec. It'll also give current ENL-I members lots of opportunities to help out, such as with industry (building ships for the Academy members), HR and lots of FC'ing opportunities. We expect our Academy to be fully operational within 6-8 months and we believe it'll not just bring new players into the game but also help ENL-I to grow.


Visionary

It is my belief that a corp always needs to have a goal, a vision, and to be always moving forward. It doesn't matter so much what those goals are; they don't have to be goals of dominating the galaxy. They can be anything from encouraging more FC'ing right through to successful deployments. Here at ENL-I we always have several goals running in tandem and I make sure I keep my members busy (stops them from losing even more 2bil ratting ships ffs). As such I have implemented several immediate goals (new website/Wiki, more small gang, etc), several intermediate goals (ENL-I Academy) and several long term 12 months+ (sekret).

This means there is always something we're working on, and in all timezones. For those of you wanting to get involved in the running and development of the corp then this is the place for you. We give everyone who wants to a chance to step up and go above and beyond the ordinary duties of our members, and this can be anything from being a Mentor, a Recruitment Officer or even an FC.

Branching out, again...

With The Mittani's announcement that they were not invading Tenal, Raiden's home, but were instead just "playing around" it seems yet again Branch is the focus of another war. "Another" is perhaps the wrong description because since Goons began their Branch invasion in December the fighting around the region hasn't stopped but rather ebbs and flows in waves. Raiden are near unbeatable in their primary timezone, EU, with their enormous super capital fleet being far larger than what the CFC can field. It was theorised however that Raiden would not last with a war of attrition and so a month of raids into Raiden space began.

The theorists were correct and Raiden were beginning to lose interest, even so much as claiming Tenal is just a region they took to "rat" in and have no care for it. Well, that's the "didn't want that region" clause out the way. Several Tech moons and systems were taken in Raiden's prime time with little resistance. And then things got a little more interesting...

Raiden's ally The Initiative, and Initiative Mercenary's, began assaulting CFC member Spacemonkey's Alliance space with SBU's and constant hotdrops. This had the effect of forcing the CFC forces to temporarily hold all aggression in Tenal and work to save SMA. It was at this point when NCDot, a powerful Raiden ally, deployed back to their home region of Tribute to help Raiden. Unlike The Initiative NCDot is a serious threat and as such the CFC began calling for all hands on deck.


Hi ho, Hi ho, it's back up to Branch we go

TEST Alliance Please Ignore, and along with them Enlightened Industries, have therefore deployed to Branch in an effort to reinforce the EU timezone and provide much needed numbers in both countering the threat of NCDot and helping with aggression in Tenal.

For the past few weeks TEST had been resting in our home region of Fountain and were giving The G0dfathers a much needed pasting: http://evemaps.dotlan.net/alliance/The_G0dfathers - The slope isn't as big as we had hoped but a slope is still a slope. We killed all of GF's and GF's allies towers and really ground them down in their NPC systems. This deployment was fun, however, GF were never a serious threat and so our deployment felt more akin to kicking a disabled man out of a wheelchair and then proceeding to stamp on his face. ENL-I is a very bloodthirsty corp and so the news to move back up to Branch was receiving with shouts of "It's about F****** time!"

Our new deployment got off with a bang with the killing of not one, not two but three NCDot Titans (according to the recent intel leaks they didn't want those Titans anyway). Killmails:

1: http://eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=12842852
2: http://eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=12842432
3: http://eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=12842464

The following few weeks promises to be very exciting indeed.


What has ENL-I been up to?

As I have already said TEST has been deployed for the past few weeks back in Fountain to rest and secure the region. After a week or so of smashing GF's into a pulp they pretty much went into hibernation, apart from one or two breakouts, and so action dried up considerably. My pilots were literally chomping at the bit to do something so I took advantage of the lull in action and organized our very own corp deployment.

I wanted something fun for ENL-I to do, something away from the sov warfare and from supercaps. Those of you who read EVESwarm may have seen an article I wrote about small-gang warfare in which I spoke about Syndicate. And so I got an office for ENL-I in a high-sec system neighbouring Syndicate, bought a ton of T1 cruisers and frigs and shipped them there. The plan was simple; give out free fully fit T1 cruisers and frigs and go and welp them in Syndicate, having as much fun as possible in doing so.

The plan was a success and we had a lot of fun. We even invited a unista to our fleet - who was in a bomber - and instructed him to bomb our fleet once we got into a scrap. Sure enough a few minutes later our T1 cruiser fleet was engaged with another T1 cruiser fleet on the gate when a unista bomber decloaks and proceeded to blow us all to hell. It was hilarious.

As fun as whelps can be I also wanted to do something a little more proper, and so we also ran Drake fleets out from Fountain and into Delve. The action was a bit thin on the ground - most of the residents evacuated when they heard Red Alliance was soon going to siege the region - but it was a brilliant way of testing our strength and doing something together as a corp. We also did some Black Ops work in Syndicate, dropping on our friends Agony at one point. Black Ops is fun as hell; we had a Black Ops Battleship which can "bridge" your cloaky ships to a covert cyno. I don't think there's anything funnier than seeing a small fleet engaging your ship, unbeknownst to them you're actually a "bait" ship fit with a cyno and suddenly 10 bombers and a mixture of covert cruisers come flying through. We made a few people mad to be honest


Changes to ENL-I communications / recruitment

Our very own web developer / genius Artemus Ward has been working his ass off in improving our entire communications infrastructure, and with it improving our recruitment procedure. He is currently writing an "Auth" system, similar to what TEST / Goons use, which will have a great many uses for corp members. For instance, members can apply to certain groups or request mentoring with just the click of a button. The Auth system will also dramatically reduce the workload of our officers and managers too. I could literally write an epic essay on how awesome our Auth is going to be but instead I'll simply say it'll help improve our members in-game time tremendously.

Romper Stomper

The war in the North is over. To be honest it shouldn't be classified as a war as this would imply opposing sides tried to defend their space, which they didn't. Tenal was taken quicker than Branch was. I don't want this to come across as some chest-beating "lol we ownz u" kind of thing, because it isn't, it's just a statement of fact.

The could be many reasons why Raiden didn't defend their space. They have already claimed Tenal was just a nice region to rat in, nothing more, and that their home is in Vale. Fair enough. Their loss our gain I suppose. Tenal is rich in Technetium which, at least for the time being, will help with "pew pew" costs and of course the continuation of our super capital arming programmes.


Now what?

Can't say too much on this I'm afraid. Haaa Haa. I can say that after clearing up some business up North there will be another fun deployment happening which will hopefully result in some serious fighting. Although Tenal has had its moments with our enemy being predominantly EUTZ our USTZ people have had little to do, not to mention the fact that Raiden has barely shown. Our next deployment should be a lot more fun (with a lot less structure grind).


The Corp!

Everything is moving steadily forward as it has done for a while. Recruitment is still on going with plenty of unistas being brought into the mix. We are still doing corp ops albeit less of them at the moment due to the deployment. We are still working on many things, most centred around making ENL-I an even better home - difficult, I know.

We have recently implemented our new "Auth" system which greatly improves, well, practically everything out of game for the corp, For new recruits we now have a "queue" which indicates what position you're in and there is also a notes system so if your app is rejected you can see why. Speaking of applications, we've become a little more strict. I don't mean with skillpoint requirements or anything like that just rather the player himself. We often get applications from people who don't idle in our public channel, don't fill in the form properly and give wrong api keys. Generally speaking we are now auto-rejecting these applications; we put a lot of time and effort into recruitment, I don't think it's too much to ask for a properly filled out form?

And on that note, our official recruitment process is in place to protect YOU. In ENL-I we don't restrict any type of gameplay and this means we allow our members to scam. We do have guidelines, such as don't be overly horrible, but it's basically a free port over here. Scamming is a legitimate way of making ISK and although it's not my thing it's not my place to stop my members from doing it. As such, one of my members managed to scam not just 1 but 2 people out of a total of 25 billion ISK. Seriously.

Our guidelines on scamming are: No scamming current applicants, no scamming from a character with an official title (such as Recruitment Officer), plus some more. We literally get people convo'ing non-official recruiters in ENL-I asking to join. You're setting yourself up for a fall. Do it right or risk the consequences.


Ciao for now

Corp sounds pretty sweet with lots of good fights and whatnot. Is there much on AU TZ presence within the corp though? I'm on the hunt to get back into an 0.0 corp and flying alongside TEST always proved fun - I just want to make sure there will be activity during *my* peak gaming time.

Sweet, got some more info about activity around my TZ :D

App sent! Time to play the waiting game :D

Business as usual

This weeks update will be brief.

The war in the North is officially over. We got a grand total of 3,101 kills during the campaign although to be fair a lot of that was structures. It was interesting to see how everyone coped with the aftermath - some alliances such as NCDot just kept their heads down and accepted it whereas some actually told their members they actually forced the CFC back and forced us to sign a new treaty. For those newbies reading this, this may not make a lot of sense, ~EVE politics~, but I always find it interesting how other alliances deal with political issues. Anyway, that's all over.

New deployment for TEST as a whole; Delve (they stole my idea man!). We are now blue with Pandemic Legion again and fully intend to have some fun in Delve. No structure shooting, just fights and hotdrops. We've already made Nulli Secunda mad.

The tax rate in ENL-I was set to 0% for this week, partly as a reward for us having record participation in the North and partly to give people more chance to make ISK to buy their Burn Jita and Delve Deployment shizzle. Aren't I a nice CEO? (wasn't my idea)

I'll end with... I'M SOOOO CLOSE TO GETTING MY TITAN!!!!!

Bump for nice corp.

Yes yes, calm down children

Recruitment has been reopened! Our deployment in Delve has been extended and, placing our confidence in our stringent security checks, we have reopened recruitment to give you people a chance to witness the fighting first hand. Feel free to drop by our public channel ENL-I for a chat.


The fighting...

We've been doing a fair bit of fighting this past week. Yesterday saw an amazing fight: We were in a Drake fleet, the enemy had 3 fleets (Abaddons, Tempests and Nagas) and we were seriously outnumbered. Shadoo from Pandemic Legion was our FC. Seeing that many hostiles on field and being so outnumbered was a little nerve wracking but Shadoo kept his cool. He knew completely how to fight each of their differing fleets and how to get their numbers to work against them. So we engaged the Tempests first; they were Autocannon fit, so close range, so we kept our range and pummelled them. The nagas were getting into range so we kept moving, keeping them out of serious damage range.

There was some crafty manoeuvres going on, them getting warp ins on us, us on them, it was pretty exciting. We had a spy on their comms who called on our comms whoever they primaried, giving our guys a split second to call for shields before being hit. It was very fast paced. Then the hellcats came in. We were losing a lot of ships but we were killing a lot too. With 3 hostile fleets on field we moved away, warped off to a safe spot and called for reinforcements. I reshipped in 1DH, got back to KFIE on the Titan and then another 50-60 or so of us who had reshipped joined back in the fray. Then we started brawling again, keeping at a distance from the hellcats and tempests and getting up close and personal with the nagas.

At one point we got a warpin at zero on the nagas, who were long range fit. "Bubble now!" Shadoo screamed, and the bubbles went up and carried on going up in the direction they were aligning to. "Freefire, A-Z". The nagas were decimated, the remnants left the field and left the fight. One fleet down, two to go. We warped back in on the hellcats and started dealing some damage. With the nagas gone we could more effectively control our range in our trusty drakes, the high dps tempests and abaddons not being able to get into their optimal range on us. We really laid into them and before long they left the field.

We were outnumbered and seriously outgunned. It goes to show just how much a good FC can turn the tide. Battle report found here: https://kb.pleaseignore.com/?a=kill_related&kll_id=447354 - you'll also notice ENL-I had 17 people in fleet which was satisfying to see. This was in AUTZ, not even our strongest and yet we're still putting in good numbers into fleets.


More updates

We're still moving forward as usual. Trying to get people into dreads (building them for them with 250mil discount), helping people into carriers, working on the academy and trying not to cause too much drama. We're having a laugh and enjoying ourselves. No CTAs, no harsh rules, just lots of fun. We're loving being in TEST.

Oh, and we just took second spot on TESTs all time corp killboard! Not bad for 6 months work? Linky: https://kb.pleaseignore.com/?a=alliance_detail&all_id=499&view=corp_kills

There's been a fair amount of fighting in Delve today. Here's just one: https://kb.pleaseignore.com/?a=kill_related&kll_id=451839

I also got to take my dreadnought out for a spin, bashing a couple of towers. My heart began to race when a neutral appeared in local, was hoping we would be hotdropped (I had my drugs so I could tracking-blap!).

Recruitment is steady. We've brought in a spate of high-SP players this week, one of which had over 120mil SP! Alright for some eh?

Delve is hotting up as TEST takes more and more sov!