EVE General Discussion

Miso
Mistress of Cultural Assassination: JF

Intaki freedom fighter and info-terrorist for hire; the enigmatic Miso made common cause with JF during the war against the Taggart Transdimensional Megacorp and ongoing opposition to reactionary state-fascism in all its forms in the period following Ragnar's fall. Her penchant for sex and violence beyond entirely sane proportionality has made Miso a media star across the gallente federation, with sales of of her steamy earlier work in the billions.


Josephine
Kestrel Whore First Class: JF

A one-time freelance pilot and poster child for the aspirational ethics of the Caldari state. Josephine has made a legend out of pragmatic good sense and worldly awareness of shortcomings in the political fancies others become consumed by. She also mixes an extremely good cocktails.


Jasmine Constantine
VP Mayhem and Slaughter: JF

Jade's cousin by genotype, Jasmine is an entirely more forceful and direct personality, favouring precision engineering and vast collateral damage as fine adjunct to the shock and awe of her unrestrained gallente sexualty, Jasmine is twice as dangerous when she is being charming.


Charity Regard
Toybox of Temptation: Asgard Ind

A fine upstanding representative of the Caldari society, polite, intelligent, witty, and always ready to lead a hand to the least fortunate amongst us. Charity Regard is a human byword for respectful decorum and immortal tact. Tempted thus, who amongst us could truly be without sin?


DB Preacher
Dream of Dark Intentions: Reikoku

A hard drinking fast loving heroine of the Venal civil war, DB Preacher founded Reikoku on the principles of reckless bravado and total disregard for personal safety. Its therefore safe to assume that her tastes in the Boudoir are hardly less extreme, or lacking in artful spice.


Hellena
Temptress and Headmistress: Red Light District

Born on a beutiful tropical planet, Hellena grew up knowing what beauty was, and how to satisfy. Hearing the call she left to explore and to meet new people to pleasure, particularly a red haird Gallentean woman whom she adores. space can be lonley..care to keep me company?




Are you a lady of taste and refined sensuality? A wild amazon of fleeting moods and electric passions? A diva or temptress, a sinner or a saint? "La Maison" has openings for all, and we welcome applications from appropriately talented would-be hostesses from around the Eve star cluster.

The hours are as whim dictates, the service as one's heart does bid, the rewards as rich as risk may find when staked in peril in the game of love and fine desire.

All we ask is boundless wit and some small nod in the direction of civilised inteplay, (though fast betimes the opposite may serve as well to play in close poetic fine refrain.)

The wages? Ha, let noteriety and fame be wage enough and if the gentlemen (and noble ladies) yet lay tip upon the morn ... well, 'tis fitting thus and no harm done nor fast returned on repute, nor faith, nor wondrous name thereafter.

Applications thence in person to the ladies of the house. And luck and love the close reward of those who dare!

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I don't think you 'get' goons.

**** you ender, stealing my thunder

Quoting an arghy post.

Without radical improvement in the actual wardec mechanics (ie win conditions, attacker consequences, ways of tracking the result) there is no point to having mercenaries in a defensive war because they can only involve themselves in 2 week random stints and can do nothing to make the attacker actually lose. If the defender does actually pay a large amount of money to a merc for a defensive war the the attacker can score a "victory" simply by docking up or logging off or waiting out the 2 week period then continuing again.

Point is there is nothing a merc can really do to oppose the incoming wardec. This is why in eve as a whole over the last five years the merc profession has become something that does specialized short order contract work rather than joining in on hisec wars. You hire mercs to blow up or defend a POS, you hire mercs to give you security for a big logistics move perhaps, you hire mercs to clear a system of enemy Customs offices. These are discrete jobs that can be judged on succeed/fail terms and can be paid for (usually wardec fee + bonus) if they are accomplished.

This 1.1 change assumption that people are suddenly going to start hiring professional mercs for billions into defensive wardecs to try to "win" wars is just nonsense and vapour. There aren't more than a handful of professional merc corp/alliances in the game at this point and none of them are capable of doing enough damage to a large alliance that said alliiance would remove a "griefing dec" from a particular target. It just isn't going to happen.

The reason why Privateers, Ophanage and every other trade-hub raiding corp work for cost is that they have fun playing the game that way and they appreciate that nobody is going to pay them to "have fun". The quid pro quo for those guys was always "pay us the cost of the dec and we'll dec." This will remain the defacto in 1.1.

Only change is that now this kind of corp (and the mercs) will need to pay to gain access to defensive ally slots to offset the increased concord charge (increased from zero to X). It will make a lot of sense for resting mercs to pay us (for example) 20,40,80,160,320 even 640) per 2 week cycle to get access to the goonswarm wardec because its still a discount on the 500m a week they would otherwise be expected to pay.

But this isn't going to lead to a renaissance in merc profession with people paying X to professional mercs to join as a defensive ally. That won't come unless CCP deliver a wardec system that comes with teeth to gain a victory over an aggressor that produces an actual payout.

IF (for example) .... the Goonswarm vs SF war could be "won" by us for causing say (50b isk in total damage before they do 50b isk total damage to us) - and if that created a victory boon of 100b isk that came directly from the GS wallet to SF wallet when the war concluded. That would then introduce something that would revitalize the merc profession. It would be worth me hiring Noire mercs or some other effective professionals for X per week and split of the victory boon - because there would be something to actually win.

But without that kind of mechanic - sorry to tell you, but mercs are going to continue being the guys you hire to do things you don't want to do (like shooting structures for 20 hours).

Hey there, respond to my posts that came from your space brothel page, please.

I gotta go do PT now, but before I go, I thought I would share with you all an ACTUAL GOONFLEETDOTCOM LEAK!

That's the thing, I do *get* goons and I was counting on the hilarious replies you guys would make to that post.

Working as intended, it's not a bug, it's a feature!

Goons delivered as always.

I love you guys, no homo.

you mean the one where you make baseless accusations of GSF/CCP conspiracies and expect us to prove they're wrong?