Market Discussions

Apparently you have misunderstood, this is an IPO.

A risky investment granted, but the potential rewards are that much higher. You don't have to invest and we're not begging anybody to - we are simply offering people the opportunity to bet on us directly, whilst improving the odds of us winning in the process.

Not to mention if we do go out then your isk won't be filling the coffers of whoever took your bet it'll have been blown to smithereens in glorious space combat. We've even agreed to reimburse a proportional amount of isk from the IPO fund if we leave the competition before it's spent.

So no, it's not begging and you are a below par troll.

Cross-posted over from FHC. It's actually a response to somebody else but the sentiment is equally applicable.




We fully expected to be told we were cunts, or scammers, or beggers. It's just what people do in eve. This isn't a scam and will not become a scam.

Think of [this IPO] as betting on FEARLESS. directly rather than an regular IPO, and at least this way if you lose your isk won't be funding some other bastard's falcon alts. We've also go a reimbursement policy incase we go out without spending all the isk so we've done everything we can to minimalise the risk to our backers.

Contrary to popular belief, most of what Fearless get upto is for fun rather than some burning desire to post a lot of crap all the time. If this means the difference between fielding competitive, entertaining fleet comps that make the tournament more interesting - for us aswell as you guys! - rather than just going through the motions like half the teams rocking (and losing with) their sleipnir fleets will be, then we're all for it.

It remains to be seen how difficult our group is, but there are 3 guaranteed matches and we've scored points in our two previous matches rather then getting dunked, we can field virtually any fleet comp by merit of our high average SP and but for a silly mistake by one pilot who shall not be named, we'd have had a 100% record. Our chances of progressing are no worse than the majority of the otehr 32 teams through.

Not bad going for a self-confessed carebear alliance with less than 20 active members.

Pretty much, you'll have to excuse us abusing the jargon. We've deliberately kept all his as simple as possible for a number of reasons - we only thought of it yesterday, and we can fund the tournament without additional backing. The difference is ensuring we are as competitive as we can be.

That means we can spend more time practising rather than making isk, we can push the envelope with our fleet comps more, and we can stump up for sets of primo hardwirings for all pilots rather than just key ships etc.

As it stands it has already been moderately successful already with a handful of assorted friends and associates helping us out, they all accept the risks involved, only bet what they could afford to lose, and we're ballsdeep in testing at the moment preparing for the group stages.



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Lol - we already know we're **** at Market Discussions Forum mate, none of us have any particular interest in being spaceship hedgefund managers, ponzi scammers or internet investment bankers. This forum is your PvP, not ours. ;)

This is my point. You continue to project the impression that you naively blunder into areas of the game you do not understand, without preparation or forethought and foolishly expect it to end well. This behavior has bungled your MD offering and it's not unreasonable for people to expect the same in the tournament.

I don't think you *get* FEARLESS.

Look at his alliance Lark and think about it.

Except we fully expected to fail horribly but instead we made it into the group stages, even though we had Snake-ThermOdynamic-onnor in our team.
Apparently theres loads of Alliances out there who are even less competent at :Spaceships: than us, it's quite fascinating.

Now you're thinking FEARLESS.ly

Thank you for your support, i wish you well in your posting endeavours.

Strong words, for a post vs post alt

Given you're currently in 21st place and your next match is against Goons, I think there's little chance of you seeing the finals I'm afraid. GL