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The crapstorm has arrived

Well ladies and gentlespergs, it’s that moment you’ve all been waiting for…

Everyone and their mother just announced their deployment to Delve.

In the blue corner there is the entire CFC (Goons, TEST (that’s us lol), EXE, FA, SMA etc), Fountain Allies (99%, TASHA) and Pandemic Legion. In the red corner there is Nulli Secunda, Red Alliance, -A-, Raiden (Yes, Raiden!) and INIT.

This promises to be epic!


Off to a bang

This escalation of the goodfights campaign kicks off with a PL spy offline the TCU in RA’s staging system and stealing over 120bil+ in assets and ISK. RA right now are very demoralised.

We’re putting some fantastic numbers into fleets, and they’re happening all day long, even moon time.


Holy crap we need you!

Recruitment for ENL-I has exploded and we’re bringing in more recruitment officers to cope with the demand. We’re looking to expand massively, so come talk to us!

bump for bunch of good guys

Carnage and mayhem

Delve is just on fire right now. The amount of PvP happening down there is ridiculous. The region has consistently been top of Dotlan's "Most violent systems", usually all 5 spots too. There is everything here, from solo roaming, small gang warfare right through to blob on blob and supercapital escalations.

TEST is stomping through the region and we have taken dozens of systems. The fleets are happening throughout the day so there's something happening in each time zone.

-A- & co have also added a new dimension to the fighting by introducing large bomber wings in addition to their main fleets. This makes fighting very difficult because at any moment 50+ bombers could uncloak next to you and wipe your entire fleet out. This certainly adds to the excitement factor!


MOAR MEATSHIELD!

Oh god we need more!!!! Our recruiters have been working flat out day and night in bringing more people into the corp. This is an amazing time to join with PvP happening constantly. There's something for everyone, including frigate fleets, bomber fleets, battlecruiser/battleship fleets, tengu fleets and capital and supercapital fleets too. Whatever your flavour you'll find something to do.

Drop by ENL-I to speak to us about anything.


Enlightened Academy

Updates about the academy in my blog posts will become a regular occurrence for the time being as we gear up for opening day - 1 August 2012!

We've had lots of volunteers inside ENL-I willing to help out in everything, from getting our Wiki ready to being an ENL-A FC. We'll also have a fully stocked hanger in our home system to give out free PvP ships for fleets, as well as skillbook packs.

I'm positively ecstatic about what we're about to be offering new pilots to EVE. For those interested mainly in PvP this is a fantastic way to begin your career!

#Delve2012 coming to a close?

I shall shamelessly plug my Twitter here - EVE_Lovelocke (add me add me!!!) - and say that if you have me added on twitter you will have seen some juicy gossip. Our TIA (Test Intelligence Agency), which has spies in most major alliances, reported several of the Delve inhabitants were leaving, and I released this juicy intel on twitter.

So yea, basically, our continued pressure on Nulli and friends caused a lot of drama and their coalition broke. They also made a lot of mistakes, such as having everyone and everything deployed to 319, which we subsequently hell-camped.

Viking Empire were the first causality. Vera Cruz quickly followed suit. Then Nulli Secunda finally threw the towel in.


What happens now?

Well, although we have technically "won", in a sense, -A- are still active and, as of writing, they just kicked our arse. So our grinding of Delve, Querious and Period Basis will be marred by constant aggression from -A- and their allies.

There is also the possibility of other hostiles entering the fray, although I have nothing concrete I can mention yet.

So the war technically isn't over, but it's winding down a little, but with a possibility of firing back up again.


Upcoming changes to recruitment

I thought I would give everyone a heads up to our upcoming changes to recruitment.

We've just done a huge recruitment drive, adding quite a large amount of new pilots to the corp. So on the 1 August 2012 we'll be closing our doors for 2 weeks, to help us catch up on the backlog of applications as well as allow us to concentrate on the academy. The remainder of August will see recruitment open but only for those with vouches - and we're introducing a "must be a member of ENL-I for 30 days to vouch" rule too.

Moving onwards, from September we'll most likely increase our recruitment requirements slightly to help lower the amount of applications we receive, for a little while. We just need some time to consolidate our numbers.


The Academy!

I'm pleased to say our new academy is already generating a lot of interest!

I had some amazing ideas over the weekend and we'll have some exciting announcements soon.

As it stands, we're on track to open on the 1 August 2012. We have our staff alts in place, in-game channels created and enough people from ENL-I involved to make sure fleets go out regularly.

Stay tuned for more info!

It was a dark and stormy evening in England. There was nothing on TV and EVE was quiet. The CFC was sending out a POS bashing fleet; I decided this would be more interesting than ratting, at least I could troll my fleetmates with "HI GUYS IS THIS THE HELLCAT FLEET? WHAT IS THE TS3 SERVER ADDRESS?" and laugh at their rage. You can't troll rats. Believe me, I've tried.

While I patiently watched a red line appear my jabber client began to rumble. At first I thought the internet had been hit by lightning, but I quickly dismissed that thought as nothing more than ridiculous. So I opened jabber and took a butchers, what I saw startled me and took me a few seconds to register.


The Preface

TEST Alliance recently dropped a new station in a system in Delve, K-6K. This was destined to become our new home. We knew -A- knew of its importance and so we were rushing to get all of our assets there. Moving fleets had been up constantly for a day, and we had been bringing a stash of supplies there too. On this dark and stormy evening we had a couple of moving fleets active, with titans bridging people back and forth as they began moving their assets. Everything was going as expected, until...

-A- suddenly out of nowhere dropped a supercap fleet, and a Tengu support fleet, on a couple of TEST carriers that had jumped to the beacon in K-6K. Watching this was a Pandemic Legion FC who, like me upon seeing jabber, was startled by this. You see, at this moment in time both TEST and PL were active, in fleets, moving assets; for -A- to jump in this supercap fleet it seemed unbelievable, something completely unexpected. K-6K was the lions den, and the lions were awake and exercising their aching limbs. And then, as inexplicable as a placenta, the -A- supercap fleet warped to the K-6K station and began shooting the services (cloning, repair etc).

Not only had -A- jumped into the lions den they then proceeded to go and lie on the dinner plate, sticking two fingers up as they did so. It took the PL FC several moments to react; fortunately TESTs Dysphonia Fera was on the ball and ordered every dictor to undock and begin bubbling.


Chaos

It was at this point when I saw jabber rumbling, and after getting over my startled state I began realising just what was happening. 16 -A- supercarriers were being bubbled, on the K-6K station, and we were gunning for their demise.

The rumble began slowly, presumably because everyone pretty much didn't believe what they were being told - This is TEST Alliance after all, we like nothing more than trolling each other. But there can only be so many screams of "GET IN A DICTOR, BUBBLE THE SUPERS" before you realise you are not being trolled.

TEST Alliance, already with a few hundred people online, began to wake up. People began logging in and before long we had close to 800 people online. As my pos-bashing guns continued cycling, with killing the odd NCDot Tengu, I started rallying Enlightened Industries' troops. "GET IN FLEET, GET ONLINE, SHOUT YOUR FRIENDS, GET IN FLEET, GET ONLINE" etc.


The tools of genocide

As if a medium had predicted this moment and told one of our military director's fortunes, Fras Siabi had only just a few hours previous stocked K-6K up with over 10bil worth of dictors and hictors. With a dedicated tackle in-game channel people were given ships for free to keep the supers bubbled while our army formed.

And we burned through the whole 10bil of dictors.

-A- were concerned by the amount of dictors we were throwing at them. They began burning away; their Tengus focusing on the tackle. And then the moment that makes any hardened FC weak at the knees; Pandemic Legion supers began to log on.

At this point -A- knew they were in trouble and began to batphone their allies for assistance. What they thought was a good idea was quickly turning into a disaster, and so they fumbled furiously, mashing their keyboards, screaming into their mics - save the supercaps!


Too late

By the time -A- realised they were in trouble it was simply too late. TEST was throwing hundreds of dictor pilots at them. And, after all, the supers were on the station, so all we had to do was undock and hit bubble. Hell, we didn't even have to be in fleet.

Fleets began to fill up fast. Secondary fleets began to form. A welp fleet jumped in and began hitting the Tengus, forcing them away from the dictors. Carriers began jumping in to provide reps to the dictors. Bubbles began being anchored.

And then PL supers jumped in. TiDi hit 90%, which gave attacking forces more time to form and to move more assets into place.

Instacanes began hitting enemy bombers. Welp canes burned to the Tengus. Fighter bombers began making their slow journey over to the enemy supercaps. A Hel died almost instantly to a unified firing of Titan doomsdays.

It was at this point a stunning realisation hit me: we weren't hoping to kill one or two of them, we were intending to annihilate them all. This wasn't a battle, it was genocide.

I FC'd a roam today! Was eventful. Killed a Talos and Taranis; lost nothing. Avoided bombing runs, snipers and we killed an armor hac gangs only tackle ship before escaping. They were pretty angry.

More fleets from me oh yea!

Delve... just Delve...

Well several months ago TEST joined up with bum chums Pandemic Legion and we threw a load of gasoline all over Delve and lit a match. The result was a relaxed kerfuffle with Nulli Secunda and Red Alliance.

A bit of propaganda here, a few supercap hotdrops there and the war began to escalate further and further until it became a full blown sov war. As the newly formed Honey Badger Coalition (HBC) began to take space RA/Nulli began to fray at the seams. -A- didn't provide the help they severely needed and so both RA and Nulli retreated from the battlefield and went to lick their wounds.

With resistance at a minimum the HBC swept through Delve and overspilled into Querious and Period Basis too. We quickly began searching for worthy allies to give space to and the HBC began to grow. At one point the CFC came down for some good fights.


Memories

All that though seems such a long time ago. That relaxed kerfuffle and subsequent sov war has transformed into a gruelling, and tiring, tug-of-war with -A- who have finally fully committed to protecting its borders. Whilst we poke fun at -A- a lot, and to be fair they do make it easy for us to do so, one should not forget that -A- a patient and persistent enemy, one which withstood an onslaught from the remnants of the DRF - who were aided by both PL and NCDot - and managed to emerge from that conflict victorious.

-A- are constantly SBU'ing our systems (making them vulnerable), reinforcing our stations and generally being a pain in the backside. Their Tengu fleets are difficult to engage and their bomber fleets make you want to scream. As such we have had to develop a new doctrine, one which can engage Tengus without the requirement for as many special snowflakes (Huginns) and one which can withstand a bombing run. And so the "Fox Cat" was born. Yes, 'cat' doctrines are beginning to bore me too. Crap name aside, this is a fleet of Navy Apocalypse's which have an optimal range of 90km+ and can really pack a punch.


They call it a spitroast

Just when we were solidifying our position in Delve some bad news broke; Red Alliance are to return to the conflict by deploying to NPC Fountain. They have allied with various alliances and are in the middle of reinforcing the entire region. Raiden are rumoured to be joining them.

With Red Alliance behind us, and -A- in front, we literally have PvP all day long. It has been a long and brutal war and it continues on with our enemies wanting nothing more than to see us burn.


We need you (meatshield ftw)

Recruitment is open. We need you to come fight the forever war.

Like PvP? We average over 1000 kills a week. There is literally something for everyone, all day long. Small gang roams, Black Ops, blobfests, supercap battles, carrier ops, the list is endless.

Bob on over to ENL-I.

Well our numbers are creeping back up after the recent purge of afkers. Everyone has been stocking up on stuff for our corp nanohac gangs; can't wait to fc one!

A strange week



Highs and Lows

I just have to begin my weekly blog update with a mention to Vile Rat - a member of Goonswarm who recently lost his life. If you haven't seen this on the news simply google his name and you'll find it. Neither myself nor members of ENL-I knew him well, but back in SMA we did use to speak to him and deal with him in the course of being a member of the CFC. His passing, especially in such circumstances, has come as a shock.

As well as this one of our older members, Kahless Stovokor, has passed away from cancer.

People often talk about EVE's "meta game" by giving examples of spies, corp thefts etc, but to me it is the real-world connections and friendships you forge with people in-game, and subsequent real-world emotional responses that better describe the above-and-beyond-EVE connections. This isn't just spaceships on a screen but a community you become a part of, one which spaceships often become merely secondary, a side-affect. This week I and my corp mates have felt quite low due to these passings.


Highs?

Heaving a sigh and getting my head down I shall talk about the corp and other things which have been good - as hard as it is.

There are a lot of shakeups in ENL-I at the moment in terms of corp activity. We're bringing new managers in to help ensure regular corp ops happen. We're encouraging more fcs than ever. We're introducing our own corp doctrine as well as flying other tried and tested, such as nanohacs. This is a work in progress - being a member of a large alliance you fall into the routine of alliance fleets - but we're getting better.

Perhaps the most positive change which will happen soon is my new better personal circumstances. A while ago (almost a year) I had some bad stuff happen in my real life - which I won't bore you with - which meant I had to become semi-active. Thankfully I had put in place a strong directorate and the corp ran just fine in my semi-absence. We grew to 400+ and made many more achievements. It is as though I haven't been semi-inactive at all. But I have.

Well, my real life is getting better and I shall soon be moving into my new house (hopefully early October). This will have the affect of me coming back full time, which means I'll be fc'ing a lot more (usually every day at least once), being more social on comms and being more active generally. This will no doubt have a positive affect on the corp (I hope) and will result in us growing even stronger.


That's it for now

I'm working on my Around the EVE in 80 Nerds - a project where I visit every region in EVE. I've done the first leg of the journey, I just need to write it up. So keep an eye on www.ENL-I.com for these posts - also keep your eye out for a new sexy design.

Recruitment is open as usual, ENL-I - come chat to us!

Bump for a really excellent bunch of guys, anyone that joins them will have good fun. Cheers Lovelocke o7