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The Stealth Syndicate was chartered with very specific goals in mind.

Sovereign Pact: The Holding Corporation of the Stealth Syndicate and an accord between the Stealth Syndicate and other Alliances.

* Training new players. Training old players.

* Daily mining ops.

* Daily pvp small gang roams in hi sec (when there is a war dec) low sec nullsec (usually Geminate)

* Daily hi sec mission running ops.

* Spy v Spy ops in hi, low and null sec.

The Two Goals of the Stealth Syndicate

An alliance created to maintain and defend its autonomy and the autonomy of the individual players who are its members. We do not wish to be the puppets of some larger organization and we do not want any puppets in our alliance.

We also want an alliance that has a structure and a situation that forces us all to constantly play better.

How we will do this.

1. We will create a network of influence using industrial PvP, Military PvP and Spy Vs Spy.
2. An alliance without expensive infrastructure to defend so members can keep their ISK in their pockets.
3. An alliance where a three pronged approach Fleets, Spies, and Economy are used, and everyone respects players who play the game differently than they do.
4. An alliance where the rules are clear.
5. An alliance where geographic dispersion is balanced out by a strong Alliance govt.
6. An alliance that consistently demands better play from its members.
7. An alliance with a strategy.


Economic PvP (Industrial) Players

We need Merchant Princes. The wheels of Industry can't ever stop turning. This alliance is being run by people intelligent enough to value and respect economic pvp. If we aren't able to produce better cheaper and faster than our opposition they win. We will be creating a flexible economy with production in hi sec with trade routes into nullsec. In other words we want you to have the absolute highest profit margins the game permits. You will be expected to support the Alliance with goods and cut rates, but the markets will be all yours.

PvP Players

This alliance is designed for small gang pvp with an emphasis on the black ops fleet, the stealth bomber, recon ship, and black ops battleship. That's emphasis. Not requirement. We will need all types of pilot except one. We will not need cap and supercap fleets to protect fragile infrastructure. (If people want them though, they can have them.) Mobility and quality over quantity and strength.

You will be in NPC nullsec and nearby areas, nonstop pvp. You will never have to look for people to fight with. They will be waiting for you, every time you undock. Yet you will have the flexibility to leave and take a breather. Using jump clones in our targeted areas of influence in different regions around the map, the entire fleet can decide to be somewhere else, whenever we want.

All Players

You will be part of a team where everyone is respected for the game they play. Lack of alliance infrastructure means we all keep our ISK to buy our own ships and play the game of our choice. And we'll have made something that will demand better EVE play from all of us, right through to the top. Now that's saying something.

EVE Online And Your Central Nervous System

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=153013&find=unread

Hey you guys!

We got PHILOSOPHY going on in the Vomitorium Emporium. You oot philosophy going on in your public channel? How about socciobiology? Huh? Huh?

I thought so.

with a slightly condescending wink and a slightly self important wave

SIXTH VERBAL EXERCISE: Practice getting information from your conversational partner while giving as little as possible in return. Note: this is the exact opposite of our usual pattern where we are blabbing about ourselves while ignoring everyone else as much as possible. A very light touch with this or anyone paying the slightest bit of attention to you can become suspicious.

Stay Stealthy my friends :-)

What to Expect In Nullsec
Nullsec is fun. Nullsec is where 10% of the players of EVE live and its the place where 90% of the stuff that happens in the game happens.
Its also a lot more challenging than hisec; and more exciting and interesting. Its where almost all the hardcoriest players play at least part of the time.
I was one of the people who was completely intimidated by nullsec and now I feel silly just remembering it.
What are you giving up when you leave hisec? Well mostly you are giving up the luxury of Playing EVE with only half your attention. People as a rule don't attend mining ops while watching movies in nullsec. You simply do not use autopilot in nullse. You don't get to play on mental autopilot either.

OK. So some of you have already read my comments in New Players: Very First Steps on EVE being a gerontocracy. Its true. The pace of training and constancy of one's progression as you go about your other activities mimics RL in a very real way. I wouldn't change it. I'm the kind of twisted obsessive that doesn't mind taking years to build a character, lay my Secret Evil Plans and yadda yadda. To me its just part of what makes it so easy to react to EVE as we do to RL, especially after we've been playing for a while. Just part of what makes the game so intense.

But there's a flip side to this that you as a new player can exploit once you stop being so worried about being new.

Since EVE is so similar to RL, it takes a lot of RL skills to play it especially to play it well. Look at the clues CCP themselves give us. There's a notepad, calculator, and evemail groups.

So what are the short cuts that make the edge that the more experienced players have even thinner?

In the case of Industry, the situation is not so simple. If you like playing the markets, for example, hi sec is the only place to be. Alliances frown on anyone outside of their leadership inner circle who plays market games in nullsec, and usually the volume just isn't there. The raw materials necessary for manufacturing are located in both hisec and nullsec. At the corp or alliance level, you will be involved with a hisec to nullsec logistics pipeline complete with jump freighters, jump bridges, blocade runners. For the top tier. Manufacturing in nullsec is much more difficult, with limited starbase manufacturing slots usually going to the leadership inner circle. Prices in nullsec are higher, but often not high enough to justify the trouble.
In nullsec you no longer have the luxury of having a CEO who is not politically savy.

EMOTIONAL INNOCULATION #1: Any time anybody says (or does) anything that causes you to be angry--stop. Assume it is a trap. Breathe deeply. Consider the options. (This is especially fitting in instances where someone in your group tells you something that causes you to be angry at anyone other than them.)

SEVENTH METAGAMING EXERCISE: Concentration. Effective spies operate in states of intellectual and emotional uncertainty that would normally be crippling. One of the only actual defenses against this is concentrating on what you are doing at the moment. Concentration, as opposed to say, bitching and whining, is in itself an adaptive habit and it serves as an excellent distraction. You can get into the habit of encouraging a heightened state of concentration as soon as you log on, for example.

Uh oh. Rant coming on. OK. I'm going to say this once and only once and then get back to being "reasonable."

I don't want to hear it because this is EVE. I know you've played other MMOs. I've played those too. And they were great. But they were made for kids. EVE is made for grownups. You play it the way a grown up plays. With patience. For the long term. And you have the option to play EVE almost entirely for the metagame, and that puts it in a class by itself. It takes a lot of real life skills to play EVE well. Kids don't have a lot of real life skills so they don't like EVE. They need ingame skills. They need to be a 500 Level cybermage and they need it in 3 weeks. They can tell you a lot about how their Sword of the Biggest Male Member works but they haven't got a plan further away than the next 2 hour adventure because in their MMO they don't need one and that's great.