Warfare & Tactics

So i was doing my carebear farming of broken plex sites when this dramiel in the corp Goodex came in to gank me. Funny thing was he was in the minmatar militia. So i warped out then warped back and reentered the site thinking "**** it, it's just some bot". Well he rushed over and warp scrambled my gunless incursus then immediately dropped point.

Now why make a forum post about this? Because of a number of suspicious things I have seen while farming plexes. (Btw i only recently joined the militia and plan to assist my militia mates shortly). Many many many plex farming ships Ive seen around space have the name "111", Probably around 50% of the plexing ships I see. All 111 named ships I see belong to one of three corporations bag eriker corporation3, bag eriker corporation, and goodex. Some members who are not 20 days old have Chinese characters in their bio's, or have very "Engrish" sounding names.

I was curious if anyone knew who these guys were or had similar experiences with them because I am sure these corps are all somehow related.

sounds like a joke about how FW is currently a farmers dream gig. amazing isk with no riak or effort.

I dont think they all are i spoke to one in caldari space seemed a ok guy till i killed him he still says hi when he passes through my system

so dont think all are bots

it's not quite true:
- "no risk": being in minmatar ISK-farming forces ( ) you have only couple of systems where you can do "hard work". These systems are in low-sec so risk already present there (we know: only high-sec is risk-free).
- "no effort" - at least you need to find system, go there, find free plex and start "orbiting".
- there is low amount of systems available: it's not an easy task to find free one
- there is small amount of spawned plexes in system and too many farmers: it's not an easy task to find free one
- there is many bloodthirsty amarr FW pilots want to eat your tasty gunless rifter. It's not completely afk job

Oh herro prwease!!!

Goodex are just a couple of CFC goons - I don't see them around much.

The "bag Eriker" corps though are very much a farming cartel who use quite a few Chinese (sweat shop kids???) to get their farming done. I've seen some of their chat in local and it's mainly Mandarin. One was warning another about his ship name because it was not "111". I have killed a few of them and they use fairly standard incursus fits, curiously PVP fit sometimes. I've also popped a couple of their PVP fit thrashers which 100% failed to do anything remotely PVP like. iirc they were farming too. They had webs and scrams but failed to activate them. They warped their pods out before I could lock. I guess they could be bots - not sure.

If you hassle them, they sometimes send in out-of-corp reinforcements, usually in the form of SFIs. Have seen a loki too which was "protecting" the warp-in gate whilst they farm. The SFIs are usually shield fit but I have seen some armor.

As you said, they usually have "111" for ship name. Most of them will aggressively push their fellow militia out of plexes by shooting them. Who knows, maybe bag Eriker are the Chinese farming side of CFC? Either way, just shoot them. They die easy and in general don't appear to know what they're doing regarding PVP. Quite a few of their toons are a few years old - some having been purchased by the looks of it. My current rule is, if ship name = 111, shoot it. If bag Eriker, run them down like the dogs they are. Yarrrrr!!!!

That is a really stupid and pointless thing to do.

Me being xenophobic has nothing to do with naming all your ships the exact same thing as a policy being stupid.
Also they are Chinese and they are farmers but I was not saying all Chinese were farmers. I was simply stating this corp made of almost all Chinese people from what ive seen do nothing but farm with what I believe to be bots of very stupid people.

Dam now in ganna have to higher Chinese farmers...
Do they still take payments in rice? Oddly enough I have a,large supply

Yes, we took part of it too and State is satisfied. Happily though the matar farming machine right now has very few systems left to farm, most which now result in said farmers turning into a killboard padding and it appears quite a few of them already turned their jerseys to Caldari blue....