Crime & Punishment

Hi

It's a serious question

For instance, a corp is decked by P I R A T alliance, T3/faction BS pilots.

They contact wh0res in Space, Marmite and are told "sorry, we are allied with these guys, we can't help you"

Now forgive me if im wrong but the meaning of MERCENARY is they have no loyalty's to anyone but ISK.

What is the point of being a mercenary alliance if you won't take contracts agaisnt viable targets that will actually fight?

Because from where im standing, Marmite, P I R A T and Wh0res are cowards who only deck targets that can't fight back.

How can they call themselves mercs when they wont fight actual mercs, which is stupid

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Please, sumone explain this to me, cause atm i feel nothing but contempt for these alliances.

There are more mercs out there than just Marmite and Whores. Why cry on the forums that these particular alliances won't do what you want instead of looking for somebody who will?

No, that's not it at all. I remember Zeus Maximo starting a shitstorm on these forums because Marmite joined a war against them as allies of a defender, demanding that mercs "honor the contracts of other mercs". In essence, Zeus laid the foundation of this whole "blue donut" bullshit for high sec, where-by the larger mercenary alliances wouldn't help against each other because then, ships could be lost for both sides!

Because even High Sec needs a blue list.

Mercenary:
One who serves or works merely for monetary gain; a hireling




Odd this, no where in its definition does it say they have no contacts, friends or alliances.

As far as I know, when you contact an entity to hire them, they have the right to refuse service for any reason including, but not limited to the status relationship between your group, your enemy and the standings of the mercenary to both.

I also hear there are only a few merc groups............................

Confirming that Anya Klibor, the master of Merc Politics, has spoken and trounced my words. I shall lead the day with a heavy heart, knowing I have been crushed. Mercs actually have no friends and just follow something called "honor."

AAAAW

show me on that plush Drake where the evil BS touched you

There are no Mercenaries, only Griefers (outside of maybe spacehonourable groups like Noir., but they are pretty terrible and nobody worth a damn actually takes them seriously).

Your average run of the mill group of high sec internet spaceship warlords masquerading about as 'mercenaries' are mainly just griefers that think there is some equivalency to ganking industrials, frigates and mission runners and actual fleet brawls; and to each their own, many pilots (even some decent ones) started exploring PvP in this very manner, which- while not necessarily the pinnacle of skill, anything that gets players comfortable with other players exploding is a good thing I guess.

It is sad however, that many of the groups currently cavorting about in this fashion have been doing the exact same things for years, equate whatever garbage tier nullsec group they flew with to the nullsec experience and generally have the fitting knowledge of whatever was posted on failheap (if they aren't completely ****) and battleclinic (if they are). These are also the same people that think killboard stats actually mean something, the top 20 on EVE-Kill actually means anything other than recent activity, and K:DR is a valid measurement of skill.

Every group in EVE will no doubt have friends, but setting the majority of the competition blue just makes for a dull experience (or at least it would from what I remember) especially for no other purpose than having a relatively uncontested trade hub undock to mercilessly kill shuttles and what not on (You can always ask for help without setting standing, sort by ticker is super helpful).

Surely there are a few groups out there that actually do the deed and run locates, leave a pipe, and take the fight to their would be enemy that they are being paid to oppress, and hopefully that would be enemy would embrace the fact that somebody ludicrously paid internet spaceship dollars to be war dec'd and will take up arms; but in reality- they will lose a handful of ships, maybe kill a person from the aggressing corp, and play skill queue online for a week.

In almost any situation, you'd be better off doing the fighting yourself and learning from your mistakes- but EVE is a terrible game full of terrible people and what appears to be mindnumbingly boring and stupid to one person, is another person's blissful weekend happily wasted.

So, you want real mercs to take on P I R A T?
I hear good things about Pod Repo and Devils Warriors.

Might check there.

D.

Because 00 alliances have no friends.... duh...

@OP : Stop the crying..... But but but buttt....