Crime & Punishment

Hah highsec problems, highsec mercs are hilariously impotent. You too could laugh at their impotence, the benevolent landlords in the north are happy to acquire new tenants.

Eh, getting a war dec from a merc corp is a minor annoyance at the worst. It might mean trying to dock up in time to get a PVP ship before they finish jumping between belts, but normally it just means no visiting trade hubs during the "war." In the week we've been at war with them, they've been in our area twice, for about 10 minutes each time. They've caught a Stratios in a gate camp and an industrial off the Amarr undock. The Stratios had to be taken down by a group of T3s I think, but the Iteron only took one ship. Their skill points are undeniable though.

:colbert: we are terrible at this game.

Will take your complaint under consideration and improve my presence to your lovely area :)

I will try to be more specific because the current situation is kind of confusing.

There are large merc alliances in high sec that complete their contracts off sheer amount of kills. It doesn't matter how they get them, just as long as they get them.

Then there are specialized merc alliances that don't care about quantity but quality. They will do strategic hits on a high value target.

Lastly there are the groups that do the very thing you referenced; dec other people to improve skill.

Everyone in high sec fits into these stereotypes so in a way you are right. When two seasoned merc hunter groups dec each other that is when the pointless effort comes into play. It kinds of like trying to be faster than your image in a mirror. Group 1 loads up in battleships so group 2 switches to proteus's. Group 1 notices so they dock up and change to a neut heavy fleet. Group 2 gets the vibe so they switch to ranged ships to counter Group 1. Group 1 then switches to kite so Group 2 goes all web and sensor dampeners. Then we get back to square one and one timezone is ready for bed.

These counters can potentially happen in every merc war but eventually there is too much effort required for such little amount of results. Why would Marmite keep a perma war with Devils if it shuts down their Amarr sector of kills. People then get unhappy and start to cause negative waves. Then they both have to be on guard which takes away from their task of mass slaughters. Eventually this will lead to a loss in contracts for both sides......

Either way, when people with the same habits meet up they tend to be friends. At the moment every group has their own little "sector" and they seem to be happy with it. Killboard stats are useful for high sec mercs because they help pull in the big money. Why charge 800 mil when your stats allow you to pull in 3 bil? What else would the client look at?

Define "a thing".....

I wonder if Break-A-Wish foundation has 100% efficiency against Whores in Space, P I R A T and Marmite.

Oh look, we do. And we aren't blue with any of them.

I could talk about this all day.

My corporation was once apart of PMCunits alliance.
I lead Whores in Space during their trillion isk months.
And I experienced Immortality with Break-A-Wish and Pendulum of Doom.

What you are saying is extremely logical but "pvpers" in some of these alliances shy away from actual merc fights. Its more of a was to preserve the ego if anything. I remember when Whores in Space decced Break-A-Wish foundation because they were stopping our Jita activities. How do you think we felt, as a 400 person alliance, getting our **** pushed in by 5 guys? Do you think we enjoyed having our main source of income deleted for a week along with multi billion isk losses?

When a major dec like that is put in the defender has 3 options.
1. fight
2. get allies and fight
3. play inactive/uncatchable so the attacker moves on

You would think that some of these alliances would want to brush up on their skill every now and again but you're wrong. They would rather avoid the mess all together and offer right of passage, money, ships, and many other things.

This is where my corporation and others like it come in. After being in whores and keeping track of the scrubs that sucked I've acquired a very nice dec list. I monitor their activity because I know they just want to sit on a gate and recruit dozens more people just like them to join them. All I have to do is let their new corporation flourish for a little bit and then off to the fields I go ready to harvest some baddies.

Hell when I lead Whores in Space I wanted to dec Whores in Space.

Good. Five people kept four-hundred people in station when they showed up. Thanks for admitting that you are incompetent when faced with people who fire back and you can't adapt.

Break-A-Wish best be looking for contracts. I think if people read this crap you'll be inundated with ISKies from people looking for a job well done.

I didn't miss the point at all. I think it speaks volumes that groups like Marmite Collective, the former Wh0res in Space, and all the other larger mercenary groups dock up at the sight of people wiling to shoot back. The hunters become the hunted. I think that speaks volumes about the difference in the groups themselves. I said before that you only need numbers to deny trade hubs. You camp the Jita 4-4 undock, or Amarr and that's about it. The smaller groups hunt their targets and kill them when they feel safe.

There used to be a time when people would look past the kills-losses columns and look at the quality of the kills themselves. Marmite among others has really focused on drawing in lazy people who don't want to do that. I keep telling people to make their money work for them. If you want denial of trade hubs, then sure Marmite is the way to go. I honestly would rather my ISK went to people who will work to prove they are worth it.

I have no issues with Zeus, but I seriously believe he's showing the mentality that the larger organizations have concerning how to fight and the like.