Wormholes

You mean like your rule that we have to pod? You play your way, let others play their way.

They were not too happy with our Ishtar Army last night, but it was nice to see people for fights

I like snarky - it suits you. Your 'rough' interpretation of what I said is..... bad. I'm reaching out to my contacts in CNN - they need more guys like you.

Delusional and condescending don't really suit you, but fear not, I've contacted the boys at Fox News and they have a spot reserved just for you!

you fail to understand the point

i cant be bothered. if were in a fight pods will be killed without second thought, we had some smartbombing tengu that sent several home.

but once the fight is over, i am not going to chase pods through my system. i am not going to camp my static for endless hours try to catch those pods. the only thing they can do is selfdestruct. and what could i possible gain from them selfdestructing? i cant even scan down their corpse.

the pods in my system are dscan clutter that i can do without. we let them go back, they are out of my system, they are where they want to be, everyone wins. The fact that they can fight again against us or maybe even you is just the cherry on top

There isn't a rule to not pod, in all fairness this just happens between groups that skirmish in w-space more often, it's just a courtesy thing cause the next day we might just fly together vs someone else.

(cept Bane ofc, the APB stands for allways pod Bane.)

It's always dependent on who is there, if there is a corp that just always pods post fight, I'm sure they can expect the favor back at them if the role's are reversed.

I didn't even know we were still active in WHs anymore...

shh we are cloaked

Nobody in alliance knows where we come from, but they are happy when our fleets show up.

I view wormholes as group voracious tribal bands living under a isk faucet, drinking together one night and heartily brawling together the next. W-space can be Valahala, a eternity of good food, good booze and good fights, or it can be Nastrond where you fly ships of toenails and writhe around in snake venom.

Yet, I like pod kills. I'm also too lazy to try for them, especially vs people I respect or who might have reinforcements coming. In a 20v20 it's easy enough to afford a hic/dictor. In a 2v3 it's not worth the dps or utility loss. When I get a clean sweep or catch someone failing to roll a hole correctly I'll shoot there ship but I'm not gonna hold it on field while I bring a bubble or hictor**.

I'm not saying people shouldn't pod or that they should seek gf's instead of wins. Just realize that if you consistently seek wins over something resembling a gf your gonna find people pos'ing up and logging off instead of fighting. You view wormholes as the wild, untamed frontiers where everyone and everything must be killed so you can live alone in peace with your friends? Burn/pod/blob to your hearts content, that's certainly a valid view and one that I had when I lived in a c6. You want fights? You want people to match fleet comp/size? You want more than 10% of wormholes to have active corps that will fight? Make losing fun. Make people feel like they had a chance, had a good time even when they lose. Ask yourself "What would random lowsec pirate living in Tama/Rancer/Amamake do here?" and then do the opposite.

*Yeah it's a loaded term, sue me. My definition is:

Approximately equal fleets, both fleets had an equally effective trick (every fleet has a trick, or is a bad fleet)
No one excessively brought reinforcements (3 person fleet brings in a cloaky loki scout, fine. 3 person fleet has 8 people log in, it might be gg but it's not a gf)
No one excessively upshipped (Example: had someone hold me on a wormhole a few weeks ago while they reshipped from bombers to t1 BC's to t3 BC's, and when that didn't work to t3 BC's with battleship support at which point I jumped, cloaked and ran away)
No on sh*t posted in local (unless funny or clever and clearly without malice).

**Unless you're from a blobby corp and I remember to turn my damn drones off.