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Hub Zero - Invitation To 0.0 - A Blue Community In Stain

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Aaron
Eternal Frontier
#101 - 2015-08-03 16:58:54 UTC  |  Edited by: Aaron
Dracvlad wrote:
Decided to come down for the PvP against what looked like rather mad Russians who don't have much back up as the main group is now gorging on sov, arrived after a drunken bit of smack in local with a guy that used to be blue, headed up to where the main Russian group was, had some fun fights and lost a ship in glorious space combat. Was fun, its seems like Stain is going back to what I saw in 2010.

Not getting involved in Hub Zero leadership, just supporting where I feel happy and having fun, one day in and all is cool.

EDIT: Came down for the fun fights, sadly there was an impediment to that fun which forced our corp FC to withdraw from Hub Zero leadership and us to go our separate ways, I tried to head it off which meant having to intervene but sadly couldn't stop it, the issue being Aarons inability to follow the acting FC's orders, his continuous undermining of the acting FC, even jumping in to try and take over when he had no idea what was going on and unilaterally making decisions by sending de facto mails on doctrines that the other leaders had not agreed with or had disagreed with them, we just got fed up with that and the drama around it. As a result we have relocated so as not to get in the way of the development of Hub Zero and was able to stay blue with many of the Hub Zero members with one notable exception sadly. One of the blues was the third leader and he has formed his own coalition which we have joined under his leadership.

Hub Zero is now under Aaron's sole leadership which is for the best I think as its Aarons show or no show so to speak, sadly he has reset us and anyone who is blue with us for Aaron reasons, but no matter what happens we wish Aaron luck and hope he achieves what he is after. For my part I thought that a very good and likeable FC who made fleets fun would draw in people, Aaron disagreed which sadly is his prerogative. Roll


Not this time Drac, Your odd way of doing things won't work.

- You're unhappy because I didn't want to give a member of your alliance full control of PVP and I opted to allow anyone to form their own fleets and seek assistance from the community which involves sending mails to the mailing list with details of the proposed PVP op. I feel this is the best way to do it because I wanted to give FC's the chance to shine, I know there is a big rat race within a corp/alliance to be the head FC and I wanted to get away from that because of the fact we are a blue community and not an alliance/corp. I know you'll never understand this point Drac.

- You stated that you are not getting involved in HZ leadership in this very post. Yet you tried to be a leader by TELLING me to put one of your guys as head of PVP. You are the very same one who always speaks of word being bond Drac and clearly here your word isn't bond is it. Shocked

- I have not got in the way of anyone FC'ing in fact I have endorsed it and supported FC's by flying in their fleets and doing what they ask. The truth is that it was your alliance buddy who you tried to put in control of PVP who talks to much and It was hard for any FC to operate with him in the fleet. On one occasion he made a dude feel so negative that he just warped everyone back to dock and then logged off. Your accusations have no basis Drac everyone can see from all the kills we got we were doing ok till you came along. And you are wrong, I did agree that a good and likable FC is great. What I did not agree with is putting this person in charge of everything PVP related.

- As Jenn aSide and myself have pointed out, You'll never accept the environment you're in Drac and you'll always want things changed to your liking rather than just accepting things where you made the decision to join.

- Yes I have set you to neutral Drac because I want a clean break and I wan't to make it very clear that I will never be involved in anything you're doing. I also set the people who followed you to neutral because I want nothing to do with anyone you're associated with.

I'm not emotional about this and I'm seriously not surprised, I was very well prepared for your antics Drac and I'm not taking any of this personal. I'm just going press on and work with the few people that like and agree with my ideals and we will see if we can get more people believing. There's no room in my game for slander and ill-chat so I'll just leave you to it and try my best to ignore you. You really are a Vampire aren't you Count Dracvlad, this is very draining.

Fear no one, live life, be free, accept the truth, do not judge others, defend yourself, fight hard till the end, meditate on problems and be prosperous. Things to exist by. -- RAIN Arthie

Will Gauss
TerminalDogma
Lucky Starbase Syndicate
#102 - 2015-08-03 19:05:11 UTC  |  Edited by: Will Gauss
Aaron, you're silly.
flakeys
Doomheim
#103 - 2015-08-03 19:29:55 UTC
Well took 6 pages this time , i am quite sure last time it took a lot more.


Still i am a satisfied viewer of this soap and can't wait for the cliffhanger this year ... though topping last years cliffhanger will be hard.I think the re-entry of dracvlad and his early exit could have gotten a better scriptwriter but who am i to complain.


STAY TUNED

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.

Aaron
Eternal Frontier
#104 - 2015-08-03 19:45:22 UTC  |  Edited by: Aaron
Will Gauss wrote:
Aaron, you're silly



Ahhhhhhh, you got me! *embarrassed*

I'm Sorry ok. will never happen again you have my word.

Fear no one, live life, be free, accept the truth, do not judge others, defend yourself, fight hard till the end, meditate on problems and be prosperous. Things to exist by. -- RAIN Arthie

Aaron
Eternal Frontier
#105 - 2015-08-04 17:22:42 UTC  |  Edited by: Aaron
Dracvlad wrote:


EDIT 2: Aaron just needs to get on and do it, like he did with the first Hub Zero. I came to Stain and had a great time as a new player in 2010, as I got more experienced and knew more about the game I moved on into Sov space. Aaron creates interesting content and is very good fun for newer players who want to do small team stuff. If you are interested in playing Eve as it should be when you are new and excited and have limited PvP experience then Aaron and Hub Zero would be a good bet, I can assure you it will not be boring.

The criticism I have above are because we are all old players with high SP and a lot more experience than Aaron in different areas of the game, Aaron is more focussed on how to get the best out of newer players in Stain, so of course we cannot agree, but that intervention on making my corp FC the lead FC was not to try to be a leader in HZ, it was a suggestion so that my Corp FC could deal with poor fleet discipline better which Aaron rejected.


Dracvlad,

I think you should leave this alone now, Your view about me and what I am trying to achieve here is never going to be accurate because you seem to have great difficulty understanding what I type and say. As much as I like the young man you tried to make head FC I would say that he annoyed because he isn't 100% getting his own way with PVP. I mentioned to you that everything I did was talked about and agreed to. I also mentioned that if this young man didn't agree with me then he should have said so instead of pretending to agree with me.

FYI, this is not aimed at just new players It is aimed at anyone who is tired of rules and regulations similar to the ones you tried to IMPOSE on me. I am creating an area of space for cool people who want Eve to be fun and relaxed.

I genuinely believe there are intelligent and mature people out there who want to create an easygoing community, with some relaxed rules that are aimed at helping everybody have fun and explore aspects of the game they may not be able to because they have chosen to remain small.

This venture is aimed at the little guy who is tired of being pushed around and forced into a way of existing within the game, I know that if the free thinkers get together and help organise something it will be great. I'm done falling in line with convention which is what you seem to have done Drac.

Yes you are now an old player and yes you do have experience of the game, In my opinion this game is not just about sneaking up on your enemy and killing him by outnumbering him, It also about analysing the Math and creating fleets that are hard to beat. Back in the day I've seen a fleet of 6 Dominix kill more than 20 Drakes and I would like to do fleets like this myself.

Dracvlad, accept that this isn't for you, you're happy to continue playing the way you would like. Please could you leave this alone without trying to shape anyone's view using your misinformed judgement.

I wish you every success in Stain Dracvlad, I'm sorry I can't set you blue, I feel it is time we both moved on. We have had some great adventures in the past and that's how I would like to remember you, not all this debating and arguing.

Fear no one, live life, be free, accept the truth, do not judge others, defend yourself, fight hard till the end, meditate on problems and be prosperous. Things to exist by. -- RAIN Arthie

McChicken Combo HalfMayo
The Happy Meal
#106 - 2015-08-04 18:37:05 UTC
http://i.imgur.com/9xXoS.gif

There are all our dominion

Gate camps: "Its like the lowsec watercooler, just with explosions and boose" - Ralph King-Griffin

Aoife Fraoch
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#107 - 2015-08-04 23:31:03 UTC
McChicken Combo HalfMayo wrote:
http://i.imgur.com/9xXoS.gif


Are we getting to the good bit yet?
Hemmo Paskiainen
#108 - 2015-08-05 06:39:31 UTC
You might wanna start learning russian, i will start off for you: njet pregam: do not jump

If relativity equals time plus momentum, what equals relativity, if the momentum is minus to the time?

Anthar Thebess
#109 - 2015-08-05 08:06:00 UTC
Hemmo Paskiainen wrote:
You might wanna start learning russian, i will start off for you: njet pregam: do not jump

Why?
Stain is not only about Russians.
I live in stain for 4 years , and don't know more than 3 words in russian.

Funny thing is that the only surviving founder of StainWagon is C0ven , a Polish based alliance - so you could say , start to learn Polish , as when every thing else falls apart we will be there.

During this 4 years in StainWagon i witness 3 times the exchange of russian based alliances that joined StainWagon ranks , so probably this will happen again.
Aaron
Eternal Frontier
#110 - 2015-08-09 03:45:14 UTC  |  Edited by: Aaron
Hemmo Paskiainen wrote:
You might wanna start learning russian, i will start off for you: njet pregam: do not jump


I have a non-aggro pact with members of a Russian alliance who are dedicated to the area Hub Zero is in, the alliance I am on about have lived around here for a good 4 years now and were betrayed by other Russian groups in Stain, It was a nasty affair. I decided to reach out to them and arrange a non-aggro pact because I liked the fact that they chose to remain true to who they are and not join up with the other Russian alliances but still remain in the area.

I may decide to have a look at some of the Russian language so that I am in a position to take part in their fleets and if I become good enough perhaps FC some fleets. I am open to adapting and I am keen to help secure the area.

There has been lots of drama among the people who came here and have now left and I'd like to apologise to the people considering coming here. I am sorry, I know I could have kept quiet and built up my corp until I was in a position to be more vocal. However, what I wanted to create simply was not in line with what the people I was with wanted to create, Hub zero is about being honest but in a constructive and non imposing way. I am an honest person and I will always be straight with you.

I'd like to try this with some fresh new faces and I'd like to get out of the habit of involving people who seem to have a bad impression about me, I have found it difficult to relax around these people and most of my time got spent on debating and arguing.

I just want to keep this simple to be honest, If you choose to come here I will be a big help in achieving your personal PVP goals and will happily fly in your fleets under your command, the only real catch is I'd like the same in return. If everyone who comes has this type of attitude we can really make a safe place for mission runners who can benefit greatly from a LP benefits.

If we take the time here to analyse the content chain here we will see that by having mission runners in an area creates PVP opportunities, this is a fact that PVP'ers can exploit to get their fun, and the mission runners can exploit this by having a safe area in NPC 0.0 to run missions. I hope you can see that if we do this right it will be relaxed fun all around. Lets just take it in turns to fleet command, lets help each other provide ships, lets defy the rest of the universe and show them that it can be done, let us also show them that people can work together and adapt to any situation.

Trust me this venture runs deep, there are people prepared to sell us ships and arms in order for us to achieve our PVE and PVP and economy goals. They got billions of stuff just sitting in a station in Hub zero collecting dust, Lets give them a reason to put it on the market and manage it, lets kick start this economy.

I am still and always will be eagerly waiting for interested parties to contact me directly.

Regards,

Fear no one, live life, be free, accept the truth, do not judge others, defend yourself, fight hard till the end, meditate on problems and be prosperous. Things to exist by. -- RAIN Arthie

Aaron
Eternal Frontier
#111 - 2015-08-10 21:23:51 UTC


I've had a diplo from a large providence corp contact me talking about setting up in the constellation Hub Zero is in and it's got me thinking that Hub Zero has not failed after all. The Diplo seemed very enthusiastic about Stain and seemed sure about coming here, they are a mining corp that are happy to do PVP.

It is rumored that the CFC plan to attack provi, I can't verify the accuracy of this info but if it is true then we can expect some changes in the providence area. At least Hub Zero systems can't be attacked like SOV systems can, this is a clear advantage that I would like more people to recognise and exploit.

I'm actually fine with this becoming a "mini-provi" and there would have to be some negotiation to see if this can be done under an NBSI policy. I don't think NRDS would be appropriate because over 80% of people who come to this constellation are here to attack whoever they can, we are not on a pipe so there will be no through traffic. I'd say do it as NBSI but ensure that friendly people who are neutral are informed and can join the community if they can contribute a small amount of time into the many jobs that need doing around here.

I think we can still do this if the people involved can accept a fun and relaxed way of doing things, I'm also still surprised that more people are not living in Stain as it is a great alternative to the SOV responsibility.

Fear no one, live life, be free, accept the truth, do not judge others, defend yourself, fight hard till the end, meditate on problems and be prosperous. Things to exist by. -- RAIN Arthie

Aaron
Eternal Frontier
#112 - 2015-08-13 21:02:00 UTC  |  Edited by: Aaron
Hello,

It is difficult to get Hub Zero off the ground as I have seen. The main difficulty seems to be difference of opinion and agreeing to something and moving forward with it. I've spent some time telling you how I would like to do this and the response has been limited and I am in-fact down here alone partly of my own choosing. Don't be disappointed, my quest is far from over and I am still dedicated to Hub Zero.

My mistake was to think that people can organise themselves and achieve goals within a community without the assistance of a large corp or alliance, I have found that this may not be possible because lets be honest, most people including myself will simply wan't their own way. Perhaps I've got too much faith in people.

The only way this will be possible is if I build a corp dedicated to securing the area, once the area is secure then we can move forward and start inviting people to blue us so they can PVE and take part in our PVP fleets, the local economy will be built and we would have the finance and manpower to do regular JF runs to Jita, our community will be born. This seems like a great idea for a corp which I will take to the recruitment forum.

I'd like to thank all the people who were and still involved, you have my gratitude. I will be open to chatting to anyone with an interest in gearing up for this and I am still happy to set people blue, If you have read this thread carefully you should have a good idea of how I want to go about doing this so if it is in line with how you operate then give me a call and we can talk.

Thanks for keeping the trolling to a minimum, take care and fly safe.

I will look forward to chatting with you on the next episode of your favorite Eve sci-fi drama Hub Zero. Big smile

Fear no one, live life, be free, accept the truth, do not judge others, defend yourself, fight hard till the end, meditate on problems and be prosperous. Things to exist by. -- RAIN Arthie

Aaron
Eternal Frontier
#113 - 2015-08-20 01:14:24 UTC
Stain is an interesting place, there seems to be lots of fighting going on recently with some heavy losses that could be difficult to sustain. The market is almost dead and 4gq doesn't have much. It would seem that most people are seeking the thrill of victory in pvp and finding that rare mod in pve, they are prepared to take expensive risks for expensive rewards and some people straight up rob others and make a living from pvp loot. This is the Eve ghetto for sure.

Life is pretty good solo and under the radar, I'm planning to benefit from all the carnage by providing the means for people to pvp each other and investing lots in importing goods to F9.


Fear no one, live life, be free, accept the truth, do not judge others, defend yourself, fight hard till the end, meditate on problems and be prosperous. Things to exist by. -- RAIN Arthie

Triethylene
dz crew
#114 - 2015-08-26 20:02:20 UTC
And then you flew to 4gq and got a Tempest, my old Tempest, hope you like it!







Aaron
Eternal Frontier
#115 - 2015-08-26 21:46:45 UTC
Triethylene wrote:
And then you flew to 4gq and got a Tempest, my old Tempest, hope you like it!



Ahhhhhh, ya got me!!

Don't worry man. You seem emotionally attached to Meryl, yes, I've renamed her. Try to accept that she's mine now and shes coded to sync with my pod alone. I'll be sure to run regular diagnostics on her systems and give her a wash weekly and keep her in good working order.

Take care old adversary, Eve is an eternal game and I'm in it for life. I'm sure we will meet again Triethylene.

Fear no one, live life, be free, accept the truth, do not judge others, defend yourself, fight hard till the end, meditate on problems and be prosperous. Things to exist by. -- RAIN Arthie

Markus Reese
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#116 - 2015-08-26 22:56:57 UTC
I am looking forward to success. If player jumpgates can have tolls, then imagine a network of single station sov connections. Stategic networks of freeports. In past, moving stuff was easy, but with sov challenges now, could be cool if can work.

To quote Lfod Shi

The ratting itself is PvE. Getting away with it is PvP.

Deuce McGuilicuddy
Jebediah's Minimally Invasive Salvage and Recovery
#117 - 2015-08-27 03:50:46 UTC  |  Edited by: Deuce McGuilicuddy
Maybe its just the herb, but Aarons last few pages of diatribe kind of read like something out of a Lovecraft story. I kind of feel like someone's gonna dock in Stain and find a bunch of holoreels with the conclusion to this thread, just after Cthulhu shook the station around like a maraca.
Aaron
Eternal Frontier
#118 - 2015-08-28 02:00:11 UTC
Deuce McGuilicuddy wrote:
Maybe its just the herb, but Aarons last few pages of diatribe kind of read like something out of a Lovecraft story. I kind of feel like someone's gonna dock in Stain and find a bunch of holoreels with the conclusion to this thread, just after Cthulhu shook the station around like a maraca.


The conclusion to this thread has already been reached. In a previous post I stated that I would need to ceo a larger corp in order to secure the area. When a good level of security is reached more small corps and solo pilots would be interested in joining. This will take me a couple of years to achieve if I am to do it properly.

You misunderstand me Deuce, this is not some 720 inspired ranting and the fact you see what I type as forceful and bitter means that you have not really understood what it is I am trying to achieve and how I'm going about doing it. In fact I'd say in this episode people were forceful and bitter toward me, lets see, I've been threatened to set someone blue or face a wardec, I was given ultimatums, my access to their team speak was limited.

I'm not bitter at all because I expected most of the stuff that happened.

The conclusion to this thread is that most people in Eve are happy to work within their comfort zone and won't want to come out. It is now my goal to create something as close to their comfort zone as possible. I can admit myself that I have been lazy in creating a corp and recruiting for the specific purpose of Hub Zero security.

I'll be moving Aaron out of Stain for a year or more and joining an old friends corp. I'd like to gain a different perspective on leadership by observing how my friend goes about doing it and learn from how he deals with the rigors of life in Eve.

I'll be back to Stain one day, to liberate it.

Fear no one, live life, be free, accept the truth, do not judge others, defend yourself, fight hard till the end, meditate on problems and be prosperous. Things to exist by. -- RAIN Arthie

Briar Thrain
Arcana Noctis
#119 - 2015-08-28 07:55:05 UTC
It's blatantly apparent that rather than a coalition of blues what his heart really desires is to be a micromanaging corp/alliance leader. Aaron, i suggest that in future endeavors you learn to delegate around the many things that make a group of people work to different people and let the chips fly. Calling what you were trying to do a coalition of blues - and then trying to keep your thumb on everything that happens in said group, is begging for disrespect or disenfranchisement from its members.
Aaron
Eternal Frontier
#120 - 2015-08-28 23:05:45 UTC
Briar Thrain wrote:
It's blatantly apparent that rather than a coalition of blues what his heart really desires is to be a micromanaging corp/alliance leader. Aaron, i suggest that in future endeavors you learn to delegate around the many things that make a group of people work to different people and let the chips fly. Calling what you were trying to do a coalition of blues - and then trying to keep your thumb on everything that happens in said group, is begging for disrespect or disenfranchisement from its members.


I'm not sure if you've understood my goals. I'd like to manage a corp, yes, and that corp would assist a blue community in Stain just as the title to this thread says.To me this was a coalition of blues of sorts, I saw it more as a blue community that was starting up. The keyword here is community which means;

1. a group of people living in the same place or having a particular characteristic in common.
2. the condition of sharing or having certain attitudes and interests in common.

I was looking for adventurous people who are brave and wanted to create a section of null sec with relaxed responsibilities due to it not being sov. I got involved with people who did not share my ideals of creating a community so the outcome was what you saw in this thread.

It was definition number 2 that we failed on, were not prepared to agree on the condition of sharing and we did not have attitudes and interests in common. You speak of disenfranchisement from its members, I must ask you were the people I was with really members? Is the true spirit of membership to ignore everything the founder of a venture says? some of the people who were with me had no idea of the existence of this thread and even refused to read it.

It's fine with me if these so called members are only here for the PVP, but don't start telling me how to organise this if you don't like the idea and want nothing to do with it.

Dracvlad and his coalition of blues seem to be doing well and have got some great kills, I wish them lots of success in achieving their goals.

Fear no one, live life, be free, accept the truth, do not judge others, defend yourself, fight hard till the end, meditate on problems and be prosperous. Things to exist by. -- RAIN Arthie