Crime & Punishment

I believe code lost on Friday evening, from reports it seems a well planned AG fleet stopped a code gank dead in its tracks, with ew sniping and smart bomb attack, one or two ganker got picked off at the gates on the way to their target, freighter was at 80% hull after the attack, a small AG rep fleet fixed her up and off she went.

Total code fail.

Join in and help save more ships

Also a big shout out to AG anti-bumpers who helped save a freighter on the same night, every action makes it a little bit harder for them to gank

I wasn't paying very much attention to his post, to be honest.

That "bot-aspirant" thing is tired, old, and sad. If you want to seriously hurt bots, get them banned. They need a skill sheet to do the things bots do, and if the characters with the skill sheets go poof, they're back to nothing.

If laziness is what drives them to bot, they won't be back for round two.

I gotta admit, I took a peek on being a white knight and all, jamming catalysts (Actually, WD worked way better), suicide webbing ships and stuff, but it's all boiled down to sitting hours doing nothing with occasional attempt to prevent death with many people not even realizing it, not caring and being very rude when you gave them advises.
I spent quite some time offering free Orca boosts, too. Guess what? The only gratitude I got is blames for me not boosting the days I wasn't on keyboard. Yep.
I spent some time on sexy ore buybacks giving me 1.5% margin. I was being blamed for ripping "poor miners" off.
Then I came to conclusion that average victim is filthy dumb egoistic animal with ragequit being another great victory not for the highsec only, but for EVE as a whole.

Until you spend time shooting carebears it's difficult to understand how much some of them really deserve it.

On the whole they're really ignorant, self interested players with a massive sense of entitlement. All they want is to play the game in the most uninvolved way they possibly can with no goal beyond increasing the quantity of isk they have. They don't want an interesting or exciting game experience, they don't want to produce or be involved in player driven content, hell most of them don't even want to communicate with other players (except of course to brag about how much isk they have, which is usually a pittance).

They aren't players that deserve sympathy or mercy, they're passive participants in the game world, the least valuable kind of player in regards to the health of the game. The pinnacle of their EVE careers is the brief moment in which they die in a fire to an actively participating, content creating player.

The sole value they have in the game is as fodder for others.

Some carebears are literally no good for anything but shooting at. The kind that literally refuse to interact with other players.

There is however the less carebeary variety that mercenaries have a more involved relationship with. The kind who interact with other players but don't really like to take action themselves. These people get in yelling matches with eachother over who gets to mine this ice belt or who has the blingest mission boat then, because they aren't willing to put themselves at risk, hire mercenaries to shoot the other guy. That guy then hires mercenaries to protect him from the nasty people who are shooting him, or to go after the person he suspects of hiring them. Without these carebears the highsec mercenary community wouldn't have very much to do.

Those carebears are fine, regardless of whether or not they do the shooting themselves their actions are driving conflict and creating content in the game. It's the other kind that are deplorable dregs.

Why Vimsy.

I do believe he wants some attention.

*gets popcorn*

He's just mad that he can't string two coherent sentences together.

I doubt my words will be viewed as 100% accurate as I am biased. And by the end I will plug the rebirth of RvB. Still, to say that BAW killed RvB is not accurate either. Final nail in the coffin that lead to ceasing of operations yes, but that form of RvB was already hurting. Activity had been on a steady decline and far too much management was thrust upon too few shoulders. Eventually those shoulders became burnt out.

I mean BAW was not responsible for us not even making an advert for the last alliance tournament and since we did not make the free draw, we lost the free publicity there. BAW did not lead to Mangala's ganked dwindling after he left and RvB losing that form of advertising. Nor was BAW responsible for us having issues with whether to cater to newer players at the expense of some vets or the opposite that lead to internal drama. Plus BAW wasn't responsible for the steady decline of high sec POCO income starting since last January or the drop in overall RvB kills for the same time period that lead us to relocate nor did that relocation help as hoped.

This is not to discount BAW, they were the first to notice our decline and to attack our POCO empire (i believe the more lucrative were given to Brave before BAW could take them). They did also bring fleets that outclassed much of what we could muster in our dwindling state. They were quite formidable. I know if I wanted someone in hi sec to hurt, I would hire BAW. But to make an analogy, was it the Visigoths that destroyed the Roman empire or were they just the first ones to sack the capital of a dying empire? Same with BAW and RvB at the time.

That said, we ain't dead yet. We may have lost our income, but prior to POCOs ae had no income and held a 100k FFA. We are still going now with planned fights, roams, and the usual constant fighting that is RvB. Plus without as much admin troubles, more of the people who helped make RvB work behind the scenes can get out and pew now. Are we as big as we once were? No. Are we rising again, trying to fill the niche of fun fast pew needed in this era of entios links, yes! So join us for some fun fast pew! (told you I would make a recruitment plug).

Edited to add: also much love to all the RvB members who did try to fight BAW. Props to BAW for bring good fights. And props and thanks to all who made RvB work before this, those who worked hard to make sure we survived the transition, and tho those pushing forward!

We took them from Brave. Their effort to defend them didn't last long and was frankly worse than RVBs, we actually lost stuff to RVB, Brave literally didn't cause more than 25% armor damage to a single ship.

But yes it was apparent that RVB was in a pretty sorry state when we went to war with them, and a combination of low activity and absolutely horrifying leadership meant suddenly coming up against an outside aggressor that is actually competent was the spark that provoked all the debacle where the entire leadership jumped ship and announced RVB was dead.

Also for the record Shenanigansbus and Rooney are thoroughly cancerous individuals.