Crime & Punishment

Disbanded the alliance after 1 day?

Terrible.

Malakye Appleton you need to keep your guys from chatting smack in Jita local to us so this doesn't happen again.

Trying...hard...not...to...

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAA *sharp intake of air* AAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA

Though I think you guys aren't as great as you say you are, I do have to tip my hat off to you. Well done...

So, yeah. That happened.
I decided to form an alliance, just because, never know when it will come in handy for a worthwhile corp that wanted to join forces.

Later, I'm having to leave to spend time with my wife and before leaving I see Chayne chomping at the bit to get into a fight with VMG on the dock. He's already pissed off Holey who basically bailed on us without a word (after launching the Alliance and ultimately booting all support from the wars giving him a clean way out, which was fine. He had a lot of war decs going and having VMG staging 10+ ships on us all over didnt make things easy.

Before I left, I told everyone not to engage or do anything until I returned. I wanted to know how many VMG were in system and surrounding systems before anything happend. I leave, and come back a little later to find almost 2b in loss mails and a bunch of gloating VMG.

Apparently, someone who had recently left Vendetta proposed to Rep Chayne in his Vindicator (which I helped pay for by the tune of 500m and will likely never do again) so Chayne and another new recruit that was apparently a friend of his proceeded to engage to of course be blopped by 10 ships while HoleySheets apparently blew up the Logi ship repping Chayne.

A perfect set of lossmails for a brand new alliance because some people have their own agenda and no respect for what others in the corp are trying to accomplish. I then get a private convo from Khromius gloating and threatening me personally.

I honestly take the attention I've been getting from VMG as a compliment considering I've never been anything but respectful and honest with them or regarding them. Yet, somehow have become their #1 enemy. That tells me I'm doing something right. Why would a huge merc alliance be paying my little corp so much attention? Not only that, but targeting and threatening me personally?

VMG can blop people with many ships. They can kill idiots who have more balls than brains. They can go after small corps and over power them with numbers while avoiding real fights with similar sized corps through means of blue alliances.

What I've been working on with Voynich is something very different than what VMG or most of the other large corps do. I'm not looking to blanket war dec or engage large corporations with blop fleets. I think of Voynich as more of a Private Eye service for smaller corps or industry corps catching a bad time by other corps looking to prey on them and cant afford the hefty prices associated with hiring the larger corps. I'm not too proud to say that VMG and Arch and several of the other merc corps are bigger, more powerful and have more numbers, but some also handle themselves like children on many levels.

One of them claimed to be a 43 year old family man and I was shocked. I know this is a game, but to read what this guy was saying and to have him reveal his age just really surprised me. It showed me that there are certainly people who play EVE to grab onto an element of power over others they can't obtain in the real world and abuse that power like a child burning ants with a magnifying glass and laughing about it. Just seems odd to see grown men acting that way. Like a child bullied in school becoming a police officer and his ego exploding on the job as he acts like someone smoking a joint at a party is a capital offense.

I guess what I'm saying is I've learned a lot in the past week alone as I am always. VMG wants to hunt me and boast and brag about their "leetness" when the reality is, there is nothing elite about them. Strength in numbers is about all there is to it really. We played station games with them the other night and they wouldn't engage with several of their pilots in system because they knew we knew it was an off time for them and it would have been an evenly matched fight had they engaged and both sides would have lost something. Do I blame them? Of course I dont' I wouldn't have engaged either. But I also wouldn't be parading around bragging about how "leet" I am and then adding insult to injury.

In any case, I appreciate the lessons over the past few days and better know the value of trusted corp members who listen and and respect the banner and corp mates while also not being so trusting of unknowns. I also made the mistake of not trying harder to reel in all of the trash talking in local but, what I couldn't control I removed from the equation.

I am curious though...Holey and VMG have obvious history and while I was made privy to an email from Holey to Khromius with Holey basically calling out VMG to war dec him because they were all skill less blop pilots who cant stand on their own two feet without being held up by the others, I wondered why VMG decced me and my corp instead of him....very odd to me.

Ah well, let the games continue. :)

lol I'm not really salty.
Maybe we will get the other stuff checked at some point.

You have to admit, the psychology of some of the players is interesting to say the least.

I'll agree that some of my guys joined Holey's bandwagon and **** talk you in local. I wasn't happy about that and tried to smooth things a bit but everyone on both sides were acting foolish.

I've also removed them from Voynich, for multiple reasons.

Yes, I got a bit offensive with Khromius in his convo because the way he was acting was really rubbing me the wrong way and there was really no reason for his messaging. I was letting him know that his threats and ego and everything else he was spewing at me was really just too much and way too serious for a video game. I have a lot in my life and this game is just that. A game. I'm not looking to grief people or try to burn them into the ground and I certainly dont have time to listen to someone threatening and verbally assaulting me either. I just want to play with my digital ships and feel immersed when I dont have everything else in my life pulling me.

Everyone who plays EVE has a lot invested to achieve anything but some take it way too far.

There is a lovely little x at the top left corner of all chat windows...
There is also a right click/block for those people you especially cant be assed dealing with.
I recommend both these options int he future. Try the first one first and the latter if they don't get the hint.
That said it seems you solicited this and now can't handle the heat. Smack talk of any nature should be in game and the second you bring RL into it you lose all respect from myself and many others.

I wish you the best of luck with your endeavors cause quite frankly after this your going to need it if you wanna stick about in highsec merc work

Just pray your not a sheep, this could get messy otherwise.

Whatev

And those people are no longer in my corp.