Intergalactic Summit

I believe your assumption about him is absolutely correct, ma'am. The reason might be a banal CDS.

In any way, I also believe you to be the most experienced and efficient Drifter fighter. Your authority in questions regarding Drifter menace is indisputable.

Perhaps you would be so kind as to reference what Drifter killing method you seem to infer I proposed on IGS.

I believe I simply offered my experience at a using new tool for fitting ships that I have tried in its beta state and thought it might be useful to other pilots who are going up against Drifters. Oh my how horrible of me.

Somehow my saying that an engagement that had no casualties when destroying multiple Drifters was impressive and a better option then withdrawing when numbers climb to five or above as we do, has been twisted into some claim of me being an ace Drifter killer. The jump from what I said and the reaction is a leap into the wildest imaginings possible.

I can not control the wild baseless imagination of other pilots.
In fact it is all too common for pilots to jump to a conclusion, without fact number one, and then post an angry retort to whatever transgression that only ever existed in their mind.

Perhaps you might consider what has sparked your apparent anger?
Could it be my constant trumpeting of my superior combat skills against capsuleers?
But wait, I do not do that. I am an industrialist, in a small corp and very proud of it.
Could it be my politics?
I have put them aside for efforts regarding the Drifter threat, it seems like not everyone has been able to do so.

A careful review of my comments in regard to Drifters will reveal no actual barking or biting, unless the reviewer is predisposed to saying that against their political adversaries. Which really is of little surprise.

Please post a copy of the claim you say "I" made regarding a loseless method of combating Drifters. I would find it illuminating.

That implies you have a method for killing them when they are in numbers up to five. It may not have been your intent to imply it, but it does.

No insult taken. I understand the mentality.

For me the fundamental difference is when I read someone had performed so well against a shared threat to the entire New Eden Cluster my initial reaction was to be impressed, tell them so, and inquire as to how exactly they did it.

Clearly that is not acceptable to you and many of your friends here.

Thanks for the invitation Pilot Jenneth but I can't trust that your imperial friends wouldn't attack me on sight due to Gradient's current status of fighting alongside the TLF or the attitudes of pilots like Kim, Vea or Tash-Murkon.

Maybe at some point in the future if you can gather more Gallentean or Matari pilots I'll join.

Firstly, ARC is not an Amarr organization. They are Caldari. ARC is happy to take anyone and is very good at teaching new pilots how to survive in Hives.

My group is more exclusive and based on who I know and wish to fly with. Right now I would not look to recruit you into it, but that might change in the future. I will say that I am looking for maximum effect against the Drifters and I am not too picky about how that is accomplished. If someone is killing Drifters, then we're friends for the day.

Just mind you. Staging ground is inside Amarr space so if your standings with them is -5, you can expect to be shot at by the Imperial Navy after a minute of floating around in their space. As such, do not undock until you received the instructions to and stay mobile until you get to lowsec, where the operations take place in.

Doctrine ships are all cruisers so this shouldn't present a problem.

I am a bit perplexed here pilot Priano. If I am willing to fight with you how could I effectively do that when you refuse to share fitting doctrine?

I think I see that pilot Vea has a separate group that uses perhaps a different secret private fitting doctrine but how would someone on the outside know that in advance?

As a CEO I have learned that sometimes institutional knowledge is confused with common knowledge. It is easy to think things we know clearly are known to everyone else, that is frequently and I must emphasis this, far too frequently not the case.

The inner workings of how ARC functions with it's supporters might be very clear to all those actively involved, but it is not so clear to people on the outside.

I post this not because I think you'd ever actually fly with me, but because the shared goal of making sure the Drifters do not one day overwhelm the New Eden Cluster is extremely vital.

Questions asked by outsiders should be answered when possible and not viewed as espionage without fact based reasons to classify them as so. Other pilots may have questions and now might not ask them or effectively join in the fight against Drifters because they are not a part of your popularity clique. I think that is not what you intend but it is a very real possible outcome.

Perhaps you might consider posting a policy statement about who can and who can't participate. What areas are for public access and what areas are not. Like fits as an example.

Sometimes when you state that all supporters will be welcomed people might believe you mean it only to find out there are some political points of view you find incompatible with your operations.

I doubt this pilot and I would agree on many things politically, but I would take him at his word on flying in fleet combat with him until he proved that I couldn't.

I think many people believe that is the current policy of ARC in terms of fleet participation, the fact that it is not should be made clear so others do not make the mistake of expecting a policy that does not officially exist.

Ronin, the arc's doctrine fits are on their channels motd. It's basically a rapid light missile launcher caracal or a scythe (pretty sure, I grabbed a caracal for the next fleet in my operating time).