Warfare & Tactics

Well with the fall of Red Alliance( Relocation), Seems the regions of Insmother, Scalding Pass, Geminate, Detorid, and Wicked Creek are all up for grabs, Also seems as though many alliances have started claiming alot of territory for themselves, I'm excited to see who will come out on top of all these alliances, or whose just looking for 0.0 moon goo/PI. Also if you are new and beleive your selves to be a powerful alliance I'd suggest to start taking space lol. May the melting pot begin.

Go Get Some Free Space lol

No.

The whole concept of 0.0 is build upon "boredom". (Blobs demand to wait ages to create a bigger blob. Shooting at structures is even more boring and finally timers everywhere to make sure that you get really bored if you still haven't got it.) So why bother going there at all?

Wicked Creek, Scalding Pass and Geminate....space ghettos all of them space ghettos.

The little worms told me that FAIL is moving to Detorid and ROL is going to get Querious to rent to nubs and botters.

Querious is among the best nullsec areas in eve if you want good logistics to high-sec and you want to be left alone... but it sucks beyond comprehension if you want to get in a fight or roam around... at least now.

Krysis now owns the A2- station (took it over from Evoke a week or so ago). If an upstart alliance is interested in making a first foray into Nullsec then taking the A2- station from Krysis would be a good way to sharpen their teeth (and get a nice prize in the process). Also Krysis are feisty and reasonably competent (albeit a bit introverted) and they'll make either good blues if you can manage that or good reds to have in your space. At least *someone* in Querious is still willing to form up for fun.

Frankly, Krysis could use some reds so it wouldn't surprise me at all if they would agree to SELL the A2- station as long as you were willing to be red to them......

As for FAIL.... they go where -A- tells them to go. I would highly recommend roaming in FAIL space because their main FC (Archibald Hornby) is a off his game at the moment and the backup FC (EvilDead) is... well... you need to see it to believe it. see for yourself: http://fail.eve-kill.net/

Further,

I was in Geminate a week ago. It seems dead now. I guess Brick is taking a well deserved rest. Geminate is pretty fragmented between Brick, who control the front door, and several other alliances.

It's good space (worth fighting over) but nobody there is going to matter on the 0.0 policial map soon. Staging from Maila an upstart can make inroads into Br1ck space but those guys are battle hardened and competent, so it won't be easy. Best approach if you want to move in there is to ally with Brick and go after the UPS bot systems around AP9 and then push south. This isn't *easy* space. There will be lots of reds so It's not like Querious where you can move in because you want to be left alone. This is space that you will have to *take* and then grow a thick skin because there will be reds around every day. I think this could be the most intresting "available" 0.0 area right now for serious upstarts.

RMT Russian space is a bit difficult to grasp, tbh. What I do know from the times I've gone roaming out there (last time was 2 days ago) the entire area was full of bots. Even 2 days ago I was in the asss end of nowhere I cloaked up in a system and about 6 different bots signed on in exactly 10 minute intervals, landed in a pos and logged off again... over a period of about 2 hours while I scouted around for something "human" that I couldn't find.

Since CCP banned a lot of bots lately, one would expect the entire region to be empty but there is still more work to be done. Nevertheless don't think it's going to be a cake walk. If the RMT russians come, then they will come like a 10 ton hammer. Holding space there if you're not renting it, isn't going to be easy. After all the RMT russians aren't called the RMT russians for nothing. They want their rent and they won't take kindly to squatters.

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what are you talking about?

A2- was going to be handed over to fail or cascade, but with RA moving into delve it was cancelled.

Cascade quietly moved out all thier assets but still taking rent for the systems. Then abandoned the renters, cascade and krysis are moving up to curse to be closer to -a-, based out of Ad-hoc afik

I would have to agree with that.

What you'll see happening has already started. RA swung a deal with -A- to give them Detroid in exchange for Querious. Once the drone changes happen and CCP gets a little more practice swinging the ban-hammer there's going to be no reason to be hiding the bots in the asss end of nowhere and no easy way to white-wash the goods.

What I think is happening now is that RA realizes that they need to change the way they make their RMT income so its betting on a new horse, which is to rent Querious to upstarts.... and for that you need space on the door step of high-sec so logistics are easy and the space is easy to rent.

This move by RA may be, in fact, a direct indication that CCP's anti-bot measures are working.

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Or I can stay in NPC null and not worry about logging in at certain times, often redundant politics, and having 1000 man blobs up my butt 24/7

I see.... that's a good showing of teamwork by Krysis. I don't know if I would be so forgiving of FAIL's mismanagement.



Yeah. I heard FAIL left their renters twisting in the wind. I guess they were going for the last minute money-grab as they backed out.

Snuggling up with -A- isn't (IMHO) a good long term strategy for FAIL at this point. -A- swung a deal with RA behind Archie's back and then told him to GTFO and basically "reassigned" them to Detorid. I don't know if you've ever been out there or have lived out there but if EVE online had an anus then Detorid would be the smell that comes out of it. Logistics are mind numbingly complicated and if you say yes to that then your logistics chain will depend entirely on staying blue to -A- which means you don't have a negotiating position with them anymore.

Archie is trying to hold the can of worms together (which you have to respect) and sell this like it was some part of an actual plan but what really happened is that -A- said "bend over" ..... and you did.... and now that the deed is done, Archie is even trying to tell alliance mates that he liked it.

In fact, the time to go snuggle up with -A- in curse is long past. When I was part of FAIL I lobbied vigorously to do exactly that but that was before leadership arrogance lead to the burning of bridges that lead to FAIL basically voluntarily becoming pets of EVOKE in order to avoid a fight and to the current situation wherein the back-bone has turned to mush and nobody dares to say "enough is enough".

Basically Archie's testicles are in severe need of dropping.... and for *many* months he's been avoiding conflict when he should have entered negotiations with (a) a backbone (b) a best alternative for a negotiated solution (BANS) and (c) some kind of plan. As someone who ran a successful null-sec corp for years I can tell you that the biggest mistake a null-sec corp (or alliance) can make is getting bogged down in thinking they have something to lose. In null-sec, mobility is important, adaptation is important and negotiating skills are important. FAIL put itself on a dead end when they agreed to give alliance control to someone who finds all three of those core competencies difficult (or impossible).

.... as an aside to this I must say that I *like* Archie on a personal level and wish *soooo* much that he would have agreed to do what he's *really* good in, which is FC'ing fleets... and leave the rest of this **** to people who had the RL skills.... FAIL had so much potential and one of the biggest disappointments of my eve career is to see them living up to their name.... They deserved (and essentially are capable) of much more. ....

A la.... The only reasonable course of action for FAIL now if alliance leaders want to continute to deliver content, is to cut and run. -A- has to be told that they've gone too far and an alternative plan needs to be negotiated wherein FAIL keeps what they want to have in Querious and RA is allowed to move in to other areas so that reds are in close proximity. Sharing Q with reds is a good thing provided SOV does not become contested. RA needs time and opportunity to learn how to PVP conventional fleets and FAIL needs targets that can be attacked with success so that Evildead can learn what he has to learn without turning the killboard bright red every day.

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