Crime & Punishment

The group keeps you grounded and it imprisons you. I have people who work for me who recognize nobody's existence but their own. You can feel it in their reactions. If I were a dancing bear to be negotiated with or an alien, floating on my tank of liquid ozygen, they'd have the same reactions, the same plan. They see things only in terms of their own gain, or mine. To these creatures there is no reason to listen to a man's story aside from the tactical information to be gleaned. No amount of love or hate or time or familiarity will change this. I feel more kinship with my slaver hound bulldog than I do them. I wold mourn his death more than I'd mourn any of theirs.

These are the true intraspecies predators. They have no Word. They don't live as members of a social species. They will never understand that the best and worst things in life come from other people. They will never see the abyss that opens when a life is ended.

I find their company very stimulating. I spend a lot of time being aware of very basic things like where everybody is in the room.

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Nairn, Lyris Nairn—Licence to Post

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Where's the safe POS again?

Never stop spying.

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I am a Mittens alt.

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So what's in this for me, the guy writing all this.

1. I love making groups that work well and that's the thing in EVE I find more fun than anything else.

2. I think it sux that all the military PvP guys seem to hate the big fleets so much. Isn't there some way we can do all this without them having to HAVE to do it?

3. I really really prefer the idea of oligarchy based on expert authority rather than the lone alpha male model. This way I get to have my cake and eat it too.

4. I want to write this. Script it. Put on a show. Be openly the Minister of Propaganda and be the head of the secret police secretly. (I've been waiting for 49 years to type that phrase and didn't know it.) Oh and the head of our diplomatic corp. Every one of our diplomatic corp are going to be spies. Just like in RL.

5. What I need is a TEAM. I need the folks who really want to do that other stuff I can't do myself no matter how much I might want to. The Merchant Prince. The Admiral of the Fleets. The Pirate Lord. The Minister of Hi Sec The Director of What I Don't Even Know About Yet.

My experience in nullsec so far is that industry takes a clear back seat to PvP, no matter what they tell you to get you to join their alliance. Most of nullsec is an active war zone. It is very rarely advisable for a business to set up production infrastructure in an active war zone. Unless you are allied with a group of PvPers who are good enough to keep the peace in their territory, or at least scouts where needed, you are better off buying ore in the nullsec markets and just shipping it to hi sec for production there than you are mining in nullsec for example. Your new alliance will almost always want you to go to their CTAs and if you want to that's great but if its a cost of doing business for you as a player, you have to measure carefully the benefits. There is some industry stuff that really doesn't work very well in nullsec. You just can't do the kind of mass market manipulation in nullsec that you can in hi for example. You can't play market games of any kind really. The alliances don't like that kind of thing except for whatever their leaderships are doing, naturally.

As far as I'm concerned the combination of your trade and hauling skills--your cloaky hauler/blockade runner and your jump freighter is the single most important thing to succeed in nullsec industry. If you can move stuff from hi sec to your alliance's (and their blues) marketplaces and back you are looking at the biggest margins in the game. You risk your ships and you lose your volume, of course.

Multiple Characters

Most of the people who play this game play multiple characters with multiple accounts. The pace of the game allows this. During your 37 jump trip for a pack of chewing gum, you cvan switch over to your other character. The key to doing this successfully is playing in windows mode.

To get into window mode hit Esc, then Display & Graphics Tab, the button on the upper left choose windows

I am a very bad TEST alliance alt.