Warfare & Tactics

Oh please. Need I remind you? It takes an intelligent person to do something stupid. If a stupid person does something stupid, he/she is just being "normal."

Apply this simple truth to CCP. Add to that; smart, and intelligent aren't the same things. A person not as intelligent as another can be a lot smarter. Intelligence is merely a potential.

Since we're talking about CCP here, you can drop the intelligence, and smart things there. CCP's problem is their game has grown past their comprehension on a fundamental level. They're just being "normal."

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This past week I have watched as miscommunication and false assumption conspired to ruin what was proving to be an enjoyable event. I rarely reply in these threads because Poetic sets them up specifically to misrepresent the facts and twist the truth, but given that it was miscommunication that spawned the issues outlined in this thread, it seems only fair that I at least attempt to clarify the situation.

First off I can say without question that I hold no anger or resentment towards RvB for their actions. It is my opinion that if we did not want the POS shot at, we should have taken it down. Not only did we not do so, but we specifically set up the POS to be as annoying as possible for whomever attacked it. Given the same opportunity in reverse, I would have certainly attacked a RvB POS, and do not blame them one iota for attacking ours. Likewise, I do not blame Kelduum for retracting the wardec as a result, as it was the most assured method of protecting our assets. Protecting your assets is not a crime.

I love RvB and what they do, and genuinely thank them for all their efforts in making the past week or so incredibly exciting and enjoyable for all our members. We would have loved to have taken the fight to their turf more often, but they were not the only group we were at war with. Hopefully we can build on this event in the future and avoid a repeat of the same issues.

With regards to the new decshield, as far as I am aware, we submitted a new idea for it to CCP in May of this year requesting clarification on whether or not it would be considered an exploit. The primary goal was to discourage the sort of frivolous wardecs we had been experiencing at the time. Contrary to what you may have heard, we do not want to be immune to wardecs, and hoped the new decshield would mean only those who intended to fight would bother paying the inflated fee (this has had mixed results). This idea was viewed by a senior GM and we were told it was not an exploit. If this represents a reversal in CCP policy, which the link provided earlier seems to indicate, that had little to do with us beyond the fact that we asked the question.

Retracting the wardec was the right thing to do to protect the POS. What got under my skin were many of the Unista accusations that RvB had engaged in dirty tricks and underhanded play. Even from Kelduum, who suggested that RvB should have informed him that they were going to attack the POS. (When Silentbrick decided to put up an SBU in Russian sov space a couple months ago, did he inform the russkies of his intentions beforehand?)

RvB did nothing wrong, and used the Uni's allegiance to Chribba to their advantage. It was a tactical and strategic coup. They should be congratulated, not castigated.

And we all frame our arguments to serve our message. I do it. You do it. Kelduum does it. I backed up my framing with actual quotes. So, whereas you might not have liked how I framed the message, the message itself wasn't inaccurate.

This is really everything you need to take away from this thread.

You are pretty amazingly bitter and clingy, gj.

When a war is made mutual, it won't be taken into account anymore for the calculation of the subsequent wardec fee. Thusly, the way you do it is to create a "decshield" corp and have it declare war per usual to the main corp, paying regular wardec fee every week . This way, if you get wardecced by an actual hostile corp, they will have to pay more, but subsequently, your weekly dec fee payment that must be paid by the decshield corp is also increased until the actual wardec from the hostile corps cease.

I don't care about most of this thread, but I would like to get clarification from CCP if the "decshield" is in fact an exploit. I was under the impression that it was indeed considered an exploit.

At this point, I'm just trying to figure out who is the more bitter person- Poetic and his grudge against Eve Uni or Damar and his grudge against the Gallente militia.

I tried... I seriously tried to read this thread and take this topic seriously but failed and fell out of my chair laughing XD

So Basically this is a troll pissing into the wind and E-Uni brought an umbrella right?