EVE General Discussion

+1 for fun and good sportsmanship (something that many has forgotten).

Interesting turn of developments have begun

We've are experimenting with the possibility of forming an alliance with Center of Advanced Studies. They're much further along in operations and are offering quite a large number of new possibilities

I'll have a hard time matching them for the things they're offering then again they been at it for 5 years... I hope to share resources between the two of us. I hope it inspires more to start making contact with the CAS group or mine

Its a small start but well see where this grows to.
At the CAS groups request Ill be withholding the name of the group until details are further hammered out.

Til then I look forward to where this grows.

-Vix

Hilarious guy.

Funny you say that with such an unimpressive combat record, leadership record, and honestly lack of contributions to your corporation and alliance.

Go out and bleed more and pray that whatever asteroid I do crawl under isn't yours.

Then again post with your main Imma outbidYOU, you should probably recycle that transfer character now.

-Vix

Despite the confusing writing style, I understood that you are taking the initiative and creating meaningful PVP content for new players in NPC corps?

CCP should pay your sub, you are excellent. And this is without the slightest hint of sarcasm, major props to you.

Good luck o7

You guys kicked our teeth in pertty hard three weeks ago, I have never seen an impromptu gate camp form up as quickly as yours did. GF to your boys involved.

Well we may be paying more visits in the future there is only so far east to west I can deploy from however going westward no longer as a big of a hassle if we continue our partnership with CAS.

-Vix

Clarification of the Report the Thanatos Carrier was Cynoed in by the Rapier which my fleet promptly destroyed to prevent further reinforcements

BTW Silens the drake that took you down was destroyed an hour later.

Overall most of the op was boring and our initial cluster up costed us 4 of our escort frigates to a sniper Dramiel which was smart enough to stay in the complex so that the larger ships couldn't snipe it back. All the pilots went back and refitted.

We managed to sink an osprey in the same system waiting for our escorts to come back. After that 35 jumps though null with almost no activity. We poked our head into one system at way point alpha and held the gate for 5 minutes and decided they weren't going to come out play. I got my fleet to pull out but one pilot spotted a Naga on the way out one sniper ranges. Our oracle pilots engaged the heavily tanked Naga to his foolishness and got jumped and stuck in that system. A lesson learned that when the fleet pulls out don't be a hero

Way point charlie the usual three systems we normally get our teeth kicked in at was rather devoid of activity
Moving onto Obe system in closure of our operation we found a local with 30+ and thought we could stir up some trouble.

Belt sweeps and taunting in local and d-scan snipes from well above the elliptical allowed us to pin point hostile ship positions and we knew they where trying to find us. One of our scouts got webbed by a Rapier and the warp to battle range was given.

This multiple angled approach was sufficient enough to keep the enemy forces confused. Rapier cyno'd in a Thanatos which deployed fighters against our tacklers and according to all the after action reports that carrier only did 120 total damage to the lost tonnage. I noticed the hostiles where constantly trying to swap targets and constantly kept on moving ship to ship, I thought they where extremely more disorganized than we were they just had heavier firepower in those numbers while I only had three heavy ships left. When I called out the Aeres to be primary and it warped away I knew that we where too low on tacklers to remain effective and ordered my ships out before more help came in from other source.

It wasn't until all the after action reports came in that I realized there was two carriers in the fight. An Acheron they where trying to kill. The confusion in the opposition force was us jumping on them in surprise. The Rapier which was critical component in their plan to drop 4 carriers on top of the hostile Acheron and we sunk it mid cyno, only the Thanatos made it though.

In total we lost one curse one oracle and about six frigates. All remaining heavy ships deployed survived.

We killed one afk gas mining osprey, rapier, and a crusader. Our oracle loss offsets the Isk loss for the entire op though. Battlewise our last engagement was Isk won

Other than that first time alot of the rooks saw a carrier in combat.

Incident Half Baked
Report Author: Commander Stellar Vix
Location: Forge Region
Involved Parties: Staff Sargent Ice-Queen and one malfunctioning pilot.

SWA corp channel was the usual rustle and bustle that a normal military bar is typically associated with as nothing serious was going on. I was learning more about writing up technical manuals to include interactivity when this beggar stumbles in asking for isk.

Normally I get these people kicked out within minutes. This guy was rather persistent and then begins to start demanding Isk to be given to him. This was not making anyone on the channel happy. We don't tolerate beggars in the State and everyone in the channel knew that. After belittling his attempts for Isk, he has the gall to ask us to allow him on our agent mission runs. One pilot feeling merciful fancied the idea to her distaste later that the beggar was ill intention. It wasn't long until the beggars real colors showed.

I eventually thought it was worth my business and opened private comms with the SWA pilot that tried to be friendly. She explains the rest of situation to me and describes how this character was playing on a PLEX licensed on another associate's funding along with in communication four other supposed friends. It was coming down to hostilities so I made my moves. As the beggar challenged Ice Queen to a duel I started to make some devious plans.

At this time I prepared background checks on all the associates, cross referenced complaints, and all the normal things a good gopher does. Because this wasn't authorized Intel requests I was restricted from using my normal connections to get any more information but I felt I had enough to compose a warning message to one of his friend's CEO as a one additional font on this warfare. I also rallied up at least 10 volunteers willing to help if the shooting was to start, however I was restricted to SWA-G members only.

I told the Ice Queen I was more than willing to commit the resources to make the beggar and friends a bit more miserable. She later told the friends the beggar the implications of things going on should they help their friend get an upper hand. It was this time the beggar invited Ice Queen into a channel to set up the fight. During the confusion between comms the beggar divulged the entire plan to Ice Queen. This slip of the tongue was costly as it what caused me to send off my nasty gram. The dual was 1v1 and when he was planning for 1 vs 4 I decided to 'even' the odds.

I advised Ice Queen to haphazardly navigate near a star in a sweet spot where one slip of the engine screwed with the navigation computers that would have sling shot one well out of the gravitational influence. The beggar showed up and did the traditional flagging for a duel and was instructed to warp to the bookmark.

Ice queens preparedness allowed her to phase off the rooks attack and one of his friends showing up only further proved that sending off the mail was in good judgement. The beggar ran out of ammo and was only resorted to warp scrambling. Out of sheer idiocy the beggar begins to self destruct. Ice Queen decided to show some mercy as to not totally crush the beggar and threw her ship into the sling propelling her several thousands kilometers a second away from the sun as if warping.

Aftermath of the event lead to an extremely angry reply which would all indicate that not only did the beggar lost his ship, he lost his friends as the Intel follow up showed that all involved parties to the beggar where ejected out of player corps and blamed him for it.

Overall I wished I could feel pity but can only laugh. This has so far been the best elimination of beggars from SWA's history. The second best being the whole fleet being sent to Rancer system.

Ill be happy to dispense knowledge
Ill be happy to dispense ammo.
I will never be happy dispensing Isk at request.

-Vix

That's pretty tall coming from a supposedly from a professional military alliance who are being called by puppies by the Goons. The same alliance whom I've heard from being in an NPC corp has only heard about how awful they're getting their posterior reamed by inferior numbers.

Goonswarm's video illustration of their treatment of Test is quite accurate, you guys got kicked down the stairs.

One tip for you, do not undock one at a time to a tornado alpha fleet it does not do wonders for your fleet morale getting reamed like that.

-Vix