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Last night was mildly successful. We started up a shield logi fleet, our goal was simple. We would roam past Hemin to see if WG wanted to engage, if not we would head toward GJO and see if any of the Rookie Empire guys were active. Well, at least that was the plan…sometimes plans work, other times you are stuck with a giant pile of shite. In this case it was the shite.

One of the problems we had was, most of the people in my corp. ignored the fact that to run a logistics fleet, they have to have a logi ships. So we finally found 3 people who could fly the damn ships, and headed out for a roam. One hour later were on our way. No ****…one hour. (Recruiting Logi Pilots)

As planned we headed down to find a Rookie Empire gang to engage…and as luck would have it, they didn’t want to form up. They were stuck in their posses doing unimaginable things to moons. All dressed up with nothing to shoot.

We headed back toward home as now we had limited time and a few people in our gang had to go bed. As we meandered on the way back toward home, we had intel that the Wraithguard guys were massing up a huge BS gang to take on our Eve Animal Control friends. So to help our boys we set sail.

We moved the 10 jumps as fast as we could, trying to get in a position to help. I think we moved one too many jumps because once we hit Litom, the WG scout picked up that EAC had backup. The WG gang docked up…I think the major issue was that the EAC guys had all minmatar, and we came with a Caldari gang….kinda hard to jam with minmatar jammers..(WG had 5 Scorpions).

To make a long story short…They didn’t want to engage with even numbers. They seem ok when it is 17-10, but when it is even, they don’t engage. In fact I don’t ever remember an even engagement with them. Lots of smack, but no engagement. Shite happens.

0 Kills, 0 Losses….DAMN

Thanks to Eve Animal Control for inviting us to help them with the brawl that never came. And thanks even more to Tyler James, Maximus, Cythrex for FC’ing at various times. Your help was appreciated. And Shinob…you need a serious intervention my friend. (Seriously)

Shout out to A4D from the guys next door.

You would be mad to join these guys , and mad not too , a big thumbs up

First 4 days of March have been kind to us... Over 300 kills and counting!

And on a side note, on March 4th our home system was 3rd most violent system in Eve according to dotlan (top 2 were alliance brawls somewhere in Insmother and Tenerifs).

* We are recruiting quality pilots
* Check your ego at the door
* Must be able to fly logistics
* Must be ISK self sufficient

Do You Fit The Above

If Yes To All 3 , You Know What To Do

Sometimes it is difficult to catch cloaky Loki's, but this one was well worth the try.
http://www.appetite4destruction.net/killboard/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=29328

CVA: They love their full rack of jammers....they didn't help.
http://www.appetite4destruction.net/killboard/?a=kill_related&kll_id=29493

Whatever you do, don't jump through that gate!
http://www.appetite4destruction.net/killboard/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=29495

400 Kills in 5 Days...

Frankenstein’s Monster

During the reformation of A4D in 2010, Bullmastiff, Suxar, and I defined what we wanted out of A4D. The three of us sat down and discussed what we wanted from a corporation, and what we didn’t want from a corp. Of course this was not an all encompassing conversation, we drew pieces from other corps that we were associated with which is the “Frankenstein’s Monster” business model.

The Collective: The truly good thing about the collective is their research on their members. G Block was thorough and quite the talented researcher. The problem? NOBODY knew my name. I had more kills than the majority of the people I flew with…but they never bothered to get to know me. LESSON: Research Members to exclude idiots, Know your corp. mates.

0utbreak: I flew with 0utbreak for a short time, I really liked everyone in the corp., it is truly a great corp. filled with great players, excellent tactics, a unique corp. market. The only problem I ran into was the fact that I was one of four North Americans. Although I can solo; Eve is a social game. I no longer play for the kill but to hang out with the guys. LESSON: Actively pursue across multiple time zones, Corp. Market.

Clown Punchers: For a year, the BOZO’s terrorized Curse, Wicked Creek, Catch. They were about 20 strong, they were organized, they were deadly. They had an excellent loot distribution system. They had a strong central leadership…They had a unique recruitment philosophy. The only thing I didn’t like about the corp. was the obvious dependence on their Co-CEO’s. If T and Q weren’t online nothing would happen. LESSONS: Loot Redistribution, Non reliance on personalities, Recruiting Smarter.

We decided that we wanted to incorporate pieces of all of these corps but not be like any of them. We wanted to be open to change, if something wasn’t working do something different. Although Bullmastiff and I don’t always agree with each other, we talk it over, and come up with a solution. We don’t see ourselves as Co-CEO’s but rather, the caretakers of A4D.

Management: Bull and I share responsibility for ISK, and keeping drama to a minimum. Like Bozo, we have 4 senior members that handle loot distribution and ship ships, logistics.

Recruitment: We have a process just like most alliances, we check API’s, we check forum history for toon sales, we check forum posts to check for players as corp. thieves, we check Battleclinic for kill history etc…its not a fast process but we like to keep idiots out of corp.

Recruitment Advertisement: Instead of posting look at us, we are better than the next guy on the forums, we tend to blog our nightly kills if possible to let people live vicariously through our posts. This is what we did, if you would like to be apart of it, contact us. It is different than most, and works for us.

Membership demographics: Obviously a corp. in a single time zone will be strong at certain times and week at other times. We didn’t want to lose out on people because they lived here or there…so we came up with a plan…18:00-06:00. This would cover us from Central Europe to West Coast North America. And for the most part that is who we have in corp. (although we always accept Aussie’s because they are so cool) 

Corp. Loot: We decided that if there were a few of you in a gang…keep the loot, you earned it. But if you have a large gang and are out on a corp. op…pay out your losses first, then throw the loot in the loot hangar. We use the proceeds to buy more items from empire and always guarantee a full market for our members. Some call our home system the Jita of Curse.

Killing Regardless of who is online: Bullmastiff and I have not been on much this week. We both have some RL things. I have logged on twice to find that there were gangs out that had neither CEO in them gang. These guys were murdering everyone on their own…and THAT is what A4D is all about.

As a Co-CEO I am incredibly proud of this corporation. We may not be perfect, but we are striving to be. We have moved up on the all time corps list to number 170. Considering we are not a POS bashing corp. nor do we engage in 200 person blob fests, this is quite a feat. Our goal by end of year is to be a Top 100 corp. on Battleclinic. At this rate we will achieve our goal.

A4D TOP CORP LIST

Nuff Said

Thank you for the mention: Kovorix, Kil2 and Prometheus Exenthal..


START AT 1:32:21

http://www.club-bear.com/podcast/BSB8.mp3

Two fleets, two wins, two mistakes.

Like the great Mike Tyson once said, “Everybody has a plan until they are punched in the mouth”. Those words hold as true today as they did twenty years ago. So our plan was simple. The gang we were looking to kill were sitting on the AAM gate with 6 Drakes, 2 bombers and what we thought was a Cyno Maller. We brought 5 Drakes, 2 Basilisks.

The plan was simple. We warp 3 Drakes in, get them agressed, call for backup. The plan would have held true if I had been called primary like I expected. However, Draco was called primary and never let me know they were red boxed on him. Needless to say, we waited too long to bring in the logi’s…Draco died. We did manage to kill a few. Pardon the wonky killboard display, but you get the idea. Ignore the hero tackle from the covert ops. Nice to meet you Jagged Alliance.

http://www.appetite4destruction.net/killboard/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=29947

I am not overly sure who these Krysis guys are, but they keep coming through our home system with 6-12 man fleets, and leaving with less than they came with. It’s nothing against them, they just happened to be there. This time they came through with a Brawler fleet of 12 battle cruisers. We had just returned from our fight with Jagged and thought we would give these guys a try.

Our mistake was obvious. Our intel came from 3 sources, all three gave irrelevant intel. You know the kind, fleet on scan on the gate. They are jumping, (in pops a Kestrel). The kind of bullsh!t intel that gets gangs killed. In this case, all it did was expose the fact that we had logi’s. Which is NOT a good way to get fights.

Regardless of our lack of surprise, they did jump on us. The two Basilisks were keeping up with the damage quite easily. Contrary to other A4D engagements, we had 4 ships tackled instead of one! Unfortunately, we didn’t have enough DPS to kill all of them as a couple of them de-aggressed and jumped out. Needless to say, we controlled the field again.

http://www.appetite4destruction.net/killboard/?a=kill_related&kll_id=29939

At the end of the day, I am proud of my guys for their efforts. Alex and Melli did a great job keeping the reps on. Pleniers did a great job tackling, Shyla did a great job taking with backup target calling, Everyone else did a great job hitting F1.