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A4D Recruitment Blog: What to expect in A4D
2013.01.07

Taking fights outnumbered is the fun part of EVE, wiping out is the not so fun part of EVE….but to bask in the glory you must first take chances. We have been fighting bigger and bigger gangs recently…most always out numbered. It isn’t that we don’t want to fight with even numbers it is because we are a single corporation fighting against multiple corporations. We win more often than we lose, but we do lose…Mathematics > Skill for the most part.

Last week we took on a group 1/3 larger than we were, although we had 3 Logi, they had 3 also. The major difference was that they had a more DPS than we did and we couldn’t break their tanks…and they could break ours. Last night an A4D gang took on the same alliance but this time we prevailed…mostly because this time we had superior numbers. There was no bragging in local, there was no smack talk, there was only silence...as it should have been.

*snip*Posting of kill reports outside of the Crime & Punishment forum channel is prohibited. ISD Ezwal

Well it looks like the boss is busy, so I will sneak in.

So how do you read these recruitment posts?

I have been reading through the other corps recruiting posts and I am reminded of a real estate joke. A lady has her home up on the market for sale and it springs a leak in the basement, and the basement is flooded. She calls her real estate agent to discuss the problem and he reassures her, don't worry we will simply change the add to say, water view.

Here are some of the things to watch out for in the recruiting posts and a few translations of catch phrases.

We have recently relocated to .... This means we were getting our asses kicked and decided to try to find some place easier to live. A4D has lived in Curse for a good long time. It is our neighbors who decide to find some place easier to live.

Lots of room for advancement.... This means there is nobody in the corp yet but the two of us and our 3 alts.
A4D has had a stable player base with between 80 and 90 players for as long as I have known about them. And these players are not alts. If you want alts in corp they better be actively played or provide wonderful boosts. We don't have advancement. We have members. We don't politic, negotiate, train, so we have no need for the drama inducing power tiers of other corps.

We offer all types of game play from wormhole to pvp... Were really not that good at anything,
At a4D we do small gang pvp, period!

We plan too.... We don't, but we hope too.
At A4D, we do. And we do a lot, and often. Come do with us if you think you like small gang, null.

We are building... You will start having fun soon, but not quite yet.

Don't get me wrong, there are a lot of quality corps listed in this forum. But unfortunately there are a lot of plans that just won't come to pass. Choose carefully, and please consider A4D.

I lost your rapier

I have had quite a few “Shake my head” moments as CEO, this was yet another one. For every awesome pilot you have in a corporation you always have one pilot that “just doesn’t get it”. No matter how hard you work to become elite, there is always that ONE guy that is the corporation “window licker”. Now I don’t want to completely throw a corpie under the bus, but this story MUST be told.

It was 8pm GMT-5, we had 5 Stabber Fleet Issues, 2 Scythes, 1 Rapier, 1 Navy Caracal. One of my Scythe pilots said…I have to go to work tomorrow morning, I have to get back. The ironic thing is that this guy is one hour behind me, so he just told me he was going to bed at 7pm. I said: “Hey man that is one of the two most needed ships in this fleet, if you have to log out early, let me know BEFORE we leave”. He said “I did, in channel”. Thinking I missed it, I blew it off and said lets trade ships.

I said warp to planet VII at 100km. So we both warped to the planet, waited for our ships to hit 0kps, and I ejected from my Rapier. I approached the Scythe and clicked board ship. I said fly safe and the roam continued. We make it to our destination 5 jumps away and this message comes across fleet. “I lost your rapier”, I asked “Did you hit a gate camp”, “Warp into a bubble?” The response; “No I lost it; I don’t know where it is”. I replied “How did you lose it? “I forgot to get in it”…. “Seriously, how do you fly 3 jumps before you realize that you are still in a pod”.

He went back to the system to find a blown up stealth bomber wreck where my rapier used to be. So, if you are looking to join A4D we now have a spot open.

NEW CORP. REQUIRMENTS: You must be able to stay up past 7pm, you must be able to know how to board an empty ship, and be able to recognize when you are in a pod vs. a rapier. This skillset is a must.

Dude, where's my Rapier?

Too soon?

Congrats on achieving your goal. Nice work, guys.

If you plot a trend line of our Battleclinic standings for the last year, and do a regression analysis of the last 5 months an interesting development can be identified. As it turns out this correlates very closely to the time of my arrival. Am I saying the meteoric rise of this corp in the last 5 months is directly attributed to me. No, I am not saying it, but numbers do not lie.

Won the Isk War, Lost the Battle

Since we achieved our goal of top 100 on Battleclinic we decided that we should set some more goals. We figured that the only way for us to get better as a corp. is to become better pilots on average, this means as individuals we will be taking out more gangs and getting into more engagements; more repetitions equals better prepared. We are looking for more people with this mindset.

Pleniers and I decided to take out a couple ships and see what we could find. Like always we had a few people join us so our fleet grew in numbers from two to six. Our gang: (6) 2x Harpy, Catalyst, Thrasher, Coercer, Incursus. We set waypoint to Wicked Creek; it wasn’t until we got to 5DE before we actually found any signs of life. Then local jumped by 10. GAME ON!

Knowing we were a fairly fast fleet and could get out if the bad guys brought too much for us to handle, we decided to wait and see what came up on our scanners. We were in luck, it was a manageable fleet. We were outnumbered 10 to 6 but we had a chance. Enemy Fleet: (10) Rupture, Ishkur, Wolf, 2x Flycatcher, 2x Taranis, Federation Navy Comet, Imperial Navy Slicer, Merlin.

We went for the squishiest thing that landed first…and killed one Flycatcher, then a Taranis. About that time they popped our Incursus, then our Thrasher. We had four ships left, they had eight, and it wasn’t looking good for the good guys. But then in a blaze of flying sheep dung we rallied to kill their Wolf. We focused fire then blasted their second Taranis, Ishkur, their second Flycatcher and then the Fed Comet. The coercer was shredding them and being completely disregarded. MISTAKE on their part.

Although we had killed the majority of their fleet our remaining ships had taken some major damage, their Rupture managed to get a web and scram on Pleniers Harpy and he went down. They were now on me and my beloved Coercer (That wasn’t very nice of them). They had a Rupture, Imperial Navy Slicer, and the Merlin left and all we were down to a Coercer and a Harpy. The Slicer and Merlin came at me but the Slicer got out of my range so I switched to the Merlin who now had me warp scrambled.

I was now being pounded by their three remaining ships, as entered into Armor (shield tanked ship), I aligned for the Sun, swapped out to my multi frequency crystals and fried the Bejesus out of the Merlin. I thought to myself, “What would Tom Cruise do? That’s right, “It’s time to kick that Slicers a$$”. I aligned to a celestial, swapped to my Scorch crystals hit F1 and then popped. It was a fun fight.

The Rupture managed to kill web, scramble and neutralize our last Harpy. We managed to come out of the fight at 76% Isk efficiency but didn’t hold the field. Outnumbered but never outclassed…WE ARE A4D.

*snip*Posting of kill reports outside of the Crime & Punishment forum channel is prohibited. ISD Ezwal

Shooting the Fat Kid

There is always a fat kid - that one ship that just isn't keeping up with FC orders to warp, jump, whatever. Sometimes he is almost a whole system behind. Sometimes he was late to join the fleet and is hurrying to keep up. Whatever the reason, he has just become prey.

When you are a small group, surrounded by huge roaming gangs of hostiles, you learn to find ways to hurt them while frustrating their efforts. In A4D, we love shooting their fat kids.

Last night a fleet of roughly 40 hostiles moved through our home system. We didn't have nearly enough to take them on head-on, so we waited till they passed. When we saw them returning, we knew we would have a shot. We setup one guy at a perch one system ahead of them, and another on a perch on the other side of the gate. When the main fleet came into system, we waited until the bulk of them had warped away, then went after the stragglers. A couple managed to get to warp quick enough to avoid tackle, but one poor slob didn't make it - the claymore bonuses. Some solid bumps and webs made sure he wasn't getting back to the gate. Meanwhile with scanners running, we proceeded to start tearing down his massive tank.

A minute later, scimitar on scan alerts us to his buddies returning. Amazingly though, local started dropping - they were leaving him! Scimitar lands and starts repping. We grab tackle on the scimi and switch fire to him. He runs for the gate forgetting that he now has aggro and can't just jump. Oops. By this time a handful of reinforcements have landed and the scimi dies. With no backup coming, and the repper dead, the claymore dies quickly.


*snip*Posting of kill reports outside of the Crime & Punishment forum channel is prohibited. ISD Ezwal

Without bonuses and missing a logi that fleet is severely weakened for all of its remaining roam that evening. We hate blobbers, and we find ways to hurt them.

Mom, I’m Bored

I was down in Florida last week visiting my parents when I got a cryptic email which is the A4D equivalent of “Mom I’m bored”. The guys weren’t getting enough kills and they wanted a vacation spot in another region. After a minor logistical freak out I had to ask myself the question. Why the guys were bored? Hadn’t we just owned 3-4 alliances in brawls and killed 4-5 cap ships? And THAT was the issue.

It’s not that we are getting fewer kills but the quality and fleet types in January are vastly different than those that had taken place in December. This month we have been mostly flying hit and run gangs that are limited to smaller ships of less Isk value. What happened was the guys were on a month long adrenaline high and killing a Drake was no longer enough. We had dominated the competition and have major blood lust.

December Kill: 1335 Lost: 399
January Kill: 1088 Lost: 355
December Isk Killed: 192B Isk Lost: 20B
January Isk Killed: 59B Isk Lost: 16B


There are four days in January and I figure that by the end of the month the numbers will be very close in volume but not isk. We will be taking out more fleets and trying to kill everything we can to try and quench our blood lust. We will be creating a vacation spot in a different region but we will do it right.
Any suggestions? Stain? Geminate? Fountain? Syndicate? We are looking for a region to torment for a week or two.

January Closes

Today is the last day of the January and the A4D loot hangar is hovering around 2-3 Billion ISK worth of loot which will be purchased by A4D and distributed to our members. Here is how we pay our members. We sum up the isk killed by all active members, we average it out, and any member that killed more than average gets their share of the loot. This month we have roughly 15 members that will receive approximately 150 million isk for their efforts.

For a corporation that does not engage in Capital Ship warfare we managed to kill a lot of Capitals in December. We managed to kill a Titan and 4 carriers…not bad. We managed to kill a couple officer fitted battleships, and a Faction fitted Sleipnir worth about 4 billion. The loot gods were kind to us and our Loot hanger bloated to 15 billion isk. Needless to say this month’s loot compared to last month’s loot gave a lot of members the sad face.

I have heard a LOT this month that there are no targets, and everyone is sad that there is nothing to kill. More accurately the quality of the kills was not as great not the quantity. Last month we had just over 1300 kills, this month we have roughly 1200. Our problem is that we just don’t have enough idiots that officer fit their ships flying right into us. So I am going to plea to you all, PLEASE PLEASE come to Curse in your officer fitted ships. We require your demise.

To be honest, what I should do is recruit renter alliances for Test and Initiative. Hmm, that is an idea, I will get right on that.

KTHXBYE