Since our last contract, we've grown quite a bit, had some internal drama (oh my), and completed another contract. We've also tried other shiptypes and found that some of them work well for us, and some of them don't.
Alright, so first off, we continued our campaign against Wildly Inappropriate, eventually inflicting 9.3 Billion ISK in Damages, while only receiving 1.43, leaving us with an 86% efficiency. The top kill of all was a WI Tengu, who told us to "bring it" in local before dying horribly. After that, however, our efficiency started to go down hill due to carelessness on our part and decreasing corp activity. Thus, we pulled out after roughly a month and a half.
For a while, we returned to our base in Akkio and became the equivalent of a mediocre standard pvp corp: killing more than we lost with conventional ships, but not that much more. This was a time for us to recoup from our losses in the Geminate campaign. During this time, a former director who left to hostile corporation Star Frontiers returned to the corporation.
After a while of stagnation, I ordered a "Back To Basics" deployment to Vale of the Silent to resharpen our covert-ops skills. The effects on corp morale, recruitment, and simple effectiveness were astounding. We had 17 kills the first real day of deployment, killing 5 Majesta and RAGE battleships, a Hulk, and myriad other smaller vessels. Majesta, who had previously ignored us, began docking up the instant we came in system and even smacking heavily (more on this in a bit.)
The most fun kill of the entire day was the Hulk kill. I was the only pilot online in my entire corporation in a Nemesis at 20% armor with no means of repair. I found a Hulk alone (there was a skiff 160km away, but he had +2 warp strength) mining in a belt. There was a Hawk, Crow, and Onyx on scan as well. Obviously a trap. I didn't care. I wanted the kill.
I decloaked, pointed, and started firing my torps. He got to armor before the cavalry arrived. I warped out immediately, having taken no further damage. I waited a moment before cloaking and returning to the belt. There was the Hulk again! Sure enough, his friends were also on scan. I warped to the nearest planet to get a closer warpin and sure enough, the Hawk was sitting at 0 on the planet. Noob!
Against my better judgement and lusting for a kill, I returned to the belt, knowing I needed to do more damage, faster this time. So, I decloaked, fired a bomb, and then pointed and began to shoot. Sure enough, the Hulk was almost immediately in armor. Then the Hawk arrived, shortly followed by the crow. Panicking, I started microwarpdriving away from them, quickly leaving point range of the Hulk. He was now in structure and my shields were gone, and in that moment I knew I wouldn't make it out alive. So, I turned around, repointed him, and finished him off. I died 3 seconds later. To my delight, he was in fact faction-fitted and T2 Rigged. Yay!
Moving on. Majesta Empire liked to smack a LOT. Admittedly, one of my guys, El Liptonez, who was ex-Majesta actually, smacked back. Titus Novastar flew with us but was not part of my corporation or alliance. Liptonez was told off, but Majesta continued to smack almost from the day we deployed. Here is a few samples, including some bitter tears, for your consumption:
After a day or so:
Chris Sunstroke > all carebear pvp- dudes in sys^^ hi liptonez
santafee > how is it ?
santafee > guess its boring
Sperrzone > yep
santafee > camping the whole day cloaked
Sperrzone > vaginas on the run
Sperrzone > as usual
santafee >
After the loss of a hauler:
santafee > the boobs are back
Chris Sunstroke > the pussy-pvp- dudes in cloaking sucker ships^^
Titus Novastar > killed you didn't I?
Chris Sunstroke > yeah my heavy tanked iteron 4^^
santafee > lulz
Chris Sunstroke > that was a glorous kill
Chris Sunstroke > a epic one
santafee > that must be like an orgasm
santafee > or much more
Chris Sunstroke > lol
Genevieve Lecourtier > an epic one dude. learn english
El Liptonez > hah grammar natzee
Genevieve Lecourtier > sure, german
Chris Sunstroke > if u learn german^^
Titus Novastar > nah, im going to heaven when I die
Genevieve Lecourtier > Schon geschehen. Sorry, dachte das war von nem neut den wollt ich ankacken. Tut mir leid
Chris Sunstroke > all bombers meet at jb im coming with my iteron 4
Chris Sunstroke > egal^^
Genevieve Lecourtier > k
El Liptonez > lol idiot
santafee > ja?
Chris Sunstroke > oh i lost my scanner probe^^
Genevieve Lecourtier > uh, idiot is petitionable, ain´t it?
Random Smack:
hamon konakh > El Liptonez you always were a coward
hamon konakh > no balls
El Liptonez > go cut yourself emo
hamon konakh > you first
hamon konakh > piece of shit
El Liptonez > why so desperate
Baron Alladan > oh look a iteron on the t-z gate
Titus Novastar > omg
Titus Novastar > is it an iteron 5?
Old Corpmates Fighting:
El Liptonez > wow you almost decloaked me
El Liptonez > just 30km short
Elrock Storm > El Liptonez wow a hipercritical wanker talks
El Liptonez > is that what your great leader told you?
Elrock Storm > er no it what you said about AFK cloakers
Elrock Storm > you know how they are tossers and the like
Elrock Storm > ops you are one.
Elrock Storm > whne grow a apir i be waiting
Elrock Storm > when you grow a pair i'll be waiting.
El Liptonez > why so serious
Elrock Storm > why so hipercritcial
El Liptonez > u mad u didnt get that 50m few months ago?
Elrock Storm > No i pissed that you are so willing to act an arsesole to people who called you friend
El Liptonez > i didnt kick myself
El Liptonez > i dont even know what reb told you
Elrock Storm > nor did i did i?
Elrock Storm > i dom't ypu see you greifing Reb if you have an issue with him?
El Liptonez > tell me what did i do
iskies1 > you got too cocky
Shwabeul Shwabeul > Reb have more to do than talking about you for sure
Titus Novastar > haha you said 'cock'
El Liptonez > lol it's just so funny how mad you are about me and i still dont know why
Elrock Storm > me?
El Liptonez > all of you
iskies1 > not mad at you, but was getting annoyed with your attitude near the end before you left us
Elrock Storm > Well you are AFKing in a system, to piss people off, that once called you friend
Elrock Storm > that is enough for me tbh
iskies1 > ya, that is rather annoying aswell
El Liptonez > that's a different thing tho
El Liptonez > still not wanna tell me what you all are mad about
iskies1 > instead of floating around in your buzzard, why not just buzz off and bug someone else
Shwabeul Shwabeul > you talk , we respond , nothing to be mad's of
Elrock Storm > I just told you?
Elrock Storm > speak for yourself i am pissed at him
El Liptonez > nah i wanna know why everyone was mad about me even before i showed up here
Elrock Storm > i am not sure anyone was>?
iskies1 > forgot all about you tbh till you showed back up
Elrock Storm > i hd nothing but nice thoughts about you enjoying yourslef in eve.
Elrock Storm > then you came and decied the way forward was to grief some mates
El Liptonez > lol i didnt follow myself to shoot me the first day i appeared
El Liptonez > so what did reb tell you?
Elrock Storm > nothing
El Liptonez > i'm really curious
Elrock Storm > should he have?
El Liptonez > looks like
iskies1 > i have no problems with ya lip, but to come back and grief us over old news, no reason for it
El Liptonez > i know you won't believe me, but you remember how i laughed at ME when we joined, and i wasn't looking for you guys specifically
El Liptonez > there's just no other alliance with so many bears to make mad
Elrock Storm > EL lip yeah we all saw your ego in corp chat
El Liptonez > and the fact we were in the same corp is no reason to not shoot you
Elrock Storm > i don;t like people that are disloyal
Elrock Storm > in life as rule
El Liptonez > majesta is a fucking joke
benny1978 > and you are a fucked pussy
El Liptonez > you probably built your supercaps too long and you forgot about it
iskies1 > thanks benny, beat me to it
Philippe LaCroix > if you could you whould fit a cloak on you small pe....
Elrock Storm > cloaking AFKing is pure grieffing El Lip, you think anyone gives a toss what you think? lol
El Liptonez > oh really
benny1978 > 1 vs 1
El Liptonez > didn't know it was griefing
benny1978 > ???
Elrock Storm > You are nopt team player
Elrock Storm > you shit on your mates
El Liptonez > which mates
iskies1 > the ones u used to have
Elrock Storm > You the guys like that helped you sorry arse
benny1978 > i think he has no friends, no wife , no fun in live
benny1978 > that is fact
El Liptonez > true
El Liptonez > just funny how you call me hypocritical lol
Elrock Storm > i could find the copr chats if you like?
El Liptonez > yeah please
iskies1 > and on that note, gotta go and take my wife and kids out for supper, and you should soon hit the road lip before you accidentally get caught
El Liptonez > you should probably tell me what i did before calling me hypocritical, at least looks like i have not been the only hypocrat in that time
El Liptonez > i didnt kick myself from the corp and public chat for no obvious reasonjm
El Liptonez > i know the things i told reb when i left, in case you mean that things
A Fleeing Abbadon Dies:
EVE System > Channel changed to T-GCGL Local Channel
EVE System > Channel changed to V-NL3K Local Channel
EVE System > Channel changed to 1-GBBP Local Channel
EVE System > Channel changed to T-ZWA1 Local Channel
EVE System > Channel changed to QFF-O6 Local Channel
loopyliz > You keep coming this way i'm going to organize a trap for you : P
EVE System > Channel changed to 2CG-5V Local Channel
loopyliz > too slow
EVE System > Channel changed to Y5J-EU Local Channel
http://stealthfield.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=4836814
El Liptonez > nice trap you had there
Securitas Protector > gf?
A Ratting Hyperion Dies With 6 Of Us In Local:
(This guy was smacking us and telling us to "bring it" the day before, shooting at me off station, saying how boring we were, etc. I love karma.)
EVE System > Channel changed to TVN-FM Local Channel
bigpaxi > hey
bigpaxi > stop
bigpaxi > stop
bigpaxi > come on
bigpaxi > omg
StS ChaosEngine > gf
http://stealthfield.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=4836784
bigpaxi > ass holes
Captain Gardak > gf
El Liptonez > gf
bigpaxi > fucking fags
StS ChaosEngine > dont wine around gere watch local and intel
bigpaxi > omg i was just helping a friend
bigpaxi > i didnt even lock in u fucking fag
Securitas Protector > you were smacking us in local yesteday
Securitas Protector > /emote shrugs
bigpaxi > i mean
bigpaxi > dam
bigpaxi > i bet in a sb too
Tinker Rage > no talking in local please!
bigpaxi > dude u got neuts
bigpaxi > here
bigpaxi > wow
bigpaxi > just kill
http://stealthfield.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=4836789 [NOTE: His pod stayed in some belt, we found him, killed him, right in that moment his salvaging alt comes in in this kestrel, gets also killed and podded]
My, weren't some of those tears delicious?
However, things went a little downhill from there. Over time, less people showed up for ops as it was no longer the weekend, and it got to the point where we were trying to do things that we simply didn't have enough ships for, although our first ever covert cyno hotdrop was awesome. For various reasons, we started making elementary mistakes, people started going AFK at extremely inappropriate times, and we became less organized, causing me to lose a Pilgrim because I got cocky and engaged, thinking due to my own poor organization that we had more bombers than we did.
One pilot also started having awful luck. No joke, this guy had 2 one-in-a-million deaths happen within 24 hours. The first time, we were sitting on a gate 20k off watching a Hyperion, Cerberus, and Thorax wait for us. After a few minutes, the Hyperion warps off to a safespot in a completely random direction...except he happened to pass through Shokoti's Nemesis in warp, decloaking him. The sensor-boosted Cerberus instalocked and instapopped him. Then, less than a day later, he jumps through a gate right as a Nighthawk happens to come out of warp on the other side...directly on top of his jump-in spot. He was once again decloaked and popped.
I've got to hand it to Majesta though, they really upped their own organization. Although I'm sure it was an inconvenience to them (which was the point), they started getting gangs together to follow us around, and their miners and ratters started POSing up very quickly. They do have some very good PVPers, especially in Epiphyte Mining and Exploration and Metalworks.
Due to future plans and an ending of the contract, we are now pulling out, but I have to say to Majesta: good fight! We ended up with a 65% efficiency on our accurate killboard, which is much lower than any other previous contract.
Good Show!
