I have been spending a nice amount of time playing EVE with my fellow corpies.  General ‘yarring’ about has yielded kills, ransoms (both isk and jokes) and the odd carrier slaughter (http://nspta.net/lacon/?a=kill_related&kll_id=69143).

Our campaign against the ever failfest called United continues.  If they would spend more than five minutes outside a station, we might actually get a fight with them.  As it goes, their operations around the system known as Rancer have slowed considerable.  They do continue to camp the Crilere gate as they are infamously known for, but other than that, they are not very active.  They do come out every now and again, but the good ole “Control Q’s” kick in when we log on or even think of the system name Rancer.  Oh well, we expected nothing less.  The ‘Lords of Otou’ shall continue to rule with the strength and honor for which we have always wielded.

The OPML download has been growing for some time now and with the recently ended blogging promotion event between CCP and GameScribe, there are a number of blogs that are simply disappearing, mainly because they were created to participate in the contest.  Now that the promotion contest is over, some of those blogs are no longer in existence and as a result, they will be removed from the OPML download.  I do have some additions to make and an upcoming announcement post will be made this coming Friday.  The OPML us up to date as of this blog posting, so fee freel to download a fresh copy (http://www.eve-druid.com/opml-download).

CrazyKinux has yet again, provided wonderful inspiration for our blogging community.  He has a wonderful contest setup for the next EVE Blog Banter (http://www.crazykinux.com/2009/06/eve-blog-banter-contest.html).  I myself will be writing an article, however, I will not be among those entries being judged for the prizes.  Now before anyone gets worked up, you should know that this was MY idea.  I shall attempt to explain.

CK, James Egan and I do a lot of work together for the blogging community.  CK maintains the EVE blogroll, I maintain the EVE OPML download and James Egan keeps up to date on the EVE community from a variety of information resources, including both postings among the EVE Blogging community and tips that CK and I send to James. Needless to say, we are friends and we do have a decent amount of regular contact with each other.

I have full faith that CK, Zapatero and James could be objective when judging entries, but there are always people who will take relationships such as those I share with CK and James and create a context of impropriety.  Such people would claim that a contest was rigged.  We have all seen such claims on the EVE forums and honestly, it’s usually a bunch of garbage, but the creation of “threadnaughts’ and other related drama end up ruining an otherwise entertaining and fulfilling event.

Rather than leave such potential drama be something that can ruin the honest, open and honorable nature that the EVE Blogging Community holds itself accountable to, I deciced to stop it from happening, hence my decision to ask CK to remove my contribution to the upcoming blog banter from the judging.  Don’t get me wrong, it hasn’t kept me from writing a post.  I had an idea and yes I am going to participate in the Blog Banter itself, just not the contest.

Yes, my blog banter post this time is a long read like my last one.  You have been warned. 

Anyway, that’s all I have for now, see you out there!!!

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I have been busy as a beaver with writing projects, enjoying summer movies, recovering from vacation and of course, playing EVE.

For those of you who have followed the ongoing conflict between The United and The Neo Spartans I will say that the fight goes on.  For the latest stats, you can view the stats on the campaign, Ding Ding! Round 2! I missed a good portion of the combat as I was on vacation, but I had a chance to engage a volley or two.

Yes, there is a new look here.  I went over to Podlogs (http://podlogs.com) and downloaded the ‘Angry Amarr’  theme (http://podlogs.com/themes/?preview_theme=Angry%20Amarr).  It’s a nice theme and I like how it looks.

OPML update, I have an update post going live this Friday listing the recent additions.  If you have not already done so, please send me your requests to be added to the OPML no later than downtime on this coming Thursday.  Hopefully I will receive enough responses so that I don’t have to update the post multiple time after it’s gone live.

Speaking of new blogs, I have a few words on the concerns the blogging community have expressed.  As with all things, the more you have is not always better.  Our community recently hit a major milestone with a record number of 535 blogs.  This is a major achievement, however, with all things in nature, there is a balance between the positive and negative.

With the larger number of blogs comes increased administration on the part of myself and Crazy Kinux with regards to the OPML and the EVE Blogroll.  It is a bittersweet thing since both of use love to read the diverse postings of our community.

With all this growth, we must admit that there will be some ‘dead loss’.  CCP and GameScribe had a major promotion going on to get people to blog about the community.  Many blogs were created in that push and to be honest, I see some of those blogs simply dieing out as the promotion ends.  Rest assured, the EVE Blogroll and the OPML download will be revised to reflect those inactive AND inaccessible blogs.

The OPML download has always had blogs listed that were no longer active for the sole purpose of providing a ‘historical’ listing of those who had contributed to the EVE Blogging Community.  So please do not be concerned if the OPML download count of blogs varies from CrazyKinux’s EVE Blogroll.  Many of these older inactive blogs had a lot of good content that any new blogger and member of the EVE Online gaming community may find benefit.

See you out there!!!

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I promise, I have something wonderful to write, something that will be worth reading.  As soon as I too am feeling better and inspiration revisits me, I will post.

In the mean time, take a look at our latest combat encounter with our war dec Roids’Are’Us.

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Well, it’s finally happened.  There is an open war in the pocket.  A number of us formed up in a fleet and engaged a group of lame pirates known as The Final Stand.

An intense battle ensued and there were losses on both sides, but ultimately we won, 16 kills, 17 losses, however, they lost more in isk value in modules and in ship values.  Some would say it is a draw, byt 880 mil isk lost to 580 mil on our side, makes it a close engagement, but a win for us.

Now, you may ask, why do I call them lame?  Well, how many pirate corps do you know LOCK their killboard on the night they take a beating from every kid on the block?  Not many, but apparently their’s is locked, take a look, http://eve.thefinalstand.com/?a=home.

So, you can’t see what they have done, both good nor bad.  No worries, you can learn all about the battle and the fights to come here.  It was great fun!!!

http://www.eve-druid.com/kb/?a=cc_detail&ctr_id=1

UPDATE

The thread about this blog post is getting interesting, check it out.  Don’t worry about the userid and password request from eve.thefinalstand.com that may pop up if you have images enabled on your EVE forums account, that comes up because TFS have locked up their killboard and their signatures cause that error.

http://myeve.eve-online.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=871990

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Now it seems that the people in Pimebeka have been enduring this man’s inane babble for some time. He’s been seen taking people’s ore and loot.

So, he’s a pirate.

I am from time to time. What makes this so bad?

Well, he’s ticked off enough people that I was offered a large sum of isk, and I mean LARGE, to war dec this guy. The terms?

• War dec his corp
• Pop his pod and introduce his corpse to the vacuum of space
• Keep all the loot
• If a surrender fee is discussed, his popped pod is a requirement
• War dec fees will be paid for the duration of the war

I’ve seen similar terms before, especially for a large corporation war dec. His corp has 7 people in it. Is he that bad?

Normally, if someone is simply engaging in piracy, I will leave them alone. Birds of a feather so to speak.

The inane smack talk, the lying about having won fights when he lost them is pushing it a bit. The worst was not honoring accepted 1 v 1 engagements. He would get help from a gang mate/corp mate. Blobbing is a fact in EVE, but not honoring a 1 on 1 duel is just not right.

Pirates as a whole in EVE are an honest bunch. I know that it sounds weird, but it’s a necessary thing. We have a job to do and sometimes the job itself is hard enough with the way targets sometimes behave. There is no need to offer them any more tools for them to use against us. There is an honor code. When you break that code, you make all pirates in EVE look bad and this just simply will not do.

Now, normally I will not take people on their word when they claim such actions. I have heard such claims before to get mercs to take contracts. Most merc groups do what I do, get an alt into the affected area and observe what is going on. Gather intel on the problem, intel on the ships being flown, combat tactics, etc. In this case, I didn’t need to do that. I trust the people who asked for my help. That and I personally watched such events unfold while attempting to engage in simple jet can piracy my self.

So I accepted the contract, Marshal Buckov Corp was war dec’ed.

I would like to say that it was a glorious war with lots of battles and many explosions, but that would simply not be the case.

Most of his corp spent the past 7 days offline. It was in fact not until today that Marshal himself even ventured online. Must have been that ban for his postings in the COAD discussion on the EVE forums that held him offline. Seems that more than one corp war dec’ed him and he got upset about it. He posted about it. He postd and posted to the point that he was banned for the spam posting that was his new full time job.

He finally undocked after much inane babble in local and after I had blocked him for a bit as I had grown weary of it. He was in a shuttle. Not a wonderful kill, but a kill none the less. And as I had hoped for, his pod was mine too.

His frozen corpse? Given as a gift to one of the many nice people in Pimebeka, specifically the first one that asked for it as there were many requests. They have endured much, it was the least I could do.

The contract terms had been filled and the war is now over, but I will tell you, this guy had better keep himself clean here or I may be asked to come to the aid of the people of Pimebeka again. The next time I would be willing to do it for far less isk.

I want to thank everyone in that system for your words of encouragement and your help in locating which station he was in. In all my time in EVE, I have never seen so many people, even from corps that are actively warring with each other, come together to help one person pop another person.

Let this be a lesson to all you smack talkers out there. People are tired of seeing that crappy drama in local. People are so tired of it that they will band together and hire mercs to go after your sorry hide.

Play nice, pirate honorably and keep the game fun. That’s all WE all ask.

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Yeah, I should have known better. It’s all my fault, I was too trusting. I should have known better. You loose ships, it’s part of the game. Yet, I morn this ship as she has won many a battle for me. Rest in Peace, the “Pulse” is no more. You shall be avenged, the war continues.

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Has this worked for them? Well, here are their losses to date. I especially like this one,  are they helping us here?

Kainde finally made a showing, in a frigate and promptly lost his ship. He sat permadocked all night last night. He talks tough and then makes such a pitiful showing today. From what I can tell from the killboard, he and two of his corp mates may have tried to blob one of my corp mates. I have not had the chance to talk in game with my corp mate, so I am not sure, but the timing of Kainde, Meklarr and Grishak’s ships being popped kind of leads to that conclusion. Yeah, he’s tough, he comes out in a weak ship and brings friends. I guess he just can’t help himself, he has to follow rule 2 from the “carebear playbook“.

Anyway, I am looking forward to some more engagements with these guys. We have only seen a few of them, where are the rest of their corp mates?

More importantly, where is the ceo? Permadocked of course. He sits in his station while his corp mates continue to loose ships. Yeah, he’s a good ceo, he won’t come to the aid of his corp members.

I am really happy that I am not in his corp.

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Afterwards, we began to chat. He?s a good guy and I have to tip my hat to him for both his skills in combat and his skills in diplomacy. I won?t post the chat here, he asked me not to. He made a counter offer, well, agreed that one I suggested was fair. We talked and talked and in the end, this is where things are:

• His corp has lost a lot more than 50 million isk.
• Rabbit is a friend of the CEO and he won?t be ejected from the corp, even for just a day.
• Rabbit is pissing off people in other corps and more war decs are coming.
• Fireborn, even with his smack talking emails, has potential to be a good CEO.

So, I came up with another offer tha Sama thought was worth trying. They have until Monday to accept and comply with the terms of the offer. Below is a copy of the email I sent to Fireborn.

Sama?s diplomatic efforts

Well, I know that you have a mandate for your corp members to not speak with me and please do not be angry with Sama, he only wants what is best for your corp.

After agreeing to a 1 on 1, where if he won the war would be over, he didn?t win, but it was close, we began chatting. As we talked, he made a nice counter offer, or more accurately, I made a suggestion and he agreed that it was fair.

10 million isk and an apology from Rabbit in email and on my blog.

As we continued to chat, he impressed me a lot. He is an asset to your corp and you should really listen to him. He will help your corp grow strong and successful.

So, the new terms, because of Sama?s efforts:

A written apology from Rabbit in email and on my blog

We are in a cease fire until Monday. If you agree to the new terms and I see the apology from Rabbit before Monday, I will end the war.

It?s up to you.

We will have to see what Fireborn does and if Rabbit complies with the terms. We will also see if the corp members respect the cease fire. They didn?t before, but because of Sama willing to talk, I am willing to give them another chance.

UPDATE

Fireborn convoed me, he says that Rabbit will not apologize and as a result, is being kicked from the corp. Rabbit is out of their corp, they kept their end of the deal. I have kept mine. The war is over.

See what smack talk does, it gets you a war dec on your corp and gets you kicked.

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Carls Berg found out that Siyi is not that far from my reach, He lost both his Catalyst and his pod.

Rabbit Serbia was surprised by my appearance in Suroken. He locked me and fired, I returned the favor again and pop went his Kestrel. He logged as the fight started so his pod would auto warp away.

Sesshomaru Sama fled to Nereut and remains docked at the VIII Moon 2 station. He was supposed to “Sama will get you down if you come to him or any of our corpmates closer than 20km or near our HQ”. He as not been around at all, so much for that threat.

Alas, Fireborn still remains docked in his station in Youl while his corp mates are picked off one by one. Most of them have taken to not log on at all, except for a few minutes at a time. Probably changing skills and hopeful that the war is over.

I tell you, when I log on, I am begining to enjoy the emails Fireborn send me, like this one, which he must have sent everyone in his corp.

It is clear that he is laying all the time and that his ego is bigger than this station. We can not accept his terms becuse we dont have 50mil, and I think we all agree that we wont give him chanse to earn on easy way 100 or 50mil again llike he did it in his last few wars when he was attacking small corps. We can all lose our ships, but we will not lose our ISK and SP, so be cool, he is just loosing his timewith us.

Fire

So, loosing ships, pods, implants and modules does not mean that they loose isk? Why is it that so many CEO’s can’t do math. If you loose a ship, you have to replace it. The insurance payout may cover the lost ship, but you have to replace your modules. You have to pay insurance again as well. When you loose a pod, you have to pay for the clone again. All of these are losses.

I continue to make money from looted modules, another 6 million isk. That with what I have already looted from them which is more than enough to keep the war going.

So, 29.8 million isk in destroyed ships and modules, at least another 2 million in clone costs, another 14 million isk in replacement modules for the new ships as well as, let’s just say 5 million in implants comes to a grand total loss for his corp of 50.8 million isk.

Yet, they don’t have 50 million isk for the surrender fee.

When confronted with these truths, Fireborn still fails to be a good CEO and protect his corp. He outright refuses to surrender, even with the simple truth that from this point forward, it was cheaper to surrender.

but we will not lose our ISK and SP, so be cool, he is just loosing his timewith us.

Fire

News flash, your corp mates have lost both. But still, Fireborn remains docked, safe in his station, in Youl while I go about doing missions, training skills, making more and more isk.

Makes you wonder why they stay in this corp, doesn’t it?

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So, I war dec’ed this corp. I tried talking to the CEO, his response? This email:

2007.07.08 15:10
Dont know what are you talking about, Rabbit doesnt speaks english. Stop provoking and play nice, all members of Rakia Dwellers are cool with you, not because you are not idot but becuse you use used rules and played by rules when you killed them.

PS. Rakia Dwellers corp name is made by joke, and yes it is a place. Bye

Hmm…he doesn’t speak english, eh? Well, the talk in local was clear enough and the comments seem clear to me.

So, the war begins. I am camped outside their HQ in an old Arbitrator. It’s an older ship for me, made my money on it already and I wanted to see how much of a blob they would throw out. As it would be, a decent blob. I did take some of them out, however, it was too much for my tech 1 tank. Here lies my old Arbi.

So, how did I fair? Well, while camping their HQ, Deamon Dweller undocked, locked me and fired. He lost both his ship and his pod. Next was the blob, however, Rabbit Serbia, the reason for the war, lost his Caracal again. He will come back into the fight in his Osprey, he’s on my Arbi kill mail. Prince Clansul lost his Omen and I had Sesshomaru Sama well into structure before my Arbi died.

So, some good fighting, some good loot. Sesshomaru was cool in the fight, even met me at a planet for a 1 on 1, however, some of his corp mates did not respect the 1 on 1, including the CEO.

Shortly afterwards, Fireborn, the CEO, convos me, asking for an end to the war. He says that I should end the war because Rabbit Serbia lost his ship and doesn’t have another. Hmm, he helped to pop my Arbi in an Osprey. Lies don’t rest well with me.

I later get this email from Fireborn:

2007.07.10 17:54
Hi Ga’len,

We want peace with you.

Consider this mail a restraining order too. Sama will get you down if you come to him or any of our corpmates closer than 20km or near our HQ, until peace is made and war officialy closed. Our members will not attack you too.

So next move is yours, inform me about your decision.

fly safe,
Fireborn

So, emails in game serve as “restraining orders”? I’ve not heard that one before. At least their intentions are clear, they will not attack as long as I don’t. Well, it’s a war and until the surrender terms are met, the war will continue.

What are the terms? Well, it was simple originally. 50 million isk and Rabbit had to be kicked from his corp, he could rejoin in a month and he had to apologize in local and in a comment here for his foul words.

The CEO refused these terms. Now they are out 20 million isk in ships, plus repairs to armor and structure and implants lost by one of them. I made 8 million isk in the loot to boot. War dec paid for and then some.

So now, they are playing the permadock game or the logoffski game. You know, stay in the station all the time or logoff when they are in space before you can get in range. It’s the nature of fight, however, it did not work out for Prince Clansul. He saw me come through a stargate, locked weapons and fired. So much for Rakia Dwellers not fighting first. Figures that they would not keep their word. I was heading back to station to log for the night. Anyway, I return fire and he looses another Omen. During the fight, he logs off, so that when his ship popped, his pod auto warps away. Should I wait around and nail the pod too? Nah, he’s had a rough day already and I was logging for the night.

We will see what tomorrow brings. Maybe the CEO will come to his senses and surrender to save his corp mates.

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So, I end up tracking this guy down and he stays perma-docked. Go figure. One of his corp mates undocks and let’s loose a jet can. It has the stuff he stole. In local, they apologize for the incident and offer up the loot he stole to make peace. Part of me says to not take the loot, it’s a trap, but I don’t listen to my inner voice. I should have, it was a trap. I get blobbed and I end up loosing the fight, but not before inflicting enough damage that 8 of them warp away. Too bad, they didn’t make it on the killmail, however, I was not able to warp away in time, so, pop goes my Thorax. At least they left my drones in space alone, I was able to recover those.

So, feeling down a bit, I return to NPC ratting in the belts What happens, more loot thieves show up. I am a bit miffed and I want to kill some stuff, but they all log before I can get them. So, what happens next, a war dec of course. It’s a corp called IGHN.

So, who was the offender this time? A pilot names Vanquished. It’s a cool name, too bad that his attitude was not as cool. 4 noobs later, including a gang I was running NPC rat coverage while they were mining.

I war dec’ed this corp and I come to find out that one of my buddies, Bryg Philomena, has also war dec’ed this corp. So, we decide to work together. What do we get for our efforts, well, a nice kill.

So, over the next few days, the war rages on and I inflict several losses, 14 all on my own. The last kill I had was in a major fight.

I was in a blob attack from IGHN, 7 on 1, with Ceasar3 in a Prophecy this time. I am in my Curse, tanking damage from all 7 of these guys and I realize that I am holding, but barely. I will be loosing this ship in this fight, but I am not going down alone. Ceasar’s ship finally pops and shortly after, my Curse crushes under the onslaught.

This is why I play EVE Online, for the awesome battles that you can get into. Yeah, I lost a ship. That happens. Always assume that when you undock, you will loose that ship. I have spares for what I lost, but it was a lot of fun.

IGHN agreed to kick Vanquished from their corp as part of the mutual agreement to end the war. I gave Ceasar3 a spare Prophecy I had and he gave me back all the modules that survived from my Curse.

Funny how wars end up making new friends. Respect for a great set of fights. Well, on to the next system…

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Anyway, you all know where this leads, another war. This time, Lord Deus Ex corp. Why you may ask. Put simply, Lord Deus himself. He made it a point to follow me around Task-Murkon Prime for 2 days and continued to take my loot, target me, bump my ship around. I gave him plenty of chances to make good on his offenses but to no avail.

So, day one of the war, I go hunting for targets and happen upon one, alone, in a mining barge in a belt. SR 65 is mining happily away in Pimebeka. I scan out which belt and warp in. Damn, I am 50 km from him, he’s gonna warp out of there before I can get in warp scrambling range. I try to close the distance. 40km, 30km, 25km…I lock him, warp scramble and send in the drones, pop. I attmept to lock the pod. I am in my Vexor, it takes a good amount of time to lock the pod and all the while, he just sits there. Too bad for him, crack goes the egg.

Well, that was too easy. There is no way I would be able to do that again, or maybe. I check the scanner and what do I see, Lord Deus. I again, scan out which belt, warp in and close the distance. Locked, warp scrambled and dones released….boom goes his mining barge. So, can I get a pod a second time….hmmm…locking…..locked, warp scrambled….crack.

So, now I have popped two mining barges, two pods and still no reaction in local, email or even a convo request. These people were mining afk during an active war dec? I won’t ask what they were thinking, it’s obvious that they are not thinking at all.

So, this corp that was flying cruisers around stealing loot has no intention of fighting back? I wonder this for a few hours and then finally I get a convo request from Lord Deus. He’s talking smack, about how he’s going to pop me good, how I am a “noob with no skills, no honor for popping a mining barge”. Uhm, that’s the point of a war, attack targets and inflict damage. Sooner or later, things will result in enough losses for a surrender.

So, as I am cruising around, in warps a Harbinger battle cruiser. Whoa, they have something to fight with after all. A Harbinger, an Omen and a frigate from one of the other corp members whose not shown his face against me and my Vexor. I figure that I need something better, so I retreat and get my Pilgrim.

After an hour of cat and mouse chasing around Task-Murkon Prime , I finally lock down the Harbinger outside m1 Kal station. We exchange blows and in warps Lord Deus in his Omen. I press on SR65 and his Harbinger with Lord Deus closing. Just as Lord Deus gets into warp scramble range, disaster befalls SR65. He promptly docks in the station with his pod and I turn about towards Lord Deus. Just as I lock Lord Deus, he fires on me and then heads to dock in the station. I guess he doesn’t know that you can’t dock in a station when you are firing on someone. Too bad for him, it’s over soon after that and he docks to save hid pod too.

The next day, I see that the corp member count has gone from 15 to 2. SR65 and Lord Deus are the only one’s that are left. Wow, I must have really scared these guys. Most of them did undock the night before to see their CEO loose his second ship as well as their “fighter” learn that he was not the “Harbinger of Doom”.

I try to convo Lord Deus and he refuses the convo invite. I email him with a surrender offer, he can end the war for 25 million isk. As I wait for a response, SR65 convos me to let me know he has left the corp and that Lord Deus is disbanding the corp. I do a show info on SR65 and it’s true, he left. I give him props for coming out and fighting the battle the night before.

So, I have broken up a corp? Wow, I had better not let this go to my head. 15 man corp reduced to just the CEO. So, what would top this? Well, I warp to the next system to relax a bit doing a mission or two and what do I see on the scanner? Lord Deus in a belt, yet again.

No, this is too good to be true. Yet again, I warp in and close the distance. Pop, he’s lost his third mining barge. This time, hid pod warps out as he smack talks in local. I don’t bother to respond to smack talk normally and this time, I just simply say “Well, after 3 mining barges and an Omen, I guess smack talk is all you have left, eh”? He logs off.

So, that was an interesting war, I inflicted some damage, survived the retaliation attack as well as destroy those forces and ultimately break up the corp of smack talking, loot theives. With the 65 million in loot from their ships, this war was really nice on the bank for me.

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Over the course of the past month, I have been very successful in pirating, mainly in swapping loot cans on people. Unlike oMAKO, I have not attacked anyone younger than 4 months old. You’ve got to have standards and of course, anyone stealing loot from noobs becomes an immediate target for me.

So, when I heard about a fella named, and I kid you not, phadunkadunk2000, was stealing from noobs in Pimebeka, I had to seize the opportunity. I tried to engage him a number of times and he always warped out before I could get to him. So, it was time to see if I could stir the pot so to speak.

War dec number two, Deep Space Construction. I am not going to go into a blow by blow here, I did some damage here as well, including nail “phad” himself. So, a mining barge, a hauler and 2 frigates later, they surrendered. The fee this time, a mere 10 million isk and “phad” apologizing to all the noobs he stole from. I must admit here, I didn’t think he would do it, but he did. He even started running NPC rat coverage for other miners. Nothing like a war dec and getting your ship popped to adjust your attitude.

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This is an act of piracy and by itself is not such a bad thing. You take loot or ore, swap the can, and hope that the person will either take the loot can back or attack you. Again, this is not a bad thing, however, to do this to people less than a week old just does not sit well with me. So, I decide to intervene after I take care of my mission loot.

I find oMAKo and try to get him to take loot cans from me. Apparently I am too old for him to play this game, he docks and logs off. I decide to take it up a notch and email the CEO of his corp and see if I can get some help for these poor noobs.

The next day, I am ratting in the belts and lo and behold, there is oMAKo and this time, he is flashing red to me. He’s stolen some of my loot. I chase him down and engage, however, he has warp core stabs fitted and escapes.

His CEO refuses the convo invites I send him, emails are not being responded to and this guy keeps messing with noobs as well as little ole me. This is where I decide to war dec his corp.

The war lasts only a few days, but I do some nice damage.

My first kill was worth the 2 million isk fee for a war dec, poor oMAKo, I caught him mining in a belt. Not a great fight, too easy of a kill, but it serves him right. Revenge for my stolen loot and the noobs of Task-Murkon Prime.

His buddy Crusher Joe decides to start talking smack and calls for their corp mates to rally and attack me. I manage to hold them off with my Drake and a nice set of ranged hits. One of the corp mates, nl3jackal, decides to charge me with his Vexor. No luck there. Crusher Joe got lived up to his name not once, but twice. Jackson Pratt comes out of their station, smack talking, locks and fires. I return the favor nicely.

After this disaster for KG, they decide to finally investigate and understand why they are under attack. I enlighten Jackson Pratt as to what the issue at hand is for me. Needless to say, his smack talking stops and oMAKo is put on the spot. We end up in a three way convo and oMAKo is told that he will be kicked from the corp if this happens again. Jackson informs me that the CEO has not been online for weeks and that he would like to discuss surrender to end the war. I tell him that 15 million isk would satisfy me for my loot losses and he agrees.

So, I successfully executed my first war dec in my one man corp. I fought some people, destroyed some ships, didn’t loose anything except ammo and got a surrender fee to boot.

On to more fun!!!

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