Well, I guess my last post work up some people in Rakia Dwellers. Sesshomaru Sama or Sama as he is called, was NOT afk in Nereut. He says that he takes care of a baby in real life and he?s been manufacturing.Anyway, I challenged him to a 1 on 1. If he won, I would end the war. He accepted and we went at it. it was a close fight, he in his Vexor and me in my Ishkur. We were both into structure and he warped away. I got his drones.

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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So, how goes the war? A few more kills and taunts from the CEO. Fireborn continues to sit, docked in his station in Youl while his corp mates have fled to various systems. Unfortunately for some of them, I know how to use locator agents.

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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Yep, it’s war now. I don’t mind people putting comments on my blog, but this is not cool by me.

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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Yes, I do contract work. Am I a merc? What is a merc? A merc is a mercenary, a person who will wage war or engage in acts of aggression for a profit. In other words, PvP and get paid for it.

So, yes, I am a merc from time to time. As it would be, when this person contacted me and asked that I destroy 2 cruisers for a nice chunk of isk, I was more than willing to oblige. Thus began the contract on a new corp, only a few days old. Rakia Dwellers was the target and I began with the usual, gather intel on who they are, what ships they fly, etc. Fortunately, most of this was provided by my employer. I guess they really ticked them off and really wanted to put some hurt on them. I began this contract like all others, I began to wait for them to come online. Cool name for a corp though. Is Rakia a place? Well, it could be a happy place you go to, Rakia is a drink.

Hmm….I wonder if they drink it. I would learn that their fighting skills would beg otherwise.

I spend a good portion of the morning online, flying around different systems. Got in a small engagement with some macro miners in Amarr. I was swapping out jet cans on macro miners and their enforcer shows up in, to my surprise, an Ishkur. Sweet, a same ship duel. Well, I thought it would be a same ship duel. He had 2 gun in stead of my 3, same drones, he had 2 instead of my 5. Oh well, it was fast, but it was cool.

As I am cleaning up the wreck, online comes some members of my target. Great, time to follow up on the location tip I have and see what I can find.

I head into Tash Murkon Prime and head right for the belts, hopeful that they are mining. As luck would have it, they have 2 barges and a Caracal in the first belt. I swap the jet cans and the Caracal locks and fires. As he does, 1 barge warps out and another Caracal warps in. I warp out and get bigger guns, 2 cruisers on my assault ship may not work to my favor as well as that barge pilot coming back in something more suited for battle.

As I warp back to the belt with my Pilgrim, the scanner shows that 3 cruisers are waiting for me. That means it’s time for some fun.

I land in the belt and 3 cruisers lock me and start firing. I let loose my drones, hit the nos and warp scramblers on the two Caracals. One and then the other go pop. As I move towards the mining barge that has now targeted me, the Celestis explodes. As the barge warps out, back come the two Caracal pilots in the famous, “Ibis of Doom” noobship. I decide to leave them alone, until they start to loot the wrecks. Nope, that’s my stuff I earned in battle, so I let both of them have it.

I collect my loot and return to a station. Yeah, it was a quick fight and they used some logical thinking in their tactics. Blob the target. Unfortunately for them, they did not plan to make the fight last. If one of them had fitted some remote repers of some sort, it would have been harder to complete the contract. As it was, I had 3 cruiser kills instead of the required 2. I contact my employer, send him the kill mails and receive the rest of my payment. They were pleased on the quick turn around on the contract, I may have some more work from them in the future.
I also receive a convo from the CEO of Rakia Dwellers. He’s asking why I am attacking them. I inform he that I had a contract to take out 2 cruisers and that I had finished my work. Needless to say, he was not happy but he was civil. Now, on to more exploring.

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