One of our newer members asked a very
telling question yesterday on comms. “Do the minmatar always run
from a fair fight?” he wondered. The answer came back sounding
like a group of Gregorian monks chanting in perfect harmony. “Yes”.
Sure, there are a select few Minmatar
who are down for a 1v1 or 2v2 but most scamper away at the first sign
of someone on their plex gate. I wish I could record the nightly
sounds of disappointment on comms after some Minmatar destroyer ran
from a rifter. I wish I could record the confusion in peoples voice
when they explain how they wanted to “suicide” into a 3v1 fight
to see if they could get a kill, maybe two, but instead the Minmatar
warped out and left system. I would take these recordings and force
the talking heads on the Minmatar side to listen to them every time
they blogged or tweeted.
Now that the pendulum that is war zone
control has swung back to the Minmatar side it's even worse. Last
night, and I'm not exaggerating here, five Minmatar in frigs, dessys,
and one cruiser ran from one destroyer. As we did a little corp dessy
roam we got smack talked in local for um, pvping....
Phoenix Raid Yaken > getting a shit
ton of LP. how are your LP gain going?
Kimsemus > disregard LP, acquire
kills
Phoenix Raid Yaken > I value money
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Now that I've gotten that out of my
system lets get down to business. I have the pleasure of FCing
probably one of the best low sec corps in Eve. Over the last year and
a half we have gotten pilots from other Amarr corps, null sec
alliances, and noobs looking for their first kills. Many of these
pilots have stuck around and blessed us with their experience and
superb piloting. We use forums and in game channels to find pilots
but we also use something else, something special. Combat has to be
one of the best recruiting tools in eve. We have had dozens of pilots
look into joining us after we killed them.
We have never been elitists assholes.
After we kill someone, if they convo me I'll take it and talk to them
and offer GF's. A lot of times, if they are new they have questions
about what happened I will answer them honestly or help them with
fitting. Sometimes they will ask if we are recruiting and I will
point them at Shalee. Sure, I could troll them and lie about what
happened but whats the point in that? Even if they are not interested
in joining us I would rather have them not get discouraged and quit
eve, its just more pvp for us if they come back. Hopefully with
friends.
The pay off is fights like this
http://inexile.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_related&kll_id=16833030
. We were out on our roam last night and jumped into Ardar. The
Minmatar were set up in a medium plex with a Pilgrim and Falcon
presumably set up at range. With them having three cruisers, two
recons and five dessy and down ships I expected a hard fight. It was
not. But let me tell you what should have happened first.
- Falcon jam put jams on all the thrashers. Over heated even off race jams will land on a lot of them
- The Pilgrim neuts out both Coercers
- Both Thorax’s and the Rupture were dual web fit. Dessy killers. Follow primary and kill
- Win the fight
None of that happened. Instead they
spread damage and stacked jams. What we did was very crafty and maybe
a even a little underhanded. I will do my best to explain it but it
may take up a lot of your time.
- Spread points
- Follow Primary
- Kill
If your paying attention you can see
how this all comes together(if you disregard my opening rant). We do
things as a corp. We get new people in and help them out. They learn
to solo and to fleet or hone their already excellent skills. We kill
shit.
Finally a hearty congratulations to
last weekends Corporation Tournament winners
1v1
First Place-V1triol
Second Place-Baialein
Third Place-Katerina
FFA winner Durr(really? Who puts a neut
on THAT??????)
