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Amarr Citizen 000001
Lazerhawks
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Posted - 2014.09.18 03:06:00 -
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---Classified---
This is an invasion post, we're invading someone!
Greetings fellow spaceship pilots.
We're going on an invasion on the weekend of the 6th September. The target? Quebec United Legion's C6 Pulsar.
"Why?" They have over 50+ SMAs on 4 Large Towers, with no hardeners online.
---End Message---
On September 6th we started our siege of Quebec United LegionGÇÖs home wormhole. Despite QUL hiring both Surely You're Joking (SYJ) and Disavowed, they couldnGÇÖt regain system control and ended up self destructing over 42 billion Isk in ships. By the 8th we had pillaged all their towers for almost 35 billion Isk and setup log-on traps to catch the loot-filled carriers they logged off in. After just a couple weeks, weGÇÖve further destroyed just under 77 billion Isk; catching 3 of their carriers trying to escape.
37 Hours until The Harvest
After a few weeks of intel gathering and preparation; we decided to start the siege. With only 4 towers and 53 SMAs, the QUL system was a ripe target. It took only a few days to seed over a dozen capital ships into the QUL home system, for which they were none the wiser. On the 6th of September our wing of dreadnoughts logged in and began reinforcing their towers. Without any hardeners online, all four of the QUL towers were reinforced during the first hour. Once the towers were reinforced, large bubbles were onlined canvassing the perimeter to prevent ships inside the shield from warping of. With our tackle on standby, it would be incredibly difficult for them to evacuate anything during the siege. The first QUL members that logged in, immediately logged off. During the first few hours, a single Kronos did try to escape with a MJD. The pilot made it to a safe, but without probes or a cloak, and all outgoing connections firmly under our control, they didnGÇÖt get far.
23 Hours until the Harvest
Quebec United Legion declined our 100 billion Isk ransom when we contacted them. Later on, when they saw the full force of the fleet sieging them, they asked for more time to come up with the ransom. We declined their offer, and proceeded to camp them inside their towers. While normally the most boring part of the siege, we were lucky enough to have the Alliance Tournament to watch all weekend. The sleepover wasnGÇÖt without kills however, as a pair of Paladins running C5 sites didnGÇÖt see our Sabre until it was too late. Some of our pilots decided to take the GÇ£time offGÇ¥ to practice their graphic design skills, creating wonderful portraits for our leadership. Only a few QUL members tried to keep us busy during this time; sending out scanners that never made it to k-space. Others QUL pilots attempted to vacate their towers, but our ships were quick to intercept them, pushing them back into their force fields. One brave QUL pilot did, however, decide they wouldnGÇÖt be held hostage and lost their Tengu in glorious combat.
3 Hours until the Harvest
As the timers on the towers ticked closer to zero, a massive squad of interceptors came through the mass-crit static we were guarding. A few interceptors were shot down and podded, but most made it into the safety of the QUL towers. We assumed that QUL h... |
Amarr Citizen 000001
Lazerhawks
1
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Posted - 2014.09.18 03:06:00 -
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2 Hours until the Harvest
As we closed up holes and repaired bubbles around the towers, we noticed one of their ships was named GÇÿasdfrewqGÇÖ. The name didnGÇÖt follow their normal naming convention and we thought one of the pilots might have accidently changed his ship name to the towerGÇÖs force-field password. We loaded a couple T3s into a carrier and tried jumping into their towers with our pods. We successfully landed right in the middle of their ejected ships and immediately liberated 2 Moro and a Phoenix. After attempting to bump out the hostile capital ships that were still piloted by hostiles, QUL frantically changed the passwords. This caused many ships, (including a piloted Moros who was fired hundreds of 100kms away from the tower), to be ejected from the shields. After grabbing what we wanted, and shooting what we didn't, our dreadnoughts were warped up to where our tackle was holding the Moros hostage, (now several hundred kms away). The Moros pilot didn't want to trade his pod for the ship, so we graciously accepted the killmail of both.
1 Hour until the Harvest
Once QUL had finally accepted their fate, the fireworks began. Billions and billions of Isk in ships were triggered to self-destruct. Frigates, tech-3 cruisers, Bhaalgorns, and capital ships, all felt the warm embrace of Bob. It was difficult to track QULGÇÖs self inflicted carnage. Because QUL didnGÇÖt put aside enough time to finish self-destructing their ships, they had left us a sizable number to take home. As the timers ticked closer to 0, QUL loaded up what they could into carriers and safe-logged inside their crumbling towers. Our final estimate of QULGÇÖs self-destructions, (which didnGÇÖt even include destroyed modules), was over 42 billion Isk.
The Harvest
Once the towers were out of reinforce, destroying them wasn't a problem. Tower modules were unanchored, wrecks were looted, and ships were consolidated inside towers `we set up. Nearly 10 billion Isk of ships and 14.6bil in modules were recovered out of the destroyed towers. Knowing that QUL still had several loot-filled carriers logged off inside the towers, we set up log-on traps. Scouts had the pilots watchlisted and waited mobilize whenever a QUL carrier logged on. When hostiles did log on, they immediately bounced off the force fields of our tower and were dragged through our bubbles.
Post Harvest Celebration
Several empty industrials, a Bhaalgorn, a Nidhoggur, and a Rattlesnake were the first few ships that bravely failed to escape after the siege had ended. A few days later, one of their loot carriers had logged on and fell into one our traps. The Chimera did not survive. We knew that this first Chimera wasnGÇÖt their only loot carrier however. As luck would have it, one of our scouts was poking around a C6 that belonged to La Division Bleue when they noticed a QUL tower with no hardeners (again), low shields on the tower (indicating a recent onlining), and a Chimera (with the same name as one that logged off full of ships). Upon noticing the easy kill, we formed up and sieged the new tower. The Chimera desperately tried to get out of the bubbles our interdictors were dropping so it could warp away before itGÇÖs tower was destroyed. The pilotGÇÖs desperation prompted us to think he had not put any stront inside the tower to reinforce it. When the tower did turn out to be fully stronted with a full 36-hours of invulnerability, we started getting ready to go back home. As soon as our bubbles had expired the Chimera unexpectedly warped out of the tower. Our hero scanner hastily probed his signature and landed right on top of him, forcing him to lose his cloak. After the pilot was locked down, bubbled, and had no where to go, they decided to self-destruct. This second Chimera kill topped us off just shy of 77 billion Isk destroyed.
Kudos to Disavowed and SYJ for trying to bring a fight. We hope to see QUL back in wormhole space soon.
Our final estimates for the operation: Isk Destroyed: >76.9 billion Isk Assets Stole: >34.4 billion Isk Ships Sacrificed to Bob: >42.1 billion Isk
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Amarr Citizen 000001
Lazerhawks
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Posted - 2014.09.18 03:07:00 -
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Hidden Fremen
Lazerhawks
492
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Posted - 2014.09.18 03:20:00 -
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GÖÑ Snipped signature for inappropriate language - CCP Eterne |
Sith1s Spectre
Rolled Out Triumvirate.
1218
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Posted - 2014.09.18 03:30:00 -
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Another active group gone from WH space.
GG
Have a cookie Rolled Out 2.0 is back. -áBut not in the way you're probably thinking-á
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Aquila Sagitta
Blue-Fire
486
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Posted - 2014.09.18 03:36:00 -
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What do you care? You moved out of wh to null XD Blue-Fire Best Fire |
Sith1s Spectre
Rolled Out Triumvirate.
1220
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Posted - 2014.09.18 03:39:00 -
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Just because I'm not living in WH space doesn't mean I don't care.
Last night I was in TLC's hole.
The night before brought an Ishtar fleet to HK's hole.
Anyways, have fun with more empty space.
GÖÑ
Sith Rolled Out 2.0 is back. -áBut not in the way you're probably thinking-á
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Bhane Celesto
Future Methods
0
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Posted - 2014.09.18 03:42:00 -
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Sith1s Spectre wrote:Another active group gone from WH space.
GG
Have a cookie
As dumb as it is, this is the truth of the matter.
Amazing read-up, excellent presentation and well played on the eviction, but the sad fact is that's just -1 wh group roaming the unknown. |
Seraph Essael
Devils Diciples League of Infamy
876
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Posted - 2014.09.18 03:46:00 -
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Never tangled with them myself, but if they actively PvP'd then it seems evicting them for the sake of evicting them is pretty dumb, considering the sparseness of players in wormholes.
If they pissed you off however and this is a plain old revenge eviction then fair one.
Either way, I enjoyed the write up even if you are somewhat tooting your own horn or doing it just to rub salt in the wound. Quoted from Doc Fury: "Concerned citizens: Doc seldom plays EVE on the weekends during spring and summer, so you will always be on your own for a couple days a week. Doc spends that time collecting kittens for the on-going sacrifices, engaging in reckless outdoor activities, and speaking in the 3rd person." |
Hidden Fremen
Lazerhawks
492
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Posted - 2014.09.18 03:51:00 -
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Sith1s Spectre wrote:Another active group gone from WH space.
Hahaha, active? You're out of touch, dude...
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KeeganWaffle
Lazerhawks
11
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Posted - 2014.09.18 04:00:00 -
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Seraph Essael wrote:Never tangled with them myself, but if they actively PvP'd then it seems evicting them for the sake of evicting them is pretty dumb, considering the sparseness of players in wormholes.
If they pissed you off however and this is a plain old revenge eviction then fair one.
Either way, I enjoyed the write up even if you are somewhat tooting your own horn or doing it just to rub salt in the wound.
They made themselves a massive target by not setting up their towers correctly and flaunting 50+ smas.
Also, wormhole space is already dead, all corps failscaded immediately after the patch |
Slicedndiced
Dropbears Anonymous Brave Collective
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Posted - 2014.09.18 04:16:00 -
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QUL are stupidly inactive for a 500+ person alliance. I personally don't like using killboards to measure activity, but they're at the absolute bottom of these comparisons, behind much smaller entities. At that point, killboards can tell you something.
Edit: One of our cap pilots got really drunk one night and RFed a tower of theirs several jumps out of our hole. We then left without doing any hole control. They had the entire RF timer to get people in to defend (no one was even watching the entrances) and the only people that showed up to defend were 5 cerbs. About 10b in stuff dropped and they even left a freighter for us to haul it out. |
Kniht
Fleet-Jump
67
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Posted - 2014.09.18 04:17:00 -
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Amarr Citizen 000001 wrote:This caused many ships, (including a piloted Moros who was fired hundreds of 100kms away from the tower), to be ejected from the shields. After grabbing what we wanted, and shooting what we didn't, our dreadnoughts were warped up to where our tackle was holding the Moros hostage, (now several hundred kms away). The Moros pilot didn't want to trade his pod for the ship, so we graciously accepted the killmail of both. I was piloting that Moros. I was less than 10 seconds away from safe logoff counting down when they ejected me -- in their own Moros. When I realized what was happening, I hit siege at 8km/s. Since they bowled me directly into the hostile ships, I would have landed smack in the middle of 3 or 4 dreads (can't recall) without sieging. If I had been siege green before someone panicked and changed the tower, I would have gone much further. It was fun. :)
I was invited because dread/carrier pilots were lacking. I flew in with a ceptor and no implants. I'm not sure what was up, but while we were waiting, bouncing at safes, for them to decide if they should trust us because "it was fishy" we came in through the crit static instead of through a K162, I used my ceptor to scan out 2-3 statics before anyone else from inside. I kept providing the J#s to the fleet, who checked existing chains for that system.
Amarr Citizen 000001 wrote:Kudos to Disavowed and SYJ for trying to bring a fight. I'm former Disavowed, and was invited on the condition I did not mention it to my current alliance for reasons of opsec. SYJ didn't join in, just myself; though that would have been more fun, it wasn't my call. o/ fly crazy |
Seraph Essael
Devils Diciples League of Infamy
876
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Posted - 2014.09.18 06:23:00 -
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KeeganWaffle wrote:Seraph Essael wrote:Never tangled with them myself, but if they actively PvP'd then it seems evicting them for the sake of evicting them is pretty dumb, considering the sparseness of players in wormholes.
If they pissed you off however and this is a plain old revenge eviction then fair one.
Either way, I enjoyed the write up even if you are somewhat tooting your own horn or doing it just to rub salt in the wound. They made themselves a massive target by not setting up their towers correctly and flaunting 50+ smas. Also, wormhole space is already dead, all corps failscaded immediately after the patch Evicting people because their tower isn't set up right. Oh god, you should go remove every PvE wormhole corp in C4's and down then. Just today i was in a C4 that had 7 bubbles around it all on the single plain, with barely any guns and an XL SMA with a Phoenix floating, unmanned, in the FF. Sure it was set up pretty as hell, but those bubbles couldn't stop or decloak a damn thing for the guns to shoot...
I have checked QULs killboards, majority of their recent kills have been whoring on Jita gankers etc so they haven't been very active in wormholes so I guess it's not a major loss persay.
As for no people since Hyperion, I know a couple of corps (small time, no name corps) that have thrived moreso than before and one of them corps is a C4 carebear corp turned PvP'ers. But I can agree I have seen my fair share of people moving out... Quoted from Doc Fury: "Concerned citizens: Doc seldom plays EVE on the weekends during spring and summer, so you will always be on your own for a couple days a week. Doc spends that time collecting kittens for the on-going sacrifices, engaging in reckless outdoor activities, and speaking in the 3rd person." |
Kadm
Catfish Gumbo Try Rerolling
30
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Posted - 2014.09.18 06:29:00 -
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I'm surprised. We actually got some decent fights when we tried to evict a QUL C1 we assume was solely for PI. Guess it just goes to show where people's priorities are. |
Nelly Uanos
Quebec's Underdog League Quebec United Legions
23
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Posted - 2014.09.18 07:52:00 -
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Finally some answers... guess I can give some too!
Nice write-up btw appreciate the efforts you put in there.
Yeah I can confirm, alliance numbers are TOTALLY NOT representative of active players.
I'll leave the bomb here... we struggled to have a full alliance tournament team. So if you catch the drift most of our active member where still in Jita when you seeded your caps in...
So yeah our last months of activity is kinda relied to these 2 things. (Except the lone guys who like to blap flashy thing in Jita)
Also 50s SMA was a legacy of being a lots of people in a 4 moons system... guess the offline hardeners...
Amarr Citizen 000001 wrote:We hope to see QUL back in wormhole space soon.
As for the future and wormhole, we're still somewhat in disarray after this... some "active" member already went elsewhere... other are in questionning mode...
Sith1s Spectre wrote:Another active group gone from WH space.
GG
Have a cookie
I'll probably sound biased about this... but this guy might not be far from the truth. We were not the biggest active group in wormhole but we still had thing going on...
Sill I dunno we might bounce back... Only the future will them!
o7
P.S.: I totally know you did this for revenge because we stole an Orca from one of your member who was rolling a C3 static solo! |
Borsek
Incertae Sedis
249
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Posted - 2014.09.18 08:19:00 -
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Nice report, C6 has another empty hole now. Maybe QUL get back on its feet, maybe not. GG |
Jessica Duranin
Science and Trade Institute Caldari State
138
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Posted - 2014.09.18 08:29:00 -
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Thanks Lazerhawks. Wormhole space is soo crowded - I'm glad that you guys are thinning out the herd a bit.
One more empty wormhole to scan through. |
Glyndi
Doom Generation THE H0NEYBADGER
249
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Posted - 2014.09.18 08:32:00 -
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More 'content' removed from WHs...gj. The whole eviction thought process still confuses me..."They only pvp a little, toss em out!"
At least when BU evicted us its because they wanted our hole. |
Winthorp
2715
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Posted - 2014.09.18 08:38:00 -
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So to get this straight you found a group living in WH space that are weaker then you and didn't pvp as much as you and had a lot more bling then you and thought yes they must be cleansed from WH space?
Like you clearly didn't even try to get a fight if that was even an intention by stoping whatever backup they were trying to get in. And 100B ransom is just absurd, who cares if they SD'd 42b and lost more in eviction close you were never getting 100b LOL.
Well another empty WH for you to scan through instead of having a corp with some pvp activity.
I close with top kek, top kek indeed. |
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calaretu
Honestly We didnt know Unsettled.
204
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Posted - 2014.09.18 09:34:00 -
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It is not the number of pilots behind a forcefield that attract new people to wormholespace but the stories that are told and that people want to be a part of. And if the pilots in QUL who were active still enjoy wormholespace they will reform and head back out. ~Bringer of happiness
http://collapsedbehind.blogspot.no/ |
Hidden Fremen
Lazerhawks
494
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Posted - 2014.09.18 09:49:00 -
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I guess we should just maintain the status quo and rot away until nullsec sounds like better space. All you nerds here complaining about "one more empty system" as if you actually give a ****. Who noticed while we were evicting them? No one.
Save your ****. We're not going to sit back and wait for content delivery. There's enough of that going on, which is the very thing killing wspace. Half of you don't even know what you're complaining about. More of you don't know what to do with a populated wspace. The victims didn't even cry. Other people's tears in here instead.
Lazerhawks just told a story. I hope you're right, calaretu, but it seems like people just want things quiet... Snipped signature for inappropriate language - CCP Eterne |
Rek Seven
Probe Patrol Ixtab.
1869
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Posted - 2014.09.18 10:11:00 -
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Cool story, invasions are still a thing i guess.
People shouldn't complain, it's not like there is any other goal, other than wiping a system out, when invading. #We need more conflict drivers. +1 |
Jay Joringer
United System's Commonwealth
394
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Posted - 2014.09.18 10:15:00 -
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Does this mean it's too late to jump on the "oh noes, more empty systems" bandwagon? Always bet on stupid
http://smug-bastard.blogspot.co.uk
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Winthorp
2717
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Posted - 2014.09.18 10:35:00 -
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Hidden Fremen wrote:I guess we should just maintain the status quo and rot away until nullsec sounds like better space. All you nerds here complaining about "one more empty system" as if you actually give a ****. Who noticed while we were evicting them? No one.
Save your ****. We're not going to sit back and wait for content delivery. There's enough of that going on, which is the very thing killing wspace. Half of you don't even know what you're complaining about. More of you don't know what to do with a populated wspace. The victims didn't even cry. Other people's tears in here instead.
Lazerhawks just told a story. I hope you're right, calaretu, but it seems like people just want things quiet...
To be fair i did enjoy the story telling ability in the OP, he should right more of them.
I just find personally that your idea of creating good content for your members odd sitting around all weekend shooting structures while they entertain themselves with other media formats and to then take other measures to ensure your members get no actually fight out of them.
But whatever floats your space boat man. |
Hidden Fremen
Lazerhawks
496
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Posted - 2014.09.18 10:57:00 -
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The worst part of our times is that the biggest voices in wspace are from nullsec... Snipped signature for inappropriate language - CCP Eterne |
pubway Shi
Lazerhawks
2
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Posted - 2014.09.18 11:08:00 -
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Winthorp wrote:Hidden Fremen wrote:I guess we should just maintain the status quo and rot away until nullsec sounds like better space. All you nerds here complaining about "one more empty system" as if you actually give a ****. Who noticed while we were evicting them? No one.
Save your ****. We're not going to sit back and wait for content delivery. There's enough of that going on, which is the very thing killing wspace. Half of you don't even know what you're complaining about. More of you don't know what to do with a populated wspace. The victims didn't even cry. Other people's tears in here instead.
Lazerhawks just told a story. I hope you're right, calaretu, but it seems like people just want things quiet... To be fair i did enjoy the story telling ability in the OP, he should right more of them. I just find personally that your idea of creating good content for your members odd sitting around all weekend shooting structures while they entertain themselves with other media formats and to then take other measures to ensure your members get no actually fight out of them. But whatever floats your space boat man.
If it makes you feel any better i make googly eyed people on a daily basis, i dont need structure bashing to heighten my MS paint ability's. |
Senn Denroth
Lazerhawks
210
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Posted - 2014.09.18 11:37:00 -
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Sith1s Spectre wrote:Another active group gone from WH space.
GG
Have a cookie
Active? No. Gone? No.
Because of us they are a bit more active perhaps. I did expect a bit more from you though.
Jessica Duranin wrote:Thanks Lazerhawks. Wormhole space is soo crowded - I'm glad that you guys are thinning out the herd a bit. One more empty wormhole to scan through.
Removed from one wormhole, to another. Idiot. And we're set up in it now. So it isn't an 'empty' wormhole so to speak. But you being completely detached from this know everything right? Because, internet.
Winthorp wrote:So to get this straight you found a group living in WH space that are weaker then you and didn't pvp as much as you and had a lot more bling then you and thought yes they must be cleansed from WH space?
Like you clearly didn't even try to get a fight if that was even an intention by stoping whatever backup they were trying to get in. And 100B ransom is just absurd, who cares if they SD'd 42b and lost more in eviction close you were never getting 100b LOL.
Well another empty WH for you to scan through instead of having a corp with some pvp activity.
I close with top kek, top kek indeed.
Yea idiot, we set the 100b ransom because we didn't want them to fight. We wanted our lulz content all weekend, and it was awesome by the way. Now we're set up in the system and they're already set up in another system getting ready to blueball people for the rest of their days.
So you keep preaching from your high tower, because your corp has had great success with providing content to it's members.
*Anchor.
Winthorp wrote:To be fair i did enjoy the story telling ability in the OP, he should right more of them.
I just find personally that your idea of creating good content for your members odd sitting around all weekend shooting structures while they entertain themselves with other media formats and to then take other measures to ensure your members get no actually fight out of them.
But whatever floats your space boat man.
Works great for us. We do whatever we want. Wormhole space has no rules. If you had the nads to actually take up the challenge you would find that it's actually quite fun. The world is your oyster kido. |
Winthorp
2718
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Posted - 2014.09.18 11:54:00 -
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Hidden Fremen wrote:The worst part of our times is that the biggest voices in wspace are from nullsec...
I am still in WH space by the way, feel free to waste a weekend on my jew corp too.
I like that i hit a nerve with all your corp mates. |
Andrew Jester
Origin. Black Legion.
686
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Posted - 2014.09.18 12:03:00 -
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Hidden Fremen wrote:I guess we should just maintain the status quo and rot away until nullsec sounds like better space. All you nerds here complaining about "one more empty system" as if you actually give a ****. Who noticed while we were evicting them? No one
I was aware it was happening, but it's not like I'm going to no-life for hours just to save some random corp I knew was being evicted.
Hidden Fremen wrote: the very thing killing wspace.
Well you hit what this eviction was right on the head. Now if only you'd come to this conclusion earlier.
Not sure why this calls for this much dickstroking because either since apparently QUL are some inactive scrubtier entity, and thus no one gives a **** that they're evicted.
I'm glad you guys could no life for like 37h, and if that's the content you want, then you might as well pretend it's the start of summer again and get to evicting. If thuggin' was a category I'd win a Grammy |
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