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NoobMan
Hard Knocks Inc.
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Posted - 2015.02.09 05:41:16 -
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This mail was sent to all members of Rainbow Knights.
Hello Diplos and Leaders of Rainbow Knights!
It is that time of the year where Hard Knocks has pulled another public stunt. Once again the story has gone too far and people have taken things too seriously. I want to address what people are getting so bitter about: Hard Knocks' Renter Alliance.
Hard Knocks does not have renters. The Alliance was originally formed to group all of our alt corps so when we rolled into one of our own corps we didn't accidentally seed them. You might think "why wouldn't we just put a note on Siggy?" Well, with the rapid increase of HK dread and carrier alts the Alt Corps were emerging faster than we could keep track of them.
So what did Muhadin and I think of one night... We thought it would be hilarious to set up an Alliance called "Hard Knocks Citizens". Our plan was to keep quiet and let people stumble upon our Alliance by themselves. We wanted to see what fiction people would create in their minds. Eventually we would publicly confirm everything. We would boast about pulling in tens of billions of ISK in rental income per month, and exacerbate the myths and lies people would spread.
In its infancy our original Alt Alliance was named Filth. [WHLEL]. The ticker was terrible. It only had 3-4 corps.
A thread was made to make a new Alliance. http://puu.sh/fvpCt/5bc900954a.jpg
Plenty of suggestions were given xXTheBearBoizXx -Brax Gold Diggers. -Shanq Scared Wormhole People - Muha The Bearing Sea [Bear] -343guilty1 ticker has to be Pinch / IPinch / Pnch or similar.. - Matt0649 A lot of krab names ensue. 5 pages into it I post http://puu.sh/fvprp/40de2dec71.jpg
http://puu.sh/fvpwf/bbbd34ce66.jpg
Everyone has a good laugh and agrees.
Suddenly the new hip thing in HK is to set up a bear hole. People start buying up tons of dread and carrier pilots and grabbing up holes. As you can see today HKRAB is at around 150 people, with a dozen or so corps. There are still 3-4 alt corps that people didn't want to join with.
So you might be asking why do we do this? This is the reason I'm writing this letter. I'm hoping others will understand and maybe try the experiment we've found successful. Hard Knocks as a corp does not facilitate any PVE. None. We have not run homesites in our home since July 2014. Homesites are currently banned in HK. http://puu.sh/fvr0p/31662afbe3.png
We have agreed as leadership that homesites create drama, and lock our home hole down for hours per day which is prime time activity timezones. When homesites were complete in the past, the active members would drop out of fleets and off comms and nothing would happen (red: No tackled carriers 23/7). Our SRP and entire corp budget is funded by PVP loot. We do not need to run sites and tax people. This is only able to work for us because we have more time to PVP.
I just wanted to clarify things, and explain the model our corp runs by. If you have any questions about the specifics, I am an open book when it come to most things in Eve and would be happy to chat.
TL;DR HK renter alliance is a big joke. We just PVE in alt corps and do not run homesites in Rage. Sorry if you got upset.
Love you guys, Noobman
Operations Director of Hard K(n)ocks Inc.
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NoobMan
Hard Knocks Inc.
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Posted - 2015.02.09 05:45:03 -
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I figure I would let everyone know what's going on, if you have any questions feel free to ask or mail me, I'm a pretty Open Book.
Operations Director of Hard K(n)ocks Inc.
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Braxus Deninard
Hard Knocks Inc.
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Posted - 2015.02.09 05:55:38 -
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NoobMan wrote:xXTheBearBoizXx -Brax
p upset we didn't go with this |
Wexa Tion
Love Squad Confederation of xXPIZZAXx
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Posted - 2015.02.09 05:57:39 -
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like the trollzy aspect scared wormhole people still would have been hilarious |
Jack Miton
Isogen 5
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Posted - 2015.02.09 06:31:56 -
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So what you're saying is that you're not a giant rental group but that you are in fact a giant PVE farming group. Sure, that's a much better image to have. Makes sense.
Stuck In Here With Me:-á http://sihwm.blogspot.com.au/
Down the Pipe:-á http://downthepipe-wh.com/
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NoobMan
Hard Knocks Inc.
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Posted - 2015.02.09 07:02:03 -
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Jack Miton wrote:So what you're saying is that you're not a giant rental group but that you are in fact a giant PVE farming group. Sure, that's a much better image to have. Makes sense.
Yes we have 150 PVE alts in a separate alliance, everyone is responsible for making their income elsewhere. HK does not facilitate any PVE for our members.
Everyone has to have an income to pay for plex and shiny ships to blow up.
Operations Director of Hard K(n)ocks Inc.
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Wexa Tion
Love Squad Confederation of xXPIZZAXx
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Posted - 2015.02.09 07:17:41 -
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NoobMan wrote:Jack Miton wrote:So what you're saying is that you're not a giant rental group but that you are in fact a giant PVE farming group. Sure, that's a much better image to have. Makes sense. Yes we have 150 PVE alts in a separate alliance, everyone is responsible for making their income elsewhere. HK does not facilitate any PVE for our members. Everyone has to have an income to pay for plex and shiny ships to blow up.
quit making all this SENSE |
Billy Hardcore
Jaded. The Natural Order
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Posted - 2015.02.09 08:18:18 -
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i feel so conflicted right now
#BillyFleet
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Cimsoc the Great
Royal Amarr Institute Amarr Empire
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Posted - 2015.02.09 12:17:32 -
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I guess sometimes making a fake rental empire backfires...
https://eve-kill.net/?a=kill_related&kll_id=27370228
Posting on a noob alt on the other hand... |
Mahmoud Khatami Ahmadinejad
The Scope Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2015.02.09 13:21:48 -
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sure, hk citizens might be a joke, but w-space citizen isnt, which is where the actual renters are. |
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Andrew Jester
Native Freshfood Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2015.02.09 14:35:13 -
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baited
If thuggin' was a category I'd win a Grammy
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calaretu
Honestly We didnt know Unsettled.
246
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Posted - 2015.02.09 14:55:52 -
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I wanted to bite the bait but it was already bitten so I just come to hail the new king of wormholespace :D
~Bringer of happiness
http://collapsedbehind.blogspot.no/
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Ayeson
Hard Knocks Inc.
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Posted - 2015.02.09 16:41:55 -
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Eventually you all would've found you about this when my memoirs hit the top of the best seller list.
I GÖÑ the orthrus
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A lalala long
Republic Military School Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2015.02.09 19:42:01 -
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This post will not save your c6's. |
Ayeson
Hard Knocks Inc.
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Posted - 2015.02.09 21:13:47 -
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A lalala long wrote:This post will not save your c6's.
Post with your main
I GÖÑ the orthrus
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NoobMan
Hard Knocks Inc.
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Posted - 2015.02.09 21:18:05 -
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A lalala long wrote:This post will not save your c6's.
That is great news! We are a C5 corp.
That is not the reason I wrote this. I wrote it to explain how we developed a new system to run our corp by. Something that if other Corps would try out themselves, I think there would be higher chances for PvP.
The negatives to running consistent homesites:
- Your home is locked down for hours. This means your not our hunting for other groups and other groups can not find your chain/home to try and provoke a fight.
- If by some chance your entire Bear Fleet gets killed by a Seed fleet then your "Home Protection Dread Deterrent" is become weaker.
- Lastly, and maybe this only applied to HK, but homesites caused activity to plummet . Everyone would log in to PVE and log off after the hour or two it took to run sites. And by the end of the sites we hated each other.
It's a different system, but we like it.
Operations Director of Hard K(n)ocks Inc.
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Tiger Tesla
Periphery Bound
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Posted - 2015.02.09 21:25:41 -
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NoobMan wrote:A lalala long wrote:This post will not save your c6's. That is great news! We are a C5 corp. That is not the reason I wrote this. I wrote it to explain how we developed a new system to run our corp by. Something that if other Corps would try out themselves, I think there would be higher chances for PvP. The negatives to running consistent homesites:
- Your home is locked down for hours. This means your not our hunting for other groups and other groups can not find your chain/home to try and provoke a fight.
- If by some chance your entire Bear Fleet gets killed by a Seed fleet then your "Home Protection Dread Deterrent" is become weaker.
- Lastly, and maybe this only applied to HK, but homesites caused activity to plummet . Everyone would log in to PVE and log off after the hour or two it took to run sites. And by the end of the sites we hated each other.
It's a different system, but we like it.
I can definately see the train of thought that led you here. As the CEO of a relatively new kid on the C6 block I hate it when we run sites. Sure. It's great to put isk in the members pockets, but when people log on and off based around when/if sites are happening then no one is happy. Both activities can't happen at the same time. But it does make your site running/farming holes much more vulnerable to eviction, as it is basically stated their only purpose is farming without a defense other than the threat of a big stick.
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A lalala long
Republic Military School Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2015.02.09 22:11:03 -
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Band of Magnus didnt seem to have any problems bearing in their home wh. |
calaretu
Honestly We didnt know Unsettled.
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Posted - 2015.02.09 22:15:35 -
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This thread highlights the need for Corbexx's suggestion to alter cap escalation in c5/6
~Bringer of happiness
http://collapsedbehind.blogspot.no/
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Jack Miton
Isogen 5
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Posted - 2015.02.09 22:20:24 -
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calaretu wrote:This thread highlights the need for Corbexx's suggestion to alter cap escalation in c5/6 ^basically this. have PVE expo holes has been common practice for years now, it's just that generally people sent alts out for a week or so to make a couple dozen bil and then bring them back home rather than setting up a vast PVE empire... but carebear's are gonna carebear i guess *shrug*
Stuck In Here With Me:-á http://sihwm.blogspot.com.au/
Down the Pipe:-á http://downthepipe-wh.com/
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Bhane Celesto
Hard Knocks Inc.
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Posted - 2015.02.09 22:30:50 -
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Jack Miton wrote:calaretu wrote:This thread highlights the need for Corbexx's suggestion to alter cap escalation in c5/6 ^basically this. have PVE expo holes has been common practice for years now, it's just that generally people sent alts out for a week or so to make a couple dozen bil and then bring them back home rather than setting up a vast PVE empire... but carebear's are gonna carebear i guess *shrug*
Thanks to the wonder that is the character bazaar all that moving effort just isn't necessary. Buy focused dread alt, stick in bearhole, leave in bearhole. You can earn a plex in 2 hours of sites, so even if you can't be arsed running sites or don't need the isk, you can just forget about the dude for a week. |
Andrew Jester
Native Freshfood Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2015.02.09 22:44:39 -
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NoobMan wrote:That is not the reason I wrote this.
you wrote this because you're artistic af
If thuggin' was a category I'd win a Grammy
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Morally Gray
Royal Amarr Institute Amarr Empire
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Posted - 2015.02.09 22:58:14 -
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NoobMan wrote:
So what did Muhadin and I think of one night... We thought it would be hilarious to set up an Alliance called "Hard Knocks Citizens". Our plan was to keep quiet and let people stumble upon our Alliance by themselves.
Good one.
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Trinkets friend
Sudden Buggery Prolapse.
2047
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Posted - 2015.02.09 23:37:00 -
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NoobMan wrote:- Lastly, and maybe this only applied to HK, but homesites caused activity to plummet . Everyone would log in to PVE and log off after the hour or two it took to run sites. And by the end of the sites we hated each other.
The ENTIRE reason Prolapse. is not in C5 space. It attracts bears like a paint brush full of honey to the nuts.
hashtagTF4CSMX
http://www.localectomy.blogspot.com.au
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Ion Udan
Future Corps Sleeper Social Club
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Posted - 2015.02.09 23:53:40 -
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All jokes aside, and I don't speak for SSC here.
But I haven't, and couldn't give a ****, about HK Citizens and what they were used for. They didn't come across very "renter" like and my assumption of its use was pretty close to the mark. I don't who in Rainbow had sand in their knickers over them, we all need to make ISK somehow.
If it means there are more WH's with "active" people in them, whether they're krabing or not, then this is a good thing.
The only time it would become a problem is if HK Citizens, and by extension HK, were evicting corps to have this massive Krab Empire. See where I'm going with this? |
Ayeson
Hard Knocks Inc.
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Posted - 2015.02.10 00:00:30 -
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Ion Udan wrote: evicting corps to have this massive Krab Empire.
I have not and never will be an emperor or krabs.
I GÖÑ the orthrus
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Ion Udan
Future Corps Sleeper Social Club
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Posted - 2015.02.10 00:04:47 -
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Ayeson wrote:Ion Udan wrote: evicting corps to have this massive Krab Empire. I have not and never will be an emperor or krabs.
Hence why I don't see an issue with HK Citizens |
Mahmoud Khatami Ahmadinejad
The Scope Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2015.02.10 00:10:43 -
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Ion Udan wrote:Ayeson wrote:Ion Udan wrote: evicting corps to have this massive Krab Empire. I have not and never will be an emperor or krabs. Hence why I don't see an issue with HK Citizens
so does this mean you do have an issue with QEX and HK using w-space citizen as a renter alliance and actively evicting people to get more renters? |
Miyamoto
Republic University Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2015.02.10 00:47:57 -
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Mahmoud Khatami Ahmadinejad wrote:Ion Udan wrote:Ayeson wrote:Ion Udan wrote: evicting corps to have this massive Krab Empire. I have not and never will be an emperor or krabs. Hence why I don't see an issue with HK Citizens so does this mean you do have an issue with QEX and HK using w-space citizen as a renter alliance and actively evicting people to get more renters?
I can also post on an alt because I am too spineless to post on my main. |
Morally Gray
Royal Amarr Institute Amarr Empire
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Posted - 2015.02.10 00:51:43 -
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Ion Udan wrote:All jokes aside,
The only time it would become a problem is if HK Citizens, and by extension HK, were evicting corps to have this massive Krab
I guess all those c5/c6 mags were empty then? So evicting 4 mags in less than 10 days was not real? 2 of them done by QEX, that now have hk citizen poses in? |
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