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Lloyd Faradan
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Posted - 2010.07.28 18:37:00 -
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Heya,
My month-old corp was war-decced by two merc corps that fly nothing but HACs and T3 cruisers. As far as I can see we basically have these choices:
1. Fight in frigates until the stargates get clogged with our wrecks.
2. Fight in appropriate ships for our skill level, cruisers, BC, frigs, etc.
3. Disband the corp.
4. Join Faction Warfare?
I don't want to do number one ONLY because the mercs apparently get paid (I think 25m) per kill they get on us. That's just plain mean as far as I see it. If that wasn't the case I'd be more inclined to fight if only for the practice, but it would be a slaughter every time. Frustration!
I don't want to do number two because then we'd run out of isk and be unable to replenish it. Even if we get lucky and manage to kill an Ishtar or something we'd still be out hundreds of millions of isk in BC that we couldn't pay back.
I don't want to do number three.
Does option four end the wardec or does it continue on? Do I have no options here?
I obviously love EVE and I obviously want to continue playing and loving it as much as I want that for my corp mates as well, but it's a little bit like technologically deficient natives fighting back against powerful aggressors, and we don't even have the numbers to make that work since they outnumber us both in pure pilot numbers as well as active pilots on during peak times.
So... is there some option or angle that I haven't looked at for this?
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Lloyd Faradan
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Posted - 2010.07.28 19:06:00 -
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I know who's paying them but he's in an alliance so I can't war dec him.. well,... I could but I'm not about to compound my problems and drain my wallet.
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Lloyd Faradan
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Posted - 2010.07.28 19:22:00 -
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 Originally by: Downtym
Option 5. Cut a deal with the mercs to split the money if you feed them kills. Make some free-clone alts and just toss their rookie ships and pods at the mercs until they're rich. Hope they give you a split (Pro-tip: They won't).
Actually already tried that. Of course I didn't trust his reply.
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Lloyd Faradan
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Posted - 2010.07.28 19:31:00 -
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The real trouble is, I don't know for sure if they're actually being paid 25m per kill. That seems to be the current information I have, but it could be a lie or it could have been built up a little as it passed through a few mouths.
I need to confirm that a little either way to make a decision. If they're not paid per kill then we can fly frigate fleets. If they are paid per kill.. uh.. then we can fly frigate fleets.
Weird, maybe we should just do that anyway.
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Lloyd Faradan
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Posted - 2010.07.28 20:09:00 -
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Thank you all, your replies have been very helpful and enlightening. I'll try to do my best to incorporate this advice.
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Lloyd Faradan
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Posted - 2010.07.31 15:09:00 -
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One of our corp members salvaged and looted a wreck from the individual's mission. The wreck itself was miniscule and relatively worthless, not faction or anything, just a regular battleship wreck. The individual who took offence to this act demanded 100m isk extortion he would wardec our little corp with his big alliance. We don't have 100m isk to pay for anything, especially extortions.
The individual then was silent for a week until his merc corps war decced us. I know the two events are related because the merc corp asked us about it before they decced us. (confirming the event as if it were so great a thing)
I told the mercs that it wouldn't happen again, and it won't, the guy who did the ninja salvaging has changed his methods to ask permission first, he finds it gets him better rewards anyway since people are frequently happy to turn their wrecks blue.
I think the individual in the alliance was extremely over the top in this response to an almost psychopathic level. Even though the merc corp (talking on behalf of the client) said that my pilot s*** talked them I asked for a chat log and when I saw it I laughed. Not even close to smack talk, barely a tease, a 2 out of 10 and very polite at that.
Whether people hate ninja salvage or not isn't the point, it's the response for the act that seems out of place here at least to me. Love or hate that's the truth of it.
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