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Sarkyn
Ardent Spirits THORN Alliance
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Posted - 2012.11.18 12:49:00 -
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You're here looking for a new corp.
You have a check list of things you want. Does it look a bit like this?
- Wide range of PvP Activities
- 'Front-line' Null-sec space to fight over
- 'Backwater' Null-sec space to quietly bear in
- Mature people who don't talk like retards
- Ship Reimbursement / Corp Ships
- Industrial activity
- Real life comes first
- EU and US Timezone activity
- Large fight participation
- Small corp size, no-one's a stranger
- People who spell
You also have a list of things you don't want. Does it look a bit like this?
- No leet-speaking kiddy retards
- No grief-ridden baggage from former alliances
- No forum drama
- No leadership voids or rage quit drama
- No alarm clocks
If so, then you could do a lot worse than to take a look at Ardent Spirits.
To summarise us:
We're a small corp of skilled and semi-skilled players. We are part of THORN corp, which provides us with access to the space, jabber pings, epic campaigns and collosal fleets of the big war in EVE right now - HBC vs A. Without having to tolerate the bull of larger alliances, this allows us to quietly enjoy the participation of the big fights, while sitting back in our peaceful corp with none of the silly rama.
It's kind of the best of both worlds - epic things to join, without the usual 'tards you have to tolerate to get it.
As people, we've been round the houses together for a few years, so as long as we avoid the topics of American Politics, Gun Control, the Environment, the Medical system, Finance, and the subtleties of Dolphin language, we don't argue anymore.
Our one rule - a strict "no emo, no drama, no children" policy.
We need more people to keep the critical mass flowing, so please, tap us up and finally find a corp you can feel at home in.
Contact:
Beppe Sarkyn Weebear Partsking Belatrix Ventox
URL:
http://www.ardentspiritscorp.com/
In-game:
Join RDNT. (yes, that's a dot. Please file a complaint with Jahamesh Neutron, who picked the ticker. Annoying isn't it?). |

Quotan
Ardent Spirits THORN Alliance
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Posted - 2012.11.18 13:56:00 -
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So many great stories shared with this corp as we emerged through different alliance choices and have made a name within the alliances we have participated in.
I will try to share some of them through the coming days, in this thread.
What you will find in this corp (I think like so few others) is that everyone's opinions are heard here and valued.
This is a people first corp and you know it from the start.
In this corp you will find captains of industry with detailed knowledge of how to make isk in eve. You will be exposed to and have access to PVP in every imaginable scale, from small roams and gate camps to Cap ship popping goodness and Titans on the field.
The PVP doctrines are varied and there are many fleets at any given time. You will find fleets to fly anything from Rifters to Cap ships.
With so many ways to make isk and so many fleets, there is always something to do in the real life first corp.
Come play with us!  |

Sarkyn
Ardent Spirits THORN Alliance
8
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Posted - 2012.11.19 22:14:00 -
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Hi All,
We said we wouldn't bump this without a story. So here's a story!
In Delve (we call it Delve version 1, we've been there a few times now).
Anyway, one of our esteemed corpies noticed that Sov had been dropped in a particularly tasty endpipe system. But it was like, 5am and he hadn't slept and all he had at hand that could carry a TCU was a badger.
So he fitted a prototype cloak, hauled the TCU through 2 gate camps, and landed us sov in the system. For the next 8 hours, half away, he kept an eye on that TCU and made sure that anyone who came into the system thought he was a cyno alt waiting to hotdrop.
By the time the rest of us woke up the next day, we had SOV!
Just goes to show, all it takes to be a sov-holding alliance in EVE is a Badger II and a Protoype Cloak, and a pair of massive cahones.
That's just one of many stories, come join the fun.
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Quotan
Ardent Spirits THORN Alliance
8
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Posted - 2012.11.20 00:22:00 -
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Delve v1 was a blast!
It was where many us first cut our PVP teeth and remains one of my favorite places to fly and fight :)
How exciting to be in good company and learn fleet PVP in Delve :)
I am very honored to still be flying with some of same pilots to this day.
I remember Sarkyn having a few late nights himself back then, saving our asses and assets!
That story and many others soonGǪ
Join us, make ISK, blow up ships and have some laughs on comms o/
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SoCal Stoli Rotsuda
Eve Archaeological Society
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Posted - 2012.11.20 05:56:00 -
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Gents, sounds like you've got a great corp, but you have GOT to get someone with a better sense of humor on the recruiting channel!
The MOD on that channel states that the corp "requires" the watching of three YouTube videos...which I proceeded to do.
I commented that I almost gave up on you after watching the 1st two videos, but the 3rd (Supercat) saved the day. Laughed my ass off at that one.
I was promptly kicked out of the channel.  |

Beppe
Ardent Spirits THORN Alliance
8
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Posted - 2012.11.20 15:03:00 -
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That was my mistake, sorry. I was half asleep, and unaware that some jerk had added in ANOTHER video to our motd. I thought you were being an ******* about the VR Tribute vid, and we don't like assholes.
You are welcome back in our public channel any time to kick my ass soundly for being such an aforementioned ******* :( |

SoCal Stoli Rotsuda
Eve Archaeological Society
1
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Posted - 2012.11.20 20:22:00 -
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Thanks, Beppe - no way I'd dis Sean...I'm a former Marine Embassy Guard myself, and have been on the cusp of a similar situation.
That said, in Eve, as far as PvP goes, asking me to fight is the military equivalent of putting the admin pogues and cooks on the line - it's pure desparation time! At that point, I do pew-pew like everyone else, but short of that, is the corp cool with someone who wants to focus on mining/building/transporting, especially if it's to the benefit of the corp?
I'll try to catch you in-game tonight to try again! |

Beppe
Ardent Spirits THORN Alliance
8
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Posted - 2012.11.21 03:45:00 -
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We definitely encourage our pilots to participate in fleets with us, just because it's such good fun. That said, we don't force people to. We have several guys in corp dedicated to industry.
So feel free to drop by and we can discuss such things. |

Quotan
Ardent Spirits THORN Alliance
8
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Posted - 2012.11.21 03:47:00 -
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Always nice when two Titans log in to give just one pilot in a BS a ride home :)
07 |

Gaspardi
Ardent Spirits THORN Alliance
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Posted - 2012.11.21 08:48:00 -
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I'm one of the pilots dedicated to industry. The small kind most of the time, making modules and stuff. |

Quotan
Ardent Spirits THORN Alliance
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Posted - 2012.11.21 10:53:00 -
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Gaspardi wrote:I'm one of the pilots dedicated to industry. The small kind most of the time, making modules and stuff.
Haha so modest, he can build almost anything and does o/ Gaspardi |

Mahoosiv
Ardent Spirits THORN Alliance
0
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Posted - 2012.11.21 20:29:00 -
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As a corp we always tried to do stuff as a group, however anyone not wearing rose tinted glasses will know that its difficult with a varied timezone corp such as ourselves to get such corp activites as you'd like all the time.
So on the one occasion that I recall where we got a few of us together, during a lull from Alliance fleets and (ice mining and plexing) we decided to go stomp a gate camp 6 jumps away in Curse.
Thinking that the foe was simply a few frigs we jumped into frigates and set off for a skirmish, landed on the gate and jumped through - saw that the hostiles had 5 frigs and had a small amount of range and so we gave chase - it was all going so well until the other 4 cruisers warped in on top of us along with an ewar frigate....
Duly whelped we decided that (as you do in all sensible circumstances) we'd go back and kick their sorry arses for them with larger ships.. so shipped into cruisers and a couple bc's .
As we entered system we saw that they were all there waiting for us, taking the ewar frig down quickly we were making inroads into the rest of them when the 2 falcons decloaked.....
Later that night we discussed the scenario and had a good chuckle about it - irrespective of losing ships - it was the camaraderie of being with like minded pilots which made it all worth while.
You see it didn't matter that we whelped - what mattered was that we enjoyed it. Killboards are never as important as having fun. |

Sarkyn
Ardent Spirits THORN Alliance
8
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Posted - 2012.11.22 19:45:00 -
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If I recall correctly, my hero-Rifter made it out of that alive... |

Dudemeister
Ardent Spirits THORN Alliance
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Posted - 2012.11.23 21:44:00 -
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Joined these guys a few days ago - really enjoying my stay!
I used to be a complete carebear, but I'm slowly trying to change my ways and have more fun with EVE. I don't think I could find a better bunch of people to do it with. Extremely helpful, patient, and good-natured.
If you're looking for a way into the 0.0 life, this is the ticket! |

lanyaie
694
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Posted - 2012.11.23 21:59:00 -
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Oh hai Hay |

Quotan
Ardent Spirits THORN Alliance
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Posted - 2012.11.24 04:46:00 -
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Hey thanks for shout out Dudemeister it is great having you aboard!
Today was fun. I had a bit of time to drop back to the land of milk and honey, make some isk for a while and later joined a Cap fleet to play with some of the big toys.
Great thing about cap fleets is that they also have nice support fleets with many ship types to fly and kills to be had :)
There is always something going on, come join the fun :) |

Beppe
Ardent Spirits THORN Alliance
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Posted - 2012.11.24 05:59:00 -
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I've known him for over a year now, and I'm just now realizing that Quotan has dreadlocks. And sunglasses. Dreadlocks and sunglasses in space.
@Dudemeister, thanks for the words. It's true ^-^ |

Sarkyn
Ardent Spirits THORN Alliance
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Posted - 2012.11.24 18:04:00 -
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You can talk, you've let a small child draw on your face. |

Mahoosiv
Ardent Spirits THORN Alliance
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Posted - 2012.11.25 11:03:00 -
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Lots of new recruits hitting the corp this past week, all of them happily now learning the ways of nullsec (those that wanted/needed to) and some hav already participated in their first fleets.
if you want to benefit from the returns of a nullsec life then give us a tinkle in the RDNT. channel and we'd be happy to discuss pretty much anything with you, unless of course you want to know the location of our super secret operations base.
You do? Ok you persuaded me... we operate in Querious and Catch and some new exciting locations upcoming - so plenty of scope for fun fun fun. |

Quotan
Ardent Spirits THORN Alliance
11
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Posted - 2012.11.25 12:38:00 -
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Story time!
We mentioned we have been in Delve a few times (several times actually) and enjoyed some great deployments there.
Well, back in Delve V2 we were flying with some of the Bros in Thorn on one of the now famous Friday Night Lights fleets! But before I get to the story, let me say if you have never been in a GÇ£FNLGÇ¥ fleet, there is as an aspect of Eve, you have truly never enjoyed. Where to beginGǪ a FNL fleet is like when the bar lets out at 2:00 A.M. and the people that donGÇÖt want go home all get in space ships and just stay at the bar. These fleets are for pure adult fun. They are one part circus, one part space warrior and most under the influence of GÇ£somethingGÇ¥. These fleets pause for regular toasts to whatever entertains a person at that late hour and oddly also have CAP ship raffles, resulting in some lucky pilot winning a new carrier.
Anyway, back to the story!
This particular FNL we off a great start and the fleet had decent numbers (my first FNL had a fleet of over 100). Once more into the thunder dome of Delve~
Our fleet had encountered several kills along the way down a large pipe, well into the heartland of the enemy. I know at one point we had one brosef several toasts into the fleet, kind of nod off at the keyboard, some hilarity ensued on comms trying to resuscitate him. I am not sure quite what he was saying when finally stirred but it was funny as hell. In any case so we were now deep into hostile territory and had long since been reported on enemy intel, they were forming fast. With some good enemy intel of own we managed to gain access to a POS and bump out not one but two Carriers and proceeded to make merry with two caps kills as we watched local filling up .
The enemy fleet now upon us was in their home system, knew our ships types and was now massive. With some exchange and a few lost souls (remember the dude drunk off his ass? Well he actually made it lol). We were off and headed back down the pipe with the Benny hill music on comms and laughing our asses off!
Benny Hill Theme
So, the enemy fleet hot our heals going gate to gate until they seemed to have let us off entirely to easy (it was) our scout had now reported they were ahead of us and had cut off our exit point using their jump bridge network, we hit the brakes and having a laugh said, why not and headed back towards their home base. Hit the music again!
Play it again!
In this fleet we went back and forth with a few exchanges on each end until we ran them out of Jump Fuel! Raid Success and off for home.
Now in RDNT. It should be said that we enjoy some very serious, fly your ship right, tight on comms fleets and our killboard history reflects it but sometimes it can be all about pure relaxed fun! That is what an FNL fleet is all about.
Come join us More fun ahead! o/. |

Beppe
Ardent Spirits THORN Alliance
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Posted - 2012.11.25 15:21:00 -
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I've been taking the opportunity lately to work on my solo-pvp skills, so our killboard may be a little more red than usual.
That said, we have a perfect environment for just about any kind of PvP you'd like to try, including solo pvp. We don't take our killboard efficiency THAT seriously, and yet we still manage to get some pretty good stats.
So come give us a try. You just might enjoy it :) |

Sarkyn
Ardent Spirits THORN Alliance
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Posted - 2012.11.27 20:01:00 -
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The Benny Hill theme is indeed a regular (and massively annoying) feature of some of our fleets :-)
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Quotan
Ardent Spirits THORN Alliance
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Posted - 2012.11.27 21:35:00 -
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Sarkyn wrote:The Benny Hill theme is indeed a regular (and massively annoying) feature of some of our fleets :-)
It has its moments :) |

Quotan
Ardent Spirits THORN Alliance
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Posted - 2012.11.27 21:37:00 -
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You just have to love the logistics in this corp!  |

Mahoosiv
Ardent Spirits THORN Alliance
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Posted - 2012.11.27 23:15:00 -
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we just moved a bunch of corpies stuff out to a new deployment area for them, no need to struggle when we have logistics this good.
our recruiting channel RDNT. has been busy lately with all our new friends, drop by for a chat. |

FortyNiner84
Ardent Spirits THORN Alliance
0
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Posted - 2012.11.28 03:21:00 -
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Just made it to the new deployment area and already so many fleets. Come join us here at RDNT. |

Sarkyn
Ardent Spirits THORN Alliance
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Posted - 2012.11.28 20:57:00 -
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Of course, we shouldn't tell you where the new deployment area is at the moment.
:) |

Quotan
Ardent Spirits THORN Alliance
11
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Posted - 2012.11.29 12:47:00 -
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Time for another story 
One weekday night a little while back, I had logged in and an alliance mate was leading a small Dread fleet. Some of the Dread pilots were newer to the ship, so as a bit of training exercise they were doing a POS kill.
I grabbed a drake and headed over to chill and chat with the bros.
There were 5 Dreds and a very small group of support ships (12 to 15 max in comms).
We had a neut in system and the casual topic of the day was how much that may matter. The fleet was aware but one FC not leading, was debating (based on politics) that the neut was unlikely to do anything. Hindsight would have its day with him, on this one.
Our alliance brosef and FC was considering popping another cyno to bring in someone else but it would be his last shot of LO. Given I was just chilling in a Drake, I thought it best to go grab some 4 or 5 jumps out.
In the meantime the fleet is on about its business GǪ cut to now a handful neuts next door. The FC calls for siege red and all non-cap pilots to gate ASAP. By this time I had been chatting with Jaha, Paridav and now Eugene1 in corp a bit.
Paridav, I think was going to join the POS kill having been asking about it. I had mentioned the neut and as I mentioned the now small group of neuts next door, Paridav started relaying info from comms to corp. With a minute or two on the siege status, they were now were coming in to system! By now I am back with the fleet and at the gate engaging.
Dreds were getting off field and the cyno is up!! Nyx on the field!! GǣGet back from the gate!Gǥ Land and bump. FC GǪGǥBump him! Bump him!.
We slammed the Nyx like a ping pong ball until bubbled. The one Dred tacked gets out with 10% armor! n⃠Literal
Brosefs on the wayGǪ Eugene has a hoard of bubbles to back up our now glowing NYX, Jaha says he doesnGÇÖt feel like killing a Nyx today (Kidding!) arrived in his drake and Paridav was mean and on scene.
Another cyno lights up and two hostile carriers arrive which we decimated while the NyxGÇÖs fighters and fighter bombers were all but gone at this point. An odd thing that killing two carriers felt secondary while starring at the golden jewel of a Nyx that was bubbled into submission. Relief and elation followed, as the second carrier dropped so that we could indulge our palpable lust to get the damage back on the Nyx (I had just been chilling and shooting a POS!).
Finally with glowing bubbles and ships raining heavy damage the Nyx is Down!!
A night intended on a bit of training gets becomes awesome game content (and some tasty salvage) nüè
Come visit us in our public channel and get in on the fun! You may be surprised at the many ways you can contribute and have fun from small roams to large battles with Titans in your overview.
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Karacleites
Ardent Spirits THORN Alliance
0
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Posted - 2012.11.29 16:02:00 -
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Things don't always go right - but that doesn't mean they have to end badly...
Just the other day I was on a SOV bashing fleet with a few fellow member of THORN and some of our allies. It was late - about 3 am local time for me - and having just reinforced another station, we started heading out to our fourth system of the op, supercarriers and carriers jumping out in a blaze of jump drives, as I recovered my fighters.
Unfortunately I was one of the slightly further away carriers by the time we'd finished off the latest target and my fighters were being slow to return. By the time I'd gotten them all onboard only one other carrier was left, but there was still a significant number of fighter bombers stranded between me and the station. A couple of the Supercarriers had jumped without recovering all their bombers (I did say it was late...).
We'd had a single neutral in the system with us throughout the op, but hadn't really seen any evidence of him, so I agreed I'd go back and collect the stranded bombers, knowing I could jump out at a moment's notice. So, I turned my carrier around and started burning back towards the bombers, and began trying to work out how I might be able to get to them before the destination cyno ran out. That's where some of Eve's peculiar mechanics really didn't help me. I was just 137km from the station, so I couldn't jump to it. The planet was off to my right, and I couldn't bookmark a drone in space, so that option was out too. I was still trying to figure out what I might be able to do to speed up the process of getting to the drones 40km away, when I spotted a ship on my overview. As quick as I could, I right-clicked on the capacitor and selected "Jump" to the cyno, and suddenly nothing happened. I was being warp disrupted, so couldn't jump. I was a sitting duck.
In desperation I hunted through my list of drones to find light drones I could use to attack the Anathema who had me locked down, a precious few seconds passing. And local was beginning to fill up with reds. I tried to target the Anathema, but since my fit was intended for hitting stationary targets with subcap support (the situation I'd been in less than a minute before), I didn't have any sensor boosters fitted, and it was taking an age to get a target lock. Before I could loose the drones on the Anathema, his friends had arrived and it was game over.
My buddies in the fleet discussed whether it was worth trying to save me, but the FC sensibly decided against that idea - with my full support - and I calmly told them not to even try, there was too much to be lost in an attempt to save one carrier. As was said to those who protested - **** happens, and there's no sense in compounding an error. I felt bizarrely calm about my impending doom.
Carrier down  Then podded 
I posted a brief report and apology on our corp forums (no-one like to lose cap ships, and it doesn't do anything good for your killboard stats), and gratefully headed to bed - by this point it was half past three in the morning and I had a busy day ahead.
The next day when I finally got to the computer after a fairly long day, I had messages of support from my corp mates on the forum, and pledges of enough ISK to replace the carrier. So, not such a bad day after all. And a good learning experience for myself and others.
Ardent Spirits is a close knit community of like-minded pilots, and we help each other when things go badly, whether in game or "Real Life", and have a bit of fun at each others' expense when things go well or not-so-badly.
And we're happy to bring new people into our community, if you share our core values - if you're basically mature (that doesn't mean boring!), and willing to "play well with others", you too can be a part of this great team.
Come join us - what is there to lose? |

Eugene1
Ardent Spirits THORN Alliance
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Posted - 2012.11.29 18:18:00 -
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@Quotan: You missed the part when 2 thannys came in to help hero rep the Nyx, but died quite quickly themselves.
I still am knocking myself for forgetting to install ANY sort of mod that would have landed me on the KM....
2 Bubble mods....1 MWD...nothing else... |
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