Holy shite this is a new level of delusion, and so long you can't even quote it.

I see this rule breaking rant thread going places.

I love how these cultists keep reopening variations on the same bullshit that gets locked.

I see this rule breaking rant thread going places.

Awh man, skimmed throught at first and thought you got down a scorpion BELONGING to an agent. Wouldn't a griffin done the same job cheaper? And don't most agents either have low enough sec status to be fired upon at will or free kill rights available?

Kudos to James315 and his followers for creating content. Even if it spawns long texts like this.

I don't think you know what ranting is. I would have thought someone like yourself would have loved the fact that they are baiting and killing gankers.

such a wall of text I couldn't get myself to read past the part where it first mentions 'the code'

tortured myself to read the whole thing.... and well, blah...

If the good people of highsec are going to band together to **** up some code wankers, we don't need walls of text to justify it. A simple "We're taking our space back from the cultist cabal" would suffice.

and besides, even if you want to RP it; 'The Code' of the Warrior is defense of the helpless, and its just that simple.

No fancy language, no elaborate schemes, just the path of Honor.

Mindless role playing rhetoric

tl;dr

[quote=Shederov Blood][quote=Kyperion]Holy shite this is a new level of delusion, and so long you can't even quote it.

and besides, even if you want to RP it; 'The Code' of the Warrior is defense of the helpless, and its just that simple.

No fancy language, no elaborate schemes, just the path of Honor.

The true way of the warrior is death. This means choosing death whenever there is a choice between life and death. There is no other reasoning, no other code.

(with apologies to Yamamoto Tsunetomo)


Fixed quoting. ISD Ezwal.

When Whetstone first made its appearance on www.minerbumping.com I encouraged them to pursue this line of emergent gameplay. It is sorely needed as the New Order continues to expand across highsec. Everyone, no matter how many hundreds of miners bumped or ganked, has room for improvement and I do not exclude myself.

I found a Covetor mining in Erenta a few weeks back. He was alone in an asteroid belt, lasers melting, and sitting immobile... right next to a Mobile Depot. I have never seen a miner with a MD sitting next to it and, at the time, paid it no mind. I decloaked, scanned the mining ship and found it to be lightly tanked. It would be no problem in this .6 system. Cloaked back up and moved to my warpin spot.

Now comes the Destroyer.

A Catalyst to be exact. I feinted to the north, flew my attack profile, came in under radar and locked and fired. The shields barely moved. I pounded away with all eight Light Ion Blaster IIs, making little headway. CONCORD eventually showed up and did the usual. I had barely scratched him.

Decloaking again I scanned down the Covetor to find it tanked in every slot except the mining lasers. I had been had nicely.

So, what happened? The miner, actually the pvper who used a Covetor for bait, had seen me decloak and had used the MD to swap out his alluring negligee of bot aspirancy for hard steel and shiny hardeners, not the good kind. I fell right into his trap and justifiably lost the battle. I wished him a GF at which point he told me he had actually come to Erenta to take me on. A great victory for him and a valuable lesson to me.

The speed with which the New Order has established its dominance of highsec and the futility of (most) of the carebears to resist has created the idea that every Agent is fully knowledgeable about the Code and receives its full power. The reality is that it takes a while to become as invincible as the Savior of Highsec and the rest of us are only on a path to that level of rightousness. The Code protects us, gives us strength and guides us to the bot aspirants but you have to work WITH it, not against it.

Whetstone exists to keep us on the straight and narrow. I wish them great success.

Highsec is worth fighting for.

Bing Bangboom
Agent of the New Order of Highsec
Belligerent Undesirable

Warriors without a larger sense of purpose and without Honor are merely murderers.

What is it with anti-NO rebels and all the crazy roleplaying?

such a wall of text I couldn't get myself to read past the part where it first mentions 'the code'

tortured myself to read the whole thing.... and well, blah...

If the good people of highsec are going to band together to **** up some code wankers, we don't need walls of text to justify it. A simple "We're taking our space back from the cultist cabal" would suffice.

and besides, even if you want to RP it; 'The Code' of the Warrior is defense of the helpless, and its just that simple.

No fancy language, no elaborate schemes, just the path of Honor.

I have encountered this a few times in my ganking. Its a good strategy. Fortunately, Catalysts are cheap.

I often fall for this sort of bait because some of the times I end up getting the kill anyway.

'we think some of the NO are bad at what they do, we want to make them not bad by cunning application of elementary tactics'

then add Kyperions usual crap about cultists and season to taste.

I do have something to say about the "It wasn't meant to be shot at" talk.

Maybe someone will disagree with me on this, but to me there are two different types of "it wasn't meant to be shot at" claims which have very different meanings.

tl;dr version: "It wasn't meant to be shot at." doesn't always mean "I am bot aspirant and think high sec should be a safe place to live."

1. "I am in high sec and CONCORD will protect me so I do not need to fit a tank because I am safe."

- This type of thinking is attributed to a number of people in high sec including untanked miners, autopiloting freighters, untanked industrials... the list goes on.
-This type of thinking is poisonous to Eve and should be swiftly punished by any agents in the area, or anyone with the firepower and the will to make High Sec a better place.

2. "This ships is going to explode no matter what so I don't need a tank." Or, "this fit is designed for one purpose and one purpose only, getting shot at by a competent well prepared enemy is not that purpose."

examples: If I do not fit a tank on a thorax before going into battle then I should fully expect to get my ass handed to me and would be silly if I complained when I lost that ship. However if I fit a tank on a catalyst that is to be used for a suicide gank, I am an idiot and deserve to be blasted apart by CONCORD with my target still happily in half shields because my fit is horrible.

The gank catalyst is not meant to be shot at by a serious combat opponent. If I were to take a gank fit catalyst into a fight against a war target, I'm going to die. Quickly. Because that fit is not meant to be shot at.

If your gank target has a tank fit and combat drones, it's possible he'll kill you before CONCORD even shows up. And that would be a job well done for the gank target, and a bad tactical choice on the part of the ganker. However this situation doesn't happen very often, most gank targets are unprepared to fend off attackers and don't defend themselves in an effective manner, instead relying on CONCORD for protection.

A similar argument could be made for other purpose built fits. There are situations where "it wasn't meant to be shot at" can be more accurately translated to mean "it wasn't designed to be shot at by any credible threat and if that does actually happen it will likely explode in a ball of fire and hilarity because of some horrible mistake I made."

If your gank target has a tank fit and combat drones, it's possible he'll kill you before CONCORD even shows up. And that would be a job well done for the gank target, and a bad tactical choice on the part of the ganker. However this situation doesn't happen very often, most gank targets are unprepared to fend off attackers and don't defend themselves in an effective manner, instead relying on CONCORD for protection.

That requires the target to not be AFK. In that case, they deserve to fend off the gank attempt - they laid a trap, got someone to walk into it, and pulled the trigger at the right time on it.

Just like someone sending a Hyperion with almost all mods dedicated to local active tanking into a gatecamp, waiting for the gatecamp to pull the trigger, then calling in reinforcements.

I've lost gank ships prior to CONCORD showing up on rare occasions, and I always get my pod out, then type 'GF' in local.

TLDR, You lost me at 'Greetings'...........

Can someone explain to me why so many people feel the need to advertise their illiteracy on this forum? It seems that every time there is a thread OP longer than two short sentences we are deluged with TL;DR responses.

What does it add?

You didn't read it. Your opinion is worthless. The fact that you are intimidated by more than a paragraph is illuminating.

Why do some people always need to point out to the world, when someone acts outside their comfort zone ? The ones even worse are the ones claiming their way is 100% ok and the rest is worthless. So damn arrogant.

If I wanted to read long pages of text, I would read a book. TLDR replies, give people an indication that they might want to shorten their replies and get more to the point.