Demetri Dentrov
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
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Posted - 2015.01.22 05:39:05 -
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Yeah, I feel the Ops pain, but I don't really see where anything needs to be done about it. We, as Industrial players, already have the tools we need.
However, I do find the opinion of the full time PvP crowd as amusing, that we should "fight" or "hire mercenaries." Why? Do you have to go through heroic measures when you are under war dec? No? You just fly the same gun loaded warships you were flying before. Perhaps one that's a bit different... How do you think that ship came to be in your possession? Our tools of the trade are billion isk unarmed targets in space that, by design, have no weapons and the maneuverability of a beached whale. We are hopelessly, hilariously outgunned in anything close to a fair fight in our usual ships.
So when you war dec us, it's the equivalent of someone coming to you and saying... "We are at war! I get to fly whatever, and you have to fly a frigate." Don't like it? Tough, because all your usual ships? the ones you earn isk in doing missions and whatnot? Well they can't be used during the war." That would suck, wouldn't it?
So we Industrials have to be smarter. We can't form "Carebear Industrial Corps" like we would if this was World of Warcraft or something... we have to build organizations that cannot be war decced in a conventional manner. Clever use of one man corps, having a lot of our people remain in NPC corps, etc. It's a pain, and it means you can never build a large organization, but how big does an Industrial corp need to be? Here's an example: Red Frog. Good luck war deccing them. The transport vessels themselves are independents, not in "Red Frog" itself.
If you DON'T do that, and shoot bows and arrows against the lightning with the insistence that the world be made fair for you... you will quickly learn how heartless the galaxy of Eve can be. One of the things I hear a lot is how "bad" or "evil" people that prey on our unarmed ships are. No! If bears rip up your camp and eat your food, whose fault is it, the bears for wanting food, or yours for not anticipating it?" Crying to the ranger won't help you at all.
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