War

[LC]

I think goons were ordered to make isk for the alliance this week. Deathstars can drain the corp wallet very quickly.

[JoeTF]

Best thing our drunkaards can do is fitting carrier like junk battleship and attempting to jump it via the gate with 50 hostiles in system.

[5150]

In other news....


Anyone know if it is true that TRI have taken/are taking EC-P8R?

[lac]

Soooo any of this true? Any juicy details?
- RA kicked one of their corps because it was fighting in the drone regions and didn't follow the general agenda. This corp belongs to the old time RA ceo MACTEP, who is somewhat a bigshot in the russian community. Russian civil war, drama, pets gone wild, absolutely nothing, who will tell what come next in the russian scene?
- Goons have a new ceo?
- BoB fought goons in the stain region. Apparently they were blue to AAA, SE, C0ven for that op.
- CVA lost 100 ships to 3 to SE and C0ven.
- Sansha nation lost hundreds of ships to BC.

[Endie]

Soooo any of this true? Any juicy details?
- RA kicked one of their corps because it was fighting in the drone regions and didn't follow the general agenda. This corp belongs to the old time RA ceo MACTEP, who is somewhat a bigshot in the russian community. Russian civil war, drama, pets gone wild, absolutely nothing, who will tell what come next in the russian scene?
- Goons have a new ceo?
- BoB fought goons in the stain region. Apparently they were blue to AAA, SE, C0ven for that op.
- CVA lost 100 ships to 3 to SE and C0ven.
- Sansha nation lost hundreds of ships to BC.

There's no RA drama, so far as I know.  Someone repeated that RA rumour on the GF boards and got laughed at for falling for CAOD trolls.  If it is true, then you know more than me.  To be honest, I don't even know if Solar Dragons left RA, but if so there are lots of reasons why they might do so without drama, like pursuing empire wardecs against a target etc.  Basically, dunno, but it's nice to have RA back on the frontlines again, hotdropping Bob.

We do have a new CEO.  Sesfan had been inactive for the best part of six months, and I'm pretty glad, for all that he was great at first in his role in driving Bob back.  In all seriousness, I had begun to think that he was in prison for much of last month.

Bob did, indeed, help out Stain fight some of our pubbie corps in C9N or somewhere like that.  This will, I predict, turn out in the medium term to be a substantial error by Stain.

Was that CVA thing a few days ago?  I know they lost a couple of carriers to some Russians in the last week or so?  Most of us in Aegis are up in Empire and Solitude ganking and station-camping our wardec targets (actually having really fun fights with Notoreity), so I'm a bit remote from what's happening in Providence and Catch right now.

I can confidently confirm that Sanshas Nation have offered to withdraw from south-western Providence in return for a cease-fire with BAT.

[lac]

I know they lost a couple of carriers to some Russians in the last week

I think it was the same engagement

[eldaec]

In other news....


Anyone know if it is true that TRI have taken/are taking EC-P8R?

97 poddings in EC-P8R in the last 24 hours.

[JoeTF]

Bob did, indeed, help out Stain fight some of our pubbie corps in C9N or somewhere like that.  This will, I predict, turn out in the medium term to be a substantial error by Stain.

Newsflash - they have been shooting TCF, goons and other local noobtards's for at least two weeks before. The suggestion that only recent and onetime op with BoB will cause the wrath of mighty RSF is laughable.

[Endie]

Bob did, indeed, help out Stain fight some of our pubbie corps in C9N or somewhere like that.  This will, I predict, turn out in the medium term to be a substantial error by Stain.

Newsflash - they have been shooting TCF, goons and other local noobtards's for at least two weeks before. The suggestion that only recent and onetime op with BoB will cause the wrath of mighty RSF is laughable.

A bunch of Russians fighting our pubbie friends and spending a few weeks trying to take their space is one thing.  Whenever they got close we'd send down a few volunteers and protect the system.  We have a ton of space, and when we eventually finish taking Delve I imagine that we'll have plenty of peope trying to fight us or even chisel bits off.  That'll be fun.

But after their last push, when Stain had as good a chance as they would get and failed, they realised it wasn't happening, and called in Bob.

If you still don't understand the difference that fighting alongside Bob makes to our attitude then you still don't get what this war is about.  As I've always said, I'm just a lowly peon who knows nothing of our plans.  But I stick by my guess that this will not help them in the long run.

[kidder]

But after their last push, when Stain had as good a chance as they would get and failed, they realised it wasn't happening, and called in Bob.

If you still don't understand the difference that fighting alongside Bob makes to our attitude then you still don't get what this war is about.  As I've always said, I'm just a lowly peon who knows nothing of our plans.  But I stick by my guess that this will not help them in the long run.

Is there a thread somewhere about the "war"?  I'm completely new to Eve and have really enjoyed reading all these stories.  I'd like to know what the war is about...if you care to point in the right direction.

[Nevermore]

You should try this thread. 

[kidder]

You should try this thread. 

LOL, nice.  I've been reading this thread so long I thought it was about the BAT wardec. 

[bhodi]

My first GF op, and a more classic line I have never heard:

"If you're in a frigate, we need you to go around, see if you can find a gang that isn't hiding in a PoS."

"Get us their gang composition through your lossmail."

[TheWalrus]

Hey I got a velator!

[JoeTF]

I heart that three top FC of TCF deflected to the enemy. 

C/D Endie?


Also, MACTEP is the guy who made RA what it was, from dying alliance into super power. Recalling previous RA drama, I'm not really surprised with the split.

[Endie]

I heart that three top FC of TCF deflected to the enemy. 

C/D Endie?

Erm, I am in Goonfleet.  Other alliances and their drama is kinda outside my realm of interest, since we have plenty of our own drama to go around.  I only ever flew under one TCF FC, I think.  If they have lost three then that is very careless.

Also, MACTEP is the guy who made RA what it was, from dying alliance into super power. Recalling previous RA drama, I'm not really surprised with the split.

Like I said in a previous post, I don't even know if there was any RA drama.  I know some pubbies posted about some stuff on CAOD, but there's be no interest in it on the GF forums, which usually go into a frenzy at any excuse, so I doubt if anything important has happened. vOv  If you know something then do tell and I shall be delighted to go back and shitpost about it.

On the wider war front, this is a massive weekend for Bob: a four day weekend in their European heartlands, they've been planning a big series of ops, and they certainly won't get a better chanceany time soon to use their undoubted poopsocking abilities to make a big push.  So far, they've just arsed about with some systems with no cyno-jammers (lol IRON), but I imagine that has to be a sideshow to something strategically important.  Should be fun.

[JoeTF]

OK, the supposed indicators of Coalition collapse I've seen mentioned:

RA - Solar Dragons moved to XIX
TCF - Joshua Cane and his brother moved to DICE
GS - Change of CEO, remarkably drama free
IAC - Split into Odyssey
-A- - Not really interested in killing BoB, riding bikes
MC - Not really interested in killing BoB, taking other contracts
IRON/MM - Going back North (MM have been gone for ages)
BoS - Downs Syndrone
UNL - Farming and Drone regions, no interest in attacking BoB

About RA, seems to be there was some serious ego clash between nync and MACTEP, resulting in SDG effectively kicked out for not following alliance orders and playing with drone regions, followed by RA setting current SDG enemies to blue ^_^

[lac]

Man, I just had written this really great drunk poast about how the russians would going crazy about their dyspro moons now sdg went bye bye and how their factions would start eating away at the goon space causing all kind of fun butterfly effect thingies while bob would be caught up in a really boring pos cleanup.

It really was awesome but then I hit backspace.

oh well

[eldaec]

Man, I just had written this really great drunk poast about how the russians would going crazy about their dyspro moons now sdg went bye bye and how their factions would start eating away at the goon space causing all kind of fun butterfly effect thingies while bob would be caught up in a really boring pos cleanup.

It really was awesome but then I hit backspace.

oh well

about:config is your friend. Put...

about:config

....in your address bar then....

browser.backspace_action

...in the filter, then set the value to 2. Then this will never happen again. I'm assuming you are using Firefox?

[lac]

That disables backspace all together.

But thanks for the tip.

[Simond]

http://myeve.eve-online.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=735359
 

Looks like Krautbreak got out just in time. MC now has no friends left, and lots of enemies.

[JoeTF]

Moreover, GF captured NOL.

...

on a test server.:P

[lac]

Looks like Krautbreak got out just in time. MC now has no friends left, and lots of enemies.

They are blue to BoB again in Delve/Period Basis, no?

[Simond]

Apparently not. They're neutral with everybody except the rest of Tortuga.
Also, it seems that this was not fully discussed within MC et. al. and some of their membership is...mildly upset with the decision.

("mildly upset" being a polite euphemism for "bloody furious and screaming at directors over vent", natch)

[Miasma]

For those of us not actually playing eve who are Tortuga and what does this mean?

[lac]

Tortuga are the Mercenary Coalition and friends.
First they lived in a sort of BoB protectorate near BoB homelands then, when the anti-BoB coalition began putting pressure on the BoB homeland, they went neutral to everybody. A bit later they joined the coalition in attacking BoB and claimed the systems they lived in for their own. Now the coalition has let the pressure off and BoB is slowly starting to reclaim some of its lost territory the brave Tortuga alliance decides they are neutral/hostile to everybody else again.

They sure are good at roleplaying mercenaries 

[JoeTF]

First of all,  "a bit later" was 5 hours. They essentially announced standing reset by attacking BoB stations. One of the reasons why nap with MC will never ever happen again.

They're not RPGers either and the recent full standing reset was forced on them. A and IAC hate them with passion since announced their existence and now after they have come to help SDG in Drone regions, RA setted them to -10 (talk about peaceful split in russian camp:P). Which leaves goons as he only coalition member with positive standings towards them (I'm pretty sure north hates MC as well).
So, yeah - they did the only smart thing left to do.

[bhodi]

Which leaves goons as he only coalition member with positive standings towards them

Oh, not for long.

[Simond]

First of all,  "a bit later" was 5 hours. They essentially announced standing reset by attacking BoB stations. One of the reasons why nap with MC will never ever happen again.

They're not RPGers either and the recent full standing reset was forced on them. A and IAC hate them with passion since announced their existence and now after they have come to help SDG in Drone regions, RA setted them to -10 (talk about peaceful split in russian camp:P). Which leaves goons as he only coalition member with positive standings towards them (I'm pretty sure north hates MC as well).
So, yeah - they did the only smart thing left to do.

MC also massively fucked up the multiple front assaults from a few weeks ago by bailing on their agreed parts of it about, oh, half an hour before they were due to begin (and leaving RSF, MM, Uncle Tom Cobbley and all in the lurch). Their collateral in GS was pretty much all spent at that point.

Nobody like them, and I wouldn't be surprised if a fairly significant chunk of MC pilots quit the corp/alliance...or the game entirely. Seleene included.

[JoeTF]

Wow, new goon CEO is really good in PR&morale depertment - his morale blog introduction was so good, it uplifted morele not only in GF, but also in BoB camp.

I would write a something, but I'm too busy scavenging fuel from Rifter wrecks.


(Yeah, I know introductions are not really War material, but there isn't much going on recently)

[LC]

The new goon CEO ordered goons to go rat in delve. I think this strategy might be the one that finishes BoB off. Next week they will really put the pressure on BoB by mining in delve.


"As you know, Delve is a particularly amusing region because every system has a -1.0 bonus to ratting." - Some Goon

[Endie]

The new goon CEO ordered goons to go rat in delve. I think this strategy might be the one that finishes BoB off. Next week they will really put the pressure on BoB by mining in delve.


"As you know, Delve is a particularly amusing region because every system has a -1.0 bonus to ratting." - Some Goon

You've pretty much misunderstood both what has been said, and why it was said.

[Simond]

About par for the course, really. 

[LC]

Looks like the cynojammer is down in QY6 and goon POSes are being sieged.

[bhodi]

Yep. BoB rolled in almost 200 sniping battleships, dodged the titan's DD, popped the cyno jammer in system, and then warped in 51 dreads. I guess BoB REALLY didn't like the idea of all the goons setting up shop in delve.

They've got their max amount of towers per day up in QY6 and are steadily making their way through putting all ours into reinforced.