Back to ratting!

The time has come to stop blobbing and rebuild my wallet. I'm not broke by any means but EVE is a game where the unexpected can happen at anytime. For example in our alliance we have a really good FC who is at times a bit eccentric. However, he has spend almost 2 years in our alliance, defending our space, training new pilots, and giving people the opportunity PVP. We have a newer person who has risen in the ranks rather quickly (not a diffuclt thing to do as most leadership roles can be tedious in EVE), and he pretty much belittled the pilot who had 2 years of experience. That being said you never know when your position in an alliance can be taken, and suddenly you are booted from your corp. and your access to billions in ships and modules is lost. My solution to this possible evenuality? Have more isk than your ships are worth. If I get kicked out of branch, I can set up anywhere in game even though I have carriers, and dozens bc's exhumers, and tech 2 cruisers. The total estimated value is something like 5-6billion. Thats nothing because I have multiples of that already. Ok so i'm going back to ratting because 1.5billion has been invested in this war and I need to recoup that. I think I'm not the only person who feels this way. A ping came up last night (using jabber), and so few people showed up in fleet. I think people are becoming jaded with this conflict, in which the higher ups basically make loads of isk. so back to ratting! /tata

Sov warfare the real deal

Wow it has been some time since I have posted on this blog. Actually in EVE things have been quite eventful for the past several months. Firstly in the North the CFC have secured branch, tenal, and burned venal. We went on two other deployments in which yogi and I really got loads of pvp. We did so well that if you took our combined efforts away our corp would not have been at the top of alliance ship kills. This has led me to think more deeply about sov warfare. In Eve tech. which is a moon product (mined off of moons). Has driven the economy for the past 2 years or so. Even now with some recent changes to eve it is still important. Basically when systems are being taken, the real people who make a real profit are the ones in leadership positions (this includes people behind the scenes). They are the people who really make loads of isk off of sov taking. I am sure that they do this. The former head of our alliance made off with 30-40billion isk. So I am tired of leading the killboard charts, or being in the top 3 just to basically help those waaaay at the top make even more billions of isk. In Eve war is good for business. Some even in our corp have argued that srp (ship replacement program) is why we should join the massive blobs. I disagree. First while it is fun, in the end you have little too no isk. Your wallet might have 100's of millions in it but ships like battleships, and elite cruisers can eat that up really fast. Now of course those ships will be replaced. BUT what if suddenly your alliance is booted out of null sec. Maybe you have to find another means to make isk, with no srp to help you out. Now the higher ups can take advantage of such a situation and end up billions of isk in the black. Yogi Deci, and I have made our isk, and we will keep on doing so. I fly ships the way I WANT. I dont like going solely by the standard fits so I never apply for srp. BUT I get on loads of kills. I remember one tengu op where i modified my fit (interdiction null.) The FC a cocky dude make a stupid mistake....we got bubbled.....but yogi and I made it out. In other fights I have been able to target pain targets up to 100km away and get on nice frigate killmails. So for now I making the system work for us. But the moment someone tells me that can get us kicked out of the alliance...is the day we return to empire or another null region. /tata