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Monday, 21 January 2013

Bad, bad Mr Metis

Posted on 22:00 by Unknown
My biggest contribution to the New Order isn't ganking and scouting myself, on this front I'm just one of many. It's seeding the New Order HQs. You see, the New Order operates far from Jita and needs lot of supplies: catalyst destroyers and fittings are used in large quantities. If you check small meta ion and neutron cannons, you can see the price increase. That's us. So every now and then I send a batch of items to the HQs to restock.

On Sunday morning my HQ trader had this transaction log:
Mr Metis, a 1 day old character bought out all my meta guns in both HQs and relisted for 2x-3x higher than Jita price, clearly to "force" the gankers to buy from him. This is a targeted market PvP attempt against the New Order, since no one else buys these stuff in the middle of nowhere. Some ganked botter is upset, right?

Well, I already had bunch of supplies in Jita due to buy orders and bought some lower listed sell orders too and soon I could send my Orca to a merry 15 jumps with 1B worth of meta guns in the hold that should supply the Knights for a day or two until I get more. Just when I arrived, Mr Metis canceled his lists and disappeared. No, he didn't start to 0.01 me, just disappeared. Where did he go? We don't know. But we know this for sure:
As I mentioned I have large volume buy orders for these meta guns in Jita. This Wescro guy sold me a lot. Surprisingly similar quantities that Mr Metis bought in the HQs. Of course Mr Metis paid a 0.2B more for them than me, as I sell over Jita of course. To make it more suspicious, just an hour before these sales, I bumped into Wescro's Orca at the undock of our HQ. Literally. I even suggested him to use an insta-undock bookmark on the New Order channel. Yes, on our channel, as Wescro isn't a disgruntled miner. He is the hero-awoxer of the New Order, the guy every newbie Agent wants to be. Well, well, he should have put Mr Metis in a shuttle and autopilot him to Jita. If Mr Metis sold me the guns, we would forever believe that it was a miner who tried to rob the Knights of the New Order with overpriced guns, not one of our own most respected members. Buying and selling in highsec isn't a crime, so formally he did nothing wrong. However I doubt if he'll ever be called anything else than "Mr Metis" by the members of the New Order. From hero to laughing stock over a day. Good job!

Why? Why does someone do something like that? The answer tells why competitive anti-socials can't take over the World and social organizations still linger: because they just can't be loyal to each other. A group of competitive anti-socials usually turn on each other. I'm probably the only one who doesn't. Do I have ethics? No. I just know that if I'd try it, I'd fail. You can devastate the morons and slackers, but not your equals. The problem with competitive people is that their constant victories make them believe that they are above the people and the law. That they are special, godlike.

We are not. We are just guys. It is true that our powers are godlike compared to the morons and slackers but it doesn't make us gods. It just makes the morons and slackers ... well morons and slackers. We aren't above the people and the law. The morons and slackers are below it. We are not special, they are especially stupid. Yes, Wescro could awox billions from these drooling subhumans, well done. But it's not because Wescro was skilled, it's because they were idiots. Similarly I made the price of three titans before my first birthday, but it doesn't make me awesome. Hey, I'm just flipping implants, there is nothing awesome about that. I'm just filthy rich because most people can't even do that, or too lazy to set something up when they have money so they are forced to grind for 40-50 M/hour when they run out of it.

So dear Wescro and others, please be nice with fellow competitive anti-socials for your own good. Keep farming the morons and slackers as you wish, but don't think for a second that you can pull something like that on us. If you realize that it's a fight you cannot win, we will have a nice little community that brings havoc and destruction to the morons and slackers. We'll be wolves among the sheep. But if wolf is not good enough for you, if you need to be the alpha wolf... well, I'll always have blog space for new laughing stocks!


PS: on Thursday I make a post how can one properly control the market instead of failing like Mr Metis.
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