I had a ganking campaign in February with the nice 52B worth of kills a month. Since I’ve realized that “big and powerful guys do whatever they want” is a lie and they are just padding their killboard and their ego with easy kills, I went on a quest to teach miners to tank their ships.
For most time, my corp only had one player in it, myself, the first and second non-me members joined days ago. I subtracted their kills from the corp result, leaving this one-man corp with 123.2B worth of kills in September. More than a thousand kills. I have a giant secure container with 749 corpses and the loot from the miners paid for all the ganks and some bonus.
123B is enough to buy PLEX to play for free for 19 years. It’s the price of a titan and a supercarrier. But it’s better to compare apples to apples. Let’s see how other corporations performed in the same month:
But the best isn’t outperforming Dreddit. GSF (the alliance) had an official highsec ganking campaign, the Caldari Ice Interdiction. The result couldn't be masked as a victory even on the Goon Fox News, they had to admit "Unfortunately, without sustained pressure to back up the talk, their victims quickly lose their fear and the game returns to normal." Why? Because the corp Bat Country, the main corp behind Miniluv, the Goon ganking organization booked 142B kills this month and most of them are nullsec kills (read: abandoned Querious, Delve, PB structures, TESTies in Curse and fellow Goons during their stupid thunderdome event). The Miniluv page (which can be incomplete) books 30 Exhumers and 94 Barges for September. We Gank Because We Care had 281 and 311. This is really apples to apples: the mighty griefers of EVE, in their annual tear campaign were significantly outdone in their declared goal by a single player. A “highsec publord” I might add. If I were The Mittani, Miniluv would be dissolved and Warr Akini summarily podded back to Empire to mine Veldspar. By the way, the New Order Logistics, the ganking corp of James 315 booked only 55 and 149 ships, 58B.
How could this happen? About a year ago the mining barges were rebalanced because previously they were killable by a 3 days old throwaway alt in a T1 ship. That part was necessary. But CCP didn’t give tools to miners to defend themselves, like enough PG and CPU to fit proper tank, but they were given raw EHP. A 390DPS is needed to kill a naked Retriever in 0.5, it’s not something that a throwaway alt can provide. This killed “for fun” ganking. A bored nullsec player can no longer start a recruit-a-friend 51-days free account and massacre miners for lulz. Barge deaths went nosedive and miners got used to be safe without lifting a finger.
But 390DPS isn’t much for someone who cares to get it. My T2 fit Cata has 740 and I can dualbox gankers, being able to destroy anything below Procurers and 2-lowslots-tanked Mackinaws. Unlike the other ganking groups that tried to solve the problem by throwing numbers on it, I put my trust in the solo player. A solo player doesn’t have to wait for others or suffer the incompetence of others. A ganking fleet spends more time lolling on childish jokes than actually flying out to gank and fail half of ganks because someone didn’t have ammo, had safety on, undocked in a pod or shot the wrong target. The results of the solo player depend on his actions. He ganks, when he wants, where he wants, without having to discuss with others or depending on their resources. The very anti-thesis of the slogan “the best EVE ship is friendship”.
What I did is clearly not something that you couldn’t do. No “l33t skillz” are needed to gank miners. That’s the point. Then why does your corp with hundreds or even thousands of members have similar amount of kills as a single guy? Because you are held back by the incompetent fools around you. The funds of your organization goes to handouts to the morons and slackers and in doctrines you have to limit yourself to the lowest common denominator (the bombless bomber). If you want to achieve something above the average, you can’t do it in a group whose membership is - by definition - average. It doesn’t matter what you aim for, the best approach is starting on your own.
Of course you can join forces for bigger tasks now and then, that’s why I formed a corp and recruit. But your main focus should be solo acting. If the everyday tasks are too big for you alone, you don’t need friends, you need to improve. Fleeting up to kill Orcas or deadspace fitted 50K EHP Mackinaws is normal. Needing a fleet to kill an untanked Mack is being a failure.
My stats matching thousand-men groups are the ultimate proof of selfishness, individualism and the rejection of “helping friends”. EVE and the rest of the MMOs are purely meritocratic: every single avatar started on an equal footing. If someone needs help, he isn’t unlucky or cute but lazy or dumb who needs a link to a guide and a kick in the butt and not handouts of resources or carrying him in groups to get on kills.
Tomorrow I’ll talk about “why” and the future plans regarding ganking.
PS: I really hope this was RMT. I mean no one can be this stupid.
While I use to post anti-tears, this piece of tear is so perfect that I must share with you:
For most time, my corp only had one player in it, myself, the first and second non-me members joined days ago. I subtracted their kills from the corp result, leaving this one-man corp with 123.2B worth of kills in September. More than a thousand kills. I have a giant secure container with 749 corpses and the loot from the miners paid for all the ganks and some bonus.
123B is enough to buy PLEX to play for free for 19 years. It’s the price of a titan and a supercarrier. But it’s better to compare apples to apples. Let’s see how other corporations performed in the same month:
- Goonwaffe (GSF): 354.3B
- D00M. (NC.): 122.9B
- Sniggerdly (PL): 445.0B
- Dreddit (TEST): 113.7B
- Red Federation (RvB): 176.2B
But the best isn’t outperforming Dreddit. GSF (the alliance) had an official highsec ganking campaign, the Caldari Ice Interdiction. The result couldn't be masked as a victory even on the Goon Fox News, they had to admit "Unfortunately, without sustained pressure to back up the talk, their victims quickly lose their fear and the game returns to normal." Why? Because the corp Bat Country, the main corp behind Miniluv, the Goon ganking organization booked 142B kills this month and most of them are nullsec kills (read: abandoned Querious, Delve, PB structures, TESTies in Curse and fellow Goons during their stupid thunderdome event). The Miniluv page (which can be incomplete) books 30 Exhumers and 94 Barges for September. We Gank Because We Care had 281 and 311. This is really apples to apples: the mighty griefers of EVE, in their annual tear campaign were significantly outdone in their declared goal by a single player. A “highsec publord” I might add. If I were The Mittani, Miniluv would be dissolved and Warr Akini summarily podded back to Empire to mine Veldspar. By the way, the New Order Logistics, the ganking corp of James 315 booked only 55 and 149 ships, 58B.
How could this happen? About a year ago the mining barges were rebalanced because previously they were killable by a 3 days old throwaway alt in a T1 ship. That part was necessary. But CCP didn’t give tools to miners to defend themselves, like enough PG and CPU to fit proper tank, but they were given raw EHP. A 390DPS is needed to kill a naked Retriever in 0.5, it’s not something that a throwaway alt can provide. This killed “for fun” ganking. A bored nullsec player can no longer start a recruit-a-friend 51-days free account and massacre miners for lulz. Barge deaths went nosedive and miners got used to be safe without lifting a finger.
But 390DPS isn’t much for someone who cares to get it. My T2 fit Cata has 740 and I can dualbox gankers, being able to destroy anything below Procurers and 2-lowslots-tanked Mackinaws. Unlike the other ganking groups that tried to solve the problem by throwing numbers on it, I put my trust in the solo player. A solo player doesn’t have to wait for others or suffer the incompetence of others. A ganking fleet spends more time lolling on childish jokes than actually flying out to gank and fail half of ganks because someone didn’t have ammo, had safety on, undocked in a pod or shot the wrong target. The results of the solo player depend on his actions. He ganks, when he wants, where he wants, without having to discuss with others or depending on their resources. The very anti-thesis of the slogan “the best EVE ship is friendship”.
What I did is clearly not something that you couldn’t do. No “l33t skillz” are needed to gank miners. That’s the point. Then why does your corp with hundreds or even thousands of members have similar amount of kills as a single guy? Because you are held back by the incompetent fools around you. The funds of your organization goes to handouts to the morons and slackers and in doctrines you have to limit yourself to the lowest common denominator (the bombless bomber). If you want to achieve something above the average, you can’t do it in a group whose membership is - by definition - average. It doesn’t matter what you aim for, the best approach is starting on your own.
Of course you can join forces for bigger tasks now and then, that’s why I formed a corp and recruit. But your main focus should be solo acting. If the everyday tasks are too big for you alone, you don’t need friends, you need to improve. Fleeting up to kill Orcas or deadspace fitted 50K EHP Mackinaws is normal. Needing a fleet to kill an untanked Mack is being a failure.
My stats matching thousand-men groups are the ultimate proof of selfishness, individualism and the rejection of “helping friends”. EVE and the rest of the MMOs are purely meritocratic: every single avatar started on an equal footing. If someone needs help, he isn’t unlucky or cute but lazy or dumb who needs a link to a guide and a kick in the butt and not handouts of resources or carrying him in groups to get on kills.
Tomorrow I’ll talk about “why” and the future plans regarding ganking.
PS: I really hope this was RMT. I mean no one can be this stupid.
While I use to post anti-tears, this piece of tear is so perfect that I must share with you:
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