Becoming French - For when the shit hits the fan

Recently, my alliance (and indeed half of providence) invaded PXF due to them pissing someone somewhere off, but that doesn't matter.

What does matter is that on the second day, we got pwned. Hard. Harder than the BoB failscade. Harder than even the goon failscade. But did we run? No! We stood our ground and fought valiantly. To the death. Charge of the Light Brigade shit right there huh?

Well, i think it's times like this we should take a tip from the French. If in doubt, retreat. Or if your ep33n doesn't allow retreat, tactical withdrawal. Because when the losses run into the billions, possibly someone somewhere should've probably gone: "I wonder if we should have gone home....."

On another note i hit a new record last week in losses. 250m in the form of:

A Dramiel lost in a roam to Agony space. Getting camped in by CVA didn't help either :(

(Loss ~120m)

A ratting Megathron lost to a Fagabond (don't ask -.-)

(~100m)

An ishkur due to fail intel

(~30m)

My tip to anyone reading this?

Fuck how much your ships costs.

Losses due to PvP: 250m

The price of the sheer awesomeness encountered in fleet: Priceless.

There are some things money can't buy.

For everything else there's podkilling.

-Senjo

Smacktalk - For when ratting is just not enough

Smacktalk. A fun and relaxing way of being a douchebag. And yet so many do it (including myself) and I know I for one cannot control it.

So why do we do it? Well, for one it's a way of waving your ep33n in front of someone's face. Another is to give shits and giggles. But let's examine the role of smackers within EVE.

Ep33n:

These are the guys that get you angry if you're the opponent. They rile you up, make you annoyed and generally be douche's, but they're easily dealt with (by podding)

Shits and giggles:

Much harder to deal with. Some of the shit these guys come out with is unbelievable, and makes even Archiebald Hornby (search him up) cringe. They generally have NOTHING better to do as shown by the current example within my alliance: a 1 man ALLIANCE war deccing us.....

TBH, these are the guys that make EVE what it is. Do you really remember the epic fleet fight where everyone said GF afterwards? Or do you remember that time you went on a speed roam in enemy territory and the smack going back and forth more than made up for the fact you all got podded.

Yes, EVE may have massive fleet on fleet engagements, but these turn into lagfests so....
Yes, EVE may have the awesome market supposedly run by an economist, but in the end it's still not priced right so.....

So, that means that the one TRUE thing EVE is really, deep down at the heart of it, what EVE is really about.

Is smacktalk.

-Senjo