Our latest corp war has ended, and this time it was against a one man corp who never even came close to us. He declared on us, told us that he'll probably never follow up and attack us and we told him where to find us in case he felt in the mood. Still, he had good 0.0 experience and was very well represented on the killboards.
My paranoia was screaming trap throughout all of it. But now the war is retracted and we've survived yet another conflict where we didn't even see the enemy in space. I never even saw him online as he didn't play my hours, and I'm the easiest guy in the corp to find because it's my name above the door.
If his intentions were to bug me through my paranoia and curiosity then he's the winner, I really can't stand not knowing somebodies motives. Maybe there's a "you should always have a dec on" mentality out there, or bragging rights for being one man up against a corp of a hundred. Was it some convoluted revenge plan from a disgruntled ex-employee whose magnificence has yet to be fully revealed?
Or maybe he went off to factional warfare.
Now that you can get 50+ pickup blobs (I never thought I'd be able to say that about Eve) what is the point of declaring war on a corporation unless you have a specific goal? (revenge, destruction or griefing all being very valid). If you want somebody to shoot in Empire you can now have it with very little work, the worse case being you need to build faction with somebody. There's now no point in wardeccing somebody just to have targets. Unless, of course, that is because you can't hold your own in factional warfare.
Speaking of which another night of grinding faction in frigates has passed and has yet again reminded me how much I like them as a class of ship. This happens whenever I fly them, but then I go back to my main and fly big things again and forget. I think I should make a point of sticking with frigates until I get very good at them with my new factional warfare character, maybe go up to interceptors as I do enjoy having to actually fly the ship intelligently instead of the usual keeping at range.
One of my few fun PvPing experiences was against an interceptor. The corp that I was in was in one of those "Pay us X and we'll retract the dec" wars. Our CEOs response had been, of course, "How about we just blow you up lots instead until you've lost way, way more than you asked us to pay?". The war was going well, and the enemy was dropping down to smaller and smaller ships each day as we, presumably, removed their larger ships from play. We were, at that stage, being taunted by an interceptor that we just couldn't hit as we were lacking most of the equipment and skills that would be needed to shut him down. I had the best bet, an Eagle from when the HACs were first introduced (hey, I like how the Moa looks. It's you lot who aren't normal) and I was in a mood to snipe him from afar, what with transversals being so much less of a problem at range.
I went off and grabbed my ship from quite a few systems over as it wasn't something I ever used and began my trip back. I think this was pre-warp to zero so it would have taken a while. On the way back I ran into a slight snag, that interceptor at a range close enough to scramble me and dismantle my ship piece by piece way before help could arrive, or before I could get to the gate as the Eagle is, shall we say, a tad slow. I was set for sniping so didn't have a web or scrambler (not to mention it's a Caldari ship so had put a tank in there to travel anyway) and so I wasn't really in a state to win in a fight against an interceptor, sniping setup or no sniping setup.
Luckily I had something on my side. The guns didn't have long range ammo fitted, they were full of antimatter. On a whim I had decided to fit that in case I ran into any trouble and although it brought my range down massively, it also upped my damage by quite a lot. It took an age to lock the 'ceptor but once I had I kept an eye on it's transversal and managed to get a couple of very lucky volleys off as he manoeuvred. After a couple of these he was getting a tad low on shield and, what with the ship being Caldari he decided to wisely withdraw from the field and leave me cursing that I didn't have a scrambler and web fitted.
Still, I survived a close range fight against an interceptor in a rail boat that's only really good for sniping. It felt good at the time and they announced that they were "redacting their declaration against us to concentrate on other enemies as we weren't worth their time and effort" soon enough. I suspect it had something to do with destroying over a billion ISK of their ships very quickly and organising a coalition between all of their current targets, but we let them go anyway.
posted @ Wednesday, June 18, 2008 11:46 AM