War is over ...

I would love to report that the whole war ended with a huge fight and my ship collection in a matchbox but actually it ended up with them ending the war and the last evening was us camping them at a station and them sending out so much smack talk in local that another PvP corp asked them to try dec'ing them.  Overall probably the worst war we ever had. Oh well, see what happens next, the next war is never to far away.

Workarounds

Well,

I have already discussed a little bit about game mechanics so far with release of the Goonswarm (RIP) guide for ultra deep safes.  I have also played around the the Grid Fu guide, also release by Goonswarm, but I have more recently found some other more annoying / intelligent actions that use the game mechanics in a way that is not entirely as planned.  I have listed a few below and would be interested to know what other ones people use or loath in the game:

CONCORD Pre-Load
Ok, this is the art or act of pre-loading CONCORD into an area; and driod field for example, so hat they can provide you with a greater level of protection.  Achieved by ganking yourself with a noob ship in an asteroid field so that CONCORD relieve your noob of his ship then hang around for a couple of hours.  Provides you with CONCORD on your door step whilst you mine.

Insurance Farming
Quick way of turning all those low value T1 modules and ore that you get into isk.  Reprocess everything, build a BS, insure it and then self-destruct it.  Will see what happens with this with the changes that are appearing on Singularity right now.

Will add to this list as I find more; I have not gone through the whole list of war / combat issues such as station hugging, lofoffski, etc.

War ... again

Well we are at war again.  We got dec'd again about a week ago and though we are no PVP corp we do have a few thirsty souls who enjoy a good roam and fight.  This will be the sixth war I think I have been part of and to date they have never amounted to much; a few roams in the evenings with the odd stand off and fight, but on the whole everyone seems to skirt around each other trying to get some sort of advantage (usually in numbers) at which point the smaller party goes and waits it out in a station.

There are great stories and reports about all the wars that go on in null sec, about the politics and espionage but truly, I wonder how much of this goes on in the rest of space with all the smaller corps warring it out.

We had an instance last night where the war was getting close to ending , various people had talked and agreements had been made but with no agreements on ceasefires or anything else; just left it run it's course and good bye.  Anyway a few of the more excitable members of the alliance had already arranged to wander around and see what happen would happen and to their surprise found a small group of WT nearby all prep'ed and ready in the same way we were.  I would like to point out that the corp that had dec'd us is a PVP corp and aspires to be another Agony Unleashed.  Anyway this small group decides to agress and losses an Onyx in the process.  Polite convo ensues in local and people warp off to lick wounds and prep for the next encounters when the CEO comes online into our public convo complaining bitterly and threatening to continue war, destroy alliance etc.  Now he can do what he wants and that is fine, I have no quarrel at all with that but I do have some questions that I am sure will never be answered; who takes a fully fitted hictor out in hi sec during a war if they are not planning on using or losing it?  Why get upset with a corp doing its best to fight in a war till the end?  We has not exactly come out fighting from the start but certainly had lost a number of ships through the week, so why the bitter response?

All in all I am disappointed again (read last posting ... must be an age thing creeping up on me).  I have been on an Agony course and loved it.  There  is a certain no holds barred, raw feeling to the courses and to take it as it comes.  The thought of a war with something similar or aspiring to that was a little invigorating ... even if we were turned into pulp and handed out wrecks back in a matchbox, we at least would learn something but this has been disappointing.  One thing I did notice as I started to gather the intel prior to the war commencing was some strange behaviour in their killboard and there has been a little more since.  I will talk a little about this in my next post as it is not really anything to do with this war but is more related to the tricks of the trade that people employ in the game to help them along.  Anyway, will see what the next load of diplomacy brings, fly safe.