The Negotium Warrior

Kette der Verantwortung - Wenn man den falschen erwischt und der sich nicht wehrt / keine Stellung nimmt

2011-07-06T07:40:00.001+02:00

Ende April beschlossen wir in der Negotium Alliance, Tenerifis zu räumen, da wir definitiv der anrollenden -A--Welle nicht gewachsen waren. Da alles sehr schnell gehen musste, führten wir eine grosse Evakuation durch, welche mehrere Stunden dauerte, da mit den Sprungfrachtern und den Carriern das Material einer ganzen Allianz evakuiert wurde.

Dass mal irgendwo ein Schiff dabei verlorengeht, bzw. vielleicht irgendwo im 0.0 auf einer der Zwischenstationen liegenbleibt oder was auch immer, kann passieren, dass jedoch ausgerechnet teure Schiffe verschwinden und alle über den Gleichen transportiert wurden, bedeutet, dass selbiger sich darum kümmern muss, dass die ihm anvertrauten Güter wieder bei den Spieler landen.

Am 19.5. erhielt deshalb Battletank von Die Affenbande welche nun Mitglied der EVE-Union sind, von mir (Char: Ze Beeblebrox, CEO Negotium Alliance) die Aufforderung, dafür zu sorgen, dass eine Navy Scorpion, eine Golem und eine Proteus welche über ihn transportiert wurden, wieder bei den Besitzern landen.

Es erfolgte seitens Battletank keinerlei Reaktion. Weder dass er sich meldete und direkt die Situation rechtfertigte, noch dass irgendwie ersichtlich war, dass er sich um die Angelegenheit kümmerte. Die einzige Aussage, welche mir zu Ohren kam war, er hätte die Güter Jemanden ausgehändigt.

Aufgrund der absoluten Gleichgültigkeit des Beschuldigten und die Beschuldigung stand nun im Raum, dass er die Schiffe eingesackt hat, nahm ich mit entsprechenden Leuten (Drahtzieher, DaCode, FloppyM) Kontakt auf, dass das nicht in Ordnung ist und dass ich langsam stinksauer bin.

Der Druck wurde erhöht und Battletank von Dalmarogs NGA TS gesperrt. Immer noch keine Reaktion seinerseits. Keine mail, kein nix.

Letzte Woche erreicht mich nun die Mitteilung, dass der eigentliche Dieb anscheinend Zaijan ist. Das heisst, mehr als zwei Monate nach den Transporten, kommt endlich ein Indiz, dass die vermissten Güter bei Zaijan, ehemals GC, gelandet sind und dieser sie sich einheimste. Den Verdacht dazu hörte ich schon vor 2 Wochen seitens GC.

Da Battletank die ganze Zeit passiv blieb, keine Stellung bezog, sich nicht meldete, sich anscheinend um nichts kümmerte und da er selbst eine unschöne Aktion beim Austritt aus der NGA lieferte, stellt sich mir die Frage: "Wieso zum Teufel wehrt sich dieser Typ nicht ? Wieso krümmt er keinen Finger zur Aufklärung der Vorwürfe an ihn ?". 2 Monate sind nun verstrichen. Hätte ich gewusst, dass eigentlich Zaijan das diebische Kameradenschwein ist, hätte ich den Druck auf ihn ausüben können.

Und wäre ich in der Situation von Battletank gewesen, hätte ich mich gewehrt:
- FullAPI an einen Vertrauensmann, um zu beweisen, dass man die betroffenen Gütern nicht besitzt und nicht verkauft hat.
- Offene Stellungnahme, dass ich bedaure, dass Güter welche über mich transportiert wurden, verschwunden sind und dass ich versichere, dass ich sie einem Mitspieler, welcher vertrauenswürdig schien, ausgehändigt habe.
- Aktive Suche nach dem eigentlichen Dieb.

Auch wenn sich nun herausgestellt hat, dass Battletank nicht der Dieb war, so würde ich aufgrund seiner Passivität und seines Desinteresses zu einer Aufklärung beizutragen dennoch keine Güter mehr ihm anvertrauen, bzw. über ihn transportieren lassen.

EVE ist kein Spiel, in dem man lange rumzimpert, geschweige denn die Zeit hat, irgendwelche langwierigen "Verfahren" durchzuführen. Schlussendlich hat man ja auch keinerlei Möglichkeit auf CCP-Daten zuzugreifen, während Untersuchungsbehörden im RL durchaus auf Steuer- und Bank-, sowie Kreditkartendaten als auch andere Transaktionen zugreifen können.

Ich bin der Meinung, dass es angebracht war, auf denjeningen (in diesem Fall: Battletank) welcher die Transporte ausführte und deshalb auch verantwortlich war, dafür zu sorgen, dass die Güter wieder an ihre Besitzer gehen, Druck auszuüben und selbigen solange zu erhöhen, bis dass er sich darum kümmert.

Ich bin erleichtert, dass Battletank im Sinne des Diebstahls-Vorwurfes nun offenbar unschuldig ist, aber auch verärgert, dass der eigentlich Schuldige, Zaijan, solange unbehelligt davonkam.

0.0 the new dimension

2011-01-30T15:01:00.000+01:00

In autumn, I came to the conclusion that empire, be it high- or lowsec doesn't offer the income we needed to grow and prosper as we planned.
Thus came the decision to rent us some 0.0 space for a reasonable price.
We saw -A- folding then and immediately got into contact with The Initiative whom gave us XUDX-A for 1bil ISK/Month.
Equipped with only one Jumpfreighter then, we moved about 25 loads of freight in there and started to harvest that system up to its limits. One month later, with the help of GIS/Grunts. we managed to get some freighters in with the 5er pirate upgrade.
Since then our players income went up to the roof and they felt so comfortable, they began to move in their uttermost expensive luxury ratkilling ships, although there were explicit warnings not to do so. Our system got quite crowded and we had to introduce some disciplinary rules so noone blocked havens or sanctums from spawning.
Somehow I didn't feel too comfortable with the political situation and although my people cried for more systems, I tried to gain some time. Somehow I had the feeling The Initiative alone without IT/XIX/PL isn't strong enough to keep that area so I warned my people again not to bring in ships they cannot write off. Secretly I ordered CEOs to bring their BPOs valuing about 50bil ISK altogether out. An empire Corporation was founded with sole purpose to create BPCs and do the necessary inventions.
Then day X came and The Initiative folded. 3 1/2 months after we have moved in, The Initiative was suddenly gone. Completely gone. Well, there were some marauding Initiative Associates-Renters and some Initiative Mercenaries, but only some lonely and left behind guys. The Initiative was out and gone because they obviously just were fed up fighting ROL/-A-/... . So we started an evacuation operation. With 3 Jumpfreighters and several Carriers now in service, we packed all we could and moved it out into the empire. I was quite shocked, what values my guys just secretly have brought in. There were marauders, faction ships, some even with unpayable luxury fittings of the finest. 100bil ISK couldn't buy all that stuff.
3 1/2 months earlier my guys were dried out, bankrupt, fed up with our war campaigns against Focused Intentions and Scum. whom we taught a lesson. Now my guys have their pockets filled with ISK, can field whatever we want in PvP fleets, have high morale, so I guess, our first 0.0 adventure was a success, a huge one.

When I tried to get into contact with -A-(Against All Authorities) I realised 2 facts. 1 they are a bit more greedy than The Initiative, but we could have afforded it. 2 they don't want to control the area we want to live in and I was told that area was now business of White Noise.
As I somehow had the impression -A- just threw the whole area at the feet of WN because they had learned their lesson and didn't want to control too much 0.0 space anymore.
I took the chance, formed up a fleet of about 40 guys, brought in some SBUs and an Impel to a meeting point with a Jumpfreighter and then we rolled into southeast Tenerifis, placed SBUs there, told everyone that we will take over control of the area and then I sent a letter to WN that I want to get into business with them and thus we have started to help them.
Some leftover IA(Initiative Associates)-Corporations were so impressed and we learned that they speak german, so we assimilated them into our alliance.
With their help and approval from Init. we cleaned up our pocket and on demand of WN (finally we managed to get a deal with them) we started to clean up the rest of southeastern Tenerifis, too.
Much was gained by diplomacy and we chose to treat all remains of IA and IM with respect.

We are thankful to The Initiative they didn't immediately reset their renters when they left the area. Although I don't understand why they reset my PvP alliance, when only one of my guys was involved in an incident between Grunts. and them and when we were told that the whole story was resolved.

Talks with WhiteNoise were very positive but somehow I have the feeling they are overstretched at the moment, so I have decided we will organize ourselves in the EIX-HK pocket in a way we could defend it eventually. That means, we put up defenses so huge that any agressor would prefer to get into a deal with us as our new home is strategically unimportant.

Backstabbing or not ?

Some would say our actions of tearing down and taking over stations from Init. was backstabbing. Nope. This ain't no backstabbing. Init was long gone even before we thought about placing SBUs and firing at those stations. If there had been any sign of Init. keeping up any kind of military strength, we would eventually have fought on their side.

Now WN is the new boss in the area. We have our deal with them and we will support them as long as they want us to. But when the day comes at whom they are just gone, we will have to look for ourselves the same way as we had to do now.

As our military strength grows with every day, we eventually will get into a position, where any conqueror ist best advised to leave us alone and save himself a few unnecessary losses by keeping his resources up focused on his strategical goals.
EIX-HK shall be our new home, our property, and we will keep it until we find ourselves a better place.

Test passed

2010-08-19T09:22:00.000+02:00

As Com-Star / Solaris - Syndicate retracted their war against the Negotium, I am proud of one fact: No single loss within Negotium Alliance and EVE-Union !

I did expect there would be one or two losses among pilots within the Negotium Alliance. The usual far away missionrunner or that usual deaf-blind-mute-analphabetic member who does afk transports with his industrial or what ever stupid things to do in wartimes would ever be. I am very proud of those corporations and their staff who managed to keep discipline among their members.

Nevertheless we have to admit there were losses among Pilots of German Constructors.
That Corporation was just not yet ready for war and they immediately left the Negotium Alliance when the war started, just to rejoin today after its end.
All those losses did happen, because some members didn't obey recommendations by their leadership and I expect them to have learned their lesson.
(Those pilots had the usual excuses like: I didn't expect them to pursue us, because we were not their main wartargets)
I told them, Com-Star would go for every single kill possible and they did.

Now, one would think we had given docking orders to our members. No ! We didn't !
Standing order within the Passion of War was: Don't do anything stupid !
We had scouts checking out all areas. We thought about catching some of them by using routes through WH-space. But in the end, we didn't have the numbers to attack them, so we didn't.

We do not know who did pay them, as they are mercenaries for hire.
There is one strong hint:
17:21:00 -500'000'000.00 Corporation Account Withdrawal 3'661'375'196.01 War Academy Lee Corbain
That sum is what mercenaries usually demand as first half of payment for a contract.

I have made one decision: No matter whether that bunch of idiots at the "War Academy" did pay Com-Star or not, we will leave them alone. I just don't want to deal with them anymore and I don't want to deliver them any excuse why they fucked up their own business.

My job is to keep the Negotium alive and while the Negotium Alliance is very healthy, the Passion of War is at a very critical point now.
Some important members are offline because of real life issues and those remaining do show high presence, but we just ain't enough now. We do have several capital pilots, but we don't have the capitals yet (Note: Wardec on VGmbH imminent if they don't deliver my Moros soon). Not only do we need some more ISK to buy us Capitals, but we need a purpose for them as we don't buy ships to collect dust.
Most of the players in the Passion of War are highly skilled and they have made enough kills in their life, so most of my members would be highly welcomed by any PvP Corporation.
My partner corporaton "Final Solutions" has lost all their personnel to Endstati0n/Ev0ke. We do miss these guys. But that offer was so good, I did consider it for myself a few days, but then I saw the loyality of my own members and I just could not drop the Negotium. One year it exists now and that year was very tough. Intrigues and take-over attempts by the war academy. They did anything to keep members away from joining the Passion of War, they did anything to badmouth us behind our backs. What could have been a dream they greatly fucked up until my power was just strong enough to sack them (they did leave shortly before I would have sacked them).

Now we are considering offers for some lucrative 0.0 space for us, but we will only consider offers where the Negotium is taken as a package, which means all of us or none.

Meanwhile we will reorganize ourselves, do some heavy trainings with negotium alliance pilots and earn some ISK.

Humpfgrunz

The Test

2010-08-15T20:37:00.000+02:00

As the main purpose of the Negotium is war, we have arrived at our first examination.
Our former enemies all had their own strength, but in the end the were no match for us. Now finally someone paid Com-Star / Solaris - Syndicate for leading a war against us. As I remember many of them personally, I see the current situation as a sportive competition against old friends. Nevertheless we have taken all necessary preparations and we have organized our stuff.

We have removed most of our POSes and all valuable stuff within them.
Those remaining will serve as bait and are written off within our books. Our friends are on alert to help us defending them, if needed.

Whoever spent the money for Com-Star, I should be grateful, since we all will have some fun. We can withstand a long period of war, but I heavily doubt whether those paying Com-Star will be able to afford it.

Com-Star is the best german speaking Mercenary Corporation, so I feel quite honoured when someone considers them as the one and only option to act against us.

I will still remember many of those guys from the times I used to fly along with them when I was with GIS. So MiGE, McNoTo, Ullrich Rudel, ... when the war is over and your customer has burnt his ISK, I'll invite you into our TS for some chat.

By then let us have some fun.

Greetings !

Humpfgrunz / Ze Beeblebrox

The Gank

2010-06-22T13:10:00.011+02:00

Hi Friends !

As we were bored because our system was camped by some IT-Alliance guys, we decided to gank someone. We chose to gank someone out of the leadership of the "Community of the War Academy" Alliance / "War Academy" Corporation just because they are mostly a bunch of helpless idiots.
- Could they wardec us ? Unless they are really suicidal, no !
- Could they have some mercs wardec us ? (Yeah baby, bring it on !) With the exception of Myzer that bunch is quite bankrupt and I doubt whether Myzer wants to throw his billions of ISK out of the window delivering us some fun.

Since they have no real option against us and since there would be a psychological internal pressure to do something, they would do something. Having no reasonable option, the stupid ones remain and behaving stupid is what they really are used to do.

So, we chose Lee Corbain's alternate Char, Tanya Morgan as target. That char was afk mining in Emolgranlan. In our plan it was important to kill the pod before CONCORD destroys our aggressing ships. We then created a highly effective setup and we successfully executed the gank including the podkill.

Since Lee Corbain had no intelligent option, he, as I predicted, started to use the stupid ones: He set us on orange/red with the consequence he and his kind is now red for us, too, making themselves valid targets everywhere we see them, especially in Lowsec and 0.0.
Myzer, as soon as he heard about the gank wanted to discuss with me and he did for hours. He wanted me to post an excuse or at least a neutral statement. But that was not what I wanted. I decided to take a further step and to post a clear threat in their forum instead. I wanted them to feel uncomfortable and I wanted them to take further steps.

As we do have some friends within their ranks, we are fully informed about each step they take.
We have identified primary targets if we decide to take further steps:
- Lee Corbain, because he is the CEO and he is responsible.
- Myzer, because he is an imposter with some ISK we want him to blow up by paying mercs against us.
- Nyrlin, because that guy is just a stupid asslicker.

I for myself feel that I have converted to the dark side.
I for myself feel that I want revenge against Lee Corbain.
I for myself feel that I want them eradicated.

But ...

since that bunch of guys leading the CWA really lacks reason, I won't have to do much except kick some of their asses from time to time. They won't survive internal tensions created hereby and destroy themselves eventually.

Greetings !

Humpfgrunz

Negotium

2010-06-08T12:59:00.003+02:00

Hi Folks !

Much has happened since my last post and thus I present you a resumée.

The Negotium Project was originally founded by Lee Corbain and me, Humpfgrunz. There was the idea of a double leadership with him focussing on training new players and me focussing on PvP and Wars.
Tensions arose when we planned a wormhole-trip to raise some ISK. He managed his personel to withdraw from that wormhole project and he sabotaged it wherever he could. In response I promoted the planner, Qor'Esch to the position of being my Co-CEO in the Passion of War.
Lee Corbain then started an unfriendly takeover of the negotium alliance which I harshly prevented.
We remained in a situation where in order to keep friendships among players, we didn't resolve our dispute and postponed it both.

With the beginning of the year 2010, Lee Corbain founded his "Community of the War Academy" and the War Academy left the Negotium Alliance.
We, the Passion of War had the luck to get EVE-Union on Board of the Negotium Project. The EVE-Union had its own problems at first, but in the long run, the partnership between Passion of War and EVE-Union was the best, which could have happened. They brought in some very experienced Fleet Commanders and we had some very keen PvP pilots.

Doing some Lowsec-Roamings at first, we started to occupy Doril (0.0).

Again tensions arose with the CWA/War Academy where Lee Corbain tried to intervene with our goals.
The point came, where enough was enough and so I decided to sack them if they didn't stop harrassing us immediately.
They left just before I would have ejected them right out of the Negotium anyway.

Since then a stream of players left them and joined one of our corporations.
Be it the Passion of War with high taxes and ship replacements, be it the Space Demolition Inc. focused on production and with no taxes, be it another corporation within our alliances.

Without any interference by some weird guys who lack real life, we now can handle things much simpler then ever.

The Negotium now is a coalition of alliances and corporations. The new leadership is the leadership of the EVE-Union and the Passion of War.

The wars we lead since had been a huge success and our players build a strong unity.
Without any tensions within leadership anymore, we have become attractive to other players which observed us for months and now decided to strengthen our forces with their membership.

We are in talk with alliances wanting to join the Negotium, we have Corporations in progress to join one of our alliances. We are a rising star !

What happened to CWA/War Academy ?
They are busy loosing their playerbase, by harrassing those who helped them, by commanding their remaining playerbase how to play EVE-Online and by ridiculing themselves with fairy tales about how bad the remaining Negotium is.
Since they fail constantly at critically looking at themselves, they indeed have pressed the selfdestruct-Button. Now those who had been angered and humiliated by toese idiots quite reluctantly watch them dissolving and shrinking to a bunch of offline-members and carebears.

The Negotium, as we call it now (we omitted the "project" to reflect the new situation), meanwhile will grow and we alltogether work on our goals.
We are building up logistics, a capital fleet, special abilities, etc.
We have much to do.

Greetings

Humpfgrunz

2009-10-01T17:58:00.012+02:00

Telephone harassement

2009-09-28T22:27:00.002+02:00

Hi Folks !

Now someone really has reached his bottom and I would urge him to call for help or to seek some therapy.
It is one thing to be thrown out of a corp and an alliance in persona as well as with friends and altcorp. It is another thing not to be able to cope with it and to start harrassing people in real life after having badly failed to harrass our project and alliance by engaging several merc corps.

After having received two "anonymous" calls by phone where the voice is clearly identifiable. I have taken steps to record the next call and the police is already informed.

I hope for his own sake that the guy will seek a doctor's help !
Harrassement by phone just because of an online game is sick !

Let's hope that guy gets proper treatment.

Yours

Humpfgrunz

Preparing the end of a stupid war

2009-09-17T09:41:00.002+02:00

Hi Friends !

As it seems, our enemy is becoming reasonable and his PVP corporation as well as two out of three mercenary corporations have ended their wars against us.
Now we wait and see whether the third mercenary corporation ends its war as well.
With the end of the last war we will retract the war against their production corporation Investigation Enterprises or IONEN.
We have already halted all preparations to take down their POS by surprise.

By now all war statistics are positive for us.
We were able to keep stupid actions of our new members at a minimum counting only two avoidable and unneeded losses on our side. The other losses on our side were calculated risks and results of real battle, although nevertheless sometimes avoidable and thus leading to further trainings and education.

Discipline is one of the most important abilities in such times.
Our players were disciplined and followed our orders as well as they stood firm.
The quote of players who did not log in anymore has been quite small.
The quote of players who put our orders into question has been nil by now.
We have seen some deficites within our structure at war times and will handle them accordingly.

I am proud of my fellows in the Negotium Project, and all its corporations and alliances !

Now I'm preparing the medals for all those who earned them.

Greetings !

Humpfgrunz

Visa

2009-09-15T12:54:00.004+02:00

Wardeccing an Alliance: 50'000'000 ISK
Hiring 3 Merc Corps: ~ 2'000'000'000 ISK
2 Retards exposing their malfunctioning brains in a Blog: priceless !

http://kb.negotium.ch/?a=cc_detail&ctr_id=2
That's how professionals handle unwanted wars against overwhelming forces !

Don't think of being hopelessly surrounded, think of a target-rich environment

2009-09-12T01:29:00.003+02:00

Hi Friends !

Some ungrown and late pubertarian minds which we removed from our project a few weeks ago have done us one of the greatest honours you can ever get as a PVP Corp and Alliance.

How could they do that ?

They declared war on us, which wouldn't be an honour by itselves, but since they had to involve about 3 Merc Corps with about 70 members trying to get any kind of control over us, this is a real great honour. If you include themselves and their production corp which count 15 Members this means they need a really overwhelming force just to have a glimpse of a chance to control us.

I'm just guessing, but with respect to current costs of mercenary corporation we guess they have spent about 1.5 to 2 billion ISK by now.

We have destroyed the fleet of the "Reborn Falcons" who now whine around like some freshly smacked teenager.

Now, what do we do with about 60 Chars against about 85 Chars ?

"Don't think of being hopelessly surrounded, think of a target-rich environment"

We will change tactics.

I have no intention to hire any mercenary corporation or alliance just to give them a heroic battle. There will be no battle and no heroic one alltogether.

There will be no safe place for any of our enemies than docked in a station or close with his friends in a well organized fleet.

We well seek out and destroy lonely missionrunners. Guys behind their fleet.
It shall be boring and it shall be demoralizing for our enemies.

I don't even dream of throwing billions of ISK out of the window for any kind of mercenary force fighting on our side. I will save my partners and my ISK and watch my enemy wasting truckloads of ISK on expensive mercenary forces sitting there like idle ducks waiting for what won't happen.

With all these wasted ISK our Enemy could have build another POS or bought another BPO or have bought several months of playing time (PLEX). Or he just wouldn't have had to buy another bucket of ISK by buying and selling GTC/PLEX.

Well, I prefer watching my Enemy loosing and wasting tons of money instead of having our folks wasting it by needlessly loosing ships or needlessly spending it so others can have good fights.

The budget of our enemy is not infinite and thus we will wait and see and attack, where it hurts.

So far we have performed quite good and our first battle was a 5:0 win and I feel really honoured when such overwhelming forces are needed to get a chance of controlling us. It shows us that our enemy doesn't take us too easily. Indeed they know our strength since they've been members of us once upon a time.

One sad thing there is. A 4 member Corp has temprarily left our alliance. We did hope they wouldn't but their CEO did. Before they left some members chose to join one of our PVP Corporations and stay firm with us and fight. We don't expect any other corporation to leave our alliance though.

We are proud that we are now officially recognized as a serious PVP Alliance just by the fact that there are massive and overwhelming forces needed to attack and control us.

Thank you for showing us this respect, Lantiane and Eld83 !

The Negotium Project a Success Story

2009-09-09T16:35:00.007+02:00

Hi Friends out there in the wilderness of EVE Online !

Nearly two months ago we started to implement what was a mere thought before.
We built a Conglomerate consisting of a PVP Corporation a PVP Academy and an Alliance which was the Cover against cheap wars for the Academy and some Logistics-Corporations.

Not too soon after our project started, the PVP Wing, "Passion of War", got a Wardec by some Swiss guys. We had more fun chatting with each other in convos, than fighting and so we decided to cooperate and extend our capabilities.

We had another problem with one guy who didn't suit our style and our community.
Before he could do any damage to our community, I've kicked him and his friend as well as his corporation out of our project.

Our Academy has been overrun by new players and is a real success story.

With the beginning of this week our project had more than 50 players.

Another Event with the beginning of this week was a wardec on our Negotium Alliance by a newbish pseudo-Merc-Corp. Our PVP Corps then immediately joined the Alliance and shortly afterwards we got a second wardec by our two Ex-Members.

So far we absolutely control the scene. These so called mercs are heavily docking in stations or flying far far away. Well our intel says most of them are quite Newbs. We managed to shoot down a shuttle nevertheless.

Since our Ex-Member and his Friend are absolutely unable to harm us during our playing time, the went to guerillia tactics picking up Academy Newbs who didn't understand and follow our orders. One of our more experienced Warriors managed to kill an expensive Curse for retaliation.

This war indeed strengthens our community and common sense. No Logistics-Corporation has left the alliance by now, instead they fight together with the warriors. No Player has left our project now. We have grown strong and this is the base for future growth.

Well, as I see now, our ex-members have another mercs declaring war on us.
Let's see what they are worth.

Interesting times ahead.

Edit:
When you deal with Newbs there is one thing you really need: nerves !
By now we have got 3 Wardecs on us and we sent out a wardec on our enemies Logistics to tear down their POSses together with friends. The last corp wardeccing us seems to be experienced and thus really dangerous.
Now one of our pilots detects a Newb of ours in Rens doing Level3-Missions afk ...
I had my partner talk to him because I would have gotten too loud otherwise.
Maybe I should add: This guy even didn't mind loosing his TS-Password. GRMBL !

Greetings Humpfgrunz

leaving with a bleeding heart

2009-07-23T23:49:00.003+02:00

Dear Readers !

I have been a GIS merc by today morning.
Then I left GIS for good and became CEO of my own corp: "Passion of War".

Leaving a corp which gave me so much as GIS did and where I made several friends was not easy for me. GIS was the corp, where I learnt PVP, where I had much fun.

Things changed, command changed, concepts changed and many friends left GIS.
As I began to have my difficulties I began to seek for members and friends who have already left GIS. All of them had the same reason.

We talked with each other, we had ideas what we would really want and soon a PDF was created and shared. Friends who saw that paper joined together and I had to decide whether I want to join those friends and take a leading position or whether I'd rather stay with GIS.

Since I had many friends which still were and are in GIS, this meant depending on how many friends automatically would leave with me I'd leave an earthquake behind, which was and is not my intention.

GIS has some fine people and I'd be glad if they reach their goals.

Knowing about the danger of starting an unwanted rumble in GIS it took me about four weeks and about a dozen of sleepless nights weighing in pro and contra of leaving GIS.

Finally I started to prepare by getting all my valuable assets out of Egmar.
Then it took me another sleepless night and the decision was made to take the chance trying to realize my own ideas in my own corp working together with a conglomerate of corps where my friends reside.

I left GIS and suddenly I was overwhelmed by conversations and questions which I tried to answer accordingly.

Heat among ceartain GIS hotrods boiled over and words like "war declaration", "metagaming", "espionage", "stealing of concepts" were to be heard.
I have full understanding for some people to be disappointed. But I wish they will understand that I had to make my decision. I left for good and my best wishes be with them.

I'll be occupied recruiting german speaking members who want to do all kinds of PVP and who will help me to reach my very ambitious goal to build a respectable and overwhelming armed force available for those offering most ISK.

Dust will settle and hands will be hopefully reached.

Even if my friends and I are Ex-GIS we will never be a GIS-Clone, we have other goals and methods to reach them. When the dust settles, I hope, those being angry now will acknoledge this and hands can be reached again for friendships, then.

Greetings !

Humpfgrunz

days of absent mind

2009-07-09T20:47:00.008+02:00

Hi Folks !

Yesterday was a bad day for me ! I trashed two fully Tech2 equipped Thoraxes by sheer stupidity and worst kind of failed micromanagement on my behalf.

Because of some troubles with Sisi (EVE Testserver), Training was cancelled and the trainer decided to go for a roaming with cruisers and frigs instead. So I joined that fleet when I entered the game and burned my Thorax through half of the Lowsec to reach them.
Girlfriends can be really nasty, so my friend left and suddenly I found myself leading the bunch.
We found two pirate gangs. One was a little bit too strong for us and the other seemed to be just the size we wanted to fight with. Only trouble was they were not too far apart from each other. I took the risk and tried to avoid the first and sent in some victim for the second. Our scout got aggressed and so our bunch went into the battleground. While killing the first 'Cane I was so absorbed fiddling with Overheating and Micromanagement, I forgot to have at least someone check the incoming. Soon we were surrounded by a superior enemy fleet and I gave command to evacuate.
Unfortunately I called for ECM too late, aligned too late, burned my MWD through too late and so I just managed to save my pod. Well ECM went down as well, as that pilot had his own troubles and tried to save himself too late as well.
Those who didn't loose a ship went straight back home. Those who did bought replacements in Rens or Hek whatever they preferred.
I chose to buy myself a brand new Thorax in Rens equally equipped as the one I had before.
I burnt it through to Amo and went for my home.
In TeamSpeak I heard about a blinky roaming gang of battleships and the like in Egmar.
Noone told anything in TS about that gang leaving Egmar and I forgot to check the Intel-Channel as well.
When I entered Klogori I saw the whole lot of them surrounding me and stupid mishaps on my behalf followed. Instead of nearing the gate immediately I gave a warp command to the next gate. Half a second before entering warp I got tackled. Then I decided to burn through to the gate, but instead of clicking the gate I brainlessly klicked at a station. When I finally realized my error I tried to correct, but it was too late. Too many webbers on me, too much damage on my not so hefty tanked thorax and dead soon. I safed my pod the second time and enjoyed cursing to myself for a while. being docked in a nearby station.

Things didn't go very well for me recently in EVE. Overloaded with work in Real Life I hardly found time to play it. Then I forgot to upgrade my clone after a suicide-run in 0.0 and lost nearly 1'000'000 Skillpoints and my beloved Battleship V Skill with it at the next run about two hours later. (Be lucky you didn't hear my curses, then - especially because I instructed my fellow comrades not to forget that at the same moment I forgot it for myself).

PvP is an intensive Sport and it requires you, at least if you want to win/survive, to be mentally fit or to field an invincible blob outnumbering any enemy by at least 2 or 3:1.
If you however want to fight Battleships with Cruisers, T2 ships with T1 Junk, you have to be clever, your fleet has to be well balanced and your pilots have to be well trained and skilled.
Taking such risks means your kill:loss ratio will drop but you will and you must learn.
Learn about those damned Curses, those Vagabonds, those Hurricanes, those Blackbirds and all other dangerous ships. You must learn, how to use your ship optimally, how to fight and how to flee at the right moment.
It's definitely not easy and you shouldn't take such risks when you are overworked and tired and thus not mentally fit at all, as I did.

Now I'll buy myself another brand new Thorax.
I'll see how long it'll last this time.

Have a nice day and thanks for reading !

Humpfgrunz

crystal blue eyes

2009-06-13T16:05:00.003+02:00

In Evati there is a Disco of a special kind.
It's not the sound, because they play modern sound of all kinds allthough you'd hear the whole spectrum of danceable sounds.
It's not the people as such with the exception that you would not only find one single generation like teenagers, but all generations and ages of people who feel like dancing.
What makes that Disco special is: You don't do solo dancing there, at least if you don't want to look stupid.
Yes ! There is only pairwise dancing there and with modern sounds in a full house !
It's a place where men are still real men and women are real women.
It's the place where Humpfgrunz lives and dreams of all day. It's his personal drug.

The most fascinating eyes are a special kind of blue ones. Eyes, in a light shade of blue where small dark lines give them a crystallish look. This are eyes of the kind which once stole Humpfgrunz' soul. He's grown older by now and he is immune but those crystal blue eyes still fascinate him whereever he meets them.
So he stands on the dancefloor looking into such eyes, having every single muscle under tension and waiting for the next piece of music to begin.
The owner of those eyes opposing him on that floor is the hell of a cat. Not only has she danced in the highest class of latin-dancers internationally, but she is throughly trained and an expert in kickbox-aerobics. You'd trash Lara Croft in exchange for her !
The tension rises with the start of the intro. Both bodies wave synchronous to the music and all hands touch each other's hands.
With the first beat he pushes her right hand into a backplace step where her right foot touches the ground behind her and her left feet is shortly lifted from the ground just to touch it again with the arrival of the second beat. She then takes the energy of his tearing left hand to make a huge step ahead finishing it at the third beat and finishing the move at the fourth beat with a sharp 180° turn. He did the same, so they face each other again having changed places. Then they change place again, but instead of letting her do a large step ahead he leads her into a three step turn. The next few beats he leads her into various figures letting her spin and counterspin, does a doublespin himself. Armes get crossed and straigt again. Then after both have become familiar the dance is lifted to the next level. Moves stop being linear, so e.g. the long step gets prolonged up to three beats instead of one, just to be finished in an explosive move. He catches her in and sends her out where she sends her hand straigth to heaven starts twisting her body while her hand moves down on it and she folds to her knees and gets up again showing off herselves. Then she uses lasting tension of his hand to get into the beat again and a few moments and another three step turn later he has his right hand at her neck and lays her down with her having her left hand straight out as well as her left foot. He lifts her slowly the next few beats and just in the moment she fully stands on her feet again he gives her shoulder a spin with the hand which was at her neck a few moments before.
A few moments later she raises the level of the dance again by not just following his leads, but by breaking out and shaping the movement herselves. She starts exposing the cat she thoroughly is.
Now both look constantly deep into each other's eyes, she into his brown ones and he into her crystal blue ones, just to foresee each others intended moves.
Now there are explosions and slowdowns, twists, spins, three step turns, counterspins, breaks and breakouts, action and reaction.
It's the moment when time gets forgotten.
About two hours and thousands of moves later, both fully exhausted smile and thank each other for the dance and then seek for a drink as soon as possible.

Every man and every woman bear their own dance within themselves.
If both manage to give their inner beast the freedom it needs a new dance is born a miracle like a prayer to a higher being. While living that dance you are relieved from any burden which life puts on your shoulders. It's only you, those crystal blue eyes and moves in the river of emotions.

The day I'll die will be the day I'll repeat that dance again leaving this world when it finishes.

birth of a soldier

2009-06-09T07:54:00.007+02:00

Hi folks !

Humpfgrunz was born the 18th of june 2008. He's name was chosen by its godly creator because this char was his first and thus experimental char to enter EVE Online. He was ment to do everything wrong which can be done wrong just to be removed after a few days or weeks and be replaced by new chars doing right what he had wrongly done.
"Charisma" sounds cool thought his creator and made him a Gallentean Activist of the Federal Navy academy with an extremely high charisma.
The next few days Humpfgrunz was busy flying missions and cursing about the lousy bounties.
In some help-channel he got the advice to use a salvager, so he bought the skill and began to salvage the missions.
The loot seeming most useful was mounted on his ship, so he soon flew a tristan with autocannons, cap booster and overdrive since he couldn't use neither afterburner nor microwarpdrive then.
To survive missions he flew them in so called "takeout runs" that meant he entered the mission, killed some ships and left for a nearby station to recover his shield. He wondered why his shields tanked so badly and chose to equip his Gallentean frig with a shield booster.
A week or two later Humpfgrunz began to fly a destroyer. First he tried to equip his Catalyst with lasers but those pesky things used too much capacitor, so he chose railguns because he wanted the range. Because that ship had a hangar for one drone he chose to use a mining drone which he could direct to some nearby asteroids for a little extra income.
He needed that income, since he lost ships and fittings as well as some then overly expensive +2 Implants when his autopilot chose to take a shortcut through 0.0. Lowsec wasn't such a problem, though he didn't know better than to fly with autopilot and to speed those endless journeys up a bit he just kicked on the microwarpdrive everytime he got out of a warp. (some few weeks later he realized that manual flying was possible and even faster than using that supid autopilot).

Now that the first month of his existence had passed, his godly creator chose to stop learning everything just by doing and to start collecting tutorials, informations and software just to support his creation in EVE Online. Tutorials were read, EFT and EVEMon installed, forums were read and the wisdom of others applied to the skilling plans, fittings and actions of Humpfgrunz.
The time was ripe to get into collective action and to join a corporation. Humpfgrunz wanted company and thus he set up his criteria: 0.0, PvP and mission running as well as insight into other activities possible in EVE Online. In the belief to have found what he sought he joined the Corporation "Die LIGA" (the league).
Those guys were friendly and really helpful. Tax was really low at 5%. Humpfgrunz ran missions up to Level3 by then grinding standing with several agents.
Flying in a small group through Providence (CVA-Area) every second week for hours avoiding any real targets was called PvP and once our Humpfgrunz landed in a bubble with his friends and all reapproched the gate and went on in their journey. Due to the lack of knowledge he naturally chose to use his mission thorax with armor reppers and Capacitor Power Relays in the lows as well as their pendants in the meds just to keep that ship capstable.

Then there were the wars. Cool ! Some idiot declared war on us, Humpfgrunz thought, just to realize that Voicecomms (TS) became empty in that time as well as nearly everyone suddenly was very busy at being absent. Others suddenly were about 30-40 jumps away to be found.
Humpfgrunz knew he couldnt fight a Sleipnir neither with his Thorax, nor with his Myrmidon. At least not with his current skills and soon he began to skill for better resistence on his ship, for being able to ECM and ECCM, for being able to use Warp Disruptors and Warp Scramblers while he sat on station waiting for friends defending the corporation.
Once a week together with the CEO and some friends Humpfgrunz made in that corporation they indeed managed to get a fleet of about 10 Pilots together. But the wartargets chose to stay docked then or just to stay within docking range. It was boring and it was frustrating.

The CEO of Die LIGA, who didn't want to spend the money for creating an alliance, chose to enter a pact with some other companies as e.g. Hital. This pact meant that we'd declare war on any foe who would declare war on one of our allied companies. And finally it meant we had lots of wars. We did joint operations together with the other corps, but the largest fleet we had out of over 500 members was the size of just more than 20 participants.
We lost ships in the dozens and we just killed one or two. It was frustrating.
Humpfgrunz started intensive discussions within the corporation. He expressed all his frustration with the wimpy behaviour of the members. He didn't understand why all this guys and women (yes there were !) did collect billions of ISK other than to have it blown up in PVP.

One of our allied companies, Hital, chose to rent some professionals to handle the problem with Highsec wardeccing idiots with advanced station camping skill V. Hital rent GIS, Gemeinschaft interstellarer Soeldner. Suddenly our wartargets were docked all day, their homebase secured and suddenly they weren't able to undock for more than a few seconds without being killed.

Humpfgrunz was impressed. This GIS folks did what he would like to have done.
Then came the message that one of his friends at Die LIGA left and went to become a GIS member. Humpfgrunz wanted to be there, too and thus started a conversation with his overly enthusiastic friend. After that discussion he immediately dropped all his rights in his current corporation and the next days he got into a conversation with the recruiting officer.
A few moments later, one week after his friend, he was GIS member himself.

A soldier was born.

Disclaimer: my native language is an ancient form of german called "Schwiizerdütsch" or swiss german. Thus my posts will and do contain a huge amount of misspelling, misswording and every other kind of grammatical and orthographic error you can imagine.

To be started soon

2009-05-29T18:38:00.005+02:00

Dear Blinkies and non-Blinkies of EVE Online !

By now I've been a more or less silent killer !
This will change soon and you'll get insight into the soul of a deadly GIS mercenary !

Meanwhile I'm fiddling with the design of this page.

Greetings and thanks for visiting this blog !

Yours

Humpfgrunz
a GIS Member