The Gank

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

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

Telephone harassement

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

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

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

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

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

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

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