The Defias Blog

¶ flashfresh wrote that hunting in New Eden is a case of Feast or Famine. “Some weeks,” he said, “there is a bonanza of loot and ransom and then there are weeks and weeks of nothingness.” Operating primarily in Omist for the benefit of my corporation, the only action I see tends to be defense against the random gangs roaming through in nano-fitted heavy assault or recon cruisers. Every once in a while, it’ll be something else… like the three command ships that came in last week.
¶ Anyway, operating primarily in deep space, I don’t get many opportunities to look for fun in Empire, and I never get any decent opportunities for profit. I had accepted long ago that, for the moment, mine would be a life of Famine.
¶ Until last night.

¶ Warning: This entry is quite long, but then, it was an eventful night!

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¶ As you may already know, The Defias Brotherhood of New Eden was founded on piracy. However, with all of the big dogs running around in Molden Heath, we decided to back off a bit and work on establishing an infrastructure. Now that we’ve got our first POS up, and more of my pilots are able to support themselves, I decided that it was time to start looking for a fight here and there.
¶ Having not engaged in a whole lot of PvP combat since we started (maybe twice a week, we’d go out and look for some solo action, but nothing serious or organized), we’re certainly going to be spending a bit of time developing and refining tactics. I keep a close eye on blogs like i-Pirate (by flashfresh), A Pirate’s Perspective (by Kane Rizzel), and of course The Caldari Piratess (by Alia Xi) for inspiration and a bit of tactical insight, but nothing works better than actually putting yourself in the line of fire - and if there’s no line of fire to jump into, then creating one works just as well.

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¶ I think that by the time you’ve got 5 hours of flight time in EVE-Online, every capsuleer knows that there’s a war going on. Everybody knows that the tens of thousands of pilots involved in this struggle, and the sheer vastness of the territory being held and contested by the four main powerblocs (The Southern Coalition, The Northern Coalition, The Alliance, and Superfriends), means that even if you’re not fighting in this war yourself, you are affected by it. This war, and the territory (and therefor resources) being fought over have a universal effect on the EVE-Online in-game market. Issuesin gameplay and balance that arise during this conflict lead to nerfs that effect all players (drone nerf, nos nerf, nanonerf, what else?).
¶ Last night, I flew for my first time in a large fleet op that was organized with the sole intent of doing a little damage in the Great War in the name of VENOM Alliance and the Southern Coalition.

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¶ Right, then, so when we incorporated The Defias Brotherhood within EVE-Online, we did so with the intention of pursuing careers in piracy. [DFIAS] has existed for about a month, now, and we’ve found that perhaps having such a strong PvP focus is more complicated and expensive than it first appeared, especially as we’re still in the growing stage. Add to that the fact that we are now a part of VENOM Alliance, and it takes away one of the pirate’s largest sources of income - the griefers’ wardec.
¶ So we have decided that, while we will not discourage any of our pilots from engaging in activities CONCORD would frown upon individually or in gangs, we will not make corporate-sponsored ops out of such activities. We have also determined that, for the interest of self-reliance, it would be in our best interests to try to develop an industrial core within the corporation and grow that alongside the combat/PvP core.

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