Our decision to move to the Caldari Militia is something we’ve been keeping eyes on for some time now. After we cashed out what LP we had from the Nulli Secunda thing, and whoring onto a couple of Minmatar Dread kills we decided it was time to fix some of the mistakes we made when Fweddit first joined the Amarr Militia. Please understand through all of this, that Fweddit is more about Redditors playing around in Faction Warfare and other games than it is about the Amarr Militia. The Corporation was made with little regard to a particular faction, and it wasn’t even decided where we would go until it was close to a week old.

The main reason we left the Amarr Milita was for our New Players; Fweddit has been focused on pretty much one thing exclusively (aside from local spam and welping thrashers) and that is dispelling all the hurf blurf about PvP that bitter vets continuously spout off about. Skillpoint requirements, that ship is bad, t1 fittings have no place in pvp, etc.

When we first joined Amarr, we made a few judgement errors. Where we made our home, how we handled our free ship program, External Services, how new players were expected to make isk, what activities were available to new players in the absence of fleets… Our move to Caldari was primarily designed to remedy alot of the leadership mistakes and bring back a healthy environment for our nerds to feel like they have things to do when there isn’t a fleet up.

Some of the benefits to swaying our decision:

Firstly, our new home is 9 jumps from Jita- so our Free Ship program won’t be nearly as expensive to keep running. Plus it relieves us of the necessity to seed a market in our home system.

There are 5 entrances to 4 different NullSec regions, I know you guys think we are all TEST alts, but aside from a start up donation, we are noway affiliated and neutral to them. Yes, that means we can shoot at them, and roam in their space.

The ‘front lines’ are not that far away from where we are basing out of, and we still have unadulturated access to most of the battlezone without limiting access similar to ‘Hofredacted’ limited access to Heimatar/Metropolis.

The Loyalty Point store doesn’t suck. It really doesn’t. Navy Caracals will once again be a  thing’.

Guristas Exploration Sites can be wickedly profitable and soloed in a Drake. Since most of our guys are either just getting into one, or are working towards the T2 Drake in Corp Doctrines this is also a HUGE incentive to standardize skill training to corp plans to effectively make ISK and join fleets so we can finally escalate to something bigger than Ruptures.

Plenty of Access to State Protectorate Agents, so our soloists can have yet another way to accumulate LP, and even buy faction variants of common modules from the LP Store cheaply.

This change also gives the directors time to examine the corp leadership, see who’s active and who’s interested in leading a variety of activities that were just not a viable option in Amarr FW Land. I know some of our guys have said that this is a quasi-temporary move, but it couldn’t have come at a better time, and we are already enjoying triple the activity that we have had in the last month or so.

Looking to the past- I understand that there is going to be a ton of ‘spin’ thrown at us about the ‘who and why’ but collectively as a corp, and a new coalition; we are all pretty excited for the new changes, scenery and challenges (and potentially getting hot dropped by Wolfsbrigade or awoxed by 7th Fleet).

For The State!

Side Note- I did however enjoy a rather hilarious conversation with a very, very confused IRC  Executor this morning. Riverini 0, Xolve 1.

Stick it in, and twist it.

 

The past few months have found my humble little faction warfare corporation under various spotlights at any given time; admittedly, not all attention is good attention- but for the vast swarm of people taking things a little to seriously, I can only sit here amused (and a little smug). A few issues have come up recently, and with all the other blog warfare going on, I felt it only rightfully fitting that I thrust my manhood into the flames.

Scandal, Lies, Treachery- all these things that add enjoyment to our little version of the game. It’s the spice of life
and the entertainment value these things bring (Roleplaying or Not) that make EVE the maelstrom of emotion, rage, and good hearty laughter that we all know and love. That being said- I’m going to touch on a few of the things I’ve found amusing (or gotten caught in the middle of).  

 

 

The Story of Sir Hans, and why I don’t envy CSM Members.

First off, I want to say- that being a CSM member is no small task. Seriously, these people volunteer to communicate all the different wants and desires of all the diverse players to CCP Employees, in a vain attempt to transform EVE: Online (A Bad Game) into EVE: Online (A Progressively Better Game). This isn’t easy. There is no envy coming from this guy for the awkward position and scrutiny these gentlemen go through, I mean a quick peek at the features and ideas forum on EVE-O will show you that not all ideas are good ideas; sure it may appear that Marauders need a buff, BlackOps are unweildy, NullSec isn’t profitable, We need a cruiser that does exploration, mining, ratting, cloaking, and can muster extreme firepower, and all this other drivel from the annals of ‘bad ideas for video games’.

Criticizing the chosen few, that have to read all these ideas, and combine a small list of what they think the most important changes could be is no small task.

How many of you have had an idea about EVE?

How man of those ideas wern’t even thought through for the rest of the game?

Seriously think about it.

The biggest gap in EVE players understanding issues is- they only see the affect a change or proposed idea has on their version of the game. The way things behave in Empire, is not the way things behave in Low-Sec, the way things behave in Low-Sec is different from the way things behave in NullSec. So I understand the High-Sec mission runner that wants his super ratmobile buffed so he can clear rooms faster and maximize that ISK/Hour; but what he doesn’t see is the fleet of people trying to fight against 1,500 of those same ships and the uphill battle they will be fighting until yet another ship gets buffed, or another tactic is introduced.

All that being said, I don’t hold any judgement against Hans or the Minmatar Militia for using a ‘feature’ (since there hasn’t been a whisper from CCP about what it is ‘classified’ as) that essentially makes camping in-gates on acceleration gates a pointless and utterly fruitless activity; I do however maintain that denying entry into faction warfare complexes, and thus denying an opposing militia the oppurtunity to stop or control system contestation is a bad system. I think all sides of the faction warfare community would agree that this would be a beneficial tactic for holding systems. Even if it is something as simple as defending your fleet of offensive plexers, the theory behind the idea is sound.

For all the rage about this topic- I think the one comment, that one person made was viewed as a personal vendetta of many against one; and it wasn’t. We were just simply stating that aside from being denied kills (because they never exited warp) and the few times we did manage to get a scram on them, they could still hit the gate and thus got away.

People you want to shoot, getting away, is the single most frustrating thing in EVE.

 

The Whole ‘Susan Black’ thing.

(I don’t even understand why this is a ‘thing’)

 Just a little background on me- I come from TEST, in TEST I come from a ~wulfpax~ type corporation that flew around in Cynabals and blew up literally everything we could (with absolutely no care about our ships actually living) and I have quite a firmly established foothold on a -nofucks- piloting behavior. Everything I could muster was a weapon, smack talk, convo bombing, mail taunting, forum trolling, invading their comms… you name it- if I could find a way to make someone frustrated and foolish, I would do it.

This well of depravity has absolutely no floor, it just keeps going further and further into the void.

All in All, it only works on foolish people to begin with- and even then, only the most foolish undock to try and fight a vastly more experienced and larger fleet. When I joined faction warfare I found myself absolutely surrounded by people that take EVE entirely too seriously; everything is literal and there is no grey area. Immediately I took advantage of this for my own personal amusement (as many of us Fweddit types have), because to some of us- continual tears from one action are quality entertainment when we can’t play EVE, or we are checking our evemail at work, or anything else; It creates a passe reminiscence for times we are too busy to actually play or are too bogged down doing ‘admin stuff’.

I still get EVEmail from people I suicide ganked, killed smartbombing the Dodixie undock, or sold a fake supercarrier to; even now, months after the actual happening. All that being said- I found Susan Black on some chance day, kicking around euphamisms and what-have-you’s about fweddit (before we even joined FW). Having killed her dozens of times, I never really though anything of her; and like many people I was gone for most of July, off on vacation- New Eden couldn’t have been further from my thoughts. 

Then I came back, like many others and it was back to the old shenanigans when I stumbled upon a blog post that couldn’t be further from the truth. I took it in stride, made jokes about it in local- you can say I’m not the nicest person in the game, but I do tend to take just about everything in comedic stride. Hell- I explode into laughter when I get primaried, invariably make a mistake, and die in a glorious ball of T1 Thrasher doom.

In Susan’s defense, I’ve never actually seen her type anything at all in Local or any other channel for that matter; but at the same time, I won’t ‘leave her alone either’. Nothing makes me laugh harder than being told as a Diplomat I am unprofessional or even immature… by the hostile Militia. Outside of local, I’m a pretty friendly guy (I have a sharp tongue, but friendly just the same). Although Master Zeuth and I both approached her and offered to answer any questions she had about Fweddit to give her a better grasp on who we are as a corp, and even what our corp culture is all about- she denied it both times, saying she knew ‘exactly what we are about’. Hell I even gave her fitting advice in local, which she shrugged off as ‘bad’; so that being said- How many drakes have you lost Susan? Go see how many I’ve lost, sitting around lobbing missles with 0 velocity is most definitely ‘doing it wrong’.

Nothing makes me laugh harder, and forward things to my entire corp when you tell me I need to ‘control’ my corp members. For all of you that have said that- I don’t think you get what we are really about, and seriously I don’t want you to. You are the polar opposite of what we try to attract as a corp, and will probably never get along with our ‘views’.

If you want to get mad at someone in Fweddit, go for it.

If you want to get mad at Fweddit as a whole, go for it.

If you want to get mad at Fweddit and write a completely bullshit propaganda piece on your biased and opinionated blog, then don’t get surprised when 500 nerds start slinging mud at you from virtually every corner of EVE-Related CyberSpace. It will happen, and there are no fucking brakes on this train. Consider yourself warned.

An obscure view on obscurity…

As we are all well away Fweddit crashed onto the FW scene even before we were in the militia proper. Before we even had time for our standings to update (back when that mattered) we were barraged with complaints about what’s wrong with faction warfare, why certain mechanics are broken and all the false promises of the then unknown to me CSM candidate.

The stories got worse and worse, the forum whining got worse and worse; and eventually one of my fellow militia mates looked at me… and said ‘Xolve- what do you think?’. For those of you that don’t quite know me yet- if you ask me for my opinion on something; you are going to get the most unfiltered truthful response I can possibly give, Brutally Honest doesn’t even quite cover it. I’ve clashed quite a bit with fellow militia leadership in the past, but honestly…

“This whole whining on the EvE-O forums makes you look the equivalent of a little kid in the checkout line, yanking on his mothers dress trying to persuade her into buying a 3 dollar pack of gum.”

I missed the memo apparently, that if something in EVE requires effort the only obvious recourse is to shout rude things at people on the forums, in some vain attempt to sway the masses into believing you are some bittervet of any kind of status. Much like in the business world, nothing is based on what you did in the past- I want to know what you can do for me now. Right fucking now to be exact.

Somehow, I managed to become one of the conductors on this new 500 strong rape train we affectionately refer to as ‘Fweddit’, If the most you can offer me on a strategic level is your uncontested ability to look like a bitch on the forums, excuse me for not entertaining your stubborn view on what’s wrong with faction warfare. Because- after all, how can you tell me you understand what’s wrong with faction warfare from the bowels of the station you are hiding in?

Get out there and haze some goddamned nerds. EVE is hard, it’s why most of us enjoy it. Turmoil is fun apparently, learn to embrace the suck, dig in, and push F1. I want fighters, not little whiny babbies. Harden the fuck up nerds.

Gun Point Diplomacy, Drama, Space Guilds are Hard.

Well- it’s been a while since I wrote anything informative- and my god has the last week and a half been entertaining, yet full of Drama. For a bit there, our CEO was away on business, and our Military Director was on the other side of the planet visiting family; so for Rina Kondur and me, it was a hectic week. The corp is still rapidly expanding, we have this alliance thing we are constantly trying to keep inflated; and really- I just want to log in and kill nerds.

Before I go headlong into the deep end with my thoughts and opinions, I just want to take a second and thank the rest of the Amarrian Militia for putting up with us, I’m sure it has been trying; and sometimes pushing butans is more of a solution that we didn’t put any thought into (I’m using the word ‘we’ very loosely and almost collectively to mean ‘me’). I’m sure our sacrificial thrasher fleets have purchased quite a few Stabber Fleet Issues that have no doubt killed many of our non-Fweddit brethren.

Space Drama, Best Drama

So in the absence of Dear Leader, our Military Director, running the corp as a whole was left up to Rina Kondur and I; in a rush we were not really expecting. It seriously went from ‘hell yeah, we got this’ to ‘oh FFS what now?’ in what I can only call the pickle race (you know, where you slather a pickle slice in whatever condiment you have handy, throw it at a fast food window, first one to the bottom wins) except the only condiment we had at the time was literally bacon grease.

Just want to take a second to remind you- I am new Internet Spaceship Director, and want to provide content for my dudes by blowing things up, and generally having a good time. Apparently if I am intoxicated I tend to act very, very brazen and solve all my problems with a sledgehammer (or a expel from corp button). I make mistakes, deal with it.

The Justin Credulent Story-

Probably not one of my finer moments, but realize- at the time our collective knowledge of Faction Warfare mechanics was still growing, I won’t apologize to this kid simply from the way he acted; but I will admit since he has been removed I have done the same thing he has (with less gloating).

So anyway- new players in FW tend to have completely fucked overview setups, most of them don’t even know they are doing something wrong and are tackling that red in the middle of a blob of people that aren’t tackling him, but hey- fuck common sense, right?

So as a pilot with ‘unfortunate’ security status, I am a victim of some would-be hero tackling the big mean spaceship pirate with his T1 Punisher, I normally send a convo to the guy and say something along the lines of ‘same team nerd’ or something along those lines (completely sobriety dependent). So anyway, long story short- this new guy that I have butted heads with on the forums in the past puts in an app to join Fweddit. If you’ve ever been a Director of a corp, especially a new one, you are very eager for new pilots, but eventually get an application that you already have a pre-conceived notion as to how it would end.

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice… So I accept the application and go about my business in real life, you know- taking care of the house and what not; I take a break to check r/fweddit because, well redditors do things like that; and see a call out thread, with a chat log of this dude flipping out in corp chat after bragging about killing a blue. Bear in mind, this is literally 2 days after JEFFRAIDER killed a dude in 7^th Fleet and took a massive standings hit (LOLDIVINECOMMODORE) and ended up not only getting booted from the alliance, but spending a week and a few hundred million ISK doing data center tag turn ins and COSMOS missions.

So- even though we have a couple hundred dudes in corp, I immediately log in with my Directator hat on to investigate what happened. I asked in corp chat, convo’d the dude (which he rejected, then blocked me); went to push the button- and he was in space. Ok fine, KOS Order. So anyway- he gets to Gallente space, realizes he is in a hostile militia; docks and drops.

He then proceeds to shit up our subreddit talking about how immature we are, and how we don’t back our members. This particular ‘member’ had been in the corporation for less than 5 hours. Let me say that again- 5 hours. I’m by no means a reddit mastermind, and most of the moderator buttons are black magik to me, but in this case, I figured out and banned my first person ever from our Sub-Reddit. Because fuck drama. He went on to attempt to sell his character, and bumped the thread a dozen times in 45 minutes only to have an ISD lock it.

Nobody has heard from him since, and I’m pretty sure none of us miss him.

The Minmatar Infiltration-

See I understand that as a corporation, our recruitment standards are pretty lax, be active on reddit, have an account that is 3 months old or be vouched in by someone in Fweddit. You don’t have to be real life friends or anything, it’s not that serious- just be a good person and have a strong desire to have fun.

I’ve come up with a few deterrents of my own for potentially rooting out spies, so anyway back to the story; it’s an off night- I think it was a Tuesday or some other non-busy EVE day. Applications were pouring in as usual, to the tune of something like 1 every 15 minutes or so. In the beginning I will admit we didn’t even look at them half the time and just pushed butan, waved in corp chat, gave out Thrashers and went to die in glorious space battle.

Now- after the JC incident, we look a little harder. Anyway I get 3 applications that look a little suspicious, and say something to the effect of needing a full API to get them Mumble/Forums Access, which they eagerly provide. I’m not going to disclose names or anything, but people realize- Full API access means I can read all your damn evemails, look at all your transactions, and check out your contract history. Having your potential ‘spy’ have multiple ISK transfers of over 1b ISK to a character in the Minmatar Militia is usually a good sign that you’re not here to lose Thrashers.

Although I respect anyone that actively WANTS to spy on us, I mean if you can live through the Mumble conversations, the corp banter, and the actively losing ships to anything we can crash them into- well so be it. But seriously- Here is a fine demonstration of our ‘Battlecomms’.

Drunkplomacy

This is a thing that just should not be, and I’ve made many promises to many people in my beloved corporation that this thing will no longer be. Remember before when I was talking about mistakes- this is probably one of the bigger ones. I can’t go into specifics, but I’ll say enough to get my point across.

Yes sometimes It’s hard to NOT get caught up in the ‘our fleets are bigger than your fleets’ ego measuring; and many of us are doing our best to work together… but sometimes, just sometimes: things go very awry.

So there we are, roaming and plexing, plexing and roaming; just another beautiful weekend day inside, at my computer desk, waging the hard war of orbiting beacons for 20 minutes… when one our adorable newbro’s in a T1 Rifter no less takes a pop shot at an Outlaw.

Shit happens right? No problem. Whatever. We tell him to stop; he’s a friendly, etc.

Few minutes go by (pretty sure this was one of those Minmatar bore tactics or ‘we took the button all the way up to 5 seconds before capture’ so you have to sit there for 40 minutes) and again, someone takes a shot at him. To which he FLIPS OUT in local. Threatens everybody, so to what I thought was hilarious, go to his corp screen, see ‘Declare War’ button, giggle, *mouseclick*, all 40 dudes in Mumble are howling into their mics with laughter.

I thought it was pretty damn funny. There’s a thread on reddit about it being pretty damn funny.

What wasn’t funny however, that even after our modest request to have him sing ‘call me maybe’ in mumble (good ole fashioned fun, right?), he declined and we left the war active, unfortunately he was planning on withdrawing his corporation from the Amarr Militia. This is not cultural victory; this is not being a team player. Sometimes it’s hard not to get caught up in our own version of ‘fun’ which typically entails giving not a single fuck, blowing things up, and losing many ships in the process.

I sent the surrender offer this morning; to just end the war and let our previous victims of our good time, go back to what they enjoy doing- without getting caught up in some egotistical bullshit because I was feeling all badass.

Someone told me in the past that you don’t need to victimize your would be allies to make a point. I should really start keeping that in the fore-front of my thoughts when I am making ~decisions~.

The War On Serious, Killboard Stats and Drama Llamas

So as it stands, pretty much- our membership is a small slice of every aspect of the game, the thing we have in common is a reddit account; and while some of us actively lived in Sov Nullsec for years, many of our membership havn’t even set foot in Nullsec or even know it exists in the first place.

We are here to have fun, yes we will lose ships by the dozens.

Yes, we will continue to fight anything that stays on a gate long enough to get tackled.

Yes, we will continue to not care about killboard stats.

We do however, want to push forward the war effort, take systems, farm Navy Geddons, and generally enjoy non-stop PvP- that is the entire reason we chose the Amarr Militia, and not the Minmatar or Gallente. Most of us are completely against PvE in any form that features shooting little red boxes for standings and/or LP.

This is quite literally my stance on EVE as a whole.

Also- Shalee Lianne is my BFF, and fellow blog writer chick (I’m not a chick, but she is- read her stuff).

An Introduction of Sorts, A Brief History of Us, and Sprinkled Sarcasm for Effect

 

The Long Road Thus Far.

FWeddit kicked off as an idea, a thought even. A bunch of people from reddit, excited about the new changes to faction warfare (yet sick of the mechanics elsewhere) came together to have as much fun as possible in EVE.

It really doesn’t matter how you play EVE, what you do, what you fly, who you know.  Being e-famous is honestly 100% forum warrioring, 0% actually playing the game. Look at Mittens or even Mintchip, how often do you see them log in? Two completely different play styles, yet well known anyway (love or hate).

At the start up of FWeddit, many of us had no idea what to expect; it was literally a melting pot of about 70 nerds on the first day. No direction, no leadership, no ideas where to go from here. I piped up on an alt I was playing at the time (Shylari Avada) about some little things, Mumble, Jabber; all the staples of an organized space guild. Almost instantly I was promoted to director of ‘things’, which was exciting and daunting. I understood what we needed but had no clue where to proceed, computers are all black magic to me with gnomes inside the box banging on things with hammers and randomly whirrrrrrrrrring to make things happen. Up until this point in my life I had no care whatsoever about being a part time computer dork  with no understanding of these things.

Thankfully we had a group of people step up to perform computer sorcery and get all this necessary things in place. Its still a work in progress as our now alliance continues to swell in size, but everything is coming along quite nicely for us.

In The Beginning


Before FWeddit got accepted into Faction Warfare (before the Inferno patch) we worked for a day or two doing the Data Center tag turn ins, and a few people ran missions to help earn .50 standings to the Amarr Empire; We had a problem. We had 170 pilots on the second day of the corp, what we didn’t have was anything to do. What we did have though- was a rather generous donation from a fellow Reddit based corporation to the sum of 10 billion ISK. After receiving this, we decided to start up a free ships program for our members, which at inception was just ‘TEST Free’ Rifters (that was later changed to standard MSE Rifters- not that we fly them). After a bit of talk between some of the more active members and the directatorship we decided to include MSE Thrashers as well, which as the Minmatar Militia knows, has become our standard fleet doctrine at this point.

Being one of the more outspoken people in the corp at this point (probably still), they asked me what we could do instead of running missions, doing turn ins, and generally not enjoying run-of-the-mill EVE PvE content. I had the answer… while this may look like it was some amazing battle, it wasn’t.

Essentially we fooled around in Y-MPWL (Volition Cult) space for about an hour or so, after roaming most of Providence with absolutely no luck finding a single living soul. So anyway, we we’re sitting on the Kari gate, doing a ‘Minmatar Interdiction Patrol’ when a few battleships landed on the gate. They all locked us up, didn’t say anything and just sat there, yellow-boxing. Being the FC and Diplomancer, I told my people to jump into Kari. I did a quick check of our standings on the website, and found us neutral, decided to go for it (free ships lol) and as we jumped back in the all warped to the station.

We didn’t really accomplish a whole lot on our visit there, we did manage to snag a Naga that undocked into a small group of thrashers, killed/podded the same guy in a velator a bunch of times, and finally had a friend bring in his Mega Navy issue to engage them on the gate after they had formed up a 15ish man gang. Apparently they had to wait for the go ahead from CVA leadership to shoot at us, which is what took so damn long.

We came back the next day, after we were not only informed we were KOS, but somehow we engaged in hostilities against the Amarr Militia (which I thought was hilarious) and could undo the KOS standings by paying CVA 5 billion ISK; I told them to get fucked. Diplomacy hard at work. After which they refused to engage us for about an hour, we got really bored, and decided a Thunderdome was in order (we killed each other).

Meanwhile, in Lowsec… the birth of ‘Space Chikunz’

With CVA unwilling to engage us, regardless as to how much we taunted them in local, we had to find something to do, the corp was still days away from its first standings update; and we we’re getting even more bored than sitting in Providence looking at each other.

We all rounded up in Frigates and headed into lowsec, we had mixed success killing both Amarr and Minmatar militia members; Taunting and Spamming Local, and generally just putting it out there that we were coming to FW. Unbeknownst to us at the time we were about to learn a valuable lesson in EVE, Yesterday’s enemies are tomorrow’s bros. We had gotten into a few fights with some of the locals in Kamela, Drekla Consortium.

With a few skirmishes, they obviously were not interested in even remotely fighting anything resembling ‘fair’ (which is okay, I don’t blame them) undocking HAC’s, Sniper T3’s, and assorted other mean things with lots of dps, teeth, and angry in them. I had a pretty Famous Conversation with one of their Zealot pilots Force_Fire; this conversation was obviously later posted on Reddit and became the basis for much of the corps culture. The Space Chikun reference is actually taken from the Encylopedia Dramatica’s description of EVE Online, and the racial description for the Minmatar (which is hilariously racist, wrong, but still funny).

Also- We had a much better idea to keep our idle hands busy until we got the green light for Faction Warfare. The War Dec Picture, unfortunately I fail hard at actually using director roles for anything other than occasionally being a complete asshole whilst intoxicated and messed up the voting thing half a dozen times (you need to distribute roles first? who knew!). So anyway- we had a little war dec with the Drek guys, which didn’t really result in anything to my knowledge, but later- they joined the Amarr Militia, and are now a regular facet in FWeddit Mumble.

Trials and Tribulations: 
FWeddit vs. Literally Everyone

When we finally got into the Amarr Militia (post-inferno, we couldn’t get our standings high enough before hand) there was no warm welcome; not even the smallest hint or subtle notion that we had friends with different tickers. They flat our did not like us.

We were new.
We were inexperienced.
We were ‘Nullbears’.
We didn’t know what we were doing.
We didn’t understand plexing.
We didn’t understand how to fit thrashers (lol).

There were no praises for our 240 man corp in the beginning not a one. In fact we butted heads with so many people at the start that we damned near declared war on our own militia. We were despised, hated, loathed and most of all unwelcome.

Quick Aside- Just a bit about FWeddit’s member ‘make up’, at the beginning, when we were small several of us came from TEST, GoonSwarm, GENTS, and even some of our enemies (and bitter ex-girlfriends). For the most part the corp was 80/20 Nullsec alts, sick of sitting on Titans and structure grinding; all emblazoned on the ‘next big thing’ about the ideas we had in our head about what Faction Warfare could be. This question has been brought up alot, and we are not Dreddit 2.0, Goons Reincarnate, or Pandemic Legion’s new training corp.


We started clashing with the ‘old guard’ Amarr Militia types. We were minutes away from going to war with Amarr 7th Fleet, when we had a quick director sit down, and a very timely conversation with Stalking Mantis (from 7th). I’m not going into some long winded re-telling of all the backstory here, because, its already on reddit.

It started with the convo heard throughout Myyhera and continued with Some EvE-O Love and finally spiraled into me being called a ‘super sensitive caustic moron’ after they saw that we personally set some of their members -10.

Just as we started on the warpath, our spy leaked us an evemail from Stalking Mantis. We sat down with Mantis, invited him into our Mumble and worked out a way for our 2 Alliances to mutually move forward together. Since then we have bridged the huge tear in the Amarrian Milita and from what we can tell, things are starting to get alot better. I guess making people realize that EVE is not only a game, but should be played in a fun manner simply did not occur to many of them. Sure losing freighters full of destroyers weekly, might not sound like fun but- ask me how many of my members run from fights then observe the sheer amount of :smug: on my face. 

Moving Forward

We keep expanding, growing, and learning as a corp. We have new FC’s standing up to take out fleets to die gloriously while hopefully killing something to keep the remaining :killboardstat: fanatics off our backs.

Over the past three weeks or so, we have learned that we can take the bitter vets, the nullbears, the carebears, the miners, the complete newbros and jam them all into tech one fit Thrashers, point them at our wartargets, type ‘bok bok bok’ in local, and have a really good time.