The Captains Log 7/1
Solarsystem: Irnin; Domain Region
We have all seen the Butterfly Effect trailer that promotes the idea that single person’s actions can affect the lives and game play of everyone one around them. Well let me now tell you a story about the butterfly effect.
It all starts with a corporation called the Disgruntled Postal Workers Union, who happens to have an undefended POS with some tasty labs anchored around. Naturally, this a great target for CPR so we war dec them with the intention of reducing the POS to space dust. However, an Atlas member convos me and explains that Disgruntled Postal Workers Union is a alt corp for Atlas alliance and if we don’t drop the war dec they will war dec us. So after a bit of haggling we come to an arrangement and they pay us 175 mill to drop the war dec. Then they find out that Prometheus09 is in Systematic Chaos, who they are blue to and therefore they want a refund. I have always stated that CPR was not an alt corp of sys-k and therefore their blue standings done apply to CPR. However, Atlas didn’t think so strangely enough. Anyway after a little bit of thought I decided to put the 175 mill away for a rainy day.
We then we went to Inrin where we had located a nice POS worth 1.6 billion which gave us all itchy trigger fingers and a very real desire to blow it up. While doing some further scouting in Inrin we found some POS owned by Chribba and thus we found a use for the 175 mill ransom we got from Atlas; war decing Chribba. Now a lot of you know the story from here. We managed to steal one of Chribba’s POS by bumping his Orca off the tower after he had conveniently unanchored it for us which resulted in Chribba smack talking me in local a little bit
Epimithius09 > thanks chribba
chribba > enjoy
Chribba > couldn’t care less about the towers themselves
Epimithius09 > we like towers : )
Chribba > yep I know
Chribba > question is if you like it because you fail at pvp or if you just enjoy taking on defenceless stuff?
Epimithius09 > i do fail at pvp : ) and it is fullfilling work
Chribba > aye then look forward to two more towers tomorrow then
Epimithius09 > we do indeed
Chribba > great
Then Chribba turned to the denizens of the Crime and Punishment forum for help in fighting of us big bad POS greifers.
It made a lot of people hate us.
A lot of people came to help Chribba.
We killed them.
They killed us.
They war deced us.
All up we received nine war decs and then we joined Privateer Alliance. An alliance that welcomed us with wide open arms since we were bringing lots of free war decs and we payed the fees. As it turns out the majority of corps were quite willing to attack a small alt corporation but once we were in privateers a half of then dropped their war decs quick smart. In the words of Zedrik Cayne:
Zedrik Cayne > No, your little alt corp won’t be worth the 150 mil it would cost per week. I’ve got better wars to spend that on.
Prometheus09 > wow you make such a big issue of it then say were not important. I’m hurt now
However the real issues started cropping up when the Sys-k alliance leader, Liam Freeman, came back from vacation and saw Chribba’s thread.
He was not very happy.
He kicked me from the alliance
Then he kicked my corporation, I.M.M from the alliance.
Now no one will even trust me in a diplomatic position, I can’t figure out why. There’s nothing wrong with my diplomacy skills. However, it should be know it wasn’t just me war decing Chribba that made him do this. There was about 11 other reasons, my actions were just the last straw.
So there you have it. The actions of one person managed to piss off half of Eve which then pushed my alliance leader in kicking me from the alliance along with another 300 people in my corp. There you have it, the butter fly effect.
I have to say so though I’m sorry that my actions did affect my corp in the way that it has. Still it was fun (apart from getting kicked from the alliance).
Dagh their a bunch of douches, I find it so stupid, that you got kicked, an ALT is an ALT, they shouldn't be trying to tie an alt to a main their 2 seperate characters takingon 2 seperate paths.
I really don't understand, why even have alts if you cant make one to do the things you are not "allowed" to do on your main? I see this ALL THE TIME in corps! They catch you pirating on an alt that has NO affiliation with the main corp and you get in trouble. This is a game folks! You should be allowed to make alts and do whatever you want with the understanding that you do not do them on the main which represents your corp or alliance. If you have nothing in game that links the two on your bio, etc, whats the big deal?
I think this just reinforces the fact that you should be careful when you name your alts so they have no way of tracing them back to your main. Don't cross post on the forums (or post at all) and dont blog about your alt on the same blog as your main (if at all).
BUT! In my humble opinion, you should be able to make an alt and do whatever you want on him without dragging in your main's corp and alliance. If you really think about it they are two separate POD pilots on possibly two separate accounts. They should have nothing to do with each other.
Prometheus, I really think you got the short end of the stick on your main. I do think that people should understand that this is just a game and you really should be allowed to have an unaffiliated alt that can have some fun once in a while. And i bet you guys had a blast poking chirriba in the ribs a bit and watching the action unfold! Makes me wonder if you never blogged from Epi and he didnt have the "09" on the end if this would have came about at all?
ho boy.
Nothing wrong with grinding your nose in a pile of shit, but you gotta make sure the smell doesn't follow you to your alliance.
Thanks for the support : ) If I hadent of the links I doubt anyone would know about my alts and mains and I would still be in sys-k.
It's a harsh game, and big alliances play harsh to survive. Sorry that your corp got screwed, though it sure makes for some good reading!
Yes it wasnt the fact that on your website or in various other places you advertised your affeliation with sys-k. That had nothing to do with it. As for your corp, taking a systm in allies space without permission the same time this was gong on didn't help there postion.
Two thumbs up! I've heard tell that Chribba-tears are pure gold-plated veldspar. Is it true?? =P
Dude, don't worry about you being kicked out from sys-k. Other than the inconvenience of having some stuff left in their outposts, it's nothing.
(I could get kicked too for this
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You seem to not get that NOT being an asshat towards Chribba is kinda an unspoken rule in eve. The game has enough asshats allready (more than any other MMO in my opinon). Picking on the ONE guy that has brought us most of our 3rd party tools and just given to the community all this time.. well you shouldnt act surprised that many people react to this.
Still dont get why you sound almost gleeful about provoking him. Its like “look at this nice thing! i have to destroy it!” mentality.