Lowsec Lols and Shitty Videos

Two weeks since last update... *feels the cold gaze of the ceo on his shoulders*


Lets see, we've gotten a lot of new members lately very much thanks to The Pimp's hard work, who is now also taking a well deserved break. A few newbies, a few veterans, even more danes - it's all good.

Our killboard is... ugh... well it's has seen better days. We've recently decided to take a more active role in lowsec seeing as our roaming gangs tend to either find ourselves horribly overblobbed or, if we're lucky, only able to find some poor newbs/alts to kill. So far Solar Wing, which is kind of a training/pet alliance for Solar Fleet, the big blob in eastern part of eve, has welcomed us kindly by murdering us and they seem to already control the lowsec planets in the area of space we've looking to have fun in :( - But as always, Plantains prevail!


In other news we had a small Minecraft tournament sort of thing a while ago and we happened to record some of it, which we've put up on Youtube.
It's completely unedited so might be pretty boring to watch - It's pretty much just us talking and killing each other, so I guess it would make for good fapping material. Not all of it is up yet, but here are the two current videos:

Enjoy the fapping you pervs :d

Recruiter of the Month

Just a small update to celebrate our Recruiter of the Month, Tetsuga Tsyung!

Below is an artist's (and by artist we mean person experimenting in Photoshop) depiction of the glorious Plantains Pimp, as is his official title now.

Le Pimp de Plantains

Well done friend, enjoy the price! :D

And Who Could Forget Dear Ratboy?

We in Plantains are very proud of our dear and glorious leader who has lead us through countless dangers and each time managed, through the use of clever self sacrificing tactics involving leaving a newly joined member behind to save his own ass/Stilet.... I mean the rest of the fleet.

A close bond of trust exists between us and we've always there for each other should we need a shoulder to cry on, a bed to sleep in, a fireplace to lie in front of naked while eating grapes, and other wholesome activities for strappy young men. Discretion is a matter of honour and we trust each not to take advantage of or make fun of personal stories and anecdotes shared between our members.

.....

HAHAHAHAHA just kidding.


Anyway our CEO finally found himself job:

In other news it seems that our very popular and highly relevant link to the full series of the amazing My Little Pony show has finally been taken from YouTube, seeing as the mayor entertainment corporations refusal to adapt to reality. While this is of course a serious blow to corp morale, we have "top men" working day and night to try and track down another source of Pony goodness.

Meanwhile the powerful Danish faction of the corp decided this would be an ideal time to spread Danish culture beyond the borders, to try and civilize the other lesser races within the corp. We hope you'll enjoy it.


The Plantains Bureau of Propaganda

We're Still Here and We're Still Queer!

So it's been a little while since the last blog post which was about our little skirmish with an elite lowsec entity that didn't like to see small "noob corps" humiliate them as we apparently did. We went on a few tours into their space but every time we came close to their system to play they were always waiting with huge amounts of ships ready to bait us. These guys wanted revenge really bad and because of some rookie mistakes we lost a few ships.

It was pretty clear to us that we weren't going to find much fun here simply because of the sheer amount of enemies waiting for us every time we logged on. So we decided to move our PvP staging system to another region to meet some new people. And that's where we've been hanging out since then, although at a lower activity level.


As usual we've also been playing some Minecraft, bit of LoL, some Total War games and whatever else of interest we could find.

The one thing that EVE does really well is that it forces people to find together and play together, because of the, some would say brutal, difficulty, very high learning curve, and the general intelligence and patience requirements required to be able to get anywhere in the game. It's not a game that's supposed to be played alone. That is a good thing.

As I've mentioned before the first and most important goal of our corp is that we get to know each other. Not just because it's much more fun to play together, but rather because it is absolutely essential for building a corp able to survive in the EVE universe and able to last more than a few months without dying of inactivity and leadership burnout.


I'm guess I'm getting all serious now, but my basic point is just that having 3 games plus EVE to play with your lovely corpmates when you're not doing PvP, Incursions, Missions etc is probably the best, most optimal, and generally just the most fun way to get the most out of EVE Online.


TL:DR We love each other <3

What Is This Thing Called Rage?

So I was in the middle of writing a lengthier post about various corp lowsec roams, about lessons learned, and I even have a recording of one of infamous drunken roams...

But as I came home from bossing people around at work our beloved leader and ceo linked me to the comment section of our most recent kill, still struggling to hold back his laughter. Now I promise ill link to the killmail in a little while, but if you'll forgive me I'd like to be a bit sentimental for just a moment:


Our lovely corp has been growing quite steadily for a while; our members are all very active, people are having fun playing not just EVE but also several other games together, and we're generally just having a great fun time together talking about gay sex and other interesting subjects on mumble, while killing other people and each other all through the night til we EU ppl have to head to work without having gotten any sleep.

While we of course consider ourselves to be amazing pvp gods and care deeply about our absolutely terrible kill efficiency, we curiously haven't yet gotten any real attention from other corps yet..

Until now!


A merry band of bold adventures, myself not included (fuck work!), went into lowsec to find some fun and get the official corp Godfather, Sudds, to finally try out some pvp, after having evaded for such a long time. A proper battlereport is under way, but the end result was two dead Assault Frigates, which to some might be insignificant, to us was amazing, and to others was something worth crying and raging over. And boy was there rage!



Mad Guy 1: For a good laugh check out the l33t niggas on battleclinic ~

Mad Guy 2: FUCKING LOOOOOOOL   fags

Plantainer 1: Sure is some rage over an AF.

Plantainer 2: so are we mad cause you were killed by a *lol* fleet lol lol lol....... I said Biiiiiiitch!!!!!! 

Mad Guy 1: I would expect scrubs to quote the shitty version of Dave Chappelle... Fuck Yo Couch!

Linky


Reading various forums related to EVE it has always puzzled me why alliances like Goonswarm and PL were able to get so much enjoyment out of, as they say, making people cry and rage, either by killing miners in highsec or blobbing people with Titans, but this event has taught me what a wonderful feeling seeing others rage, whine, and cry over your actions can be.


It's really is just so much fun seeing how a simple baiting tactic and the loss of a few pretty cheap ships can get people so riled up.


In conclusion, while we in Plantains are by no means at the same level as PL or Goonswarm in regards to gathering tears, I'd still like to try and reply to all the concerns presented to us in the comments of that killmail:

Cya in lowsec o/

Incursions and Minecrafting

It has been a little while since the last update, so since the real life workload has finally lifted I thought it would be a good time for a little update on what we've been doing.


Incursions

For anyone who's been paying attention to EVE matters, there's been a growing demand that the income of Incursions be nerfed as to many people the risk vs. reward ratio of the 10man Incursions called Vanguards was screwed up, and people were able to amass large amounts of ISK in relatively short time.

This caught our attention and we decided in the interest of science to go and check out this so-called ISK heaven. And my did the lord shine upon us!

A few of us have so far tried them out, and it appears the rumours are true. Incursions does not only pay well, they are also quite fun and interesting to do; with the proper fleet set-ups of course. Our goal and hope is that we can get a full Plantains Incursions fleet up and running, and hopefully be able to replace lvl 4 mission grinding with chill Incursions running instead.

Our ship replacement program has so far been financed by mission running taxes, but if we can switch that over to Incursion running instead, grinding ISK should go from relative tediousness - we do mission in groups usually and joke on mumble meanwhile, but the joy of your corp mates companionship can only do so much to an arguably pretty boring game feature.


Being able to run Incursions together, make lots of money, and then hop into lowsec to have fun while joking and chatting on mumble, is probably closest to the most fun you can have in EVE. And that's where we'd like to go :)


Minecraft

So we're of course still playing this lovely game, but unfortunately our old server got wiped while the host tried to resolve some lag issues. So we started over and have been doing quite well so far. We've managed to lure even more corp m8s to come play with us, so we're almost at server limit now. 

Anyway, have some screenshots of some of the things we're built so far.

Sudds underwater cottage

Tk's lovely house

Draco's Boat

Pandi's Parthenon

We live quite a way apart, primarily to make sure we all have enough room to expand and be creative, but since our infrastructure of minecart rails is not yet completely set up; it does take a long time to get to each other. So the above were just the things closest to my continent.


Will write down a proper post about what we've been up to pvp wise soon.

o/

Drunken Lowsec Roam

Just a quick update seeing as I have tons of work.

Some days ago a few people decided to get drunk and go to lowsec and have fun. I couldn't be there myself, so had to rely on what little information the three involved could remember.

We hired a skilled artist to try and put together the different stories into one epic tale of courage and skill:

An epic tale! - click for larger version

A toast to our first of hopefully many future drunken roams. Well done guys.