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.

First Blood

In spite of the lack of action on our first low sec roam we decided to try out again, but this time we would try and find some foes more likely to come out and engage us. We also felt that preying and trying to provoke EVE Uni was perhaps not the most noble thing to do, considering their are basically a learning institution.

So you'd think we instead would try and find a new slightly less populated part of lowsec to try and find some other smaller corps closer to our size, but seeing as we don't tend to do the most logical thing, we went to find the almost exact opposite of what the space close to Aldrat had to offer.

We went to Amamake instead.

Amamake is, as you can see below, a choke-point between high- and lowsec, a place where many EVE players try and travel through every day. The system is inhabited by a certain pvp corp called Heretic Army which is probably one of the most successful pvp corps in the whole game - maybe not the most skilled ones, but they certainly do get lots of kills, both against defenseless newbies and veteran pvp gangs.

Anyway despite a certain persons warnings; "those guys fucking live there, lets just go anywhere but there" we decided to try our luck.

Fleet composition was: Drake (Pandi) , Retribution (Pinka), Rupture (Azrael) and a Rapier (Draco). We jumped into the system and went to a safe spot. Everyone but the Rapier stayed there and we started spamming our d-scasn to look out for probes. There were lots of people from Heretic Army in local of course and we could see plenty of ships on our scanners as well.

After a little while Scanner Probes were launched by someone who was not us, and because we were really slow to react we soon found about 9 enemies jumping onto our face. Draco was already gone, Azrael managed to get away, but Pandi and Pinka were stuck and tried to fight off the hordes.

The result, however, was predictable: Link and Link.

Draco and Azrael were still alive however, and they decided to at least try and get one kill to avenge their fallen brothers, and consequently jumped in and overheated everything to kill off a lowly Thrasher:

Success! - Not a spectacular kill, but it at least meant we had not lost the other ships for nothing.

Artist's depiction of the battle

So yea first kill for Plantains. Our kill/loss efficiency is of course in the gutter, but at least it's not at 0%, which pleases us greatly.

Laters o/