FW: Last Night's Events

From: Oracle of Deus

Sent: 2015.06.12 13:07

To: abkiller Outamon,

As long as we don't bring caps to fights, you don't bring BL back. It's as much as an I WIN button as dropping a titan or supercarrier on us. Fair enough?

I shouldn't even have to do this. That's not what caps are for.

I also apologize for my attitude last night, I was more than a bit pissed, and not just at what you did. I'll fully understand if you don't want to come back after last night's crapfest.

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Last Night's Events

From: Oracle of Deus

Sent: 2015.06.12 12:59

To: Brave Provisions,

So, last night we had a bit of a fight happen in our system.

abkiller, the guy who often brings Atrons and other miscellaneous things to our system came through with a Typhoon, playing with our procs as he often does. This time, was a bit different, as he usually brings fairly small stuff to play with, which we can usually either chase off or handle.

This time, however, we escalated, and chopps brought an Archon. In retaliation for getting dropped on an Archon, he batphoned BL, who formed up pretty quick. After bringing his Typhoon back, he scrammed the carrier long enough for a BL Sabre to land on field and bubble him, and the rest of the fleet came through.

Long story short... Kill: Victoria1001 (Archon)

https://zkillboard.com/kill/47202374/

I'm going to be a bit plain about this. We can't have this happen here.

While we do have a defense fleet, we cannot escalate beyond maybe two people with caps, and one of them died. Black Legion is about 5 jumps out from us, if not closer. We don't have the skillpoints or numbers to fight a well-organized BL fleet, and even though we're only about 3 jumps out from YZ- and a jump bridge from Bovril, we can't really respond when BL brings in a 40-man plus fleet to kill a carrier. Brave couldn't get here fast enough, even though they were formed, and Bovril couldn't get the numbers to fight them, even though they tried hard.

In the end, we ended up with neuts playing in our system for a good while after the fight, and we had our mining and ratting operations disrupted significantly. This might seem kind of trivial to some, but as an industry corp, we rely on being a bit under the radar, and dropping caps on people isn't exactly low-key. BROVI defense force is supposed to help keep neuts off our miners back, not provide juicy capital targets for killmails.

Chopps, I love you man. But we can't be dropping caps like candy, especially since we can't do shit for you if you get caught. We feel pretty terrible we couldn't save you. Can you keep your PvP toys at the subcap level from now on?