The beauty of recruiting without scruples is that the age of our players is incredibly young. We have recruited a lot of lower skill point players. We have picked up a few talented people from Faction Warfare as well. One in particular (who remains nameless) has been helping revolutionize our concepts and tactics; by revolutionize I mean simplify.

A lot of us older players have forgotten the feeling of what is like to fly small, or T1. I have to say, over the last couple of weeks I have fallen in love with the concept of T1 all over again. I believe there is some major value to having our guys push their T2 and expensive toys to the back of their hangar for a few months and moving everyone into the most basic of ships. By doing this we can re-invent ourselves in ways, both tactical and ship choice. Who knows we may find ourselves enjoying races and ship types we never thought we would by exploring T1 variants and theorizing and crafting plans and concepts with their T2 counter parts in the future.

But this is not central theme of this entry, but rather the bemusement I am getting from our corp being statistically terrible. How does a corp become terrible and what defines it as terrible? In the modern eve (last few years), especially among low sec and NPC null sec pvp corps the core defining point of a corporation and alliance begins and ends at the killboard. You are inexorably linked and identified by the numbers and stats you can provide on eve-kill and to a lesser extent battle clinic.

Using this archaic methods of measure we are not very effective: (certainly not elite)

With one of our young players deciding he needed to move PLEX in an Ibis and not fully reading up on the item or how to use it, and subsequently losing them near Jita; it was already written on the wall we were in for our 3rd bad killboard month. (-950mil or so)

http://nyan.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=14202098

This was just the beginning following that we had a series of unsuccessful combat ops and missteps. A small 4 man battle cruiser was greeted by 30 members + of Rote Kapelle after we foolishly wanted to die to their bait Machariel whom for some reason I assumed was solo, silly me.

(This was the previous month actually) http://nyan.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_related&kll_id=14202109

Another mishap in Delve resulted in a 5 man frigate/bomber gang engaging a bait Apoc for fun and subsequently getting squashed by a titan bridged Razor gang. (there is a pattern here)

(Then a moderately successful Eagle Roam, though getting attacked by a superior EXE roam including a Falcon)

http://nyan.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_related&kll_id=14202881

The next big hit was a small roam of T1 cruisers and BCs that was chased by Russians in the GaNg bAnG tEaM. Thinking we might stand a slight chance at a kill having a Blackbird and having nothing to lose after our Hurricane was caught on a gate we turned to engage them. The results were they bumped local with a Tempest, Loki, several other BCs, and 2 Falcons. Another loss.

http://nyan.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_related&kll_id=14221225 (incomplete but yeah)

Each loss was not a total loss, a few ships and an escape of the remainder. Our “cowarding” out of fights, or tactical withdraws in some circles, have been getting pretty solid.

A few other mishaps was a newer player bringing his own supplies down in a hauler, making it all the way to the constellation we live in, foolishly warping to a moon and losing 540mil isk or so to a POS.

Results: Efficiency of about 13% this month.

The last few months have been one failure statistically after another, but the experience that is priceless. We’re shifting our tactics and taking everyone back to the drawing board, all vets and newbies alike will re-visit the T1 ships, and all fleets and doctrines will be revolving around T1. Believe it or not, we have a few talented FCs. We can overcome our hardship, but at the same time it cannot be considered hardship at all. We can get better at the game, but not at the cost of enjoying it. We are at the bottom statistically and still having fun, we’re enjoying the struggle, no one is getting yelled at for their losses, no one is worrying about the next engagement. Simply, we’ll go out and whelp another round of whatever for fun.

The measure of a corp is not its combat statistics. If you look historically at our corp and our overall stats we are still 80% up. I ran the corp in a tighter way before, this is the new Nyan Cat Pirates, we’re not going to be elite, we’re going to focus on fun.

See you all on the battlefield, and I also invite anyone interested to come join us. We will keep working hard and we will make our mark through fun.

NYAN!