Ripard Teg
and some other Rote guys announced Rote’s intention to rid their NPC
nullsec home region, Syndicate, from the risk averse alliances
and corps living there. Rote wants good fights, and the current crop of
Syndicate dwellers apparently can’t or won’t comply with Rote’s
specific demands in that regard. On
Eveoganda, a discussion on the topic ensued, with Ripard saying this in the
comments:
“It takes one Rote frigate to get whole gangs to run from us. Couple of weeks ago, one of our guys scared off a 25-man fleet by unknowingly jumping into the system they were in in a pod.”
To which
Mord Fiddle replies:
“Isn't the frigate they're scared of. It's the Rote fleet they're sure is waiting off grid. To a certain extent you're victims of your own success.”
How true this is! For us in
Catch, there are a few hostile fleets we know will roll through our
space, every now and then: CVA, Brushie Brushie Brushie, Eye for an Eye,
The Fourth District, Darkside for instance. Many
of these have become familiar: we know who their usual scouts are, what
they are flying and what follows behind them.
When living in nullsec, there
are two major activities to be done: player versus player combat, or
player versus environment activities. When you're not actively doing pvp, you will most likely be doing pve.. to earn ISK to fund your pvp habits. But when I am in a pve fitted ship, I am not
going to engage a well known hostile forward scout, because I just know
the rest of their fleet is behind the next gate, ready to jump in..
It often takes some time to
switch from pve to pvp, especially when you have pilots spread over
multiple systems. Yes, everyone should have pvp ships available in
multiple locations, but even then, it is not easy to swiftly
organize an effective fleet that is capable of
successfully engaging a disciplined and able enemy. So unless we are
already PVP’ing, chances are we will safe up to let these hostiles roll
through. It’s not that we don’t want to fight; it’s
that we don’t want to bring a knife to a gun fight. We have engaged
these fleets, and successfully too; but on our terms, on a moment of our
own choosing.
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