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Re: Red Versus Blue. Endless war.
« on: September 26, 2009, 02:32:37 PM »
So, my 2ndary main, Angaraka Solaris, has moved onto new pastures.  He has joined the Red Federation, a part of a player run inititiative:

http://www.eveonline.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=1182525

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Yes it's coming back, Red Versus Blue.

A couple of years ago over on SHC, a guy called Tron said, “wouldn't it be great if there was corps at war in empire you could just join and pew pew in anytime you wanted?”, I said “Yes”, RvB was born.

This was before Faction Warfare existed, in the aftermath of the Alliance P nerf with a lot of bored people wanting a simple conflict to engage in without POS, politics and alliances.

We had a great amount of fun but the project fizzled out through lack of leadership, I've thought many times this last couple of years about bringing it back, I happened to mention this recently and the support has been overwhelming, so, with lessons learned from last time we're coming back, bigger and better.

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Free for all empire war pew pew everyone welcome.

Join Channel R-V-B

I had an alt in R-V-B 1 a few years ago and that was awesome fun but leaders had burn out and it fizzled out, this time round they arent leading per sé, but will be doing some basic organisation to ensure this will just go on and on.  Fun, no strings pvp that doesnt have standings req's like FW, doesnt have 0.0 crap attached and by general consensus doesnt have ECM faggotry.  

It started this afternoon and so far, Ang as been involved in 14 kills for 2 losses, I am having so much fun doing this.  If you have a spare alt, get some basic training on it, join RED (not blue they suck and fail at everything excepting sucking and failing) and get some fun pew pew!  http://redfed.eve-kill.net/?a=pilot_detail&plt_id=498124
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Re: What Angaraka is doing now: Red Versus Blue
« Reply #1 on: September 26, 2009, 09:31:06 PM »
My first day:

http://handsofjustice.co.uk/maadimredux/?a=pilot_detail&plt_id=40179

(Posting all my activity to our board as I want it kept for posterity :D)

Been a blinding day, really good fun for me.
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Re: What Angaraka is doing now: Red Versus Blue
« Reply #2 on: September 27, 2009, 08:12:08 AM »
It all sounds and looks very exciting  :)

But lacking active 2nd accounts, this would either mean pulling out Saf out of money making (and MAADI) of sacrificing some days of his training, which I am reluctant to do :\
Hmm... Tough choice: yes/Saf, yes/Alt, no/no
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Re: What Angaraka is doing now: Red Versus Blue
« Reply #3 on: September 27, 2009, 08:14:20 AM »
It all sounds and looks very exciting  :)

But lacking active 2nd accounts, this would either mean pulling out Saf out of money making (and MAADI) of sacrificing some days of his training, which I am reluctant to do :\
Hmm... Tough choice: yes/Saf, yes/Alt, no/no

Steal hannibal off of Garry...

Or take a few days off saf's training do some basics to get a minnie into rifters etc and i'll give your guy some of my HUGE stockpile - if he went red :D
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Re: What Angaraka is doing now: Red Versus Blue
« Reply #4 on: September 27, 2009, 08:26:12 AM »
Well, I already had another Alt set up to become a 2nd research alt, and I was making a skillplan for RvB just now, but then I began doubting how much fun it would be with skills at 2s and 3s  ???
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Re: What Angaraka is doing now: Red Versus Blue
« Reply #5 on: September 27, 2009, 08:44:18 AM »
Well, I already had another Alt set up to become a 2nd research alt, and I was making a skillplan for RvB just now, but then I began doubting how much fun it would be with skills at 2s and 3s  ???

Theres brand new chars doing it and having fun, theres people who have used any alt they could to join - hell Ang isnt an awesome char with ships as most of his sp is in Leadership, and im having good throwaway fun!
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Re: What Angaraka is doing now: Red Versus Blue
« Reply #7 on: September 27, 2009, 03:14:15 PM »
So, an afternoons fun has given me another 20 kills, for 4 or so losses (currently flying a rifter named Lossmail Eleven) on my part.  Despite my name beginning with A, I am not getting primaried due to flying a small fast ship.  The otherside doesnt seem to set its frigs on ours when big gangs meet, whereas we frig pilots go after theres.  Theres some good fights been had, with some dogfighting involved for me, and some strafing runs of bigger stuff I have done too!

Then there are fights with the otherside baiting us:

http://handsofjustice.co.uk/forum/gallery/1_27_09_09_4_15_43.jpg

That maller was tanked beyond belief, took an age to get it down, and even when the otherside started jumping in they didnt aggres us while the Maller pilot was tanking :)
« Last Edit: September 27, 2009, 03:17:35 PM by Mangala »
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Re: What Angaraka is doing now: Red Versus Blue
« Reply #8 on: September 27, 2009, 07:19:59 PM »
Epic Fun!

http://redfed.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_related&kll_id=4476826

I died twice!

And this one - gate fight, they jumped into us, we prevailed:

http://redfed.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_related&kll_id=4477104
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Re: What Angaraka is doing now: Red Versus Blue
« Reply #9 on: September 27, 2009, 10:46:46 PM »
Red doesnt do so good overall though...
http://redfed.eve-kill.net/?a=campaigns

Time for Wu Hsing to come and join the ranks. Prolly tomorrow or day after  :)
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Re: What Angaraka is doing now: Red Versus Blue
« Reply #10 on: September 28, 2009, 06:43:06 AM »
Neither does Blue :)

http://bluerep.eve-kill.net/?a=cc_detail&ctr_id=2270

The aim is roughly 50% perma-efficiency on both sides, which would be great as it would mean both sides are reasonably balanced :D
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Re: What Angaraka is doing now: Red Versus Blue
« Reply #11 on: September 30, 2009, 11:08:22 AM »
From the lolRP board  :D
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2 years ago now, I couldn't believe there was no food left in the stores, we'd just come back a weeks pillaging in Syndicate, sure we'd got loads of loot, weapons, ammunition, ship upgrades. No damn food!

I knew Tron Sarkus kept a sneaky stash of munchies in the old crypt so I headed off down there to see what I could scavenge, nosing around I found a foodbox in his office, broke it open, aha! Pot Noodle! Only a Chicken and Mushroom one which is probably the most disgusting but damn I was hungry, I had a laser sidearm with me which would heat the water up just fine, I wandered off out to head back to my cabin and tripped up on my way out, falling over and on top of the Pot Noodle, cracking the plastic pot. Fuck.

So I'm hungry, I have pot noodle with no pot, but wait, I'm in the crypt right? I knew it was here somewhere, Tron and I had argued about it just the night before, stupid "Teapot of Justice", I was sick of the old rituals, dressing up in those Minmatar slave girl costumes and drinking lemon tea while watching Podpilot Idol. To hell with it, I looked around and there it was mounted on a plinth adorned with the Purple Arms and next to the Forbidden Toaster of Desire (wish I had some bread tbh). There was nothing else for it, I grabbed the teapot, filled in the the potless pot noodle, added water, pew pew with the shooty gun and it was hot as hell. Mmmmmm sacrilicious.

Just as I'm scoffing the last few chemically altered wheat noodles in he walks, flanked by General Arkaiser and Commander Thrace. I have to say, while it was clearly a grave moment in New Eden history, the look on his face was great, it was like . He erupted into one of his great rants, I didn't even listen to the words, I knew by the look on the faces of Sarkus and Arkaiser there was no backing down now, we'd gone too far, just as I knew that Thrace would eventually side with us.

I walk straight past them and out, opening my communicator and signalling General Raivi, "the time has come, the revolution begins today, RED DESTINY!"
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Re: What Angaraka is doing now: Red Versus Blue
« Reply #12 on: October 05, 2009, 07:38:02 AM »
Yesterday red and blue joined together for a 0.0 roam (66 sub BS ships), had a great time!
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Absolutely epic fight in Syndicate.

http://bluerep.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_rel ... id=4557937

For those who missed out we went down to one of the decadent Huzzah Federation's home systems, ganked a Megathron on it's gate and awaited the response. At first it was just bombing Manticores (which splattered Plave's dictor halfway back to Tourier), some poor bastard in a ratting drake and then a disco Dominix. Eventually they showed up in force with a remote rep battleship fleet, but with our fearless fleet commander Plave back in the fight in his weaponless Executioner we were confident of victory. The purple fleet fought bravely against overwhelming odds and eventually downed 8 of the infidel battleships, forcing Huzzah to commit capitals to the fight.

We killed a total of 24 infidel ships for 32 losses. The vast majority of our losses were t1 stuff, while Huzzah lost a lot more expensive stuff. We inflicted 830M ISK in damage while sustaining 230M, an absolutely fucking awesome result for a fleet that had never flown together in nullsec before. You all rock.
The disco domi killed 10 of us, I was glad I was in an arty Thrasher and thus at range :)
Unfortunately, I was killed pretty fast in the final escalating gatefight, but the remaining fleet stayed and killed quite a few more ships, till a RR carrier showed up and we lacked the dps to overcome it's repping.
My pod was killed on the way home by a multiple dragbubble gate camp, which gave me a free ride home. Luckily(?) I had no implants, cause I was podded the day before by a disco BS of blue.
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Re: What Angaraka is doing now: Red Versus Blue
« Reply #13 on: October 05, 2009, 03:04:18 PM »
/jealous

Sounds like there is increasingly epic fights to be had :)
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Re: What Angaraka is doing now: Red Versus Blue
« Reply #14 on: October 05, 2009, 10:09:30 PM »
we snagged a geddon in a noobship fleet, and waited till he got concordokkened :P

http://redfed.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=4565125
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