Reputation in EVE sticks with you like shit to a nappy (diaper for my American readers).
I recently recruited (by which I mean, accepted the application of) a renowned corp Awoxer into the ranks of Sudden Buggery. Involved as we are in Faction Warfare, and having followed his career and indulged in Awoxing myself (on alts) from time to time, and having held a few discussions on EVE-O forums about various things with the guy, I am fairly confident that a career in highsec griefing doesn't preclude you from PVPing in lowsec, or from Factional Warfare.
However, it is hard to forget losing your Kronos to an Awoxer, and thus my dude got Awoxed by a militia member who was in a corp he had done the dirty on about 12 months ago; there was a little diplomatic fracas over this as the incident occurred during a bunker bash, during a SRS BSNS fleet situation, and during a time BUGRY had deployed a couple billion in black ops ships on field. Hardly the time you want to see a militia member going rogue on one of your guys.
In the end, the advantage is with us. Not only does this prove to our guy that his Awoxing has delivered fat dividends of tears - not just a Kronos killmail - but if the former victims and now supposed militia-mates can't put it all behind them - as you should, because being Awoxed is entirely the victim's fault at being shit at recruitment - and continue to Awox my guy, then their corp and alliance will suffer the most.
Indeed, if Khanh'rhh was join join militia I would be tempted to Awox him, but would be loath to do it; after all, revenge is pointless in EVE, and it is destructive in FW. It also shows you got butthurt over imaginary internet spaceships. It also, perversely, only serves to cement the Awoxer's reputation and notoriety. Which, in the end, is what the practise is about.
So. Congrats to Commander Ted, for he struck a rich vein of tears.
You played the long game, and did OK out of it. You could have done better. I only wonder what you are doing with those mountains of ISK; it doesn't cost much to do what you did, so you don't actually need ISK to buy up some alts, burn them, and keep stealing and backstabbing. You also don't PVP, so you can't be spending your ISK that way.
ReplyDeleteWhich leads me to the conclusion you didn't sign on for months because you boxed yourself into a corner gameplay wise, and took a break because you'd come to the endgame of corp theft, with nowhere to go. Which was, essentially, shooting yourself in the foot.
Where to now? Your options are being closed off with the crimewatch changes (no more lol-RR), bounties, nullsec powerbloc consolidation (soon you'd have to actually be Mittens or michaelbolton to steal anything), and upcoming POS changes which will likely prevent wholesale POS theft. If you are playing the game to be a thieving bastard and gain notoriety with Golden Lobsters, etc, you will be repeating smaller and smaller heists against ever more noobish people.
And yes, it is of course *entirely* down to your actions that we are out of low-end WH's and enjoying more PVP. So, given that, why would anyone hold a grudge? Clearly a Nietzchian take on corp theft, AWOXing and betrayal is that it's only for the better.