Friday, March 12, 2010

Time's up

Time for me to make a change. Flying with friends sounded like a good idea to me at the time, but after a good two months it is wearing on me. A lot of it is very complicated and I hope it doesn't affect our out of game friendships, but I simply can fly with these guys and I know they can't fly with me. We see the game differently, not only in terms of carebears and pvp'ers, they are the former and I am the latter, but in level of play. I take only a few things very seriously and one of those things is gaming. It's not for everyone but I can't have fun just casually playing an mmo, I have to be good at it and I like to work with other good players. I expect a certain amount of commitment so that we can all work together efficiently and crush our enemies - that is fun. What is not fun is losing time end effort to casual players who just don't really care so they don't know what they're supposed to do when in fleet. When you fleet up with me, we depend on each other, my ship is in your hands and yours in mine. If I make a mistake, it can cost others their time, so I try to minimize that. If you come in with a "whatever" attitude and you fuck up and cost me time I probably won't fly with you again. Don't waste my time I won't waste yours.

My Corp has been wasting my time. They said they wanted 0.0, I gave it to them, they claimed they wanted to pvp, opportunity was provided. They said they understood there would be some commitment, they were not prepared. To remain in a pvp alliance like ours, you have to stay active in pvp, that is what we joined for, industry would be on the side or at most an equal partner to our combat activities. To date I have 2/3 of our kills, meaning I am carrying the Corp, allowing them to sit back and profit off of our space without earning the right. I am not against the non combat professions, I do some myself, but if I go rat or mine at least I have shed blood defending our spac and have ships ready to fight at all times. The alliance hasnt really noticed this to my knowledge, but I have and combined with the inactivity of the very people I joined this Corp to play with in the first place and a personality conflict with one of the directors and I've had enough. You tell me one thing and do another, that's a waste of my time. You don't show up to help me fight and I lose ships, more time. You do show up poorly fit and making mistakes, more time. You sit back and earn isk off of our space while I earn our place in the alliance, and now it's over.

Hope they enjoyed the free ride I gave them, and I hope the alliance stands up and takes notice when they contribute nothing. I tried to warn them, I tried to teach them. Yep I'm a bit gruff, a lot harsh, and I take gaming more serious than others, but I just don't want to waste your time.

Note: excuse any spelling errors I did this on my phone

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