Welcome to the twenty-second installment of the EVE Blog Banter, the monthly EVE Online blogging extravaganza created by CrazyKinux. The EVE Blog Banter involves an enthusiastic group of gaming bloggers, a common topic within the realm of EVE Online, and a week or so to post articles pertaining to the said topic. The resulting articles can either be short or quite extensive, either funny or dead serious, but are always a great fun to read! Any questions about the EVE Blog Banter should be directed to crazykinux@gmail.com. Check for other EVE Blog Banter articles at the bottom of this post!

This month topic is brought to us by L’Dene Bean of Nitpickin’s who asks: Why, and how did you pick your corporation? Is your loyalty solid or just until a better placed organization “recruits” you. The shorter version: Who holds your Unshakable Fealty and why?

The “Oh how original” part is referencing to the subject of the mail sent out by CK from which I “stole” the post title.

So even though CK has already welcomed you in the above paragraph here I will also welcome you to this 22nd Blog Banter, which in my opinion has a really interesting subject, so let’s get started.

As EVE is a game and games are about entertainment and fun you should always do the things that will get you the most fun out of  a game, whether this is endlessly mining some asteroid or placing square blocks on each other to form a tower (Minecraft), the end goal is having fun.

So when it comes to corporations in EVE I will join a corp that does what I find fun at that moment, such as joining a null-sec corp when that seemed fun (Yet that was just coincidental as my corp itself decided to merge into a null-sec corp), or joining a low-sec alliance and becoming a pirate.

Even when I leave a corporation I will miss the people in it (Well some of  ‘em), however it’s hard to maintain social activity with them once you have left their corp (Other than hanging around in their public channel).

So am I loyal to a corp ? Yes, if the time I want to leave is deemed bad I will stay until a better time has come to leave, I wont steal any assets or leave any loans open, or take borrowed items with me, that’s just not something I do.

And even if a corp would disagree with you leaving, if you wouldn’t leave that would end up with you possibly not playing the game for a long period of time so that would do no one any good.

(Oh great another conclusion paragraph) So I am loyal, I won’t fuck anyone over or break a promise (Unless someone else fucks me over first), aaand I ran out of things to list here.

Xeross out.

Participants

• Blog Banter #22: Corp Loyalty « Evil Silents
• Confessions of a Closet Carebear: Corporation Loyalty – Brothers and Sisters till the end?
• Who holds your Unshakable Fealty and why? | Nitpickin’s
• loyalty isnt for sale | A Mule In EvE
• Blog Banter #22: Corporation Guilt? | Sarnel Binora’s Blog
• Ask Not What Your Corp Can Do For You… « The Lathspell of Mithrandir
• New Eden History Student » Blog Archive » Why I went to college
• Esprit de Corps
• where the frack is my ship?: Blog Banter 22: Home is where the heart is
• A “CareBears” Journey – Am I Loyal, Or Just Complacent?
• Captain Serenity: Blog banter #22 – Loyalty?
• Not a Nice Game (Blog Banter 22) | Interstellar Privateer
• CK’s Blog Banter #22: A Fighter’s Heart « Prano’s Journey
• EvE Blog Banter #22: Where We Stand EvE Blasphemy
• divagoth | wandering the gaming landscape
• The Eternal Ninja – The Fang
• An Amarrian Capsuleer: Blog Banter 22: Corporation Cooperation
• Nashh Kadavr’s EVE Blog: Bastard for Life
• Double Threat: Blog Banter #22
• Drifting: Blog Banter #22: Corporation Loyalty – Brothers and Sisters till the end?

Yes the title is odd but I couldn’t think of anything better, now lets continue with the post itself shall we.

So we are hanging out on Ventrilo, some of us roaming, some of us watching our ships spin in the lights of the docking ramp when one of our corp mates yells he has found a target. a Myrmidon.

So a few of us join fleet and rally up while he is trying to catch this myrm, we make sure we stay 1 system behind the myrm and our corp member to trick the myrm pilot into thinking he’s only being attacked by one lone Jaguar.

However after flying some systems out the myrm pilot decided to head back, part of our group jumped out of system before he came back but I had to stay to avoid suspicion.

After this I get work the myrm pilot is at a plex, and that it warped of when my corp mate entered the deadspace pocket. I decided to warp to the acceleration gate and wait for the myrm to come back, which he quickly did.

As soon as the myrm landed I had him webbed and pointed however due to me being poorly positioned near the accel. gate I kept bumping into it, and just as one of my corp mates landed (The one in the Jaguar) and got a secondary point my Rifter popped.

After this I rushed back to our home system to grab my rupture, the Jaguar was able to hold the myrm down while avoiding damage, in the meantime more corp members arrived at the scene and started to pop the drones.

After arriving at the station and getting my Rupture I managed to get back to the system the myrm was in with 50% armor left (Gate guns), and we managed to take it down a while after that, it turned out it was shield tanked so it took quite a way to chip away the shields.

Now these are the kinds of fights we want, capable opponents, not people in noob frigs.

Xeross out.

So a few days ago CCP released a patch that would improve the GUI backend, after this patch has been deployed numerous bug reports and rants started pouring into the forums so yet another failure from CCP.

Now a few days later they released an optional patch that would fix some issues and add align-to bookmarks, now even with those “fixes” theres still a lot of complaints rolling in but at least we can align to bookmarks now right (Haven’t tested it so might as well be bugged) ?

Let’s see how they will solve this failcascade…

Xeross out.