Scooty's guild decided it was time to go to war with Blank. I think they were bored and decided to go for it. They were tired of seeing all the unprotected Blank boats out there being Blank and thinking they were safe because they were Blank. They sank a fishing boat and took the fish. Got just under 100g he said. However, as they were turning them in, a swarm of Blank people showed up (in town so no fighting) as a response. Their GM was quite unhappy and I guess put Guild on their KOS. HoE and the other major ally had been talking about aggro'ing Blank, which helped push Guild in that direction. Again, "they have big boats, so, they will win" syndrome, I think. Scooty thinks they are all but shut down now because Blank is everywhere. I said that I bet 90% of Blank has no idea what's going on and are just in Blank. Odds of all of them being active and paying attention to the guild KOS, etc are low. The figured worst case, they dissolve Guild and merge/join HoE.
Personally, I'm all for hitting Blank. They don't actively pirate. But bottom line, if you are in their way, or they want what you have, they will pirate. So, fuck 'em. But, I probably wouldn't have done it alone. But, I also don't think HoE and company will do anything. If they are discussing it, but not acting on it, that tells me they aren't interested. They WISH they could, but don't want to risk anything. This takes me back to that Lords of Ultima game we were playing. Some of us wanted to fight, others wanted to seek verbal resolution. I guess we could all not fight and join the bigger guild that's threatening us so we can 'win'. But, I'd rather play the game and fight. But I seriously doubt HoE will.
ArcheAge - Formerly: "So I've been playing..."
Hooked up with ACE again tonight. These guys are really good at being trolls. They were nice enough to not hit greens and only pirate reds for us. And we are getting so much stuff we can't carry it all. Turning two packs in per person. Catching red trade ships in Ynystere. Very profitable. And easy.
Yes. Hard core. Logs, 50g. Trees, 200.
And holy guild drama!!
Diene dropped during a red pirate op and got left at the docks to turn in her pack after she reconnected. In the mean time, the rest of the group wanted to hurry up and get into position to catch the next trade ship. LOTS of confusion and stuff as we were all new to what we were doing up there, etc. She kept saying in TS, "Wait for me I'm on my way". Then someone would say "I'm opening the portal" She said again to wait. The portal was opened and she was left behind. She was MAJOR butthurt. Rage quit the party and went to do her own thing and left TS. The rest of the night was the pirating group trash talking her and talking about kicking her from the guild, etc.
I admit, it was just a portal. Also, they could have waited 30 seconds. But in the end, she could have opened a gate and joined us. Instead, she quit. But ya, they are REALLY trash talking her.
And holy guild drama!!
Diene dropped during a red pirate op and got left at the docks to turn in her pack after she reconnected. In the mean time, the rest of the group wanted to hurry up and get into position to catch the next trade ship. LOTS of confusion and stuff as we were all new to what we were doing up there, etc. She kept saying in TS, "Wait for me I'm on my way". Then someone would say "I'm opening the portal" She said again to wait. The portal was opened and she was left behind. She was MAJOR butthurt. Rage quit the party and went to do her own thing and left TS. The rest of the night was the pirating group trash talking her and talking about kicking her from the guild, etc.
I admit, it was just a portal. Also, they could have waited 30 seconds. But in the end, she could have opened a gate and joined us. Instead, she quit. But ya, they are REALLY trash talking her.
ACE is really good at what they do. VERY good at PvP. But, if ONE person in a guild does something they don't like, the entire guild becomes KOS. Which is dumb, except, they really don't care if they have friends. They are pirates.
It's too bad that the carebears can't figure out how to play with the bad guys because the good guys are never going to win without them.
It's too bad that the carebears can't figure out how to play with the bad guys because the good guys are never going to win without them.
So, some of the 'friendly' guilds have formed the "Keystone Alliance". They are supposedly a pro-west alliance dedicated to furthering the prosperity of the west. They don't like BLANK. BLANK says "Fuck the west. Fuck the east. We are here for us." I admire their ambition by saying they don't intend to be the biggest guild in the west, they are going to be the biggest guild on the server. The Keystone Alliance feels there's enough stuff around to share. So there is talk that they want to gang up on Blank and kick them off of Auroria. However, they are talking to the east to accomplish this. Plan is to give Jolly Q a second castle (they only have one now) and Keystone alliance would take the other two.
As far as all this goes, where do you stand? Don't like Blank? Don't like Keystone? Don't care cause it's all lame? Just want to get Hasla weapons?
As far as all this goes, where do you stand? Don't like Blank? Don't like Keystone? Don't care cause it's all lame? Just want to get Hasla weapons?
Holy shitsnacks was tonight fun.
There was guild drama (not ours), normal trade runs, and then we went to the East... Four of us attempting a massive trade run. The first drop off went fine, but the reds were onto us. There was no way we could do 9 more trips.
That's when they called in the Ace Attorneys.
It was like the cavalry arrived. They came from every direction and once the trade run was over we just went on a massive pirating and killing spree. We dominated one of the East states for at least an hour.
I got 9 kills tonight and our group was 16-30 large at any time. We killed a LOT of folks.
So much to cover. I'm sure Cake will recount more when he's finally done playing.
There was guild drama (not ours), normal trade runs, and then we went to the East... Four of us attempting a massive trade run. The first drop off went fine, but the reds were onto us. There was no way we could do 9 more trips.
That's when they called in the Ace Attorneys.
It was like the cavalry arrived. They came from every direction and once the trade run was over we just went on a massive pirating and killing spree. We dominated one of the East states for at least an hour.
I got 9 kills tonight and our group was 16-30 large at any time. We killed a LOT of folks.
So much to cover. I'm sure Cake will recount more when he's finally done playing.
"Happy slaves are the worst enemies of freedom." - Marie Von Ebner
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies..." - Orwell
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies..." - Orwell
Night two of Peace time pirating reds in Ynystere.
First skirmish was a clipper with a couple of packs on it. No big deal.
Second skirmish. Red tradeship full of packs. It was Jolly Q. We captured the ship and blew it up with our Galleon. As it fell, there was a full on response by Jolly Q. They cleaned us up and took our Galleon down.
Third skirmish. Red tradeship full of packs. Captured it, blew it up, secured all but one trade pack. Didn't have room for it.
Fourth. Picked up a pile of fishing boats. Went out and it was a mix of Jolly Q and some other reds. We engage and are losing the fight being out numbered at least 2 to 1. But, they left a fishing boat unattended and Scooty made off with it. Parked our galleons in safe zone and left the fishing boat in open water. Cannons killed it and we secured all but one fish. A Jolly Q member managed to get one. Regrouped and went back out. Killed all reds and secured all ships but most were empty so not much of a haul.
Continued securing small ships here and there. But no major scores after that tradeship. Many many kills were scored though.
First skirmish was a clipper with a couple of packs on it. No big deal.
Second skirmish. Red tradeship full of packs. It was Jolly Q. We captured the ship and blew it up with our Galleon. As it fell, there was a full on response by Jolly Q. They cleaned us up and took our Galleon down.
Third skirmish. Red tradeship full of packs. Captured it, blew it up, secured all but one trade pack. Didn't have room for it.
Fourth. Picked up a pile of fishing boats. Went out and it was a mix of Jolly Q and some other reds. We engage and are losing the fight being out numbered at least 2 to 1. But, they left a fishing boat unattended and Scooty made off with it. Parked our galleons in safe zone and left the fishing boat in open water. Cannons killed it and we secured all but one fish. A Jolly Q member managed to get one. Regrouped and went back out. Killed all reds and secured all ships but most were empty so not much of a haul.
Continued securing small ships here and there. But no major scores after that tradeship. Many many kills were scored though.
Oh, more drama. Scooty officially left GUILD today and brough Ouche with him. Ouche had their trade ship. So, now TKV officially had a trade ship. Scooty left because he brokered a deal with BLANK that took GUILD off of BLANK's KOS list. Something there was much concern about. So, in order to help his guild, he paid BLANK for the trouble that was caused and patched things up. Along with this, Scooty has been running around with ACE Attorneys. A guild labeled as pirates by many guilds. Well, that's because they are. Their take on things, as I interpret them, "If you don't actively fight the enemies, then we have no use for you". So, guilds that don't do anything but carebear are valid targets. Guilds that actively fight the enemy faction are on their friends list. So, GUILDS carebear friends don't like ACE. So the above two things was earning Scooty the title of "spy". He brokered a deal that kept a MAJOR guild off their back with his OWN gold, but, he's a spy. Scooty also negotiated putting some of the western alliances on the ACE no kill list. So, two things that lowered hostilities to his friends. But, he was getting a bad reputation. So, he left. Ouche was tired of being in a guild with 90% inactive members, so he left with Scooty. I don't think Ouche will be with us for long. But, we'll use his trade ship as long as he is.
ACE seem to have accepted us completely. But I've only met about 20-30% of their members.
At one point, ACE is escorting Shenanigans into Sandeep past Jolly Q. A random green tradeship pulled into the port. ACE proceeded to pirate them. Scooty and I did participate. There were about 15 ACE, me and Scooty, about 8 Marines (an anti pk guild) and 2 Shenanigans on the ship. ACE and TKV attacked and killed the greens. Marines did nothing. Shenanigans brought a tradeship out for us to load up and carry the packs into Sandeep. Now, the Marines are supposed to be allies of the "Keystone Alliance", as are Shenanigans. Neither of them helped the random green guild that showed up. In fact, Shenanigans helped us with transport. So, there's two friendly alliances working closely with ACE. OH, some of the Marines grabbed trade packs off the blown up tradeship. While turning in the tradepacks, the guild we just killed is spamming nation chat with "Jolly Q and TKV, nice pirating". ACE was cracking up that we were getting credit for it. I said "That's how you saw that?!" And Scooty says "TKV is straight". Members of GUILD, including their GM Bashere (Scooty's previously best friend in the game) joined in the TKV are pirates banter in nation chat. So, we run with ACE all day long. Kill dozens and dozens of reds. Steal many tradepacks. We kill one friendly tradeship, with a major anti PK guild and a friend to the "Keystone Alliance" watching and/or helping, and they jump on us. Well, yes. We pirated. But to not mention anything about all the others is dumb.
Lastly, shortly after Sandeep, we get word that Blank is heading to Freedlich with 5 tradeships. Guess who goes to try to bust up that party. ACE and Marines. Was ANYONE from the Keystone Alliance there? No. Just us. It was a poorly run opperation on our part and we got slaughtered because of it (we had the element of surprise on our side until people got ADHD and blew our cover). So, everyone hates BLANK. BLANK should die. etc. The ONLY people doing anything about it is ACE and their allies.
It was fun running with people who actually do something. They don't just talk about it and try to reach some diplomatic whatever. They declare their intentions, openly, and do it. The other 'power houses' just talk all day long and do nothing. So, I don't feel too bad about pirating some of these people. They are worthless anyways.
ACE seem to have accepted us completely. But I've only met about 20-30% of their members.
At one point, ACE is escorting Shenanigans into Sandeep past Jolly Q. A random green tradeship pulled into the port. ACE proceeded to pirate them. Scooty and I did participate. There were about 15 ACE, me and Scooty, about 8 Marines (an anti pk guild) and 2 Shenanigans on the ship. ACE and TKV attacked and killed the greens. Marines did nothing. Shenanigans brought a tradeship out for us to load up and carry the packs into Sandeep. Now, the Marines are supposed to be allies of the "Keystone Alliance", as are Shenanigans. Neither of them helped the random green guild that showed up. In fact, Shenanigans helped us with transport. So, there's two friendly alliances working closely with ACE. OH, some of the Marines grabbed trade packs off the blown up tradeship. While turning in the tradepacks, the guild we just killed is spamming nation chat with "Jolly Q and TKV, nice pirating". ACE was cracking up that we were getting credit for it. I said "That's how you saw that?!" And Scooty says "TKV is straight". Members of GUILD, including their GM Bashere (Scooty's previously best friend in the game) joined in the TKV are pirates banter in nation chat. So, we run with ACE all day long. Kill dozens and dozens of reds. Steal many tradepacks. We kill one friendly tradeship, with a major anti PK guild and a friend to the "Keystone Alliance" watching and/or helping, and they jump on us. Well, yes. We pirated. But to not mention anything about all the others is dumb.
Lastly, shortly after Sandeep, we get word that Blank is heading to Freedlich with 5 tradeships. Guess who goes to try to bust up that party. ACE and Marines. Was ANYONE from the Keystone Alliance there? No. Just us. It was a poorly run opperation on our part and we got slaughtered because of it (we had the element of surprise on our side until people got ADHD and blew our cover). So, everyone hates BLANK. BLANK should die. etc. The ONLY people doing anything about it is ACE and their allies.
It was fun running with people who actually do something. They don't just talk about it and try to reach some diplomatic whatever. They declare their intentions, openly, and do it. The other 'power houses' just talk all day long and do nothing. So, I don't feel too bad about pirating some of these people. They are worthless anyways.
Moonlight crystals were down to just 4G per this morning! This makes me happy, the cost of crafting armor has dropped significantly. Haven't looked at the sunlight crystals but I'd imagine the prices have dropped similarly.
Cake what potions are you selling at that price? are you talking about oils? I saw that the price of charcoal just about tripled too, so I'm guessing oils went up in price too since they are used in many of the oils. Looks like I'm going to be making more trips from Ynstere to Two Crowns, 13 charcoal a trip is a pretty nice payout.
Cake what potions are you selling at that price? are you talking about oils? I saw that the price of charcoal just about tripled too, so I'm guessing oils went up in price too since they are used in many of the oils. Looks like I'm going to be making more trips from Ynstere to Two Crowns, 13 charcoal a trip is a pretty nice payout.
WORLD CHAMPIONS!!
Moonlight crystals were down to just 4G per this morning! This makes me happy, the cost of crafting armor has dropped significantly.
That's because fewer people are crafting and the new trees drop a significant amount of crystals that have flooded the market.
"Happy slaves are the worst enemies of freedom." - Marie Von Ebner
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies..." - Orwell
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies..." - Orwell
Stranger. Any chance of you NOT being a stranger tonight and being in game? Need to do more maintenance with the Family stuff. The guild is growing and we don't want our stuff set to guild privileges, and not everyone was in the Family.
If you could just delegate the stewardship to Cake or Leisher, that would help. Assuming Leisher is up for the responsibility.
Edited By Cakedaddy on 1415661945
If you could just delegate the stewardship to Cake or Leisher, that would help. Assuming Leisher is up for the responsibility.
Edited By Cakedaddy on 1415661945
My take on pirating, TKV, East vs. West, etc.
Started the game with a strong anti PK/Pirate stance. TKV doesn't PK. I don't PK. I know Troy, I did a couple of times. Shut up.
Also looked at the game as West vs East. They are enemies that the game built in for us. This would quench our thirst for blood and action. And I think it does. Leisher has been there. TONS of red opportunities. We don't HAVE to go after greens. So West vs East, GO WEST!! Kick some ass!!
Then there's Blank. Blank was all like "Ya, go west! Work together for winning!" Then they were like "Ok, we are big enough and have what we want now. Fuck you west." This has created a West vs East vs Blank thing. Blank has basically become a whole other entity that the server is waging war on. And I'm fine with that because they hog shit. Don't play nice with ANYone outside of Blank. Well, except for the few guilds that still think Blank might give them something. So, fuck Blank. I'm on board with that battle cry. Do they openly pirate? Yes. In a way. They may not kill a lot of greens. But they will force greens out of an area. Threaten them is a KOS mark, etc. That's just as bad in my opinion.
So, I am anti east and anti Blank. Pro West.
Now, the west. The major guilds in the west are just carebearing and trying to out zerg the zerg that is Blank. Is their plan to become better, smarter, etc? No. Their plan is to get bigger. They know they can't fight head to head because Blank is bigger. Even if they were the same size, they still don't want to fight because it would get expensive and they don't know how to fight. So, they will get bigger and win through numbers. Like Blank does. In the mean time, being as big as they are, they have players who are assholes. Pirate a sweet opportunity. Harpoon your boat and take you out to open waters to mess with you. Tip your boat. Etc. Sure, they are board. But don't fuck my shit up because you are. What do they do about these players? Nothing. Tell them to stop? Maybe. They currently have people in their guilds they don't like. Higher ranking people they don't like. Why don't they kick them? Politics. They are "Waiting for a reason". Who the fuck knows what that means. "Hey HoE, Xavier is as asshole" "Yes, we know. We are looking for a reason to kick him" What? They can't even keep their own shit clean because of politics. How are they ever going to go to war? They won't. They just want to get bigger and take Blank's toys. It will never happen, I think. In the mean time, they will bully smaller green guilds that might retaliate against them because some of their rogue players are assholes. So, the green guilds have green KOS lists. What? ya. Also, they spin shit like little bitches. HoE won't actively war and want to keep a good rep of "pro west". So, instead of taking care of a problem (like someone is pirating them) themselves, they bitch in Nation chat and exaggerate what is happening and leave out key details that might make them look bad. This is an attempt to get OTHER green guilds mad at you and put you on THEIR KOS list. This lets other people fight their battles for them. So, just fuck these little bitches up one side and down the other. Who needs that?
Finally, there's ACE. ACE is the ONLY guild that I have found that is actively and openly ANTI East and Blank. They routinely pirate the SHIT out of the reds. Troll red warzones. etc. They are actively waging war on the East. And Blank. They see Blank, they go after them. Out numbered? Don't give a fuck. It's blank. And they aren't very good at fighting so they can have more numbers and still lose. But most of all, because that's the fucking mission. Kill Blank. Kill the East. That's the mission. And they are on it. HoE and Mithral advertise in Nation chat Blank activities, so some one else can go take care of it. They won't. They are scared. ACE don't give a fuck. So, go ACE. On track and moving forward. However. When there are no reds or blank to kill. . well, they will kill greens. But not ALL greens. They have their allies too. You know who they are? Other people who are in the East killing reds with them. Other people that go to Freedlich, out numbered, to try to stop a Blank trade run. They are all ALSO on the fucking mission. Funny thing is, most of them aren't supposed to be. They aren't supposed to be attacking Blank. But they do. Etc. So, ACE friends are anti Blank and anti East, and are actively participating in this war. But, they do pirate. If they don't know you and you have a trade pack, you're going to get attacked.
In summary, I'm planning on joining ACE as Cakedaddy, or, changing our name to something other than TKV. I'm going to pirate with them. Because at this point, if you aren't on the mission? You are in the way and taking resources from those of us that are. But ideally, I would change our name from TKV, but remain separate and make sure they know that we don't go purple on non-enemies. And really, if they are cool with us not fighting in EVERY fight out there, we should be able to stay TKV because we are only fighting people we have declared war on. Hell, that's what the Marines did the other night AND they turned in packs from the victims! At least we would leave the packs alone out of principle.
That is all.
Started the game with a strong anti PK/Pirate stance. TKV doesn't PK. I don't PK. I know Troy, I did a couple of times. Shut up.
Also looked at the game as West vs East. They are enemies that the game built in for us. This would quench our thirst for blood and action. And I think it does. Leisher has been there. TONS of red opportunities. We don't HAVE to go after greens. So West vs East, GO WEST!! Kick some ass!!
Then there's Blank. Blank was all like "Ya, go west! Work together for winning!" Then they were like "Ok, we are big enough and have what we want now. Fuck you west." This has created a West vs East vs Blank thing. Blank has basically become a whole other entity that the server is waging war on. And I'm fine with that because they hog shit. Don't play nice with ANYone outside of Blank. Well, except for the few guilds that still think Blank might give them something. So, fuck Blank. I'm on board with that battle cry. Do they openly pirate? Yes. In a way. They may not kill a lot of greens. But they will force greens out of an area. Threaten them is a KOS mark, etc. That's just as bad in my opinion.
So, I am anti east and anti Blank. Pro West.
Now, the west. The major guilds in the west are just carebearing and trying to out zerg the zerg that is Blank. Is their plan to become better, smarter, etc? No. Their plan is to get bigger. They know they can't fight head to head because Blank is bigger. Even if they were the same size, they still don't want to fight because it would get expensive and they don't know how to fight. So, they will get bigger and win through numbers. Like Blank does. In the mean time, being as big as they are, they have players who are assholes. Pirate a sweet opportunity. Harpoon your boat and take you out to open waters to mess with you. Tip your boat. Etc. Sure, they are board. But don't fuck my shit up because you are. What do they do about these players? Nothing. Tell them to stop? Maybe. They currently have people in their guilds they don't like. Higher ranking people they don't like. Why don't they kick them? Politics. They are "Waiting for a reason". Who the fuck knows what that means. "Hey HoE, Xavier is as asshole" "Yes, we know. We are looking for a reason to kick him" What? They can't even keep their own shit clean because of politics. How are they ever going to go to war? They won't. They just want to get bigger and take Blank's toys. It will never happen, I think. In the mean time, they will bully smaller green guilds that might retaliate against them because some of their rogue players are assholes. So, the green guilds have green KOS lists. What? ya. Also, they spin shit like little bitches. HoE won't actively war and want to keep a good rep of "pro west". So, instead of taking care of a problem (like someone is pirating them) themselves, they bitch in Nation chat and exaggerate what is happening and leave out key details that might make them look bad. This is an attempt to get OTHER green guilds mad at you and put you on THEIR KOS list. This lets other people fight their battles for them. So, just fuck these little bitches up one side and down the other. Who needs that?
Finally, there's ACE. ACE is the ONLY guild that I have found that is actively and openly ANTI East and Blank. They routinely pirate the SHIT out of the reds. Troll red warzones. etc. They are actively waging war on the East. And Blank. They see Blank, they go after them. Out numbered? Don't give a fuck. It's blank. And they aren't very good at fighting so they can have more numbers and still lose. But most of all, because that's the fucking mission. Kill Blank. Kill the East. That's the mission. And they are on it. HoE and Mithral advertise in Nation chat Blank activities, so some one else can go take care of it. They won't. They are scared. ACE don't give a fuck. So, go ACE. On track and moving forward. However. When there are no reds or blank to kill. . well, they will kill greens. But not ALL greens. They have their allies too. You know who they are? Other people who are in the East killing reds with them. Other people that go to Freedlich, out numbered, to try to stop a Blank trade run. They are all ALSO on the fucking mission. Funny thing is, most of them aren't supposed to be. They aren't supposed to be attacking Blank. But they do. Etc. So, ACE friends are anti Blank and anti East, and are actively participating in this war. But, they do pirate. If they don't know you and you have a trade pack, you're going to get attacked.
In summary, I'm planning on joining ACE as Cakedaddy, or, changing our name to something other than TKV. I'm going to pirate with them. Because at this point, if you aren't on the mission? You are in the way and taking resources from those of us that are.
But ideally, I would change our name from TKV, but remain separate and make sure they know that we don't go purple on non-enemies. And really, if they are cool with us not fighting in EVERY fight out there, we should be able to stay TKV because we are only fighting people we have declared war on. Hell, that's what the Marines did the other night AND they turned in packs from the victims! At least we would leave the packs alone out of principle.That is all.