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Yakov Draken
Minmatar Tides Of War
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Posted - 2009.07.22 00:13:00 -
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TOW is two û well we were a few days ago when I was supposed to put this post up. Belated birthday Yarrr!
Whiskey, wenches, and illicit drugs allround.
Most of you don't know, or care, who we are but here's a potted history for those who do.
Tides of War was born out of The Newb Patrol - a bunch of nub pvpers flying free cruisers (o7 Fun Inc.) in Syndicate in a "starter" alliance - Knights of Syndicate. As someone once said - "we all have our own KOS." Our best mates/enemies where Ideal Machine (o/) from Ronin who were always up for a fight - more than we could handle often. Good times!
When we got too uppity to remain in our alliance (serious blue issue going on) we formed TOW with our dodgy pvp vet mate Guy. He was a nice guy and always up for a fight . . . but he walked away with most of our isk when he got bored (think billions not millions). What were we doing with that sort of isk? Trading in the wake of the big crash in T2 mods - vastly increased demand with not that many established traders. What were we doing being so free with our isk? Naive nubs.
Early on pirating in Placid was a big challenge. We were low skill point, we didn't know the water, and our numbers were low. At first we based out of Iges moving next door to Dastryns when we grew stronger. In the worst times I played alone feeding on a diet of odd named Caracal pilots in my Hurricane while trying not to get blobbed. With the recruitment of some old gaming friends things started to build up and the addition of the odd vet plus our own SP growth has got things rolling nicely. Our membership has recently peaked at 11 - we are not recruiting.
We are a pirate corp. We attack mission runners, other pirates because they prey on *our* targets, and of course anti-pirates. We like the fights, alot, but we live by the loot and pod/mission ransoms - especially the faction loot. Loot is the best - faction loot is the best loot! ôPlease let the faction mods drop!"
When we started we were inspired by stories of Burn Eden living a good life off the loot from their kills and so we set out, without believing it would happen, to try and do this in our own way. The Corp takes all loot and in turn provides members most of what they need to pvp. Initially members payed a tithe to get TOW going but it didn't take too long for this to turn around. It was a long time ago that we broke even and got into making isk from pirating. This is the best thing - this is what we are most proud of. Ok that is not completely true - this and when we demolish superior forces through low down cunning and devilish tricks.
Part of living off loot is being efficient in pvp. Our KB efficiency sits around 93% - 99b destroyed, 7.5b lost (ship values). Note our KB's stats page has been randomly ignoring posted kills/losses for a while now so you have to check the "All Up" campaign to get all the kills/losses. Yes we take pride in our pvp stats so flame on. Stats are always a bit random as we long ago gave up trying to correct the ship values every time they reset but at least these stats are overwhelmingly ours as we rarely fly with others û Readiness GR Clan are our most common gang mates and we share 10 kills with them.
On that note a big o/ to our crazy Greek mates in Clan Readiness who are our only meaningful blue. Get flashy guys so you can shoot **** with us more often!
A lot of other corps we would like to thank for shooting us - pew pew! /bow
We remain a bunch of naive nubs in many respects - we keep our word, dislike smack, don't much like caps - all of which is pretty duh for Eve. Our turnout is inconsistent plus we suck at moving around - we have spent most of our Eve lives in Placid. On some level most of us don't really ôgetö Eve *but* we do really enjoy blowing peoples **** up and looting their wrecks so it is all good.
Yarrr!
ps. Thanks CCP for an amazing game now please buff large AC's/Tempest thkyvm&bye
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Shinichi Hakeda
Tides Of War
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Posted - 2009.07.22 00:14:00 -
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Edited by: Shinichi Hakeda on 22/07/2009 00:21:13 Edited by: Shinichi Hakeda on 22/07/2009 00:14:53 Yarr!
I miss my speedo wearing frisbeee freak!
Tides of War
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TheLibrarian
Tides Of War
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Posted - 2009.07.22 00:14:00 -
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I was once a wee little boy. Now I feel like a man. Yarr!
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Taram Caldar
Noir. Noir. Mercenary Group
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Posted - 2009.07.22 00:15:00 -
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Happy birthday guys.
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Lyvenrith Imshadar
Gallente Tides Of War
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Posted - 2009.07.22 00:17:00 -
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Edited by: Lyvenrith Imshadar on 22/07/2009 00:18:30 Happy birthday corpmates! Glad I was persuaded to play =D
PS: Guard your livestock!
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Yakov Draken
Minmatar Tides Of War
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Posted - 2009.07.22 00:21:00 -
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A special thanks to Necrolyte2/Tyghe. He may not be playing right now (sunshine is over-rated dude!) but he was there at the beginning (http://www.eveonline.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=529355) and it was Necro who talked me out of giving up when times were bad. Get back in game you frizzbee!
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FievelGoesPostal
Gallente The Giant Squid Corp.
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Posted - 2009.07.22 00:41:00 -
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Happy Birthday guys!
Great group of pvpers who will make you pay if you underestimate them or come unprepared( as we have found out at least twice, lol).
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Cordell Royston
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Posted - 2009.07.22 00:54:00 -
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Yarr
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Six Tsu
Tides Of War
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Posted - 2009.07.22 00:56:00 -
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Happy Birthday to us.
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Sniper699
Gallente Havoc Violence and Chaos
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Posted - 2009.07.22 01:01:00 -
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Great group of guys, I look forward to many more fights =p
-Snipe
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Jinto himoshimo
Gallente Tides Of War
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Posted - 2009.07.22 01:06:00 -
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The best fun is had in war. The best combat is pewing the face off smackers before their blob warps in.
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W3370Pi4
Caldari
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Posted - 2009.07.22 01:15:00 -
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happy BD _______ Join the "Legit Trading"Channel *Scam Free Trading Channel* |
Karlemgne
Tides Of War
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Posted - 2009.07.22 02:13:00 -
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Confirming that I am one of the "odd vets." I am also sad to report that while my time in ToW currently reads over 6 months, it should be over a year. Unfortunately, I had the misfortune of accepting an invitation to "lead an alliance" during one of the slow times in ToW.
And don't get me wrong, my friends from my Black Fleet days are some of the best friends I've made in any game, but I will not be making that mistake again.
So that's a round about way of saying that I've been in ToW for more than a year, and there is really no better group of people in this game, nor is there, by my estimation, any corporation that surpasses Tides of War in the area of good times to be had.
Cheers,
-Karlemgne My sig don't fracking work. |
Siriyana
Astrum Contract Services Group
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Posted - 2009.07.22 08:31:00 -
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Edited by: Siriyana on 22/07/2009 08:32:39 Confirming I have randomly ganged up with Yakov to help score a big mission-runner kill party, and then immediately had a stand-off whereby neither of us were sure we'd kill each other or not.
Happy Birthday guys. Look forward to seeing you on either end of my gun barrels anytime.
PS: If it's eve-dev, try database -> empty cache.
Might fix your current kills issue. ACSG Open Recruitment- AU/NZ/AsiaPac ACSG Employment! |
Missy Bunnz
Caldari Astrum Contract Services Group
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Posted - 2009.07.22 11:13:00 -
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Post reported and requested to be moved to the GAF forum! This isn't lovefest central you realise, this is C&P!
(Meanwhile, congrats on making 2, happy to gang or shoot the bloody lot of you anytime!)
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Tyghe
Caldari Tides Of War
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Posted - 2009.07.22 16:30:00 -
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I'd post under Necro, but sadly he has been laid into cryostasis for the time being.
The saddest thing about my current absence is talking with these guys on a nightly basis, truly are some awesome people as are most of the people we fight.
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Omarvelous
Destry's Lounge Important Internet Spaceship League
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Posted - 2009.07.22 19:52:00 -
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Took me a while to post - but Happy Birthday TOW. I've enjoyed the skirmishes in Placid!
Great bunch of pilots, extremely skilled, and pleasant to talk to - even after a fight.
Here's to more years for you guys!
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Raiiden
Gallente WOLVES ll
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Posted - 2009.07.23 04:18:00 -
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YARR!
happy bday Tides, you badass pirates...
this still dont mean i like you ----------------------------------------
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Lazarann
Caldari Corporation 12345 Minor Threat.
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Posted - 2009.07.23 14:05:00 -
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Edited by: Lazarann on 23/07/2009 14:06:40 Happy birthday dudes! I miss the good old days with you (shooting you that is ) Glad to hear you guys still going strong. edit: zomg tyghe! You guys bring back memories. |
jimmyjam
Gallente Sinner Among Saints Exquisite Malevolence
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Posted - 2009.07.23 19:31:00 -
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Congrats on turning 2 tow has some great pilots , much respect. |
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Yakov Draken
Minmatar Tides Of War
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Posted - 2009.07.23 21:47:00 -
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Thanks to all for the well wishes. Great to see our local opponents in our thread plus some old faces - hey Laz!
Have to say though that Missy Bunnz has a point - this is C&P so where is the hate? We came expecting to leave flame roasted and thoroughly smacked.
Good advice on the KB Siri - worked a treat.
Hey Jimmyjam - fought you a couple of times but never really said hello. You guys (EM) were nasty boogeymen back when I was a total nub so encountering you always has that special edge.
We have had a fun week so far celebrating out birthday with cruiser roams. It has gone well though we took a bit of pasting in OMS yesterday - because of Falcon! Well that and being greedy and trying to kill too much stuff in different places all at once.
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Karlemgne
Tides Of War
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Posted - 2009.07.24 05:42:00 -
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No kidding. There were more than enough people willing to flame us in other threads, and they never appeared here. :P |
Vampire G6
Readiness GR Clan Corporation
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Posted - 2009.07.24 17:30:00 -
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Happy birthday Guys and keep up the fun !! I got to say u do a awsome job killing stuff .. I remember when we first met you we were so happy to fight you (and we kept coming for it ) cause of the great fun even if we lost most of the times (but won some too) after all this is all about the game HAVING FUN in blowing stuff to pieces . You guys are among our brothers in EVE and Greeks do know how to honor that !! Your Crazy Greek Fiends wish you well and happy kill`s RDNS CEO |
matrixopoulos
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Posted - 2009.07.24 18:02:00 -
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3 words for u guys
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
&
RESPECT
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TheLibrarian
Tides Of War
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Posted - 2009.07.24 22:36:00 -
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Edited by: TheLibrarian on 24/07/2009 22:36:37 I hear placid is scary.
Edit: Real Scary!
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species2143
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Posted - 2009.07.24 22:48:00 -
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Coagulations!
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Missy Bunnz
Caldari Astrum Contract Services Group
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Posted - 2009.07.27 11:37:00 -
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Originally by: TheLibrarian Edited by: TheLibrarian on 24/07/2009 22:36:37 I hear placid is scary.
Edit: Real Scary!
How would you know Librarian? I didn't think you ever undocked.
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TheLibrarian
Minmatar Tides Of War
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Posted - 2009.08.02 02:45:00 -
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Originally by: Missy Bunnz
Originally by: TheLibrarian Edited by: TheLibrarian on 24/07/2009 22:36:37 I hear placid is scary.
Edit: Real Scary!
How would you know Librarian? I didn't think you ever undocked.
I only undock when your not in local, so you wouldn't know. If I see you in another system I log off.
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