I think I have to disagree here.  First, if you can get lots of little groups out into the beta islands trying to do their own thing, then you have a better probability of running into someone.  It shouldn't just be massive corps out there because it means you need to have a similarly sized friends list to be effective (especially just starting out).

Truth be told, this "pirate" activity how I learned EVE pvp mechanics.  Tiberiuis, from FOOM, and I would grab our recons and headout into lowsec looking for a fight.  Sometimes we got industrials, as you put it, but the majority of the fights were with people also in small groups trying to do the same thing.  We won some and we lost some - but we had fun and we learned.

It would be unfortunate to bypass or ignore these similar experiences in Perpetuum because the same fun and learning can occur without needing a friends or corp list a mile long.  I believe that further encouraging smaller groups to head out into the betas would be a massive benefit to the longevity of the game.

Mara,

As far as I know, the 5 assaults you guys threw at us a couple nights ago wasn't a predetermined event.  None of the FCs were contacted as far as I was told.  If you guys thought you were going to not have a chance to win that fight, then I don't understand why you did it.

But that is night and day when compared to last night.  You knew:

• Our numbers

• Our mech types

• The fact we were LWF/Roam fit

• A location we were going to be waiting

And then you bring Kain Mk2, 2 mech ewars, and a couple more mechs.

I'm sorry but we have no interest in just feeding people.  We don't feel that the older players deserve to hand out a free asswhooping to the noobies.  I (we) don't care if we get smoked on a roam because its random chance.  That, in fact, was the purpose of the roam last night.  I can guarentee you that if all those shiny toys were brought down on us while we were roaming 3 beta islands last night, we would have gf'ed in general and gone on about the night.

However, your corp mate's screaming in general about how we should have just fought a vastly superior size and equiped force have lost touch in the message you've been spreading.  I can understand the frustration of Immortal Death getting baited into dying and the desire to get a second wack at a fight.  But complaining about the lack of fights and then picking an obviously disproportional force to a setup event doesn't compute for where we are coming from.

And I'm done discussing that particular event.  FOOM's position was made clear in our political post.

Mara, if we tell you how many people, fit for roam, in assaults and lights are going to be at a particular spot while we twiddle our thumbs and you show up with 10 people in mechs, Mk2s, and heavy ewars...  yeah it is a bad fight.  Hence why structured pvp is a farce.

Quoting the OP for re-emphasis and to get back on topic.  This isn't the corporation subforum and we aren't interested in which side the the current political fence feels they have the most polished tin star and white hat.

What we are interested in is trying to get more people out into the beta islands during US time zones.

We were outside the outpost yesterday...

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The roam itself was textbook but nothing like covering 3 (actually 4 if you count tellesis) and only getting an unlucky 62nd.  nWar gave us a good fight, as always.  However, FOOM is very concerned about the game being heavily biased.

New Assault Bot and Light Weight Frame changes really have helped starting toons.  FOOM is taking full advantage of the new changes.  Talk to us today about joining.  Visit DPS Recruit channel in game to talk to a recruiter!

Props to nWar.  Ultroth and Mako bring the fights.

We've gotten pasted a couple times by M2S.  Had a roam last weekend which ended up going to Hok cause nobody else was going to play with 10 T1 lights and assaults.  However, being all of two weeks old, we try not to just take our T1 bots to engagements at 500m.

We will get there!

Bump Bump!  Or should I say boom boom?

Thanks for putting it on Mara.  When is your next one?

Thanks again to nWar for giving us a good fight last night.  We enjoy watching pixels go boom.  I think we came out slightly ahead on that one but, never the less, things do go boom.

FOOM is still looking for people who would like to participate in a corp which is still young but making great strides in industry and pvp.  If you are tired of going it alone with missions or industry on the alpha islands or want to escape the beta island politics for some fun romps through everyone territory, hop over to DPS Recruit and speak with a recruiter.

Check out: http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game … abled.html

I guess they didn't like people expressing interesting in one of the few sandbox games out there.