Beware of Geeks bearing gifts...

Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeo_Dana … a_ferentes

There seems to be some mistrust about CIR's motives to donate bots. Discarding the possibility that CIR will crawl out of the bots at night to butcher the new players what motives do people think there can be?

Buying loyalty? Syndic is smart enough to realise that this only works with mercenaries, and only as long as you continue to pay them. Since the Nex corporation themselves say they will likely fragment at one point there is no gain in making friends with that corp.

Besides, any ally you need to buy is not an ally that is worth having.

Poaching members? how? by giving bots to them even without them joining your ranks? one of the best ways to get new players to join your corp would be to wave exciting new bots in front of them and tell them its all theirs if they just sign here.....if anything this donation has increased the independence of the new players.

Getting the new corp set up? it might help, it would mean they can use the bots to get to their feet. Go roaming and  engage in PvP which is something that CIR and others have always been interested in. The faster more players are ready to take the field the more interesting the game becomes.

Ofcourse it might be even simpler, Syndic might just be a big carebear, wanting to help out his fellow players. Those who know him will know how typical that is of him

whatever the reason, enjoy the bots, dont blow them up all at once

I'm actually +1 FOR this idea, I want to crawl out of bots in the middle of the night and slay sparks while they rest safely in their outposts! >:)

I for one don't mind a free Rivler mk2 and a Lithus (Yeah I put the lithus back in M2S corp hanger before I took my break from perptuum, did not expect what would happen it while I was gone. )

I would however prefer one without bugs installed in every module.

DoH! forgot to post on blackomen.

So how do you want the unskilled targets to get skilled? By killing NPC?  And the rush for PVP is already strong in the young ones, just look at the arkhe floods! Even if someone is looking for a new place, CIR has only 6 slots left and we won't increase the cap

CIR is not a good my good sir! It's a way of life! DANCE!
WE ARE THE RUSSIAN DANCING MEN

I find it absolutely horrific how you are thinking. We decided to make this donation to the new guys because we want them to enjoy the game more and not ragequit. This is a rare moment in Perpetuum's history where all of us old players should be banding together to give the newcomers a proper welcome and making them at home in the game!

That mindset of being some evil manipulating entity I will happily leave to someone else, and judging by what I've read so far you're far more qualified then me anyway.

TL;DR

Donation: Something you are giving away, for nothing in return. I am sure NeX can confirm that we have never asked for anything in return for the help we have given.

So plz, leave the tinfoil hats in the closet.

You may have misunderstood my post or taken something I said to be directed at you personally or at CIR. It wasn't. I do not believe the post I responded to was even written by a CIR Corp. member, was it?

Instead, it was aimed at giving NeX members a sober view of how to value and use CIR's largesse and what some of the potential negative outcomes could be here - outcomes which are no different than in the game they just came from - considering that Perp. supports as varied and complex an environment.

I applaud CIR for their generosity but I take exception with the numerous suggestions in this thread that they waste it either for the instant gratification of their members or that of other Corps. My post was in response to one of these that, I felt, was an attempt to deflect NeX members from having a thoughtful, internal debate about their options.

Well, Im not officialy in the CIR corporation but Ive worked with CIR in Warhammer&was their head diplomat in Mortal Online.

I dont play perpetuum all that much at the moment. So it would be rather a waste to let me take up a slot in the corporation. 

So yeah, Im affiliated with CIR, but the post I made has been made solely by me. Not in conjunction with CIR staff. Syn generally gets itchy if anyone suggest carebearism.

I can assure you that Syndic doesnt dictate my posts, I remember in Mortal when Syn was a bit upset when I revealed that the leader of CIR was a woman. That seemed to lead to a lot of misunderstandings, but on the bright side: it did mean that Syn was less reluctant to talk on the radio

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we have a ts3 server?  now that I didnt know.