Response to EVE Tribune Article: How to Keep a Corp Alive
Monday, September 7, 2009 at 12:27AM In the EVE Tribune article, How to Keep a Corp Alive, the author discusses different ways that a CEO can prevent their corporations from collapsing due to member boredom and inactivity. Overall, I thought it was a good article. I would have responded to EVE Tribune directly, but the website lacks any way to comment. Apparently they aren’t interested in our opinions.
Ahem… Anyway…
In the article, the author talks about activities that corp members can do together to stay interested and active. Some of the ideas listed include exploring, mining ops, and group mission running, all which sound super cool and fun, but the author also included ninja salvaging. Of course that caught my eye.
“A recently popular activity is gangs of ‘ninja salvagers’ that use several members to clean out a mission together.”
This is a recent popular activity? This is the first time that I’ve heard of other people doing it, but if it is true, then that is awesome.
TEARS has been doing group salvage ops for quite a while now – it is one of the things that we are (in)famous for – and I have to say, it’s a lot of fun. To me, there’s nothing more satisfying than watching a fleet of ninjas descend like a purple storm upon a hapless mission runner and his nearly complete Angel mission; stripping the deadspace area clean of salvage and loot, and all in the span of a couple of minutes. Then, as suddenly as they arrived, the ninjas disappear into deep space from whence they came, on a high-speed collision course with the next victim, leaving behind only a baffled mission runner sitting in the vaccum of space. Alone.
Somebody get me a towel.
It really is a lot of fun. I dare you to try it. I’ll warn you though, you may just find your next profession.
Submitting my blog for review, CK. It's only a matter of time before all of New Eden is reading it anyway. No fan faction here. No crying about game mechanics, or contributions to the latest set of speculations by fellow bloggers. Only pure, unadulterated Velocity Prime, CEO of EVE's Premiere Ninja Salvaging Corporation.