Veteran's Alliance

V alliance is interesting. Seems to be nothing but military veterans, a few big time top dog coiners call the shots, one of the guys was bragging that he spends 120 dollars a week on the game, then spent 2 hours justifying himself and gloating about his amazing wealth. I was a little sickened, but hey, he's free to spend his money how he pleases.

I showed up with only one other person from the main group, there were no spots left in the sector so Tokahontis and we started hitting local miners, trying to push a couple people out of the sector to make room. The next morning though, Sloaney took everyone else back to sector 85.

WhtWolf is the biggest mouthpiece in comms and he asks Mutt who hit his miners. Mutt is really angry, spouting off that he's lost 5 ships now to in-sector hitters! I used the minimalist approach at first. Wolf asked why, I said 'farming'. He explains that there is no in-sector hitting in 224 and I said I was gathering resources from local miners and he shouldn't try to force his rules on me.

I went to sector 223 to hit miners, it was only 1 minute away. While I'm getting started up there, gathering up that last 2mil zynth I need to build another scorpion, V alliance starts giving me mandates. Martin-V (level 34) says he's 11 minutes out. I warn them not to escalate the situation, that I am not someone they want to pick on. That infuriates them and I start smiling. This could be a fun week afterall.

Sky-King shows up with seawolfs and hits all my perimeter buildings, checking out my layout and talking loads of trash about how I'm pathetic and they're going to farm me and blah blah blah. I watch Martin-V arrive with a FF fleet, presumably mortars, and a siege missile fleet of HHs, which he hit me with. His ships took almost no damage, my base design is still anti-mortar. Before he attacked, I launched longships to scout what he was using, and told him, "you will win with that fleet, but I recommend you don't get me started". He did not take me seriously. He also did not get all the way to my dock or outpost before he ran out of time.

After that, it was game on. After doing some chores and running an errand, I sat down to several hours of gaming enjoyment. Every time comms went quiet, I ranted about how the bullies in V alliance are forcing their gamestyle on the patrons of the sector, and that this game is free to play how you please. Very few people speak up, but this is only the first day.

"Kixeye showed up an hour ago guys, they said we now have permission to attack each other in sector". For some reason they didn't believe me.

I went thru and bookmarked every draconian base in the sector. There are 25 of them, roughly spaced out every 100 clicks. Five from southwest to northeast, five rows of five from northwest to southeast. Then I split up my seawolfs into groups of two. I now have a gunscorpion and missile scorpion fleet, and 3 fleets with 2 missile wolfs in each. Then I put together a few twin longship fleets.

I scan the drac fields, sending a fleet to each field with easy targets (warm-up) and send the longships to the fields with big players (to scout their weapon arrangements). I found out that almost all of them still have thuds, and many that have missiles dont even have booster on them yet. The rest of them use hydra/mortar setups, and those are just terrible.

I sank 300 fleets in the first 24 hours. Yes, thats around 1500 ships. Someone logged in that night and made a comment to break the silence in comms. "Wow, drac fields are almost empty!" I told him what had happened, then V alliance went off in comms for another hour. Every time they get quiet I make a few comments then minimize comms again.

Day one in sector 224 has been a lot of fun.