Armor Plates And Smacktalk
Posted by: Marlenus, in Ironfleet Info, Name And Shame, Notable Smacktalk, Salvage NotesI’ve been spending some time on the Singularity test server, checking out the new probing system coming with the March 10 Apocrypha expansion. It’s still horribly buggy, but looks promising; more player skill to use, less randomness, less endless waiting. It looks like it will be easier to find specific ships (especially in deadspaces) than at present, to the dismay of low sec mission runners; but on the converse, the “salvager buffet” in busy mission running systems is going away. Instead of getting many warpable hits in single scan, all nicely identified by ship type, possible mission runners will need to be checked out one-by-one, with probe repositioning between efforts. All in all, I’m quite happy about the proposed changes, but mission salvage will be very different in a few weeks.
So, I decided to have one more taste of it, and dropped some probes. Found, fairly quickly, a bunch of small and medium Blood wrecks at an acceleration gate. The directional scanner indicated large wrecks through the gate, so through the gate I went.
It was a small wreck field, with only about five large wrecks and perhaps twenty mediums and smalls; so I decided to cherry pick the larges in my covert ops ship, rather than going back for a dedicated salvager. Good thing I did, too; because about the time I finished salvaging the large wrecks, three mission runner types showed up and began hoovering their wrecks at a great rate of speed. I had ten armor plates and thirty burned logic circuits, so I was happy; I salvaged another half-dozen mediums while they worked, and we were done.
Note I said I was happy. Them? Not so much.
Shortly after they arrived, I got a convo invite. Jarmada, apparently as much a stranger to punctuation as he is to courtesy and spelling, got right to the point:
Jarmada > fuck off
Jarmada > is this you mission
Marlenus > Would you like a petition for bad language?
Jarmada > do iyt
Jarmada > this is not your missiopn
Marlenus > Never said it was
Jarmada > so get out
Marlenus > Why?
Apparently he was stymied by the rhetorical force of my inquiry, because he ended the conversation.
Perhaps unhappy with the outcome, he sent me a somewhat incoherent EVEmail:
to piss poor to do your own missions : so u steal from other pple : your a scum bag of the lowest form
At this point, I looked up his info. He’s the CEO and founder of a two-member corp confusingly called The Australian Alliance. Don’t they speak English in Australia? Or have some form of literacy education in primary school?
I replied with a cheerful version of the Ironfleet form letter:
Just a salvager, actually; salvaging wrecks is what I do for a living. It’s not theft — salvage is not owned.
Have a look at the Ironfleet Towing And Salvage blog (ironfleet.com) if you’re curious about the profession. While you are there, check out the “GMs On Salvage” article, to learn why it’s not theft as you seem to think.
Cheerio —
Marlenus, CEO
Ironfleet Towing and Salvage
This earned me a more coherent, if still unusually punctuated as well as unreceptive, response, urging me to play the game his way instead of mine:
salvage is theft : this is my mission : i did the kills : i dont use probes to find other pples salvage : go to a belt and salvage the wrecks there if ya want the salvage that bad
Pish, tush, my good man! If I did that, I wouldn’t have gotten all these lovely Armor Plates!
Somewhere in all this, he decided to do some Ironfleet advertising in local, which is always appreciated:
Jarmada > watch your missions guys : thers a prick in here mission jumping and salvaging your loot : name is “Marlenus” :
Ianmizu > just salvaging, or looting too?
Jarmada > just salvaging : so u cant shoot the asswipe
Ianmizu > ah :(
Jarmada > i not going to help the prick : not doin missions in this system
Jarmada > cya’s
Ianmizu > o/
Marlenus > Just another one of the many spaceways cleaning services Ironfleet Towing And Salvage is happy to provide!
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February 22nd, 2009 at 5:21 pm
Hey great salvages! That man was not so nice >:/
So just to make things clear, you checked out SiSi, hopped back on TQ, and did this right?
If so, I heard you can scan directly for wrecks on SiSi? In my opinion that makes a lot of sense.
February 22nd, 2009 at 5:58 pm
Tony, yes, I spent some time on Sisi the last few days but the action in this blog post was on TQ of course.
Sadly, I have not seen any evidence you can scan for wrecks on SISI. The probing system there is still very much a work in progress, so that’s far from the final word; but I don’t think wrecks are part of the system as it’s being built.
February 23rd, 2009 at 4:16 am
Great job Marl’ the reactions some people get can be quite amusing. I see you as doing the New Eden space lanes a great service. All them wrecks constitute a space hazard so you’re making the place a safer place.
Flashfresh
March 3rd, 2009 at 8:45 am
I thank you for your continued effort to keep New Eden clean from rubbish. I think you’re doing a great public service, and infact, should be rewarded for your work (unless the smack is enough of course).
Health and Safety will certainly approve, I mean imagine dropping out of warp into a cluster of floating space debris… Could be lethal, or at the very least scratch the paint. Once again your tireless efforts are appreciated.
Fly safe o/
March 11th, 2009 at 7:14 pm
lol hey. If I’m missioning and you can me down to salvage, I’ll say ‘go ahead. take it’. Usually people who scan me down are there to pop me. lol.