Admiral Dadds, do you have an official comment relating to the latest claim of a tactical win over your positions by corporation [PMI]

" Good evening, good morning, ladies and gents, pilots and miners. As of 01-Feb-2013 13:31:35 i can neither confirm nor deny the possible strike

against one of our corporation members. All intel available to me doesnt even place my pilot in that location, so likely the transmission may be

coming from fraudulent sources in an attempt to produce propaganda to further their pretence of superiority and power.  Guaranteed as soon as I

or my war office is advised of an incursion, i will be in a better position to make a formal statement.

"As to Jam-Jul claims to "rid us" of our infestation, let me point out that not one of our crew have ever attacked a corporation or an

individual, excepting the pirates that now run rampant and increasing their attacks against all of us. "

"We are but one team, a small group of hard working members, who are actively trying to bring peace to our part of the galaxy, but sometimes we

cant do it alone. We implore senior corporations like [NHC] to review their NAP policies with known pirating groups who actively seek the weak

and helpless and then gloat about them on a press release. We will remain steadfast until the end. If we are finally beaten by complacency, then

who, i would ask, is next in the firing line?"

"The reports of Jam-Jul from [PMI] are unsubstantiated to date but as soon as i have the data, rest assured i will release it to the public. As

to Jam-Jul's claim of more strikes, that is just space dribble since they have no empirical data on any of our operational bases. I think the

adrenalin went down the wrong vein with that statement LOL"

"Again, all peaceful pilots who wish to have this threat removed please contact our head office with any information regarding the ongoing

threat."

"Unlike [PMI] press releases, [IMG] press releases remain open to the public for comment and view. THAT if nothing else, shows the true nature of

what we all have to face with censorship and pirate states"

Dadds
COmmander [IMG]

Good idea but it won't do any good. You can't do Corp team up attacks right now.

Not quite the point Hanuman was making i think.

7. Attacks on Corp members should be highlighted on a dashborad for that corp, so that any member within close proximity can go help him/her.

Sure you cant combine attacks right now. But as i just proved with my team, if they are aware of an attack and are within strike range, they can jump in and remove the threat of attack by getting a quicker combat calculation than the one against your colleague. It was lucky that i was online and alerted my team who had a vessel in the area to assist in an assault of my station that my station survived, and we repelled borders.
If i was offline during the full combat count would have been different story. If my team had as Hanuman suggests, an indicator on who was being attacked in your corporation, a colleague can help defend your location should you be afk or logged for the night. Or he could choose to ignore it lol Good Idea Hanuman. Enable all things that benefit a corps teaming skills

6. As of today a Corps Leader or its members cannot track Corp ships, these ships should be highlighted in colour codes like green corp ships or red enemy ships etc. No member can attack his co-members within the Corp and they should be able to combine their fleets or armadas for a joint attack. Trade within the Corp should be at the discretion of the leader or individual members.

I do like this idea. i get startled everytime i see a colleague jump into a refuelling depot. I have to agree with jam-jul though in that there is no way to "trade" as yet. This implementation should come in at same time as a corp ship upgrade, so that there is a means of gathering and sharing the wealth. A corporation should be more than just a group of individuals who nestle under a banner as fish school in the seas. We need a way to be able to help our corps members, particularly the less developed of them. i dont condone boosting up newer players though with high tech equip. that player loses the fun of developing themselves new science and achievements. A combined combat system to add power to a weaker corp member when he being overrun by superior forces would be great but bring in tech level limitations, say cannot operate equipment more than 3-4 marks above your current level. Keep the power out of the hands of those who dont fully understand the development and strength it gives them.

At this time, The commander-in-chief of [IMG] will make this official statement regarding the latest incident:

"It seems this latest incident from a previously non-hostile corporation towards our members shows that some errant pilots find it much more profitable to pirate than it is to earn an honest income. What has driven said pilots to this sad end and course of action i cannot answer or comprehend. Perhaps pilots are finding it tough out there financially, which leads them to a life of easy profits as a criminal. All i do know is attacks against our corporation is in no way a profitable or enjoyable career, and as this latest pilot retires to rebuild and count the costs of his latest folly, we stand true to our promise, ALL ATTACKS AGAINST OUR CORP will be dealt with in swift and decisive counter-measures. I hope for corp [EIMC] this sole attack from one of their pilots was an attack of desperation and was not something sanctioned by a change in direction within corp ranks. I welcome the leaders of [EIMC] to discuss this latest unprovoked attack on our colonies. We still stand by our belief, we will remain neutral to all pilots and corps and will never attack their positions for personal gain or mischief, unless we are engaged by them. Those who openly identify as pirate corps, of course, do not fall under our banner of non-aggression"

Admiral Dadds, 1 question please? you refer to your continuing stance against piracy and have opened up hostilities against the more active of those corporations. Can I ask you what have you done or are doing to help ease the suffering of honest and poor miners that still suffer at the hands of these pirates? Do you think this latest attack was pirate related?

"Firstly, that is two questions haha but i guess they are closely related to the actions and events of today. I dont normally do public interviews because no matter what i answer, those statements can always be misinterpreted and used as political fuel to further suffering. I can tell you though that operations are ongoing against the ever persistent threat of pirate menace. As you can understand, due to military operations, we cannot comment on our fleet manoeuvres, strengths or plans we have in regard to countering the piracy threat. Be assured though that operations are ongoing and are on target to best strike at the heart of this criminal activity. Do i think this was an act of piracy? Personally i doubt it because the attack was too random and unorganised to be the work of corps like [PMI], who are the only corps we are officially at war with. On a side note, what i personally find disturbing is a press release i read just the other day, that [PMI] has agreed to a NAP with [NHC]. When i personally suggested a similar arrangement with [PMI] boss, Wolfdoc, his official stance was"We ,[PMI], dont do that". How times and stances change! haha. One thing is for certain. Our stance hasnt and wont change. Miners who are persecuted by this gang or others can personally contact myself or Capt Aysle at our war office. All information is strictly confidential and pilot ID kept within ranks. We will move on these acts of piracy when and wherever they are reported. In mentioning ranks, naturally all recruiting into our ranks is closed for the foreseeable future, do to the ongoing military operations. We hope to be able to embrace new members again one day, when this current threat is removed. That is all"

Dadds.
[IMG] Commander

lol dadd i think u think to highly of ur self and opinions, lol but

if i didnt hold myself in high regard, then who the heck else would? I do hold myself in high regard, the things i strive to achieve and have achieved. i dont cry to the forums about not getting respect from others. Not the reason i started this reply though.
lemme see.....lets dig out some comments from an earlier thread to counter what you say here, again.

1, when have i criticized ur corp for donating? Hell im glad someone else supports the game, but All ive ever said was if u think ur corp going to win a war with donating, u would be wrong.

Ok going back through all the history of your corp and mine, i find this:

btw if u guys didnt know. ive only been playing for a little over 1 and a half month...Took me 2 weeks to get to number 2...and sad part is i been on vacation for the last month, i seriously kid u not when  i say i put thousand of dollars into this game in matter of weeks, no matter how many of u donate u cant compare to me...So dont get cocky bc u think u have 2 or 3 donators..

Ok well a little over a month and a half. me too (Actually i started around the xmas period 2012). my number pilot is #862 yours is #66. Still not the real point i am about to make here either. Must have been a massive recruitment in that same month we joined, little over a month and a half ago.
The real point is comparing donators. It happens a little bit further on also.
A quote from Aysle, my 2nd in command and fleet admiral, who responded to an invite to come and play with you Wolfdoc

Give me a bit of time to outfit my ship and I'll come out to play with you... We aren't dumb enough to take on someone who's ship power exceeds our total power. But we will be there soon with our own shinny ship and we will have earned it instead of bought it with QP.

Your reply:

lol right, coming from the group that has at least 2 donators...i believe u..but when ever ur ready...

Again with the disbelief that we can build anything without donations and criticising us for having a paying member.
And to finish, i have snipped this comment cause most of it isnt really relavent to next point but its not out of context

just keep in mind, this is a game, a pirate game on top of that...that ur taking way to serious, only part ive taken serious is ur lack of respect..

My my my, where do i begin with this comment. only a game....pirate game....only a game....there is that word again, respect. Now since that seems to be your biggest beef, exactly what is it i am supposed to find in you to respect? You give me nothing to work with. Am i supposed to respect you cause u spend lots of money? Am i supposed to respect you because you been here longer than me? (though according to you only weeks before me). What have you done towards me or my fellow colleagues that i can turn around and give respect? You just want someone to bow down, take it up the rear and thank all mighty that you exist? You gotta do more than bluster and bully to get my respect. You and your shabby mob started with a major negative for that, and you havent helped the cause since.
take a note out of your own comment. this is a game. you will never convince me you play nice or fair, which will gain my respect.

Dadds  [IMG]

I actually hope that players can learn from the experiences and become better players. After all the game needs better players. I already admitted it was kind of a butthole thing to do. But it is done

You got your wish. We became better players, but what you didnt expect, we became good teamplayers also. Seems this thread is the hottest topic next to our imminent super nova explosion experiment lol

_{edited to better describe our actions. We are scientists, not demolishion experts}

Then i guess our presence here adds an element of complexity to that concept of a pirate universe. I must admit, i was surprised when i first started, to find so many top pilots as pirates or pirate corps. Quick conclusion to that was the game dynamics is keyed to pilot vs pilot attacks, or piracy i guess. Of that there is no doubt. It is much easier to get a start in this game by attacking others rather than building. I still chose the harder way of playing the game. I think since the birth of our corps, we show that there are other ways to play the game, using teamwork and hard work which shows that being in a corp can be beneficial. Hopefully Sir Emi is watching the development of its subscribers and gaming patterns to better cater for the complexity of an unknown world and a game shaped in part by players determination.

Good work to an overworked captain. Return to dry dock and spend some time with your chosen partner for now. 1 days R & R to your crew. Condolences to your vanquished. The body count regrettably keeps rising. We will remain steadfast though in twarting the blatant build up of piracy power within the sol system and defend the defenceless.

Dadds, Commander-in-Chief [IMG]

I hardly expect to get any straight up respect for how i choose to play. And quite frankly IMHO between you me and the door post, neither I nor you, or anyone else for that matter that preys on the week really actually deserves any.

@Scion. It is sort of what my point is Scion. However, believe it or not, you do get some sort of grudging respect from me. Not for what or who you are, but that you have chosen to be this character, and you play it within the bounds of a rum-drinking opportunist who picks off the easy cream. You stick within that role and dont complain when the authorities, or even vigilantes, catch up to you and string you from the nearest yard arm.

Its a tough career you choose to take on, poor public opinion, target on your back, having to stay 3 steps infront of the gathering revolt of the peasants with pitchforks screaming for your blood. Not a career path that i would choose for myself, living on the edge like that.

I would expect a pirate to consider removing a military fortress that was hell bent on ceasing their activities in a region thereby restricting the pirates cash flow, if he had the power to do so. Its another thing to remove a pilgrim who is just trying to defend his belongings. You understand this, other pirate clans seem not to get that concept.
So again, i dont agree with your life choices of free flowing rum, women and pillage (hmmm wait.....oh, never mind lol) I do like that you play the role and dont pretend to be something other than what you are....a scurvied dog and terror of the skies ;)
i leave you with this famous quote from Black Adder

"My lord, the peasants are revolting" - "They certainly are, Baldrick"

Dadds (yes me again, [IMG])

I'm allowed to spend my money on what I want right? I help more people then u can possibly know and if I want to spend a few thousand on a game or anything I can

I already posted my response to who pays and who doesnt and how much in another thread. i will restate it here. yeah its your money, spend it how you like. good on ya for having such disposable resources.

What i dont like is 2 things:
1. You criticise my corps for having one or two part time small donators to get a kickstart to survive or compete, but wave the fact that you are way superior in your spending than any others. and;

2. Your real motives or those pleaded by your colleagues about why you spend so much money, in that you only do it to help a developer. Yet the spoils of that spending is focused on you being the number one pilot, to buying anything you want; from weapons, to information, to loyalties; just to try to beat others who dont have access to those sorts of resources. Very self serving if you ask me, not altruistic.

Dont pretend it is something else other than what it is. If you want to win that badly, why dont you ask your friend, Sir Emi, just to delete all those accounts that threaten to compete against your mastery and superiority. Then you will have the universe all to yourself. You win...good on you, congrats.

Dadds
"just another opinion brought to you today by leader of the opposition, [IMG]

yep we will be out there. We will be defending those who cant defend themselves against the aggressor. Jake1976 was one of your victims, and my very first friend here since we had similar stories. It was how this idea grew into a top 3 corps. Jake has still chosen to remain a true miner and battler, which i admire him for. Its for people like Jake and those that i meet, that i take the ultimate sacrifice and alter my preferred gameplan, so that they can enjoy to be protected and sheltered, to do what they love to do the most. Heck, in some worlds, some of my best friends are pirates lol. we dont discuss politics much, but every now and then a little bit of mutual assistance and to share of each others unique talents and skills can help grow close bonds between such dissimilar methods and beliefs.
As to sanctioning my new team mate, insisting on a formal apology from them or suffer my wrath was never and will never happen. The event happened outside of our corps. I understand the dispair of losing a start to a wonton destroyer. i get the passion and in the heat of the moment the hot albeit futile response, as Scion says, his only gesture or action left to him. I wanted to do the same to my nemesis....probably started to type something strong....then rethought things. Not everybody has the skills to think before they act. If everybody could, it would make for a very dull world we live in. If Razgr1z offered up to make the apology on his own volition cause he feels he made a judgement call error, then i would accept that. Never would i insist on it, never did it cross my mind to insist on it. My leadership works on mutual respect and teamwork and character building, not on being the big, bad boss who will be obeyed. Not everyones cup of tea, but in both gaming and real life it has always somehow elavated me to the leader of a pack.
Your only attack on me was really to get my nose out of joint, posting a KoS in a thread that was saying, here we are, these are our values, leave us be or suffer the effects. The first thing you say to my very first post is you are going to kill my colleague on sight. Hmmmm, now i have to defend our stance or seem weak and unsure of our real motives.

What didnt help was then your colleagues jumping in on the thread, and your allies or friends also putting their opinion in. Now that to me feels like a gang attack...so if i you feel i became defensive and agressive in my stance and lashed out, that is why. Never corner a badger in its own den, you will rue the day!

The greatest misunderstanding here is you fail to be able to comprehend what it is to be me and my moral values, and steadfastness. i reply with scathing words out of defence and defiance and because i have a great control of words. I know how to find others weaknesses with them. You guys really walked into that with both feet first lol

We are from different cultures, different generations. They made us stone tough back when my mould was cast, and immune to petty sensitivities. So if i am a bit harsh on the chat, its because to me its a game of words, and dont always consider my words strike so deeply to some. To me its just water off a ducks back. So sadly, we suit up and arm up and start the body count. Maybe one day if it ever ends, i can get back to what i enjoy most. Building and exploring and trading.

War is war, and usually it is the weakest and most innocent that suffer by it. That much is provable in Earth's history and undisputable fact. Hopefully i have all my flock that are the weakest well covered and defended. Lets see if we cant change history

See you all on the battlefield guys. Nothing personal hey

Dadds.

Dadd, if not for all ur sarcasm and Plain idiotic remarks we could of worked this out nicely, if u want ur corp to remain, give control to Aysle. But by ur message ur what id call a control freak..and wont happen..seriously if ur as old as you what u claim u should see this whole problem could of been avoided, if u think ill ever go bankrupt coming after u, ur mistaken, OR my corps, i own a multi million dollar real estate business in texas, and its just increasing..

See now this is what we are talking about. our own multi-millionaire slumthingie. yea-hah. So its win at whatever cost then my million dollar buddy? You are willing to throw whatever it takes into beating down an opponent who is playing a game. You really need to go get some help...seriously. put your money to some humanitarian deeds, not into a winning ticket to an online text game.
Better get Sargas to come and define idiotic, because i am pretty sure you are speaking out of context again. So what you going to do wolf, kill our corp like you kill everybody who trys to get a start in the game? If aysle wants the helm he can ask for it. He already was given all my powers the week we formed, before we had the misfortune of hearing from your trash talk gun waving threats. You want to go to a netotiating table, you darn well ask politely, not threaten me or my crew, which is all you have done in dialog since i posted a stance. lets see how your opinion of members changes over the coming weeks haha

And in response to Norill or ffffffffffffffffff (did i miss an f? or too many?)

btw, great example of hypocrisy. recommending someone to shut up if he doesnt know what is he talking about AND doing it yourself in the same post, bravo.

What gives you the impresson i dont know what i am talking about? have you seen my resume? I have been involved in communications longer than you have been born. Go ahead and validate your argument . I would be happy to hear what you have to say, provided it isnt just the nonsense just as you just posted. JJL posts he is no expert, then continues on with dribble. it gets a flame. Tell me what you think Norill. Are you an expert? maybe we can swap ideas lol. Feel free to validate your credentials here, rather than just pick and poke with nonsensical argument. You are just that little annoying bug that buzzes around when your hands are full. Post something inciteful Norill, show me that you can hold an intelligent conversation

JJL lets try to reconstruct the moments just before the big bang...i am a new recruit, straight out from SEA training. the corps isnt really a corps that i understand it. We meet, we drink and have a yarn about how many drones we shot in training...and then i think well, its probably not great to set up around sol cause i am a late starter and already there are scarey pilots/pirates out there so i head off thinking, i need a place to call home. My main error was thinking i was far enough out. You see, when you are a new player and your range and time to calculate a jump are huge, you cant get too far. i got far enough out to be safe for about a week, when my world come crashing down on me. Not by your squad admittedly, but by a similar group of black-hearted criminals. They destroyed my first module, reasoning was, cause it was mining Iron. Sorry to all those pirates out there who dont profit from looting iron mines.....how was i supposed to know i was going to be their farm.
Then they continued to multi-target me until my system was stripped and i lost everything except what i could gather up while being smashed to the safe zone. After it was all over, i didnt have the fuel to limp back to sol for repair. I didnt have the sols to pay for fuel to limp to sol. The only thing i could do was hit the vote tabs to get 1k of sol at a time until i could afford to get back to home. Just because i mined iron.
Now you talk about respect i can show you the pm's i received after i got hit. Pretty much i was going to quit this game after about a week of playing (out of SEA)
You guys find it entertaining it seems, to smash an individual like that, and almost made me throw up my hands in disgust that a game is allowed to operate that way.

A few kind words and remarks from other new sol members made me stick it out for a day or two, and i watched and learned quickly, who were those terrorists.
When i finally make a call to leave my starting corps to venture out by my lonesome, i had met a few like-minded guys and so i asked them if they want to come along, they are welcome.
i didnt need anyone to follow me, i didnt care if they did or not. i made my choice to go it alone. i didnt have to pay them or promise them riches, just the ideal of being left alone from the threat of extermination.
To my surprise and delight, several pm's hit my box asking for an invite, so we set about a bold plan to build away from sol.
Naturally my next move was to form some sort of constitution. a corp law as such. Something we can stand by and hold true. Of course it had to include, not treating others as we were treated in the start.
Then along came you, and started waving guns in the air and threatening one of my members, who couldnt defend against you.

You tell me which pilot has been disrespected the most. I just defend my territories and my stance. It is unmoveable.

Oh and i wont post any more quotes, but you say this game isnt a rp? what is declaring yourself a pirate crew all about if it isnt roll play? again, i see such inconsistencies in your arguments. maybe i should have quit that first week and found a more consistent player group of gamers to be with, but now i have commitments to see things through for my corp buddies.

Sure i use sarcasm, i am an aussie, we use it all the time. The best usually reserved for the best of friends. If you post an opinion here that is inconsistent, expect that i am going to tackle it for what it is. Not once did you send a PM to me to tell me you had issues with one of my crew. You chose to take it public and threaten my stance and challenge me over it. What else is a leader going to do? "Oh, sure ok np, you can attack razgrIz since u have issue with him, just dont hit any of my other members"
Was that what you wanted?
Remove all your claims to KoS on any of our squad now and accept Aysles counter proposal 2nd option, or i can guarantee you, things wont go to your plans. Actually. things arent going to your plan since we remain safe, and you got 2-3 pirate body bags to deal with.; Many more count to come

Dadds

nice disclaimer Harachte