Enlightened Industries! - TEST - PvP/PvE/Etc

[Lovelocke]

A Month To Remember

The killing... The bloodshed...

My god, we got a lot of kills this month. We completely smashed our "kills" record, almost smashed our "losses" record and completely annihilated our "top killers" record. The month of February saw some extremely fierce fighting which quite often escalated into enormous super capital battles that thrust Local past 2000 and categorically proved that TiDi works. There have been victories, defeats, welps (600 drakes lost in 1 fight lol) but more than anything there has been the kind of exhilaration and excitement one normally only dreams about. No wonder ENL-I has a low turnover rate; who wants to leave after being part of a 1000 man battle on their first day in corp?

We are absolutely dominating the PvP side of the game. Within TEST we have been second on the killboard each full month since being in the alliance and February was certainly no exception. It is also worth noting that we are second only to Dreddit who has almost 3000 members. These are some particular highlights which fill me full of glee:

- 2596 Kills, 735 of which were Battlecruisers, 190 Battleships, 121 T3 Cruisers, 8 Carriers and 6 Supercarriers, for a total of 432 BILLION isk damage
- 2nd TEST killboard, link here: https://kb.pleaseignore.com/?a=alliance_detail&view=corp_kills&all_id=499&m=2&y=2012
- 6 of the top 10 killers for February in TEST were ENL-I, see this image: http://i42.tinypic.com/azbdr7.png
- Made it to TEST all time killers, 8th place, in just 4 months
- 1.3 BILLION isk payed out in PvP prizes, including 500 Million to new member Major Niall for finishing top on TEST top 10 killers for Feb
- Top 6 pilots over 300 kills, top 4 pilots over 400 kills, top 2 pilots over 600 kills, top pilot over 700 kills


The sweet spot was reaching the very last day of February with no super kills thus far, only to wake up and check our killboard to see 6 super kills of Pandemic Legion and NCDot. ENL-I scrambled to put people into fleet with zero notice and travelled 30 odd jumps across the universe to help AAA. Outstanding!


Besides all that

We merged with a corp you may have heard of, Northern Grit Shifters, bringing over a healthy number of active pilots. This has put our corp number to over 250 now. Our Mentor Team is doing a fantastic job which means our new recruits are set up and ready to roll within their first day of joining.

We are still working on our "Houses", as mentioned previously, and putting the infrastructure into place to get them off the ground. It's taking a lot of work and our managers are working flat out, especially our web admins who are setting up the Wiki site which will be invaluable to our Houses. We're not rushing, we want to make sure everything is right but before long our Houses will be fully operational and providing even more content to our members.

As always we're always after new officers and managers and more people step up each day to help lighten the burden. Our industrial side is also being given a new lease of life with the need for Dreadnoughts pushing our indies into a frenzy. This coupled with the new ENL-I Dread Initiative means more of our members are getting into capital ships than ever before. The initiative sees the racial Dread skillbook, normally costing 90 Million isk, being given to those ready for it for free. We are also discounting corp built dreadnoughts by 250 Million isk too. TEST has its own incentives, offering free modules to those new into a Dread. This amounts to well over 500 Million isk put towards a members new Dread. Not bad, huh?


The future!!!!

We have some exciting announcements to make over the coming months which pertain to our future direction, but for now I'll be keeping quiet on those. Suffice to say we want to continue growing bigger and stronger whilst reinforcing our corp culture and identity. We will be doing everything we can, such as introducing Houses, to ensure our culture and identity remains as strong as ever. We're working hard on increasing corp related activities, both indy and pvp, and working even harder on giving our members more incentives and rewards.

I'd like to end with this: Major Niall has only been in ENL-I a month and in that month he managed to become February's Top Killer with 666 kills in the entire TEST alliance. He bagged himself 500 Million isk for this fact alone and has won much more from our weekly prizes too. This is testament not only to ENL-I's prowess on the battlefield but also to the Mentor Team for ensuring Niall got up and running in no time, and for the corp culture to encourage people like Niall into fleets without the need for CTA's or threats. So, a big round of applause to Niall and the rest of our Top 10 Feb pvpers!

[oien cabrereas]

free bump*

[Hadrianus Barrii]

Whats up with giving your full API for the application?

[Orzo Torasson]

You'll find that pretty much all nullsec corporations require full API checks.

[Butane Bob (Biomassed 2012.03.17)]

Whats up with giving your full API for the application?

spai

[Lovelocke]

We ask for a full API for all accounts joining so we can run a security check on you. Although this isn't exactly 100% foolproof it does generally deter your average opportunistic spy/awoxer from joining.

The check includes, but is not limited to, the following:

- Check wallet for suspicious looking transactions
- Check skill queue/training
- Check for each alt on forums for anything such as awoxing, etc
- Check against TEST blacklist

We do this to not just keep our own corpies safe but also to protect our alliance and coalition.

[Hadrianus Barrii]

Understandable! But what is to stop you from draining my isk account?

[Orzo Torasson]

Full API data doesn't let you make any changes to the account, just view the data. In other words, unless somebody can actually login to your account (which needs your username and password), they can look but they can't touch.

[Audrey Thinkerbolt]

Understandable! But what is to stop you from draining my isk account?

From https://support.eveonline.com/api :

Is this safe? Can someone steal my account?

It is safe to provide your API key to applications and web sites as long as you are prepared to allow the application or web site to see your character and corporation information. You can specify which information is accessible for each customizable API key.

Sharing an API key does NOT give people access to your account while sharing your account password would. Therein lies the whole purpose of API keys. An API key only allows the recipient to view your character and corporation data but gives them NO control over it. They are NOT able to log in to the game or post on the forums with the API information. No part of the API key information is in any way generated from your account password - there is no way to calculate your password using this information.

This is the only safe way to give programs and web sites access to your data. Do not give out your account username or password to any person, program, or web site. Please keep in mind that doing so is a violation of the EULA and can lead to account termination.

[Hadrianus Barrii]

Ah! You learn something new every day!

[Butane Bob (Biomassed 2012.03.17)]

Understandable! But what is to stop you from draining my isk account?

the same thing that stopped E-Uni doing this when you gave them your API at the time of your application

Of course E-Uni would not dream of doing such a thing - but neither would Test Alliance, would they?

[Lovelocke]

The Lion, The Witch & The Fall of Insomother

Lord, more PvP stories?

So in one week we have over 700 kills. Quite a lot, no? In one week we have over 5 of our top10 past 200 kills and all 10 of our top10 over 100 kills. In one week. This is of course an incredible number and is testament to not just the quality and activity of ENL-I but also of the environment we live in, i.e. TEST Alliance and the CFC. I'm going to list some of my highlights for this past week:

- Lots of AHAC roams: AHACS are fun, 120+ AHACS is hella-fun
- Tier 3 Sniper Gangs: Alpha'ing BC's from 100km away? Check!
- ENL-I FC led Alliance roams: We currently have 3 Alliance FC's, 1 of whom was recently promoted to Skirmish Commander
- Small gang corp roams: We have more ENL-I non-Alliance FC's who have been taking out lots of small corp roams
- The Battle for C-J6 - The Fall of Insomother: ENL-I were a part of this historical battle

Ok so let's go into some more detail. We don't just run one type of fleet doctrine here in ENL-I/TEST, we run several and they cater for all tastes. There's the standard Alpha Fleet (Maels) and we also now run a Perma-MWD Drake doctrine too. On top of this we run regular AHAC roams and have begun using those awesome sniping tier 3's too. My Oracle does 850 DPS and can shoot out to 200km. ENL-I FC's have been very active this week with everything from large Alliance ops to small 5 man corp roams. Our SRP means all ships not covered by Alliance SRP are reimbursable so budding FC's have more encouragement to go out and get welped.

Something which I am glad we were a part of however was the recent battle of C-J6. Let me explain the significance of this system - Many years ago Red Alliance were pushed back by hostile forces to this system and it became their "last stand", so to speak. At the same time Goonswarm was in its infancy and hated by the majority of EVE and had suffered many back stabs which had forced them to abandoned their dream of 0.0 sov space. Red Alliance for whatever reason took Goonswarm in and allowed them to live in C-J6 alongside them and, together, they managed to push back and beat the attacking hostiles and go on to conquer several regions together. GSF and RA aren't exactly best buddies anymore but when news of C-J6 being on its final timer came in The Mittani decided to send this historical system to Goons and RA off in style, and so we formed up 3 full Drake fleets and travelled across the entire universe.

The fight was incredible. I have had a lot of respect for AAA for a while now and in this battle they shown exactly why they've steamrolled the south. AAA and friends had over 1000 subcaps, with supers on standby, and they managed to beat our few Drake fleets and all other resistance before dropping supers in, forcing PL/NCDot to flee, and taking the station. They used their bombing fleets in spectacular fashion and in one run decimated the Drake fleet I was on resulting in the few survivors withdrawing from the system. This was a well deserved victory for AAA and I'm proud to say ENL-I was there for this history making event.


ENL-I Updates

There's lots happening in ENL-I, as usual. For starters we're now up to almost 280 members; even during our quietest periods we still get up to 20 people online. We are currently working on some our out of game infrastructure to keep our culture and identity strong, such as:

- New website portal: This will be where http://www.ENL-I.com points to, preview here http://www.ENL-I.com/home/ - It'll be Wordpress based and I'll be able to blog regularly on it to keep everyone informed with what we're doing.
- Wiki beginning to take shape: http://wiki.ENL-I.com - We'll be using this for all kinds of things, from general information for prospective recruits to community pages for our Houses.
- Tons of improvements to our forum.

I am also pleased to announce that our ENL-I Academy corporation has been established and we are currently working on its infrastructure. We are working on some promotional videos and we intend to advertise our presence on Sci-Fi related forums to bring new people into the game, and to ENL-I. We'll have a structured approach with training plans ensuring those who join our Academy fly the ships we want them to fly. It'll be similar to E-Uni in some respects but will be purely focused on PvP and the transition to nullsec. It'll also give current ENL-I members lots of opportunities to help out, such as with industry (building ships for the Academy members), HR and lots of FC'ing opportunities. We expect our Academy to be fully operational within 6-8 months and we believe it'll not just bring new players into the game but also help ENL-I to grow.


Visionary

It is my belief that a corp always needs to have a goal, a vision, and to be always moving forward. It doesn't matter so much what those goals are; they don't have to be goals of dominating the galaxy. They can be anything from encouraging more FC'ing right through to successful deployments. Here at ENL-I we always have several goals running in tandem and I make sure I keep my members busy (stops them from losing even more 2bil ratting ships ffs). As such I have implemented several immediate goals (new website/Wiki, more small gang, etc), several intermediate goals (ENL-I Academy) and several long term 12 months+ (sekret).

This means there is always something we're working on, and in all timezones. For those of you wanting to get involved in the running and development of the corp then this is the place for you. We give everyone who wants to a chance to step up and go above and beyond the ordinary duties of our members, and this can be anything from being a Mentor, a Recruitment Officer or even an FC.

[Lovelocke]

A Quickie...

Just how I like it...

My last update was a complete wall of text so this one I'll try to keep short and sweet.

PvP is still going strong; in just 2 weeks we've amassed over 1,400 kills with almost all of our top10 killers having over 200 kills and top 3 all over 300. We're second on the alliance killboard, as usual, and have also made it to the top 10 killing corps all time in TEST too.

We have 3 FC's currently running alliance ops with 1 being a full skirmish commander - this means he's authorized to run alpha fleet (battleships). We have other FC's in the bootcamp too learning the ropes.

I recently fun-deployed us down to Syndicate and our first day there saw a fun roam of T1 cruisers/frigs with some nice kills and we then welped which was a ton of fun. We were planning on being there all week but thanks to this terrible patch I lost 2 days game time.

Work is still ongoing on the wiki and the houses. We also have a new website incoming which will be our portal home linking to everything else.

Also next week I think I'll make an exciting announcement so stay tuned.

Peace out o7

[Lovelocke]

The War Gets Hotter

Branching out, again...

With The Mittani's announcement that they were not invading Tenal, Raiden's home, but were instead just "playing around" it seems yet again Branch is the focus of another war. "Another" is perhaps the wrong description because since Goons began their Branch invasion in December the fighting around the region hasn't stopped but rather ebbs and flows in waves. Raiden are near unbeatable in their primary timezone, EU, with their enormous super capital fleet being far larger than what the CFC can field. It was theorised however that Raiden would not last with a war of attrition and so a month of raids into Raiden space began.

The theorists were correct and Raiden were beginning to lose interest, even so much as claiming Tenal is just a region they took to "rat" in and have no care for it. Well, that's the "didn't want that region" clause out the way. Several Tech moons and systems were taken in Raiden's prime time with little resistance. And then things got a little more interesting...

Raiden's ally The Initiative, and Initiative Mercenary's, began assaulting CFC member Spacemonkey's Alliance space with SBU's and constant hotdrops. This had the effect of forcing the CFC forces to temporarily hold all aggression in Tenal and work to save SMA. It was at this point when NCDot, a powerful Raiden ally, deployed back to their home region of Tribute to help Raiden. Unlike The Initiative NCDot is a serious threat and as such the CFC began calling for all hands on deck.


Hi ho, Hi ho, it's back up to Branch we go

TEST Alliance Please Ignore, and along with them Enlightened Industries, have therefore deployed to Branch in an effort to reinforce the EU timezone and provide much needed numbers in both countering the threat of NCDot and helping with aggression in Tenal.

For the past few weeks TEST had been resting in our home region of Fountain and were giving The G0dfathers a much needed pasting: http://evemaps.dotlan.net/alliance/The_G0dfathers - The slope isn't as big as we had hoped but a slope is still a slope. We killed all of GF's and GF's allies towers and really ground them down in their NPC systems. This deployment was fun, however, GF were never a serious threat and so our deployment felt more akin to kicking a disabled man out of a wheelchair and then proceeding to stamp on his face. ENL-I is a very bloodthirsty corp and so the news to move back up to Branch was receiving with shouts of "It's about F****** time!"

Our new deployment got off with a bang with the killing of not one, not two but three NCDot Titans (according to the recent intel leaks they didn't want those Titans anyway). Killmails:

1: http://eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=12842852
2: http://eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=12842432
3: http://eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=12842464

The following few weeks promises to be very exciting indeed.


What has ENL-I been up to?

As I have already said TEST has been deployed for the past few weeks back in Fountain to rest and secure the region. After a week or so of smashing GF's into a pulp they pretty much went into hibernation, apart from one or two breakouts, and so action dried up considerably. My pilots were literally chomping at the bit to do something so I took advantage of the lull in action and organized our very own corp deployment.

I wanted something fun for ENL-I to do, something away from the sov warfare and from supercaps. Those of you who read EVESwarm may have seen an article I wrote about small-gang warfare in which I spoke about Syndicate. And so I got an office for ENL-I in a high-sec system neighbouring Syndicate, bought a ton of T1 cruisers and frigs and shipped them there. The plan was simple; give out free fully fit T1 cruisers and frigs and go and welp them in Syndicate, having as much fun as possible in doing so.

The plan was a success and we had a lot of fun. We even invited a unista to our fleet - who was in a bomber - and instructed him to bomb our fleet once we got into a scrap. Sure enough a few minutes later our T1 cruiser fleet was engaged with another T1 cruiser fleet on the gate when a unista bomber decloaks and proceeded to blow us all to hell. It was hilarious.

As fun as whelps can be I also wanted to do something a little more proper, and so we also ran Drake fleets out from Fountain and into Delve. The action was a bit thin on the ground - most of the residents evacuated when they heard Red Alliance was soon going to siege the region - but it was a brilliant way of testing our strength and doing something together as a corp. We also did some Black Ops work in Syndicate, dropping on our friends Agony at one point. Black Ops is fun as hell; we had a Black Ops Battleship which can "bridge" your cloaky ships to a covert cyno. I don't think there's anything funnier than seeing a small fleet engaging your ship, unbeknownst to them you're actually a "bait" ship fit with a cyno and suddenly 10 bombers and a mixture of covert cruisers come flying through. We made a few people mad to be honest


Changes to ENL-I communications / recruitment

Our very own web developer / genius Artemus Ward has been working his ass off in improving our entire communications infrastructure, and with it improving our recruitment procedure. He is currently writing an "Auth" system, similar to what TEST / Goons use, which will have a great many uses for corp members. For instance, members can apply to certain groups or request mentoring with just the click of a button. The Auth system will also dramatically reduce the workload of our officers and managers too. I could literally write an epic essay on how awesome our Auth is going to be but instead I'll simply say it'll help improve our members in-game time tremendously.

The recruitment process will also be changing in light of the new Auth system and will be improved. Once our Auth goes live all prospective new recruits will sign up to our Auth system (which is linked with the forum) and will complete their application through that. We will then be able to update that application at every step of the way, so when an interview is done we hit the button, when a security check is done we hit the button, and the prospective recruit can monitor his applications progress at any point and know exactly where he's up to. If we happen to reject the application we will be able to give the reason which the rejectee will be able to see and know exactly why his app was rejected.

We are also still working hard on our "Houses" and our Wiki site too. Not much else to say on this except it's still being worked on.

[Lovelocke]

Just another week in ENL-I

Goodfites

The last week in March ended with a tremendous amount of fighting in and around Tenal. Raiden went all out in trying to defend their systems and Tech moons, bringing in many allies to help them do so. Raiden were there in their hellcat fleet (abaddons), Ev0ke/Ewoks were there in Drakes and INIT Mercs were there in I think Alpha fleet (Maels). The CFC turned up with one Alphafleet and several Drake fleets, with a bomber fleet to boot.

Raiden & co dropped carriers during the fighting in an effort to provide more logistic support but thankfully supercaps weren't. It was a really fun fight on both sides with plenty of killmails. One of my pilots got something like 250 kills in two days, including over a dozen capitals. We killed approx 20+ carriers during the last few days of March. There have been fleets up around the clock with every time zone being catered for. Most of the fighting was done in Euro TZ which happens to be Raiden's prime time, although quality fights have occurred outside of this.


MYKILLDEATHRATIO!

ENL-I isn't an elite PvP corp. We don't go bat-crap-crazy if you fit a T1 module. We have no minimal kill quota and we don't care about kill/death ratios. I do however enjoy looking at my killboard, and the alliance killboard, and EVE-Kill Caps for that matter, and looking at what's been happening. For example; I love checking the killboard in the morning to see if the USTZ peeps have had a busy night. As well as this I also enjoy seeing our killboard improve as each move progresses, and March was no different.

We finished March with 2,897 kills. We killed 48 carriers, 2 titans, 564 battlecruisers and 419 battleships. We finished the month 2nd, as usual, in TEST - 2nd to a 3500+ corp - and we had 4 ENL-I pilots in the alliance top 10 killers, with ENL-I sitting in both 1st and 2nd spot. 1st spot, Dmitri, wins himself 500 million ISK.


The Jita Riots

April 28th will see the CFC re-deploy to high-sec. Jita will become our home for a week or two, the goal of which is to kill everything. We are all arming our Tornado's and will be suicide ganking everything which undocks from Jita.

Legend has it several high-sec merc corps, such as Moar Tears, and other alliances such as RvB, will be wardeccing CFC alliances to kill us. Jita, soon, will burn and will become a hotspot for angry industrialists and confused miners. Can't wait!