Over the past 36 hours, there have been some interactions which involved myself and at least one dozen other members of our alliance leadership, for which I seriously regret my actions.
All of this started with the loss of a Raven by one of our corporation members two days earlier to war targets, while the Raven pilot was in high security space. For those of you not aware of that loss, please refer to the previous post here.
I will not dwell on that loss here, nor the interactions that took place in the aftermath. The purpose of this post is an apology to Trekan, to Draiv, and to all of the alliance leadership who were in the Slack channel on Wednesday evening USTZ.
In addition, this spilled over to the wormhole leadership Slack channel this evening. Unfortunately, I still was holding in some anger over the interactions that had occurred over the past 36 hours and lashed out at Trekan who was attempting to assist a corporation member in the Slack channel.
After looking back at the series of interactions with Trekan and Draiv I saw that both of them were attempting to assist me, the Raven pilot and our corporation. You see, we are relatively new with A Band Apart and are attempting to "fit in" within the alliance. So, instead of me seeing the offer of assistance by the two of them, I only saw what I wanted to, which was them attempting to get involved in the affairs of our corporation.
And, the part that I feel most horrible about was that only a week ago I had been interacting with a very prolific friend wither in Twitter or Slack and we discussed the concept of taking the high road, and he applauded something I had done which was a step towards "taking the high road".
As for A Band Apart, we love being a part of this alliance and look forward to a very long and beneficial relationship between them and New Jovian Exploration Department.
As for our corp, we have finally resolved some of the challenges earlier this week in regards to our future and long term home.
Finally, for the Raven pilot. Sigh..... Neither the other Director or myself have heard one word from him. He did speak with Trekan, which I am glad that he did. I have come to understand from reliable sources that he decided that it was a good idea to autopilot, in high security space, with an active war going on. We are not attempting at all to troll on this pilot, his decisions for the loss. What we are attempting to do is to reinforce the concept of learning from his errors.
We look forward to anchoring ourselves with Stay Frosty, providing a sickle for our friends in Lucifer's Hammer and doing the math with our "roomies" in Supreme Mathematics.
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Thursday, February 19, 2015
Wednesday, February 18, 2015
Two Steps Forward, One Step Back
Recently there have been some discussions within the corporation related to our future home and whether we maintain the existing C2 wormhole that we have. We have come to a decision regarding that, but the part of this story which is impacted by our discussions were the fact that I strayed off of some of the core concepts that have driven our corporation since day one.
I took a moment on Monday to pause, formulate some thoughts, put pen to paper as it were and to open a discussion among the corp members as to their home. This was the two steps forward. It started a very interesting discussion among corp members and many opinions came out that I honestly were surprised in. I went to bed on Tuesday evening fairly clear that we had a mandate from our corp members as to what should be done with the C2 hole and I felt I could make an announcement today.
I woke up early on Wednesday, grabbed my iPhone and was greeted by the following:
We had a new war which had started on Monday. The war was pretty much a high sec war involving a group who generally campe trade system undocks, trade route bottlenecks and the like. We had taken what we felt were appropriate precautions and warned members to avoid those areas.
Now, you would generally think that most members who have been informed that there is a high sec war will proceed with caution if you are navigating high security space. You generally would fly in a cloaky (Covert Ops Capable) ship or failing that a very fast frigate such as a T1 tackler (atron, condor, executioner, slasher) or even better an Interceptor. We do not prohibit members from traveling into high sec during these wars. We basically state that trade systems are off limits. This is primarily due to the ability of the war targets to lock and shoot you instantly as soon as you undock.
Even more distressing about this kill is that this is a member of the corporation who has been with us since our first week. He can fly covert ops capable ships as well as larger ships. Basically, he is experienced enough to know better.
Unfortunately, following the loss yesterday this member made no mention of it in our leadership channels. There is no post on the forums to explain the circumstances of his loss. Basically, we are all left wanting more information outside of him losing his ship to a war target.
One of our core principles is to teach new pilots to the game or to exploration. We have always stressed that killboard colors are not the end of the world, and that we do not purge members for losing a ship. However, what we have always stressed is the need to constantly learn.
When a member loses a ship. We expect that they would write up a summary of the loss on our forums. Explain the circumstances that lead to the loss. What could you have done better? What would you change in the future? Basically, how do you minimize the potential of incurring that loss in the future.
One step back.
I took a moment on Monday to pause, formulate some thoughts, put pen to paper as it were and to open a discussion among the corp members as to their home. This was the two steps forward. It started a very interesting discussion among corp members and many opinions came out that I honestly were surprised in. I went to bed on Tuesday evening fairly clear that we had a mandate from our corp members as to what should be done with the C2 hole and I felt I could make an announcement today.
I woke up early on Wednesday, grabbed my iPhone and was greeted by the following:
We had a new war which had started on Monday. The war was pretty much a high sec war involving a group who generally campe trade system undocks, trade route bottlenecks and the like. We had taken what we felt were appropriate precautions and warned members to avoid those areas.
Now, you would generally think that most members who have been informed that there is a high sec war will proceed with caution if you are navigating high security space. You generally would fly in a cloaky (Covert Ops Capable) ship or failing that a very fast frigate such as a T1 tackler (atron, condor, executioner, slasher) or even better an Interceptor. We do not prohibit members from traveling into high sec during these wars. We basically state that trade systems are off limits. This is primarily due to the ability of the war targets to lock and shoot you instantly as soon as you undock.
Even more distressing about this kill is that this is a member of the corporation who has been with us since our first week. He can fly covert ops capable ships as well as larger ships. Basically, he is experienced enough to know better.
Unfortunately, following the loss yesterday this member made no mention of it in our leadership channels. There is no post on the forums to explain the circumstances of his loss. Basically, we are all left wanting more information outside of him losing his ship to a war target.
One of our core principles is to teach new pilots to the game or to exploration. We have always stressed that killboard colors are not the end of the world, and that we do not purge members for losing a ship. However, what we have always stressed is the need to constantly learn.
When a member loses a ship. We expect that they would write up a summary of the loss on our forums. Explain the circumstances that lead to the loss. What could you have done better? What would you change in the future? Basically, how do you minimize the potential of incurring that loss in the future.
One step back.
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