*UPDATE* Fweddit “Quits” Factional Warfare

By riverini | Aug 17th 2012 4:53PM
51 Comments

In the aftermath of a disastrous battle in Kourmonen in which the Amarr militia suffered a 2:1 trashing from the Minmatar side, we received the following tip from a fweddit member:

So the time we knew would all come, has come. Fweddit has imploded upon itself. Apparently months of hidden tension has been building between the leadership of this rag-tag corporation, and it has finally reached critical mass. Apparently when not playing other video games, the Fweddit leadership logs in just long enough to overcharge their corp members for ships that are “free” on contract. The corporation has been bleeding members for weeks now, people losing interest in dealing with the abusive, over the top antics of the diplomancer, Xlove, war deccing other members of the Amarr militia, when totally unjustified.

In a desperate attempt to retain members, and continue padding his wallet with ISK, the new Corp CEO, one Rina Kondur, is now pulling out to move the corp to support IRC in Cobalt Reach. Apparently backroom deals were reached, and Fweddit was asked to come in to pad the US TZ of IRC and teach the struggling IRC more modern PVP tactics. This plan wasn’t supposed to go into effect for a few weeks, however; with the substantial loss of their cap fleet today in Kourmonen (which was being flown by Lost Obsession), remaining members and leadership together decided today they had to cut their losses and make the move to IRC space ASAP. Evacuations are currently underway as Fweddit is fleeing the Amarr engagement zone.

Rina posted an alliance mail outlining the new austerity measures:

Changes for J4LP
From:Rina Kondur
Date:2012-08-17 01:21:00

[Original Message Source]
It’s a grave day for J4LP. Unable to stand up to the Minmatar, we’ve been forced to withdraw from the area. Their numbers and PvP skills have driven us away.

Fortuneatly IRC has offered us a spot in their new forming coalition to help pad their killboard. We’ll be heading for Cobalt Edge soon, so consolidate your assests and get ready for move ops. More information can be found on the forums.

[SOURCE]

Bob From Marketing (one of Eve’s best named chars) outlined some of fweddit’s first world problems:

After fighting against a wall of LP, then against a wall of SFI’s and Elite PVP Minimatar we have decided to leave Amarr faction warfare. The entire corp is moving on account of two of our supercapital ships wanting to get more use and the general thinking that we would make the most amazing demoralising local shitting while fielding the most amazing tackle fleet available. I have proposed we use our Elite PVP skills to form a mercenary corp dedicated purely to fast tackle and small bait, while providing killboard padding for IRC (which doesn’t stand for Internet Relay Chat, much to my dismay)

Finally, there is the campy picture which has been making rounds in factional warfare blogs:

What ever comes out of this is hard to predict, Intrepid Crossing seems to come as a blessing to Fweddit, on the other hand null-sec is a different beast than militia space, with a different set of realities and shortcomings. Even so, this makes you wonder why Fweddit didn’t simply headed into TEST (there are a lot of alts there), which tempts me to file this one under “prolly a troll”

Additional Confirmation.

Another Twist: Heading North

We had hinted about the close relationship between TEST and Fweddit, both communities born out of reddit, the latter started simply as an alliance in which TEST members were to put a low SP alt for some trasher fun. From this humble beginnings Fweddit evolved into a decent Factional Warfare alliance.

The twist here comes from no where else than the Northern Conflict between GoonSwarm Federation and The DOT Brothers.

According to our informant, FWeddit will deploy into Cobalt Edge. They’ll shift their main factional warfare goals towards conquering Gallente space. While at the same time helping the Deklein Coalition with numbers against IRC who has been giving NCDOT and Black Legion. a hand in the Northern Conflict.

This also serves as a perfect way for TEST to give a proper boost to GoonSwarm Federation without compromising their so called “independence“.

- R

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  • Jesus loves you

    AAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAAHAHA

    No seriously, either this is an elaborate troll in which case its hilarious OR this is real, in which case its even more hilarious.

    Also, its Xolve not Xlove and he's a complete and utter dickhead.

    • ANRGY MAN

      Yeah 'tis hilarious alright.

    • Silence

      Xolve is a wanker.
      LateNight new fweddit wouldn't last. If this is a troll they will fall apart eventually.

      The amarr love to talk up how there going to do this and that. But all they do is talk.
      They don't actually do much part from complain and fight amongst themselves.

      Poor guys

      • http://twitter.com/ThomasKreshant @ThomasKreshant

        Well I'm glad they new it, newing stuff is important.

  • derpaderp

    This is brilliant. Glad I can be part of it :)

  • Ashesofempires

    "the entire corp is moving on the account of two of our supercapital ships"- you lose a cap fleet to a militia, and you want to go to null where it's easier to kill capitals because you can actually use bubbles?

    "teach the struggling IRC more modern pvp tactics" – because a militia corp is on the cutting edge of fleet warfare?

    • ANRGY MAN

      I think these guys were just trolling with those claims. Can't be serious.

    • Horak_Thor

      well first off Fweddit didnt loose any caps.
      Lost obsession lost them.

      Sad to see you go though guys, will miss BOB From Marketing spamming local.

      This news post is like 60% troll btw :)

      • xxolve

        By 60% you mean 100%?

    • Fa grunt

      I agree irc is in null sec which is harder fleet warfare what are they going I teach them how to loss caps

      • Mike

        As oppose to FA teaching them how to lose caps?

  • FormerCEdgeDweller

    Cobalt Edge, where corps go to die

  • DarthNefarius

    Looks like CCP's unbalanced PvE Winmatar (un)intentional startegy will mean Amarr will never reach Tier 4 again with the loss of nulli & FWEDDIT. If you want to make FW ISK DO NOT GO FARM AMARR because you'll never cashout T5.

    • lawl

      wtf are you talking about?

      • DarthNefarius

        With the current FW design Amarr FW will never hit Tier 5. If you want to farm go Minmitar

        • Budge

          What you say is true, but really it's not good for farming LP unless its competitive, mimatar may be able to caah out at higher lvls easier, but you can't make LP at a great rate if you own all, or most of the systems. The new FW system is fucked up, it is already happening on the gallent/caldari side also, everyone always dogpiles onto the winning side.

          • fw player

            sorry for may bad english
            its a joke that new amarr and minimatar account can farm that mutch of lp`s. simple this type of farming ruins the hole fractional warfare. in the past, near all fw players in lowsec were intresstet in pvp, today the most players only farming, or blobing, no diverence between each fraction, the only difference, minimatare can and had better organice fleets (at the moment). i dont understanding why it shut possible to farm that mutch lp`s with new accounts. e.g. today every real new player (not alts) its forced to make some stupid fw-farming, i the past you have to play some level 1-2 missions for the first days, after that level 3 and months later solo level 4 was possible. so its a real joke, the minimatars and amarr fw plexing with week one accounts.

        • Bob

          This is not helped when the majority of smart use min alts toake their money

  • Loyalist

    Fweddit gave the 7th Fleet plenty of grief because the went of to join the Caldari…and now they've done the same. QUALITY FAIL. If only the fweddit membership would wake up and realise they are just pawns in Xolve's childish games, which include removing people from corp just beause he doesn't like comments they make and wardeccing other Amarr FW which just serves to remove them from supporting the war effort. Such pro moves from such a pro corp.

    Maybe it's best they are gone. They drop in pilot numbers will hurt Amarr but maybe Amarr FW corps will now start growing as fweddit not their to soak up pilots.

    • http://bobfrommarketing.blogspot.com Bob FromMarketing

      Can I just pont out that we actually won the war first, THEN we left. Good job actually pushing past Tier 1 7th Fleet, I'm in awe of your Elite PVP skills maybe you can teach me sometime and we can call eachother mates and have a good time.

      • Vogon

        If by 'won the war', you mean made minor progress in moving the Amarr from "utterly beaten" to "losing badly". The Amarr have finally gotten a chance to cash out their LP, but the Minmatar still exert de facto control over the bulk of the warzone, and it doesn't look like that's going to change any time soon.

        • xxolve

          I think he was eluding to helping contest/capture systems in the Bleak Lands and Devoid while bros did their things elsewhere; given that this was the first time Amarr Militia ever hit T4 it was satisfaction enough for most of us.

          Fweddit never claimed loyalty to the Amarr Empire, it's just something we did for a while- given the subpar layout of the war-zone and a relatively undesirable LP store; after given the opportunity to whore in on some lolfit dreads and after cashing out- we decided to leave a bad situation and move on.

          We are redditors, enjoying faction warfare.

    • xxolve

      This guy seems upset.

      We didn't give you shit when you joined Caldari- if anything we were all happy you left, because as an alliance you were all 'bad at games' and harbored a generally elitist old guard attitude which was completely caustic for any new blood in Amarr FW.

  • JT133

    Discounting the claims of Fweddit leaving FW and internal affairs, this article is ridiculously inaccurate. As someone that was actually on field in that battle in Kourmonen let me correct some fallacies in your account.

    Firstly, the capitals lost were all owned by Lost Obsession [FATE]. Indeed it was FATE who instigated this fight and who were the main participants in it. It started as a gate camp and escalated in to a battleship and capital fight. Unfortunately we were disorganised, our intel was bad and chaos ensued, but no matter we will see to it that it doesn't happen again. Only 5 dreadnoughts and 2 carriers were lost in the battle – that is not a significant part of our capital fleet, and had there been more pilots online we would have deployed even more capital vessels. At the time of writing this, the pilots in question (for the most part) have replaced their capitals and are ready to deploy again.

    We most certainly were not 'flying capitals for Fweddit', we hardly even knew they were on field during the engagement. It was only due to the fight being broadcasted in the Militia channel that they even showed up and at that they only appeared in cruiser-class vessels and below. If they can't afford to lose a couple of cruisers and interceptors well they're certainly destined for doom and failure then. While the battle did not go in our favour and we did lose in terms of ISK efficiency, it doesn't appear that we lost at at 2:1 odds. If you're going to claim this, at least post a citation or some sort of evidence backing up your claims.

    The Kourmonen battle was insignificant, either you were being trolled or Fweddit fail hard.

    • Silence

      Damage control ON

      • Special Grunt

        If you really think 5 dreads and 2 carriers is a large part of their capital fleet then you good sir are either foolish or stupid. Perhaps both?

    • Horak_Thor

      We held the field but it was costly on both sides. was a good fight though. my mael got pretty much blitzed of field and perma jammed had the time to make 5 jumps back to eszur pick up a drake and come back to get on some of the cap kills so happy days :)

      Lets get back to good old fashioned fighting in FW and stop all this plex farmer shit.

  • Captn Sparrow

    Where the fuck is Cobalt Reach? I've been in IRC for years, and I've never gotten to fly to Cobalt Reach….

    • TestGruntBestGrunt

      Halfway from Cobalt Edge and Etherium Reach, probably…

    • 0.o Grunt

      haha yeah that crap space IRC took from xxdeathxx right?

    • http://poeticstanziel.blogspot.com/ Poetic Stanziel

      If you're curious why Cobalt Reach:
      http://poeticstanziel.blogspot.ca/2012/08/faction…

    • Fweddit

      that's part of the joke…

  • J.D.

    Confirmed. Not a troll. They are bailing out after a massive loss yesterday and probably should have left sooner but waited until the Nulli dudes failed first.

    • xxolve

      Not Confirmed. You're retarded.

  • Silence

    Now we get our farmers hats on.

  • IRC Grunt

    More people to help kick goons in the balls. Woot.

  • space chikun

    holy shit that twist. omfg, are you just making this up as you go along now?

  • whatever

    TEST alts looking for an excuse to shoot goons, maybe we can now put the whole "Deklein Colaition" thing to rest?

  • Toastin Poster

    Sweet. More Spies to spy on IRC.

  • oHnOES

    Uummmh more LP.. ftw

  • Revolta

    TEST has absolutely nothing to do with Fweddit.

    We only gave them some starting funding.

  • Budge

    Goon pets for life.

  • Not a fwedditor

    Also what fweddit isn't moving to cobalt edge this is dumb and you are dumb.

  • …

    [ Even so, this makes you wonder why Fweddit didn’t simply headed into TEST (there are a lot of alts there), which tempts me to file this one under “prolly a troll” ]

    my thoughts exactly

    • http://reddit.com/r/fweddit Typo

      Many of us are blacklisted by Dreddit, so there is that.

    • Gerard

      A large number of people who founded fweddit are dreddit / test haters.

  • Catastrophe

    Lol compromise their "independence". Once Goon pet always goon pet

  • A Goat

    ~~Backroom deals~~. No dick jokes here.

  • GP Douglas

    lmao irc, you know they make their own corps rent systems? They are the last bastion of e-honor old nullsec faggotry, 100% cta no fun allowed russian pets. They're also all southern redneck hicks.

  • http://www.facebook.com/magnus.palm.50 Magnus Palm

    This makes me sad. I miss fighting Fweddit welpfleets, made out of poorly fitted rifters and merlins. :(

  • Successful Troll

    Looks like FWeddit cashed out when WE got the Amarr to tier4 and they are fucking off.

    I didn't get involved with the politics in FW while we were there (other than making fun of the rest of the amarr for sucking so bad) but I can tell that whatever corp is rallying the troops on the minm side is pretty pro. gg