Greedy Goblin

Monday, September 8, 2014

Burn Branch

The last post was titled "prelude to Burn Deklein", yet, here you see "Burn Branch". There are three reasons for this last minute change, first is finding that CFC renters are focusing on this region with ratting. I hope everyone who went to Delve to sabotate the Goon renter empire feel silly for not checking the data first:

The second reason is that Deklein is already the deadliest region for CFC and its ratting numbers are already dropping, so it hard to tell how big part of the loss is related to my project. Branch on the other hand has the 6th highest CFC losses, despite being #2 on ratting. Thirdly, to my surprise, Goonswarm had 52% ISK ratio against Battlement Coalition, while FCON had 34% and PBLRD had 31%, so it's much easier to hunt in Branch.

So I'm going the easier way to get visible and undeniable results in Branch. A after burning this region to the ground, with the experience gained in that operation and with the proof of its effectiveness, it will be much easier to find cooperators (and donators) to burn Deklein. I'm sure Goons will be happy to see that my attention turned to their lowliest minion (not PBLRD), but their joy will end when it failcascades and no longer will be able to provide F1-bots to the bombless bombers.

The project is simple: every month 20B bounty will be distributed among those who kill CFC in Branch. Update: it's on already. Any kills you have in September (including the ones you did already) count into the September bounty. The money will be given to corps with the following rules:
  • The bounty is automatic, you don't have to sign up or do anything but killing CFC in Branch. Many corps will be pretty surprised when they get ISK out of the blue.
  • CFC members are obviously not eligible. Nor NPC corps.
  • The kill must be on Zkillboard with API verification. (Hint: submit your corp API to Zkillboard.)
  • Only loss reports over 150M count, as I need to be able to manually check them for T1 haulers full of goods with manipulated prices and other scam attempts. Such kills are obviously disqualified and listed for everyone to see.
  • Only player ships matter, I won't motivate anyone to grind structures in bombless bombers.
  • The kills are de-whored. If your corp scored 0.01% damage on a 100B titan, you get bounty after 10M kills, not 100B.
  • Only bounties over 500M are paid, the long tail is cut off and their share is redistributed among the top killers.
At the beginning of each month, I process the killboard data and create a report, distributing the bounty of the previous month. As an example, here is the imaginary August report:



Another month passed in our glorious project to burn down Branch region, stopping its ratting. At first, let's look at the Branch ratting numbers:
The ratting didn't decrease significantly since June, since there was no project, it's just a test report. Below you can see the 150M+ kills, listed with their ID. If your kill is missing, please check if it's API verified and if so, please write its zkillboard link in a comment. If you are just a bystander, feel free to laugh on this beautiful graveyard of the minions of Evil:
40995731, 40994221, 40990350, 40983505, 40972488, 40969662, 40967084, 40964067, 40952381, 40951713, 40951706, 40951179, 40948362, 40947901, 40933741, 40933752, 40933634, 40933629, 40933536, 40931717, 40930256, 40930015, 40924803, 40921943, 40921819, 40919361, 40913904, 40911629, 40911636, 40910989, 40910962, 40909986, 40907034, 40906333, 40902868, 40902777, 40895571, 40888639, 40880247, 40880111, 40879931, 40878054, 40878070, 40877626, 40877615, 40873562, 40871997, 40871720, 40860108, 40855805, 40846832, 40846827, 40846373, 40837283, 40829598, 40828454, 40828237, 40820018, 40819592, 40815486, 40809731, 40809729, 40809730, 40809699, 40809383, 40809377, 40797073, 40796985, 40782683, 40762844, 40755011, 40754743, 40752470, 40747555, 40746707, 40746004, 40745718, 40745703, 40743767, 40742808, 40731308, 40730464, 40726715, 40725184, 40724761, 40720203, 40719451, 40717026, 40708828, 40708149, 40708051, 40703741, 40703672, 40701063, 40676325, 40666267, 40666241, 40665886, 40665476, 40659377, 40659376, 40656440, 40656290, 40656065, 40655983, 40650614, 40650004, 40633509, 40633382, 40633153, 40633131, 40633106, 40632096, 40632076, 40632072, 40632063, 40617932, 40617157, 40616090, 40616047, 40615899, 40599354, 40599321, 40595713, 40595335, 40595331, 40589970, 40572122, 40572060, 40568659, 40567360, 40567344, 40566576, 40564780, 40559403, 40553087, 40553073, 40552462, 40551574, 40551452, 40551273, 40550354, 40550090, 40545829, 40545638, 40544710, 40539282, 40538533, 40526291, 40526285, 40518491, 40518499, 40518483, 40518468, 40518437, 40517228, 40516570, 40515299, 40510536, 40508699, 40508687, 40501547, 40501411, 40501396, 40501085, 40500692, 40491352, 40487004, 40485178, 40485161, 40484582, 40480158, 40475848, 40456363, 40429430, 40427660, 40420077, 40414127, 40413245, 40413174, 40413010, 40412866, 41002148, 40872344, 40809801, 40585450, 40511208, 40511206, 40420780, 40990751, 40974264, 40971099, 40969550, 40963043, 40963045, 40957126, 40957137, 40957143, 40957135, 40957141, 40950834, 40950843, 40950851, 40948801, 40933869, 40933200, 40932458, 40911193, 40902048, 40902044, 40886940, 40886939, 40886932, 40879390, 40867159, 40865638, 40858308, 40850174, 40848649, 40848132, 40810569, 40793606, 40786519, 40751252, 40751245, 40751227, 40728727, 40719195, 40710501, 40701289, 40690692, 40690696, 40682774, 40682540, 40677042, 40677029, 40668508, 40649714, 40648740, 40648724, 40643849, 40628864, 40607286, 40607258, 40607248, 40591372, 40591368, 40571701, 40567986, 40563849, 40563247, 40548218, 40537561, 40519109, 40518532, 40516193, 40514231, 40513058, 40503837, 40503092, 40495796, 40487212, 40487188, 40475299, 40474737, 40463260, 40463209, 40463135, 40462924, 40451762, 40451751, 40447394, 40445602, 40421767, 40412679, 40411198, 40501878.
Note: mobile tractor unit kills are displayed here, the program will need some tweaking, they will not be eligible for bounty.

126.4B ISK destroyed. Good job! Now let's see the killer corp toplist with their kill values and bounties:
Congratulations to the winners, their ISK will arrive in 24 hours never, because it's just an example report.



You can see that the last winner killed 1.7B CFC. If you think your corp is capable of killing more, it's time to deploy to Branch and participate in the noble contest. Are you a multiboxer? Create a corp, place a bunch of AFK-cloakers with covert cynos and catch ratters! By bringing death and destruction to the minions of Goons, you also contribute to a better nullsec, one without The Evil ruling it. By encouraging PBLRD ratters to change to NA/B0T and by driving FCON out of nullsec, a huge step will be made towards this Goon-free vision.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

You should arrange a GRR consortium. I'm sure there's other rich people in the game willing to add to this bounty pool.

Anonymous said...

Isnt FCON part of the CFC making them CFC members. With your rules no one will get paid then...

Gevlon said...

Killing FCON or other CFC members by NON-CFC members is paid.

Anonymous said...

I was going to suggest a running tally board might be interesting for the casual observer. if it isn't technically problematic.

the more I thought about it though I realised it might make administration easier also. if people are competing for top spot they might notice rules violations by other competitors before you do and so lessen your work load.

Anonymous said...

gevlon I admire your, uh, devotion or whatever this is, but you should know that the 'elite pvp wolf pack ratter kills' strategy has never brought down an EVIL EMPIRE

you could argue that certain campaigns were somewhat successful in this regard, but this was generally because the entity in question was small, possessed little and therefore easily camped space, and was incapable of effectively defending itself. example: rise. none of these attributes are characteristic of the cfc.

I'm just preparing you for your inevitable disappointment here, although I suppose there will always be marauder kills to link so what am I worried about. peace