This month topic is brought to us by L'Dene Bean of Nitpickin's who asks: Why, and how did you pick your corporation? Is your loyalty solid or just until a better placed organization "recruits" you. The shorter version: Who holds your Unshakable Fealty and why?
So let's just say I have never been the most "loyal" of followers while in eve. Usually I find myself on the other side of decisions made by those in-charge. At least until the semi-recent past, pre-STIMULUS.
STIM capitalizes on PvPers, we are elitist assholes for the most part, willing to do crazy, suicidal things on a regular basis in search of just one more kill. We enjoy the fight and more often than not find sick satisfaction in dying in a horrible fire to those blobs more than 2-3 times our size. We operate in mostly lag-free environments, with little to no mandatory ops to go kill xxx TCU or setup xxx SBU. It's real, pure, fast paced eve-style PvP. Mesh STIM with four or five like minded corps in RK and you get a solid backdrop of not only corp but alliance.
Jay Carr said,
“They were fast-moving opportunists encased in cynicism and proud of it.”
And I have to say we are proud of it.
For the record, I chose to join STIM after reading up on them after my previous corp disbanded again, from day one of my trial I was in more fights, better teams and stronger leaders than most of my previous years in eve. While I still maintain ties to some of the other pilots, corps and alliances I used to fly with STIM is where my usually fickle loyalties lie.
After all,
“I would rather be an opportunist and float than go to the bottom with my principles around my neck” - Stanley Baldwin
Other Banterers
The Elitist
A Mule in Eve
Mike Azariah
