There's still a big monetary grind. While they do have the skills to fly them, making 300k+ in a newb ship isn't exactly easy.

Getting back into the political side of things.

I'm not going to take sides, I'll just say what happened.

My alliance has been mad about being kicked out for awhile, and I've had some angst over being stuck in hi-sec. Possibly I'm being a little harsh. What I said is the position/attitude of everyone in my alliance ventrillo.

I'll admit, my alliance exec and co exec put towers in 3 detorid systems to claim sov, left htem there for 2 weeks, goon didn't complain, so, corporations started slowly dropping more towers and we moved in. After awhile we informed RA and goon, and they didn't complain about anything for a long while. We had hte occasional goon member question us being there coming through, but no leaders. We even fought with some goons to kill isk farmers, since we were all blue and isk selling = bad.

Around the time we hit sov 3, an alliance member thought he was making a statement by killing another alliance member about some random issue(they were into lowsec pirateing, we'd had lots of confrontations with them) and his corp got kicked from the alliance. The person who got killed didn't do anything, he was just a randomly chosen person to die because this guy got mad at the alliance for something I can't remember. He apparantly had a few connections in goon and 'potentially' talked about us in a less than positive way. Regardless of if this is true or not, goon contacted my alliance exec shortly after asking "why are you here." and over the next week they discussed it.

Goon told us to get out within a week. (well, they said leave or we'll set you neutral) My exec got them to extend it to a month, but we were out within a week. We had like 15 towers and most of our active alliance out there. At this time, AAA had decided to take out C3.
We were in KOS's intel channel so we were well aware of their situation every step of the way.

Anyway, we couldn't go back to KOS space, so we had no place to go except a *blank alliance* station. It was almost always a safe route so we started moving all our ships without escorting anyone. Then RA attacked 2 of our haulers over a 24 hour timespan. my co exec said that he talked to goon and RA and got them to reset our standings back to blue till the end of the month. We were of the impression that goon told RA to set us neutral or red.
(and we've been blue to RA for awhile, even docked in their stations, one being the closest one to our space, quite often)

So all our stuff, billions of stuff, is sitting in a *blankalliance* station. (and *blankalliance* did an alliance standings reset since, which we've been struggling to fix)

And my alliance has pretty much been trying to restructure / reform. We heard promises of a major pvp alliance joining us that my exec has a character in with friends in his in Real Life. THis has gone sour though. Apparently because CPP decided to screw up a manufacturing job of his, AKA domination large tower, and after petitioning he only got the BPC, not the tower or mins used in production. This is after a 3-month long petition, and his BPC/job is/was in C3, now owned by AAA, anyway. He got screwed despite that fact, and is trying to escalate it.

Long and short of it is, co-exec quit, and now the exec wants to quit because he's mad at CPP, so probably no influx of pvp players to our alliance.

I should mention that the co-exec and exec are also members of my corp, both of whom I've been playing with before and after I took an 8 month break and came back last summer. I've gone from empire to 0.0 and back with them. Now I've got a fairly empty corp, with few active members.
My alliance has hit the pits :P. We recently lost 2 carriers in lowsec and have to rebuild those too.
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So that being said,
I spend my time doing market orders, mining, or baiting peeps and waiting for something to happen.

This game was really fun for the 4 months we lived in KOS space, but considering my alliance is in such a standstill I either need a new direction, or I'm actually considering quitting for some undetermined amount of time.

/vent

Is there any specific reason you keep withholding names? Sounds like you're trying to hide something, but hell if I know why.

You're still blue you know...

I just feel its respectful to my alliance not to say where all of our 0.0 assets are.

You guys may be blue to everyone out there but we're not *AAA hated KOS, so they hate us, for example*

I wouldn't assume you guys would do something about it, I just like being safe than sorry.

It's someone you're blue to don't worry.

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Let me put it this way, if you had a billion dollars sitting in a bank, and you wanted to go cash out, would you tell people what you were doing before you went to cash out, or go cash out and then tell people you went to get your money the other day.

I'm guessing where it's at is currently owned by AAA.

Am I right? Do I win anything?

Hah. Well, that's a good guess.
We do have some assets in AAA stations (yes, many being expensive), since we didn't have alot of warning before they attacked KOS space--but no, the majority of our assets are elsewhere.

And you win...a cookie? A movie gift card for 10 bucks?

I have to admit that AAA scare me a bit. I'm glad they're on our side but man, it's gonna be interesting once BoB falls.

Well, and MC too; I sure hope we don't keep them blue :p

We lost many ships from them.

I trained up for my rapier for the sole purpose of killing AAA vagabonds. I only got to tackle 1, and my group couldn't get there fast enough, it was breaking my tank so I had to warp off.